“ | I'm not happy Bob. Not. Happy! | „ |
~ Huph's most famous quote. |
“ | Complaints I can handle. What I can't handle is your customers' inexplicable knowledge of Insuricare's inner workings! They're experts, EXPERTS, BOB! Exploiting every loophole, dodging every obstacle! THEY'RE PENATRATING THE BUREAUCRACY! | „ |
~ Huph furiously chastising Robert Parr for being too helpful to his customers. |
Gilbert Huph is a minor antagonist in Pixar's 6th full-length animated feature film The Incredibles, the first installment of the franchise of the same name.
He is the founder and CEO of Insuricare as well as Bob Parr's former boss, who ends up losing his job when Huph prevents him from stopping a mugging and causes him to snap, revealing his true nature as a super by hurling Huph through several walls, severely injuring him and forcing Rick Dicker of the NSA (National Supers Agency) to intervene before being fired.
He was voiced by Wallace Shawn, who also played Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Dr. Elliot Coleye in My Favorite Martian, Taotie in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Bertram in Family Guy.
Biography[]
The Incredibles[]
Huph is first seen storming into Bob's office, furiously yelling at him for authorizing payments on policies for clients and subsequently chastising him for listening to and falling for any sob story.
Huph later realizes that Bob is giving clients loopholes, so he angrily calls him down to his office to talk to him. However, he admits his true nature to Bob, who is dumbfounded by his selfishness. Throughout the talk, Bob notices a man being beaten and robbed by a mugger, but Huph sarcastically tells Bob not to cover him. When Bob tries to intervene, Huph angrily threatens to fire him if he leaves his office, forcing Bob to stop and walk back to him. This causes Bob to furiously snap for failing to save a citizen and stop the mugger, viciously grabs Huph by the throat, strangles him and violently throws him hard enough to send him through several walls as he is appalled by his boss's callousness, severely injuring, but not killing him, even Bob regrets this.
In the hospital, after talking to Rick Dicker, who relays the message to fire him and Rick presumably erased his and the other employees memory of Bob's power. Then Rick comforts Bob over of losing his job and plan to relocate him and his family, before cutting himself off Bob.
Incredibles 2[]
While Huph isn't seen or mentioned in the sequel, his company, Insuricare, is briefly mentioned by Bob and Helen Parr when they are discussing about finding a job after their recent arrest and closure of the Super Relocation Program. Bob also mentions how much he hated his previous job, alluding to Huph's abuse towards him.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Gilbert Huph is a diminutive-sized man with short dark hair, wearing glasses and a black work suit.
Personality[]
Huph is best described as being selfish, greedy, but most of all, very short-tempered with little-to-no concern for his customers. Instead of helping his customers, he tries getting the most money possible by denying his clients aid even if they have suitable claims. He even goes as far as getting angry at his employees (especially Bob) if they try giving aid to the clients. He is easily riled up enough to yell. As a result, Bob is very depressed at work.
Huph later reveals his true nature, and tells Bob that he really has no interest in helping his customers, but the people who can support him so he can get more money, even hoping a man that was mugged right in his view doesn't come to him for his help.
Despite his short size, Huph is not afraid to to talk down to anyone, even people like Bob, who are much larger than him. Obviously though, this overconfidence that he could bully, intimidate or belittle anyone who worked for him without consequence would prove to be his undoing when he enrages Bob enough with his greediness and lack of empathy to provoke him into hurling him through several walls in a fit of anger, landing himself in the hospital as a result.
However, despite this, Huph is able to listen to the voice of reason, as is evident in his talk with Dicker when he was persuaded not to sue Bob for assaulting him.
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Trivia[]
- The business malpractice Huph is doing is called "Breach of Contract," and would have made Insuricare liable to a lawsuit by its mistreated customers. In doing so, in addition to monetary compensation in a settlement, the corrupt business practices of Insuricare would be publicly exposed.
- One of his lines, "You authorized payment on the Walker policy?!", is a reference to producer John Walker.
External Links[]
- Gilbert Huph on the Disney Wiki
- Gilbert Huph on the Pixar Wiki
- Gilbert Huph on the The Incredibles Wiki
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