Invincible Season 1 Review: Was it Too Brutal?
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WOW, I knew Invincible was gonna take us down an intense road, but this was way beyond my expectations and I loved almost every second of it.
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i am not 18 and i still like invincible
Please please PLEASE do The Mitchells vs the Machines. It is incredible!
If this actually broke you then your a pussy, coward.
@@user-bi5lv4el8h *You're 😘
The brutality is realistic, there are quite a few anime and cartoons that far surpass this.
Mark went from throwing a ball around the world with his dad, to being thrown around the world by his dad.
Yeah that's the real twist
Lmaooo dead 💀
Spoiling....
Ah yes! Character development...
@@Scoring57 maybe, just maybe...don't go into the comments when you're watching a review that also contains spoilers?
Episode 1: Nolan trains Mark
Episode 8: Nolan TRAINS Mark
Well, he just wanted his son back on track
Big oof
Too soon man. Too soon.
Subway - Eat Flesh
Oh GOD that’s so fittingly shitty
Take your thumbs up and leave!
invincible kept me so engaged i didnt even notice the bad cgi, wasnt a big deal at all for me
I thought it was a nod to spiderman tas
Same, I only accidentally noticed it in the few last episodes, and now I learnt that it was always like that
the animation is very bad
I love it
Only time it was immersion breaking was the crows falling from the hammer scene, ITS ALL THE SAME CROW
It was extremely noticeable for me, but it wasn’t something that I felt was important. I didn’t notice the stuff with the background people because I was too focused on the main action in the foreground, but the settings were 100% noticeable.
Violence is never the answer. Violence is a question.
*And Nolan’s answer is **_yes._*
Beating the child makes built character
Nolan was building so much character he accidentally made 2 other children
There is no such thing as too brutal
Nothing screams 'character development' louder than ramming your only child's head through a train and killing all the passengers.
@@AdolphHItler-rs1wi all
Nolan: Yes with Extra Yes and a side of human blood to go with it.
"Nolan beat his son with everything but his belt" I laughed at this way harder than I should have.
The train is called "the belt" in Chicago
Nah I laughed to most shows I can point out the bullshit but I was only able to do it once or twice for this show
That's what you call good parenting
That was more of an ass beating then a fight but the part were mark said i still have you dad i still have made me cry then after that hold it in then when nolan had that face are you serious i 😂
Laughed so hard I dropped my phone. You cracked my screen.
At least omni man loves his wife...
Omni-Man: “Your mother is like a pet to me”
Video immediately plays an ad for k9 advantix...... ooooof
You mean.... woof?
*I'll show myself out*
CZcams knows what they did.
I mean he ain’t wrong tho..
@@mab2874 and slam dunk that word in the trash can while your at it... lol
@@mab2874 yes get out of here
But they had to go ruin Ambers character by having her know Mark was invisible, making all her reasons for being mad at him invalid
Yes, thank you this bothered me to no end. I really liked her character and then that happened and was like "What a bitch!"
And then she just kinda comes in at end with her whole “guess we were both lied to” BABE WHAT????? And then Mark is just like “okay” as if she didn’t just compare what was essentially high school drama to everything Mark knew and loved being a whole lie while thousands of people were being mindlessly slaughtered and the entire fate of the planet was in serious jeopardy. Glad your priorities were in the right place ms social justice. Loved that moment for you babe
It’s just that it made no sense. She had every right to be mad if she didn’t know. But if she knew the entire time? 🤦♀️💆♀️
@@p1p1pupu Broo ik its ridiculous
I'm really hoping they don't ruin a certain scene between her and mark cause its one of my favourites in the comic
One of the biggest selling points of the series is that the characters act mature and for the most part will talk things out and be understanding
@@matthewprice6465 she isn’t his true love anyway. It’s atom Eve. To hell with her lol
People criticizing this show as “just another evil Superman story” really REALLY missed the point of the show
@@c.w.k.n.5117 I've just seen a lot of people on Twitter grouping this, The Boys, and Jupiter's Legacy together and saying that evil Superman stories are uninteresting now
@@EmersonFlemingEmRock13 I don’t really trust Twitter for any meaningful analysis. It’s great for announcements, but not for opinions… Besides, all three are centered around different themes: corporations and society in the boys, tradition versus progress in Jupiter’s Legacy, and deception and existential crisis of Invincible.
@@AlfredEiji good ol' twatter being a twat. I deleted that crap a long time ago.
How about a Dbz saiyan saga rip off? And where did all these superheroes on earth come from anyway?
Overrated af
@@skmk88 It’s very different in style and tone from DBZ. Comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges. They cater to completely different tastes. I personally like Invincible, but could not care less about DBZ. And seem to be the opposite. That’s fine though, because they’re completely different kinds of shows.
"WHAT WILL YOU HAVE AFTER FIVE HUNDRED YEARS?!"
"I dunno, let's ask Immortal."
"eh"-mark afther 500 years.
i love how immortal is actually Abraham Lincoln
@@MrRobot-0 spoilers
He will still have eve
"My pp"
@@xmant8842 it's kind of absurd how many loops are jumped through to keep her from being OP.
Atom Eve=Dr. Manhattan÷x
By the second or third episode you become desensitized to the violence, but the first episode was a massive punch in the gut
Idk. I was still very shocked by what battle beast did in episode 5 and what happened in the last episode
bud I watched all of tokyo ghoul animate violence and blood are meaningless to me now (though they did a really good job animating the brain matter and organs and stuff)
Edit: ok so I'm getting tired of this so I'm gonna clarify some stuff
1. I prefer Invincible over tokyo ghoul
2. I don't think tokyo ghoul is even all that good I just like the world and it was the first show I watched that wasn't afraid of blood
3. this was not said seriously It's called a joke
4. just to clarify what I said above means is I'm not an edgelord it's a freaking joke
The inmortal didn’t liked the last part of your comment
@@luisfernando552 lol
@@goldendrake9669 what a edgelord
11:05 The reason he was able to almost instantaneously kill all of that planet is because time moves faster in that dimension. For Omniman, destroying all those buildings probably took days, hence the beard he's grown by the end of the segment. I don't think this was a power-scaling issue, we were just seeing his destructive power in fast motion.
yeah, like who knows how long he was there
But wouldn't it be like a few milliseconds if he spent days there so why did he get back way later
@@rebeccacummings6697 idk, it's hard to say bc we don't know how long he was on their planet exactly since that scene was a montage
@@fabulousfries790 I think the minimum is months or years he was there
If we use the comics timeframe it took 8 months
Seriously that train scene was just absolutely horrifying to witness, I actually felt my heart start to hurt and I thought that I was completely desensitized to violence and gore after berserk and other series like it that I read in middle school.
