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Invincible Season 3 Episode 6 just did the one thing no other superhero franchise would dare do
Invincible has never pulled its punches but the Season 3 Episode 6 of the superhero TV series took things to a new level.
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Invincible Season 3 Episode 6 kills a baby. Onscreen. And you see the charred remains.Â
I know that normally, when you click on an article about the latest episode of your favorite superhero TV show, the standard practice is to make you read on a bit (we call it teasing the click), but that somehow doesnât feel right for a piece like this.
So yeah. F**k. Invincible kills a baby. Well, Invincible, aka Mark Grayson, doesnât. The poor kid meets his end at the hands of his super-powered father, Powerplex, during a staged kidnapping. Basically, in the ensuing fracas between Mark and Powerplex, the villain releases so much deadly electricity that he essentially flash-fries his wife and child.
It might be the most harrowing thing I think Iâve ever seen in a superhero movie or show⌠itâs just horrible. Itâs not that itâs violent â their deaths are sort of instantaneous â and Invincible is a show thatâs never exactly shied away from brutal bloodletting; itâs more the unflinching banality of their deaths and the sheer pointlessness of it all.Â
Wait⌠what?Prime VideoPowerplex wanted revenge on Mark for the loss of his sister and niece, and in his desperation to get what he saw as justice, he lost even more in the very place where his other family members died. He could have walked away, but he didnât. He chose this for them.
Anyway, musing on the absurdity of revenge aside, it got me thinking about violence in other superhero franchises. Would we ever see anything like this in a Marvel movie or a DCU movie?
Honestly, I donât think we would. Now, part of that is because Invincible is a cartoon, so you can get away with a level of violence and gore that live-action simply canât without earning an NC-17 rating, and we know that Disney and Warners love a PG-13 movie so they can sell the most possible tickets.
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Yet, beyond boring business reasons, I think thereâs another reason why other superhero series just wouldnât go to as dark a place as Invincible, and thatâs because this is a bit of a Rubicon moment for the show.
It probably goes without saying butâŚKilling a baby is a big deal; itâs different from murdering thousands in a superheroic brawl â as the old adage goes, a million deaths is a statistic, but one is a tragedy â and horrifying on a primal level. Weâre genetically predisposed to protect and nurture kids, hard-wired by millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of cultural conditioning to see their deaths as an unimaginable horror.
Thereâs no going back now for Invincible. It will, for right or wrong, be known as the cartoon that killed a baby, and I donât know if thatâs an albatross around the showâs neck â a desperate attempt to capture the audienceâs attention with sheer shock value â or a strange medal of honor, a reminder that this show is willing to go further and farther than any of its contemporaries to make a point about the realities of superheroics.
Marvelâs Daredevil might break bones, and Peacemaker may blow off his enemyâs heads, but thereâs a difference isnât there between that cartoony mayhem and this. I donât even think a show like The Boys, which revels in irreverent, shocking violence, would do something like this.Â
Why? Well, because Invincible Season 3, unlike other shows that have paid lip service to these ideas, seems really interested in exploring the realities of a world where superheroes exist. It has so much death and destruction because it wants to show how dangerous it would be to live in a world like this and remind us that while our heroes might be⌠invincible (cue the fanfare), the people they protect arenât.Â
Ultimately, a moment like this was always coming for Invincible. Fans have wondered for years if some of the comicâs darker elements would be adapted for the small screen, and this feels like the show answering those questions with a resounding yes.
Thereâs no walking back now; things are only going to get darker, and youâre either in for the ride or youâre not. And if youâre not, well â thereâs always Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
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