| “ | Syndrome: Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it! I mean, after all... I am your biggest fan. | „ |
| ~ Syndrome's most famous quote as he reveals his true identity to his former idol, Mr. Incredible. |
| “ | I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super... [chuckles evilly]... no one will be. [Laughs evilly as he leaves] | „ |
| ~ Syndrome explaining his ultimate goal to render the supers effectively worthless. |
Buddy Pine, formerly known as IncrediBoy and better known as Syndrome, is the main antagonist of Pixar's 6th full-length animated feature film The Incredibles.
He is the former biggest fan turned arch-nemesis of Mr. Incredible who desired to become his sidekick. When he was rejected by Mr. Incredible, Buddy wanted vengeance for what had happened to him since then. Years later, Syndrome lured and killed many supers as he waited for his moment to do the same with Mr. Incredible.
He was voiced by Jason Lee.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He lured multiple superheroes to his island for years in order to kill them and test the power of the Omnidroid. Every time a super destroyed an Omnidroid, he would improve and modify it into a new model, with at least 20 supers being killed this way.
- While he promises them money if they fight the Omnidroid, he does this in order to prey on his victims, similar to what he does to Mirage and his minions.
- When Mr. Incredible apologized to Syndrome for how he treated him as a kid, he assumed that he was bluffing him and said that he only respects him in the present day because he is a threat, and continued monologuing without showing remorse for his actions. Also, when he recalled on how Mr. Incredible treated him that time, he omitted Bomb Voyage's presence and made his quote ("Fly home, Buddy. I work alone.") in a condescending tone rather than for his own good.
- When Mr. Incredible angrily threw a log at him then charged right after him, Syndrome easily dodged it and continued to mercilessly throw his arch-nemesis around with his zero-point energy rays up until he accidentally threw him over a waterfall, following which Syndrome tried to kill him with a bomb.
- After electrically torturing Mr. Incredible for information, increasing the voltage each time he doesn't give an answer, he sent missiles at the plane operated by Mr. Incredible’s family, allowing the audio to continue to force him to listen as the missiles destroyed the plane as a way of trying to break his spirit while refusing to hear his pleas. Even after hearing that his children were on the plane, he still didn't care.
- In the deleted scene, he successfully killed Snug Porter with the missile that he sent out.
- After Elastigirl's plane crashes from the missiles, he taunted Mr. Incredible about killing his family, both thinking he had succeeded, and proceeded to mock him by saying he preferred to "work alone", and then laugh at him in an intentionally sinister and cruel tone.
- When Mr. Incredible threatened to kill Mirage if he isn't freed, he heartlessly goaded him to do it, showing how little regard he has for other lives, and when Mirage later confronted him about this, he claimed to her that he knew Mr. Incredible wouldn't go through with it, leading her to remain haunted by the utter lack of remorse he showed for it.
- His cruel gesture of showing his willingness to risk Mirage’s precious life was also done in spite of protecting him from the enraged Mr. Incredible just to provoke him, which also shows how ungrateful he is for others’ kindness and courage.
- Despite having minions, Syndrome is never shown caring for them, giving loyalty towards them, or even paying them, eventually leading to his lead minion Mirage changing herself because of this.
- He essentially planned to commit cultural genocide against superheroes, since by selling his inventions so that "everyone can be super," actual superheroes would have been rendered worthless.
- He unleashed the Omnidroid 10 upon Metroville and deliberately had it destroy major parts of the city and endanger many people so that he can appear and act as a hero to stop it. While its unknown how many people died, there's at least six kills on screen (four soldiers were killed when the Omnidroid destroyed a tank, and presumably two more when the Omnidroid shot one helicopter down, and car drivers were crushed when the Omnidroid rolled across the street).
- While he did save a woman and her baby from being crushed by a truck, he only did it to make himself look good and after announcing his name, he destroyed the truck for no reason, throwing it behind him without even looking to see if there was anyone he could have incidentally killed. He even pushed citizens out of his way to escape from the Omnidroid once the machine outsmarted him.
- He manipulated Kari into believing he is her replacement babysitter so he could try to abduct the Parrs' infant son Jack-Jack, with the intent of molding him into the same person as him.
- Before being killed in a gruesome manner, he taunted Mr. Incredible that he'd try to abduct Jack-Jack again.
- While his death is very ghastly, it is well deserved considering what he did to Mr. Incredible and supers as a whole.
- Even when he was a child, his quintessentially petty anger at Mr. Incredible rejecting him became heavily outweighed by his lack of regard for what a Super means and self-serving desires. This is especially true since as a child, he was very reckless and ignorant; he went into Mr. Incredible's car without permission and even claimed that he didn't have to worry about training him because he, as Mr. Incredible's biggest fan, already knows everything he knows. He believes that being a super is about wearing cool outfits and beating people up instead of saving lives.
- This shows that he had no desire to help other people and only wanted to be a super just for fame. Neither as a child or adult does he acknowledge that his recklessness nearly got himself and civilians on a train killed if it weren't for Mr. Incredible sacrificing stopping Bomb Voyage to save him, leading to one of the lawsuits that forced Supers into hiding. To sum it up, he was indirectly the one responsible for Bomb Voyage's escape, the bomb exploding that endangered everyone on the train, and for many of the lawsuits against Supers. And if that wasn't enough for him, he wanted to kill all of them when leaving them to their mundane lives could have been perceived as even more cruel.
- When Mr. Incredible admitted he could have been kinder to Syndrome, he was never really in the wrong at all, and Syndrome only proved his pettiness by citing that he was only sorry because he was hitting someone who had grown strong enough to hit him back, despite all evidence to the contrary.
- Ultimately, Mr. Incredible rejected him not only because he preferred working as a solo hero, but also that it would have been irresponsible of him to take a child under his wing in a dangerous field of work. His ignorance and unawareness of the danger almost got himself killed by Bomb Voyage had Mr. Incredible not forgone apprehending him to save him, therefore proving child endangerment is illegal for a very good reason, and he brought his own misery onto himself.
- In summary, he literally has no reason to be lethally prejudiced against Supers or to endanger innocent people with the Omnidroid 10. He literally hates Mr. Incredible's guts just because he was facing off with Bomb Voyage and correctly said that it was a bad time to chat, childishly assuming he was merely prejudiced against those lacking superpowers and using that alone to justify being prejudiced against the opposing demographic.
- In addition, even if Mr. Incredible had not rejected him, there is no doubt that he still would have ended up as an anti-hero at best and that is proving that his insult from Mr. Incredible was only a trigger.
- This shows that he had no desire to help other people and only wanted to be a super just for fame. Neither as a child or adult does he acknowledge that his recklessness nearly got himself and civilians on a train killed if it weren't for Mr. Incredible sacrificing stopping Bomb Voyage to save him, leading to one of the lawsuits that forced Supers into hiding. To sum it up, he was indirectly the one responsible for Bomb Voyage's escape, the bomb exploding that endangered everyone on the train, and for many of the lawsuits against Supers. And if that wasn't enough for him, he wanted to kill all of them when leaving them to their mundane lives could have been perceived as even more cruel.
- Though he has a few comedic moments, like when he inadvertently throws Mr. Incredible over a waterfall with his zero-ray energy, zero of them detract from his villainy and he and his actions are played completely seriously in-universe.
External Links[]
- Syndrome on the Villains Wiki
- Syndrome on the Disney Wiki
- Syndrome on the Pixar Wiki
- Syndrome on the The Incredibles Wiki
- Syndrome on the VS Battles Wiki
- Syndrome on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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