I remember a scene from the first season where Cecil has some experiments running on blood from Mark, hoping to find a weapon that could hurt/kill viltrumites.
Which is fking hillarious given Mark got beaten up and almost killed like once per episode.
They just want their cake an eat it: having viltrumites be both portrayed as world-conquering superbeings, while also telling a coming-of-age story with stakes, vulnerability and loss.
Nice detail - to bad the object in the back changed and they decomposed WAY to quickly. One year and they are down to the bones and their clothes is but tatters?
The less you think about actual genetics and how it kinda implies Viltrumites can reproduce with any species, the better.
Because he isn’t that smart actually. He might be somewhat knowledgable taking him by his words and all versions of him are keen on collecting knowledge. That’s all we got.
But a thousand of him couldn’t figure out the Maulers machine.
He didn’t actually bother collecting any knowledge between his clones.
Heck he talked about curing cancer but somehow treated it as something that could not be done unless all knowledge was merged into one head. Not knowledge of “curing” cancer mind you, but about “finding someone who can” - because that’s something you cannot outsource appearently…
Sorry but what’s going on? I thought the Maulers made a point that NOT KNOWING who the clone is was vital for their work?!
And now he is like “man that will work out great” as if somehow he couldn’t have put a fking red dot on the forehead of the clone before having the memory duplication to have a clear distinction since forever…
The real-world issue is cells don’t really have a “damaged but not dead” state because they are to fragile. In-world issue being that we clearly see cells getting destroyed (that’s what wounds are) and we even see viltrumites getting hurt and killed by regular weapons. So blunt force can totally kill them.