![]() The Teen Team is a group of younger heroes that includes Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs), her boyfriend Rex Splode (Jason Mantzoukas), Dupli-Kate (Malese Jow), and Robot (Zachary Quinto), and they step up to fill the Guardians of the Globe’s absence when the Flaxons invade. The world of this series is rapidly expanding, and after wiping out one superhero team in the pilot, “Here Goes Nothing” introduces a new one along with the S.H.I.E.L.D.-esque Global Defense Agency. ![]() Second episodes do a lot to define the structure of a show, and now that the fundamental exposition of the pilot is out of the way, we see how Invincible will juggle Mark’s superhero and civilian lives along with the bubbling plotline of his father’s villainy. Nobody said being a superhero was going to be easy, and Mark quickly learns the many difficulties of his new life. And this is all happening shortly after Mark learned that his father is in a coma after surviving an attack that left the world’s preeminent superhero team dead. The heightened violence immediately gets the point across that this is deeply traumatic, but Mark has to push through his overwhelmed mental state so he can take action. There are echoes of Saving Private Ryan in the chaos Invincible witnesses on the ground, where laser beams cut through human flesh and splash him with waves of blood. Invincible already proved that it’s not afraid to alienate viewers with graphic violence, so the show doesn’t pull punches when it puts Mark Grayson in the middle of his first alien invasion. The Boys is an exception that actively engages with the frightening prospect of superhero soldiers, and Invincible once again follows in the footsteps of its Amazon predecessor. These stories want to make superheroes look like saviors on the battlefield, and because they’re engineered to have maximum popular appeal, they don’t show the carnage of what superpowered war would really look like. ![]() Superheroes and villains are often tied to the military-industrial complex in some way, and the MCU has had massive success leaning into the militarization of these characters. World War II started shortly after Superman popularized the superhero genre, and costumed crusaders were enlisted to join the fight against Axis forces on the page. Superheroes and war have always been intertwined.
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