Voiced by actress Holly Hunter, the character is a superhero who possesses superhuman elasticity, granting her the ability to stretch any part of her body to great proportions.

Helen is introduced in the first film as an accomplished superheroine forced into retirement with the rest of her family after usage of superpowers is banned by law.

Screenwriter and director Brad Bird conceived Helen as a modern mom who "has to stretch in hundreds of different ways each day.

[1] According to Hunter, Helen has "total fearlessness" as a superheroine, but also "a very strong, protective instinct" when it comes to her children, and an "innate desire to save others".

[1] The original animation system had become obsolete by Incredibles 2 and as a result all characters, including Helen, were rebuilt using a new tool box.

In addition to her powers, Elastigirl is shown to be an exceptional acrobat, marksman, motorcycle driver, pilot, operative, investigator, and tactician, as well as a masterful hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist.

In Incredibles 2 (2018), Helen becomes the face of a campaign to reinstate the legality of superheroes by improving their public image through successful missions that avoid city-wide collateral damage.

Many fans on social media express their adoration for Helen's "thicc" body, a slang term referring to having large buttocks combined with a curvy waist,[13] while The New Yorker compared the character to Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey.

[14] IndieWire ranked Hunter's work as Helen the third best performance in Pixar films, complimenting her "dizzying range" which "goes from sexy superhero to harassed, end-of-her-tether mom, to wife crushed by seeming infidelity, to back-in-the-game ass-kicker on a dime.