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See, I could've seen the intro part, the cookout scene, as being part of the show. It's a way to show off the banality of his existence, and also the concerns he faces as a superhero in refuge. The call to Syndrome could've been the trigger to start his plot to lure him to the island in the first place. It would show how Syndrome knew who to contact in the first place, and also kind of show Syndrome's obsession that he had at least one and possibly many individuals actively looking for him. Gives you that creepy stalker vibe. For the home invasion scene, it might have done well at the very end of the movie, instead of the one we got with Syndrome and Jak-Jak. There's something very visceral about threatening a parent's kid, it's every parent's fear. So yea, these scenes, adapted slightly and placed differently, could've added to the movie. But I'm glad we got the Syndrome backstory we did.

I love the movie as is but this is a pretty cool scene.

I await your Wall-E video

Interesting how in both versions, Syndrome dies trying to kidnap a baby. *insert its a canon event joke here*

I do really like the idea of using a mirror to counter Synbroms attack. Clever and also visually funny seeing Bob just tilt the mirror to smash him into the ceiling XD Shame we didnt get a scene like that at least.

I saw the barbecue scene as a kid and always thought it was less a "non-canon" scene and more just a "this didn't fit in the movie's runtime" scene. So I like to believe it absolutely was canon, happening some years after the intro we know and before the movie really began.

Ok, but what if this zerrick was the villain of incredibles 2?

I love that storyboard Syndrome didn't have a cape.

I am so very glad that Incredibles got the rewrite it had. That alt. opening just becomes "generic super hero story", and what we got was something truly special. Syndrome as a character is absolutely brilliant in the final version, from the backstory on.

Man that opening movie deleted scene just re-establishes my hatred of incredibles 2 "would you like incredibles without the family aspect?" No, why would i ever want that

It’s like they always say, without Syndrome, there wouldn’t be an Incredibles. No wait, that sounds wrong. Still… it was interesting to see Zerek’s role in the Incredibles Comics.

3:55 A friend recently pointed out a little neat detail regarding this. In Bob’s room, when he is receiving the message from Mirage, you can see a jar of bullets that have been fired at him, and crushed as a result. Mr. Incredible is canonically bulletproof.

I thought this was a huge, channel, great video!

Tf you mean this is almost 20 years old!

Using the mirror to turn Syndrome’s own zero point energy against him is a pretty cool idea honestly

This would make a great short film if they just changed the villain, maybe still keeping the zero point energy if they gave it a more crude unfinished prototype design.

I don't think he would have been stronger. Bending some stainless steel clever around your fingers vs taking damage from being whacked by whatever military grade alloy the Omnidroid is using is logically consistent, I don't think people realize just how vast the differences in metal qualities can be.

The idea of a mirror causing Syndrome's weapon to simply reflect on him and make him immobile is both hilarious and very bad for a villain of his caliber.

Very interesting scene. Though, realistically i think it counts as two scenes, but still. I think no one can complain about it not being in the film, its such a good film that it was clearly the right choice. Ironically, i think that Syndrome works much worse as a one off villain where as bombvoyage is a much better one. On a surface level, bombvoyage is actually more interesting than syndrome. He has a clear theme, and is very well equipped for a single scene where the viewer looks at him, gets what hes about, and then doesnt need to think about him again. Whereas Syndrome, doesnt actually have that. In a scene like this, he is quite literally just a generic supervillain. Now of course, this is just in the context of a character whos around for one single scene, where their purpose is to get in and get out.

I think everything from the start to the finding of the knife would have fit right in to the film as it is.

If this movie was ever remade I bet you anything that syndrome would be a sympathetic villain, and im so sick of that bs. Just give us memorable villains like this, not every one of them always needs to be misunderstood

The point from the top comment, "to prove the starting idea of the movie wrong". But you know what could be even more fun? :D If in the end they are both first and second by a substantial distance, but when Cruz sees him getting behind - she backs a bit. Lightning sees it and does the same and they repeat it till that antagonistic guy whose name I forgot is next to them. Then Mcqueen asks if she's willing to let the jerk win and drops behind him, they get first and third and that guy is _obviously given_ a second place. That would be hilarious for that guy's story-line, whatever it was, hopeful for Lightning and old people in general and would finish Cruz's arc just as well, in my opinion.

3:55 hindsight and all but Bob probably should have tried to pass it off as a gag cleaver.

Man an incredibles where Syndrome just died during some failed break in wouldn't been the same. I really do think he's the perfect foil to the family; a lonely man (despite all his henchmen, we never see Syndrome care about anybody except Bob in the first scene and his self. Everyone else he only ever cared to *look* good for) who was never born with any powers but becomes the single most powerful threat to people who had all the power in the world, but cared too much about the past the world tried to move on from, goes against a family of supers who despite Bob obviously yearns for the glory days, truly values his family and their future above all else.

1:57 I never get that, people can be new to old stuff, all media from long times ago are not automatically inserted into your brain, whether the media is old or new spoilers are spoilers of course we should expect people to have watched the movie if they are watching a video about it, I am just puzzled by that phrase, like what assumption is there that makes spoilers of old media less bad?

I thought it was an interesting deleted scene, it’s just that there’s absolutely no way for this hypothetical, alternate film to have been setup as anything alike the incredibles we got now.

