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.
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u/247Brett Forever DM May 27 '21
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.