Yup, same feeling. I'm fairly lenient on violence, less than most but I can watch a movie like Logan pretty ok.
It's funny how you said your heart was hurting and you weren't sick to your stomach like most people would. I felt the same way after the ending of the first episode, and I won't go on. It's almost like it didn't even matter if it was drawn or not it was just too much.
Wait, You read Berserk, the manga with the troll gang rape and explosive pregnancies' due to said rape. . . .and invincible made you cringe?
@@Sceth surprisingly yes I think it's because I used to read so much messed up stuff back then and recently I haven't really watched or read any gore stuff
My gawd you people need to stay confined to reddit. I hope you are a woman for your sake.
@@carlthecuck3128 this is a shitty troll or bait attempt
What I've realized is that Invincible is a hero with Spiderman's "Parker-luck" levels of bad luck but Superman level issues that correspond to his horrendous luck
This is exactly what I was thinking but couldn't quite put into words!
Well seeing that I doubt Amazon wont fight Disney to animate it at one point in the Comics he gets sent to the marvel universe and teams up with Spiderman
Nah, it's not.
Look man I understand your point but I can't not laugh because of how similar omni nan looks to JJ jameson
@@cedrecortega9825 instead of pictures of Spiderman he just wants conquering of earth. It isn't that hard!
I cant wait for the “mandela affect” where people think omni man is saying “think mark think” as where he is actually saying “think mark” i know its just something little but i still notice it
Finally, thank you
"Think Mark think" comes from the comics, which is likely the source of confusion.
Yes
@@GuyFromJupiter also, sounds better than just one "think"
@@AsAventurasdeGui dont agree
One of the animations scenes that absolutely made me lose my shit laughing was when mark and his gf kissed and their layer just slides down out of scene... Just... Slides away.
Bruh same that was too budget 😂
When I saw this I said, out loud, "Did they sink through the fucking floor?!".
forget sliding into the dms, he's sliding into the bed sheets
I think it was done out of humor like and not out of budget. Old school cartoons had animations like that and I think it was a play off of that.
It was sweet and then I freaking lost it 😂
Characters like Omni man and Homelander show how terrifying it would be if character with powers like Superman existed in real life
If psychopaths or nihilistic have super powers, lets not be so pessimistic about people.... No wait, is on America, they can totally turn out like that
The evil superman trope played out nothing new
@@inosukehashibira5511 Omniman isn't the Superman analogue in the story. That's Mark.
It wasn't the gore in episode 8 that got to me, it was Mark's reaction to it. He was absolutely horrified by what was happening around him and Steven Yeuns voice acting really sold it.
Wait, I wasn't gonna watch this until you said Steve Yeun and now my inner Voltron fan is urging me to
@@ceve he was one of the reasons why I watched the show, but he actually didn't sound like Keith to me. My brain knew its the same voice actor, but I wasn't confused by it. Steven Yeun is such a good voice actor.
Honestly the scene that really got me was after Mark tried to save the mother and her child and the building falls on top of them. the part where it shows him holding the mothers arm and then realizing that the arm was the only thing left of the mother really got to me.
@@oogliebooglie8796 I'm a big fan of the realism that they portray in a world of super powered freaks. Yes, a lot of casualties happen. Yes, these heroes always try their best to save everyone. But you can't save everyone.
Yoooooo you should check out my Invincible review
That train scene was one of the most genuinely horrifying scenes I have ever watched in my 21 years
I had to pause it and finish the episode the next day.
My jaw just dropped and I was like wtf wtf 😭
@@zercuil4784 Fr lmao I was like wtf but it was good
Cringe
Agreedd
The train scene almost flips the old western trope of being stuck on the tracks as you see the train coming, only now we're fearing for all the people on the train. There were several seconds for the audience to contemplate the horror of what was about to happen, and then it's hard to believe what you're seeing when it plays out just like you feared.
And THIS WASN’T EVEN IN THE COMICS lol
"If you're Over the age of 18, you'll like this show"
My 15 year old ass: I SAID WE 18 TODAY!
Me, at 14: 18, who? I got 4 more years, so who gives a shit.
Me, age 13: Guess I'm 18 now, oh well.
Me as a 14 year old
Me as a fetus
When your joke can be proven stupid in one sentence
I love when Omniman says to that alien invader "Earth is not yours, to conquer" and you get the real meaning of that phrase only after episode 8
Not really? If he killed the guardians without remorse in the first episode you get a pretty good idea about who Nolan is. That line is great foreshadowing and seeing him utterly decimate a planet for trying to interfere with his “work” gave us a taste of what he was truly capable and of what was to come.
@@santiagosanchez4836 no what it means is that, the world is omnimans co conquer
Right when he said that I was like "Because it's YOURS to conquer?"
was pretty devastated at how accurate I was o_o
@@santiagosanchez4836 But we didnt really know who Nolan was at the time, he couldve been mind controlled.
@Weyland Punani not really. He was still seen as the hero at that point.
A mistake was made should have played the Kratos theme for Omni man
THINK MARK
THINK MARK
WHAT WILL YOU DO AFTER 500 YEARS AFTER WE WILL HAVE KILLED OFF THE NORSE PANTHEON?!
meh.
How are you not verified
@@yuriusutr7284 cause youtube is mean and I won't delete my old videos
@Harry Sawyer are you sure you are not a bor because they say that for the past few days CZcams has been attacked by bots that have been advertising flixzone...just to be sure
The brutality actually surprised me. The first episode until the end is rly soft. I actually thought its a soft and cool kids show. Nobody dies when the clones attacked so I thought: okay this is cool and kids friendly. But suddenly it turns out to be the boys but with animation
Speaking of the boys. They did the same thing with homelander in the premier episode of season 1 they made him look like a saint even other people praise him as such.
