AU where Mirage is the main antagonist in The Incredibles, what happens?
Nothing because she has no agency or motivation.
>>150167775Well, lets see. She would make a good twist villain, in that you still set up Syndrome as the bad guy but then reveal that Mirage was the worse evil all along. Probably make it so that Syndrome makes all of the tech and has his own plan, but doesn't realize that Mirage has her own ideas for what to do with his technology. "If we have a superweapon that no hero can beat, why would we use it to just... play hero? We can just be unstoppable. Take whatever we want. Rule the country, rule the world."In this case, Syndrome probably goes off to play his little hero game, and what happens instead is that Mirage feeds the robot new orders to kill Syndrome, which he isn't expecting because he thinks he is in control and he either dies or is injured and saved at the last second by the Incredible. Mirage takes over his operation and starts building more of his machines. She would consider eliminating Syndrome himself to be more important than any other goal because he is the one person alive who might know how to stop them/her. Mirage, meanwhile, has hijacked all of Syndrome's resources and tools but she isn't a supergenius. She can't actually improve or modify the designs, just tell the factory to make more of them. That's her weakness: she doesn't actually know how this tech works or have the ability to adapt to new problems because that was Syndrome's genius, not hers.
>>150167974It'd play hell on the "like a toothpick" scene, but it'd be very in genre for a femme fatale archetype. I'd give her killing Syndrome though. Lot of great pottery in him going out like the heroes he wished he could be.
>>150168000I think it actually works well, because at the time that Bob has her at his mercy and is interrogating her, she is genuinely under threat and caught off guard. He COULD stop her right then and there, but despite his anger he doesn't realize she is the real threat yet and she successfully baits him into going after Syndrome and leaving her unharmed.When Mirage gets revealed as the bigger bad, Bob now gets to be mad at HIMSELF because he HAD HER and let her go, and also now we have a direct connection for Bob to be angry at Mirage for tricking him personally and Mirage to both look down on Bob (you were so easy to trick) but also be afraid of him (he really could have killed me in that moment, and I can never let him get that close again). So the "like a toothpick" scene is her VERY NEARLY losing everything before her plan even goes off, and only narrowly managing to navigate the situation and get out of it because both Bob and the us the audience only think of her as Syndrome's secretary.
>>150167974Cool idea. Also creates a more obvious threat for Helen's story: if Syndrome reliving the glory days is supposed to mirror Bob's conflict, then Mirage trying to keep her business/family on a tight leash should mirror Helen's conflict. To drive it in further, she would be the one that kidnaps Jack-Jack at the end, affirming Helen's fears about being an inadequate mother.
>>150168078Yeah, I could see that. It could even be something that she does because she is afraid of Bob, to try and get leverage over him by taking his kid hostage.
>>150167775Who she?
>>150168194This lady. The artist drew her off model to look like a generic anime girl.
>>150168273If I remember correctly that's the woman from Incredibles who worked with the supervillain who are protagonists threatened to kill but he couldn't go through it fit but I made her go against her boss ultimately and release him.
>>150167775Looks like the bitch from fire force
>>150167775Fanservice fuck yeah
>>150169833Rocks!
>>150168273>>150167775Fanart is always superior
