#fandom: invincible

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Thragg calling them family hurts me. You might hate every other member of your species but there are less than fifty of you and you know them because how couldn't you. You're all each other has. Or not.

Like. Man. Situation in which if you don't partake in the violence you will be culled at every single turn. Situation in which if you don't make everyone else scared of you you will be killed. Situation in which you don't know how to interact in anything more than violence. Situation in which violence has quite literally been bred into you through the generations. Situation in which you can't express the slightest doubt because you will be hunted down. Situation in which you will spend the rest of your life trying to be stronger but it will never be enough. Situation in which every single other species in the universe is terrified of you and hates you. Yeah.

And I think about those who were alive for the purge. They partook in that culling and they have spent the time since defending their right to have survived it. You are not tolerated by a single person in this universe and you know that intimately. You know and hate every person in your Empire on an individual level and they are still your family. You will never have anything but violence in your thousands of years of life because you will be killed if you try. You will spend your life trying to turn away from the reality that you are continuing a ruined empire that you hate. You will finally meet a viltrumite who is more than that and you will try to kill him at every turn because he's proof that maybe you could have been different

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I love her so much did you know

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I genuinely cannot stop thinking about this comment I saw on Instagram about Cecil and Mark

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I'm actually going to go insane about Bulletproof like what the fuck do you mean. What do you mean he was comitting identity theft the entire series. What do you mean he was kidnapped and experimented on by his twin brother and it accidentally killed him in the process. What do you mean he's living a double life as said brother the entire series. What do you mean he's lying to his parents' faces because he knows they loved his brother more and pretending to be him is the only way he'll get the love he wants. What do you mean he thinks he's doing them a favor by not telling them his twin was a bad person. What do you mean he and his girlfriend accidentally kill them and then throw their bodies off a cliff. What do you mean he sides with the dictator. What do you mean nothing is done with any of this because he's a minor character

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A very key component to understanding Robot Invincible is that you gotta have a red flashing neon sign over his head that says "EVERY ACTION HE TAKES THAT SAYS HE'S CHANGED MEANS HE'S IN FACT THE SAME AS HE ALWAYS WAS AND THAT IS WORSE"

He does not change actually. And that is the problem!

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The thing about Nolan is he's obviously suuuuch an unreliable narrator. You can't trust a thing that man says. But the fun part about it is that he can't either! He has no idea what he's thinking he has no idea what his opinions or thoughts are he's wading through several thousand years of propaganda and conditioning and trying to bury his head in the sand! He's cognitive dissonance Georg he's the most confused of everyone he's trying desperately to pretend he understands anything!

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Robot Invincible. To me

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I think the thing about the Flaxan arc is like. It's the first time Amanda and Robot are in it together on a level playing field. But even in a thousand years they don't break from their habits (because they have to hold onto something from the old world. Because if they let this completely change them what does that mean). And those habits are that Amanda will get her hands dirty and Robot won't. Those habits are that Amanda will reach out to people and Robot won't. Those habits are that Amanda will change her mind and Robot won't.

Robot's dictator arc(s) is so fascinating to me because it's like. It's not about ego. It's not about him deciding he's better than anyone. It's just that he is quite literally the smartest man alive and he can see the way things could be done better and he just. Does them!

And so it's like. Can Amanda truly hate him for that? She can hate him for how he went about it. She can hate him for the damage. She can hate him for lying to her. But can she really hate him for improving the lives of the planet? Can she really hate him for doing not only what he thought was for the best but for what genuinely was? She should and she wants to but can she?