Film Theory: Omni Man was Right?!

60 years for Omni-Man equaling 1.6 human years is actually quite horrifying when you think about it.

fun fact about immortal, a fan told the creator in a letter that they felt immortal looked like lincoln, so the creator decided to add it into the lore

This has unintentionally explained exactly why we shouldn't have elderly people in leadership positions

Matpat really said "Friendship was the true saviour all along"

The best part about Season 1 to Season 2 is you see Nolan's reaction from the line of "You, Dad. I'd have you." There's no time jump. We get to see the torment that line sends him through as we follow him through space. He completely loses all faith in his cause because he realized Mark was right and that they'd still have each other to help each other through their grief of losing all their friends and loved ones and watching Earth turn to dust. It finally cracked Nolan's psyche and he almost kills himself because of what he did to his own son.

Nolan and Mark have such an interesting dynamic with season 2. We've seen evil men turn good and our heroes broken, but having a father-son dynamic where each party is in pain. Yet, Mark capitalizes on his anger to shield him from pain, utterly unaware of how similar he is to Nolan, a unique storytelling device. I can't wait to see the second half of season 2.

On that life span comparison, the show itself does a pretty good job bringing Omni Man's perspective to us in season 2 episode 4 with the bug people, which they said only live to an equivalent of 1 human year only minutes later, we see them slaughtered by other viltrumites It was almost as if the show was asking if we feel the same empathy for a species that lives that short It was crazy to see the number of people who were watching it say something along the lines of "well you were gonna die in a month or so anyways"

Matpat using invincible to teach me more about human brain development in a 20 minute video than a semester long psychology class

I love Invincible because on the surface it seems like yet another superhero show that says that the very notion of a superhero helping people is absurd, but when watching the show it makes you root for Mark when he becomes the heroic persona Omni-Man was merely pretending to be. It's not a deconstruction of the superhero genre; it's a reconstruction of it.

Nolan doesn't completely lack empathy, though. There are a couple moments where he shows regret for his actions and how he's hurt the people around him. When Cecil tells him the the guardians were his friends, so he knew that Nolan didn't do it for the fun of it. And as he says this, he looks away and does the same thing when Cecil brings up debbie and mark. There's another moment when he thinks about attacking debbie, before snapping out of it and is disappointed and angry at himself for even considering it.

I can’t believe we’re witnessing MatPat in an official television commercial. What a time to be alive

JK Simmons really does crush it as Onmi-Man. His performance is nothing short of legendary.

You know Matt is a man of culture when he covers Invincible

I honestly feel like Nolan's speech to mark about how he'll outlive everything is just Nolan trying to convince himself that what he is doing is right. He loved Debbie, made connections with people and enjoy everything. But he knew what he had to do eventually at a certain point, it just sounds more like he's attempting to convince himself that it does not matter because its barely any of his lifespan and its so little that he thinks he just shouldn't care since the planet is doomed at the moment anyways.

The new episode with the immortal feels so relevant to this video

I think it's pretty clear that, from a thematic point of view, Mark gets his superhero name not because of his powers or winning track record (he does get beat up a lot) but rather from his human values. By holding on to his humanity and not giving in to the feelings that would make him more like a true Viltrumite. It's how he won the fight against his dad by attrition. As long as he has that, he will live up to his name.

Just pointing out that if Immortal was alive at 3,000 BC it means he's 5,000 years old, not 3k as stated earlier in the video when comparing lifespans.

Well I guess the closest example of lifespans is the way we look at rats, they live much shorter than us, so much so that even if we kept them as pets we’d eventually forget them. Omniman literally refers to his human wife as a “pet”, meaning that her death may hurt him for a while but he’d outlive the guilt, quite literally how we see animals with short lifespans, we’d definitely miss them but it would only be when we’re reminded of them

I watched this with my dad because we watched Invincible together and he was really open to the idea of brain development and empathy. Thanks to this episode he's started going to therapy again. Thanks MatPat

Sorry, not sorry, Matpat, but I'm not buying a $6,000 TV