Not really, at least in my mind. With The Boys, it comes across as something made by someone who doesn't like superhero flicks, while Invincible looks like something made from a position of love for superhero flicks.
The Amber thing I feel was a consequence of the adaptation - Comic Amber was a NOTHING character. She had no personality and no real characteristics and just sort of... was around, basically, even the drama with her was almost non-existent. The show has essentially made her a person with thoughts, feelings, drives, and a clear personality - but there are still some elements in the comics that kinda HAVE to stay the same and do involve the other, less interesting version of her. Reconciling that with her new personality presents some challenges and I think that's a part of the misstep that many fans (myself included) think ruined her character. Her being like "I know you're invincible" immediately makes her completely unreasonable - even unlikeable, in some ways. I think they wanted to maintain that she's a confident, intelligent character and subvert the trope that the hero telling his partner his secret identity suddenly fixes their relationship problems? But the way they chose to do it doesn't work with what had come previously.
IMO it woulda been WAY better if she'd been like "Okay cool, this answers some of my questions, but your actions still really hurt me and I can't just wholesale forgive and forget everything that's happened - and also, this creates a bunch of new problems that I'm not sure I can handle."
THANK YOU. Everyone has been so quick to bash her and aren't even thinking about her feelings. I loved your mention on the hero telling his partner his identity trope
@@dayosolaaje3195 I don't really wanna like... justify her actions, if that makes sense? It was still really bad writing. Like I honestly would have liked it if her response to Mark saying he was Invincible was "You get that that doesn't magically fix all our problems, right?" Not just gaslighting him how she did on the show. It woulda been totally fair her to be like "I understand why you kept it from me but at the same time you made me feel like absolute shit and I can't just act like everything's fine now, I still need a little time to think about whether or not I can date you if this is how things are always going to be." Because then she has agency AND you have drama AND you can see where she's coming from while not making it explicitly Mark's fault OR her fault.
I saw it as she didnt know until he said so, aqnd was trying to save face because she is allegedly smart. Not realising that if she actually knew she is abeing a right proper C consdiering her past behaviour. Its just teen ego, they have overplayed it and needed to either dial it back or make it even more obvious she was clueless.
Tbh she didn't seem like a "nothing character" to me. She was just a normal girl that was worried about normal things like school and her boyfriend. That's what I liked about her character, she wasn't some badass woman who could do anything a man could but more of normal person. This later was used when Eve told Mark that he could never date a normal girl because normal people don't look up(A reference to when they were both flying over cities and she then comments on how normal people don't look up.) Ironically enough Amber does look up and sees both of them on Eve's homemade house. I also find it kinda funny because Mark and Amber's relationship is literally like Nolans and Debbie's so when she said that I was kinda confused. Unfortunately they do split but they are on good terms. In the show she's some feminist who can bully a bully and is portrayed as a "strong female character". This really doesn't set a good look on her because they are trying to change the normal girl in the comics to some empowered weirdo. To add insult to injury she breaks up with Mark while knowing he saved her and his friend. I agree that it is terrible writing on her but it didn't start out when she knew he was a hero but it started when they changed her character to begin with. She was never meant to be a long lasting character so that's why when they changed her from just normal and tried to make her stand out they only damaged her character by making her an insufferable person. I really liked the comic version of her and thought they did get good job with her. As for the shows version I'm not a fan but to each their own.
@@JCfireman ...She was a nothing character, with basically no personality. She was a placeholder until Mark and Eve got together, because Eve actually got fleshed out from the start.. And the fact that you don't like new Amber because she's "Empowered" or "Feminist" as opposed to "because she's an objectively bad person" in conjunction with the fact that you DID like the version of Amber who has no agency or personality is really, really telling about your whole deal.
They put an 18+ warning right next to the show, I feel bad for the parents who thought this series would be a safe thing for their kids to watch.
Half are 16+ only a few are 18+
Should read the reviews on amazon. People bitching a EXTREMELY gore filled, sexual assaulting, and kinda borderline pedo comic isn't being adapted to be sugar coated for their 9 year old...
the blood made the show feel more real, and made the people feel more real also.
spoiler
mark got hunted down by a viltrumite women and then r@pe
Don’t feel bad, they put the warning there for a reason. That’s on them if they don’t read it
The "What will you have after 500 years ?" "You, dad, i'd still have you" line . Hit kinda hard ngl
Heh, "hit"
@ViV don't you mean his....Invincible character?
Started crying like a baby 👶🏾
Kinda? Bro I was bawling.
That hit Nolan harder than anything before.
It rocked his world to the point where he went AWOL.
Sarcastic Chorus: "Invincible is only on Amazon"
Me: _Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!!!_
Haha. Yeah. Me too.
bflix
SAMEE
the fact that machine head's voice is autotuned is so addicting
Put "and" before the second "is"
@@yobama6052 I'm sorry?
@@yobama6052 That would change what they're trying to say completely. Their sentence has proper grammar.
@@yobama6052 What he said is correct, I don't see why you need to fix it?
@@samuellinn i was replying to the wrong comment or i was in a grammer war with one of my friends
Personally the opening gimmick of cutting to the title when someone is about to say Invincible always makes me laugh
black and red is edgy
blue and gold is wholesome
yeah you gotta love *cue title screen* for that
@@TheSoCalledZoner1 how about green and yellow
@@Anonymous-73 im not to sure insanity ?
@@TheSoCalledZoner1 green and blue?
I really hope we get something about Mark dealing with the insane trauma his dad put him through. Sure, he's indestructible and he's getting used to the superhero life, but he's also 17 and seriously going to need a therapist.
It comes up in the comic
Thats the true mark of a superhero.. needing therapy after.
@@emm6101 i think this os the halmark of adulthood in general.
Both me and my boyfriend were like, "Ooooh, he's gonna really need therapy after that" after every brutal scene that has Mark in it
It only gets worse for him
I teared up when Invincible said " I'll still have you dad."
