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| “ | The Screenslaver interrupts this program for an important announcement. Don't bother watching the rest. Elastigirl doesn't save the day; she only postpones her defeat. And while she postpones her defeat, you eat chips and watch her confront problems that you are too lazy to deal with. Superheroes are part of your brainless desire to replace true experience with simulation. You don't talk, you watch talk shows. You don't play games, you watch game shows. Travel, relationships, risk; every meaningful experience must be packaged and delivered to you to watch at a distance; so that you can remain ever-sheltered, ever-passive, ever-ravenous consumers who can't bring themselves to rise from their couches, break a sweat, and participate in life. You want superheroes to protect you, and make yourselves ever more powerless in the process. While you tell yourselves you're being "looked after". That your interests are being served and your rights are being upheld. So that the system can keep stealing from you, smiling at you all the while. Go ahead, send your Supers to stop me. Grab your snacks, watch your screens, and see what happens. You are no longer in control. I am. | „ |
| ~ Screenslaver's speech after hijacking the signal to Elastigirl's interview. |
| “ | Elastigirl: Funny. Evelyn: What? Elastigirl: Look at that. One of Screenslaver's monitors is tuned into my suit cam. Evelyn: What? Elastigirl: Isn't the suit cam closed circuit? Evelyn: It is. Elastigirl: Then how come Screenslaver has it? Evelyn: Maybe he hacked it? Elastigirl: So, he's sophisticated enough to do that but he has simple locks on his doors? Evelyn: Maybe he wanted you to find him. Elastigirl: He wanted to get caught? Evelyn: He wanted you to win. Elastigirl: That makes no sense. He's a brilliant guy. If he's smart enough to conceive of technology like this, he's smart enough to think of something to do with it. The guy we put in jail delivered pizzas. Evelyn: So? Einstein was a patent clerk. Look, you won. You got the guy who-- Elastigirl: Wait. All Screenslaver needs to do to hypnotize someone is get a screen in front of their eyes. But what if the screen doesn't look like a screen? What if the pizza guy is really a pizza guy but he was controlled by the screens built into his glasses-- (Before Elastigirl could finish, Evelyn shoves the goggles onto her eyes, putting her in brainwashing) Evelyn: You are good. |
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| ~ Evelyn revealing to be the real Screenslaver. |
Evelyn Deavor, also known by her supervillain alias, the Screenslaver, is the main antagonist of Pixar's 20th full-length animated feature film, Incredibles 2, the second installment of The Incredibles franchise.
She was the former co-CEO of DevTech who was bent on her villainous scheme on destroying the reputation of the superheroes and preventing the public from making them legal again. Evelyn's scheme was entirely rooted from the deaths of her parents, both of whom were reliant on supers, not knowing at the time near their respective deaths that the Super Relocation Act was in effect. Thus, their lost lives severely broke her. She is also the younger sister of Winston Deavor and Elastigirl's former friend turned arch-nemesis.
She was voiced by Catherine Keener, who also played Missy Armitage in Get Out and Maya Sorian in The Adam Project, whereas the decoy Screenslaver was voiced by Bill Wise.
Appearance[]
Evelyn is a tall, slender woman in her early 40s with a short, messy brown bob and lightly tanned skin. She has a fairly flamboyant fashion sense and is almost always seen with bags under her eyes. She wears a few different outfits across the film such as; a beige, striped blouse with black and white pinstripe leggings, a black and white keyhole dress, a charcoal suit with a black and white overcoat over the top of it and a mostly black jumpsuit with white accents around it.
The Screenslaver is a gangly young man who wears an all-black outfit, made up of a shirt, trousers and shoes and gloves. His most distinguishing feature would be that of his mask which has a metal tooth-like voice modifier in the front of it and a pair of blue hypno goggles over his eyes. Without his mask he looks like an ordinary young man around his early 20s with short blonde hair, blue eyes and freckles.
Personality[]
Evelyn's made-up facade as an unassuming and helpful friend to the Supers.
