Edna Mode You will show him you remember that he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who you are!
Played by Brad Bird 
The Incredibles (2004) · 72 quotes
The Incredibles (2004) · 72 quotes
Tied for 7th most-quoted character in The Incredibles (2004): in 10 of its 72 quotes
Most scenes with: Helen (5), Guard (2)
I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now!
More lines from Edna Mode
4 quotes Edna Mode Edna Mode Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man. Good with kids. November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when... his cape snagged on a missile fin.
Edna Mode Stratogale! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Edna Mode Meta Man, express elevator! Dynaguy, snag on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!
Scenes with Edna Mode
5 scenes Edna [Edna shows Helen the other suits she has created for the Parrs]
I started with the baby.
Started?
Edna Shh! Darling! Shh! I cut it a little roomy for the free movement. The fabric is comfortable for sensitive skin [flamethrowers throw fire at the suit without leaving burn marks], and it can also withstand a temperature of over 1,000 degrees! Completely bulletproof. [machine guns train on the suit and empty rounds into it without causing any damage] And machine-washable, darling. That's a new feature.
What on earth do you think the baby will be doing?!
Edna Well, I'm sure I don't know, darling. Luck favors the prepared. I didn't know the baby's powers, so I covered the basics.
Jack-Jack doesn't have any powers.
Edna No? He'll look fabulous anyway. [moves on to Dash's suit] Your boy's suit I designed to withstand enormous friction without heating up or wearing out. A useful feature. [moves on to Violet's] Your daughter's suit was tricky, but I finally created a sturdy material that will disappear completely as she does. [moves on to Helen's new suit] Your suit can stretch as far as you can, without injuring yourself [the suit gets stretched], and still retain its shape. Virtually indestructible. [two missiles fire at the suit, but the suit sustains no damage] Yet it breathes like Egyptian cotton. As an extra feature, each suit contains a homing device, giving you the precise global location of the wearer at the touch of a button. [hands Helen one showing the tracking location of one of the suits] Well, darling? What do you think?
What do I think?! Bob is retired! I'm retired, our family is underground! You helped my husband resume secret hero-work behind my back?!
Edna Well, I assumed you knew, darling! Why would he keep secrets from you?
He wouldn't. Didn't-- D-Doesn't.
Edna [sighs]
Men at Robert's age are often unstable. Prone to weakness.
[Bob, now dressed in a more expensive and tailored version of his Insuricare suit, pauses to examine the torn spot on his Mr. Incredible supersuit]
Ah, jeez.
Hurry, honey! Or you’ll be late for work! [Bob quickly stuffs his SUPERSUIT into his briefcase and snaps it shut.] Have a great day, honey.
Thanks.
Help customers, climb ladders...
Bring bacon?
All that jazz.
[Bob drives away. He pulls up to an imposing gate, a futuristic web of parallel laser beams. He turns toward a video screen and presses a button beneath it. The video screen lights up, revealing a burly guard]
You have an appointment?
I’m an old friend. I just wanted to...
All visitors are required to make a reser—
Edna Mode [The guard suddenly flinches from something below camera, and is shooed offscreen by a strident, husky female voice. A pair of huge glasses fronting the top half of a head rises into the bottom half of the screen, out of focus. This is Edna Mode, known by her friends simply as "E."] [shoos the guard away]
Get back to work! Go check the electric fence or something! What is it? Who are you? What do you want?
Edna Mode [Bob lowers his sunglasses]
Yes, you’ve gotten fat. Come in, Come, come!
Edna Mode [The gate opens, and Bob drives up the long driveway that winds up the hill to E's tastefully arty palace.] [E leads Bob through the tasteful, minimalistic entranceway into her massive living room. E is in her early sixties, half German, half Japanese, and like both of those small countries, not to be underestimated.]
Yes, things are going quite well. Quite well. My God, no complaints. But, you know, it is not the same. Not the same at all.
Weren’t you just in the news? Some show in Prayge...Prague?
Edna Mode Milan, darling. Milan. Supermodels. Ha! Nothing super about them. Spoiled, stupid, little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for gods.... but perhaps you come with a challenge, eh? I was surprised to get your call.
E, I just need a patch job.
Edna Mode [Bob hands E his damaged suit. She examines it, frowning.]
Hmm. This is megamesh. Outmoded, but very sturdy. And you’ve torn right through it! What have you been doing, Robert? Moonlighting hero work?
Musta happened a long time ago.
Edna Mode I see. This is a hobo suit, darling, you can’t be seen in this! [throws it away] I won’t allow it! Fifteen years ago, maybe, but now?
Edna Mode I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now. You need a new suit. That much is certain.
A new suit? Where the heck am I gonna get a new suit?
Edna Mode You can't! It’s impossible! I’m far too busy. So ask me now, before I again become sane....
