{"slug":"the-incredibles","type":"movie","title":"The Incredibles","year":2004,"releaseDate":"2004-11-05","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Action","Adventure","Family"],"creators":["Brad Bird"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles","hook":"The only Pixar film with no Pizza Planet truck — Brad Bird's explanation is four words long — and the one that hides A113 twice.","intro":"*The Incredibles* is the Pixar film that breaks the studio's own rules, and it breaks them in the most-documented way possible: it is **the only Pixar feature without the Pizza Planet truck**. For twenty years that absence has been treated as a puzzle, a deliberate statement, a sign that Brad Bird was operating outside the house style. Bird has answered the question directly, and the answer is gloriously mundane — he was busy making the movie and forgot.\n\nWhat the film does hide, it hides better than almost anything else in the catalogue. **A113** appears twice, both times built into dialogue and set design rather than painted on a prop, and it carries extra weight here because Bird is the man who started the tradition in the first place — he put A113 on screen in *Amazing Stories* and *The Brave Little Toaster* back in 1987, years before Pixar made a feature.\n\nThen there is the layer that is not a joke. Two elderly men in the crowd at the end are **Frank Thomas** and **Ollie Johnston**, two of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, animated as caricatures and voiced by themselves; it was Frank Thomas's last appearance in an animated film. Edna Mode is the director. The end credits are a love letter to Saul Bass. And the score exists in the form it does because **John Barry** turned the job down. Here is what is buried in it, from the room numbers to the composer who said no.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":9806,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9806","imdbId":"tt0317705","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/"},"counts":{"eggs":10,"confirmed":6,"community":4,"theory":0,"sources":18},"postCredits":{"status":"no","verdict":"No — The Incredibles has no post-credit scene.","scenes":0,"description":"No. The Underminer's arrival is the film's last scene before the credits, not after them. There is no extra scene once 'The Incredits' finish — though the credit sequence itself is a designed short worth watching, and the Underminer recurs as an animated element inside it.","detail":"**The Incredibles has no post-credits scene.** The moment people remember — the ground splitting open and the Underminer announcing war on peace and happiness — is the film's final pre-credits beat. Once the credits begin there is no further story scene waiting at the end of them.\n\nThe confusion is understandable, because that ending behaves exactly like a stinger. It arrives after the emotional resolution, it introduces a brand-new villain, it promises a sequel, and then it cuts to black mid-threat. Structurally it is a post-credits scene that happens to sit two minutes early. It also went unresolved for fourteen years: *Incredibles 2* (2018) opens by picking up the Underminer fight at the precise instant the first film abandoned it, making the two movies continuous across a decade-and-a-half gap.\n\nWhat you do get in the credits is worth staying for on its own terms. **'The Incredits'**, designed by Teddy Newton, is a stylised sequence in the flat geometric idiom of Saul Bass, and it keeps doing world-building after the story is over: silhouetted supers strike poses through the roll, including several who never appear in the film. The Underminer's drill also resurfaces as a motif within the sequence. It is a designed short film rather than a list of names, and it is one of the best end-credit sequences Pixar has made.\n\nSo: nothing after the last card. If you are watching for the sequel hook, it has already happened before the credits start.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"a113-hidden-twice","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-a113-hidden-twice","title":"A113 is hidden twice — and Brad Bird started the whole tradition","description":"Pixar's signature appears in two forms, neither of them painted on a prop. **Mirage** names the room number **A113** inside Syndrome's operation, and Mr. Incredible is later held on **Level A1, Cell Block 13** — the same number, taken apart and rebuilt as a prison address. The double placement is fitting: A113 is the CalArts character animation classroom, and **Brad Bird** is credited with the first known on-screen uses of it, on a getaway car's plate in *Amazing Stories* and on an apartment door in *The Brave Little Toaster*, both in 1987.","scene":"Mirage's dialogue about the room number; later, the designation of Mr. Incredible's cell","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — A113","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113"},{"label":"CalArts — Vulture Video Tackles the Meaning of 'A113'","url":"https://blog.calarts.edu/2016/05/24/vulture-video-tackles-the-meaning-of-a113/"}],"motifs":["a113","recurring-hidden-signature"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-missing-pizza-planet-truck","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-the-missing-pizza-planet-truck","title":"The one Pixar film with no Pizza Planet truck — because Bird forgot","description":"The Pizza Planet truck from *Toy Story* has been smuggled into essentially every Pixar feature, and *The Incredibles* is the standing exception. Fans spent years theorising about why. Asked directly, **Brad Bird** gave the least mystical answer available: *\"I was busy making the movie. I didn't think about the Pizza Planet.