Violet Parr
Violet Parr is a female film character who features in The Incredibles.
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Biography
Violet Parr
At first, she was shown to be a gloomy, uncertain and socially withdrawn, preferring to hide behind her long hair. She has a crush on one of her classmates, Tony Rydinger, but is too shy to approach him and turns herself invisible whenever he looks her way so as to avoid attention. During a family dinner, Helen, a.k.a. Elastigirl, asks Violet how school was, noting that she has barely touched her food, but then Dash teases her about her crush on Tony, which insults Violet. This erupts into a fight, in which Dash runs around the table, hitting Violet, and she retaliates by generating her force field that Dash crashes into. The fight is broken up when a family friend, Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone, rings the doorbell. After Bob, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible, returns from his night with Lucius, Violet, and Dash hear their parents arguing loudly and eavesdrop. When Bob senses that Dash is in the same room he and Helen are in, he calls for them to come out, and Violet also appears, having turned invisible to listen to their argument without being noticed. Bob then assures the children that he and Helen work as a team, no matter what. Helen apologizes to the children for waking them up before ushering them back to bed. In one of the montages following Bob's return from Nomanisan Island, Violet is seen listening to music and reading a magazine when he comes up to her and gives her a kiss on her nose. Helen places Violet in charge while she looks for her husband, but Violet notices supersuits in her mother's bag and asks her about them. Dash quickly grabs supersuits for himself and Violet. While examining her suit, Violet discovers that it can turn invisible along with her, rendering her totally unseen, without disrupting her force fields. However, Dash runs off after his mother, prompting Violet to go after him, and they end up stowing away on a plane their mother has borrowed from a friend.
When Elastigirl discovers her children aboard the jet, they argue over whose fault it is, and she is shocked that they have left Jack-Jack alone in their house, to which Violet replies that she got someone to take care of the baby. Just then, missiles, sent by Syndrome, close in on the plane, and Elastigirl orders Violet to put a force field around them for protection. However, Violet is reluctant to try to generate such a large force field and is not confident enough to do so. Elastigirl is forced to use her powers to turn herself into a ball around her children, shielding them just as the missiles destroy the aircraft. She grabs them when she sees them falling with her, then turns her body into a parachute to gently land in the water. Elastigirl morphs into a boat with Dash as a rear propeller while Violet is the sole passenger, as they follow the missiles' contrails. Arriving at Nomanisan Island, they make their camp out in a cave. Elastigirl instructs her children to use their powers should anything go wrong, but when Violet tries to protest, Helen warns her children that the bad guys will kill them if they have the chance. She places Violet in charge again in her absence, promising to return by morning. Before Elastigirl leaves, Violet calls for her and apologizes to her for what happened on the plane, to which Elastigirl apologizes back to Violet, stating that she herself wasn't being fair to suddenly ask so much of Violet. Elastigirl reassures Violet by saying that the latter has more power than she herself realizes, but also warns her that in their situation, doubt is a luxury they can no longer afford. Violet's confidence bolstered, she practices her power on the fire in the camp, but Dash, out of boredom, decides to look around. Violet tries to talk him out of it, as he thinks they are on a vacation, warning them that their parents' lives as well as their marriage could be in danger. Nevertheless, Dash explores deep into the cave, but he comes running back as flames are coming in his direction as the cave they are in is actually a rocket exhaust pipe. Dash grabs Violet, and they narrowly escape the flames, just in time to see a rocket taking off into the night sky. They spend the rest of the night in a jungle, huddling together to keep warm.