Wait....you want... to make me... a suit?
Edna Mode You push too hard, darling! But I accept. It will be bold. Dramatic!
Yeah.
Edna Mode Heroic!
Yeah, something classic, like Dynaguy! Oh! He had a great look! Oh, the cape and the boots—
Edna Mode No capes! [She throws a paper ball at him.]
Isn’t that my decision?
Edna Mode [Unaccustomed to being questioned, E visibly stiffens.]
Do you remember... Thunderhead?
Edna Mode [FLASHBACK: THUNDERHEAD IN HIS PRIME --beefy and B-movie handsome, decked out in a splendid outfit with elegant floor-length cape.] [voiceover]
Tall, storm powers. Nice man. Good with kids.
Listen, E...
Edna Mode November 15th of ‘58. [RESUME FLASHBACK — A madman aims a missile launcher at a city across a bay. Thunderhead leaps into frame, dispatches him with a single punched and turns the missile towards the open sea. His duty done, he turns and smiles at a young lady standing nearby, failing to notice that his cape has caught on the missile, voiceover, continued] All was well, another day saved, when— [The rocket blasts into the distance, taking Thunderhead with it, voiceover, continued] —his cape snagged on a missile fin. [INTERCUT: comically brief FLASHBACKS [as E describes them] of each Super being doomed by his or her cape.]
Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb...
Edna Mode Stratogale! April 23rd, ‘57. Cape caught in a jet turbine.
E, you can’t generalize about these things.
Edna Mode Meta-Man, Express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!!! Now, go on. Your new suit will be finished before your next assignment.
You know I’m retired from hero work.
Edna Mode As am I, Robert. Yet here we are.
E, I only need a patch job. For... sentimental reasons.
Edna Mode [she sighs begrudgingly]
Fine. I will also fix the hobo suit...
You’re the best of the best, E.
Edna Mode Yes, I know, darling. [whispering] I know.
[Helen vacuums the hallway next to Bob's office. She vacuums the carpet near the door, hears the vacuum pick up filth and groans before entering the room. She begins to vacuum the office and notices the door displaying Bob's old supersuit is open. She observes the suit and notices a rip in the left arm of the suit has been fixed] [gasps, realizing who repaired the suit]
Edna? I'd like to speak with Edna.
Edna Mode This is Edna.
E? This is Helen.
Edna Mode Helen who?
Helen Parr? You know... Elastigirl.
Edna Mode Darling! [Helen nearly drops the phone] It’s been such a long time after all these years! So long!
Yes, yes, yes. It’s been a while. Listen, there’s only one person Bob would trust to patch his supersuit and that’s you.
Edna Mode Yes, yes, yes. Marvelous, isn’t it? Much better than those horrible pajamas he used to wear. They are finished. When are you coming to see?
Look, I’m calling about...
Edna Mode Don’t make me beg, darling. I won’t do it, you know.
Beg? Uh, no. I’m calling about suit. Ab-about Bob’s suit! I’m calling about Bob’s suit!
Edna Mode You come in one hour, darling. I insist, okay? Okay. Goodbye.
[Back in Nomanisan, Bob is hiding in brush at the top of a cliff. Along the waterline far below, a monopod streaks toward him along a track which curves around the coastline. Bob crouches... and dives — we fall with him, whistling through the air until we hit a palm tree. The palm bends, slowing Bob's drop before he expertly releases it and drops into another palm directly below it. Bob leaps onto the roof of the pod, quickly dispatching the guards inside, tossing them into the ocean. Bob seats himself at the controls, as the pod races toward Syndrome's base and a security checkpoint. Two guards look up as they hear the monopod approach. A sparking wheel carriage arrives at the gate, its cab completely torn off and missing. Suddenly alert, the guards **** their guns and aim into the dark. We hear a distant grunt. A moment later the cab falls from the sky, crashing on top of the guards. Bob runs through the wrecked gate, toward the base. Bob pulls up behind some trees. There are several guards; two at the vehicle entrance, another at the balcony above. Bob thinks a bit, looks down and finds a coconut. With expert precision, he throws it at the balcony guard, beaning him. He falls off the balcony and hits the ground.]
Guard 1
[voice on radio]
Hey, hey. We got a man down!
Guard 2
Come on, let’s go.
Guard 2
Are you okay? What happened?
[over radio] Break surveillance and engage. Continuing sweep...
