r/Invincible • u/not_brayden13 • Mar 21 '24

Anyone else annoyed they changed this? COMIC SPOILERS

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Amazon primes doesn’t allow screenshots so I’ll just use this basic pic, but is anyone else annoyed Rae survived? Because if she survives, that means everyone survived the battle. Let at least 1 death from that fight be permanent.

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u/AllCity_King Mar 21 '24

It's a change I'm going to let them develop before I get too critical of it. A lot of people were talking about how this character had no development and really just existed to give the guardians another body on the roster. Then she "dies" and everyone realizes they never wanted to see her go through something like that, they realize they care, to an extent.

Keeping her alive gives the show an opportunity to take those newfound feelings in the audience and run with it. You can develop this character now, you can give her something to do, and give the fans that wanted more a reason to care. How they take this opportunity and commit to it is what I'll be really focusing on. If they give this character more depth than they ever had in the comic, I'm totally fine with this decision. If she just falls back to the background, then yeah, it was a very big mistake.

But we'll have to see.

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u/gekkoO0 Mar 21 '24

Totally agree. Let these people cook before judging.

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u/AllCity_King Mar 21 '24

Absolutely!

I understand people's criticism and argument that Rae's survival removes stakes, and I do agree to an extent.

BUT you could also make the argument that stakes mean nothing when they only apply to side characters with 4 lines of dialogue. I hope the show continues to find a healthy combination of these two ideas, I have faith it will.