Given the kind of person that she is, it just doesn’t quite make sense that she’d be fine with the fact that he never actually apologises to her.īob is a simple man – a nice man, even – but in his deepest heart of hearts, he’s also a small man who’s in a league far behind Helen’s.
The things that Bob says aren’t just mean – they’re profoundly hurtful and reflective of the fact that, on some level, he doesn’t really see Helen as his equal. When you’re in a long-term, committed relationship with someone, slights and digs such as the ones that Bob throws at Helen are the sort of things that lead to major conflicts, because they cut deep and are coming from a person that, in theory, you’re supposed to trust and have faith in. Even if Bob somehow hadn’t come to understand just how hard Helen had already been working to hold their family together as a stay-at-home-parent, it’s wild and honestly gross to see that he could so easily forget (or purposefully ignore) what Helen achieved during her full-time Elastigirl days.
That being said, the way Bob treats Helen throughout the first third of the film is so plainly chauvinistic, retrograde and straight-up insulting that it’s kind of difficult to believe that she doesn’t call him out more explicitly on his bullshit and force him to own up to his trash feelings.īob and Helen aren’t newlyweds they have been together for over a decade. This all makes for a lovely family movie with the simple, but important message that marriages, like all romantic relationships, don’t have to be defined by traditional gender roles. Bob comes to appreciate just how much work Helen’s been putting in for years as she’s raised Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack, and Helen learns to trust that Bob can be an attentive, responsible father. The tension between Helen and Bob creates an emotional rift that drives much of Incredibles 2‘s story forward. Helen’s hesitant to admit at first that she does miss hero work, even though it would mean having to hand off most of her parenting duties to Bob – but she also makes a point of pushing back against Bob’s assumption that she shouldn’t be the one to lead DEVTECH’s initiative. Bob, being the well-meaning, but still decidedly pigheaded meat-and-potatoes alpha male that he is, initially baulks at the idea that anyone would choose Helen as the de facto “leader” of what would essentially be a super team of spokespeople.
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