Another great aspect of Syndrome's character is his relationship with Mirage. She is the vehicle he uses to convince Bob to come to the island which ultimately leads to his capture. Mirage however is shown not to be as ruthless, soon when she is visibly uncomfortable to play the plane's transmission knowing Bob's wife is the pilot, and is terrified when she hears his children's are also there. This transitions to Syndrome mocking Bob for being alone and Bob grabbing and threatening to kill Mirage in his grief. Bob is of course unable to due the torture of the device he is held in, but this sets up one of Syndrome's biggest flaws: people are disposable. Following this, Mirage blatantly tells him, "Next time you gamble, bet your own life." She then focuses her efforts on helping the heroes, helping Bob escape, telling him his family is alive, and giving them the password to launch the rocket. Because he viewed her as disposable, she helped speed up his undoing. Again, it shows even when he had an organization behind him, he saw them as nothing more than pieces in his master plan, and thus, he was always alone.
It's notable how Syndrome flat out doesn't get why Mirage is pissed off with him. It never seems to cross his mind that she quit and especially that she might help the heroes.
@@Ladywizard Yes, that’s a crucial point of comparison, and one that Syndrome mocks. Bob can’t make good on his threat because he’s still a hero. Syndrome sees this as weakness because he’s nowhere close to being one.
@@JimmyBoy9878 That moment is what turned him from a hero to a human, in my eyes. He was always morally upright and tried to do the right thing and, in that moment, in his eyes, it cost him his family and here was one of the people responsible. But the second he found out his family was still alive, all that rage left him. He had people worth fighting for. If it was only to save himself, he didn't care. But he immediately wanted to be back with his family. The man was a hero for as long as he was human. I love every bit of this movie. Hot damn.
I love that scene near the end where Syndrome finally ‘reveals’ himself after saving some people from the omnidroid and instead of cheering him, the onlookers are just like “Who the fuck is he? Is that Fironic?” It visibly pisses of Syndrome that people aren’t behaving like he’s **expecting them to** he wants them to worship him as a hero but even at his ‘greatest moment’ he’s completely deluded.
As smart as he is, he fully expects things to go exactly as planned. This is fully exemplified in the scene after, where he attempts to take down his creation. He expected to beat his learning machine but it blew up in his face when his machine blindsided him.
@@emanuelrojas2 Syndrome's plan to beat the machine was to cheat with the remote. The problem? The robot was never taught to follow along with the plan. If you pause the movie and read the text that appears on-screen through the Omnidroid's vision in the moment before the "blindside", you can see its train of thought: >Arm fell off. Why. >Arm was removed by signal. Locate signal. >Remote sent signal. Disable remote. It *learned* the remote was dangerous to it, and resolved to solve the problem.
This is a brilliant scene to tell you everything you need to know about Syndrome. One of my favourite details is how Syndrome seems to misremember the Bomb Voyage scene. In the original scene, Mr Incredible is clearly angry, as Buddy has crossed a line. The kid's interfering with a Super Villain fight, putting himself and others in danger. He says to fly home, and that he works alone, all while still dealing with Bomb Voyage and showing that Buddy is distracting him. When Syndrome remembers it, Mr Incredible is looming over him, casting judgement, and Bomb Voyage is nowhere to be seen. You'd think the bomb on his cape would be something Buddy remembers, that Mr Incredible saved him, but no. Buddy doesn't even recall the danger he was in that night, nor the trouble he caused. He only remembers his hero spurning him, and none of the consequences of his actions.
He's also sadistically playful and funny. He mocks mr incredible for having family when he " works alone " ( despite him having frozone with him as a sidekick ) and even says things like " YOU GOT BIZZAY ". You wouldn't see other good villains like thanos saying that. And Syndrome also probably does remember the bomb on his cape and what not, he just cuts it out to be in denial. His ego overshadows the good things that mr incredible does. The main reason they even saw each other and bomb voyage is because mr incredible wanted to save a suicide victim, probably thinking he was gonna regret the jump soon. Besides why does that guy care about it so much if he WANTED to die and the injuries got him closer?
@@beefandmustardgaming666 With the last thing you said about the guy caring so much about the injuries. I think it's simply due to that he has to continue living with the painful and miserable injuries without the sweet release of death.
