This is in no way to bash her as a character and more a slight critique to the writers xoxo
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Okay so I’ve seen a few people bring up how power scaling often doesn’t work when comparing characters from a game, show, or any other media. I personally don’t like power scaling, but to each their own. Now, Invincible has very odd inconsistencies with characters. Like Mark can be ran through a building and get back up but the electric shock of Powerplex will fuck him up? But also it barely affected Mohawk Mark? See what I mean?
I feel the biggest victim of the inconsistency in the writing is Atom Eve. Which Mark is a victim of this too but the most obvious for me is Atom Eve. I feel like we all know her power is OP as hell, that’s why they gave her the mental blocks as a plot line in the first place. But even WITH the mental blocks there’s still a lot she can do but the writers just won’t let her.
Yeah, it’s because they don’t want her to outshine Mark because he’s the protagonist, but then why give her that OP power? It’s probably because they wanted her to be able to be “immortal” or whatever but I don’t agree with that choice anyways.
They could’ve explained it too. Like saying that creating anything but those useless walls takes a lot out of her in terms of stamina. But they didn’t?
AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON HER SAYING TO MARK “now we just have to figure out how to afford a house” AFTER SHE GAVE HER DAD A GOLD APPLE AND AFTER SHE MADE HERSELF A TREE HOUSE AND AFTER SHE MADE THAT HOUSE FOR THE PEOPLE OR WHATEVER. That line truly pissed me off.
Anyways, imma call my yapping series called Screaming Into the Void.
So I have a lot of critiques about some of the writing for invincible and i know a lot of other people do aswell, so Hypothetically if I did a spin off/rewrite in the form of likely fanfiction and art would people be interested in that?
I want to remove some things and add others and delve into more story and character related lore opposed to rushing things along, spend more time with it yknow?
Marina sneaks out of her bed to visit Rex after the Lizard League battle in s2
if you want you can watch me infodump below the cut (mentions some stuff abt Atom Eve, one line abt Monster Girl, and obv Rex) 💚❤️
Marina gets very overstimulated in medical settings since she doesn’t get fatally hurt often (until the lizard league fight we see in s2) and because she’s been isolated for most of her life (you’ll understand when I post her backstory).
During the lizard league battle, her vocal chords undergo extreme strain and damage to the point where she can’t speak or use her powers afterwards, her wings get shot up while trying to protect her body, and she gets shot a couple times in the torso because she couldn’t protect herself with her wings anymore.
While she did majority of her healing in her hospital bed, she received visits from the other Guardians (mainly Amanda, who would do her best to comfort her and explain that the nurses and doctors aren’t there to hurt her and bring Marina her favorite snack: strawberries). Not only did she get to see familiar faces, she met some new ones as well. Eve was about to deliver more home decorating magazines to Rex when she got a glimpse of Marina lying in bed. When she entered the room, Marina was confused at first since she didn’t know who she was but then quickly recalled who she was based on an old photo Rex had shown her a week or two prior. Before meeting Eve (so basically based on the photo), Marina thought she was really pretty and admired her but never knew a lot since Rex avoided talking about her. While Eve was in Marina’s room, she introduced herself and they both got to know each other (Marina has to communicate with a notepad in order to let her voice heal). The two quickly became friends and led to Eve also visiting Marina whenever she came to visit Rex (at one point, Eve made a bunch of new clothes for marina to wear with her powers when she found out she didn’t have a lot to wear back at the Guardians of the Globe hq).
One time, Marina asked why Eve was always carrying the magazines and she spilled the secret about Rex being into home decor and how he never had a home (similar to what she tells Mark when he sees her). Their original conversation likely turned to talking about Rex and Marina finding out a lot about him through Eve. Before the Lizard League fight, Marina had cared for Rex the same way she cared for all the other guardians, maybe sometimes more than she should when they would have their moments together, but she never thought much about how she felt. They fought well together, he helped her loosen up during fights, and he was a good friend outside of superhero stuff, he got a little arrogant at times, but Marina would always be there to humble him. Overall, Marina thought Rex was a pretty good guy.
After knowing what he’s been through, Marina felt sad for him. It kind of explains why he could be a dick at times, but obviously doesn’t excuse it. Despite feeling bad, she kind of got the ick when she found out that he cheated on Eve. Noticing that Marina had gotten the ick, Eve quickly explained that his behaviors are improving a bit after almost dying in battle which made Marina feel better about him. After moving on from that topic and talking about other things before Eve left, Marina was left in her hospital bed, her mind drifting back to Rex. She thought about their friendship, then about her feelings for him.
Now whenever she thought about him, she’d get this urge to give him the affection and security he’s lacked for most of his life, she wanted to be the one to give him another chance. All of these feelings, along with the pain from her wounds, and anxiety of being in a hospital, it all fucked with her mind a lot. Marina was debating if she had romantic feelings for Rex or not. When she knew she was ready to get up and start walking around again, Marina sneaked out of her hospital room and went to go visit him. It made her heart ache to see him in such a state, still recovering from removing the bullet in his head and losing his hand. They continued bonding with each other like they normally do and this one time secret visit soon turned to Marina sneaking out of her room everyday to visit Rex. After a number of visits, Rex began realizing that he’s had feelings for Marina for a while now. He knew he wanted to change from his old ways and thought that Marina might be able to take him a step closer to that goal. He wants to treat her well, better than he’s treated his past relationships. Rex wanted to give Marina the best, because that’s what he thought she deserved. After mustering up a lot of courage (I feel like he has trouble talking about his feelings sometimes), he sat Marina down and told her everything. To his surprise, Marina reciprocated his feelings and from that point on they decided to go into a relationship.
So for the drawing, I saw a photo of two parrots cuddling and got inspired to draw Rex and Marina. A cute concept I had fun thinking about was Marina having bird-like tendencies, such as whistling (her equivalent of chirping ig), her wings getting ruffled if she’s going through an intense emotion, etc. I thought it would be adorable if Marina tried cuddling Rex like a parrot would (I provided a reference photo) while he was in his hospital bed. She was probably overstimulated since she had just finished receiving new wraps for her wounds and a check up and went to Rex for comfort. Another cute detail I added was that Marina is wearing one of the outfits Eve had made for her over her chest wrap (which is why you can’t see that cast/bandaid thingy).
