Ratatouille's Shocking Incredibles Connection Is A Huge Plot Hole

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Ratatouille includes a shocking Incredibles Easter egg, but the Pixar movie connection creates a huge timeline plot hole upon further investigation.

Pixar's Ratatouille has a fun The Incredibles connection thanks to Bomb Voyage, but the shocking Easter egg is a huge plot hole. The continued success of the animation studio allowed them to start a trend of Pixar movies referencing each other in clever ways. 2007's Ratatouille is no different in this regard and shares a special connection to The Incredibles thanks to director Brad Bird working on them both. However, many viewers might have missed a huge connection between them, as a mime in the background of one scene looks suspiciously like Mr. Incredibles' villain Bomb Voyage.

The Incredibles Easter egg in Ratatouille is certainly a unique way for the movies to reference each other, but it creates a big problem for Pixar and the shared universe theory. It is confirmed that The Incredibles takes place in the 1960s, and audiences might think the same applies to Ratatouille at first glance. This is quite clearly not the case thanks to the date of Gusteau's will, which indicates Ratatouille takes place in 2004 or shortly thereafter. To further complicate the otherwise fun Incredibles mime Easter egg, Bomb Voyage's appearance in the original movie happened during a prologue that takes place in 1947 - nearly 60 years before Ratatouille takes place.

Is Ratatouille's Mime Actually Incredibles' Bomb Voyage Villain?

The official stance from Pixar is that Ratatouille's mime is The Incredibles' Bomb Voyage. This belief has not only been shared by those involved with the movie, but the film itself includes another detail to tease Bomb Voyage's presence. In addition to him appearing as a street mime behind Collette and Linguini as they rollerskate through Paris during one of Pixar's best movies, a newspaper that Collette reads in the movie has Bomb Voyage on the front page. This indicates that Ratatouille's mime is indeed Bomb Voyage, even though the timeline does not add up.

Since Ratatouille must take place in 2004 or later as a result of Gusteau's will, this means that 57 years have passed since he escaped from Mr. Incredible. The Incredibles presents Bomb Voyage as someone who is similar in age to Bob Parr, meaning he could be anywhere between 20-30 years old. As a result, he would have to be between 77-87 years old to realistically be Ratatouille's mime. That does not appear to be the case based on the mime's physical appearance unless one of his secret superpowers is slowed aging.

Ratatouille's Incredibles Reference Nearly Works Perfectly

It is unfortunate that Ratatouille's Incredibles Easter egg creates this plot hole, as the connection otherwise would work perfectly. The movie could have avoided dating Gusteau's will for 2004 and mostly been able to make the Incredibles connection work. Bomb Voyage moving to Paris to become an actual mime could even be the result of the government outlawing all superhero and supervillain activities. There are also some small details for Ratatouille's timeline that would still break the 1960s setting necessary for this connection to The Incredibles to work, but they do not break the connective tissue between the Pixar movies like this.

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