Another important Syndrome moment was when he tried to goad Mr Incredible into killing Mirage when he was at his most desperate. Mr Incredible was unable to go through with it, and Syndrome dismisses him as weak. This is a woman with whom it is implied in Syndrome's conversation with her was in some sort of romantic relationship, and yet he treated her as a disposable object. He later tries to play off his indifference to her fate as him knowing Mr Incredible was bluffing, but Mirage was understandably upset, and later betrays him to help Mr Incredible and his family escape. Mirage understood that Mr Incredible's respect for life was not weakness, and Syndrome disregarding it was not strength. Bob had more compassion for his enemies than Syndrome ever did for those suposedly closest to him. Deliberately sending missiles to Elastigirl's jet even after finding out their children were aboard was a pretty evil action too.
Syndrome's main reason for inventing his hypertech was to get the leeway to indulge his base impulses. Like a C.E.O. or House M.D. - Only Syndrome's a straight-up megalomaniacal sadist.
@@bsgfan1True, but still, he showed no remorse for his actions or even made an attempt to abort the missiles when he found out children were aboard the plane. After a shaken Mirage confirmed the hit he made a callous joke to Mr. Incredible about him "preferring to work alone." The (assumed) deaths of innocent kids didn't bother Syndrome in the slightest; it was just another opportunity to mess with Mr. Incredible.
6:42 theres a very good detail in this movie that in the actual scene of Bob rejecting Buddy he's holding Bomb Voyage prone, dealing with the serious and dangerous situation currently on hand, but in Syndrome's flashback to the scene later in the movie Bomb Voyage isn't even there, Syndrome literally didn't notice or care about him. He made the entire thing out to be about himself.
"They owe you nothing" is a great way to sum it all up. Sure they may put themselves out there in movies and media, but that doesn't mean they want massive attention. And I don't mean the way that everyone knows them in public, but in the way that they cant do their own thing without being interrupted.
I think it's completely wrong. They make a product, and they expect your money and your praise for it. They owe you the bare minimum of a satisfactory experience.
They owe you nothing goes both ways. Just as it's wrong for the fans to get annoyed over creative choices they don't agree with, the recent trend of creators blasting fans for not paying to support those choices is also wrong.
Well no, as loyal consumers we are entitled to, at the very least, a product worth our money. This is why the slight point about Star Wars fans in this video is completely wrong, instead of being offered good content, they were given rehashed stories that were used to peddle identity politics, and were called everything under the sun when they chose not to see it.
its a sad tell when people are clearly lying to themselves by constantly repeating the same thing since in their mind they think "they must not have heard me the first time, since im clearly right and this is all just a misunderstanding, ill graciously tell them again and they'll understand and everything will go my way" the brain does amazingly awful things to shelter a persons fragile ego, its part of the ID, the part of the brain that centers around our most basic desires and its strive to protect them, self image is among those and depending on what kind of person you are, some have very thick skinned egos and others are tissue paper thin and will do whatever it takes to convince themselves more then others that the way they think is correct and others are wrong. The brain is scary when it wants to be.
@@whiteface513abandonedchann8 to my knowledge I don't think the ID is a concept that's been debunked by the psychological community like a lot of Freuds theories have, but I could be wrong about that.
@@whiteface513abandonedchann8 The Id is a perfectly logical idea, as basically all choices made by people are due to emotions/needs/wants, logic, and thoughts on morality. Are you really going to argue people can not be impulsive, irrational, or addicts?
Honestly. Syndrome is Pixar’s magnum opus. He really feels like he’s having fun being evil, and his motive, while very evil, does make sense. He wants to get back at the naturally superior people by putting everyone on the same level as them.
and his voice is top notch with the southern accent. The " YOU GOT BIZZEY " line is one of my favorite adult jokes. They don't shove it down your throat like " When a man and a woman lo- " before the character is interrupted. And he's ruthlessly sadistic, like flowey from undertale or that dude from megamind that pissed when he saw fake metro man. In fact i think the latter is quite similar with red hair and what not. One more thing, the only thing close to the syndrome adult joke, is the " suger honey ice tea " from madagascar. Also syndrome's " i was gonna go with bs for baby sitter, but i couldn't. You understand why. " in the jack jack babysitting short. Which for some reason forgets that the baby sitting girl was struggling with syndrome as in he captured jack jack.
