r/Invincible • u/DepartureAcademic807 Donald Ferguson • Apr 11 '24

It's funny that he didn't give the traditional answer like any superhero COMIC SPOILERS

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u/MysteryMan9274 "Dude, I saw it on Reddit" Apr 11 '24

Yeah, until that fucking tentacle monster that belongs in some shitty hentai screws over his life.

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u/Fragrant-Potential40 Apr 11 '24

Yeah I kinda hated what came after this point. Punishing mark by putting him back 5 years in the future to see his daughter older was already a punch in the gut, then the whole Eve dating an alien just added insult to injury. That part I felt was pretty unnecessary, Terra was enough imo

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u/Swift_Change Invincidrip Apr 11 '24

Yeah I feel like Mark gets dunked on constantly in the series, often done for reasons significant to the story. But him returning five years in the future? To me it was just punishing for very little reason.

For instance, Eve's little fling with Allen's BIL (forget the dicks name) has zero consequence on the rest of the story other than to torture Mark. Terra being older? Same thing, just torture. The whole arc ended up being really unnecessary. Lowest point in the story imo.

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u/Wheatthinboi Apr 11 '24

Yeah I felt like they could’ve just had him and Eve and Terra move to the planet they end up moving to and then do a 5 year time skip and accomplish the same thing. Maybe even make more emotionally charged for Mark since he’s had 5 normal years with his family and then gets thrown back into the Invincible life

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u/doctorchops1217 Apr 11 '24

kirkman got to the same point in TWD, was just like ehhh i don’t have much else to say with these characters….always enjoy a time warp throwback, really enjoyed seeing early teen team and the reworked confrontation with his dad, but the return was a bummer and from that point on seemed to just be wrapping everything up

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u/scarletboar Apr 11 '24

If a had a nickel for every time Robert Kirkman "killed" his protagonist, then revealed that his wife banged someone else while they were gone, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. The Walking Dead and Invincible.

Personally, I think it's just his fetish, like Tarantino and feet.

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u/Fragrant-Potential40 Apr 11 '24

Yeah and I think that’s what I disliked most about it, nothing about the deity that took him, or eves temporary rebound was never really talked about more than once. I kinda feel like the only reason they did it was to age up thraggs kids but I think there’s better ways to go about it, rather than having some unexplained time god kidnap mark but then never talk about it again

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u/callows5120 Debbie Grayson Apr 11 '24

Yeah hope the show improves on it

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u/znhunter Apr 11 '24

One of the core themes of the story is that every action has a consequence/cost to it. This just kinda reinforces that. And think about how the book ends, he gets to spend functionally the remainder of eternity with his wife and daughter making the universe a better place.

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u/ThanksContent28 Apr 11 '24

Yeah but you either die a hero…

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u/znhunter Apr 12 '24

But remember... Being a hero is bullshit.

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u/Snafuthecrow Brit Apr 11 '24

No I feel like that part was a good parallel. The alien wanted eve to choose either him or Terra, and just like mark, she chose her daughter

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u/Babyshaker88 Apr 11 '24

Jfc how the hell did I not put this together earlier

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u/absurdlifex Apr 11 '24

When did that happen??

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u/GeekNuclear Apr 11 '24

When they were all in the hospital after Allen’s “attempted” assassination. She sucker punched the guy after he said Mark doesn’t deserve her and that Terra is in the way, basically.

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u/Snafuthecrow Brit Apr 11 '24

A little while after mark got back Eve told him about it

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u/absurdlifex Apr 11 '24

I remember now

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u/Fragrant-Potential40 Apr 11 '24

While it was a good parallel, their relationship kinda felt forced after that. I highly doubt Eve would’ve left Kubian if mark came back before he made her choose between him and Terra. None of it was ever really expanded upon after that either

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u/idontlikeshowers Apr 13 '24

Why would Eve choose Kubian over her daughter? If she were to be with anyone other than Mark, it wouldn’t be Kubian 😭

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '24

Look at it from Eve's perspective though:

First, she thought Mark was killed by dinosaurus.

Then, she was troubled by Angstrom while she was pregnant and then later had to be without Mark during a good chunk of her pregnancy because Robot left him in another dimension (but she thought he died) - during which she lost a lot of weight and had to be hospitalised.

Then the thing with the tentacle monster.

So yeah, dating Mark isn't easy.

I think they'll expand upon this in the show and make it better.

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u/Revan_Shepard General Kregg Apr 12 '24

i agree. I think peeps forget that while what Eve did wasn't ok, she both regretted the hell out of it, and Mark understood. but Mark also put her through a lot of bullshit and she vented all her pent up frustrations at him when she kicked his ass at Oliver's funeral.

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u/idontlikeshowers Apr 13 '24

I wouldn’t doubt that she felt a bit relieved Mark was dead too because she probably felt a bit of freedom in not having to constantly stress over him anymore. It took her awhile to start dating again yet immediately dropped it once Mark came back into her life.

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u/5am281 Robot Apr 11 '24

Why? That just felt like a logical thing to happen if Mark is believed dead for 5 years why wouldn’t Eve date again. Is she supposed to stay single for 20 years first?

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u/Fragrant-Potential40 Apr 11 '24

I mean it just didn’t really add anything to the story, at all. To me it just kinda felt like reboot was just an excuse to age up thraggs kids 5 years, and there’s plenty of other ways to go about that then having a deity take him to the past, and then never explain what that thing was. None of it was ever expanded upon after that. Neither was eve dating another guy ever talked about more than once, and their relationship just felt forced after that. Kinda got the vibe that she didn’t really want to be with him after that, and the only reason she stayed with him was for Terra. I’m not saying she’s wrong for doing it, I just felt there was alot of unnecessary parts to that story that they could easily change in the show

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u/idontlikeshowers Apr 13 '24

I disagree on their relationship feeling forced because it’s made very clear to me that Eve very much loves Mark still, as in being in love with him things just became complicated after he came back. 

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u/Fragrant-Potential40 Apr 13 '24

To me it just seemed like she didn’t really want to be with him after he came back, but I might not remember that part the best as it’s been awhile since I’ve read the comics again

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u/ProfPotatoKing Apr 11 '24

I mean…it happened in the Odyssey…