Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E04 - It's Been a While

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Episode 4 - It's Been a While!

Mark answers the call to save an alien species, but the mission has unexpected personal consequences.

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[u/00Qant5689]

It's not exactly nothing since it's very strongly implied he was just about to jump in there and commit suicide in that scene. But even so, getting to that point where you could resist falling past the black hole's event horizon would require you to move at/maintain relativistic speeds, if not more than that. So while he's not exactly at comic Superman's level, he's still decently close to it.

[u/Razhiv → u/00Qant5689]

Considering that Viltrumites can casually space travel, them being able to move at relativistic speeds is kind of a given. Even just reaching the next solar from hours is over 4 light years away. Omni-Man needed to be moving at way past light speed to reach Traxa in the time it took him to grow a beard.

[u/00Qant5689 → u/Razhiv]

I think that if I remember correctly, Viltrumites can hold their breaths for up to about 2 week or so in the vacuum of space, so yeah: going that far within that allotted amount of time would be no easy feat at all.

[u/metalflygon08 → u/00Qant5689]

I assume he made pit stops on places with atmosphere he could breathe in.

[u/karateema → u/metalflygon08]

We saw a space diner in the last episode, maybe there's more of them

[u/Vryly → u/karateema]

wish they'd had him stop at one during the montage. just eating a sad space burger.

[u/Billy_Billboard → u/Vryly]

Omni-Man having a depression meal in the middle of the montage is hilarious.

[u/lemonylol → u/metalflygon08]

They literally show him doing that during the montage lol

[u/Vmurda → u/lemonylol]

Its not certain that the planet he stopped at during the montage had oxygen, but that is what I assumed as well

[u/lemonylol → u/Vmurda]

Fair

[u/00Qant5689 → u/metalflygon08]

Maybe?

[u/Maguc → u/metalflygon08]

Maybe, but if the implication was that he wanted to die/kill himself, I would find it odd for him to do pit stops

[u/Sophophilic → u/Maguc]

A black hole is probably more permanent than asphyxiation.