Helen Parr

Superhuman Agility: Helen possesses super agility, which allows her to perform acrobatic and gymnastic movements very easily. Enhanced Strength: Though superhuman strength is her husband's specialty, she is strong enough to lift and toss a manhole cover, with some difficulty, even though a manhole cover weighs over 200 pounds. She can also knock out a man with one punch. Shapeshifting: She has also shown the ability to shape-shift by means of her elasticity. An example of this is when she transforms into a boat in the middle of the ocean to get Violet and Dash to shore. Another instance is when she transformed into a parachute twice in the first film: first to safely land Violet and Dash in the ocean and second to safely bring Jack-Jack back onto the ground. Body Inflation: Elastigirl can inflate her entire body or parts like a big giant balloon by inhaling a large amount of air or liquid. Density Changing: Helen can augment her bodies shape including compressing it down into a compact form, with her mass remaining the same her can increase or decrease accordingly. Superhuman Durability: Due to the great malleability and elasticity of her body, Elastigirl has high durability to physical injury. A high degree of protection is also afforded by her super suit. Combined with her super-flexibility, this, in theory, should make her immune to bullets, though this is never truly demonstrated, save for when she is caught in between several doors while sneaking into Syndrome's compound and manages to have a ricochet of bullets deflected from hitting her leg by her super suit's boots. However, Edna Mode verified her suit was capable of withstanding gunfire.

Elasticity Shapeshifting Body inflation Picnokinesis (Density manipulation)

Elastigirl Helen Highwater Mrs. Incredible Mrs. Parr

In her younger days, Elastigirl was very adamant about breaking into a man's world (that is, the world of superheroes). She also didn't feel that marriage was in her future because she believed that marriage would ruin her style. However, she ultimately falls in love with Mr. Incredible and marries him. Following their marriage and the subsequent outlawing of Supers, Helen gives up her feminist attitude of breaking into the male-dominated world of Supers, as their abolishment makes that a moot point. She takes on a more traditionalist mindset as a wife and mother.

As a housewife, she has a sharp wit and cares for her family's well-being. She wants to make them happy but is concerned with ensuring nobody finds out that they are superheroes. While she can sometimes be a little irritable, she usually tries to remain composed, though she can get panicked or angry under pressure. She is often more authoritative with her children than her husband Bob, who is often too distracted to be substantially authoritative. An argument with Bob occurred over Dash being punished for performing a prank, which Bob actually thought funny. Helen argued that Bob is encouraging rebellious behavior in Dash, something she wants to nip in the bud. Her biggest concern is that since both she and Mr. Incredible were superheroes, their marriage has begotten "superkids", and she does not want her children to break the anti-Super law (whereas her husband takes the stance that the kids need to revel in their very special abilities).

Helen adjusted skillfully to the anti-Super law by completely renouncing her career as Elastigirl, which spared her from becoming Syndrome's target, unlike her husband and Frozone. She uses both her superpowers and her innate abilities as a wife and mother to unify her family and protects them at all costs. She is quick-witted, resourceful, talented, passionate, driven, and supportive. Throughout the story, she is the only unwavering character, always sure of herself and always caring for those around her. She is the stronghold of the Parr family and is the glue that holds them all together.

According to official sources, Helen is in her late thirties, and she is 5'8" (173 cm) in height, and she is 125 pounds (56.8 kg) in weight. She has fair skin, rosy cheeks, pink lips, auburn (reddish-brown) hair, and brown eyes.

In her glory days as Elastigirl, she had long reddish hair and a slim, athletic figure, with the exception of rather wide hips. She wore a light grey leotard with a black and white "E"/"G" insignia on the chest, with a scarlet headband, mask, and belt, long scarlet gloves, and thigh-high scarlet boots. When she wore the outfit again when first visiting Winston Deavor, she wore dark tights.

After fifteen years of forced retirement and three children, Helen wears her hair in a medium bob, and much to her chagrin carries a little extra weight on her abdomen, hips, thighs, and buttocks. Following Mr. Incredible's secret return to hero work, the family's old friend and designer extraordinaire Edna Mode designs a new super suit for him, along with matching suits for Helen and their three children. Helen's "Mrs. Incredible" super suit is a red leotard with an orange, black and yellow "I" insignia on the chest that houses a homing device, along with a black mask, long black gloves, black bottoms, an orange belt, and thigh-high black boots. When Helen is tapped to lead a campaign to bring the supers back in Incredibles 2, she gets a new suit designed by Alexander Galbaki. The suit has a silver leotard with a magenta belt and a magenta "EG" insignia on the chest, with a black eye mask and black gloves, tights and thigh-high boots. However, the suit gets ripped on the shoulder near the end of the film on the EverJust, and she reverts back to her red "Mrs. Incredible" suit. When she's in her hotel room, she wears a white bathrobe and is barefoot.

Elastigirl encounters Mr. Incredible when they help each other apprehend a robber. They marry that night with Helen taking Bob's last name, being Parr (her maiden name was Truax). After a series of lawsuits filed against superheroes and a major uprising of the people, the supers are forced into retirement and hiding. Elastigirl permanently assumes her secret identity and bears three children, named Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. She becomes a homemaker who does her best to unify her family and help them adjust to a normal life. She only uses her superpowers in private for convenience. Bob, however, does not adjust well to civilian life. Helen eventually discovers his clandestine crime-fighting with Frozone (Lucius Best), using the cover story that they're going bowling. This results in a marital conflict between Helen and Bob.

