Invincible on Amazon Prime has a lot of graphic violence and blood and still feels kinda woke to me.
Quality superhero genre stuff will always have a good chance of being successful but the days of it always being the dominant force at the box office are probably over. Westerns were once all the rage, and now although people are willing to go see a decent cowboy movie they’re not the cultural touchstone they once were.
Wokies write with a lot of nihilist mean-spiritedness and have no problem with making stuff gory and violent if it aligns with their values, which usually involves a subversion of traditional ones. The Boys is another example. Or take the graphic eyeball removal scene in ST Picard, for a character whose former actor had defied the MeToo movement. Grittiness, gratuitousness and moral greyness was an interesting twist on hero stories for a while, then it became a meme, then became a tool in the service of a new moral order.
Invincible on Amazon Prime has a lot of graphic violence and blood
And most of it wasn't even in the comic. The rampage Nolan goes on while fighting Mark doesn't turn out that way. Any human deaths are a consequence of the two literally flying through buildings and subway station structures, not literally through people face first as the cartoon does. Or grabbing a pilot and exploding his head in one hand.
The whole thing is just Amazon wanting their own version of The Boys which is hilariously tragic since that itself fucked up adapting a comic which would have been far better if done faithfully. But then that's never going to happen.
still feels kinda woke to me.
Because it is, see why in my reply to Smith1980 below.
I heard it was good but they race swapped a character
They did more than just that.
The titular character Invincible, Mark, is now half asian because his mother, Debbie, is now asian for some reason.
Rexsplode is now hispanic, which also means Rudy is now hispanic as Rudy creates a clone body to use from Rex. There are several timeskips throughout the comic and after the last one Rudy literally looks like a fully haired Lex Luthor with green eyes, pale skin, and vibrant red hair.
Amber, Mark's first girlfriend, is now black. For bonus points she ends up getting a black eye from her second boyfriend, so that's domestic abuse and black girl wrapped up into one.
They also change several important parts of the story so it no longer makes sense, like having Nolan kill off the Guardians of the Globe in the very first episode of the cartoon despite the fact his only happens in the comic after he learns Mark has finally started getting his powers. That manifestation is the powderkeg for basically everything that happens in the story and yet for whatever reason Kirkman decided to rearrange things and up the gore and graphic deaths in the Amazon cartoon.
it's one of the most popular comics on the site I've mentioned before, whether this is entirely natural or now propped up by normies also viewing the page is up for debate however without access to a timeline of the viewed data.
It has its ups and downs, mostly because the whole thing despicts the ups and downs of Mark's life, but it still manages to stick the landing and actually end on something that isn't like modern rushed crap.
That's mostly because the Ctrl Left can't do nuance. Mark's friend ends up coming out as gay dozens of issues down the series but the cartoon not only starts with the character as gay but goes full flaming stereotype from the get go.
Invincible on Amazon Prime has a lot of graphic violence and blood and still feels kinda woke to me. Quality superhero genre stuff will always have a good chance of being successful but the days of it always being the dominant force at the box office are probably over. Westerns were once all the rage, and now although people are willing to go see a decent cowboy movie they’re not the cultural touchstone they once were.
Wokies write with a lot of nihilist mean-spiritedness and have no problem with making stuff gory and violent if it aligns with their values, which usually involves a subversion of traditional ones. The Boys is another example. Or take the graphic eyeball removal scene in ST Picard, for a character whose former actor had defied the MeToo movement. Grittiness, gratuitousness and moral greyness was an interesting twist on hero stories for a while, then it became a meme, then became a tool in the service of a new moral order.
And most of it wasn't even in the comic. The rampage Nolan goes on while fighting Mark doesn't turn out that way. Any human deaths are a consequence of the two literally flying through buildings and subway station structures, not literally through people face first as the cartoon does. Or grabbing a pilot and exploding his head in one hand.
The whole thing is just Amazon wanting their own version of The Boys which is hilariously tragic since that itself fucked up adapting a comic which would have been far better if done faithfully. But then that's never going to happen.
Because it is, see why in my reply to Smith1980 below.
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Wasn't the boys on amazon already?
I have some of the comics and I’ll read those or get an omnibus. I heard it was good but they race swapped a character
They did more than just that.
The titular character Invincible, Mark, is now half asian because his mother, Debbie, is now asian for some reason.
Rexsplode is now hispanic, which also means Rudy is now hispanic as Rudy creates a clone body to use from Rex. There are several timeskips throughout the comic and after the last one Rudy literally looks like a fully haired Lex Luthor with green eyes, pale skin, and vibrant red hair.
Amber, Mark's first girlfriend, is now black. For bonus points she ends up getting a black eye from her second boyfriend, so that's domestic abuse and black girl wrapped up into one.
They also change several important parts of the story so it no longer makes sense, like having Nolan kill off the Guardians of the Globe in the very first episode of the cartoon despite the fact his only happens in the comic after he learns Mark has finally started getting his powers. That manifestation is the powderkeg for basically everything that happens in the story and yet for whatever reason Kirkman decided to rearrange things and up the gore and graphic deaths in the Amazon cartoon.
Wow. I’ll just get the comic book then.
it's one of the most popular comics on the site I've mentioned before, whether this is entirely natural or now propped up by normies also viewing the page is up for debate however without access to a timeline of the viewed data.
It has its ups and downs, mostly because the whole thing despicts the ups and downs of Mark's life, but it still manages to stick the landing and actually end on something that isn't like modern rushed crap.
They made Mark’s best friend flamboyantly gay too.
That's mostly because the Ctrl Left can't do nuance. Mark's friend ends up coming out as gay dozens of issues down the series but the cartoon not only starts with the character as gay but goes full flaming stereotype from the get go.