Incredible/Elastigirl, both dealing with the onset of age-induced power incontinence, look on at a shard-powered superhero community that's essentially won the Incredibles-era culture war over supers, and are left with the sinking feeling that this may have been a monkeys-paw sort of victory for their camp. A middle-aged Dash alternates between exulting and chafing within the burgeoning cape scene as one of the oldest and most experienced capes still caping, he's been hauled into a position of defacto respect and authority within the community that abrades against his innate sense of rebelliousness, and he struggles re:the writing on the wall in terms of the incipient conglomeration of superheroes under the Protectorate, as he remembers how that panned out last time. In contrast to her brother, Violet, with her defensive powerset and years of experience, has been scalped as one of the inaugural instructors of The Whetstone, the Protectorate’s ward training facility this puts her on the front line of the societal discovery of exactly how spiteful and intransigent powers can be. Edna Mode is still around and designing costumes nobody is entirely sure how this is possible. In the event there’s a plot, I think it would either be a murder-mystery or a slow, somber character piece along the lines of Death Of A Salesman. Things are silent when Bob and Helen, worn out from the day’s chaotic events, return back to the sleepy motel room. It had not been a good few hours, to say in the very least. From an arrest, to the news of the Supers Relocation Act being shut down, to the heated argument that had transpired over dinner time, the pair concluded that things seemed to have hit a new low for the Parr family. But, despite how bad things seemed to be, there was still a light at the end of the seemingly dark tunnel for them.
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