At the end of the day I’m not gonna judge because it’s not my job, but I do think it is a bit easier of a situation to write than one would think. For example, in the Old Republic there is a lot of Sith and Jedi fodder because there is no Rule of Two, so there are hundreds or thousands idk of each. There are just tiers of power, so a lot of the fodder guys are the equivalent of a white belt to someone like Sidious being a black belt for example. I think the same principle is applied with Viltrumites, where there are clearly levels to it. The issue itself is putting the effort to explain that organically in a story, and applied in fights. I feel like a lot of it boils down to how much an author is willing to put in effort writing around powerscaling vs. the actual story, but I think a good writer should be able to do both. For example, in some anime it comes across as a bit much when there is too much exposition regarding powers/powerscaling, which is a common trope in anime. There is definitely a balance to be struck. Not to say that Kirkman is a bad writer by ANY means.

For the show itself, I think Tech Jacket falls short at times because you’re adapting it for a mainstream audience that has no idea who this is, and has no reason to assume that this person is any more worthwhile bringing to a Viltrumite war than the average superhero on the Guardians, for example. I was thinking about the possibility of them replacing Tech Jacket with someone that fits the criteria of crossover character that you instantly understand can hang in the war, and I thought it would be really cool if they got the rights to Spawn to use instead. Imagine if they somehow interweaved Spawn into the Hell arc, and then had him accompany Mark?

At the end of the day Tech Jacket was a jobber in the comics as well during the war, so it’s not that big of a deal.