HEROES LOCK IN! | Invincible Season 2 Married Reaction | Ep 2x6 "It's Not That Simple"

[@LettsReact]

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[@jessetorres8738]

In the comics, Shrinking Ray (whom was a male hero) died from being eaten, so I am curious to see where the show will take Shrinking Rae in the future by having her survive that.

[@jessetorres8738]

This series made 1 of the best voice acting decisions ever by having Seth Rogan be the voice of Allen The Alien!

[@Lucasplum]

@@jessetorres8738

[@FictionalFactory]

Rex is immune to concussive blasts (or his own powers would f him up) which is why he survived the shot to the head

[@FictionalFactory]

I think mark is good in this universe because he has a relationship with his mother, and omniman was off saving the world instead of bringing mark up as a viltrumite

[@theseekerofchaos5219]

About the bullet to the head. Believe it or not contrary to what we know from video games headshots don't necessarily mean death. There are many cases of people who survived getting shot in the head. In Rex's case it seemed like only parts of his auditory cortex and occipital lobe were damaged. This was just another showcase of the indomitable human spirit trope

[@lucasmaloneywordsmith8661]

Not even just indomitable human spirit. Humans have so much brain mass that if damage to it isn't immediately fatal (like from an explosion or a very large caliber bullet, or some other brain destroying impact), we can usually survive as long as it doesn't hit the medulla. Granted we'll have lasting brain damage and handicaps, but we will be alive. Lizard King's bullet went through the outside lobes on one side with a handgun, so I wasn't terribly surprised when he got back up for about a minute before losing consciousness from blood loss.

[@noconsequence4486]

I still can't tell if it's good or bad that bullets to the head don't mean death surprisingly often lol

[@nuhrii3449]

@@noconsequence4486 humans are a really strange animal that are surprisingly durable, the mighty horse for example is felled by a broken leg or just sitting incorrectly, a lot of animals tend to inexplicably die from stress, meanwhile humans go for a long time living under stress and only die because they choose to

[@GustavoCardoso95]

Also rex has some powers, that probably helped him to survive. He's not just any dude lol

[@Courier_Seven]

It's a pretty famous story but, I remember hearing about a story of an old American raiload worker who had a railroad spike launch into his head and he lived albeit with extensive brain damage of course but if you know what a railroad spike looks like they are way larger than a 9mm bullet.. also this was back in the 1800s when the doctor would perscribe you heroin for chronic pain.

[@TheProfessorSenku]

You don't need invincibility to be shot through the head and live ill say it again. It is definitely within the realm of reality.

[@AJ-nw5su]

There was a girl who was shot in the head and survived, but I've forgotten who. It was a big story

[@hellothere2464]

@@AJ-nw5suMalala?

[@TheProfessorSenku]

@@AJ-nw5su Also a man who had an iron rod blown through his head. Railway accident in 1848 with dynamite. He lived for 12 years afterwards. Phineas Gage.

[@GustavoCardoso95]

also rex has fking superpowers XD

[@stardmg]

this scene taught me that a lot of people think getting shot in the head is an unequivocal death sentence, even though it's surprisingly not

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Rex really took a bullet to the dome, beat the crap out of King Lizard with his own stump hand and still refused to die. Say what you will about him, Rex was the mvp this episode.

[@GustavoCardoso95]

He became my fav character with Omni man this season. I love this show because can fit such cool character arcs in so little screen time in a way that makes sense

[@MalkuthSephira]

I love Rex and they're doing him a ton of justice in this adaptation. He's a really really well done take on the scumbag-who-grows-a-lot archetype

[@palpoutine]

Rex-Splode special episode but it’s just 50 min of him discovering pinterest. His interior design boards would go crazy

[@kingcaesar3693]

Look up Phineas Gage. He survived a literal metal rod shot into his head. It went in under his left eye and out the other side. He did have a personality change however that close people to him reported, which Is why I think Rex also changed his way of thinking. A lot of people said Phineas was a completely different person even down to his mannerisms.

[@SuperDrocket]

I think Rex's personality change started before he was shot in the head. It probably started when he found out that Dupli-Kate was sleeping with Immortal, and suddenly he found himself on the wrong side of being cheated on. I think its important to remember that Rex is pretty young and immature at the start of the show. We're basically watching him (and other characters, especially Invincible) grow up as the show goes on. Getting shot in the head certainly sped things up for Rex, but I don't think it's because of any sort of brain damage. He's just getting older and growing as a person. That's really one of the primary themes of the entire comic book series: that people can change and become better.

