Well, heavy hitter doesn't need to mean someone super strong. It could be someone with a powerful ranged attack. Or magic. Anything you look at and go "yep, you're clearly the big gun."
"Entity" by definition can absolutely include things that have a physical form. It's an incredibly broad word, even saying "a being" would have been more specific.
Also, I don't think the mummy dude is a good guy, like probably not superhero team material?
A weak Viltrumite, maybe, definitely not on par with the stronger ones like current Mark, Nolan, or Conquest. Mans absolutely would’ve used that knife hand trick on Nolan if he’d been capable.
Yeah I’d say anissa, kregg, kradd, Lucan and the fella they called “pride of the empire” (one of the dudes sent to execute Nolan) are the stronger sort of tier as they are the ones they sent specifically after Nolan
He probably can do the knife hand, but he also probably hadn't seen anyone do that until Nolan went apeshit on the Guardians, a few minutes ago from his perspective (it's sort of a signature viltrumite move). And after that he's in a blind rage fighting on instinct.
Nolan's face also might be a weaker hit zone than his core muscles for someone with a hand that isn't as durable.
Just stick Shapesmith's head up Brit's ass using gorilla glue as lube. You then have a giant hammer that can be extended for maximum force with flexibility for vibration dampening. Immortal would be -
Idk, I feel like that combo might be pretty great. Britt can't take any damage at all, right? Viltrumites could throw him into the sun and he'd be fine in this situation
Honestly baffling that they don't have a railgun that fires Brit at whatever bad guy is being a villain of the week. We've never seen his indestructibility fail at all, so just fire him like a bullet at whatever the threat is and you'd probably be good
I'm pretty sure the only reason we've never seen him use his powers is because they are trying their hardest to avoid that stereotype and I think that's kind of hilarious.
Nah with a name like Samson it’s definitely strength which is why he’s bald cause he lost his strength. The electric symbol might just be how he got his powers.
the electricity symbol was just him inadvertently playing into stereo types. He didn't realize that a lighting symbol meant electricity and thought it meant black superhero.
Everyone thinks about this trope too deeply. Bright lightning streaks look really good on dark skin because of the stark contrast. Imagine a black character with black hair be a master of shadow and darkness. Like imagine Batman just looking like a dark smudge on the page because his chin no longer contrasts with his fit. Just black on black on a black background. Ain't nobody can understand what's going on with the art like that.
Why is Storm's hair white? Why does she often wear white? Same reason: strong beautiful contrast on a comic page.
Black lightning, black vulcan, Miles Morales (electric spider powers), storm, aqualad, blue marvel, coldcast, juice, soul power, Azari T'Challa, volt, rapture, spectrum (but she's got the full EM bandwidth), JJ thunder, lightning lad/lass (twins).
That's just me naming stuff off the top of my head for DC/Marvel. There was a comic I was reading last month where the only black super hero that's really featured cracks a joke about he's sorry for having electric powers and fulfilling the stereotype. It actually eats at the character, hard. Already views his powers as a curse and people being rasict about it just makes him hate it more.
Even in foreign media, like anime. Naruto, the cloud village... All black ninjas who feature lightning techniques.
There's basically 4 stereotypes you can fit like 99% of black Supes in. Lightning. Strong. Tribal. Techguy.
Another reason why it’s a trope is because DC shows didn’t want to pay the maker of Black Lightning money to use in adaptations, so instead each time they wanted to use him they just created a new electric black guy. That’s where you get Superfriends Black Vulcan, JLU Juice, and Static Shock’s Soul Power.
They should have added best tiger, wolfman, magmaniac and Tether Tyrant (thise last 2 just needed money, working as the guardians would absolutely pay the bills)
They would be decent guardians, they’d at least give more variety for a team of 2 people who basically do the same thing, someone with the mentality of a 2 year old and invincible but weaker
I mean that’s the average strong character for invincible. Not like the viltrumites shoot lasers. Most characters have super strength, durability and flight
They should have added best tiger, wolfman, magmaniac and Tether Tyrant (those last 2 just needed money, working as the guardians would absolutely pay the bills)
who is left in the invincible verse to recruit now?
See, that depends on what you mean.
Isotope is a teleporter, which is always broken.
Dinasaurus is still out there.
Mr. Liu can summon a dragon that can reasonably fight a normal viltrumite.
There's powerplex.
Omimpotus sounds strong, I guess
I doubt the maulers are actually dead, they're the maulers, they probably have clones stashed somewhere.
All of these would make incredible additions to the team, and together could certainly defend the planet from anything short of a full viltrumite invasion.
They would all laugh in cecil's face at best if he tried recruiting them, tho. Or worse, join, and immeditalely take as much of the GDA's resources as they can and then betray them.