I was in a fatal car accident on 2016 and my dad didn't make it but I did. I wouldn't have been able to watch this years ago, but I think BECAUSE of my accident, the impact of the train scene is special for me. I don't think I would have the same level of empathy beforehand.
“Was it too brutal?”
Oh you poor soul. No spoilers, but as someone who’s read the comic, we’ve only just begun.
Conquest *cough* *cough*
@@Anthony-lk4we coalation vs thragg cough cough
Invincible war cough cough
Anissa: I like u
Mark: *cough* *cough*
Which comic is right after episode 8?
I appreciate what they tried to do with the common superhero trope of thinking if you tell your significant other your superhero identity everything would be okay magically, but them making Amber know that he was Invincible even at the University makes more plot holes and also makes her seem extremely unreasonable
Yeah, that was the point where I went from sympathizing with Amber to feeling glad that Mark was no longer dating her. Cause that revelation made her treatment of Mark come off as deliberate emotional manipulation and that's a MASSIVE red flag at the best of times.
she wasnt upset that mark didnt make time for her, she was upset that he didnt trust her enough to tell her and decided to lie to her and make up excuses for not showing up to things which is pretty reasonable. also having him reveal his identity ONLY when she decided to actually leave him is a pretty shitty thing.
@@kit2799 Which was all well and good until you think back the scene at the university. Her "breaking point," is presented as Mark vanishing when the cyborg showed up. Which, if she was ignorant, would make sense. It looked like he abandoned her in a moment of crisis. But when it is implied that she knew Mark was Invincible at the time that she snapped at him there, it paints her as dishonest and manipulative. She knew Mark didn't run, and was fighting for his life, but then chose to feign ignorance and chew up him about running and made that "the reason" for the break up. Now it's a situation where they're both lying and manipulative. Which makes the whole dynamic weird to watch.
To be honest it was the one thing that was definely beter in the comics, but american media cabt seem to wirte black caracther as somethung other than narcisists so...
@@MrRobot-0 it’s got nothing to do with her race shush
10:10 that whole ass chicken really did just up and vanish. Thought I was losing it.
DAMNED YOU METRO MAN!
Seeing as how I lost my father last year, the scene that breaks me is Omni man asking what he will have after 500 years & Mark replying that he'd still have him...
It broke Omni Man too.
the fight with omni man was like trying to have an argument with your dad. You just know it's a losing battle yet you still end up doing it
It's also like when your dad is yelling at you trying to make you become a better person but it hurts him doing so.
Well, it IS an argument with a dad, so...
@@Andre83572 Plot Twist: That was the purpose of the comment
THINK, ANDY THINK
I think that's the point of the fight
@@Andre83572 Yeah boi
Yeaaaah boii
WAS IT BRUTAL ENOUGH
ARE YOU ENTERTAINED
ARE YOU ENTERTAINED!!!!???
Yeah
Fans of the Comic Book: Yeah I am very satisfied.
I understood that reference.
NO! I can't stand gore at all! But I LOVE this show so much, it made me put up with the more bloody parts of it. (Still, I did skip the train part, since that was too much for me.)
Yes, I am.
Mark: Stops asteroid and throws it back into space.
Also Mark: Cyborg hurty. Ouchie
Between both Mark and Omni-Man finding them that hard to fight and the only time we see Cyborgs being taken out easily is when Rick himself is half-cyborg, I get the impression they're *incredibly* strong in universe. Though it does beg the question of how...
I know, right? What metals is Sinclair USING to make these things?!
"was it to brutal?"
answer:
No, we need more.
"What's another 17 years" and "I'll still have you" are what broke me
Grow up and grow a pair
@@carlthecuck3128your testicles are sensitive to pain also shivel up and hide away when its cold
Maybe its too late to point out, but during the train scene.. Look at Nolan's face. He looks down after Mark screams in despair. Even *he* feels bad about it and brings a stop to it. Its a "blink or you'll" miss it moment.
I thought that too, but honestly he might have just thought now is the time to smash through the floor
Or it was just horribly inefficient. Like, Omniman had to see Mark kill all those people and might have went ' This is taking way too long for his arms to kill a crowd, if I cause an earthquake, the process will go by much faster.
"It made me care about his struggles"
*_*shows Amber*_*
*Damn right.*
I love how the show shows the harshness of being a superhero and saving life’s without making them look incompetent. The show manages to do what Zack Snyder always seemed to try to do with his movies and usually failed at.
Brief explanation on how this show succeeded where Zack Snyder failed
I’m convinced that a good portion of the animation budget was invested in the blood.
I know for a fact they spent like a week picking the right red lmao
And lack of story outside of Father and son relationship the show just blood and gore with cussing yeah so profound
"that scene where Nolan beat his son with everything but his belt"
oh god that's such a perfect, literal, yet understated way of describing that beatdown.
jesus fucking christ you've got me cackling like a madman over that.
I appreciate that Invincible's horrible violence is never gratuitous. It actively serves a purpose every time it shows up, and that's to be extremely upsetting and jarring, just like violence in real life. We feel Mark's anguish and trauma when alien invaders zap people right in front of him, because it forces us to acknowledge that he just witnessed the horror of death.
That's one of the main points of the show, how superhero culture glorifies violence and destruction while playing down its real-world weight and consequence. This "they're just random extras we don't need to care" mentality is embodied in Omniman, who perceives the people of earth the same way the viewer does in shows like Justice League.
Wow, that's really well put! I hadn't thought of that angle before...
@@KalebPeters99 | Thanks! In storytelling, violence is a tool like any other. It can be beautiful, funny, ugly, or distressing depending on how it's styled. A good storyteller is one that knows how to use it to elevate their story. A bad storyteller is one who crams it in thoughtlessly.
Omni man isn’t racist, he’s literally an entire different species
Doesn't that make him a Speciesist?????
@@chadano4209 I think u just made that up imao
@@tommatt2901 no it’s just genocide
@@elizabethgouverneur2972 Oh, well I’m glad we cleared that up.
He literally uses eugenics
He said "viltrumite blood is so pure, [Mark] is practically full-blooded" in episode 7 or 8
You can see, throughout the show, Omni man struggling with his emotions. Then ending of episode 6 when Debbie confronts him, you can see his eyes shaking is my favorite example of this. What Debbie said hurt him worse than the Guardians ever could.
