Brad Bird Discusses Why Jack Jack Has All the Powers in INCREDIBLES 2

At the end of The Incredibles, we see Jack Jack unleash a wide arrange of powers including becoming a little human torch. Then, in the trailers for Incredibles 2, we see him able to teleport and have laser beams. Why does he get all the fun? The other members of the Parr family have one, maybe two powers, so why does he have so many? Director Brad Bird recently explained that it’s basically because babies are incredible.

“...so men are always expected to be strong, so I had Bob have super strength. Women, mothers are always pulled in a million different directions, so I had her be elastic. Teenagers are insecure and defensive, so I had Violet have force fields and invisibility. Ten-year-olds are energy balls that can’t be stopped.

And babies are unknown, maybe they have no powers, maybe they have all powers, we don’t know. So, that’s what Jack-Jack was, he was seemingly the first normal one in the family and then at the end of Incredibles you find out that he’s the wild card, and that he’s sort of the Swiss army knife of powers. And that to me reminds me of the way babies can grasp languages really easily and adopt them easily.”

I’m glad that this has been thought out like this. My question is, will he eventually only have one power as he grows up? I imagine he won’t. I think he’ll always have a myriad of powers, and that’s cool. I’m excited to see what the Parr family is up to in Incredibles 2, which will come to theaters June 15, 2018.

Source: CBM