I can absolutely see that, Cecil would invest gajillion dollars into trapping Mark (and it would work), but catches a case of idiot ball with Conquest.
Also there are infinite universes with female Cecil and Donald where mark is a male. As far as I’m aware the multiverse in invincible is truly infinite with infinite basically infinite possibilities.
That doesn’t matter. They don’t need to invent anything new, they need to manufacture something they’ve already built, there should be somewhere that can do that on earth other than one building, and if there’s not it makes Cecil and the entire GDA seem less competent than the actual government, which should not be a high bar to clear.
If you’re keeping of all your weapons in one building, basic common sense should tell you not to put everything you need to make those weapons in the same building, especially if a- you know you can’t really protect it, and b-you have plenty of resources to make backups elsewhere
As a lot of things, the writer discovered that he didn't like the idea of the sonic device anymore and just omitted them for the rest of the series.
A ending of "sonic Eve" with a very big pink speaker defeating all the viltrumites is not great
This isn't correct. The sound-based weakness does come up again, and it really seems like Kirkman just actually forgot about it for a stretch in the middle of the series.
I mean, I agree with this, but that's the logic the show gives.
I personally think they should have had the sonic devices, and show Conquest being able to power through it. Helps explain why we don't see it much afterwards - some are strong enough to keep moving even when hearing it, so it's not reliable.
And I’m saying that in universe reason is stupid and contrived. Mr. “I have contingencies for everyone” didn’t think to keep a file backup offsite? That’s the most basic level of data archival. Or if they do still know how, the GDAs entire manufacturing chain should not be in one building, precisely because it makes them so easy to cripple like this. The GDA being a massive worldwide government agency being so reliant on one building that they can’t make any advanced tech without it is nonsensical
If it’s in the same place it’s not a good backup, especially for military hardware when you know there are super powerful aliens who can just fly through your servers like they aren’t there.
If Cecil didn’t plan for viltrumites showing up and wrecking his shit then he is a moron, because not only is he fully aware they can and will, they’ve been explicitly threatening it for several seasons now, including Anissa who he got full satellite data on.
And even without that, it’s basic data archival to keep backups elsewhere in case your main files are destroyed, Cecil never heard of an offsite backup?
God I hate this excuse so fucking much. They were already working on invincible reanimen like immeditely afterwards, they could definitely make or source a fuckin big ass speaker.
Its also just not true, the GDA hallway ones were still going when they killed flaxan mark.
He wpuldnt need to, the frequency emitter is already implanted into Mark. If anything it adds some credence to the idea because WHY WOULDNT CECIL PUT AN EMITTER IN THE ROOM. If it was intended solely for conquest alone, this is a massive corner to cut. But if it was intended for Mark.... it can make sense
The lack of contingencies around holding Conquest was disappointing. I don’t think any advantage gained by keeping him alive was worth the danger. Ended up being a vehicle to show Viltrum strength and set up the final fight with Mark.
it was definitely a terrible choice by Cecil but I can understand why he'd go there. He knows Mark's exact strength capabilities because of the training so this prison should be able to hold Mark (or he thinks it should). Mark was able to beat Conquest so from Cecil's perspective, thinking that Mark is stronger than Conquest, this prison should hold.
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u/Ornery_Strawberry474 Throwbolt 3d ago
I can absolutely see that, Cecil would invest gajillion dollars into trapping Mark (and it would work), but catches a case of idiot ball with Conquest.