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.

Full cast, crew and characters

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u/TexasSmash10 Mar 26 '21

Yeah I was wondering about that. Nolan steam rolls all of them and takes no damage in the Comic. I thought he was basically invulnerable to pretty much anything except his own Species and a select few others in the Galaxy.

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u/Deathsroke Mar 26 '21

In the comic he also ambushes them and goes for the kill before anyone even knows he is there. When they do fight in Reboot the battle is much more even.

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u/Pathogen188 Comic Fan Mar 27 '21

He's also approached the fight a lot better in the comic. He immediately took out Red Rush in the comic fight, while in the show he went for the Immortal even though Red Rush proved to be way more troublesome.

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u/ManeatingRaptora Mar 28 '21

It makes sense! Something these episodes made me realize is that although Viltrumites can move fast they don't actually think any faster than a regular human.

It means Rush was honestly super crucial for that fight, in a support role. If he'd just kept running interference instead of trying to land punches, they might have had a chance. It's telling that his death is the turning of the tide.

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u/Pathogen188 Comic Fan Mar 28 '21

Something these episodes made me realize is that although Viltrumites can move fast they don't actually think any faster than a regular human.

Nah they just have Superman syndrome where even though outside of combat they demonstrate superhuman reaction times, they don’t really fight at superspeed because if they did, they’d be even more broken than they already are.

I mean, even in the show, Nolan catches Red Rush’s punch at super speed, but then never really demonstrates that level of speed again.

Even if we assume that Red Rush is a poor martial artist and he was lazy and slowed down the return of his fist, that’s still way too fast for a normal person to catch.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

He went faster then red rush ever could when he was on flaxan

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u/5-On-A-Toboggan Mar 28 '21

They do think faster. Nolan types entire books super quickly.