Invincible [Episode Discussion] - Atom Eve Special

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Invincible: Atom Eve

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[u/MoonBearIsNotAmused]

I hate seeing "normal" people see awesome powers and think "this is scary it makes you weird" like no one in the show has ever wanted to be extraordinary.. it's jlsuch a weird trope to me that a best friend would find out I had super powers and would immediately shun me.

[u/MyMomNeverNamedMe → u/MoonBearIsNotAmused]

it's jlsuch a weird trope to me that a best friend would find out I had super powers and would immediately shun me.

What's even worse is when the character themselves want to be "normal" "I don't want to have amazing powers... I just want to be normal!"

Like I get it when they are outwardly strange looking like Beast or Nightcrawler or something but that's about it.

[u/Chassian → u/MyMomNeverNamedMe]

Consider, that this is a world where super people exist, there are supervillains too. Superpowers kill people from both sides in the Invincible world, superpowers aren't an alien concept. They're scary, and you have no idea whether your super friend is good or bad. Even if they're good, you'd still have to contend with being close to danger more than a normal person would. There's probably stories all the time in the Invincible world where the news reports some horrific tragedy that befalls a civilian friend of a superhero, or a superhero that dies as a result of their attachment to civilians.