In honor of the end of Season 2, here's a thread of my FAVORITE villains from the Invincible universe that are NOT Thragg
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The Elephant.
An obvious pastiche of the Rhino, down to his size and African-animal inspired nature.
He was intended to be a direct 1:1 of the Rhino down to the way he got his powers until it was revealed that he was actually an elderly black man in white/elephant face.
Thomas Winters
A scientist that tried to make himself immortal in the same way he made his wife, Holly immortal.
Only it made him this, a dumb "Hulk".
Now he's very jealous and kills any man near his wife.
That guy in the stretcher is Captain Capitalism btw
Dinosaurus
Normally some bored twenty-something loser, this dude transforms into a super-smart Viltrumite-level dinosaur beast with a violent love for the environment whenever he feels "apathy".
Powerplex aka Scott Duvall.
A worker at a Pentagon science lab, he lost his sister when Omni-Man and Mark fought. Building a super suit using stolen tech, he decided to kill Mark.
The Mauler Twins
"But I saw these guys in the show"
Listen, they get up to way worse shit in the comics for a while.
Like creating a gene bomb that turned every baby born in a town into Kuwait into perfect clones of them so they could never really die.
David Hiles, a character you'll probably never see..
Weapons engineer who lost his son to suicide due to bullying, lost his job/wife from depression & became a teacher at Mark's school.
He kidnapped popular students & turned them into living bombs & then himself when caught.
Paul Cha, aka Multi-Paul, brother of Dupli-Kate.
He's only here cause I like his name.
Omnipotus is funny because he's supposed to be some sort of Galactus figure but never does shit.
Bro never actually manages to kill a single hero.
Hell, in the comics, Black Samson comes back from a Battle Beast coma to send him off.
Conquest
The olld man is on this list for being an insane villain and upping the gore on Invincible officially.
And also giving us some of the best Invincible panels.
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Seeing people shield up their defenses of Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s writing by calling it too “smart” for fans because fans don’t agree with their media illiterate takes shows me how you people couldn’t write your way out of a paper bag
You can’t point to to a single character arc that felt earned in that show and you want to call the writing smart or in way good?
That lazy, inconsistent, conflicted thematically railroaded mess of a show?
You would fail ninth grade English in a just world.
There’s nothing more emblematic of this than Sam’s final speech.
Disjointed and vague, it felt like a writers unfinished thesis statement rather than an actual message. Unlike the action set pieces, you couldn’t even argue it felt like it was written first and everything else was written to fit around it.
Someone clearly looked at everything else they wrote and went, “Well… fuck.”
The average misogynist in Korea (not even incel, just misogynist) out-powerlevels American misogynists by the sheer fact that I don't think they believe woman are even close to being human.
They hate on pregnant women, bro.
Like actively.
American incels/misogynists know they have to at least nominally be good to women in a relationship.
Or in general.
SK incels/misogynists don't really believe that.
American guys who don't know the background talk on the evil SK radfem goverment cult, but...
I get it.
You don't understand the depth of it.
I I heard of the radfem cult thing a while ago and I went "that's fucking weird" and I researched.
And researched.
And then decided to just make my jokey jokes and stay quiet because that shit goes deeeep.
I was once talking to someone who complained that the guys she wanted to date were nice, but they didn't ever give off a "nurturing" vibe, like they wouldn't offer her a jacket or open a door.
After some more questions, I realized that she was talking about chivalry. I told her that any man who’s passively absorbed feminist ideas—not deeply, mind you, but passively to the point that it shaped his worldview—is generally not going to be chivalrous.
You can't expect it from him. It's like expecting a cat to bark. It's possible, but it's not common and often a mimicry.
Now, you might be confused because you might likely think of feminist man would be very respectful of women, if not traditionally courteous.
But I'm not talking about a feminist man.
i’m not talking about the self-proclaimed male feminist or even an actual male feminist.
No, both of those would probably simulate some kind of chivalry, the former probably far better due to you know
no, i’m talking about the kind of guy who’s taken in feminist thinking to the point that he doesn’t necessarily agree with it, but he can’t think beyond it. Definitely starting from youth, it’s just there, embedded in his approach to life, part of his framework now.
if you’re asking what that looks like, it’s simple.
think of most incels in the US.
That is a man, who is not a feminist, but has feminist coated framework, despite having disregard (to be polite) for most feminist thought.
Even unintentionally, they partially regurgitate seven is ideals through the lens of resentment based misogyny.
they operate within a framework molded by feminist ideas, right down to accepting women's words at face value, even women that are just online, and their constant confusion over why women don’t think, act or respond like men.
Even their grievance structure is feminism coded, lacking agentic focus to the point that even a mention of personal change is often met with derision at the idea of it possibly affecting a single thing instead man's life, against the systemic structure they rail against.
it’s all structure, and they can't break outside of it.
Now the way this applies to chivalry is simple.
Most young men, generally Millennial and younger, have some degree of this feminist framework.
The problem here is that chivalry is courtesy: Aka benevolent sexism that is largely paternalistic in nature.
That nurturing mindset (chivalry) requires one to internally acknowledge women as worthy of your protection and care, meaning they can't do it themselves or they're not just as "able" as you.
it's always naturally at odds with that sort of feminist framework because it doesn't naturally track unless you're either lying or really great at doublethink.
So no, the average modern (I'd argue urbanite) man, is not going to be chivalrous or courteous. He's just following the information Society has instilled into him.
There’s like five things you can tell your son as he grows up that will literally kill all chances of him thinking like an incel if he’s at least 4-5/10 as a guy.
1. Don’t take a woman seriously unless she’s a long-term part of your life.
Her words and actions are her own.
You can’t really know anything until time reveals it. Don’t get caught up in it or her.
Either you or her could change tomorrow.
2. Life isn’t fair. People aren’t fair.
Expecting things to be equal and fair and logical because that’s how it works in movies or TV is a fairytale idea of life.
If you think what media presents to you is not primarily entertainment, you’re gonna have a bad time