Well yeah, I'd be kinda upset if my dog said "Fuck you", too.
@@xaldynnemo47 omg-
@@xaldynnemo47 I thought that exact thing when I watched that scene, but it makes me uncomfortable to think of them as a pet-owner relationship
Cursed as heck
Shortly after Mark gets his powers, Nolan confesses to Debbie that he can't help but feel their lives "would have been better" had Mark NOT gotten his powers, that it really "changes things". I feel like Nolan was hoping he could outlive his wife and son before conquering the planet, but Mark getting his powers expedited his plans. Would also explain why he was stunned and questioned Mark when he announced he got his powers at the dinner table, instead of being pleasantly surprised
@@Strawberriezrule13 great theory, I agree
I personally didn’t mind the brutality of Invincible b/c there was sense of sincerity to it.
The show wants you to empathize with Mark’s more idyllic view of heroism. It’s definitely one of his strongest traits
Agreed. This isn't a show where the brutality is just a symptom of a darker, edgier world. It is used to challenge and highlight Mark's optimism and moral resilience. Sort of like the manga and anime Monster, where a serial killer's antics are used to contrast Dr. Tenma's morals.
It would work better if Mark mentally reacted to the brutality more than in just the last 2 episodes
The gore is animated almost exactly like Metalocalypse, so I just think it's goofy.
Wouldn’t want you as a dad
@@GamerSlyRatchet1
Monster is the greatest anime ever
"unless it's runs the jewels the songs are meh" preach that bro
Make way for the King was a fucking banger, and Omni man killing the not martians. The only songs I Unironically loved
Aw yeah, I searched for a comment like this so long.
When Don't Get Captured came on in the cloning montage I was grinning so hard 😆
I cannot express how much I loved the tension in this season.
I have never seen a show where the mystery at the end of episode one was pulled of so flawlessly.
It is intense watching everything unfold as Cecil and Deborah fight to learn the truth of why Omni-Man did what he did.
Especially when Omni-Man interacted with his costume maker, or William. I can only express how that felt with the word Dread.
How Mark doesn't have PTSD at the end is beyond me
I think he does, but still hasn’t fully processed what’s happened
You can have PTSD but not show Hollywood symptoms. It’s a much quieter disorder than most people believe.
I fully believe Mark is dealing with soon-to-be-crippling PTSD or C-PTSD.
u read the comics bc it only gets worse lol
He's still in shock--like he said his friends, it doesn't even feel real to him yet. Traumatic events can take a while to process, especially at his age.
@@Mothman_In_a_T-Pose
Yep and it doesn’t show the same in every person. Some are loud, violent, others are quiet and paranoid.
The invincible opening gimmick just gets me every single time. It's like a jump scare to me.
It feels like they are making fun of themselves like ," oh boi here it comes the title of the show..ta daa"
The worst part is, you almost never see it coming
It's the only thing I don't like bout the show
I always find it too abrupt or the dialogue before it too quiet, so I’m like wait what was the sentence the ends in “invincible”?
YOU ARE NOT [title card]
i literally binged the whole season in a day and a half and i need more
Me too. I'm bummed out it's over already for Season 1
"Just like how you'll enjoy this video's spons--"
*Immediately skips forward fifty seconds*
Hey, you need to re-watch the punch before Mark hitting the city. Omni-man was purposefully aiming the punch so he could use Mark to kill people. It was implied by the line he said before the punch and the next lesson line before the train.
Another subtle thing was how when Omni-man killed each member of the guardians of the globe, he always went for the head
Slight spoilers for the comic if you haven’t read it.
My main problem with how they used omniman in this show is how difficult it’s going to be for them to redeem him after all the shit he’s done in it. In the comics, he did some fucked up shit but he was still redeemable. In this however, for the sake of a more powerful, scary, interesting, and gorey villain, they made him outlandishly evil with terrible actions and choices all across the board. I’m interested to see how they redeem him.
@@TsdsxSansTSSunStone they changed a lot of things regarding the order of a lot of the events, like i wonder how they are gonna do the whole robot and antsrum levis character later on
@@NeostormXLMAX same, I trust them though. These are the guys that made the boys so I think they can succeed and maybe even improve upon the source material.
0:40: Yes, yes, meaningless assumptions, yes, yes. I get it.
Invincible is a reconstruction of the super hero genre. it crawled through the gritty deconstruction era of the 90's and came out the other side clean, like Andy escaping in the Shawshank Redemption.
Invincible really is the best of both worlds when it comes to superhero storytelling.
Pretty sure it started in the 2010s though (or at least late 2000s)
@@idodo32 It was the 90’s. Well in comics at least. Everything was super edgy and dark for a time.
@@remylabeau5140 i know, i dont think that that's when invincible came out thoigh
@@idodo32 no invincible is at least afther 2005
Omni-man must just rock a full beard but then again the moustache is his greatest power
It's a Viltrumite thing
How do you go through all of the talent and forget to mention Khari Payton? For those who don't know, he plays Cyborg in the Teen titans show
"it feels like they're just making them date just so they can break them up later"
*cue nervous laughter from comic fans*
Honestly, i haven't read the comics but I can't wait for the relationship to end. I already know he's meant to be with eve anyway and
Spoiler, though not for you because you've already read them
She is probably the only thing he will still have after 500 years
@@xmant8842 Not mean to spoil but *cough* it's probably because or Eve's power that she can live that long
fuck that came off rude
@@xmant8842 Holy shit, thank god that is the case. I'm fan with that spoiler because shit Amber was my least favorite part of the show, her personality was just so unlikeable to me and how she treated Mark was even worse.
Hell that's the best thing I've heard for later story arcs. If you had to guess how many episodes it would be since you read the comics, how many seasons in do you think it will take for the break up? I mean I don't expect her to just stop existing in the universe or being a part of it, but I mean just breaking up with Mark for good.
@@theworstcatholic7247 i actually haven't read the comics so I don't know, but I hope they break up soon
Probably the best thing to come out this year so far
Yeah Wanda vision is cool but did it stay cool to the end? No
@@dontburstmybubble686 I liked the episode before the ending but the final finally was a bit slow for me.
Ahem... AHEEEEEM....*Coughing all of my guts out*
Oh... uh sorry about that. What about snydercut. Its way better than its original/first version. I think only the big thing that sucks about Snyder cut is that it's so long so rewatching it is a bit hard.
@@Gundam_JAY Snyder cut is fine. The backstory to it was great but it’s not all that
@@dontburstmybubble686 i liked it
Tried showing my mom the first episode as a “fuck it moment let’s see what happens”
She was 100% into the show into the final
Scene of big oni slaying the GOG. I’ve never seen someone so pale and so lost for words other than assuming I’m a serial killer for showing her that episode 😂
My mom’s fave was the green ghost
My favorite part of showing this show to people (and my brother’s favorite part of showing it to me) was watching them pick their favorites in the post-credit scene of episode one.
As someone who didn’t have a father figure growing up. Here the “ill have you moment” is so heartwarming and hit me right in the feels.
Literally they could have just wrote Amber at the break up scene to be like "oh god, I had no idea" and then she'd pause for a bit, maybe think she's dumb for not figuring out already Mark was a superhero and just say "I need some time to think" or something and the writing would be fine.
both amber and his friend are kinda bad characters, his friend was literally chewing him up on not going after his crush like he was obligated to and was unironically mad at invincible for not telling him his secret
@@lilmupp875 naw his friend wasn’t bad he had a right to be pissed for Mark not helping him when his crush was in danger. His friend literally saw him get kidnapped and he knows Mark has powers that could help him but he brushes him off so he can chase after Amber. I’m surprised how quick his friend can brush off how Mark didn’t try and help
@@haileee9247 No, William saw the skype call get cut off abruptly. Then tells Mark that he can't get a hold of Rick. Mark is the one who actually saw a cyborg kidnap someone(William).
@@lilmupp875 I know he’s taking a break but there are killer suicidal cyborgs running around and your friend’s bf just got snatched off a call. Thinking your gf being mad right now is more important than that is kinda scummy. But he’s a kid so it’s not unexpected
"I can always start again, make another kid"
My dad literally did this lmao, entire final ep really hit home. Amazingly done.
Hit
That's hurts omg
I balled like a baby for the finale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hope you’re ok king
When I was watching this episode 9:22 I was putting myself in Marks shoes Imagine whats he's going though during that time, damn knowing that your dad made you like you were some kind of tool for the Viltrumites empire and your mother as a pet just imagine, and you can't do anything about it since his the most powerful man in earth
damn, i guess mark really wasn't **title screen**
I should say that Nolan was on that planet of aliens for way longer then the show lead people to believe he was there for months
Based on how the time pf that dimension is treated in the comics i would say he could have been there for a few decades ateast
I thought he was just aging faster in their... universal timezone? Pocket of spacetime? Dimension? Actually never mind that whole situation doesn't make much sense
@@dankmagician7108 I'll give a spoiler free explanation for this as it was explained in the comics. Yeah Nolan actually spent decades in the other dimension during that scene, since the aliens (forgot what they're called) age much faster in our dimension the opposite happens when someone from our dimension goes to theirs.
@@brachioboy So it's not just a "time runs at a different speed" thing? Like 1hr on Earth is 10hrs where they live, but it's also that someone from Earth's dimension ages super slowly, like 1 day here = 10 days there, plus you only age 1 day in that 10... so Nolan growing a beard would normally take like 40 days, convert to x10 there = 400 days... but he only ages 1 in to, so x10 again => It could've been 4000 days spent beating them up?
Not even considering Nolan just ages super slowly on Earth's dimension, so growing a beard could take 10x or 100x longer... maybe matthew rowe's right, decades min
@@user-ut9ln4vd5mpretty much yeah. I actually think the beard is a mistake on the animators part. But keep in mind that my information comes from the comics. So maybe the anime adaptation has a different reason on the dimension time thingy. Only time will tell, hopefully it gets explained.
The Amber part was actually better in the comics, they didn't break up there, she figured it out and confronted him about it, giving Mark a chance to talk about all the shit that's happening to him
I defended amber up until episode 7 cause it makes no sense why she got that upset about mark literally saving his best friends life. (when I thought she didn't know that I defended her cause it made sense, but when it came out she knew I can't defend her for that, she was a bitch there and her actions made no fucking sense)
@@speedy01247 I dont want to go down this rabbit hole again as I spent two weeks arguing with people in defense of Amber, but its pretty amazing to me how people still misunderstand why she is angry and are so quick to attack her.
@@KCohere33 Yeah ok, don't know how you can defend but you do you
@@dennissutton2014 Don’t need your permission but okay
@@KCohere33 He never said you did
Oh wow I love this video!! The only thing I’d say is I understood his various power levels as he wasn’t trying to destroy Earth. When he was on the Flaxan homeworld he didn’t care so he built up speed and destroyed everything. On Earth he doesn’t build up speed because he’s trying to conquer it not demolish it.
The thing with the animation is that they specifically made it resemble literally every other animated superhero show from the 2000s and 2010s, to a T. That meant using the same methods and everything. So naturally the CGI was what it was. The fights still looked incredible though
The whole, "I'll still have you, dad..." scene still makes my chest hurt.
@liamerolduffy7738 really? Because it's the only reason Mark didn't get murdered by his dad.
Watch the scene again.
So it made sense is what you're saying. You literally described it. K. Thanks try hard.
Literally fr
I have to close my eyes every time gore appears on screen but I still like this show indeed. I just feel the pain very deeply in my bones ;_;
How do you feel "pain" from fake gore, like it's a show
@@rebeccacummings6697 you guys don't feel it when a character gets hurt on screen, oh how much I envy you (yes even the animated ones for some reason, unless it looks cartoony)
@@nonamesorry7135 its not a good thing, I can't feel anything for the characters, I could care less for the main character getting pushed through a literal bus, or beaten to a pulp or breaking up with their girlfriend, etc.