[@grimerime23]

there are a LOT of people that have survived shots to the head. lets not forget that one Veteran that survived 27 shots to the head on a firing line and simply woke up when they were gone and crawled away. or Phineas gauge that survived a RAILROAD SPIKE being shot through his head. or that guy that woke up with a migraine and went to the hospital to find out that his wife shot him in the head in his sleep. or a billion other examples... mr.dude man on the left was pretty spot on with the "human will to survive" thing, you don't need superpowers to survive extreme physical trauma.

[@Reddepression]

Monata sometimes pisses me off, like its a quick google search they have phones smh

[@TheAngryXenite]

​@L.a.m.e.n.t.e.r.s Is there a reason you felt the need to copy paste this everywhere?

[@Reddepression]

@@TheAngryXenite you must be knew, I comment when Montana says something really stupid, it’s rare but when she does it pisses me off

[@GamerGrovyle]

There was a lady who survived one straight through the forehead. It passed through her brain halves and she served the officers who arrived coffee and cookies barely even registering the pain of the headshot due to the shock.

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

It’s not invulnerability and it’s not impossible. Rex surviving a bullet to the head always surprises people, but people survive gunshots to the head all the time, and Rex is actually a super soldier, he is enhanced. I don't know if y'all have been paying attention, but him taking hits from heavy hitters like Battle Beast, Monster Girl, Komodo Dragon, etc., so it's not unrealistic, as normal people survive gunshots to the head, and on top of that, he is a super soldier. And about the end scene with Omni Man, I don't know if y'all got it, because I've seen many reactions and nobody gets it. Well, he couldn't move as Lucan broke his spine, but when General Kregg threw him into the fall, it fixed his back, and that's why he was able to move and punch the floor.

[@TheYoungMuTe]

I dont believe him being a super soldier has been covered in the show yet

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

@@TheYoungMuTe No, it hasn’t been said, but it has been shown, as you don't need to be a scientist or the show to tell you that he isn't a normal human, as, like I said, he took hits from Battle Beast, Monster Girl, Komodo Dragon, etc., and any normal person would instantly die from a hit from them.

[@emmanuel4989]

​@@reynaldolorenzo8409Monster girl beating Rex up was strange to me. Did she know Rex was enhanced? And if not how did she know he could take all of those hits, was she trying to kill him?

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

@@emmanuel4989 It’s not strange at all. Unlike Rex, she saw his tryouts, so she knew about his capabilities, also, he was part of the Teens team for years, so he was pretty famous in the superhero community, and I am sure she wasn't trying to kill him, she just wanted to hurt him really badly.

[@Anubisblack]

Yeah, dudes a little more than your average human. Stronger, faster, a little more durable. Definitely enhanced agility.

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

Fun fact: In the comics, Shrinking Rae was a dude named Ray, and he was basically the punching bag no one respected. When he was swallowed by Komodo Dragon, he straight up died. So comic readers kind of expected Rae to have kicked the bucket as well, and lo-and-nehold she survived the next episode. So much for the "Rae's death is the most disrubing animated scene I've ever seen" rhetoric.

[@HaydrogenBomb]

Something I've noticed about both Invincible and The Boys is that the comic source materials are TOTALLY different. Edit: Okay, turns out Invincible is actually pretty accurate to the source, at least in comparison to The Boys.

[@PLO902]

@@HaydrogenBomb The boys yes, Invincible not even close to comparable it is almost a 1 for 1 copy

[@kingcaesar3693]

@@HaydrogenBomb It's actually insanely close. The only thing changed so far is Rae not dying. I pulled out my issues when this season was airing and seen literal panels fully adapted 1:1. Not sure why you are saying otherwise for this. Now The Boys, yes.

[@yuvibitter]

Eh. It's still very disturbing even if she survived.

[@HaydrogenBomb]

@kingcaesar3693 Guess I thought there were more liberties taken with Invincible, such as this, and how Mark reacts to seeing his dad again.

[@rickymoranjr9609]

Rex is one lucky SOB for surviving a bullet to the head, but at least he got his revenge after regaining consciousness

[@AleeksWalkerAW]

Youre right. in the Comics Rex Splode is artificially enhanced by the government. He grew up in a govt lab that turned him to a weapon. they altered his muscles to make them denser and stronger and implated some kind of gizmo in his arms that enable him to charge objects and turn them into explosives. He basically has Gambit's power. he then goes on missons for shady government organizations till he joins the Teen Team. When Eve says that he never had a home its true

[@Luster...]

Surprised it took me to scroll this far to find this comment.

[@Samgreen90]

(At 9:31) I don't know adrenaline rush? Very "few" people DO survive getting shot the head If they're rush to the hospital right in time if the bullet's stuck, but that's rare. Usually they're either lobotomized or dead if they aren't so lucky.

