It also kind of made the villains seem a bit daft. The rule seemed to be red sun = no powers, green sun = kills her, yellow sun = super powers and the main villain seemed to be pretty powerful no matter where he was, and they establish early on that there are lots of red sun planets where people live, so literally just hide out anywhere without a yellow sun and you’re 100% safe?
Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 days agoI think the issue was more DC’ power scaling issues. It’s kinda hard to write a compelling story for Superman or Batman, because they are, for the most part, invincible and flawless according to DC. I suspect that her not having the ability to access her powers for 3/4 of the movie was an effort to make her seem like a Marvel superhero with flaws and relatability. Unfortunately, DC doesn’t know how to do that, as Marvel doesn’t even know how to do that consistently. Power creep is a real problem if you can’t just magic away the hero’s basic invulnerability.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Until she calls her friends in the Lantern Corps, or you know just gains a Red power ring of her own
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Couldn’t get past season 1 of Invincible. You won’t like what I thought about it. But I’m a Superman fan who doesn’t like excessive violence, so hopefully you can understand where I’m coming from.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah, I get it. I wouldn’t have gotten to season 2 if I had watched season 1 before season 2 was already out. Season 1 ended on the WORST POSSIBLE down note that they could, and I think they did that intentionally.
Minor spoilers: it’s not like they ended season 2 on a good note, just that Nolan and Markus do finally find a common ground against Nolan’s objectives.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It won’t end in a satisfying way. They never do. Game of Thrones or The Boys or any violence-focused show. Terrible endings, all of them.
Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Apparently the machine gun thing actually works. m.youtube.com/watch?v=06t_KP7y8Ao
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. The Boys was written from 2006-2012 in comicbook form. As far as I’m aware, Invincible is being written for the series. The ending of the former was predetermined because they were adapting an already written story. Invincible was written over the timeframe of 2003-2014. It’s entirely possible that they will do what they always do with a comic that long, and completely ignore the ending, which wasn’t exactly happy, but also wasn’t the bad ending the way The Boys leaned into.