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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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Is it ever explained where Elsa got her powers?
In-universe answer:
It seems quite plausible that Elsa is descended from someone who was cursed by ice magic. That power may have then transferred down the family line.
As you can see from the image ...
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Why the Dearth of Wishes at the end of Aladdin?
The question is not about there being a limit to people who could wish stuff, or even things to be wished for.
It's that Aladdin promised Genie that he'd use his last wish to set him free.
ALADDIN: ...
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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 it ever explained where Elsa got her powers?
When they visit the trolls, the Grand Pabbie asks "Born or cursed?" Elsa's dad answers "Born." Aside from this, there is no other reference to how she got her powers. Here's a link to the screenplay. ...
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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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Does Anna regain her memories?
Anna doesn't regain her memories during the movie. Frozen's writer/director Jennifer Lee has confirmed this on Twitter:
Since "Elsa filled her in," Anna would know that her memory of ...
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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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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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Aladdin's wishes and a logical fallacy
The Genie does make him a Prince but Jafar uses magic to turn him from Prince Ali back into plain old Aladdin:
Yes, meet a blast from your past
Whose lies were too good to last
Say
hello to ...
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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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Aladdin: Why Did Wishes Get Revoked?
The script is very clear on the first point. Jafar doesn't just remove his Aladdin's fancy clothes, he fully reverts him to being a peasant: He literally zaps [Prince] ALI back to [commoner] ALADDIN:
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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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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 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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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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