Helen Parr

Helen marries Bob at the height of her career. With supers banned, she adapts to ordinary life, raises her kids and tries to teach them to hide their powers. She is the most realistic in the house: she knows the world has changed and that her husband won't accept it.

Helen distrusts Bob's new mood and visits Edna Mode, who tells her what he is up to. She activates a beacon hidden in the suits to find him, which ends up getting her husband captured. She borrows a private plane, and Violet and Dash stow away. Syndrome shoots the plane down, but Helen and the kids survive.

On the island, Helen hides with the kids, rescues Bob and fights alongside them. In Metroville she helps beat the robot and catches Jack-Jack when he falls from Syndrome's plane. In the end she sees her husband accept the family as a team.

Holly Hunter had never voiced an animated character and saw the role as a chance to widen her range. She was drawn to the unconventional story about family dynamics. Brad Bird considers her one of the finest actresses in the world, able to play a sensitive character with a very sturdy center.

In the second film, Winston Deavor chooses Helen for the campaign because she caused the least property damage. She hesitates to leave the family but accepts after talking to Bob. The Parrs move into a mansion, and Helen starts the missions.

Helen stops a hovertrain from crashing, foils an assassination of an ambassador and tracks the villain who hypnotizes through screens. When she unmasks him, she finds only a confused pizza delivery driver. It was a decoy, and the real villain is free to act.

Evelyn, the true Screenslaver, traps Helen with mind-control goggles and forces her to give villainous speeches on the yacht. The family arrives, and Jack-Jack pulls the goggles off her. With Bob and Lucius, she frees the other supers and prevents the disaster.

Holly Hunter voices Helen in both films. It was her first animation role, and Brad Bird described her as an actress with a very sturdy center and a sensitive touch.