[@kellanwlasitz]

Most people that die because the bullet ricochets inside the skull but it went clean thru the side of Rex's head

[@MalkuthSephira]

Surprisingly, people survive bullets to the head more than you'd think. It's also worth noting that the caliber of the bullet (and a lot of other ballistics stuff, tbh) is very relevant here. For example, I think this is the Zodiac Killer (if I'm wrong and it's another killer someone let me know lol), but I recall a famous serial killer having surprisingly low lethality in his first couple murders because he was using a small caliber gun, to the point that I think one survivor had been shot a bunch of times, still lived for several hours, got taken to a hospital, and lived. Granted that wasn't in the head but I think it goes to illustrate that the gun used, the ammo used, and a lot of other factors make gun violence a vastly more complicated subject than it looks like it would be in games and movies. Also while Rex isn't necessarily Super Durability Guy I think he IS actually stronger and more durable than a normal human, just nowhere near as much as some of the tankier characters and it's not his main thing. *edit: I'd say calling him surviving this "miraculous" is entirely fair, it's just worth noting that it's the kind of very lucky thing that absolutely does happen. It's a bit on the rare side, but it's a thing. source: many years of writing stories that contained at least a little bit of gun violence, i'm by no means an authority but man you learn a lot of wild stuff

[@Reddepression]

Monata sometimes pisses me off, like its a quick google search they have phones smh

[@TheSkyrimps3]

kates death hit immoral so hard because she understood him in a way no one else did... he dies but always comes back... she shares a conscious with her clones so she's also technically died and came back... they have an outlook on life unique to them.

[@sardonicus1739]

The age gap between them will still never not be creepy no matter how much the story tries to explain it away.

[@Sanguinius876]

@@sardonicus1739 I mean, with that logic, Any relationship Immortal could ever have or has been in, is creepy. Age gap is pretty much a constant when it comes to Immortal characters in media. Dracula and Lisa from castlevania? Emet-Selch and any of his wives or relationships in Final fantasy XIV? Wolverine, The doctor, pretty much any elf/human relationship from any piece of fantasy involving elves EVER, the list is long.

[@MalkuthSephira]

@@sardonicus1739 "Immortal is fundamentally not allowed to date anyone for all eternity because he accidentally got touched by an immortality orb" is a pretty awful take that could've used maybe even one second in the oven before you posted it *edit. Also it's very crazy to imply that it's fine for someone fight, kill, and die as their career, but it's not fine for that person to want to bang an older dude. And here's the most fun bit I think: it is established canon that Kate experiences all the lives of her clones simultaneously, to the point that the actual age she experiences herself being is at least two thousand years by now. Don't believe me? Look it up. I get that it feels a little skeezy to you, but you're not the one who wants to date Immortal, a fictional character whose experienced lifespan is thousands of years whose career is life-or-death violence wants to date Immortal. Please, please work on your ability to empathize with people who aren't you just a little bit.

[@sardonicus1739]

@Sanguinius876 The brain doesn't fully form til 25. Dupli Kate is eighteen. Maybe 20 if being generous. Barely even legal for ANYONE, still filled with teenage hormones, not that many years life experience, and a not fully formed brain ehich shows since she has that teenage attitude that she already knows everything about the world. I would have problems with a thirty year old dating somebody that young Due to the unequal power dynamic her age causes. If she was twenty five I'd be more okay with it. It's not about him being thousands of years old, it's about him dating somebody who's still essentially a teenager. I would be fine if he dated somebody like 25- 40. I'm scared for you and all of the people that agree that there should be such a strong age gap between a teenager and adult, and I think most media is disgusting and toxic for repeatedly paring teen girls with men thousands of years older. That apparently every single immortal person wants a teenager and not an adult if they're a man sets a bad precedent in our society that normalizes men the age of a girls dad to think it's okay to take advantage of fresh out of highschool girls. That this is a specifically a double standard forced upon women. Which helps with the social double standard that men are supposed to only want really really young girls, and only really young girls who are barely legal. Women who are old enough to understand what they want have no value cause they aren't teenagers. I've literally heard 40 old men say they would never date anybody over twenty. It's creepy that society has set a precedent that a girl freshly out of high school is the most attractive age to date, and that if she gains any more life experience after that she's become tainted and is no longer desirable. Literally all of this would have gone away if they simply aged Kate's character up more..

[@sardonicus1739]

@@MalkuthSephira No one over 30 should date anyone under 20. Period. They're still a teenager with teenage hormones with almost no experience as an adult (like hell. Most 18 year olds are still in HIGH SCHOOL, or just going to college for the first time, and have no experience with being an adult), and who don't even have a fully formed brain yet as that happens at 25. This doesn't have to do with him being immortal but with her being insanely young for anyone with a major age gap to date, and creates an obvious power imbalance which is why most people would instinctively cringe watching a 40 year old man pick up his 18 year old girlfriend up from the local highschool. I'd be fine with it if she was over 25 as that's the age a person becomes a fully formed adult, with the same mental capacity as all other adults over that age but not a barely legal teenager. The fact that's okay with you says something bad about you as a person that you think people over 30 should date teenagers.

