The process by which Invincible has had to condense and consolidate the plot beats of the original comic, coupled with the opportunity it's granted the writers to tighten up and emphasize its themes on a second pass, has resulted in a newfound appreciation for how unbelievably fucking good Angstrom Levy's whole character concept is. What's that, Mark? Your main emotional crisis this season is your fear of turning out like your father? Here, have an archnemesis who's out to kill you because his memories were inadvertently overwritten with the lived experiences of hundreds of alternate versions of himself whose friends and families were slaughtered in worlds where you did, in fact, turn out exactly like your father. Because it turns out that that is in fact the multiversal norm. That you turn out like your father. And now you're left to wonder what set of arbitrary coinflips pulled you back from that abyss in this dimension, and whether your luck is going to continue to hold into the future.
Rex is such a good older brother to Rudy 😁 (he’s the youngest out of all of them)
I’m totally not obsessed with invincible and TOTALLY NOT on the brink of ruining my bank account by buying every comic and comic compendium and comic collection and funko pops and art book…
not even halfway through and i'm already bawling my eyes out-
i'm feeling that mark might be going through survivor's guilt. with how violent and harshly omni-man beat him up, mark could've died.
and he wasn't able to save the people he thought he could have protected from his fight with his dad. those gda pilots, the people in the train, the people inside the buildings. there was so much destruction and death. he's alive but those people aren't.
I don't get to be sad. those six words. those six, sad, gut wrenching words.
I don't get to be sad. Cause I still got to live after all of that, and they didn't. They're dead because of me, and there is nothing I can possibly do to make up for all the lives that were lost.
I made basically this exact post a while ago when this season of Invincible started, but I really appreciate that in this episode they went out of their way to demonstrate to the audience via montage that Angstrom Levy is after Mark's ass specifically because he was driven insane by the botched transfer process giving him the memories of hundreds of alternate versions of himself whose friends and family were personally murdered by Invincible. This was also ultimately what was implied to have happened in the comic but it wasn't conveyed as effectively, so it ended up reading a lot like he was mad specifically about Mark fucking up the transference process, maybe mixed with some broad form of degenerative insanity resulting from his mutation. This version is a lot more pointed about it, which makes the tragedy- and particularly the tragedy of Mark breaking down after his apparent first kill- really pop.
contains a small spoiler from season two of Invincible
you and Mark have been in a relationship for many months already
you two went through a lot together, especially since how he’s literally a superhero
despite that though, you both were able to overcome the challenges and became stronger than before
later that day, he asks you to get some coffee together. his treat
you immediately said yes since you haven’t see him in a while, he just came back from space and all you want to do is just know what happened out there
when you arrived at the place, he was sitting there at a table
when he noticed you coming in, he immediately turned his back and started waving at you with a small smile on his face
he seemed okay, thank gosh
you went over to him and sat down across from him, he seemed relieved to finally see you
“Mark! I’m glad you got back safely. I missed you.”
“I missed you too, not being able to text you in space made me just want to fly to Earth to see you.” He said and chuckled a bit.
Mark always had a soft spot for you
whenever you tell him you think that you two aren’t spending enough time together, he always tries to cancel his mission so he can stay with you unless it was something he actually needs to do
he told you everything that happened — omni man, new half-brother, sequids everywhere, etc
listening to it just made you realize how much Mark has been through
“I really need a break from space and everything that happened, right now I just want to spend time with you.” He said and then placed his hand on top of yours.
you could feel your heart flutter a bit
even though he’s busy a lot, he always tries his best to spend quality time with you
isn’t that so sweet? trying to make time for you despite having a busy schedule
“Yeah, just know that I’m here for you okay?” You responded, trying to comfort him. A smile forms on his face and he looks into your eyes.
“Thank you. I really needed to hear that. I love you, so much.”