I came across Battle Beast’s FANDOM page and in trivia, some complete imbecile added “There was a small theory that the reason Omni-Man was seen watching Invincible and Guardians lose to Battle Beast was because Nolan was afraid of him”.
That makes me wonder, do people have shit for brains? If I write a character as a narrative tool to explore invulnerability or godhood in the hands of a regular guy, why do people keep coming up with these goddamn moronic hypotheses? Even when in the comics, Thokk is defeated by a Viltrumite. It threw me in a white hot seething boil.
Is this some sort of litmus test to find out if someone can tie their own shoes? Whether they compare the power level of a Superman archetype to various villains-of-the-weeks?
I read that scene in a different way. I think Nolan didn’t intervene because he wanted to see how mark fared against extra terrestrial threats, which are very different from something to be found on earth. Keep in mind he was still intending at that time for mark to be a part of his takeover of earth. That also goes along the lines of one of the things I love about invincible: the strongest beings in the universe aren’t necessarily even all from earth, whereas in marvel and dc, earth is narratively and sometimes literally the center of the universe.
Exactly! I’ve seen some people saying Nolan didn’t intervine because of BB, which is a fair assumption, but it’s not entirely true. Nolan wanted to show Mark that he should’ve listened to him when he advised against getting involved. At that point, he was still planning on having Mark by his side, and he needed him to see what happens when he doesn’t listen to him.
But there was no guarantee that Mark wouldn’t have been killed! I recognize that 17 years isn’t long for Nolan, but if he had the ability to stop BB, he could’ve avoided the waste altogether. Plus, he did love Mark.
I think he would have stepped in if battle beast was actually about to deliver a fatal blow.
That devastating hit very well could’ve been the final blow.
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I’ll avoid comic spoilers if you want, btw.
Yeah Earth heroes are actually quite weak in the invincible verse, Robots the only human character who could really hold his own against a Viltrumite and even then it’s due to his intelligence not his powers.