[The other guards rush to help him, leaving their post. Bob runs up to the vehicle entrance — it's locked tight. Bob sees shadows of guards approaching, he's out in the open and about to be caught when — the door suddenly sweeps up and opens, taking Bob with it. A medical transport comes out of the open bay, and as the door moves closed behind it, we see Bob drop into the garage. Elevator. Bob emerges in the dining hall and stares at the lava fall. He knows there is a secret passage behind it. He picks up a large stone sculpture in the shape of a Moai head and readies to run into the lava fall. One... two... thr— Bob is startled by a flash of light behind the fall; the passage is opening. He loses his balance, struggling to set the massive sculpture back into place before Mirage enters. Bob rushes into the closing passage. Jumps clear just as passage closes. A series of parallel floor lights click on. Bob follows them to an elaborate chair in the center of the room, lit from above. Bob sits down in the chair. A giant. curved screen lights up in front of him, with a blinking cursor in its center. Bob types in "KRONOS". The computer screen refreshes: Bob is in.]
Oh, hello. This is Helen Parr. Bob Parr is my husband. I was wondering if you could give me the number of the hotel he’s staying at. The number I have is, uh, no good.
Mr. Parr no longer works at Insuricare.
My records say his employment was terminated almost two months ago.
Edna Mode [Switch back to Bob. After apparently searching one of the information sectors, he proceeds to go to the Supers sector. He presses "return", and it's a slideshow of the superheroes and the older Omnidroids.] [The sequence is as follows:] [Universal Man - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X1] [Psycwave - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X1] [Everseer - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X1] [Macroburst - Terminated Omnidroid v.X1] [Macroburst - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X2] [Phylangue - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X2] [Blazestone - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X2] [Switch back to Helen and E. Helen's call ends, as she worries for Bob.] [Switch back again to Bob in the Computer room. The sequence continues.] [Downburst - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X3] [Hyper Shock - Terminated Omnidroid v.X3] [Hyper Shock - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Apogee - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Unknown Super - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Blitzerman - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Tradewind - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Vectress - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Unknown Super - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X4] [Gazerbeam - Terminated Omnidroid v.X4] [Gazerbeam - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X5] [Stormicide - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X5] [Gamma Jack - Terminated Omnidroid v.X5] [Gamma Jack - Terminated by Omnidroid v.X6] [Unknown Super - Terminated Omnidroid v.X6] [Switch back to Helen and E.]
So, you don't know where he is.
Edna Mode [She shows a tracking device to Helen.]
Would you like to find out...?
[Switch back to Bob; the sequence has ended.] [He types "Elastigirl" into the search engine and the screen displays her location as "UNKNOWN". He gives a relieved sigh. Helen reluctantly takes the homing locator from E and stares at it; not sure she wants to know what it may tell her. He then types Frozone into the search engine and the screen displays his location as KNOWN. Shortly after, he types himself on the search engine. The screen displays him as TERMINATED by the Omnidroid v.X9. Cut back to E and Helen. E gives the tracker device to Helen. Cut back to Mr. Incredible in the Computer Room. He is now looking at Syndrome's master plan, which seems to indicate unleashing the Omnidroid on Municiberg, and then Operation Kronos's sequence begins. It shows the Omnidroid v.10. Then, Mr. Incredible goes through the phases]
[First Phase: Secure the Omnidroid into a Rocketship.] [Second Phase: Launch the Rocket towards Metroville.] [Third Phase: Destroy the city with the robot deployed.] [The countdown begins, showing 8 hours, 10 minutes and 39 seconds until the Omnidroid is launched. Mr. Incredible retreats. Cut Back to Helen. Helen presses the locator button on the homing tracker. On the viewscreen, the locator isolates a remote island. As the dot over the "i" on his chest-logo lights up. We hear a beeping noise. Mr. Incredible looks down in surprise. An alarm sounds as the room is awash in bright light. Unwittingly, Helen has exposed him. Mr. Incredible races for the exit but is hit by sticky, expanding and pressure absorbent orbs fired from guns lining the walls, which inflate, quickly making it impossible to run. Mr. Incredible falls to the floor, swallowed up by the expanding goo. From his POV: The expanding goo-balls fill up the POV but not before Bob makes out the recognizable figure approaching him: Mirage. Cut back to E and Helen in her kitchen. Coffee has been made and partially consumed. The morning paper, still rolled, rests on the table. Helen, eyes reddened from crying, blows her nose into a wadded length of toilet paper handed to her by a mildly disgusted E.]
Oh, I am such an idiot. I let this happen, you know. The new sports car, the getting in shape, the blond hair, the lies...
Edna Mode [coldly]
Yes, he attempts to relive the past. [she uses the rolled-up newspaper to sweep Helen’s used tissues into a square hole in the island which incinerates them]
Now I'm losing him! [crying] What'll I do?
Edna Mode What are you talking about?
Edna Mode You are Elastigirl! My God, pull...yourself...together! [whacks Helen with the rolled-up newspaper] What will you do? Is this a question?! You will show him you remember that he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who you are! Well, you know where he is. Go, confront the problem, fight, WIN! [there's no pauses] And call me when you get back, darling, I enjoy our visits.
