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/mmcintoshmerc_88 Battle Beast Nov 17 '23

Given the way Immortal has acted in the show I like to think his secret service detail saw Boothe when Immortal was Lincoln and thought "Ehhh, is this really the worst thing?"

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u/chriswizardhippie Nov 17 '23

I hate to be that guy but love history, Secret Service wasn't a thing for protecting the president until 1901 after the second presidential assassination

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u/AssGasorGrassroots Nov 17 '23

It is fucking wild that it took two people just walking up to the goddamn president and just fucking killing them before the government was like, "maybe we need some security on this guy"

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u/StarStriker51 Nov 17 '23

They did have security, it just wasn’t the full on secret service as we know and call it today. It also was definitely lacking in many ways because Lincoln’s guard for the night left the theater to get drunk. I remember there was no evidence he was working with Boothe, they guy was just incompetent

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u/AssGasorGrassroots Nov 17 '23

Yeah, "security" was probably too broad a term, but you know what I mean

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u/Full_Plate_9391 Nov 17 '23

There was also that time that Davy Crocket had to save an assassin from the President.

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u/Bulky_Tour6966 Rex Splode Nov 19 '23

Wasn’t it like 1 guy or sum that was with Lincoln when got killed

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u/StarStriker51 Nov 20 '23

There were like five other people in the room with him when he got shot. Not sure if any were security for him, though it would not be surprising if there was other guards. Doesn't really matter if there were other guards in the room because the important part was keeping Boothe from getting into the room, and the guy who was supposed to do that just left, and no one knew so I guess when Boothe walked in any other guards in the room at first thought he was supposed to be there, until y'know, he shot Lincon