r/Invincible • u/SeacattleMoohawks Séance Mod • Mar 26 '21

Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S01E01-03 - It's About Time, Here Goes Nothing, Who You Calling Ugly? COMIC SPOILERS

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Official Trailer

Episode 1 - It's About Time

When Mark Grayson finally inherits powers from his superhero father, it's a dream come true. But there's more to being a hero than just choosing a name and costume.

Episode 2 - Here Goes Nothing

With his father out of action, Mark struggles to defend the city against an interdimensional invasion, joining forces with a team of teenage superheroes.

Episode 3 - Who You Calling Ugly?

Mark has to cut a study date short to help save Mount Rushmore from a crazed scientist. Robot deals with Action - Comic as he assembles a new team of world-saving superheroes.

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Comic Fan Mar 26 '21

That entire fight, I was like “Why is this so hard for Nolan? He should be demolishing all of them with ease.” It does serve to make the Guardians seem like an actual threat, but I was thinking about what does this mean for future Viltrumite fights. I hope it’s a case of upping the Guardians’ power level vs. nerfing Viltrumite power levels. The power difference between Viltrumites and everyone else makes them much more terrifying.

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u/hesokayiguess Mar 27 '21

I think maybe since there was no clear alibi for Nolan in the comic, the creators of the animated series wanted to show that Nolan only became damaged to look like somebody else did it to him to get Cecil and the government off of his back.

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Comic Fan Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21

But I remember that Nolan wasn’t a much of a suspect since he wasn’t on the scene. Since he didn’t have to exert any effort he could easily just leave the scene. I think they just wanted to make the Guardians seem like a good super team by lasting so long against Omni-Man and putting him in a coma.

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u/hesokayiguess Mar 27 '21

The logic doesn't make sense though, if I remember that demon detective wasn't a thing in the comic or at least the start of it am I wrong? If he didn't exist, why didn't anybody inspect what happened?

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Comic Fan Mar 27 '21

The detective is in the comic, but he is played up more as a joke. People do try to investigate, but they don’t have a lot of leads. Nolan left little to no evidence of his involvement since he quickly killed them and he left. Hard to avoid making connections when Nolan is left in a coma after being beaten and bruised while laying next to all of the Guardians’ corpses.

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u/hesokayiguess Mar 27 '21

They're making the detective more important then, I wonder what it'll lead to. Other than to hook non comicbook readers of the show, why else would they have Nolan fighting them in detail? Making it difficult not to make connections, especially with a detective blood crime seeing demon man. It's oddly specific so what gives about that character? Must be important, so I doubt he's just gonna lay down and die

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u/XanXic Mar 31 '21

They did some re-arranging, for the better imo, but I could still see Demon Detective being a long joke like in the comic.

The punchline in the comic being he's reporting to Cecil he ran out of leads AFTER Omni-Man's admission was leaked publicly and get's laughed out of his office.