Spoilering it just to err on the side of caution.

For all the digital ink that’s been spilled comparing Invincible and The Boys (subject matter, gore, characters etc.) I think there’s a key difference that the most recent episode highlighted.

We see humans in a universe of supes and we see a lot more of the human side of supes, especially Robot and Dupli-kate. They are both grappling with their own humanity in separate ways, with Robot >!learning about life in a new body!<, and dupli kate elaborating on what having multiple bodies feels like. Whereas in The Boys, you don’t have much of an “am I still human?” Question from a typical supe who learned about what compound v was, though kimiko does have something of an identity crisis in s3. Even supervillains like the mauler twins get that ship of theseus question as part of their identity.

In essence, there’s a human factor in Invincible that differentiates it from The Boys.

  • Alkakd0nfsg9g@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Ah, Kimiko’s arc was looking interesting in s3. Her not wanting to be a monster. And then she go back to gleefully killing regular security in the last episode. Either I didn’t understand something, or writers completely dropped what they were doing for the whole season with her