The second season, which began early this month, hints at Mark shedding his staunch morality and ethics for his own villain arc and joining in his father’s quest. After, a news report reveals how the people's revered hero is the one behind all the violence, a reckoning with corruption that, animation and aliens aside, could easily pass as 2020. In the most gripping scene, he holds Mark by the head to run through the Chicago subway, using Invincible’s durable noggin to rip the train apart and kill every passenger on board. What follows is what Vulture describes as “one of the most harrowing episodes of superhero TV ever produced”: Omni-Man brutalizes any civilian in his vicinity like ragdolls to prove to Mark how humans are inferior and expendable. Simmons) in "Invincible" (Prime Video)Things come to a head in the finale when Omni-Man reveals to his son his true intentions as an intergalactic colonizer in order to sway Mark to his cause. As a member of the alien Viltrumite race, he believes that the Viltrumites are the superior species and thus are justified in their quest to colonize everyone else. But Omni-Man is hiding a secret: he’s not here to save Earth, he’s here to conquer it. The series created by "The Walking Dead's" Robert Kirkman follows Mark Grayson (voiced by "Beef" star Steven Yeun) as he adjusts to having invincible powers and becoming a superhero like his dad, Earth’s favorite hero, Omni-Man ( J.K. The Season 1 finale of the animated “Invincible” captures this in a nutshell. Now we have shows like “The Boys,” spinoff “Gen V” and the “Invincible” – all on Prime Video – that satirize superheroes by turning them into villains who revel in violence. Now, they’re not shown to be the faultless bastions of good they were cracked up to be. Just as the depiction of police were rethought in order to avoid glorifying them, so too did superheroes. In the wake of the protests, shows made an effort to pull back on copaganda with decades-long favorites like “ Brooklyn Nine Nine” and “ Cops” coming to an end because of it. They disproportionately target Black people, use excessive force against them that result in the unjust murder of Black lives like George Floyd, weaponize their power against women and are often shielded from facing justice by our own legal system. LiterallyĪfter the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, more and more people have awoken to the fact that the police, our supposed real life superheroes, may not be protectors but rather the instigators of harm. Maybe "The Marvels" performed poorly because the MCU and its fanbase are getting old.
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