One thing I love about Syndrome’s flashback to Mr Incredible’s rejection is the inaccuracies present in the scene. In the original scene, Mr Incredible is more focused on Bomb Voyage, making sure he doesn’t escape and all that, whereas in Syndrome’s flashback Mr Incredible is totally focused on Buddy, making the rejection look so much more personal. Bomb Voyage isn’t even present in the flashback, Syndrome doesn’t even remember him.
I remember watching this movie as a kid and being too stupid to realize who syndrome was, so I just thought the film pulled something out of it's rear end.
You know... a lot of people really do say Syndrome is the best commentary on toxic fans. And I have to agree, I never noticed it when I was younger. All I saw was 'Oh, this guy is insane and wants to hurt people for his benefit' But now, I see it more as 'Oh, this guy was a fan of superheroes and is insane to the point of wanting to hurt people to become one and put people on the same level' Now, this isn't the same as being Batman, Batman had a good motive for being a Hero. To stop people from getting hurt the same way he did (Even if it is... a bit loose in how he does it). But Syndrome, he's wanting to be a Hero because it's 'fun' and 'full of fame and glory'. Unfortunately, Heroism is not like that. If it was all fun and games, nearly every hero fanboy would be dressed as Superman or Spiderman and going out to save the city. Heroism, in my opinion, is more or less the act of willing to give life and limb to protect those who deserve protection. No matter what. Not everybody *can* be a Hero, they have to be dedicated to the cause of helping people and realize that what they are doing could kill them. Even if they're Superman, they can't always rely on their powers to well... strength. Especially if it has a weakness. Regardless, Syndrome is well written and I like this movie now more then ever. And I'm not even that big a superhero fan.
You know who else had great intelligence, was capable of creating amazing inventions and had the respect of many superheroes without having powers: Edna Mode. It's quite interesting to contrast the two characters in terms of their outlooks: Edna doesn't need the approval of superheroes; Mr Incredible complements her on her amazing design skills and she dismisses it with an offhand remark. Syndrome would have literally killed for that sort of attention. Edna invents for the pure love of it, and to help her friends when they need her. Syndrome invents to amass power and to further his twisted revenge plot. Crucially, Edna never looks back, she learns from the past and moves on with the next big idea (NO CAPES!). Syndrome focused so much on the perceived wrongs done to him by Mr Incredible that it consumed him.
"But Syndrome, he's wanting to be a Hero because it's 'fun' and 'full of fame and glory'. Unfortunately, Heroism is not like that. If it was all fun and games, nearly every hero fanboy would be dressed as Superman or Spiderman and going out to save the city." This was captured in Syndrome's "fight" with the Omnidroid: 1) He pulls a classic heroic entrance of appearing out of the blue to save a mother and child at the last second, even after a lot of destruction and likely death. Compare that to the real heroes who are far more pragmatic - Mr Incredible chooses the best point to get ahead of a car chase and doesn't care if he's not visible to the public when stopping criminals. 2) He tosses the fuel truck aside and lets it explode, which is like how superheroes have a bad habit of causing heavy destruction and inadvertently endangering lives. Mr Incredible put the tree back and tried to minimise property damage, but the one time that he lost control of the situation and wrecked a train, it netted him serious trouble. 3) He engages in a horribly choreographed fight and made sure to showboat, whilst the robot he designed to adapt to and overcome superheroes doesn't act like a cardboard prop and turns on him. Mr I, Elastigirl, Thunderhead and many others have quickly incapacitated their foes and kept control of the situation and it was disastrous for them when they slipped up. The second the Omnidroid turned on him, Syndrome found himself realising that superheroics is far more work and danger than he could ever comprehend or handle.
Are people still saying Syndrome was the good guy because he wants to sell his products to give people superpowers? Because he's not, it would just be trading one class of elties for another.
Surely that would never mean those with already more money and power would immediately buy everything they could in order to create their own personal armies and fight each other while the common folk struggling to pay their bills would continue to suffer and be as powerless as ever. Surely that would NEVER happen...
Not to mention the fact that selling his products always seemed to me to be (1) a way of spiting supers rather than any kind of egalitarian crusade and (2) an afterthought, since he planned to spend literal years playing hero and satisfying his own ego first.
I love how they made Syndrome fully and pure evil while trying to make it seem as if he was tragic and sympathetic, even when he's just fake tragic and his backstory doesn't justify him in any way. Not every villain have to have an actual sympathetic backstory, just as long as the villains view themselves as tragic
Something to point out, a lot of people sympathize with Syndrome because he was a skilled inventor being pushed aside for the “special gifted people”. These people forget that Edna Mode exists who isn’t super powered but does have an inventiveness on par with Syndrome, and she uses it to make top quality suits for heroes.