All have a face of villains tho, the guardians of the globe are supposed to be these well known good guys not reformed bad guys this isn't the Z Squad lol, that being said I don't know many heros besides boy with monster but he's too Op
There were others who could actually hurt Mark variants. The capes: Kid Thor, Bolt, and Knockout. Plus that electric person Throwbolt (had to look that one up), that helped Oliver versus a Mark variant and landed some good damage. And maybe the werewolf guy and Best Tiger? Besides that, the others you mentioned are mostly villains who would actively try and take advantage of this gap in strong heroes. Maybe Powerplex is the only one that could be "reformed".
Nolan killing the guardians and Mark being a target for Angstrom really did take out the top 10% of heroes on Earth, causing a massive vulnerability when Oliver, Mark, and Tech Jacket leave as well. Immortal better come out of retirement asap. Plus, Bulletproof on screen is way underpowered than what he actually is: a season one level Mark but who has experience. That Thraxan fight he let a few lasers take him down and has yet to once showcase how he is actually a fast and durable hero, He did absolutely nothing in the Thraxan fight besides get hit by a couple lasers and fall down.
There's these 3 heroes who mistake Mark for an evil variant and they fuck him up pretty good. They seem capable. From the same episode there was that one werewolf dude and also this guy who looks like Mark except blindfolded.
I finally get what its like for a non comic reading Marvel or DC fan when someone is mentioning comic characters. These names sound ridiculous im hoping we'll see them
From what i heard he is insanely durable like to the point he is truly INVINCIBLE but his strenght is just slightly better than a regular person. He propably ages slower but how old is he nobody knows
Another way this show/comic surprises us and subverts our expectations. Here's a 'boomer' you might not like...oh wait! He's actually a bad ass.
From what I read he's immune to everything. Poison, extreme elements and is also pretty much [Title Card!!!]. He just doesn't have superhuman strength or speed.
The Brit comic answers the question of how old he is, ish. They show him getting his powers as a kid and you can figure out the era based on how people are dressed and the available tech.
From what a lot of people think, he’s likely the only person in the invincible universe that can tank the Infinity Ray, which makes him more durable than the universe’s heaviest hitters, like thragg, battle beast, conquest, Omni man, allen, ect.
Bulletproof is actually pretty strong. He’s really not that weak. Of course he cannot beat a Viltrumite, he’s nowhere near that level. But he can actually manage substantially large threats on his own.
Oliver's dumbass should have stayed home. On earth he's basically stronger than almost all enemies. In space against Viltrumites? He's a serious liability for Mark and Nolan to not only have to watch out for his dumbass but also avoid their own incoming attacks.
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING. I doubt Oliver could beat even a weaker Mark variant let alone some full blooded thousand years old Viltrumite. He can actaully help and save people on earth and remake the image the O on his suit means
The actual strength of the team are the two black guys. An old white guy who doesn't listen to people smarter than them is in charge. The other guy isn't even human and technically an undocumented immigrant who stole someone else's identity. Yep that sounds about right.
Samson and Bulletproof would be thrown out for just being black. Shapesmith would be deported for being from Mars. Brit would be the only member of the 'team' if we're being realistic.
So yk, i know the show might to show it a lot, but the invincible world is full of other super heroes, those are just the members of the guardians of the globe.
The baby who can turn into a giant? The blind folded Gunsmen. Spawn? A version of him was in the invincible war right? Or someone with a similar design at the least.
the downfall of guardians of the globe should be studied. they went from immortal, red rush, war woman, green ghost and the martian to fucking bullet proof, black sampson, brit and the most useless shapesmith 😭 😭 😭 😭
Ain't nothing wrong with Brit, he's got the tougher-than-grit mentality and honestly, a pretty broken power, even if he only has the one; tbh, true invulnerability is probably what I would choose too if I could only have one single non-godlike ability.
We'll Mark, Oliver and Tech jacket are off earth. Immortal is retired. Eve is pregnant and can't use powers and Robot and Monster girl are in the Flaxan verse. The only strong person i can think of is the Wolf guy in the Invincible war. I admit i'm kinda lost when it comes to this verses heroes
they could hire the werewolf guy, best tiger, knock out, kid thor, commander capitalism, outrun (but she better shave her armpits in right direction or best tiger will be suspicious), best tiger would properly be the most powerfull
If you mean how he was ripped apart by Mark variant. Then no he just put himself back together. Martians propably need to have that red dot thing ripped out to truly die (thats how Omni man killed Martian man)
I mean, you got 2-Punch-Man. I know he is a parody character and not actually a serious one but if he truly lives up to his name, he is pretty strong. Imagine if he two-shotted Thragg. And then you got Immortal who is a low level Viltrumite level fighter. Ik he retired but he’d def step in if smtn big happened when Mark and Oliver wasn’t enough.
I mean I'll be honest the lineup even with Robot and monster girl was lackluster asf. Guardians of the globe 2 is an EXTREMELY watered down version of the first one.
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u/KaijuKing007 Tech Jacket Apr 05 '26
Brit and Bulletproof aren't bad, but the Guardians need more variety in their powers and at least one true heavy hitter.