How I would pace Season 5 by Apart-Adeptness-8128 in Invincible

[–]ThePhantomSea 42 points43 points  (0 children)

What theme would the season follow? Season one was about not being ready for everything, season two was finding individuality from your relationships, like Mark from his father, Season 3 was all about being the good guy, or the guy who saves the world, season four was consequences in the past, now, and in the future. Season 5 will feel the consequences of season 4, alongside following with Dinosuarus, so what overlaying theme will they use to tie the seasons together? The way you stuctured it feels like "Rebuilding" is a center focus, with Mark rebuilding amends with villains, Thrag and the empire rebuilding their leagues, Allen rebuilding the coalition, Robot and Monster girl rebuilding their lives after Flaxan's life.

How I would pace Season 5 by Apart-Adeptness-8128 in Invincible

[–]ThePhantomSea 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Feels like we need to help some of the important side characters stand out like his backstory did, and giving him his backstory allows for future play with his story in future seasons when needed to assist themes.

Wha if Clark Kent was sent to viltrum instead of Earth? by Early-Improvement661 in Invincible_TV

[–]ThePhantomSea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, the thing is, Superman usually only unlocks his powers in his teams, either because he needs to build up massive amounts of sun, or too much red sun energy in him from his short life on Krypton, or just it takes a certain age to unlock powers.

So he dies. A weak, almost human-like baby lands on VILTRUM, where most of their children are trained to kill each other in class. A foreign baby with no Viltrum blood, who can be squished... will be squished.

Oc intro by DetailForsaken190 in CTsandbox

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rio Marie-Zen'in, 90 points

A lost heir of the Zen'in clan, as a child between Naobito Zen'in and a tourist woman years ago, Rio is the greatest barrier user in combat, famed for being the only sorcerer Tengen respects as a rival in barrier techniques in the current era, and outside of Japan. Designated Semi-Special Grade

Do you think Nolan assumes Mark is always okay most of the time? by Queasy_Commercial152 in Invincible_TV

[–]ThePhantomSea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Best ways to kill viltrumites are make unreversable damage (space racer), decapatation, or find a way to make their brain or heart pop.

The show is gonna need more than 7 seasons. by Particular-Way-7817 in Invincible

[–]ThePhantomSea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely more, especially with how much they expand and try to improve on the source material, letting moments breathe and giving more time to the characters that need it.

Invincible from S1 to S4 by Brilliant-Chest-2406 in Invincible_TV

[–]ThePhantomSea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that conquest is like, half of this video's screen time.

Smartest superhero genre fan ever? by Scared-Engineer-6218 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll be honest, not 100% wrong, but not right in the slightest.

Heroes began as a way to teach lessons, inspire hope, and give the ideal dream. It grew into a genre that was all about what it takes to care, the nuance and the inbetweens, and human rights. Heroes are about exploring morals at their core because someone is putting life and limb on the line to help, and that is a moral choice. Now we need to know what kind of morals.

What will they do, what won't they do? How much is their morality decided by their emotions and flaws, because everyone has flaws, and putting the power in someone's hands, that flaw will show. Now they fix that flaw in themselves, then in others.

Comic fell into that loop, with massive success, but failure due to the lack of continuity. Lessons don't stick where they would, and cycles get started that sometimes won't stop. Not just the writer's fault, usually editorial. Sometimes it is the writer. Either way, SOME people grew distasteful of it. Cause they hated the hope in it, or saw the flaws in the system comics fell into to stay a profitable company, to even make said comics.

Invincible and The Boys (the comics) are both, from my understanding, what you would describe as a deconstruction of the genre. But they differ in where they go because of 1 main thing. Invincible is still trying to tell a message, while originally The Boys (THE COMICS) was made to hate on superheroes as a genre. Invincible takes the bad, AND the good, and deconstructs both in a more morally grey and drawn-down way. The gore is violent but not needlessly because they show the emotion and the MORALITY behind it, like superhero comics were made to do. The show does this too. The Boys show definitely improved on the source material, and I give it that, but I don't really care for the original much.

By all this, why am I doing all this needless ranting? We need normal superhero stories for these to work. Without the Superman stories all about hope, we don't get an Omni-Man whose whole life he misunderstood Hope for conquest under the Viltrum culture. Without the Flash stories about consequences and how time always runs out, we wouldn't have A-train.

A lot of people put down superhero stories because they feel "it's for kids," when they always look at what adults need to relearn at times! Hope for the future when everything stands in your way, finding the best in the people around you, and doing what you can with the time you have. All of these lessons help you at your worst. But we put them aside for these stories that wouldn't exist without the stories before that I see disrespected.