[@jessetorres8738]

This series made 1 of the best voice acting decisions ever by having Seth Rogan be the voice of Allen The Alien!

[@neoshenlong]

Seth Rogen keeps being that guy I see in the cast reveal and think "Why?" and then end up loving his performance.

[@grimerime23]

this might be the one good role I've ever seen him in.

[@iRoboticGaming]

​@@grimerime23you haven't seen enough of him then, because he is great

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

@@iRoboticGaming I've seen most of his filmography, and I gotta say that as an actor he is just passable, he gets the job done for comedy films, but he doesn't range, he can play the same typecast character. As a producer and voice actor, he is pretty great.

[@Samgreen90]

(At 29:49) "reminds me where I grew up?" I *doubt* Cecil grew up in an African style treehouse.

[@davekisman2763]

Rex Splode: 8:57 I'm practically... INVINCIBLE

[@danielsbar373]

People have survived getting shot in the head like that. Because the gun was so close, the bullet went in and came out. It was a straight hole through, which is very dangerous, but survivable. Since it didn't have the chance to slow down very much inside his head, the bullet didn't move around a lot and didn't tear apart more of his brain. This kind of injury has actually happened quite a few times where the victim made a full recovery.

[@Reddepression]

Monata sometimes pisses me off, like its a quick google search they have phones smh

[@YoelSchwarz]

I'm pretty sure that Nolan wanted to use his adventures as inspiration for his storys, but he was so strong that most of the adventures would be boring, so he chose the times he was in actual danger, which subconsciously gave away things that can kill viltrumites🤷‍♂️

[@LaichiMeriem-nl4bp]

When you relaze that mark will never be what he is now with out "Debbie",oliver is lucky that he will be raised by a loving and great mom including a kind and loving brother...

[@HaydrogenBomb]

After seeing how hard of a time she's been having this season, seeing Debbie just so naturally come around to raising Oliver is so nice. I told you she'd be a goated character on this channel. ☺️

[@PetarSon]

9:36 It actually happened in history, that people get shot in the head and survive, and that adrenaline is pumping them that whole time, so they can continue moving to a certain limit, and later are brought to the hospital and survive. In the show it's a bit exaggerated, but it's not completely impossible, only in special cases possible.

[@Syntex366]

Honestly the show didn’t even exaggerate. Phineas Gage is the most famous example of this kind of brain trauma being non-lethal. In the mid 1840’s, he was working on railroad construction and was tamping blast powder into a hole. As he did this, the powder ignited and shot the tamping iron like a bullet clean through his skull. He dropped on the ground motionless for about a minute, then managed to stand up and even speak coherently. He was even able to walk to a nearby doctor and recount his accident to said doctor as he stood there baffled. While Gage did suffer severe alterations to his personality and ability to function socially, most notably losing his ability to comprehend empathy and inability to have an “internal monologue” meaning he said anything he thought out loud like the worlds worst case of Tourette’s, he managed to go on living for over a decade and even began to healthfully adjust to his conditions before complications of the injury caused him to have a lethal seizure. And this was in the mid-1800’s, where they had zero idea how to patch something like that up properly. Him surviving even more than a week is incredible, let alone a decade.

[@Rose_8124]

20:30 just a little reminder Kate mentioned before that Immortal was different than others because he understood what it was like to die so many times, the same way she had been.

[@Wouldyoukindly4545]

The thing that gets me is that Nolan wrote all these "sci fi" books with powerful tools that could fight viltrumites.... and frigging CECIL didn't notice and read them years ago?

[@zuralani1]

I know a lot of people have already said that regular humans can survive shots to the head, but not a lot have really said why and there's 2 main reasons. The first is our skulls are REALLY GOOD at their job. They aren't just hard with some shock absorption to help out, but the fact that it is nearly round means it is great at deflecting blows or projectiles to the side. You can even see in this scene that while Rex had the gun *almost* against his head execution style, there was still some space and the bullet ended up being on the side of his skull instead of coming out between his eyes. The other big thing is that while our brains are obviously important and any removal will have some impact, there are spots that you can technically still live without. So you have the skull minimizing loss and the "maybe that part wasnt vital for survival" luck of the draw working together, plus adrenaline for Rex's Revenge. Edit: that being said between the stomach slash, missing hand, and bullet hole to the head he should have been out from blood loss.