\"* The studio fixed it in the sequel — the truck is parked at the right of frame when Elastigirl and the Screenslaver crash out of a building in *Incredibles 2*, restyled to fit the mid-century look.","scene":"Nowhere — that is the egg. Its absence is the only one of its kind in Pixar's filmography","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"HuffPost — Brad Bird Addresses The Missing Pizza Planet Truck In 'The Incredibles'","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brad-bird-incredibles-pizza-planet_n_7268396"},{"label":"D23 — Where to Find the Iconic Pizza Planet Trucks in Pixar Films","url":"https://d23.com/where-to-find-the-iconic-pizza-planet-trucks-in-pixar-films/"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"frank-and-ollie-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-frank-and-ollie-cameo","title":"Two of Disney's Nine Old Men appear in the crowd, voiced by themselves","description":"As the Parrs finish off the Omnidroid, two elderly men in the crowd nod approvingly: *\"That's the way to do it. That's old school.\"* — *\"No school like the old school.\"* They are **Frank Thomas** and **Ollie Johnston**, two of Walt Disney's **Nine Old Men**, drawn as caricatures of themselves and speaking their own lines. Brad Bird had already caricatured the pair as train engineers in *The Iron Giant*. This was Frank Thomas's final appearance in an animated film.","scene":"In the crowd after the Parr family defeats the Omnidroid","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar (official Tumblr) — Legendary Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston","url":"https://pixar.tumblr.com/post/98009320667/legendary-disney-animators-frank-thomas-and-ollie"},{"label":"Wikipedia — Frank Thomas (animator)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thomas_(animator)"}],"motifs":["crew-tribute","cameo-by-source-creator"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"edna-mode-is-the-director","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-edna-mode-is-the-director","title":"Edna Mode is played by the director — after Lily Tomlin told him to do it","description":"The film's most quotable character is voiced by **Brad Bird** himself. He had written the part with **Lily Tomlin** in mind and pitched it to her; after hearing him perform the voice while explaining the idea, Tomlin declined and told him he was already doing it better than she would. Directors voicing bit parts is common. Directors voicing the scene-stealer of their own film, at the recommendation of the actor they wanted, is not.","scene":"Every Edna Mode scene — the costume atelier sequences","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"IMDb — The Incredibles: Brad Bird as Edna 'E' Mode","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/characters/nm0083348/"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Edna Mode","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Edna_Mode"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke","director-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"john-barry-said-no","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-john-barry-said-no","title":"A trailer used a real James Bond theme because John Barry turned the film down","description":"The mid-century spy sound of *The Incredibles* was meant to be the genuine article: **John Barry**, the composer of the classic Bond scores, was Pixar's first choice, and one trailer was cut to a re-recording of Barry's theme from *On Her Majesty's Secret Service*. Barry declined the film because he did not want to reproduce his own earlier work, and the job went to a then-little-known **Michael Giacchino**, whose score launched one of the biggest composing careers of the following two decades.","scene":"Not in the film — the promotional trailer, and the reason the score sounds the way it does","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — The Incredibles (soundtrack)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibles_(soundtrack)"},{"label":"Movie Music UK — The Incredibles, Michael Giacchino","url":"https://moviemusicuk.us/2004/11/05/the-incredibles-michael-giacchino/"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"no-capes-five-named-supers","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-no-capes-five-named-supers","title":"Edna's 'no capes' rant names five specific dead superheroes","description":"The most-quoted comic setpiece in the film is also its darkest piece of world-building. Edna's montage names **Thunderhead**, **Stratogale**, **Meta Man**, **Dynaguy** and **Splashdown**, each killed or trapped by their own cape — sucked into a turbine, caught in a lift, snagged on a missile fin. Five named superheroes die in about twenty seconds of comedy, which is how the film establishes that its universe has real casualties without ever staging a funeral.","scene":"Edna's design studio, during the 'No capes!' sequence","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Incredibles Wiki — Edna Mode","url":"https://the-incredibles.fandom.com/wiki/Edna_Mode"},{"label":"The Needlefish — Great Movie Scenes: The Incredibles, No Capes!","url":"https://theneedlefish.com/2023/10/23/great-movie-scenes-the-incredibles-no-capes/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bomb-voyage-becomes-a-real-mime","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-bomb-voyage-becomes-a-real-mime","title":"The mime villain from the prologue is working the streets of Paris in Ratatouille","description":"**Bomb Voyage**, the French mime bank robber Mr. Incredible fights in the opening flashback, turns up three years later in *Ratatouille* — not as a criminal, but as an ordinary street mime performing in Paris. Both films are Brad Bird's, and moving a character between them without a word of acknowledgement is a director's private joke rather than a studio one. Fans