Amazon's Invincible - thoughts?

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Rome's rightful successor said:
Hot take: tv show Omni-man is way too evil to deserve a redemption arc.
Click to expand...
Honestly, I wouldn't mind him being the main villain of the series either. He has some seriously based Space Hitler energy, and I would pay money to see him kill the pink feminist icon. He's already as popular as Homelander and the Joker - if the writers are smart, they'll realize he's carrying the show and make him the Thanos of that Universe.

🌈 I know, but a man can dream.
 
Honestly, the Omni-Man in the comics wasn't much less evil. Keep in mind this guy is over a thousand years old, has conquered entire planets, and has probably killed countless people who resisted.

And, well...
He outright fucking dies trying to redeem himself, which if you ask me was the only fair way for his story to end. Same as Darth Vader, redemption only in death. If Vader had lived he would likely have been put on trial and executed, which Omni-man also definitely deserves after the shit he's done.
 
The big issue is that the entire first season was based on Invincible and Omniman's relationship and the encroaching dread of the truth coming out. No one gives a shit about any other character, none of them are interesting or impressive, they are just filler JL knockoffs. Likewise, "like X only evil" is the fucking bane of comic book stories and only few stories like "Red Son" do it well.

If the show won't bring back Omniman or heavily imply he will come back in the final episode the ratings will drop hard.
 
I like how omniman's planet developed their superpowers through extensive, extreme, rigorous and unvoluntary application of eugenics but they still have a 50-50 white-bixnod split. Guess eugenics aren't racist after all, thanks amazon!
 
Oilspill Battery said:
I like how omniman's planet developed their superpowers through extensive, extreme, rigorous and unvoluntary application of eugenics but they still have a 50-50 white-bixnod split. Guess eugenics aren't racist after all, thanks amazon!
Click to expand...
The real nazi's were the progressives we met along the way.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
I like how omniman's planet developed their superpowers through extensive, extreme, rigorous and unvoluntary application of eugenics but they still have a 50-50 white-bixnod split. Guess eugenics aren't racist after all, thanks amazon!
Click to expand...
Whenever anyone mentions eugenics I fall back unto this scene in One Punch Man
1674480419851.png
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
The big issue is that the entire first season was based on Invincible and Omniman's relationship and the encroaching dread of the truth coming out. No one gives a shit about any other character, none of them are interesting or impressive, they are just filler JL knockoffs. Likewise, "like X only evil" is the fucking bane of comic book stories and only few stories like "Red Son" do it well.

If the show won't bring back Omniman or heavily imply he will come back in the final episode the ratings will drop hard.
Click to expand...
Uh… in what universe is it not an obvious forgone conclusion that Omniman will return? Even if you didn’t read ahead in the story it’s pretty damn obvious that his story isn’t over yet.
 
Gar For Archer said:
Uh… in what universe is it not an obvious forgone conclusion that Omniman will return? Even if you didn’t read ahead in the story it’s pretty damn obvious that his story isn’t over yet.
Click to expand...
From what I understood in the comic he disappears for a long while and even finds the time to get married to an even more literal bugwoman. If you stick to the source you can't make ominous scenes of him slowly getting back to earth to build up tension. And like I said, the entire cast kinda sucks.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
From what I understood in the comic he disappears for a long while and even finds the time to get married to an even more literal bugwoman. If you stick to the source you can't make ominous scenes of him slowly getting back to earth to build up tension. And like I said, the entire cast kinda sucks.
Click to expand...
It doesn’t help that they rushed character progression.

Mark’s mom slowly gets over the understandable depression she felt after the big reveal, and builds herself into the independent woman we see from the start in the show. (Far less bitchy tho)
She winds up raising baby bug that dad has with the bug woman, and the responsibility makes her shape up.

Amber is way more chill and the cracks between her and Mark don’t start until college. She’s also never really a bitch, it’s more a first relationship problems with superhero extra steps deal.

The gay friend wasn’t out (or even questioning) yet, so there was more material than just “I’m gay, and I’m gay, and did you get the last 80 memos I’m gay??!”

The majority of the characters have started where they were towards the end of the first omnibus. I wonder how, or even if, they’re going to advance them now?
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
Hot take: tv show Omni-man is way too evil to deserve a redemption arc.
Click to expand...
Really? Omni-man isn't particularly evil. He's a soldier doing what soldiers do. His attack on Earth was barely even a blip on what actual armies do on a strategic level (which is what he essentially is, an army), and his attack on the Flaxans; was the exact same strategy of total war that they tried visiting on Earth. He doesn't seem to hold any actual hatred for the planet, nor does he seem to really want to conquer us that much. If he did, then he could have crossed the planet to where the GDI (whatever they're called) HQ was and flattened it in under a few seconds; not the leisurely cruising speed he actually took. He gave a half hearted, half arsed attempt at conquest, then gave up when the slightest bit of actual pushback by people he cared about was applied.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom