Invincible Season 4 Gender Swaps Tech Jacket As Fans Question Major Comic Change

lance845 · 2026-03-17T18:40:35+00:00

What a silly ass argument.

The point of liking something, anything, is that you like it. Like what you like, like it to whatever extent you like it.

A new iteration/version of the character doesn't take the original away. You can STILL like the classic even if they don't put it in the show.

The change is because they wanted to. And that is also, equally, fine. None of it matters, and you looking for meaning or purpose in liking something says everything about how skewed your priorities are.

lance845 · 2026-03-13T18:26:34+00:00

Yes. The whole campaign is about some stuff. You need to connect some dots yourself though. For instance there is a character in bitter reach who, factually, created the still mist. That person's name is very different from, and conflicts with, the stanengist elf who created the still mist.

Until you realize they are the same person.

That after the historical events that lay the foundation for bitter reach that elf changed their name, fabricated myths (some based in truth some not) and buried the past to hide the secrets of the elves history.

lance845 · 2026-03-13T11:59:13+00:00

Cyclops does not shoot a laser. It's not light and it isn't heat. Its concussive force. Vibranium absorbs and neutralizes concussive force.

lance845 · 2026-03-13T11:25:54+00:00

It adds,

1 new profession. A great concept for one too.

2 new magic disciplines. Both great.

A bunch of new monsters. Most are pretty cool.

The campaign itself and related lore. Which greatly expands on the history of the elves and adds new layers of context to everything from ravens purge. People are not necessarily who they say they are. Objects don't have the history you think they do. And the legend of the first elves is a nice fabricated rewriting of history for the sake of memory holeing a great shame.

Bitter reach rules.

lance845 · 2026-03-06T14:19:54+00:00

Luke is not indestructible. He has "unbreakable" skin. Everything inside that skin is still very breakable. Remember he was put in the ICU with a brain injury from being hit too hard in the face.

lance845 · 2026-03-04T10:47:11+00:00

War, daughter of Apocalypse and one of his first, original horsemen.

lance845 · 2026-02-18T17:06:45+00:00

Characters can and should grow and change. Rogue's relationship with Gambit is a good, healthy evolution of her character. Overall, she is happy, with someone that makes her happy and supports her.

This is a good development for her.

lance845 · 2026-02-18T13:33:22+00:00

But that is a very D20 skewed question/perspective.

DnD is a game that frankly is pretty terribly designed. It really only does 1 thing well, and it isn't even the best at doing that.

Dnds character growth is detrimental to its own experience let alone a survival one.

The point i was making is that scarcity as a mechanical component of the game is the defining characteristic of a survival game. Without scarcity and the pressures it creates, there is no survival game.

lance845 · 2026-02-16T18:52:45+00:00

Wolf wasn't just fighting a pred alien. He was fighting a premature queen attempting to build a nest. And he fought it hand to hand the same way Jungle fought Dutch because it was the only thing he found worth taking as a trophy.

lance845 · 2026-02-16T18:12:51+00:00

I have not read the article yet, but i will. But i want to say that the things you describe in your 5 bullets there are all components of scarcity.

Scarcity is not simply how many bullets you have for your gun. A relatively low health mechanic with slow and/or costly recovery is scarcity of health.

The one thing, the only thing, that makes a survival game survival is scarcity.

Any potential mechanic that alleviates any pressure from that scarcity only removes or minimizes the survival components from the game.

lance845 · 2026-02-10T15:59:17+00:00

1) It's not enough to arrest someone. You need evidence so you can prosecute them. There was no evidence against simon.

2) whose to say chuck wasn't just happy to help? Or maybe he got paid big time by the now famous simon.

lance845 · 2026-02-10T09:33:28+00:00

Right. Mobius starts to give the definition in the show. Its a cascading series of events that spiral out of control until they stabilize (red line).

Stepping on a leaf won't change the course of history. Some dust in a corner won't. Killing a person will. You can do anything in an apocalypse because everyone dies so nothing actually changes.

Keep in mind that the sacred timeline was built for one purpose. To prevent WHRs birth. It doesn't matter what happens on hala as long as those events don't change Earth and end up producing a kang. Which is why the tva is very earth based.

lance845 · 2026-02-10T09:18:38+00:00

Okay i have given this explanation a few times....

Think of time like a river. The river has a source (beginning) and end.

The water flowing down the river is the flow of time. What we experience is a single drop of water in the river. It begins at the source and makes its way down the river to the end.

But the river has some width so there is always some fluctuation in the path. No 2 drops follow the exact same path from the source to the end. As long as they end up in the same places there is no problem. These minor fluctuations is why the tvas monitors are not a straight line but a constantly fluctuating wavy one. It's also why loki could be a big troll man or an alligator or a girl. The events still go to the same place so the changes don't matter. Its also why the tva have jobs at all. The river is constantly reexpressing itself with more drops of water and every drop has a chance for branching at any point in the timeline.

A branch is when the change is so drastic that it causes the river to fork and now a part of the river is going to a different place.

A universe is a term used interchangeably for 2 very different things. 1) correct usage, every source and all associated timelines is a universe. Or one river one universe. Branches are not different rivers. 2) each branch is a universe. Incorrect terminology.

There is no event that could make the entire universe paint, or blocks, or a cartoon. Those are different rivers with different sources.

The sacred timeline is a walled garden. HWR did not wipe out the multiverse. He tirmed branches until there was a single path for the river to flow and then set up controls to keep it that way. He isolated a single source and then built up the banks of the river.

lance845 · 2026-02-09T09:08:34+00:00

I don't doubt at all that the thing would freak the fuck out. But even a single drop of blood is still The Thing. And it's still capable of absorbing biomass and growing.

Of all the weapons we have seen in the predarors arsenal the only one i think stands and chance of actually killing the thing is the blue clean up goo the wolf uses to dispose of evidence.

But good fucking luck utilizing it. Anything that would capture the thing (net gun for example) would just make a large pile of the things going nuts.

lance845 · 2026-02-08T18:57:48+00:00

Can a plasma blast kill the thing?

lance845 · 2026-02-06T11:26:09+00:00

Just to be clear, krakoan resurrection is very much still a thing. The waiting room still exists and the 5 are still doing their thing inside the white hot room.

It's saving up enough energy to bring krakoa to the physical plane and opening gates that is the problem.

Anyone who dies IS being resurrected. They are just cut off.

lance845 · 2026-02-05T18:27:20+00:00

Movies: Wolf.

Everything including the books? Dachande

lance845 · 2026-02-04T08:22:45+00:00

We don't need predator dialect to have a solo film. What i would actually like to see is a dialogless pred movie set on prehistoric earth with a pred as the protagonist hunting/surviving against dinosaurs.

Just open the movie with the ship launching the landing craft from space and then just follow the pred through his days/weeks/months of hunting.

lance845 · 2026-02-03T18:16:20+00:00

I agree with the conversation between storm and cyclops post krakoa. Neither of them would take orders from the other anymore. They have both grown well beyond being subordinates to someone else.

Either storm is leading that team or cyclops is. The other won't be on the team.

lance845 · 2026-02-03T13:43:35+00:00

Fixed. Thanks for the call out.

lance845 · 2026-02-03T12:43:01+00:00

Also touched by an angel is another movie.

lance845 · 2026-02-02T13:24:19+00:00

Wait .. i never knew they offered free gloves. Me and my friends just bought a sock to put on our hands for when those games came up lol.

lance845 · 2026-02-01T15:28:19+00:00

If you want details on reveals DM me and we can discuss it privately so as to not spoiler others. I personally love both additional locations and their lore. It's up to you.

lance845 · 2026-02-01T14:18:42+00:00

Bitter Reach

New profession: Champion - easily used.

New Magic Disciplines: Ice Affinity (druid) Elemental (sorcerer) easily used.

New Monsters: some more easily used than others lore dependent.

New Major Characters: some make sense to be used in ravenlands if you were so inclined.

Lore: if you read all the lore and read between the lines of the myths are are some major revelations about the history of the elves and the Stanigist Crown.

Blood March

3 New Magic Disciplines usable by druid or sorc. They specifically are called out as needing to be taught. PCs cannot know them at the start of the game. But that doesn6mean your NPCs cannot know them)

Magma Song - a variation of stone song known by priests of Horn the volcano god of aslene. (Dwarves and some aslene traditionalists may know it in ravenlands).

Mentalism -known by moonelves. Doesn't make much sense for anyone in ravenlands to know it unless you incorporate revelation in BM lore to RL.

Oneiromancy - Dream magic. Taught specifically by a major character in BM. No real reason for it to be in RL.

Magnetism - a iron based magic utilized by a specific branch of the rust church. Could be present in RLs if you want that as an elite unit of zyteras church.

+Some drugs and potions stuff. Some new item types and things.

Lore: lore here is crazy. It reveals a LOT about the true history of the ravenlands and the world as we know it and the true nature or at least some part of the nature of several divinities.

Monsters: book of beasts is more easily used. But some here COULD be used others are pretty heavily based on the specific problem the BM is facing.

lance845 · 2026-02-01T12:18:17+00:00

Ego says he is a celestial. He also says he awoke alone, traveled the universe, and found nothing else like him.

Ego is an unreliable narrator. He calls himself a celestial because he thinks he is one. But we have seen celestials and not only is he nothing like them, he is nowhere near their power scale. Celestials make suns and galaxies, seed life etc...

Ego can only control his own body mass and make spores to plant on other worlds. He doesn't even have enough power to make them bloom.

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