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• Continuity: The zipper on the travel bag is on the far end away from Helen on the plane, but she unzips it from the other direction.
  
  
• Continuity: The part in Violet's hair switches sides several times. This was deliberately done by the animators to aid the ease of animation, as long hair was something that had not yet been attempted.
  
  
• Continuity: While they are still in the plane avoiding missiles, Elastigirl takes the plane close to the water and the seas are very rough. After the plane is shot down, the seas are relatively calm.
  
  

• Continuity: The position of the aftershave bottle by Frozone's mirror changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Incredible first looks at the hole blown in the elevated railroad tracks as the train is coming, the street below is empty. Subsequent shots show several cars parked in the street.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Incredible fights the first Omnidroid and he is injured on his left shoulder (and his suit is torn), his injury disappears and reappears several times between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: As Mirage pushes Syndrome out of the way and is grabbed by Mr. Incredible, she is wearing a headset. After Mr. Incredible grabs her however, her headset disappears.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the newspaper clippings denouncing superheroes, under the "Super Menace To Society" column, there is a typo. It refers to "innocent by standards" instead of "innocent bystanders".
  
  
• Continuity: After Helen catches Bob coming home late from the fire and jewelry store incident, there is a figurine laying on the ground next to the blocks beside Helen's chair. The figurine disappears in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the airplane blows up and Dash, Violet and Helen are falling, once Helen makes herself into a parachute, there is no longer rubble from the plane falling around them and nothing above them. After they are in the water, a big chunk of plane falls almost on top of them.
  
  
• Continuity: After the kitchen argument, when Frozone opens the door, the overhead kitchen light is swinging but the shadows of the family and table are not moving.
  
  
• Continuity: The color (not just the shadow/shading) of the "big wheel" seat changes throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: As Bob gets chewed out in his cubicle by his boss, his pencil holder is centered on his desk. After the boss leaves, it has moved to the edge of his desk, where it falls off and spills pencils all over the floor.
  
  
• Continuity: As the defeated robot topples into the water, the wall of ice is not visible in the wide shot, but appears a second later when the scene is viewed from above.
  
  
• Continuity: After landing in the jewelry store, the rescued fire victims are strewn on the floor around the room. In the next few scenes, these people are no longer on the floor, but they reappear there when the cop draws his gun on them.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Despite complex aerobatics, the only missile contrails we see from the water are linear ones.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the end of the dinner fight the ceiling light is stationary, but when Dash opens the door for Lucius the light is swinging and Helen reaches up to stop it. CORRECTION: Dash answers the door and then zips back to his seat. The air wake behind him is what causes the lamp to start swinging, thus prompting Helen's response. Dash moves very quickly in this shot, almost in the blink of an eye, making this appear to be a continuity error.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the wedding scene, Mr Incredible summons his jet car. When he opens the car door, the window is up. In the next shot of him, the window is down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bob is in his blue car coming home after his day at work, there is shot of a clear driveway. But when Bob gets out, he almost trips on a skateboard that magically got there.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the scene with the missiles, Mrs Incredible hits a button that says "chaff". Instead of chaff, flares are released. Chaffs and flares are two different types of counter-measures against missiles.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the Scene where Mr. Incredible is exercising by lifting railroad cars, the trucks (wheel sets) on each car stay attached when he lifts the cars off the ground. On real railroad cars, the wheel sets are held in place by gravity, so if he lifts the cars, the wheelsets should stay on the ground.
  
  
• Plot holes: Mr. Incredible hides from Syndrome's remote scanner by hiding behind the body of Gazer Beam. Later, when Syndrome recaptures Mr. Incredible, he comments on this - yet how would Syndrome know that since the remote reported no sign of Mr. Incredible, and there is no other way he could have known this?
  
  
• Factual errors: When Mr. Incredible's Message tablet self-destructs, it creates smoke which sets off the water sprinklers. Water sprinklers are heat activated, not smoke activated.
  
  
• Continuity: When the jet carrying Helen and the children come under attack by the missiles launched by Syndrome, she returns to the pilot's seat and flicks on the "Fasten Seat Belt" sign. Dash and Violet get into their seats and are seen fastening their belts. The missiles' first approach is successfully evaded due to maneuvering and the deployment of flares (erroneously labeled as "chaff" on the controls). As the missiles make a second approach a few seconds later Helen again attempts to out-fly them and throws the aircraft into a snap roll to avoid them, but the next shot of the passenger compartment shows Dash and Violet tumbling about the compartment, unrestrained by their belts.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the jewelry store after the fire, Frozone gets a drink of water by pulling the lever downward on the water cooler. While bringing the cup up to drink, the lever is still down, meaning there should be water still coming out of it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene, the radio refers to a police chase on San Pablo Ave, but there is no San Pablo Ave anywhere on the "auto drive" navigation map.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Helen (Elastigirl) is packing her new costume for the trip she calls in a favor to her friend "Snog", but Dash interrupts her phone conversation. When she talks to him again on the phone she calls him, "Snug".
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The film's time period is unclear. Kronos database file's 'last known appearance' of Elastigirl as 13 November 1955; however, "fifteen years later" (when it should be 1970), the cars, architecture and furniture are still typical of the 1950s; Frozone has a bottle of mid-1970s "Hai Karate" aftershave; and the technology (such as the computers, GPS devices, E's security system, remote controls, and so on) are more in line with the 1990s. A probable answer: many comic books involving superheros are set in "alternative universes" where futuristic technology (and pure science-fantasy) appear as a matter of course in stories supposedly set in the present or recent past. It is safe to assume that The Incredibles (2004) falls into this category, and takes place in an "alternate" 1970, where technology and culture differed greatly from "our" 1970.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Bob drives his new black car to the airport for his second trip to Syndrome's island. The family uses one of Syndrome's rockets to return to Municiburg, meaning Bob's car is still at the airport. Yet when the family returns home after defeating the Omnidroid, Bob's car is back in the driveway.
  
  

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