Quote Originally Posted by Fragenstein View Post
But the first job was to die while fighting Syn's creation. Clearly, he failed. But that's really only because he was given poor instruction in the matter.

After that... what was his job? It seems like he bought the car while on the payroll for working out at the railyard. Not actually doing anything, just waiting for an assignment.
His pay for the first job was "triple his current annual salary" - given that he was comfortably if miserably supporting his wife and three dependents on his "current annual salary", this means his pay for his first job was probably somewhere between $250,000 and $300,000 in 2012 dollars (significantly less if the movie does in fact take place in the early 70's or whatever, but an equivalent accounting for inflation and cost of living increases). And this is all untaxed, since it was an under-the-table job; even if you actually are the government, you don't tell the IRS about who you paid to do your black ops (and this is fiction, so Bob doesn't need to worry about an audit even if he's the kind of person who would). In other words, just the pay from the first job would leave Bob Parr well flush with cash for a long time, even after buying a fancy sports car.


All that said, it's really a side note to this whole argument. To anyone who thinks Syndrome is anywhere close to something resembling a hero, and not an obsessive narcissistic serial killer, please go re-watch the film and pay attention to what Syndrome actually does - premeditated murder, conspiracy, serial murder, wanton acts of destruction to inflate his own self-image, torture, selling superweapons to the highest bidder (even pre-Iron Man ******* movie Tony Stark thought he stopped short of that), throwing his loyal "sidekick" under the bus to save his own neck (after she saved his)...and what does he do that's "good"? Offer superpowers to everyone? Specifically, whoever can afford to pay him scads of money for them, regardless of who they are or anything remotely resembling a sense of responsibility?

If you still think he's your kind of "hero", I have a few books you might enjoy.