I will give that it embraces superheroes more than straight examples these days. Costumes are colorful, abilities are high-scale, plots are fearlessly outlandish. The MCU can never have casual side stories of extra-dimensional octopus aliens invading without making it as dull, muted, lame and self-aware as possible.
I don't even remember what his powers are.
Same as most of the actually relevant/strong powers in Invincible barring Eve (sometimes) and Space Racist.
His powers are explicitly that he's as strong as Mark and as fast as Red Rush. According to the wiki he even has viltrumite esque regeneration and extended lifespan. For all intents and purposes he is a viltrumite.
look, theres only so much they can do with the 2 million dollar budget they get on this (this seems like a lot, but the boys gets 11 million an episode, so i mean they can do better) and only so much those poor north korean animators can do with such little time
Because in Invincible the strongest foes are literally dudes who can fly and hit hard. More esoteric abilities prevalent in Marvel or DC are rarely if ever shown. For example Silver Surfer can do things like alter matter, revive the biosphere of entire planets, drain energy, read minds. You wont see something like that in any fight in Invincible. In an old 1980s comic Thor once flew into the Solar Systems sun while fighting the Surfer, wasnt phased by it at all. In Invincible characters cant even stand the surface of the sun. Its Dragon Ball lite but it doesnt even look or sound cool to compensate and theres no ki either.
I don't know why they refused to give Viltrumites more than flying brick powers. The Kryptonians they are based on have eye lasers, freeze breath, enhanced senses, energy discharges, intangibility, etc. Even if giving them cool weapons or martial arts is too hard, One-Punch Man showed bricks can still be creative. Saitama does acrobatic moves and creates afterimages and flips the battlefield upside-down. But as it stands, if the 'mites invaded Marvel, they have no resistance to the numerous non-physical options X-Men alone could take them out with.
If the Viltrumites invaded Marvel, they'd be dealt with as a one issue threat and never get spoken of ever again.
The entire empire jobs to any setting where there's flying bricks coexisting with characters that AREN'T flying bricks but are still relevant in combat. Viltrumites, despite being most compared to Kryptonians and Saiyans who have a shitton of powers, have exactly two schticks going for them, which is being real strong and flying fast, (except for when they suddenly turn out to not be strong or fast, like Rex managing to kill a Mark variant with his skeleton when an entire floor didn't do shit, or Powerplex SOMEHOW taking one out when the secret to beating him is literally just dangling him up in the sky and crushing his skull or throat really quickly if he doesn't stop acting up) which goes out the window the second they fight anybody capable of countering somebody being strong and/or flying fast, especially when they're prone to doing stupid shit that ends up costing them the whole fight against unimaginably weaker opponents.
This series is just Dragon Ball, but without any of the things people love about Dragon Ball, but it still keeps some of its most annoying flaws.
Hulk or Thor alone could take on a million Viltrumites and treat the invasion like a casual sparring match. It would be worse in DC since you have a team consisting of Superman, Martian Manhunter whos has more powers, Shazam whos magic Superman, Wonder Woman, 5-7 Green Lanterns and a bunch of other powerful dudes.
That is not at all how it went down.
Superman & Lois on CW had better fights than The Boys, unironically
The implications of Viltrumites being able to physically rip each other apart kind of bugs me. Could a Viltrumite tear off his own arm, for example?
I believe there is some subtle foreshadowing related to this in the very first episode (spoilers for comic stuff that's still a couple seasons in the future of the show probably):
Honestly I don't remember the details and I'm not re-reading 100+ issues just for that, but IIRC Mark knocked the wind out of him on their final fight and dragged his ass into the orbit, where he couldn't catch a breath and it made him lose strength, thus allowing Mark to overpower him.
It would have been so fucking cool if Mark ripped his arm off to use as a weapon against Conquest.
Why the fuck would he rip off his own arm to hit Conquest with instead of just punching him with the same arm? It'd be the exact same result.