Syndrome is a man child clinging to the past. This is a man who has touched science that no one in the real world modern day has even come close to and is rich enough to own islands yet he can’t let go of that one time someone told him to tick off and ruins his entire life over it. Syndrome’s a joke and the worst part of an otherwise amazing movie, I have no idea why people think he’s a good villain.

God I still think it would've been hilarious seeing Bob faking he accidentally cut his fingers off.

This scene is still awesome. I remember watching it all the time when I was younger. The main reason why I watch the franchise to continue is so that someway this scene can be refitted into a movie or short and basically be made canon. I think it can still work, we just need to change the villain who breaks into the house of course.

Ngl small shorts that document their lives just after superhero’s were outlawed sounds so much fun to watch

As a short this is awesome but ultimately I’m glad it was scrapped

I wouldn’t mind seeing this pitch be reworked into the opening of a new incredible movie. Like now superheroes aren’t illegal in the incredible world but the secret identity would still be in play.

Syndrome is so great because he doesn’t understand what heroes actually are. He has this sort of glamorizations of them, seeing the reputation and the punching bad guys, but doesn’t realize that sometimes heroes need to make tough decisions, and that sometimes the popular opinion is not what’s actually for the best. When Bob is talking to Edna about getting a new suit, he mentions the idea of having a cape. Why? Because all the greats wore capes, they’re just cool. Syndrome agreed, and him seeing the super hero only for the symbol, putting a cape on his own outfit is what turned out to be his downfall in the end. Heroes are not just people who are super strong or unique who beat up the villains, and products can’t replicate what a hero is. They do the right thing always, even if they’re told it’s the wrong thing.

This seems less like a deleted scene and more like a movie pitch

I don't know, I think the first movie did showcase Bob as someone who can't easily be grazed. The opening scene shows him stopping a train by catching it and walking away unharmed, and in the present when we see his desk at home, there's a jar containing bullets that bounced off his body. The Omnidroid knicked him in their first fight, but I think it's safe to assume that the Omnidroid is of a different caliber of weapon since it was specifically designed to fight and kill Supers and has done so several times over multiple iterations.

I think a lesson that the Incredibles teaches us is about letting go the past and be thankful for what you have . Bob was able to let go the past and be thankful that he had a family now and he also let go of the glory days and became a better person as well as a better father . Syndrome on the other hand couldn’t let go of the past and he actually could’ve been a great superhero with all of the technology that he had created but he let the pain that Mr incredible caused him to make him bitter and evil . So evil in fact that he didn’t care that mirage was going to be killed even though it’s hinted at that they were in a romantic relationship . Another thing is that syndrome was so mad at bob for rejecting him , that syndrome literally wiped out 50% percent of the supers population . He was actually trying to commit genocide against the supers . In a way syndrome did succeed because the Omndroid became so powerful the it became self aware and turned on syndrome . And a lot of people don’t mention this but syndrome not only wiped out 50% percent of the super population but he also had a private island and guards by the age of 25 when he was killed . Also and I’ve been thinking this for a while . When syndrome had Mr. incredible captured , he could’ve killed him right then and there but I believe he wanted Mr incredible to admit that he had won and the mr incredible had lost . Also too whenever syndrome addresses the incredible family . Notice how he always looks at bob , to me , syndrome doesn’t even acknowledge the rest of the incredible family , his main focus is on Bob . Because of what happened when he was a kid, is Bob he wants , he could care less about anyone else ! It’s crazy how syndrome study the supers before he went after them but he never thought not to wear a cape , honestly, syndrome, would have lived, had not worn the cape , all he would have to do is climb out of the jet and use his rocket boots to get himself to the ground safely . He one of the best villains in Pixar .

i remember watching this alternate intro and being fascinated by it as a kid! the incredibles had some of the best dvd special features on a film that i can recall

he’s still probably stronger in the films given the omni droid that he could damage was capable of withstanding that earthquake guy’s power who was making like magnitude 6 earthquakes if i recall correctly

please dont tell me its the deleted scene where Syndrome licks the girl

if incredibles 3 is atleast Ok and isent just another copy of the first movie than ill be happy

I hear original that scene was the fake dead because after he appear live as the true villain

I kinda wish they had kept this scene, but of course making it so Syndrome wouldn't have been killed off so early/easily. It would make him seem more menacing.

I wonder if this movie will do well financially

A little late but that BBQ scene was actually put into a incredible book that I remembered reading as a kid

Maybe Cars 4 will have that scene especially this based on that. But I want Cars 4 to be longer.

aside from the part with syndrome, i think the scene at the bbq couldve been put in the movie still. like placed just after the newspaper bit but before bob is shown working at insuricare.

For some reason I thought this was gonna be about the Gazerbeam funeral

This is mostly just a summary of the scene.

I mean they could’ve easily kept the stay at home mom part, and scrapped Syndrome dying so early on. Or they could’ve brought Syndrome back and used his plot for a sequel

I noticed after watching this that the way he meets his end is similar to how it was in the first concept. He still holds the family in place while trying to attack their baby, baby retaliates, he gets caught off guard long enough to meet his maker, albiet in a different way.