When I was 8 and saw this movie, I GASPED at, "I am your Biggest Fan". Biggest twist of my young life at that point. No Flashback needed. I was 8 and I got it, and it was incredible. And honestly, the toxic fandom of today makes this movie better and more relevant than it was in 2004
People really think that syndrome could be saved but honestly his intro scene is enough to show you that no matter what he would’ve turned into a monster
I think that if someone had the time to step in when he was still young, he could’ve turned out different and have been a great ally to supers, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time with mr.incredible. Mr Incredible wasn’t unreasonable, but buddy was in his formative years and took everything the wrong way.
Syndrome reminds me of The Reverse Flash, a guy who idolised and wanted to be like his favourite superhero The Flash to the point he started dressing like him, had reconstructive surgery to look like him and committed crimes just to solve them like his hero. He stopped doing this after the Flash (who accidentally went to the future) put him jail. But like Syndrome being told off by Mr. Incredible he ignored it the first and wanted to be Flash's sidekick. He hurt himself just to get powers go back in time and meet him. When he gets there he learns he was the Flash's archnemisis. Thawn had devoted years of his life to the Flash, to the point he practically lived in the Flash museum after his parents died. He wanted everything the Flash had, the respect, the fame, everything. But when he learnt he was nothing but a foot note he snapped. His obsession ruined him
I think the reason why Syndrome idolized Mr. Incredible so much is because he never had a father in his life, so he gravitated to Bob as some sort of father figure. So, when Bob rejected him twice, it hurt all the more to him. He was also most likely ignored as a child, and yearned for the fame and glory that a superhero life could bring him, so he could finally feel noticed and respected. Syndrome looked at superheroes like they were celebrities, while ignoring that what makes a true hero isn't having awesome powers or stopping villains, but helping people and inspiring them to do and be better, simply because it's the right thing to do.
fun fact: I theorised the villain would be Tadashi, because the obvious bad guy seemed like an obvious red herring and it being Tadashi would be pretty twisted.
So there's a detail I hadn't realized for the longest time, or maybe I'm reading into it too much, but the line 'you sly dog, you got me monologuing!' stuck out to me, because I realized that Mr. Incredible only had two short lines in that whole scene- 'Buddy?' and 'I was wrong to treat you that way, I'm sorry.' Neither of those was prying for any kind of background information or goading him into a rant about his plans. Not only can Syndrome not claim responsibility for his own actions, *he can't even take responsibility for his own words.*
you know. id go so far to say the whole incident that lead to supers being banned? was ironically thanks to buddy. that train wouldnt have been derailed had he not make himself into a target for bomb voyage. should mr incredible been a teensy bit gentler? maybe, but he was already giving buddy WAYYY too much kindness by his first appearence in the film.
@@idiocyincorporated7635 it's also kind of funny. in comics, you don't need powers to be a hero. buddy could VERY WELL HELP PEOPLE on his own with his gadgets. i havent seen a single gadget-based hero in the incredibles universe. buddy could have been the first. and he could have made that choice when mr incredible told him to go home. he could have saved a kitten from a tree. get people out of burning buildings. all without getting in the way. it's a big city and theres only so much mr incredible could do. buddy could have helped mr incredible by solving smaller incidents or rescuing people from disasters and actually be a hero in his own right. he might have gained mr incredibles respect. but nope. he took the wrong meaning from his encounters, he was just THAT dead set on mr incredible that he didnt think to do anything else. he had the ability to be a hero. but in the end he chose not to.
@@supersmashbro596 hell if he still wanted to shove it to mr incredible he could just make superheroes obsolete. Better security systems, better healthcare, safety systems. Make it so super villains can't hurt anyone and even natural disasters aren't able to do damage. Put all the supers out of business.
Maybe Mr. Imcredible should have been gentler, or maybe the kinder thing to do would have been to double down on the harsh words and make Buddy realise that he's not a hero before its too late.
There's a detail that doesn't relate to the video, but I just realized it and really like it. If you pause at 6:00 and look around Syndrome's eyes, it seems like he took a blue marker and colored in the area around his eyes that the mask didn't cover. It really shows how obsessive young Syndrome is that he noticed this and tried to correct it. Just a wonderful dedication to detail.
