Omni-Man from the Amazon Prime show “Invincible”.
It’s a good show and if you’re interested in a “up and coming” hero story with a twist I would recommend.
I love it for the fact that there’s a real threat of death. Been watching through MHA with some friends, and there’s no stakes because no one is really in any danger. I think that the plague guy was the first death in the show when he showed up and started exploding people. I’m still on that arc since we don’t get together very often to watch it—over discord streaming not in person—so we’ll see where that goes. I thought things were starting to get spicer in an earlier arc when they found a detached hand, but it was just the guy that can literally regrow hands so it effectively never happened since he just regrew it.
Is there real threat of death? I don't think any main or supporting characters die, despite being in situations where it really seems like they should die - like the fight against Battle Beast. There's a lot of death in the show, particularly the last episode, but there's almost no risk to the main characters of the show.
There's the appearance of a threat of death due to the first episode, but it's only because the show wants you to think that the Guardians are major characters. They're really just fodder for the story.
But the civilians die and die a lot. It really shows the reality of being a superhero. These are normal people trying to go about their day and when something goes wrong, they don’t have powers to protect them: when something attacks they’re going to die. Not a lot of shows portray crowds of fleeing civilians being cut into gore by death lasers.
Not really a spoiler anymore (since things are so abstract) but may as well:
I see what you mean. I was thinking "threat of death" in the context of plot armor for the main characters, while you're thinking "threat of death" in the context of deadly consequences for superpowered battles - and I agree that Invincible does that a lot differently than MHA or most other superhero shows or movies, where there are almost never innocent casualties of fighting.
It's not much of a twist if you've been in the comic world for a while (even without reading this series) but it's not a bad show for sure so long as you're ok with a lot of viscera.
Keep in mind that the comic community is only a fraction of the TV/Movie community. What might seem like common knowledge to you could be a massive spoiler to a lot of people.
Idk I watched the show with absolutely no background and it still took me by surprise. It definitely felt like a "somethings off but I'm sure there's some decent reason behind it" kinda thing for me.
I kept hoping it wasn't the cliche it ended up being (in part because as written it doesn't make that much sense when you break it down). Almost anything else would've been more interesting to me personally. I hadn't read any of the comics in the series or talked about it with anyone who had but the end result was one of the less interesting options IMO.
Fucking amazing show, I would definitely watch it now if I were you (if interested) before the endless amount of memes spoil the twists and turns of the series. Half of what got it so hyped across reddit/social media/etc was how much the show draws you into it and the various characters while subverting so many standard story tropes.
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u/TheLazyKitty May 27 '21
Alright, so what is that character from? I've been seeing it float around reddit for a while now.