For the character from The Incredibles

The Incredibles

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...

 see List of The Incredibles characters#Other superheroes

For the concept of Universal man

Universal Man

In 1987 it was moved from its site during the construction of SkyDome, and was not replaced reportedly due to lack of space in the area. This, and the damage inflicted on the statue during moving, infuriated Gladstone...

 (homo universalis in latin) see Polymath

Polymath

A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...

Universal Man is a sculpture by Gerald Gladstone

Gerald Gladstone

Gerald Gladstone was a Canadian sculptor and painter. Born in Toronto, Canada, as a child Gladstone was as committed to music as he was to painting, teaching himself to play the clarinet and forming a jazz band.-Biography:...

 located today outside the Yorkdale Shopping Centre

Yorkdale Shopping Centre

Yorkdale Shopping Centre is a large shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It contains over 250 stores and is located in the community of Downsview, in North York. It is the fifth largest shopping mall in Canada and also enjoys the highest sales per square foot of any mall in Canada, with...

 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada

Canada

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. the 6.5-metre bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 figure was originally located in a prominent location at the foot of the CN Tower

CN Tower

The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of the Burj...

, there located to "give a balance of human scale" to the tower. It was commissioned by CN Rail in 1972 at a cost of some $100,000 and the statue was unveiled in 1976. According to Gladstone the work was inspired by da Vinci's Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1487. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famed architect, Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and...

. The giant arms and legs of the figure represent the range of motion possible to a human figure.

In 1987 it was moved from its site during the construction of SkyDome, and was not replaced reportedly due to lack of space in the area. This, and the damage inflicted on the statue during moving, infuriated Gladstone. CN moved the statue to a piece of vacant railway land by the Gardiner Expressway

Gardiner Expressway

The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway, colloquially referred to as "the Gardiner", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian province of Ontario, connecting downtown Toronto with its western suburbs...

 and Spadina Avenue

Spadina Avenue

Spadina Avenue is one of the most prominent streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Running through the western section of downtown, the road has a very different character in different neighbourhoods....

, and placed the statue face down in the dirt field where it remained for several years. In 1994 it was restored to public view by the government of North York who placed it by the Dufferin entrance to Yorkdale Mall. This was to Gladstone's satisfaction.