Be sure to watch both... in order.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
4 comments:
READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!
All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.
AND A NEW RULE (per this post): comments critical of Trump's lying must include criticism of Biden's or Kamala's or some prominent leftie's lying on a one-for-one basis! Failure to be balanced means your comment will not be published.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I don't even know the backstory being parodied, and still found it funny! That's some sick shit!
ReplyDeleteIf you've read my reviews of the "Invincible" series, you know that Earth is home to plenty of its own superheroes (and supervillains), but there are spirits and extraterrestrials as well. Some of the main extraterrestrials are from the planet Viltrum: these are Viltrumites. Omni-Man, who goes by the Earth name Nolan Grayson, is a Viltrumite who poses as a superhero, but who is actually a vanguard preparing Earth for the arrival of a Viltrumite contingent that will take the planet over and enslave all of the humans. Nolan, having been influenced by his time on Earth (more deeply than even he realized at first) has turned against his home planet's schemes, which prompts Viltrum to send a female Viltrumite named Anissa and a far more vicious, older Viltrumite named Conquest. Viltrumites only get stronger as they get older, and they live for thousands of years.
DeleteThe Viltrum Empire spans thousands of worlds, but these days, partly thanks to interspecies breeding with the aliens they conquer, pureblood Viltrumites number only 500—a weakness they are at pains to keep secret.
The superhero called Invincible is Mark Grayson, the half-Korean son of Nolan Grayson the Viltrumite and his Korean-American mom, Debbie. In the video clips shown above—the serious one and the parody—Invincible does his best to stop the incredibly strong Conquest in a battle that forces Invincible to beat Conquest to a pulp, but not before Conquest temporarily pins Invincible and unsentimentally confesses to the young man how lonely he feels in his terrifying role as a subduer of worlds. Even fellow Viltrumites fear him.
Season 1 review
DeleteSeason 2 review
Season 3 review
Correction: only 50 pureblood Viltrumites remain, not 500.
Delete