[@Reddepression]

Monata sometimes pisses me off, like its a quick google search they have phones smh

[@zuralani1]

@@Reddepression i mean to be fair, almost every movie, show, game, and book portrays a bullet to the head as instant death. It also often *IS* instant death or at least instant unconsciousness before dying in reality. Our skulls are good enough to save us if everything lines up, but people usually aren't that lucky. I don't really blame people for thinking that the superhero in a cartoon surviving a bullet to the head to get justice for his fallen teammates is the result of either tv logic or superpowers.

[@Reddepression]

@@zuralani1 what really got me fuming was when she said it was realistically impossible 💀 like I said sometimes she just pisses me off, it’s like her word is absolute, at least Kenny has some common sense

[@stardmg]

Season 2 Rex with his character development and Jason Mantzoukas' delivery give me huge Sokka vibes, if Sokka was more crass/adult with his language and could actually fight lol

[@JoshRossRogan]

Getting shot or having something pierced your brain is very much survivable given enough luck. There is a very reputable example of during the time when we were building the railroad and had to blast through mountains to create tunnels. There was one time where an explosion went off and blasted a steel pole right through a guy's head. He survived and didn't even feel it happen.

[@DragoonxVII]

This episode was packed! Enjoyed the discussions

[@dokkanknight3903]

Kind off makes me think what shigaraki said was true. "In order for heros to go around saving people they don't know, they hurt those who love you." 25:55

[@StefEndz]

also the bullet flew through an not so important part of his brain, likely no, plausible yes. There was a man who came to the emergency room completely functional and conscious with a rebar straight through his brain, and even survived, You guys should check out the show called "Untold Stories of the E.R." CRAZY SHI

[@Kingrob30]

My favorite part of this episode was Rex trying to convince himself and the GDA troops he was ok:)

[@DanteWanderer]

16:01 i feel called out

[@delphi_strawberries6086]

SAME LMAO

[@apeture_explorer4810]

Rex has a body augmented to be resilient against his own explosive blasts in medium range. So his tissue is really good at withstanding concussive force, rapid acceleration and deceleration. He would be a fantastic pilot, and this principle carries over to the way bullet channel cavitation injuries work. No penetrative resistance, just cavitation which ruptures internal organs and expands tissue past elastic limits.

[@jamaicangameralex650]

is it just me or is kenny winking at us or is he trying to blink🤣🤣

[@Samgreen90]

(At 25:15) new character development!

[@WolfWarrior623]

I don't think I noticed the change in Rick's VA when I watched, but in hindsight it makes sense since Sinclair took out his vocal chords, so however the GDA did it, he'd have to have a different voice I'd think. One other small detail from a few episodes ago that I'm sad they left out. Shapesmith going to Art to have him design his costume. Art goes through all the effort and makes it, and then Shapesmith just fucking changes his body into the suit and fucks off cuz he has no money lmao.

[@Samgreen90]

(At 17:38) I told you The Immortal and Robot were going to regret this decision.

[@KingBendu]

There have been cases of people surviving gunshots to the head. I remember seeing one of those police interrogation videos where the guy being interrogated had a bullet inside his eye or something and kept complaining to the detectives about a headache, they eventually took him to the hospital and found out he had been shot the night before.

[@AJ-nw5su]

This episode made me warm up to Rex

[@katchkartoons]

I was always a big fan of him.

[@AJ-nw5su]

​@@katchkartoons I found him entertaining but he used to piss me off so bad

[@HaydrogenBomb]

@katchkartoons Same. Dude was always hilarious, but would do the right thing when push came to shove. Now, he won't wait for the shove.

[@MalkuthSephira]

Rex has a great arc, he's one of my faves from the comic and they're doing a great job with him here too

[@zuralani1]

40:32 ...The Immortal said calmly

[@sean437]

Yes! Rex was experimented on. He has cybernetic implants to make him stronger, faster, more resilient, and grant him the explosive powers.

[@ethanesslinger9805]

It IS possible to survive point blank headshots. Highly unlikely with regular handgun rounds like 9mm or 45, but it is possible. Sometimes the bullet goes through without damaging too many crucial areas of the brain, sometimes the bullet redirects around the inside of the skull and sort of slides around.

[@volug0110]

Fun fact. There is record of people surviving head trauma. For instance, there is one guy who received a pole through the head and was still alive.

[@azenar1894]

You can survive a shot to the head as long as the bullet exits your body. If the bullet doesnt have enough force to exit your skull it will riccochet all around the inside blending up your brain killing you. Since King Lizard shot Rex point blank the bullet had enough force to exit his skull, and as long as he gets into surgery right away before he bleeds out hell live. The same thing goes for when your shot in your chest, if the bullet doesnt have enough force to go straight through your in trouble especially if the bullet riccochets inside your rib cage blending up your insides

[@lilianaranea7892]

I'm pretty sure there was a man who was shot in the head by his wife while he was sleeping and awoke the next morning with just a bad headache. I think it was only after going to the ER for the headache that he learned he had been shot.

