The first season of Amazon s adaptation of Robert Kirkman s
Invincible concluded last week with a jaw-dropping finale, and the WatchMojo YouTube channel counts down the show s top 10 most brutal moments in their latest video.
The adult animated series did not skimp on the bloodshed, and while the violence wasn t particularly relentless or gratuitous, when it was shown, it was downright gruesome. However, this countdown doesn t just focus on the gore, as it also spotlights some of the emotional or dramatic moments that hit hardest.
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Of course, Omni-Man s decimation of the League of Heroes from the first episode and his heartbreaking battle with Mark in the finale are included, so if you haven t watched the show yet, best to skip this video until later!
, despite being superhero origin stories, do not share much in common.
Zero is the tale of a black Italian boy in a poor neighbourhood of Milan discovering the telling superpower of invisibility.
Invincible, on the other hand, seems to be a standard-issue superhero origin tale. Based on Robert Kirkman’s eponymous comics,
Invincible is an adult animated series set in the USA, where all superheroes seem to congregate. The show tells the story of Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) who gets his superpowers at 17, and along with it, a great deal of problems as well.
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Invincible wrapped up its first season on Friday, although it apparently performed well enough for Amazon to greenlight two more seasons of the show.
It would appear that Amazon’s experiment in an hour-long animated superhero show drawing from an independent comic book publisher paid off.
Invincible is based on the comic book created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker, published across 144 issues by Image Comics between January 2003 and February 2018. Much of the discussion around the streaming adaptation has framed the series as a subversion or deconstruction of classic superhero tropes.
Talking to IndieWire the weekend of the show’s launch, Kirkman boasted, “
âInvincibleâ is action-packed and violently funÂ
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âInvincibleâ aired its first three episodes on Amazon Prime on March 27, but it had a history before hitting the streaming service. âInvincibleâ began as a comic book in 2003, written by Robert Kirkman with art by Ryan Ottley. Following the comicâs conclusion in 2018, Kirkman and Ottley co-created the animated adaptation of their work.
âInvincibleâ follows 17-year-old Mark Grayson, played by Steven Yeun, who inherits his abilities from his father Omni-Man, played by J.K. Simmons. With his newly acquired abilities, Mark is determined to follow in his fatherâs footsteps as Earthâs greatest superhero, while still keeping his normal teenage life.