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/brigandr Nov 24 '23

The Maulers bring it up when the newly awakened Rudy says that he didn't expect the feeling of continuity.

We had to make it seamless, otherwise one of us knows he's the clone, and that never ends well.

I suspect this episode isn't the first instance of King Mauler's regicide.

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u/GrimResistance Nov 24 '23

You'd think he would've seen that coming. Like, he should've known what he would do in his own shoes.

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u/Dreamwash Nov 24 '23

The Maulers are shown to be arrogant and that's their blind spot in intelligence. They've consistently been shown to be easily tricked because they always assume they're better than whoever they're dealing with; including each other.

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u/Xochtil1 Dec 04 '23

It's from a different piece of fiction altogether, but a line that really stuck in my mind, because it perfectly represents characters like Maulers is "her personality gets in the way of her intelligence".