Winston Deavor

“	Bigger than ever. Perfectly positioned to make some wrong things right.	„
	~ Winston Deavor

Winston Deavor is the overarching protagonist of Pixar's 2018 film, Incredibles 2. He is the head of a world-class telecommunications company alongside his genius sister, Evelyn Deavor. He's a long-time admirer of superheroes and strives to have them legalized again.

He is voiced by Bob Odenkirk.

What Makes Him Pure Good?[]

Despite going through the same tragedy his sister did, 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 built up his father’s company into one of the biggest telecommunications companies in the world and decided to devote his efforts to helping make supers legal again especially after the Relocation Program is shut down in the present, which cuts off their financial support, believing this will help prevent similar incidents.
He invites Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, Helen Parr/Elastigirl, and Lucius Best/Frozone to a meeting where he explains the plan he has devised to change the public’s perception of them; have them participate in undercover missions that will be recorded by small cameras on their suits so that their desires to help people will be seen and appreciated, rather than keep allowing others to only see whatever incidental negative results come from their efforts since that’s what news coverage always focuses on.
He decides that Elastigirl will be the one to launch this campaign with since she has a good record of accomplishing feats without causing collateral damage.
When Mr. Incredible expresses enthusiasm to participate, he turns him down in the nicest way possible by explaining that he admires his excitement and that they’ll eventually solve many problems together, but that going by the statistics, this was the best way to build trust first.
After Elastigirl thinks it through and accepts the offer, he gets the Parr family out of their motel room and allows them to stay in one of his fancy houses with no strings attached. By doing this, he bailed them out of a risky situation where they could have easily been homeless in a couple of weeks unless Bob or Helen had gotten a job quickly enough.
Thanks to his idea to position Elastigirl in the city of New Urbem, she’s present when Screenslaver sabotages a hovertrain during its opening ceremony, which allows her to be there to save it from derailing, making him indirectly responsible for her rescuing all the people onboard. Because of the success of this mission and her subsequently saving an ambassador that Screenslaver attempts to kill, all of which is recorded and shared to the public like he intended, many people start to view not just Elastigirl, but all supers more positively to the extent the push for super legalization starts becoming a global movement.
When Elastigirl expresses concern about Screenslaver still being at large, to boost her morale and demonstrate the difference they’re already making, he introduces her to multiple aspiring supers he flew in from around the world like Voyd, He-Lectrix, Brick, Krushauer, Screech, and Reflux, who thanks to their efforts, have been able to come out of hiding. This also allows them to express their gratitude to her and tell her how much of an inspiration she is to them.
After Elastigirl seemingly defeats the Screenslaver and gets him arrested, he announces at a party that leaders from over 100 of the world’s top countries have agreed to make supers legal again, and for the occasion, he’s invited both them and many of them for an official live signing at sea on his yacht, the Everjust.
During the broadcast while hosting the summit (unaware of Evelyn’s plan to sabotage it), he stresses the importance of ensuring gifted people will now be treated fairly and invited to use their gifts to benefit the world.
When Evelyn takes him out of the room where he, the world leaders, and the supers accompanying them are being mesmerized by a giant screen with a hypnotic pattern that she put up and tries to leave with him on the yacht’s jet while she has it crash into the city, he refuses to go with her and leaps back onto the ship. He disables the screen by jamming a metal rod into it, snapping all the world leaders and supers out of their trance, and directs them to the rear of the yacht where they’ll be safer when it crashes. In other words, he goes from being a fan of heroes to being a hero himself.
Despite realizing everything his sister did by that point as the Screenslaver, he thanks Elastigirl for saving her life and showed sadness when told Evelyn will go to prison.
Thanks in large part to his campaign and strategy, it is announced at City Hall that the legal status of all supers has been reinstated.
While not as admirable as the Parr family or Frozone, he has less resources than them as they all have superpowers while he is just a regular, albeit wealthy guy, and despite his limited ability to personally do heroism, he devotes his resources to supporting them as much as he can in his own way.

Trivia[]

When first proposed for Pure Good, he was rejected for being too standard, but he was re-proposed and approved as Pure Good after a reanalysis.
He is a foil to Syndrome, who is Pure Evil. Both were normal individuals who were fans of superheroes. However, Syndrome only idolized the super aspect while ignoring the hero part, turning into a villain out of belief Mr. Incredible rejected him for having no powers. Winston, on the other hand, had a better understanding that Supers use their powers to help people, believing his parents would still be alive if supers were legal. As a young child, Syndrome causes more harm than good and endangers himself when overzealously trying to help Mr. Incredible apprehend a villain, proving why the latter should not take a child under his wing, while Winston contributes to saving the passengers aboard the Everjust by freeing them from hypnosis and directing them to safety, showing how an average civilian can be a hero to a certain degree. Additionally, Syndrome unwittingly causes Supers to be illegal while Winston contributes to them being legal again.