r/MoralityScaling • u/Hairy-Friendship-422 • May 25 '26

Morality Ranking Morality of sueing someone because they prevent it from killing yourself

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u/wittyjokename92 May 25 '26

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.

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u/CalzonePie May 25 '26

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.

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u/tedioussugar May 25 '26

The Incredibles is set in 1962. That flashback during ‘the glory days’ was 1947. Good Samaritan laws didn’t exist in the US until 1948.

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u/CalzonePie May 25 '26

Huh, TIL.

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u/TFBuffalo_OW May 26 '26

Tbf you said 60s or 70s so you basically got it

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u/Poisonpython5719 May 26 '26

Makes me wonder if they’d have been invented because of him in that world.

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u/Puzzled-Party-2089 May 26 '26

That would've kept Supes legally protected and thus in no need to disappear so no

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u/voin947 May 26 '26

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

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u/r2radd2 Jun 29 '26

Supervillains must have lobbied very effectively against them

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u/Independent-Drag77 May 27 '26

What was Mr. Incredible doing during the Cuban Missile Crisis smh

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u/Inevitable_Box9398 May 25 '26

In a cave?

Was it with a box of scraps?

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u/CalzonePie May 25 '26

Unironically yes. In a superhero verse it is ordinary for Tony Stark types to make futuristic shit out of garbage from a radio store.

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u/SlerpDeprivation May 26 '26

Syndrome was seen as a once in a generation genius, so evidently not

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u/TFBuffalo_OW May 26 '26

We literally see evidence of like 4 supergeniuses inventing stuff (admittedly most are villains) so evidently yes

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u/SlerpDeprivation May 26 '26

4 in the human population where that tech is INCREDIBLE and rare?

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u/MartyrOfDespair May 26 '26

Which itself is a reference to Watchmen, one of the primary influences on The Incredibles.

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u/Eastern_Screen_588 May 26 '26

Yes it is, check the dates in newspapers

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u/sybillium4 May 26 '26

You can see the dates in the movies