I consider The Incredibles to be one of my favorite movies. So why is it that now, in 2021, nearly 17 years after it was first released, do I suddenly for the first time realize that Incrediboy modeled even his hair off of Mr. Incredible?
It's important to remember they owe you nothing when you give them money you are pouring into thankless pockets of people who will never know your name, you are a means to their end and once your usefulness is over it's like you will never have existed. It's a hard lesson for people to learn, but the sooner they learn the better.
The best example of this I can think is the 80s Transformers movie. When they killed Optimus Prime and several other characters because their toys weren't selling and were being replaced with new ones. All the producers had to say was "We didn't think anyone would care" because in the end, it was just a really long ad
What's with the bitter tone? No, creators don't owe you anything except for what you buy from them, and that's fine. Being dedicated to a work you aren't involved in doesn't entitle you to a say in how it's made or to the lives of its creators, and that's the way it SHOUILD be.
@@screamingcactus1753 I have just seen creates bite the hand that feeds them to many times. Also, I think private lives should be private, no argument there.
This does remind me of sad stories of fans killing their celebrity idols (such as Christina Grimmie) Because when they do they become part of their legacy And they’d rather be the villain in their story Than not being in it at all.
This may not count because of the fact that it’s in a tv show but in the show day break in episode 4 the reveal of barren triumph was amazing with horror elements that not only make barren triumph scary but worse scary smart I would highly recommend the show on Netflix
I always took Syndrome's line about his name not being "Buddy" as literal. That that's just what Mr. Incredible called him because he never found out the kid's name rather than him rejecting his civilian name for his cape name. Also, separately, I do believe that Mr. Incredible could have handled Incrediboy's interference better. Make a point about it not being about having powers, but because of his age and not wanting to be responsible for a child's life like that.
Yeah but in Mr. Incredible's defense the guy was trying to deal with multiple things at once while on a time limit. See if you are so patient and eloquent when you have so much on your plate at once.
It's interesting watching this after watching Nando's video on Thanos, and realizing that Buddy and Thanos are largely motivated by the same thing: the need to be seen. They aren't really here to save people, or to help. They just want the gratitude and the acknowledgement that they feel they're entitled to.
I said this elsewhere, but instead of growing as people, they decide to build a lever to bludgeon the universe with until it is the shape they want. Know who else does this? Michael Douglas's D-fens from Falling Down. Karens. Q-anon, Flat Earthers and other cryptoluddites.
3:00 I got up from my chair, 'cause I literally thought someone knocked on my door. Took me like full 3 minutes to realize you said the words "knock knock", and that it was the video. Well played Eddie. How'd you know my door is on my right side?
use youtube vanced, 99% of the time it autoskips. Only bad thing is it force skips even in the pacific situations that you WANT to watch them, ie its a parody
use youtube vanced, 99% of the time it autoskips. Only bad thing is it force skips even in the pacific situations that you WANT to watch them, ie its a parody
I really did consider The Incredibles to be "too much" for kid me. I honestly appreciate it, and Buddy, more as an adult. And it's mainly due to one specific element that I think plays true to the film.... its treatment of death. And its treatment of it is that it happens, and horrible people can and will cause the deaths of others to further their goals. I genuinely think that's why "NO CAPES" became such a fan favorite saying, and how Buddy Pines' own arrogance to represent what heroes USED to be in his own twisted version of it led to his own demise.
there are fan theorys that the og omnidroid that mr incredible defeated was meant to kill frozone because of the volcano. I really want to see the other heroes fighting the omnidroid and the other omnidroid models
I know this is already in the video but I also wanna say more points about the scene. One thing to point out is that during the start of Syndrome’s monologue he says: “I’ve gone through quite the amount of supers to get it ready to fight you.” (Not exact but still close) at first, it’s not shown what happened during the development of the Omnidroid models, only when Mr Incredible hacks into the files is when he’s shown that not only did Syndrome kill supers but it was all apart of his plan to lure him out and kill him. Mr Incredible’s former fan turned villain killed a DOZEN of supers in order for him to prepare to kill him. This shows Syndrome’s genius level plans and as well as his deep hatred for mr incredible.
@@shaunmoreau5081 You know, after reading about heros and villains over the ages, after being forced to sit through boring war documentaries, and after hearing several dozen oral assignments about agriculture through the ages, I never ONCE heard of the time that I ever asked for your opinion, you stock pfp neanderthal.
