r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Nov 17 '23

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E03 - This Missive, This Machination! EPISODE DISCUSSION

Episode 3 - This Missive, This Machination!

Mark starts his college career, Debbie struggles with personal trauma, and Allen the Alien returns home to find a new threat facing the Coalition of Planets.

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u/Yeti342 Nov 17 '23

Man rex is a piece of shit but he's kinda based ngl. "Yeah I'm a terrible person and I suck EVERYONE KNOWS THAT ALREADY"

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

Rex is an asshole, but he's an enjoyable asshole.

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u/Yeti342 Nov 17 '23

That's a fantastic way to put it.

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u/finnjakefionnacake Nov 17 '23

enjoyable depends on who you're talking to. enjoyable as an outside observer, maybe, but obviously not enjoyable to someone like eve lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

Oh, for sure. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the guy IRL. But as a character on TV, I like him a good deal.

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u/huskyoncaffeine Nov 17 '23

I think it was Oscar Wilde who said its pointless to divide people in evil or good. They are just either charming or tedious.

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u/MelodyMaster5656 Nov 18 '23

I think he's like if Sokka was meaner and never stopped being misogynistic. I do like how he seems to be getting a taste of his own medicine recently.

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u/Bambanuget Nov 17 '23

Every Jason Mantzoukas character in a nutshell

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u/Midnight7000 Nov 17 '23

He comes across as worse than what he is because he takes ownership of it and isn't very articulate.

I don't think he's in the wrong in the Kate situation. Most people would want some kind of heads up if someone they were intimate with hooked up with their boss. He tried walking away from Kate this episode and she pressed the subject.

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Nov 17 '23

Yeah I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to feel about The Immortal

He wasn't even in this episode

He was shitty to Mark at the end of E1.

Unprofessional by sleeping with Kate, both in terms of age and him being her boss.

I'm hoping Robot ends up in charge again once he's dealt with all his stuff.

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u/Sahm_1982 Nov 21 '23

Surely you know how to feel. He's a piece of crap

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Nov 21 '23

Right ofc ofc

But I just sorta have to trust the writers won't let him get away with it (and yes I know they make him do those things but)

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u/Sahm_1982 Nov 21 '23

Lol I do getchA

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u/Moofinmahn Nov 19 '23

Right? She pressed him, he brought up how he felt, she stormed off. How's that fair?

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u/Sahm_1982 Nov 21 '23

I mean Kate is a full blown hoe lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23

And honestly, his backstory in the comics makes him at least sympathetic.

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u/Yeti342 Nov 17 '23

There's too many characters that are assholes that have sympathetic backstories. Like it's fine to just make a character be a shitty person as long as you don't go over the top with it which I don't feel like they do with Rex.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

Oh for sure. And in Rex’s defense, his father sold him to a sketchy government guy for a steak dinner and a rich lifestyle. He was experimented on and became a super assassin for the guy who used to have Cecil’s job. He finally broke free when he was ordered to destroy the Pentagon in order to assassinate Cecil when he ran into Eve who helped him find a better path.

The dude was straight up sold to become a slave to the government by his own family. He could have turned out a whole lot worse. Especially when he chose to not get revenge on his father when he finally tracked him down.

At worst, Rex is a major douche bag. But that’s all he really is. He isn’t evil and does seem to actually mean well

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

He's a little too slow on the uptake to be enjoyable.

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u/greaseballdharmann88 Nov 27 '23

no member of the guardians makes sense rn