The next morning, Dash hears a monitor robot disguised as a wild bird asking for identification. He wakes up Violet, who stares curiously at the robotic bird that suddenly triggers a deafening alarm. They run away, with the bird flying after them, and soon they are cornered by three Velocipods patrolled by Syndrome's security guards. She reminds Dash of what their mother has said, telling him to run, which he does, and two of the guards chase after him. Turning invisible to hide from the remaining guard and remaining invisible, she attacks him with a large stick. Displaying a high level of ingenuity, the guard uses dirt to find Violet once she has submerged herself in a shallow pond. Just then, Dash returns and stops the soldier from killing Violet, who in return saves him from that soldier by enclosing both herself and Dash in a force field; both discover that she can float inside her force field if generated in mid-air. Dash then proceeds to move the force sphere by running along its inside surface, propelling it at considerable speeds and mowing down everything in their path. After destroying a couple more Velocipods, they run over their parents. After a brief and joyful reunion, the family works as a Super team for the first time as another wave of henchmen finds and attacks them. During this fight, Violet once again displays her increasing confidence, raising a large shield that protects her family from a hail of automatic weapons fire. Though the guards are quickly overpowered, Syndrome jumps into the scene and immobilizes the family in his zero-point energy. Once the family is imprisoned in his base's containment unit, Violet, while restrained by suspension beams, succeeds in wrapping a force field around herself and severs her magnetic bonds and she rolls towards a nearby control panel. As her father vows to get the family out of the situation no matter what it takes, Violet commends him for making some excellent progress and presses a button on the control panel that frees the family from the suspension beams. The family then makes their way to a hanger in hopes of getting a fast vehicle to head to Metroville. Dash suggests they use a rocket, and Violet suggests that they just need to use the coordinates from the previous launch so they won't have to try to fly it manually. The password is provided by Mirage.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Violet Parr was a fourteen-year-old female of the human race who possessed a slender, lanky, and youthful build. She had long, straight, jet-black hair that cascaded down past her shoulders, with a prominent section styled into heavy bangs that intentionally draped over the right side of her face to obscure her eye. Her facial features were defined by large, expressive dark eyes, thin eyebrows, a small nose, and pale skin. Her physique was unmuscular and delicate, characterized by narrow shoulders, thin limbs, and a tall, reed-like frame that reflected her self-conscious demeanor. During her time at school and at the family dinner table, she wore ordinary civilian clothing consisting of a casual, long-sleeved dark shirt over a lighter undergarment, paired with simple trousers and standard shoes. Her attire was entirely dark and unpretentious, designed to blend into her surroundings and completely lacking any formal superhero uniform, costume mask, or family team insignia during her initial introduction.
Violet’s personality was marked by introversion, shyness, and self-consciousness, particularly in her earliest depictions. She avoided attention, kept to herself in social situations, and hesitated to speak up even among her family. Yet she also displayed a strong moral compass, loyalty to her loved ones, and a determination to protect them when forced into action. As her confidence grew, her personality shifted toward assertiveness, as she overcame her fears and accepted responsibility as both a superhero and a teenager navigating her personal identity.
Powers and abilities
Violet Parr was born with superhuman abilities as part of her physiology. Parr demonstrated a range of psionic capabilities centered on telekinetic energy manipulation and light bending, which allowed her to manipulate her physical state and surroundings.
She possessed the power of invisibility, allowing her to vanish entirely from sight at will, as well as the ability to generate spherical force fields capable of shielding herself and others from physical and energy-based attacks. She exhibited the power of total invisibility, utilizing her focus to bend light around her body and instantly vanish from sight to hide from others. These powers taxed her concentration, particularly in her earliest uses, but with practice she developed the capacity to expand her force fields to encompass large areas and withstand heavy impacts. Combined, her abilities gave her both offensive and defensive applications, setting her apart as one of the most versatile members of the family team.
She possessed the ability to generate spherical, translucent purple force fields, which she used to create durable physical barriers capable of withstanding external impacts. Her telekinetic energy manipulation was shown as she projected these fields to entrap moving targets, effortlessly capturing her fast-moving brother Dash during a physical dispute. Her reflexes were sufficient to activate these defensive shields instantaneously in response to sudden threats or emotional stress. Additionally, she showed high intellectual capacity, possessing the cognitive skills to navigate standard middle school academics, along with the communication skills to articulate her frustrations regarding her secret civilian lifestyle under the Superhero Relocation Program.
Violet can also mentally generate a purple-tinged force field, which she uses for a variety of effects. Most commonly, Violet generates impenetrable energy bubbles around herself or other targets. Her shields are incredibly durable, surviving attacks from the Omnidroid v.10, and can be used to deflect heavy oncoming artillery.
Notes
- Violet Parr was created by Brad Bird where she was voiced by actress Sarah Vowell and featured in the setting of The Incredibles universe.
In other media
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Appearances
- The Incredibles:
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