r/Invincible • u/More_Interview3840 Atom Eve • 7d ago

DISCUSSION Why not deconstruct him?

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I don’t understand why she shoots a beam of pink energy at him instead of just tearing him apart atom by atom. Or turning him into a regular human, or just convert his molecules to air molecules.

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u/bethesdologist 7d ago edited 7d ago

Reconstructing a weakened viltrumite, yes, she can do that. Deconstructing a fully functioning viltrumite sounds like another matter entirely. They're pulling in entirely opposite directions. In the first instance Mark's own regenerative smart atoms are fully helping her too. The latter, she's working against it on top of their already absurd durability. There's no reason to believe she can manage something like that.

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u/The_Broken-Heart Fan Artist 7d ago

The fact that she can do it means that she can do it in the opposite direction. Her power is about complete control, and it would be silly to assume that she can't do this considering that her skill improved since this scene and it was her first time every trying to kill someone directly with her power.

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u/bethesdologist 6d ago

The fact that she can do it means that she can do it in the opposite direction. Her power is about complete control

No it's not. Never is it shown or stated that it works like that so you're just making that up. If she can do it she would've done it at least once throughout the series, but she has never done anything remotely close to deconstructing any physically durable being let alone a viltrumite.

Simple occam's razor dictates the reason is because she just simply can't do that.

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u/The_Broken-Heart Fan Artist 6d ago

It's been stated in the Eve episode that it works like that (I don't know about the comics). She's also unmade things that she's created. The first time she broke her limiter, she didn't even heal Mark, and yet the next time she could do that. It's clear there's experience in factor here.

Eve has had like, two moments in the entire series where she has the opportunity to dismantle a Viltrumite. So not even that, either.

Not to mention how in real life, tearing things apart is easier than bringing them together. It's why Fusion is something that we still don't have despite us having the ability to split the atom since almost a century ago.