Evelyn's true colors.
| “ | Ah shucks, I'm just the genius behind the genius. | „ |
| ~ A quote said by Evelyn Deavor, hinting at her being the villain. |
Evelyn is a secretive and double-faced woman, who manages to hide her true intentions for the majority of the movie. She speaks in a very sarcastic tone most of the time. She's also a very skilled manipulator and actor, able to pull off this innocent act for a good majority of the movie and trick others very easily. She is quite intelligent and able to invent a lot of advanced technologies, such as the Hypno-goggles, which are a pair of goggles with hypnotic screens built into them, which Evelyn uses to brainwash citizens and superheroes. Evelyn developed a hatred towards superheroes, due to a traumatic experience. And as such, she's willing to do anything to make them illegal again, even if that means manipulating people, lying, and committing crimes. Evelyn also seems to be a bit of an introvert and is much more quiet and reserved than her brother, Winston, who is social and outgoing. Evelyn is also shown to be cruel and sadistic, as shown when she showed little concern and maybe even amusement when Elastigirl collapsed from hypoxia, as well as having a degree of pettiness as she remorselessly turned an innocent pizza delivery guy to become an unwilling and evil supervillain because he was surly and for presumably delivering cold pizza. Evelyn's hatred for superheroes turned her into a destructive supervillain who shows no limits in who she's willing to put in danger.
Despite this, Evelyn does have a few redeeming qualities, such as her caring about her parents and brother, but even so, she crosses the line into becoming a villain by using extreme methods to turn the public against supers by putting innocent people in danger, framing a pizza delivery guy as a patsy and displaying a callous disregard for the lives she endangered.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Evelyn and her brother, Winston, were born as the children of Mr. Deavor, the CEO of a small media company named DevTech, and an avid fan and supporter of superheroes, who even possessed two direct lines to the superheroes, Gazerbeam and Fironic. One night, burglars broke into the Deavor home. Instead of hiding in the safe room with his wife, who insisted that the safe room was the better option, Mr. Deavor attempted to call Gazerbeam and Fironic for help.
Unfortunately, this was after the Super Relocation Act was passed (due to the amount of backlash and lawsuits made against Supers after Oliver Sansweet sued Mr. Incredible for preventing him from taking his own life and unintentionally injuring him in the process). Therefore, there was no response, resulting in the burglars shooting and killing him. Not long afterwards, Evelyn and Winston's mother would die of heartbreak as a result.
Becoming a Villain[]
With both of their parents deceased, Winston and Evelyn inherited DevTech, in Chicago and both using their unique skills to build the company into the biggest electronics and media firm in the world — the tech-savvy Evelyn invented and created innovative products, while Winston would use his natural charisma and people skills to sell them to the masses. Winston also inherited his father's firm love of superheroes as well, believing his father could have been saved had they not been abolished and dreamed of one day of abolishing the Relocation Act.
Evelyn, on the other hand, saw her father's murder from a different perspective. Instead of believing that her parents could've been saved if the Supers had been around, she saw that her father only died because of him being too dependent on them to save the day instead of taking the initiative to save himself by hiding in the safe room.
Perceiving supers to be a danger to society by prompting people to be lazy and having people expect others to solve their problems, she developed a secret hatred of them, which went unknown to her hero-loving brother.
Incredibles 2[]
Introduction to Elastigirl, Mr. Incredible, and Frozone[]
Three months after the defeats of Syndrome and the Omnidroids, Winston sees his chance to bring back the supers while observing Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and Frozone's attempt to stop the Underminer. Evelyn is drawn into his plan, and arrives to join her brother and greet the three heroes when they are summoned to DevTech. When Winston explains the story and death of his father, still blaming the Relocation Act, Evelyn notably suggests that their father could've saved himself by hiding away in the safe room, but Winston strongly disagrees. Winston then reveals his plan to use Elastigirl as an advocate for superheroes, presenting the three heroes with Evelyn's analysis of how much damage particular heroes have caused over the years, proving Elastigirl to be the least destructive and therefore their best chance at proving why heroes are good for society. With prompting from Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl accepts the offer, and is sent to fight crime in New Urbem with a new suit and bike called the Elasticycle (the latter provided by Evelyn), while Mr. Incredible is left to watch over Dash, Violet and Jack-Jack in their new home.
Brainwashing Citizens[]
In New Urbem, Elastigirl successfully saves the passengers of a new monorail, which had been hijacked and sent in reverse. Upon confronting the driver of the monorail, Elastigirl finds that he has no memory of what had happened, and a message to her written by someone called "The Screenslaver", Evelyn’s supervillain alias. Because of her successful rescue attempt, the public begins to respect Elastigirl, who is invited to a televised interview. However, Screenslaver hijacks the interview by brainwashing everyone near a screen, revealing his intentions to assassinate the ambassador Elastigirl had met with earlier. Fortunately, Elastigirl succeeds in rescuing the ambassador from destruction, foiling Screenslaver's plan. The next day, after being introduced to a group of new superheroes inspired by her actions (Voyd, He-Lectrix, Reflux, Screech, Krushauer and Brick), Elastigirl and Evelyn begin to bond, where they both realize how to find the (false) Screenslaver, that being to trace his signal while he is broadcasting.
