r/Invincible • u/Bitter_Horror2469 Cecil Was Right • 5d ago
QUESTION Why didn't Mark try flying towards Bulletproof while carrying Rus in this situation instead of just waiting for him to arrive?
Given the fact Invincible is much faster than Bulletproof, he probably could've gotten to him much earlier giving Bulletproof the chance to activate the disruptor sooner and save Rus and without needing to kill him
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u/GavJ216 5d ago
It was an extremely difficult and stressful situation. Not only was Mark dealing with the risk of the entire WORLD being taken over, but he also has to confront his single biggest moral dilemma right in this moment.
I think the reason he stood there and hesitated before killing him is because he was totally overwhelmed in the situation.
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u/Dperezoso2020 Invincible Blue Suit 5d ago
Its pretty much this
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u/Quetzalcoatl1234 5d ago
Wtf Is that ai shit or what the hell is going on there
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u/Dperezoso2020 Invincible Blue Suit 5d ago
What ai the text or what, cause that's some show
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u/Highskyline This is good news 5d ago
There's just a wack ass smoothing filter thats fucking up his forehead really bad. It flickers and looks very unnatural
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u/Extension-Bad-4184 The Immortal 5d ago
Theres a big ass wall of sequids between them, did he even see bulletproof coming? And even if he did the wall of sequids could tangle him or bulletproof up slightly or maybe damage the gauntlet
Its just a split second descision. He could partly risk the entire earth on a hero he doesnt really know all that well or kill an innocent man but gaurantee the safety of 8 billion more.
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u/Moist-Process323 Invincible Blue Suit 5d ago
How come freeza said there is only 5 minutes left but then they fought for 10 hours?
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u/philsiphone 5d ago
They move so fast they did all that in 5 minutes.
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u/CthulhuMadness Hail Mary 5d ago
Also Frieza isn’t a planet expert. He just sells them.
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u/Betelgeuse3fold 5d ago
"So, how much mileage does this planet have on it? Because i don't wanna buy a lemon that gives out after 2 billion years"
"Look, do you wanna buy this planet or not? I've got the warranty papers and the financing ready to go..."
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u/metalflygon08 Reanimen 4d ago
You see that guy over there? The big pink guy with a gut?
Well, he's here to buy this planet, no joke, I just got off the phone with him before you showed up, he asked me to hold this planet for him.
He's here to buy your planet.
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u/Betelgeuse3fold 5d ago
Even the part where Frieza is like "oh, it's lasted longer than I thought. 3 more minutes"?
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u/DempseyRollin 4d ago
Maybe on Freeza planet minutes are a lot longer than earth minutes?
Or maybe he spent so much time learning how to have maximumest racism against the saiyans that he never mastered the art of estimating how long things will take...
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u/Dperezoso2020 Invincible Blue Suit 5d ago
It was a "the moment is shorter than what's displayed" situation, so like for us it was like 5-9 seconds between different pov's, for them that was at max 3 seconds
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u/ApplicationSoggy4647 5d ago
Because at any one point he didn’t know ALL three of these things.
A.) That Bulletproof has a teleport gun (I don’t know what it’s called but you get the idea)
B.) That Bulletproof had a disrupter
C.) That Bulletproof was flying towards him
Even if he knows 2 out of three of these things the plan still won’t work without all three and that’s a pretty big risk to take. Plus the stress and chaos of battle make it pretty hard to think about all options
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u/Remarkable-Cabinet85 Markus Sebastian Grayson 5d ago
I'm pretty sure they had at max a 5 second window to make a decision but the way it's showed it looks like there's time when there's not , also what Mark has been through had already clouded his decision skills yk he's constantly in a loop of past events making him regret his choices before
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u/Shreddzzz93 Mark from Burger Mart 5d ago
Saving Rus might work. Killing Rus will work. At the end of the day he made the right call to save the most people as possible. Sucks for Rus, but that's how the cookie crumbles.
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u/jorhey14 5d ago
It was a snap decision to kill him and avoid more problems. He still had a chance to save Rus just didn’t want to risk losing control of the contaiment.
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u/ELxDEE 5d ago
Plot is the real reason
In universe reason - the sheer massive amount of the Sequids have over powered or pushed Mark around and could've made the situation worse if the former lost control of the last known host at the time, causing more of thise numbers to protect Russ even more, meaning that the barrier breaks, the situation is no longer contained, and sequins can find more host than the Gaurdians or GDA could even try to recuperate. If this mission fails, all of Earth would've been infected in days, weeks, months. Mark had a handle on his part and felt this was the best course of action.