[@tommcburney301]

Debbie is a great person. She domesticated Nolan, she raised Mark and he turned out alright, and she's raising her ex-husband's baby who is a full alien (Mark almost full Viltrum.) on her own.

[@jackroche5422]

Humans are known to survive gunshot wounds to the head like Rex. So it's very plausible for him to survive the way he did.

[@iandokarasi]

I am sad William didn't enter the room while Allen was in, very funny in the comics

[@enyiomaemeka-okeke6944]

Oh yeah, I remember that😂😂😂

[@bradleybarnett1469]

You can live a shot through the head. A guy lost like… The front left of his brain when a railroad spike was shot through it

[@venomouswyverns8819]

there have been people IN REALITY whove survived being shotr in the head, so not THAT impossible

[@ninjaboy4831]

There was a hilarious comment I read on another reaction of this episode when I dropped. It said Rex didn't finish his sentence because he saw the title card while he was at death's door

[@Courier_Seven]

I forget just how much happens in this episode. This might be one of the best episodes of the show just because of how much of the story content its able to tackle effectively. Bro, I cannot wait for season 3, as someone who could not contain his curiosity and read all the comics, i feel season 3 might be the best season of the show for a good long while if not overall.

[@infiniteshay8660]

Another fun fact about Plastic Man, hes probably the strongest character in DC canon. So strong that Batman's contingency plan for Plastic Man is "Hope he doesnt turn evil."

[@AlexisTheDragon]

20:40 it's prob just his soul mate....

[@robertcasillas6084]

In the comics Rex’s abilities are described as being similar to Gambit if he took the Captain America Super Soldier Serum

[@TypicalCynic_]

This is Rex’s episode. *THE GOAT! THE PEAK! THE OG!*

[@mbpoblet]

Angstrom can open portals through dimensions, not through space. If there's something in the way, he has to take a shortcut through some dimension where it isn't there. So he went through multiple portals to avoid obstacles like walls and whatnot. And, obviously, he got the suit because if you're going to do something significant, you might as well do it in style.

[@mrbritish6673]

Just saying, people have survived gun shots to the head, it depends where you hit them. However Rex was experimented on an altered as a child, he isn’t totally human. He’s a supercharge man, all of his human abilities are at peak. So he runs as fast as a human can, not super human speed, just fastest sprinter. He’s as tough as a person can get and as strong as a person can get without crossing into “superhuman” territory. He is humanity at its peak, we can most likely assume Kate using the clones with Immortal was a gift to him, but Kate using the clones with Rex was because one wasn’t enough 😂

[@Courier_Seven]

Kate and immortal were super close because they had both experienced death numerous times and the fact that some of the "best" human bonding can, and does happen during times of great stress, loss, and conflict. Immortal feels that they both had a certain understanding of life and death that it made them more understanding of one another.

[@DingoEnderZOE2]

Wow that was the most slow reaction ive ever seen to Rexes head shot. For most other reactors ive seen as soon as the gun goes off everyone immediately switched to the 😲 on the spot, that ive personally commented in those videos finding amusement in them. But these two reacted with slow expression change of "...huh?" Though i noticed Montana caught herself and went straight to the 🤔 face. 😂😂

[@matthewmelilo3680]

For rex surviving a shot to the head as a wise man once said "rage is a hell of an anesthetic"

[@GustavoCardoso95]

Rex has some superpowers, I don''t remember exactly what it is from the comics but he's like Gambit from X-Men and he has superior physical abilities than a regular human. He should be more resistant. I hope they do make a pre-history episode about him like they did to eve. He's pretty important in the overall story

[@LTRiiken]

the bullet hole is in the very corner of his head, you can clearly see its not directly through the brain, you can survive in real life with that angle of brain damage but you will never be the same

[@tommcburney301]

As someone else who keeps dying multiple times. The Immortal felt a kindred connection with Duplikate. Which lead to their romance.

[@RasmusVJS]

Worth noting about Nobel, I'm fairly certain he invented dynamite for mining demolition purposes, not as military weapons.

[@shodri92]

32:55 This shows why many of us hate the Amber from the first season. Obviously, it's understandable that she feels a little hurt that Mark didn't trust her and tell her that he's Invincible (but let's keep in mind that it's a very big secret and he didn't feel ready to share something like that, and that's respectable. Everyone has their own time). But the problem comes especially in the episode 6 from the 1st season (The one about the cyborgs attacking the university) where she is very critical of him even though she knew about his secret and he did everything he could to help and save other people. Many try to justify it by saying that Amber is a teenager and although she is, throughout the first season she is portrayed as a mature girl with a lot of emotional intelligence (but it is in that episode that image falls apart because they show her as a jerk), but we also have to consider that Mark is a teenager too and on top of all that he is also going through other situations and responsibilities because he is a superhero.