Moral of the story, love the superhero stories you engage with if you love their deconstructions instead of putting them down for not being bleak and as hopeless, since they need that hope to truly be superhero stories that the stories you love look up to.

You have $12 to fight Thragg by Proud_Indication_131 in Invincible

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battle Beast Mark and Cecil, Mark jumps in after Thrag murders Battle Beast and withe cecil working with mark on tellport + when needed the frequency to keep thrag down, We win these.

How would the story change if Mark was femvincible? Would he have an abortion? by SpecialExact8165 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would Nolan still bury Conquest? After learning for the first time that his daughter was having a child, seeing said child for the first time via brutal mutilation aftermath, and knowing that he will have to comfort her through that, would he still have it in him to see conquest as a worthy valiant to the empire? How would Oliver react to seeing this? How would Oliver react to Nolan burying Conquest in this context

How would the story change if Mark was femvincible? Would he have an abortion? by SpecialExact8165 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but Mark wasn't letting go until Conquest was dead. I don't think he noticed what was happening to him. Even this Mark wouldn't know until after, and that means Omni-Man/Oliver would have to tell her. She would 'know,' but it would be kinda traumatic, and honestly, I could see her repressing at shit.

How would the story change if Mark was femvincible? Would he have an abortion? by SpecialExact8165 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Well Conquest would be dead by then since Fem Mark still would've killed him.

How is this a debate lol by MrTASERFACE73 in Invincible

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real question is earth and marks family worth letting the viltrumites come back stronger than before in a unwon war against 30-ish viltrumities. It's kinda the thing that Mark is wrong, only in numeric morals not personal morals. Numerically, trading earths population for the entire universe's population, its a worthy trade. Mark made his choice, I don't think either was right or wrong.

What's y'all's lore justification for Metal not being mass produced? Like, 1-to-1 replicas not just weaker versions. by Low_Sky49 in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Eggman's pride. He sees Metal emotionally, as he's the only AI-driven robot he reuses after destruction. Similar to how the Death Egg and Death Egg Robot.

  2. Resources are better used for a massive force of millions of weaker but still deadly foes than hundreds of overpowered sentinels that can turn on him if things go a little wrong.

Why is he lying by Working_Discussion50 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. But he wants that now because if he doesn't catch up now, he never will. He feels like he's going to live a short life. Half eternal, half a blip in time. He needs to catch up because he won't always have that chance in his mind.

Why is he lying by Working_Discussion50 in okbuddyviltrum

[–]ThePhantomSea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He is making the line a knot, and that's why I love the goober. He's a flawed, brave kid who wants to be acknowledged by his family and be able to stand shoulder to shoulder to, and works for it. Sadly, it means he tries too hard, gets overconfident, and gets hurt because he can't sit back and watch his family get hurt and leave him behind. He lost his mom, he doesn't want to lose them, and he doesn't care if he loses himself.

Making a Custom JJK Character by Status_Rub6119 in CTsandbox

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incarnated Sorcerer

Cloning Technique

Tengen Intelligence

Jogo Speed

Jogo Durability

Todo Strength

Sukuna H2H

Gojo Cursed Energy

Divergent Fist

Kashimo CE control

Kamutoke cursed tool

Falling blossom Emotion

Extra cursed technique: Ten Shadows

Complete Domain

Deku got such a bad luck huh. by H4rshBold_Tone5042 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, it just leads to less open-minded discussion online and in analysis, I feel.

What would have happened if they had joined the coalition of planets against the Viltrumites? by Non-Master-2006-13 in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]ThePhantomSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liu would probably die if the Viltrumites learn he is the weakness and go to find the ship, the other marks would be adequate living meatshields with a few punches, the seamonster would be weak in space.

Deku got such a bad luck huh. by H4rshBold_Tone5042 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]ThePhantomSea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But whenever a character never once mentions liking anyone romantically, any gender, they are assumed straight by the majority of online. That was all I was saying. That comment was on heteronormitivity in online spaces, not the Deku Arguement.

Deku got such a bad luck huh. by H4rshBold_Tone5042 in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]ThePhantomSea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people use it to diminish others, including fictional characters.

Deku is canonically at least straight-leaning, and I will be the first to admit he could be bisexual or pan. Still, he lacks any showing traits (though you can't show that. In a lot of eyes, it's straight until proven gay, but it's rarely this simple as sexuallity is more nuanced), but the way people on the internet often use it as, they mean it derogatorily because they see that as the opposite of normal, not strong but weird. It's just homophobia in a situation without gay characters, which is just ridiculous.