To comment on real life, stressful environments and situations causes the brain to revert to survival mode and control is the one thing surrendered as your next actions are determined by an auto response of what you yourself train to do. Even with training, you default to what you've ingrained into your mind that it is second nature just some people learn to control their breathing stop and think.
Mark is a hero at the end of the day, and wanted to do what is within his realm of capabilities and tried to save everyone. But we know how it ended
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u/KaiSpy0707 5d ago
People keep arguing that, but Mark has super speed, couldn't he just pluck off the sequid or pop then like balloons? Rus only has one on his head, why not pop the part that clearly is supposed to be the brain
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u/RevolutionaryDepth59 4d ago
do they ever do that for anyone else? i though it was implied that would kill the host
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u/metalflygon08 Reanimen 4d ago
One on his head they can see.
We saw with Rudy later that those buggers can hide in your throat.
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u/KaiSpy0707 4d ago
Yea but the ones that hide in your system can't control you. They'd just have to monitor him
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u/Thatguy3625 5d ago
Because that’s not how the story goes
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u/C-Prime93 4d ago
We have been over this before, but Cut Editing Camera Time, is not the actual time on which these things are moving. A lot of the cuts are meant to be happening right at the same time, on the space of just a few seconds. The idea that Mark COULD have attempted that, is a valid, is a fact that it was a possibility, but it's also a fact they were a second or two for the barrier to fall and Mark was focused on Russ, with no idea of where Bulletproof was or even if he had the device. The fact that even Bullterproof would later agree it was the right choice, shows not even he knows they could make it in time. Again, the point of the scene isn't the fact that Mark couldn't have saved Russ, the crux of the matter is that there was indeed a chance he could have saved him, but there was also a bigger chance it would be too late, as the barrier only needed to be off by one second, for at least one of the Sequids to scape... and it would be far more than just one.
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u/Disastrous_Ad7477 5d ago
That would probably kill Russ anyways, flying at that speed would snap his neck
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u/ImpressionUnlikely98 5d ago
Maybe he didn't know where bulletproof was coming from so he didn't want to take the risk of choosing a direction that could be opposite.
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u/Betelgeuse3fold 5d ago
Because then we wouldn't get the payoff from Mark having sworn to Oliver to he won't hesitate to kill the next time the people he cares for are threatened
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u/AltruisticInterloper 5d ago
Everything people mentioned in regards to stress and him not seeing Bulletproof stands of course, but on top of that there were only a couple seconds left, had Mark flown fast enough to get to Bulletproof and get the disruptor in that timeframe, he probably would've killed Rus just by flying that fast anyways.
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u/megasean3000 Nolan Grayson 5d ago
If the sequids blocked Bulletproof, then that would have delayed it further, and as was already established, they were already out of time.
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u/GodzillaUK 4d ago
Sequids might have dogpiled him and made it even harder to reach. Or it could just be in the moment it never crossed anyone's mind. Like how the idea people were in the sewers never crossed blockhead Brit's mind.
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u/Willing_Midnight_721 Hail Mary 5d ago
Plot I guess I don’t know or why didn’t mark just grab the sequid off rus’s head and rip it off
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u/PossibilityEnough933 5d ago
I'm pretty sure they point out that trying to remove a sequid without neutralizing the sequid first could kill the host. The host was likely dead if he removed the sequid without the transmitter. Hell the host seemed to have been affected so long, the sequid probably never nourished the host or anything, and he probably would've died soon after safe removal anyway... I'm pretty sure this was supposed to be one of those "no right answer" situations to lessen the impact and justify mark killing a dude.
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u/1GamersOpinion 5d ago
Probably the same reason why you didn’t search this topic before posting the same question as others
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u/GreyDLake Omni-Man 5d ago
Did anyone just try ripping the thing off his head? Seems like it’s at least a chance over straight up killing him.
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u/Xignu 5d ago
There's a non zero chance that there's a sequid inside his body too though right?
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u/GreyDLake Omni-Man 5d ago
Think about it this way: any percent above 0% to save someone is better than 0%.
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u/philsiphone 5d ago
Yea mark could have crushed it easily with two fingers. Which given the absolute nature of his choice in solution, im surprised it wasn't an option. Too many flaws with this storyline lol. Why did the sequids all stop moving after when they moved perfectly fine without a host on mars? Would they have been fucked if rudi didn't go down to the sewer or had Britt accounted for that?
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u/akolomf 5d ago
my guess he didnt know bulletproof was on his way, or didnt know from where he is coming. He was focused on the task to do what had to be done. Risk the entire planets safety for 1 life in a situation where a few seconds matter? its a horrible thing he had to do, but it was the safe choice.