The Incredibles similarly failed to break anything resembling new ground on gender.
When I watch The Incredibles I see a Helen Parr who is intelligent, resourceful, cool under fire, a kick-ass superhero, a hot-stick jet pilot, and yet still finds time to be a loving and supportive wife and mother. There's at least an implication that Mirage (anorexic though she may be) was instrumental in tracking down and luring a long list of male and female superheros to their deaths. E may be a caricature, but she's a caricature of a highly successful businesswoman and scientist/engineer. Violet offhandedly solves the problems of escaping from the confinement cell and piloting the rocket. Heck, even Kari the babysitter is presented as a hyper go-getter. You may not consider that new ground, but I don't see any reasonable way to classify any of them as princess wannabes, either. Just because the principal focus is on Mr. Incredible doesn't reduce the rest of them to wallpaper.
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When I watch The Incredibles I see a Helen Parr who is intelligent, resourceful, cool under fire, a kick-ass superhero, a hot-stick jet pilot, and yet still finds time to be a loving and supportive wife and mother. There's at least an implication that Mirage (anorexic though she may be) was instrumental in tracking down and luring a long list of male and female superheros to their deaths. E may be a caricature, but she's a caricature of a highly successful businesswoman and scientist/engineer. Violet offhandedly solves the problems of escaping from the confinement cell and piloting the rocket. Heck, even Kari the babysitter is presented as a hyper go-getter. You may not consider that new ground, but I don't see any reasonable way to classify any of them as princess wannabes, either. Just because the principal focus is on Mr. Incredible doesn't reduce the rest of them to wallpaper.