Dash

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In the film, Dashiell often gets into trouble and loves playing pranks on his least favorite teacher, Mr. Bernie Kropp. He thinks that since he has powers, he should use them, but his mother, Helen Parr/Elastigirl, disagrees. He wants to compete in spectator sports, but she forbids it.

Dash's reckless nature and one-track mind always get him in trouble with his big sister, Violet, who is unconfident, moody, gloomy, and sarcastic. In fact, in one scene, he teases her about her crush on one of her classmates, Anthony "Tony" Rydinger, which eventually begets a fight that is not broken up until the family's long time friend, Lucius Best/Frozone, rings the doorbell. He and Bob leave to go "bowling".

After Dash's father, Bob/Mr. Incredible returns from the Island of Nomanisan (to trash a prototype of the Omnidroid 9000 battle robot), Dash and Bob are seen playing games, such as playing catch with a football. Their game of catch becomes more important later on.

Unfortunately, Bob is soon captured by Syndrome (who created the Omnidroid) when he returns to Nomanisan. After a brief visit with superhero fashion designer Edna Mode, Helen packs her bags to rescue him. As she does, Dash takes the one meant for him and puts it on, naming himself The Dash. Dash and Vi (already in her own Super-Suit) stow away on a plane (against her wishes) that she had borrowed from a friend. As a consequence, the three are nearly vaporized when Syndrome launches missiles on them and the underconfident Vi fails to create a force field big enough to shield them. Helen saves the children's lives by shaping herself into a parachute, but a piece of plane wreckage almost crushes them.

Helen then changes into a lifeboat with Dash serving as the outboard motor. When they get to shore, Helen praises him. When they camp out in a cave, she warns the children that the bad guys that the two will be facing differ from the ones on Saturday morning cartoons in that they are even more merciless, and for once, she allows Dash to run as fast as he can. Before she leaves to find Bob, Helen bolsters Vi's lagging confidence by telling her that she has more power than she realizes and that she just has to believe it.

Dash hates it when Vi is in charge (in fact, he hates authority, period). He goes of to explore the cave, but he and Vi exchange verbal disagreement. She is concerned that Dash thinks that they are on vacation, and lets him know otherwise ("Mom and Dad's lives could be in danger, or worse, their marriage."). Fortunately for the children, Dash explores the cave and discovers that the cave is actually a rocket exhaust tube, allowing them to just barely miss being burned alive while they escape—and see the rocket take off.

They spend the rest of the night in the jungle and huddle together to keep each other warm. When Dash wakes up the next morning, however, he is briefly disgusted by waking up in such close proximity to his sister, and then by being in actual physical contact with her. Then a monitor droid (disguised as a wild bird) gets his attention. Their curiosity triggers an alarm and the droid sends it off in a deafening manner. Later, the two are cornered by three armed Velocipod pilots. Dash, just remembering Helen's advice, goes for it and starts running. Two of the pilots chase him (while the third engages an invisible Vi). During the episode, Dash discovers just how formidable his superpower really is—he learns that he has a superior reaction time, can deliver rapid-fire punches, and is so fast at full speed that he can run on water without sinking. At the end of what has become known as "the Hundred-Mile Dash", Dash gets cornered by two Velocipods, but the fact that he stops on the lagoon's surface saves his life.

Eventually, Dash returns to Point A just in time to save Vi from being killed by the Velocipod pilot who stayed behind to confront her. As Vi returns the favor, she discovers that she can float inside her force-fields if she generates them in mid-air ("How are you doing that?!!" "I dunno!" "Whatever you do, use the force field with which Vi shielded him, and the IncrediBall is executed for the first time ever. After destroying a couple of Velocipods (killing their pilots in the process), they run into their parents. Later, the family works as a unit for the first time.

Unfortunately, Syndrome immobilizes them in zero-point energy and tells them of Operation Kronos, his plan to fraudulently become a superhero. The family escapes with Vi's help, and when Helen can't find any jets in a hangar that she saw on her way in and Bob tells her that a jet is too slow, Dash sees several rockets. Unfortunately, Helen has no knowledge on how to fly a rocket. Vi tells her to "just use the coordinates from the last launch". Syndrome's ex-co-worker, Mirage, who became an ally of the family after folding her apparent relationship with him, takes care of that since Syndrome changed the password (it was originally "KRONOS") when Bob got caught.

Helen holds a van to the rocket as Dash says what many kids impatiently say on a long journey: "Are we there yet?" When the family arrives, Dash and Vi are nearly crushed to death by the Omnidroid (which had just turned on Syndrome and knocked Violet unconscious) but Bob saves them. When Syndrome's remote enters the fray, Bob throws it like an American football and Dash has to cross the pond while catching it. After the family and Lucius finally secure the remote, Vi and Dash fight over it until Helen takes it from them. When Helen tells the children to hide, Vi says no. The Omnidroid is finally destroyed when Bob hurtles one of the robot's claws through the central core.

Upon coming home, Helen stops Dash from toying with the power windows of National Supers Agent Rick Dicker's limousine. Dash then gets excited about how much fun that he had during the entire adventure ("That was the best vacation ever! I love our family."). When they arrive, they stop Syndrome from capturing Jack-Jack. Syndrome is apparently killed when his cape gets snagged in the turbine of his private jet and Vi saves the family from being crushed by plane wreckage, which totals their home. Dash now wonders if they have to move again (in the beginning of the movie, the family had just finished three years of packing and unpacking in order to be officially moved into their home) and Bob says yes. When the smoke clears, one of their neighbors, a trike-riding young boy named Rusty, is amazed by what happened ("Oh, man… that was totally wicked!!").

With all said and done, Frozone and the Incredibles (and all remaining Supers, if any) are allowed to operate and Dash is allowed to compete in spectator sports as long as he keeps to running at the average human pace.

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