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What is Mr Incredible's real name?

Bob Parr (probably). In the wedding scene (prior to his family being taken into witness protection) we see him using the name Robert Parr. Minister: Robert Parr, will you have this woman to be your ...
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How is the Mary Poppins Sequel legal when the author denied a sequel?

Disney were keen to make a follow-up to Mary Poppins as early as 1982 but the movie ended up in a glorious legal mess because of legal clauses on both sides that required creative agreement from both ...
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Has Donald Duck ever had any love interest besides Daisy?

Yes, and no... Donald Duck's first love interest was Donna Duck, first appearing in the Don Donald 1937 short film. Click image to enlarge. However, this is where things get confusing. Whilst she ...
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Will the Genie be blue?

The genie will be (mostly) blue and CGI. Straight from the horse's mouth: BAM!! First look at the Genie 🧞‍♂️, Princess Jasmine, and #Aladdin! Check Me Rockin’ the Top Knot Ponytail Vibes in @...
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Why can't Maui float?

For the record, Maui is perfectly capable of swimming in human form (and seems both reasonably buoyant and pretty confident of his chances of swimming at least a mile) but it seems unlikely that even ...
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Identify a comic where Scrooge McDuck was protected against a beam because he went swimming in his money

This is Uncle Scrooge #08, The Mysterious Stone Ray The device was a petrification ray, developed to defend the island by a Professor from Duckburg trying to perfect a recipe for fumeless cabbages
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Has Darkwing Duck ever met Scrooge McDuck?

Darkwing Duck and Scrooge McDuck have met on several occasions. In The Legend of the Chaos God (1994) Scrooge hires Darkwing Duck to recover an artifact. At the end he and Darkwing are seen in the ...
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Is Elastigirl's body shape her natural shape, or did she choose it?

Aside from the reason stated in the other answer of her needing force/to concentrate to be stretching we can also infer it’s her natural state from another reason. Every time we see her unstretch she ...
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What does this writing by the genie in Disney's Aladdin say?

Persian for Turkey (and?) Rice (Pilaf) According to User Arminius99 from the reddit post linked by @sumelic the Persian not Arabic writing would be made up of these letters: بوقلمون پلو The user ...
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Is Elastigirl's body shape her natural shape, or did she choose it?

The image provided with the question looks to supply the answer. In that scene, Elastigirl appears not entirely happy with her shape in the new skintight costume. (It's been a few years and three ...
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Why did Scrooge accept the $10,000 deal for the Anaconda Copper Mine in Don Rosa's 1993 comic "The Raider of the Copper Hill"?

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Scrooge is a lone prospector who's just gotten very lucky with the help of an obscure legal ruling and a lot of support from a wealthy patron who happens to ...
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How many genies are there in Disney's Aladdin canon?

Looking through the full list of Aladdin characters, the genies that we see on screen are Genie, Evil Genie, Jafar, and Eden. While we know that Jafar was originally human before wishing to become a ...
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Who are these 'Incredibles' superheroes?

A few of the 'supers' in the pictures are identifiable; Frozone by his distinctive ice trail, Dynaguy by his helmet crest and Meta-Man by his trademark pose. The others depicted don't appear in the ...
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What factors led to Disney retconning Star Wars Legends in favor of the new Disney Canon?

Keeping the EU canon would have alienated the intended audience. While there are a lot of diehard Star Wars fans who love the EU, they are vastly outnumbered by the number of people who have only ever ...
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Can Disney undo Lucas's changes to the original Star Wars films, now that they own the rights?

George Lucas doesn't want them released After it was announced that Disney was buying Fox (which would give Disney the distribution rights for the original trilogy), Pablo Hidalgo took to Twitter to ...
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What is Mr Incredible's real name?

I believe that the answer is as simple as that his name really is Bob Parr and there is no evidence that it has changed. The witness relocation issue really isn't that much of a problem because ...
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Which Disney Princesses did not make the cut?

The Disney Wikia maintains a pretty solid (and ongoing updated) answer to this very question. The Official Disney Princess lineup doesn't include a number of bona-fide princesses who've appeared in ...
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Bad girls at Pleasure Island/Toyland?

The situation is ambiguous, at least for the novel, as whether it's just boys, or boys and girls, depends on the translation. Children (depending upon the translation of the original Italian, the ...
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Bad girls at Pleasure Island/Toyland?

In addition to FuzzyBoots's answer, some other details about the original novel. The adventure in the Land of Toys happens in chapters 30 to 33 of "Le avventure di Pinocchio". In these chapters, ...
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Who has creative control of Star Wars?

Primarily, Disney via the Lucasfilm Story Group... The Lucasfilm Story Group is a division of Lucasfilm, created after the Disney acquisition; it's their job to keep the Star Wars canon as internally ...
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What factors led to Disney retconning Star Wars Legends in favor of the new Disney Canon?

It's important to remember that Lucas made Star Wars canon up as he went along (major example of that in the movies themselves here). Lucas himself even made things that are no longer canon (and that ...
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What does this code from DuckTales mean?

It was intended to be a message, but the art department didn't do it according to the Director's tweet: In the Storyboard, Artist Ben Holm made the binary to read “Remember Number 4” implying that ...
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Who is this tsum tsum?

This character is Jack Skellington's buttocks. The proof is in the puzzle 70 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Prism Art Petit Disney "Tsum Tsum" - The Buttocks which shows the backside of many of your favorite ...
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When did Ursula live at the palace, and why was she exiled?

According to the song "I Want the Good Times Back" from the Broadway musical version of The Little Mermaid, Ursula is Triton's sister. On their father's death, he divided the kingdom equally ...
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What does this writing by the genie in Disney's Aladdin say?

I am Persian; in this language, "بوقلمون" (pronounced Booghalamoon) is turkey (poultry), and "پلو" (pronounced Polo) is rice. This is a main food for Iranian (Persian) people. Rice in Persia (Iran) is ...
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Are Darkwing Duck and Ducktales set in the same universe?

According to the creator of Darkwing Duck, Tad Stones, the show exists within an alternate universe from Duck Tales. He goes on to state that though Launchpad first appeared in DuckTales, the ...
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Old animated Disney movie that explained math problems

I think this might be what you remember: Donald in Mathmagic Land Specifically, it goes into things like the Golden Ratio and pentagrams. In fact, From the description in the wiki, it seems like the ...
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Trying to identify a short story about Disney characters in a post-apocalyptic world

This sounds like "Heirs of the Perisphere" by Howard Waldrop, published in 1985 in Playboy rather than Omni, and even nominated for a Nebula Award. It starts pretty much as you remember it, ...
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Is there an official list of Disney Princesses?

Disney Princess is a group created by Andy Mooney to market Disney products to girls. Soon after joining Disney, Mooney attended his first "Disney On Ice" show. While waiting in line, he ...

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