Determined to catch Screenslaver, Elastigirl sets up another interview in which she does not physically appear, and, as predicted, Screenslaver broadcasts again and takes control of all who are viewing. Screenslaver rants about how superheroes like Elastigirl are all part of humanity's growing need to replace everything meaningful and important in their lives with simulations, while never rising to anything challenging or to do anything themselves. All the while, Elastigirl tracks Screenslaver down to an apartment complex, where she discovers a large amount of research and devices related to hypnosis. Screenslaver then traps the two of them in a box with distorting lights and attacks Elastigirl using a weapon that neutralizes her elasticity. However, Screenslaver finds himself still overpowered by Elastigirl and sets a bomb to destroy his apartment while he escapes. After chasing Screenslaver down, Elastigirl unmasks him to find a young man who does not remember what had happened to him. Ignoring the man's claims of being just a normal pizza deliverer, Elastigirl has him arrested for his crimes.
True Nature[]
Hypno-goggles
During a celebration at the Deavor estate, Helen walks into the editing suite. Evelyn later joins her and offers her a drink and starts a small conversation with her. Helen brings up the Screenslaver and said that defeating him was "too easy", Evelyn tries to change her mind and convince her that she won but Helen ignores her. While reviewing evidence together, Helen discovers a pair of Hypno-goggles in the Screenslaver's mask, implying that the man who was arrested was being brainwashed as well and that he's not the true villain. As Elastigirl slowly puts all the pieces together, Evelyn forces the goggles onto Helen to prevent her from taking action, brainwashing Helen in the process. Later in the Cold Room, Evelyn temporarily deactivated the hypno goggles on Elastigirl and reveals herself to be the actual Screenslaver, stating that she despises superheroes and sees her brother's mission as a threat to humankind's independence. Evelyn then calls Bob to trick him into "rescuing" Helen before the hypnotized heroine forces another pair of hypno-goggles onto Bob, putting him under Evelyn's control as well. Evelyn then sends a group of hypnotized supers, which she probably lied to in order to get them to wear the goggles, to the Parr residence to capture Frozone, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Later, Lucius also ends up captured and put under Evelyn's control, although the Parr children escape in the Incredibile.
Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack, whom Edna had fitted with a super suit, sneak aboard the Deavor's ship, the Everjust to rescue their parents. Jack-Jack removes the hypno-goggles on Helen, who then frees Bob and Lucius and reveals Evelyn's plan to the assembled leaders. A battle on the Everjust ensues threatening to crash the ship into New Urbem. However, the Supers manage to stop it and Helen apprehends Evelyn when she tries to make an escape in her jet.
Defeat and Arrest[]
After Helen manages to get on the jet with the help of a superhero named Voyd, Evelyn makes a final attempt at killing her by lowering the oxygen. However, Helen manages to outsmart her by shooting her oxygen tank with a flare gun, which launches her out of the jet as the oxygen tank exploded. She then saves her life with the help of Voyd, by falling after her, catching her, and bringing her down slowly to the deck of the DevTech ship.
Evelyn is later arrested for her crimes, and as she is hauled off to the police car, she ungratefully tells Helen that even though she saved her, that does not make her right. Helen simply replies that she is just glad that Evelyn is still alive. Evelyn is then driven off to jail, though Violet fears that, due to her wealth, she might be back out on the street in no time rather than face a lengthy prison sentence. Whether or not this turns out to be true is unrevealed.
In the end, the heroes get the last laugh when the government officially legalizes supers after all, meaning that they can come out of hiding at last and Evelyn's plans were ultimately for naught.
