Kari McKeen
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Kari McKeen is a minor character from the films The Incredibles and Jack-Jack Attack.
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Kari is a thirteen year-old babysitter. She is a friend of Violet, who hires her to watch Jack-Jack when his siblings decide to tag along with their mother. The enthusiastic Kari speaks through "a mouthful of orthodontia," and considers herself an expert on how to deal with babies, such as playing Mozart to increase their intelligence. Helen is not entirely confident about a teenage girl watching over her infant son; preferring a full-grown adult do that job instead (which ultimately does happen, but with far worse results than Kari's oversight of Jack-Jack).
Despite her training and optimism, Kari is unprepared to deal with Jack-Jack's emerging powers, and leaves increasingly frantic phone messages with Helen, before Syndrome steps in and introduces himself as a more experienced "replacement sitter". Kari is clearly unaware of Syndrome's checkered criminal past; only asking him why he wears a big "S", which Syndrome calmly says it stands for "Sitter". Kari's ordeal remains off-screen in the film, but serves as the focus of the short film Jack-Jack Attack. She is last seen being interrogated by Rick Dicker; and claims she would like to forget the whole ordeal, to which Dicker is more than happy to grant her request.
Her surname is only mentioned in the screenplay and in Jack-Jack Attack.
Though she only appears in one scene in the movie, and even though they are not seen interacting, you get the idea that, despite their majorly different personalities, Kari and Violet are really close friends, seeing as Violet trusted Kari enough to watch her baby brother. Online chats (such as in Fanfiction.net) suggests the two are close friends because they are unpopular at school, which would be accurate, seeing as how Violet is very shy and Kari seems a bit too perky.
Kari does not appear at the end of the movie or in any of the comic book stories, leaving her fate unknown (however, it is most likely that she and Violet remain friends after Dicker erases her memory, seeing as how there wouldn't be any issues on Violet's secret identity).
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Media: The Incredibles | The Incredibles (video game) | Jack-Jack Attack
Characters: Bob Parr | Helen Parr | Violet Parr | Dash Parr | Jack-Jack Parr | Lucius Best | Gazerbeam | Edna Mode | Kari McKeen | Syndrome | Mirage | Rick Dicker | Rollergrrl | Mezmerella | The Underminer | Xerek Locations: Western View Junior High | Bob Parr's House | Nomanisan Island Machines: Manta Jet | Omnidroid v.10 |
