Oliver isn't useless, he's underutilized. Honestly, most of thr hero cast is.
Almost all of the hero cast have potential to do cool shit but Kirkman can only think of a "Punch brawl" most of the time when it comes to action scenes involving them. Legit eve, duplikate and rex have the best potential to come up with multitude of ways to defeat enemies and they just don't.
Duplikate can just replicate so many of her self and just be used as foot soldiers against an invading army rather than just clone herself to fight on single enemies.
Eve of course can form anything but she only does the basic solid matter shit that is easily breakable by most enemies she fought. The only time she used a part of her brain was against conquest with the water and armour trick but that's about it.
And than there is Rex who can legit just create massive explosions or cluster of small explosions if he had better stuff to use than just the rods. He has a fucking hand cannon that is used only once,
once through out the entire thing. They could of showed him using it against the invincible variant (Hell I think it would of worked if he used it point blank on evil mark's face) but nah.
Fuck even Shapesmith setting himself up like a slingshot and shooting Brit into anything would be far more useful, granted Shapesmith is an idiot but you would think someone would of come up with the idea that Brit is indestructible and put two and two together.
Oh, and since the Invincible VS beta starts today, I might as well ask what the hell is this roster that they're giving us, how the fuck do we have 6 Viltrumites, Bulletproof, and an OC in the base roster but Angstrom Levy is somehow MIA, just to name one example.
To be fair, Thula uses her long braided knife hair to mix things up. But yea, most of the unique ones will be DLC for sure. The only Viltrumites that are left to go in is Kregg and Thragg. Thragg for sure is getting in, Kregg likely will be since they already did Lucan and Thula plus Kregg will still be a part of the show for a long time. The only one I don't see getting in is Thaedus.
I would find it funny if the ex killer instinct devs put in minor hero/villains with the likes of Furnace just so they can have a Cinder like character.
I can’t help but think it’s goofy when they hold up their knife hands and wait just long enough for the victim to be saved,
At this point you'd think the Knife Hands need to be charged before they can use them.
I refuse to believe she was Earth's best option. Weakest member of the team.
I feel like it's less she was the best option because of her prowess but because she was the only few heroes that can fight in space and have a chance.
Immortal isn't going to help because of Nolan and even if he did help, he would only end up similar to oliver in being out matched by a viltramite on his own. He couldn't defeat a invincible variant which while each variant has diffirent power scaling and he was able to last a while, it was also pretty clear that variant was holding back just to savour the moment. He would have to work with others like he did with War Woman to stand a chance which is possibly with oliver amusingly enough.
Bulletproof can't breathe in space and it would take a single hit from a viltramite to anything that keeps him breathing to render him dead just like how Tech Jacket's helmet getting dented made her unable to see. Plus he's just like or even weaker than Immortal so again not useful.
Brit is completely invulnerable which makes him a perfect fit against a viltramite. One problem with that is he's just an slightly enhanced human otherwise, so he will just be knocked around and be unable to do anything. I imagine he can breathe in space since he can survive nuclear explosions and walk in magma without any issue. He would need a jet like Battle Beast gets and become some sort of massive "suicide" but not "suicide" bomber to deal with a viltramite or a viltramite ship.
Actually the funny thing is that Brit can absoutely be used as a mace since he did the same thing with his baby son (who is also invulnerable) in his own comic. So someone with great strength like Mark, Oliver, Nolan, Allan, Immortal or even Bulletproof can swing him around at a viltramite and he will be completely fine.
Robot would of been helpful but he is gone along with Monster Girl so they are not an option.
So yea, she is sort of the best option if you consider space to be an issue that renders most heroes in Earth useless.