@@rebeccacummings6697 well, being extremely sensitive is also not very pleasant, so in a very weird way I get you. I can't watch horror movies or anything with too much violence in it at all, even watching shows or movies in which a lot of emotional stuff is happening, good OR bad, is a huge struggle for me because it feels like I live through these emotions myself and it exhausts me
@@rebeccacummings6697 some shows I have to follow through fandoms only because there's no way I can handle the actual thing...
Honorable mention: i think debbie was a great character! Usually women are sidelined in super hero stories as the concerned mother/wife but nope most of her perspective served a purpose in the plot (finding out nolan killed the guardians) and i was just so glad to see a female character that was an ACTUAL main character. Her dynamic with nolan was more interesting the more she began to investigate him, and i didnt expect to get invested into debbie but i did. Then when nolan said "shes like a pet" i was about to throw hands
I’m honestly surprised you haven’t made a sarcastic summary of the show Harley Quinn
He did name it his 1 show if 2020 so he will review it at some point.
Maybe when s3 comes out. At the moment though it’s so funny I find it hard to add anything to it
@@SarcasticChorus Just pull a cinemasins and compromise on your content quality
@@Wolfbane971 heck no im so tired of nitpicky critism thats why i hate cartoonshi and lily orchard.
It's much better than the first Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, so I hope so.
The fact anyone could die at any second and be splattered into pieces really made me worry about every character. I was always worried someone was gonna get stabbed or blown through a wall and I valued every character a lot more even the civilians.
The fact that the show makes you think that no character is safe and any one can die at any point in time it makes it really hard for me to get attached to any of the characters.
I love it when shows make you afraid for your characters.
I find the opposite to be true for myself. While you really 'know' the main title character won't die, it makes you question it sometimes with how far they go sometimes. I like this. Other shows are really hard to enjoy when you realize they are afraid and never going to do so much as give a splinter to half the cast. It makes the moments they try to pretend they will really lackluster in comparison.
Yeah, I genuinely thought the new Guardians of The Globe were gonna be slaughtered in their fight with Battle Beast.
This is why Invincible is a beast on my list of the worst fictional universes to live in
You are not completely safe even without the viltrumites and even with powers
Shouldn’t the mauler twins know who’s the clone though? They have an exact copy of their memories and one sits on the table on the right and then one wakes up on the left. Shouldn’t they remember who woke up on one side?
They also change the memory to where to the other it seemed like they both survived.
That's what I thought! Unless they have a mechanism to rotate the chairs somehow.
That's what I thought! Unless they have a mechanism to rotate the chairs somehow.
So true. I enjoyed the show, but it did have some bad writing in it.
What bothered me was Titan moving his family into Mech-heads luxury appartment, as if Mech-head would just sell it to him. Titan is squatting there with his family, needlessly endangering them and drawing attention to himself. Total dumbass.
@@mcjcave18 THe way it was described it almost feels like the minds are swapping as the new conciousness are created, as. Depicted when Robot saw his frail hand and not frail hand seemlessly merging, it feels like the brains are being swapped and they don’t know if they remained the same or swapped.
Title: Was it too brutal?
Me who has read all the comics: Uh oh
LMFAO
So it gets even more brutal in the comics? More so than the train scene??
@@nicocee2431 The story has concluded but Im not sure how many seasons there could be. Definitely more than 5 for sure.
@@bradley8614 I dont want to spoil anything but in short... yes
@@raykazmi8521 wow. I can't imagine anything worse than that and I'm not sure I want to. Though I'd think reading something is different than watching it.
The rest of the series is gonna be so good
You got no clue bro, this is just a smidge of the comic
@@Augdogfrogslog The comic is amazing unless they screw it up so the show will be
If they stay mostly true to the comic, like they have been, it's gonna be AMAZING!!!!!!!
@Mike Tyson's Disciple with a rifile Changing the race of characters doesn't change much about them but they also changed how the characters were written compared to how they are in the comics which IMO amber was a better a character in the comics. Her relationship with mark was better fleshed out and less flip floppy if that makes sense.
Can't wait until we see what Mark will have in 500 years(yes, I've read the comics)
4:00 Yo how can you leave out Jason Mantzoukas, he was comedic gold yet able to be real at moment .
Hell his line while looking at the blood stain "I pretty sure that's what happen to the last "last hope against Omni man"" was honestly scary
My jaw dropped at the end of episode one, but I barely noticed it by episode 7
When you consider Nolan’s upbringing, it feels like a cycle of violence thing. Add the way Mark got home and wanted pizza, just like Nolan after the funeral.
The cycle is continuing.
Ah I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed it
I think he might be doing it more out of shock - a retreat to simple things, meeting basic needs, not wanting to face what just happened. Not on an empty stomach, at least. God I hope he doesn’t feel the same way as his father did in that moment.
@@twagetomato I agrre, it is the "same pizza", but for very different reasons: omniman didn't care at all, while Marc is in shock and his mind is numb from the pain.
@@twagetomato agreed but it’s him leaving it at the door because he wants to be like dad. He questions it at the flashback point.
It's like an inversion of the scene from Spiderman 2 when Peter manages to stop a runaway train...
This show is so amazing! I am literally rewatching it as we speak. I cannot wait for the next season. I read that it would be coming out sometime in 2022, I CANNOT WAIT!!!
The one scene that kinda got me to think that Omni-Man was actually evil was the scene where he destroyed the entire alien planet and said, "You don't understand this planet is not yours to conquer."😭😥😫😫 Although this could be taken different ways but this statement just seemed to spark my attention about Omni.
when is it coming out
Love the video, agree with pretty much everything you say. The only thing is that in editing the audio from the show it was so soft that it was almost mute but great video otherwise!
Now that you mention it, it is kind of weird and funny that the most unbelievable thing in a world full of time travelers Amazons aliens mutants Atlantean’s super soldiers so on and so forth is that a kid from college managed to make super cyborgs in the sewers?
For the whole power scaling, I think it a habit thing for oniman. While on earth where he can be viewed at any time and have the video spread on the internet, he holds back his power and puts on a show of struggle for the cameras to protect his image and family. So after years of doing that it can be a second reflex of sorts. I think that's why he went all out on the other dimension, and when he was trying to convince Mark to join him because at that point in oniman's head he was no longer going to be a hero.
