“From wanting to disappear to becoming the family's shield — the quiet core of the Incredibles.”
Bends light to render herself invisible. Early on it triggered involuntarily whenever she got nervous — fitting for someone who literally wanted to disappear.
Projects spherical shields to protect herself and her team. She becomes the family's essential defensive anchor in any real fight.
A character whose anxieties are literally externalized as powers. The wish to disappear becomes invisibility; the impulse to shut out the world becomes a force field. In the first film she makes herself small through self-consciousness, but the family crisis teaches her that hiding isn't real strength. By Incredibles 2 she has grown into the role of the team's field protector.