r/Invincible_TV

Don’t get wrong, Season 4 has been great so far, but these characters have been around since Season 1 up until Season 3. Yes, I understand that Rex is gone for good but it feels like the other three just disappeared from the story. Say what you want about Duplikate and Immortal but I miss seeing them.

The Viltrumites are trained not to show emotional weakness or any trace of empathy, so I can't help but notice when Nolan occasionally demonstrates this to others.

Despite being taught not to show it, it doesn't mean they don't have it

We see Nolan being merciful (images 2-3). Naturally, Nolan can't just spare her life if she shows weakness, but even so, instead of simply killing her (just as viltrumite like Nolan's mother would) he gives her a warning and, despite her initial reluctance to respond, he spares her life when she proves herself capable.

Nolan, as an adult Viltrumite, has probably already gone through a similar situation to hers, which is probably why he is so merciful; his own father demonstrates the same mercifulness (image 4) standing up to Nolan to save his life against his mother, something Nolan appreciates.

Nolan is probably like that because he was raised by his father (whatever that Viltrumite upbringing would be like). I imagine his father showed him this mercy even if he makes mistakes, as long as he manages to succeed, he will be fine

Obviously, this isn't much mercy, since threatening to kill a child for getting a history question wrong is excessive, but by the standards of the viltrumite society? That's surprising.

And that's not the only example; when one of Nolan's colleagues dies from the virus, we can see him and another Viltrumite reacting to the death of one of their own (image 5)

They are demonstrating empathy there, but then their superior jokes about the situation (image 6) and they smile at the comment. This might be an exaggeration, But I don't think those two necessarily find the joke funny; I think they're simply disguising that empathy And they are worried because they don't want to be seen as weak, because being seen as weak is the same as death in that society.

But the strongest example is that when Nolan is sick with the virus, He can look to the side and see a woman in the same situation as him, sick and coughing up blood (images 7 & 8)

When Nolan finally recovers from his illness, he's leaving, but he stops just to look at how the Viltrumite woman is doing; it's clear he's disappointed that she hasn't survived, But he quickly looks away and sort of hides that feeling (image 9-13)

Nolan didn't know that woman; she wasn't his wife, mother, or sister—she was nothing of the sort. But because they were both in the same situation and by each other's side, he couldn't help but want her to survive too, even if he didn't know her; that's empathy.

Nolan, seeing his planet completely dead and isolated, clearly looks sad (image 14).

Finally, the most obvious example is when Nolan sees his dead father; he clearly has a shocked/sad look on his face (images 15-16) But he doesn't cry or allow himself to be affected for long before throwing his father's body into spaceWe know this was traumatic for him, because after Nolan discovers that Thaddeus released the virus on the planet, one of the scenes he remembers is this one, even though he saw his father dead, he didn't react strongly at the moment, because his culture discourages people from showing weakness, be it sadness, grief, or anything else.

I like that the show still reminds us that viltrumites are capable of doing good if they want to; it's not just Nolan, his other colleague showed shock when one of them died from the virus for the first time.

But unfortunately, they can't do much or acknowledge those feelings without being killed, it's a shame.

Can't wait to see this scene

Show 1: Budget 2.5 million per episode. Season length 400 mins.

Show 2: Budget 2 million per episode. Season length 400 mins.

It’s not even a “the animation is bad” thing at this point

Nolan's father was just testing him, but a more brutal Viltrumite would just take this as an advantage to attack Nolan. That said, in all the other times Nolan was either making the enemy busy (Lucan) or fighting someone weaker than him (Immortal)

It's great to know that you can just cut people, but if fights were so easy nobody would ever lose

Why Kradd was not able to heal himself after getting shot by infinity ray? It seemed to have missed his heart and brain? i thought viltrumites could regen if brain and heart in tact. Or was his heart affected? Thanks

If spacer’s ray(cer)s carry on forever and can pass through anything, couldn’t he just shoot a bunch of holes through the centre of Viltrum itself and just… collapse the planet? Or at least do a heap of damage. Am I misunderstanding how his power works?

More pics of her included for reference.

The irony here is crazy.

I am noticing a lot more people glazing Immortal and I think it's a good thing. I prefer glazing over hating and I like Immortal's character but it still feels weird.

Anyone else seeing more Immortal glazing and if so how do you feel about it?

The leader of the Coalition is called Thaedus (pronounced Thay-dus) not Thaddeus. I get why it happens for readers of the comics, as it looks so similar to Thaddeus that people could default to reading it like that, but they say his name multiple times in the show.

I really wish we get to see more of him (I'd love a character arc with him coming to terms with his immortality so he doesn't end up like the king immortal). Maybe give him a good showing against a no name viltrumite that goes to earth while the whole space war is going on? I just know I miss my goat

Robot when its killing an entire city to save the planet? Psshhh. Not a second thought.

Robot when invincible kills a single human to save the planet? Wtf bro.

It doesn't read as robot's growth. It reads as him being a hypocrite.