That's one way to look at it but I think it really just that they wanted to hold off on revealing him to much later so they needed a reason to not have earth completely screwed when he went ham to make Cecil not look like a dumb ass
I always figured that it was because Omni-Man needed to build up the momentum to pull off certain feats. Cause if this world is trying to apply the laws of physics to this world (Or at least as much as possible in a world with beings that can fly and control atoms) Then things like momentum and leverage would be big factors in certain situations.
Even Omni-Man himself said that for flying, he needs to let the momentum carry him or he'll overuse that "flight muscle". Plus at that point in the fight, it could be assumed Omni-Man was getting tired after all, he did just take two blasts from an orbital space laser and has been flying as fast as he could to reach Mark before anyone else could get to him.
I think it's just a classic case of getting punched by something with superpowers hurts more than any man made weapon, even if it doesn't make any sense. We see it all the time in comics.
Nah, the writers just changed the characters strength from scene to scene for dramatic reasons. Just like how in the 1933 King Kong, they changed its size from 18 to 50 feet depending on the scene. Writers dont care about such things like consistent power levels. An extreme example would be Chinese web novels (especially Xianxia novels). At the start you will have characters punch fist sized holes in boulders when their punching strength is like 200 pounds (for comparison, Mike Tyson's punching strength was around 1000 pounds). After cultivating a bit, the characters will soon be flipping mountains and by the end of the story they will be destroying Trillions of universes with the flip of their hand. But it will never be consistent.
@@MsClonetrooper That's exactly what I thought too - he had a lot coming at him to tire him out
I genuinely like your content, as someone who has followed and loved you for a while, I was pretty let down by this vid.
This was really low effort and it shows, hope you can get back on the wagon for your next upload, love you man.
Keep grinding
i’m personally not huge on gore, the only two scenes that unsettled me was the end of episode 1 and the subway scene. the subway scene i did have to look away for but the story made it absolutely worth it and made the gore seem important to the story it was telling.
I kinda wish the series was structured the way it was in the comics, as the events that happened in episode 4-6 all happened after Omni-Man left earth. I do appreciate the focus on the mystery of who killed the guardians
From what I've seen people say, the pacing is much better then the comics and doing stuff earlier helps make it better then the comics. Idk though because I haven't read them
I honestly prefer the structure of the show. I love the added mystery elements and how it builds in extra dread. And by having other plot points happen before Omni Man is exposed, the writing feels tighter and more interconnected. I honestly disliked how long and drawn out the cyborg storyline was in the comic. We would get about 2 pages of the cyborgs being built up every few issues and there was nothing in between. Rick is literally gone for weeks before Mark picks up on what’s going on. The show condensed this into a single episode, which was easy to do since it was already a simple story in the comic. And since the cyborgs were used before Omni Man is exposed, this immediately gives the pay off of the cyborgs being tested against Omni Man. This immediately pays off the introduction of the cyborgs and sets up how the cyborgs will be used in the future. In the comic, things just sort of happen after Omni Man leaves and we don’t see them come back in important ways until much later. The comic was already a very well built story. The show just manages to tie in the best parts in a more efficient way.
@@renemartinez3451 which isn't too surprising as Robert Kirkman specifically made these changes for the better of the story since he's grown so much as a writer since back when he wrote the comic
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I wonder how they'll fix the Angstrom Levy bits. I always found him to be the worst villain in the series and just an excuse to get to better villains (Conquest, Robot.) Even the Invincible War just felt like a couple pages of filler to introduce Conquest. I know everyone's looking forward to that fight, but I think we all forget what a pacing mess that whole Levy-Conquest arc was.
This is why invincible shows you truly how hard being a superhero is. It’s not afraid to shows you the brutal consequences of failing your mission, it shows the price you need to pay to be a good hero and responsibilities you need to abandon and take. The finale was so perfect and I’m so hyped for season 2 and season 3 (confirmed)
the run the jewels song you tagged at 6:50 is actually chase me not don't get captured. Don't get Captured plays while the surviving Mauler Twin from the jailbreak builds himself a new lab for a new brother.
Just finished the first season and I'm so excited for the second coming later this year this video was awesome btw
About the power scale, at least when it comes to Omni man, I think I might have an explanation. Remember Omni man was sent to earth to prepare it for the viltrumite invasion. Because of this he has to make sure earth stays in a mostly undamaged condition. So he can’t just let out full power everywhere or else he could destroy earth too much and essentially fail his mission. On the other alien planet scince it wasn’t earth or a planet the viltrumites cared about, Omni man could go absolute full power and not worry at all about the damage he did.
I picked up the comic after I finished the show and I HONESTLY recommend it. It is vastly different from the show (and not as gory if that bothers you). Without spoilers, I think the way they adapted the comic for season 1 of the show will allow for the plot and characters to grow freely in season 2 (and give the characters a break)
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Also: Amber in the comics thinks that Mark is dealing drugs. She still figures out on her own that he's a superhero after, and she completely understands his situation after he tells her.
This may be a hot take, but I think they did Amber in the show dirty so that Eve looks like a better match for Mark in comparison.
It certainly can be as gory as the show, it just picks it's spots. Mark's first fight with Conquest comes to mind.
Agreed, I like comic Amber a whole lot better. Her portrayal there is one of a smarter and slightly more mature person. Show Amber's kind of an entitled bitch.
Amber doesn't figure it out! She confronts Mark and mark tells her. She is in disbelief and even asks him again "so you really are not dealing drugs?"
So a multi-issue death battle that results in the victor wearing the others body as a cowl, for example, isn't as 'gory' as the show?
@@anthonypatterson8796 I'm only on issue 25 so idk yet😂
But at least for me seeing it on a page is different from seeing it on screen, so the lvl of gore might just be my opinion.
Who needs an audience, or money when you have *INVINCIBLE TITLE SCREEN*
I think one of the best parts about this really is they don't add in gore just to have it and be like "woah look at this blood isn't that cool?" they really have the gore to show how devastating the action is. It's more like. "You see this gore? It's honestly horrible" it shows that that blood belongs to a person and that person is dead now and you will feel this.
Exactly. It's masterful!
Like how he tries to save the old lady and ends up with her all over him.