[@WolfPack0]

Rexsplode just went plus ultra 😂

[@vanillat5613]

Debbie is such a good mom

[@Nolangrayson_1000]

Rex just pulled out the Indomitable human spirit

[@jessetorres8738]

In the comics, Shrinking Ray (whom was a male hero) died from being eaten, so I am curious to see where the show will take Shrinking Rae in the future by having her survive that.

[@StefEndz]

SHUUUSH no comic spoilers

[@dariogaelreyes7534]

@@StefEndz lmao I doubt they're going to read the comics, and if they already watched the part that the comic adapted, who cares?

[@StefEndz]

@@dariogaelreyes7534 Comics can spoil things that can happen in the show, it's better if they react completely in the dark

[@StefEndz]

@@dariogaelreyes7534 but I get your point

[@jackfishthe6th373]

There are plenty of examples throughout military history of some people getting shot in the head and still managing to fight back.

[@Unknown13thorder]

9:31 and yet people forget there ARE people who survived and continued with their life’s but are not full all there (obviously)

[@7thsygn]

I know someone who unfortunately was shot in the head and survived it, he's alive to this day I believe.

[@irishdc9523]

My guess for why Immortal was devestated by Kate's death was in the line "I thought we had more time". All his previous loves lived full lives and passed away. Kate was killed and her life cut short

[@ПростоГМ]

Daniel von Bargen is a relatively famous actor who got shot in the head (not wanting to suffer from complications of diabetes), then called 911 himself and actually endured it much better than Rex in the show. He lived for three more years before dying from the aforementioned complications. According to statistics, the survival rate after a gunshot wound to the head is about 5 percent. But only 3 percent are able to restore the normal functioning of the brain and the body as a whole. And it also depends on the caliber, the location of the hit, the trajectory and other factors (Rex got a relatively good situation, the American railroad worker Phineas Gage in 1848 survived after being hit in the head with a crowbar three centimeters thick and lost 4% of the cerebral cortex and 11% of the white matter, and then lived for another 12 years working as a coachman and being on a good account with your employer)

[@alphasx8678]

Kate explained her relationship with the Immortal few episodes ago. He's the only person who's died as many times as she has.

[@sardonicus1739]

Many people have survived being shot in the head. All it has to do is go through the right parts of the brain, and the right gun. As long as you avoid the parts of the brain that regulate things like your heartbeat and breathing, you can survive with entire sections of the brain just missing. One of the first things that you're taught in psychology is about Phineas Gage. The man who survived a large rod going through his head. He survived the incident but it changed his personality. He became more impulsive and irritable as his frontal lobe was damaged.

[@Nimblescape]

There are actually quite a few stories of people surviving GSW to the head! In fact there's a few stories of people walking around and talking before medical intervention! It's usually bc the bullet exits the skull too, instead of being lodge inside the brain, and it also didn't hit any fatal parts of the brain, which tbh, just boils down to *pure dumb luck* . DGMW There will be brain damage afterwords, and a long healing process, but recovery stories of up to 90% functionality DO exist! It's very fascinating! The fact about the Nobel Peace Prize inventor is so sad when you realize dynamites original intended use, was for construction and creating tunnels for mining. It was truly meant to be helpful to the working class's hard labor, and it was twisted into weapons. He would've had every right to keep his money, and hide since he never tried to make it a weapon. But instead, he worked even harder to make a positive lasting impact on the world. Full respect to him.

[@afrancis1582]

As people have said, there are survivors of gunshot wounds to the head. Also, the TV show has not shown that Rex is tougher than a normal human. This is made clear in the comics.

[@asxulxetesteronsxez538]

I think that Omni-Man wrote the books as a way to help earth trust him and the empire when they came. As a, look how dangerous the universe is and how we are the only ones who can protect you, kind of thing. And when that didn't work, he stopped.

[@SuperDrocket]

Possibly, but personally I think it was more just that he needed money. A regular 9-5 job was kind of out of the question, and while he might be able to get a job being paid by Cecil/the government, that tends to come with the attached strings that Mark has been trying to avoid. Being an author is a pretty good choice: with super speed, he can probably knock them out in a day or two, maybe less, and writing sci-fi books is easy for him because he doesn't really need any sort of 'inspiration' to come up with stories, he just takes actual events from his life in space and adapts them. When the sci-fi book route doesn't work out (they apparently don't sell well), he winds up writing travel guides, which again for him are super easy.

