r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Nov 24 '23

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

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/HippieDogeSmokes Nov 24 '23

We see 2 covers and one had someone wearing viltrumite gear on it

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u/pseudo_nemesis Nov 25 '23

one of his books was called "The Man with the Invincible Gun"

could be a foreshadowing of some viltrumite killing weapon perhaps? đŸ€” If they're going to take on a whole empire of viltrumites I just don't see how Nolan and Mark can do that alone, even with the help of earth, their allies need a weapon capable of even harming a single viltrumite.

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u/HippieDogeSmokes Nov 25 '23

the fact that the gun is described as invincible in a show called invincible about a guy name invincible means the gun is pretty important

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u/zeus55 Nov 26 '23

I may be misremembering but doesn’t someone say that Nolan’s a travel writer? Maybe it’s tongue in cheek as in his “travel writing” is his adventures in space presented as sci-fi novels or is it retconned?

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u/Dukedoctor Dec 04 '23

Yeah they totally said that in the first season, I was like what’s up with all this sci-fi? 🧐

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u/Petersaber Nov 26 '23

Why would Nolan write a book about a weapon that can hurt him?

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u/HippieDogeSmokes Nov 26 '23

We will find out next episode i guess

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u/AssCrackBanditHunter Nov 27 '23

Gotta write books for your cover persona and it's a trashy pulp sci-fi book so just throw in some of the universe's greatest secrets and the slightly drunk business men reading your books on flights will never realize that.

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u/dildodicks Invincidrip Dec 28 '23

maybe he was writing them like action stories with himself/omni-man as the mc and anybody who threatens him in the books are real threats to viltrumites that mark could discover 😂 please let me cook

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u/EntertainmentPrior75 Nov 27 '23

krptonians and viltrumites are similar so i bet theres something they are weak to like invincibles version of kryptonite, and that will be used in the weapon, cuz no way mark or anyone on earth can take on an army of viltrumites without it.

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u/Leafs17 Nov 28 '23

There's probably a story about how they had to kill an entire planet/civilisation because they learned about the weakness.

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u/TomorrowMay Dec 04 '23

I see someone else has read the "Ancillary" series.

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u/SecureDonkey Nov 26 '23

Nah, they mean "the invincible GUN", as in đŸ’Ș

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u/thienv Dec 05 '23

Wasn’t there a scene where there was a high pitched noise that got mark to his knees to which Cecil had his team take note of?

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u/HeyThereMrBrooks Dec 05 '23

There was. I wonder if they gun emits a similar noise that can incapacitate viltrumites

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u/writeronthemoon Dec 09 '23

Ooh good point!!

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u/MechaPinguino Dec 19 '23

When we see the universe in which Mark sided with Nolan, Mark being imprisoned, doesn't he mention a gun people from earth used to kill Nolan?

Probably the same one

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u/DM-Oz Dec 02 '23

I likely wrote the books as Viltrumite propaganda, but because of that, he may be telling Mark to read then so that he can have info on then, to have a better fighting chance.