have argued ever since about whether it is the same person retired, or simply the same face.","scene":"The 1950s prologue — the mime robbing the bank vault","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","reference"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Incredibles Wiki — Bomb Voyage","url":"https://the-incredibles.fandom.com/wiki/Bomb_Voyage"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Teddy Newton","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Teddy_Newton"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"ratatouille","referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-incredits-are-a-saul-bass-homage","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-the-incredits-are-a-saul-bass-homage","title":"The end credits are a Saul Bass tribute — and they introduce characters the film never shows","description":"'The Incredits' were designed by **Teddy Newton** in the flat, geometric, hard-edged idiom of **Saul Bass**, the designer behind the titles for *Psycho*, *Vertigo* and *North by Northwest*. Newton has cited seeing *Psycho*'s titles as formative. What makes the sequence more than pastiche is that it keeps building the world after the story has stopped: silhouetted supers pose through the credit roll, several of whom never appear in the film itself.","scene":"The end credit sequence","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Art of the Title — The Incredibles (2004)","url":"https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-incredibles/"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Teddy Newton","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Teddy_Newton"}],"motifs":["title-sequence-foreshadowing"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"gps-streets-are-pixars-own-neighbourhood","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-gps-streets-are-pixars-own-neighbourhood","title":"Mr. Incredible's in-car map is Pixar's own neighbourhood","description":"The street layout on the display in Mr. Incredible's car is drawn from the real roads around **Pixar Animation Studios** in Emeryville, California — Park Avenue and its surroundings. Superhero cities are usually invented from scratch; putting the animators' own commute on the dashboard is the kind of detail that only exists to amuse the people who made it.","scene":"Inside Mr. Incredible's car, on the navigation display","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — The Incredibles","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibles"},{"label":"The Incredibles Wiki — Operation Kronos","url":"https://the-incredibles.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Kronos"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"omnidroid-version-numbers-tell-the-plot","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles#egg-omnidroid-version-numbers-tell-the-plot","title":"The Omnidroid version numbers quietly narrate Syndrome's whole scheme","description":"The robots are numbered, and the numbers are the plot. Mr. Incredible destroys the **Omnidroid v.8**; Syndrome harvests the battle data to build the **v.X9**, which beats him; the data from that fight produces the **v.10** that Syndrome intends to defeat in public. Every super lured to the island is a training run, and the version number on screen is the running score. Operation Kronos is legible from the model designations alone, before anyone explains it.","scene":"The Omnidroid battles on Nomanisan Island, and the Operation Kronos databanks","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Omnidroids","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Omnidroids"},{"label":"The Incredibles Wiki — Operation Kronos","url":"https://the-incredibles.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Kronos"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in The Incredibles?","answer":"We have catalogued 10 documented easter eggs and hidden details in The Incredibles, including the two hidden A113s, the Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston cameo, Brad Bird voicing Edna Mode, the Saul Bass-style end credits, the Bomb Voyage crossover into Ratatouille, and the famous absence of the Pizza Planet truck."},{"question":"Why is there no Pizza Planet truck in The Incredibles?","answer":"Because Brad Bird forgot. Asked about the only Pixar film missing the truck, Bird said he was busy making the movie and did not think about it. The studio corrected the omission in Incredibles 2, where the truck appears — restyled for the film's mid-century look — as Elastigirl and the Screenslaver fall out of a building."},{"question":"Where is A113 in The Incredibles?","answer":"Twice. Mirage refers to room A113 within Syndrome's operation, and Mr. Incredible is later imprisoned on Level A1, Cell Block 13. The number is the CalArts character animation classroom, and Brad Bird is credited with the first known screen uses of it, back in 1987."},{"question":"Who are the two old men at the end of The Incredibles?","answer":"Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, caricatured and voiced by themselves. They deliver the 'that's old school' exchange in the crowd after the Omnidroid is defeated. It was Frank Thomas's last appearance in an animated film, and Brad Bird had previously caricatured the pair in The Iron Giant."},{"question":"Who voices Edna Mode?","answer":"Director Brad Bird. He wrote the role hoping to cast Lily Tomlin, but when he performed the voice while pitching her the character, Tomlin declined and told him to play it himself."}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19","updatedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-incredibles","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/the-incredibles","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}