Bob is fired from his job at Insuricare after he loses his temper with his boss and injures him by throwing him through several walls. Soon after his termination, he's lured by Mirage to Syndrome's private island, Nomanisan Island, under the ruse of an assignment, in which Mr. Incredible must disable a formidable weapon called the Omnidroid 08. Bob begins taking on more assignments on the island, telling Helen all the while that he is attending Insuricare conferences out of town. After resuming hero work, Bob's temperament at home changes dramatically for the better. He gets back in shape and spends more quality time with Helen and their children. Helen finds a strand of platinum-blonde hair on Bob's clothes, and she becomes suspicious when she hears Bob talking on the phone to his contact, Mirage, and begins to believe that Bob might be having an affair.

Mr. Incredible is lured once more to the island by Syndrome, who secretly intends to kill him. Meanwhile back at home, Helen notices the new patch on Bob's old super suit and contacts Edna, who insists upon seeing Helen immediately. She shows Helen all of the super suits, and Helen is angered at Edna for helping Bob resume secret hero work behind her back. Edna, who was unaware that he was hiding anything from Helen, informs Helen of the homing device she included in each super suit. Helen uses it to locate Bob and is briefly overcome with emotion, convinced that Bob is cheating on her. Edna snaps her out of it, smacking her furiously with a newspaper and encouraging her to go to him and win him back. An accomplished pilot, Helen borrows a jet from Snug, her pilot from the Golden Days, to journey to the island and find her husband. During the flight, she finds Violet and Dash stowed away. Syndrome sends missiles in response to her request to land on the island and the plane is destroyed, with the transmission of Helen's pleas to call off the missiles playing in the containment unit where Bob is being held. Helen uses her body as a parachute, and with the help of her new, indestructible super suit, saves herself and her children from the wreckage. They land safely in the water, and Helen morphs her body into a boat, which is propelled by Dash's super-speed and carries Violet to land. Mirage confirms the destruction of the jet, leaving Bob to believe his family has been killed.

Helen and the children seek shelter in a cave, where Helen tells Dash and Violet that she is afraid their father is in trouble and instructs them to stay hidden while she goes to look for him. She warns both Violet and Dash that the enemies that shot their plane down are merciless killers, and urges them to use their powers to protect themselves at all costs. Violet apologizes for not being able to protect the plane but Helen replies, saying that it was asking too much of her.

Helen also tries to bolster Violet's confidence by telling her that she has more power than she realizes, and not to worry or think because she will do the right thing when the time comes.

Helen leaves the cave to save Bob. She uses her quick thinking skills and elasticity to make her way to the containment unit where her husband is being held captive. On the way, she looks at herself in a hallway mirror and notes that she has put on weight since she retired from superhero work. She runs into Syndrome's security guards, but defeats several of them at once while her body is caught between two sets of sliding automatic doors by kicking one, using her abdomen unintentionally to knock out two others and punching two more to knock them out and obtain the keycard to the doors to free herself. She takes the unconscious guards to a locker and hides them. Mirage, disillusioned by Syndrome's narcissism and callousness, frees Mr. Incredible and tells her his family survived the crash. Flooded with relief and gratitude, he draws Mirage into an embrace right as Helen enters the room. Livid, she delivers an extended punch from the doorway, knocking Mirage to the ground, believing Bob has been unfaithful to her. Bob grasps her extended arm and pulls her in as quickly as he can. Helen resists, but of course, is no match for his strength, and he kisses her passionately, asking her how she could think he would ever betray "the perfect woman." Mirage urges them to hurry because their children are in danger, and Bob and Helen escape into the jungle to find them. Meanwhile, Violet and Dash are attacked by Syndrome's security force, but manage to evade them using their powers. The children and Bob and Helen run into each other along the way and continue to fight the security forces until Syndrome arrives and recaptures the family. Syndrome, recognizing Helen as Elastigirl, is surprised to see that Bob married her and had a family with her.

Back in the containment unit, Syndrome reveals that he intends to use his latest Omnidroid model to attack the city of Metroville, and then orchestrate a rescue, in which he appears to defeat the immense weapon, which is in reality under his control. The Parrs escape again and manage to journey back to Metroville with the help of Mirage, where they, along with Frozone, destroy the Omnidroid v.10 and save the city once again.

Back at their house, they are again confronted by Syndrome, who tries to kidnap Jack-Jack. Syndrome uses his rocket boots to reach his plane, and Jack-Jack reveals his shape-shifting powers in mid-air to overcome Syndrome. Helen orders Bob to throw her into the air and she catches Jack-Jack, using her body as a parachute once again to return them safely to the ground. Bob throws his car at Syndrome's plane, and Syndrome is killed when his cape is sucked into the turbine of his private jet, also resulting in the explosion of his plane.

Three months later, Helen is seen with the rest of the family cheering on Dash at his school's sports day where he finished second. With the threat of The Underminer looming in the city afterward, Helen is seen wearing her mask as she joins the family in the fight against the villain.