[@DthDisguise]

Although not usually at such a close range, shots to the head are actually not as fatal(statistically) as people thing. Often times, the bullet just curves around the outside of the skull and the primary damage is a concussion. Other times, the bullet passes through parts of the brain cause damage, but not destroying anything vital and the other parts of the brain adapt to fill in for the damaged parts. However, given the range at which Rex was shot, it's safe to just say that he's about the luckiest sob you can imagine.

[@bobobaggins95]

My theory when I watched this episode was that those lizard people in Nolans story were the same race as that lion person Mark fought in the first season. I reckon thats why Nolan didnt intervene until after he left, if you've read the comics please dont spoil it

[@tylerbowers3373]

People have survived being shot in the head through history several times.

[@EnriqueMaxx]

7:56 - not super healing. He has enhanced durability. It's a part of his powers.

[@IAmPhos548]

My guess is that they'll maybe do a Rex Splode Special between S2 and S3, because Rex isn't just a human that can make stuff explode. He does have some level of toughness higher than that of a normal human (though nowhere near as strong as Immortal or Monster Girl, for example). Plus, as others have mentioned, regular humans HAVE survived 9mm shots to the head and brain before. His backstory is actually sad af, but I don't wanna spoil anything in case they DO decide to do a Rex Splode Special. Also the awkwardness with Eve was also in S1 lol. After the fight with Doc Seismic in S1, she does lean in for a hug, but Mark bolts back to his date with Amber before anything happens. She also confides in Mark after Rex cheats on her. They don't spend too long on their friendship in S1, but in the comics they spend more time as superhero friends operating out of the same highschool

[@FullMetalB]

I like that mark said he was stronger and faster and needed to be the one to do it....but then immediately got stopped and had to get freed by the immortal to succeed 😂

[@SwordTune]

Debbie's on that Purple Mark Any% Speedrun

[@feedgotcha]

People never knew they secretly like Rex until we thought he died lol

[@VforVictory00]

There have been rare cases where an object had been lodged into somebody's head and they have survived. So theoretically it's possible for Rex to have survived.

[@Samgreen90]

(At 7:05) Difference between Shapesmith and Plastic Man is… Plastic Man has the means… to kill Superman.

[@andresv.8880]

Some versions of some versions

[@cthulhuwu_]

Shapesmith is more like a really dumb Martian Manhunter

[@LaichiMeriem-nl4bp]

Marvel :we have infinity stones! Invincible:we have infinity gun🙂👍

[@stardmg]

Immortal and Kate understood each other on a level that only they can. They both knew what it was like to die over and over and over again, and keep living. It's why he referred to her as a "kindred soul" and why her death is hitting so much harder than those of his previous lovers.

[@GreatSaiyaDan]

Rex is an altered human, his skeletal structure isn’t all natural.

[@Khay-77]

Point blank shot to the head would mean it would likely not ricochet around like if he was shot from a distance. Factor in the fact that Rex is a super human like Captain America which I think we're getting a standalone like Atom Eve before or during season 3 of Invincible that should explain his back story more.

[@louiswemple3940]

One time a guy in real life got lit up by a firing squad and then the squad officer shot him in the head with his pistol to make sure he was dead... Only the guy wasn't dead, he played dead until the squad left and then managed to crawl away and find medical attention. You can survive and in rare cases even remain active after a pistol round through the dome, Rex just got lucky.

[@blakec8549]

People can survive gunshots to the head. The spot you have to hit to guarantee a kill is actually small. Granted most people don't survive. But you see the shot was off to the side. Not down the middle. So it's actually feasible that he survived

[@fanofheroes8184]

You can be shot in the head and live, it’s surprising what humans can do so imagine a super one. My great uncle (May he rest in peace, he died this year) was shot in the head and has a very noticeable scar but he died like many years later.

[@ColeTrain2731]

There's actually several circumstances that help Rex survive a bullet to the head: - Lizard King is all talk. And LAZY. He didn't place the gun directly to Rex's head. - People in real life have survived bullets to the head when it deflected off the skull, travelling under the scalp to push out through the skin on the other side. Much like Rex's wound did here. - Rex DOES have somewhat enhanced durability when it comes to his explosion powers, which might have helped. - The dazed state and blurry vision Rex suffers while dealing with King Lizard fits someone who suffered a concussion he would suffer from the impact, even if it didn't penetrate better than actual missing brain matter.

[@taylorgordon2570]

You guys are gonna love Nolan’s redemption arc

[@CamoraGhoul]

So happy I found yall so I can binge this series again haha. Also it is still the biggest red flag to me that the nanny knew both Mark and Nolan's identities before she was hired by Debbie. Like I understand she works for the gov, but she is still a nanny so why have that info before being hired? too sus for me, but I am prolly looking too deep there