6:47 Right before he started flying off, Buddy said that he was going to go get the police. From my understanding, Buddy was too eager to help by getting the police that he didn't notice the bomb on him, and was too hyped up on adrenaline or too focused on Mr. Incredible wrecking his flight pattern to realize that Mr. Incredible was trying to tell him that there was a bomb on him.
I think Syndrome's backstory was what inspired the character of Lil Dynamite from the Nickelodeon show, Danger Force. They both wanted to be sidekicks to the main character, they got rejected and they swore revenge against said main character.
Hey, Eddache, can you do a video analyzing the "Who Shot J.R." mystery from Dallas and the global phenomenon and speculation the mystery created? I think this would be a perfect video for your channel after 'Who Shot Mr. Burns".
Good kid’s content is something an adult could have a blind viewing of, and be completely unaware it was aimed at children. Hand-holding only destroys quality.
1:24 Except in this particular example the fan design is legitimately better than the official design. Same goes for that side by side of Michelangelo from Bay's Ninja Turtles that showed the official design next to a fan photoshop that gave him the iconic turtle "snout". Same goes for Sonic. I don't see how you can say that's toxic fan behavior when it's just constructive criticism (as in a complaint with a solution/alternative provided by the complainer). A better example of a toxic fan "taking ownership of something he/she loves" would be Steven Universe when artists were bullied for drawing characters off-model or with "the wrong skin tone' to the point that even the show staff had to tell them to knock it off. Your example using Star Wars is kinda hit-and-miss since there are fans that hated the sequels that will make demands of the people making them, but there are far more people like myself who wholly disliked the direction it was going and voted with our wallets by not buying the dvds or watching future movies. You can roll your eyes at the criticism of "woke culture' but that nugget of twitter that hammers on about "representation" and "diversity" in ways that are inorganic to the story while furiously masturbating to the smallest inclusions greatly sours the shows and movies that do so in a competent way for many of us. Primarily because this social movement we're seeing is strongly based on narrative and not science or reality. We are seeing major media studios and networks further losing touch with their audience in terms of design and marketing. Opting to pander to the TQ portion of the alphabet people and their allies rather than making something that anyone could enjoy despite their personal situations while simultaneously passive-aggressive insulting the largest portion of their primary demographics. 6:58 Social activism in a nutshell right there, buddy. Especially with nothing problems like wanting society to accept your sexual preferences/identity instead of keeping it to yourself and personal social circles like literally everyone else. No one today cares enough about gays, cross-dressers or queers to hate them, however the constant in-your-face attitude on social media and over-saturation in movies, tv and marketing is justifiably causing a bit of resentment. It also doesn't help that those who want to be seen as progressive, good people tend to be some of the biggest racists and sexists since pre-2010 4chan. Proven numerous times by their intolerance of caucasians, men and heterosexuality on social media and major national publications. (bit of a tangent) You're a good video essay guy. I'd like to see you one day revisit this topic years later and see if your analysis evolves.
I honestly didn’t even realise Syndrome and Buddy were the same person until I was thirteen. But I hadn’t seen the movie in a few years by that point, so yeah. And when you’re a younger kid things usually just go over your head and you don’t catch or understand it until you’re older.
Syndrome is one of the best twist villains of all time, he's like scar. He's not forced down your throat, nor is he just there for them to say " we have twist villain " He's not like the newer twist villains from Disney. Disney's frozen twist villain is just thrown in there for the sake of saying they had a twist villain. This happened in hero 6 but i wanna talk about one more. Raya and the last dragon. They threw in the twist villain at the beginning, and even a " parent dies off " cliche. It was just another hans where they say " Too bad we're not allies.. " and suddenly ooh it's a good and surprising twist villain. Like, what do you expect when enemy clans come in and literally are skeptical of YOU?
with the Raya and the last dragon movie I honestly say it wasn't bad in fact it was actually quite predictable because everyone wanted the stone orb thing and she thought she would make her mom and her people proud if she was able to steal it.
I actually think that the cape that you mentioned right at the end is also a show of Syndrome's ego... he's a superhero fanboy. even if mr. incredible was his favorite before he would know about the countless deaths of superheroes caused by their capes and the subsequent lack of them in any hero outfits made later. however he thinks he's invincible (also he's clinging to the past) and so the cape remains on his outfit
