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Adrianics posted:The Mauler twins absolutely own, in the long run they have incredible perseverance and patience, and their backstory is actually kind of horrifying. Still machine, it both did and didn’t work. He DID gain the knowledge he was looking for but it’s clear his distinct personality didn’t survive the ride and he’s having trouble separating other people’s actions/personalities from their counterparts in other dimension (especially invincible who is ‘evil’ in many realities.) I think this episode really worked as a single episode but it does make me a bit disappointed on what I think it says about the pacing of this half season. It looks like it’s gonna set up a few major storylines and then the big payoff in all those is going to be in the second half that comes out in 2024. I don’t think that’s a terrible decision, but considering the long wait until this came out, having to wait even longer for the payoff is going to feel rough
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Adrianics posted:How is Donald alive again?
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As soon as Donald appeared I was sure that it was a clue that everything going on with Mark signing up to work with Cecil was occurring in a different universe from 'our' one. When Debbie was sleeping on the counter and Mark talked to her I was dead certain we'd see him looking perfectly fine as the confirmation of how this was being broken down, but nope he's all bruised to poo poo and now I've got no loving clue how Donald's still around. Angstrom's a loving idiot, he should've just opened a portal in front of Invincible to send him to a different universe as soon as he charged the Maulers. Also yeah, should've just went to the universe where they cured cancer and grabbed a few biology textbooks to bring home. Man was not a good planner.
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To be fair, it doesn't work that way. The version of Angstrom from our universe wasn't a biology major, so those textbooks would be way out of his league and he'd have no idea how to apply said knowledge, so he needed to mindmeld with a version of himself with the biology knowledge to make anything useful of it.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I feel like people are way over-exaggerating the multi-verse trend. its always been a fairly common thing in sci-fi, and there doesn't seem to be any more stuff with it than usual. Maybe its because mainstream ultra-popular stuff has it. I'm still locked in on enjoying it because as I was growing up Cartoon Network was either having tons of alternate/evil worlds in their shows or having the cartoons have crossover events like Fred Flintstone or Numbuh 3 being in a Billy and Mandy movie, or that Generator Rex & Ben 10 crossover thing and now I'm just unbothered by anything. Link, Darth Vader, Lloyd Irving, Ezio Auditore, Kratos and 2B in Soulcalibur? Sure why not? Super Robot Wars, Marvel vs Capcom, M.U.G.E.N., the entire conceit of the Smash Brothers series, Sonic the Hedgehog comics, I'm sure that at least 4 Star Trek series have had either an evil world or parallel dimension episode, etc etc you get the point. I dunno, I don't really mind them at all. They're just a type of story as far as I'm concerned, like the rare musical, dream or body swap scenario.
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BioEnchanted posted:To be fair, it doesn't work that way. The version of Angstrom from our universe wasn't a biology major, so those textbooks would be way out of his league and he'd have no idea how to apply said knowledge, so he needed to mindmeld with a version of himself with the biology knowledge to make anything useful of it. Just give them to a doctor, or scan a pdf and upload to the internet! Or grab a doctor from the universe where cancer was cured and get him to teach a few classes in our universe. Man is just determined to be the all-knowing saviour all by himself himself.
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I’m slightly irked we waited 2 years and we’re only getting 4 episodes.
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metachronos posted:I’m slightly irked we waited 2 years and we’re only getting 4 episodes. I don't think it's a coincidence that they probably rushed things to get these first four episodes out on the day S1 of Gen V ended.
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Shyrka posted:Just give them to a doctor, or scan a pdf and upload to the internet! Yea lol I really did like when the Maulers went: have you tried asking them? Just a simple form with stuff like "Does your world still have cancer? Y/N"
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Angstrom was by far the weakest and worst-thought-out of the major villains in the book so, it kinda tracks that he's similarly lovely here. Here's hoping we meet Anissa and Conquest by the cut, even though I could and would very much appreciate them NOT going with the original Anissa introduction. 
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Thank you Xavier Renegade Angel for making the curbstomping way funnier than it was intended
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Angstrom should have just portal'd Invincible to another dimension and finished his work. Granted, he would've had to deal with the discount Teen Titans afterwards, but still. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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Can we keep this thread comic chat and spoiler free, please?
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I did appreciate that by introducing Angstrom and AU/AD versions of him and the Mauler Twins that we also got to see versions of both that were different genders, something we didn't see in the comics (from what I remember)
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I absolutely love how they used the "Invincible" word gag throughout the episode.
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Are they doing two episodes at a time or was the Atom Eve episode something I missed?
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GigaPeon posted:Are they doing two episodes at a time or was the Atom Eve episode something I missed? You missed it, it was a special that came out a few months ago.
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Lugubrious posted:You missed it, it was a special that came out a few months ago. Weird it showed up on my app as s2e2 but nobody was talking about it.
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GigaPeon posted:Weird it showed up on my app as s2e2 but nobody was talking about it. In the Apple TV Amazon app it’s e1 of S202. Maybe that’s what you saw?
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Hughlander posted:In the Apple TV Amazon app it’s e1 of S202. Maybe that’s what you saw? Must have been, yeah. It auto played after the new Angstrom one
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It was extremely well utilized, too.
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Yeah that's some real  If it's that well funded they should be able to keep the animation and VA budget comfortable as well.
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Shyrka posted:Angstrom's a loving idiot, he should've just opened a portal in front of Invincible to send him to a different universe as soon as he charged the Maulers. The second he opened up portals to let the other Maulers in, that was my first question: why don't you just stuff Invincible in a locker somewhere!
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I have to assume Olga's SOS business card is somehow nefarious, even if Olga herself is unaware of it. Glad that a Mauler survived so they can continue to do... whatever the hell it is they're trying to do.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Angstrom was by far the weakest and worst-thought-out of the major villains in the book so, it kinda tracks that he's similarly lovely here. This is the spoiler free thread. Do not talk openly about things from the comic books, please.
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The Maulers seem completely amoral. Seems like they like to do mad science mostly. What were they up to S1, again?
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LRADIKAL posted:The Maulers seem completely amoral. Seems like they like to do mad science mostly. What were they up to S1, again? IIRC they were doing mad science poo poo then got recruited/blackmailed by Robot to clone Rex so he could transfer his consciousness and be a Real BoyTM.
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The first episode of the first season opens with them attacking the white house, though I can't actually remember why.
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yook posted:The first episode of the first season opens with them attacking the white house, though I can't actually remember why. To make the President be afraid due to their theatrical attack, I think?
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It took me too long to realize the Mauler Twins were voiced by Principal Lewis from American Dad.
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yook posted:The first episode of the first season opens with them attacking the white house, though I can't actually remember why. "Remember, it's about sending a message". They were attacking the white house to likely intimidate the president out of supporting superheros, which they hate. They just want to do their super science in peace.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It took me too long to realize the Mauler Twins were voiced by Principal Lewis from American Dad. 
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Principal Bluewis.
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Maybe they shouldn't come back after over 2 years and do a confusing multiple universes thing right out the gate. I barely even remember what happened last season, so I just assumed I forgot what happened, not that this was a different universe where they took over Earth.
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So done with multiverses, Unless all of these comic properties doing this wind up in Secret War, Invincible included, I just wish they'd stop. It's a neat concept, but it's been run into the ground.
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LividLiquid posted:So done with multiverses, So you're saying you'd like to live in the alternate timeline where alternate timelines aren't overdone?
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pik_d posted:So you're saying you'd like to live in the alternate timeline where alternate timelines aren't overdone?
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