Brainwashed Victims[]
- Pizza delivery guy/Fake Screenslaver
- Voyd
- He-Lectrix
- Brick
- Krushauer
- Screech
- Reflux
- Elastigirl (arch-nemesis)
- Mr. Incredible
- Frozone
- Winston Deavor (older brother; disowned)
- World Ambassadors
- Several other heroes and citizens
Quotes[]
Screenslaver[]
| “ | Find anything? | „ |
| ~ The Screenslaver taunting Elastigirl before ambushing her in his hideout. |
| “ | What happened? | „ |
| ~ The Screenslaver's confusion after being falsely exposed as a mere pizza boy. |
| “ | Pizza Guy: What's going on? What did you guys do to me?! Officer: That's right, punk. Blame the system! |
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| ~ The "Screenslaver's" desperate pleadings of innocence. |
Evelyn Deavor[]
| “ | Evelyn: I would resist the temptation to stretch. The temperature around you is well below freezing. Try to stretch and you'll break. Elastigirl: So you're the Screenslaver. Evelyn: Yes... and no. Let's say I created the character and pre-recorded the messages. Elastigirl: Does Winston know? Evelyn: That I'm the Screenslaver? Of course not! Can you imagine what Mr. Free Enterprise would do with my hypnosis technology? Elastigirl: Worse than what you're doing? Evelyn: Hey, I'm using the technology to destroy people's trust in it. Like I'm using superheroes. Elastigirl: Who did I put in jail? Evelyn: Pizza delivery guy. Seemed the right height, build. He gave you a pretty good fight. I should say, I gave you a pretty good fight through him. Elastigirl: But it doesn't bother you that an innocent man is in jail? Evelyn: Eh, he was surly, and the pizza was cold. Elastigirl: I counted on you. Evelyn: That's why you failed. Elastigirl: What? Evelyn: Why would you count on me? Because I built you a bike? Because my brother knows the words to your theme song? We don't know each other! Elastigirl: But you can count on me anyway. Evelyn: I'm supposed to, aren't I? Because you have some strange abilities and a shiny costume, the rest of us are supposed to put our lives into your gloved hands. That's what my father believed. When our home was broken into, my mother wanted to hide. Begged my father to use the safe room. But Father insisted they call his superhero friends. He died, pointlessly, stupidly... waiting for heroes to save the day. Elastigirl: But why would...? Your brother— Evelyn: Is a child! He remembers the time when we had parents and superheroes! So, like a child, Winston conflates the two. Mommy and Daddy went away because Supers went away. Our sweet parents were fools to put their lives in anybody else's hands! Superheroes keep us weak! Elastigirl: Are you gonna kill me? Evelyn: Nah. Using you is better. You're going to help me make Supers illegal...forever. |
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| ~ Evelyn revealing her true nature to Elastigirl before placing her under her control. |
| “ | Evelyn: Elastigirl's in trouble. Bob: What? What happened to her? Evelyn: Sorry to tell you on the phone. Meet me on our ship at DEVTECH. Bob: The ship at DEVTECH. I'll be there in 15 minutes. |
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| ~ Evelyn tricking Bob into "rescuing" Helen. |
| “ | Evelyn: Come with me, Winston. Winston: Did I faint? Eveylyn: You'll be safe here. Winston: Safe from what?! Where are the diplomats? The Supers? Evelyn: Still hypnotized. Winston: What have you done? |
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| ~ Evelyn taking her brother, Winston to her getaway plane. |
| “ | Evelyn: It's for your own good! Winston: No! This is! |
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| ~ Evelyn trying to justify her actions to her horrified brother Winston, who instead leaps out of the plane to help the Supers. |
| “ | Welcome aboard, Elastigirl. Although we haven't yet reached our cruising altitude, Feel free to roam about the cabin. Or just relax... and let the cabin roam about you! | „ |
| ~ Evelyn trying to make Elastigirl sick to hypoxia. |
| “ | Evelyn: You know? If it weren't for your core beliefs, I think we could have been good friends. Elastigirl: At least I have core beliefs. |
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| ~ Evelyn explains why she betrayed Elastigirl, the hypoxia kicking in. |
| “ | Evelyn: The reputations of superheroes are ruined, and you will never become legal, ever. Elastigirl: Never? Evelyn: No. Elastigirl: Ever? Evelyn: No! Elastigirl: Not even a little smidgy-widgy? Evelyn: Oh, hypoxia. When you don't have enough oxygen, things seems really silly. Things get sillier and then you die. Elastigirl: I don't wanna die. Evelyn: Nobody does. Really. Not such a bad way to go. |
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| ~ Evelyn taunting Helen before being blown out of the jet with a flare gun. |
| “ | Evelyn: The fact that you saved me doesn't make you right. Elastigirl: But it does make you alive. |
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| ~ Evelyn's last words before getting arrested. |
Trivia[]
- "Screenslaver" is a pun on the word "screensaver". She shares her villain name with Screenslaver, her puppet, and she's only referred by her villain name once in the film by Elastigirl.
- Evelyn is the first female main antagonist of a Pixar film, immediately followed a year later by Gabby Gabby from Toy Story 4.
- There are several hints about Evelyn's true nature before it's in fact revealed, including:
- If one pronounces Evelyn's full name slightly differently, it sounds like "evil endeavor".
