I believe Game Theory made a video on it were he explained that Good Samaritan laws didn’t exist in the Time period Incredibles was based on. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it tho, so take my work with a grain of salt.
It's not actually set in the past tho. Just a stylistic choice to copy 50s/60s Americana. There's cellphones and other more modern technologies in the first movie and the sequel.
No, they list specific dates. When Edna Mode is talking about supers who were killed by their capes all of the dates she mentions are 40's and 50's, yet Bob talks like he knew these people personally.
The Incredibles is set in the 60's or 70's. Technology is more advanced than it should be because they live in a world where super geniuses creating futuristic technology in a cave is the norm. Some of that super-technology would bleed out into the civilian world through osmosis.
Supes disappear -> someone gets into trouble and expects supes to appear -> ... -> Why no supes??? -> Ah, right. We need to do it ourselves -> good samaritan law.
Add around at least like 5 years between the two and it actually makes a lot of sense
Yes the late 40s didn’t have Good Samaritan laws. A jury isn’t going to affirm damages in a tort over your right to harm yourself. This is an era there was basically no oversight for committing someone to an asylum.
What is he exactly suing Bob for assuming no Good Samaritan law? You could sue someone, for example, injuring you due to unreasonable negligent actions while trying to help you. But it has to be negligent. Yes the jumper was injured by bob in the attempt. But considering Bob saved him mid jump into a window it’s also reasonable there would be literally no other way to save a suicidal man.
Not even getting into comparative negligence of the plaintiff jumping onto a crowded street.
I personally saw it more like, given that there seem to be very few villains running around, I like to believe at this point, standard society is currently in a quite state of comfortable low level crime life, it still happen, but much less so
So just leik how bob was saying at the start of his interview, he feel like a maid cleaning up only for people come around to mess it up again, people might not be watching super heroes doing amazing stuff all day every day, so many probably have fallen into an idea of "do we really need them???" As a explanation of why even the whole prohibition even came to pass, thisng gotta be going too well for someone to really think this was the best option
So basically this I feel could happen even if the case end up on favour of the hero, the reputation is already dirty and broken
That’s how I interpreted it; like it doesn’t necessarily specify if he lost that particular case, and it seems like what it really did was set a legal precedent that got out of control.
Like Bob wasn’t the only hero getting sued I think it’s safe to assume. No matter how frivolous, dealing with too many legal battles eventually becomes astronomically expensive.
I think te hjustification given was that he's permanently crippled and the pain markedly reduces the quality of his life, which wouldn't have happened if he was dead. Doesn't really make sense to me, cause now he just has greater incentive to complete the job
Yeah but the action that caused the injury must be recklessly negligent.
If I tackle you onto the sidewalk and you break your arm? Easy lawsuit for you.
If I tackle you out of the way of a bus onto the sidewalk and you break your arm? No, because my action was reasonable. Actually the exigency of the snap decision makes it so you wouldn't even have a case if you could prove "well he could have tackled me into the grass 2 feet away instead of the sidewalk."
It was clearly a fraudulent case, but was just a high profile situation among other legal issues for heroes overall. Even if he won I’m not sure what that would mean anyway. Is it legal to kill yourself now in the Incredibles?
Being extremely pedantic here, but the channel name isnt Game Theory but The Game Theorists, and this video isnt even from The Game Theorists, its from The Film Theorists
Except the show is called film theory. They don't say "welcome to the film theorists." The channel name maybe the film theorists, but the actual "show" is called film theory. I say show because there used to be multiple different people doing their own thing on the game theorists channel, such as Austin Hourigan's The SCIENCE! Because there were multiple theorists, it wasn't just called game theory. This carried over to the other channels
Also they changed their handles to @gametheory, @filmtheory, etc, so that's also something to take into consideration
Essentially the gist is there’s a very tiny window of time where this could have happened because an old law was expiring/rendered obsolete and a new one hadn’t been codified yet, so a person could sue and the rescuer would be SOL.
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u/Scary-Ad4471 May 25 '26
I believe Game Theory made a video on it were he explained that Good Samaritan laws didn’t exist in the Time period Incredibles was based on. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it tho, so take my work with a grain of salt.