- Evelyn's face looks exhausted, while her hair is messy. At first, this could just be because she doesn't have the polished public image as her brother. However, it could also be a reference to the fact that prior to her first appearance in the film, she probably spent lots of time working on the code for her Screenslaver devices.
- While Winston states their father would still be alive had supers been legal, Evelyn briefly says that their father could've gotten to the safe room. It's implied that they have argued about this repeatedly.
- A few moments before her true nature is revealed, after Helen says that defeating the Screenslaver was easy, Evelyn implies, "That was easy? Wow!", with the "wow" being said inside her wine glass, producing an echoing effect similar to the Screenslaver's computer voice.
- After Screenslaver interrupts the news of Elastigirl, Winston says, “Let’s see if your little gadget works.” Referring to the Screenslaver, unknowingly to him, Evelyn set it up as a diversion.
- As Elastigirl runs out of the building where Evelyn mentions that the signal was hijacked, she is the first one who knows. This is because she hijacked the screens herself.
- Yet another interesting foreshadowing that she is the villain is her quote, "Ah shucks, I'm just the genius behind the genius."
- In the scenes where they're seen together, Winston is in the light, and Evelyn is in the shadow. The light represents the hero, and the shadow represents the villain.
- The Pizza Planet truck was parked in an alley near the fake Screenslaver's hideout, indicating that the Pizza Man Evelyn abducted worked there. It was shown when Helen escaped and he landed on the ground, but before he was himself again.
- In addition to the truck almost appearing in every Pixar film, even Evelyn commented, "Eh, he was surly. And the pizza was cold."
- The scenes where Evelyn used flashing blue lights as her method of propaganda were controversial due to them causing seizures for viewers sensitive to epilepsy. Those scenes were toned down in the SD & HD prints of the film, while the 4K prints have the flashing lights unchanged.
- Evelyn was originally meant to have another brother named Nelson, who was intended to be the main villain, but the character was cut because the creators preferred to have a female villain.
- Despite this, Nelson's design was kept and later reused for the superhero, He-Lectrix.
- Early into production, Evelyn was originally going to be an electric based supervillain named Shelectric. This idea was scrapped and instead turned into Evelyn. This allowed Nelson to be turned into He-Lectrix.
- Evelyn is the first Pixar character ever to use profanity. The second one is Purl, who was the titular main protagonist of the 2019 short film of the same name.
- Technically, Evelyn was another victim of Syndrome's. If it wasn't for him being that reckless about his superheroic aspirations since his youth, then the Super Relocation Act wouldn't have been enacted, which would ensure not only the survival of her parents, but also the prevention of her descent into villainy.
- Ironically, such victimization of hers happened when Syndrome was still a young boy under the alias IncrediBoy, and this was before he targeted numerous supers out of sheer pettiness.
- In the end credits, both Evelyn and the decoy Screenslaver have been listed separately.
- Evelyn can be seen as a darker reflection of the following characters:
- Winston Deavor: They both suffered the same agonizing experience of their parents being killed by burglars when the Supers failed to arrive due to the Super Relocation Act law. However, unlike his sister, he didn’t allow it to make him bitter or vengeful, not just towards supers but even towards the burglars who killed his father or the government for making supers illegal. He instead responded to trauma by wanting to legalize supers again. Meanwhile, Evelyn, trapped in her bitterness, just wants to bring them back to make them look bad in front of everyone and keep them illegal forever. If Winston let his trauma consume him entirely, he would've ended up becoming like his sister and possibly teaming up with her too.
- Helen Parr/Elastigirl: Both women are against of her male counterparts ideals (Evelyn is against Winston's plan of bringing back supers to light and legalize them again, Helen is against Bob trying to revive his glory days as a Super). However, while Helen's resistance comes from a place of love, practicality, and legitimate concern — she's trying to protect her family from legal consequences and keep them safe in a world that's made their powers illegal- she eventually goes back to her superheroine life to help his husband and stop Syndrome. Evelyn's is rooted in deep-seated trauma, blame, and a desire for revenge masquerading as philosophical opposition. Evelyn serves an example of what Helen would've become if she stayed bitter about Bob's nostalgia, refused to understand his need for purpose, and let resentment poison her view of superheroism entirely.
External Links[]
- Evelyn Deavor on the Disney Wiki
- Screenslaver on the Disney Wiki
- Evelyn Deavor on the Pixar Wiki
- Screenslaver on the Pixar Wiki
- Evelyn Deavor on the The Incredibles Wiki
- Screenslaver on the The Incredibles Wiki
- Evelyn Deavor/Screenslaver on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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