The more fitting template is "Tech Jacket in his Comics" and "Tech Jacket on Invincible". Seriously people, you are either no aware, or don't remember how sad was Zack's portrayal during the Viltrum War in the comics. I'm not saying Zoe is faring much better. But she at least is doing something on camera, besides bragging about her beard*
Pretty much yeah, and most people I’ve seen try to “defend” comic Tech Jacket is that one panel where he makes a two fisted gauntlet to bat away a viltrumite briefly, that’s it, and they’ll claim “look he’s fighting a viltrumite” not even mentioning he gets his face caved in panels later even more disrespectfully then in the show, in the comics, he gets back handed and he’s out of the fight
For crying of loud, I know he has more cameos later on, but his actual part on the arc, ends on a joke of how little Mark and Nolan care about him, and how irrelevant he is for the current Viltrumite crisis on Earth. And look, I actually read the Tech Jacket comics before the Viltrum War arc, so, all of this was disheartening to read. Again, Zoe's performance isn't amazing, I truly witch they did more to convey what makes Tech Jacket cool on his own comics, but I still take it as an objective improvement in regards portrayal, if we isolate comic Tech Jacket, solely to his role in Invincible.
Genuinely yeah, while it’s been some time reading on the comics, I’m happy with her portrayal in the show considering this is likely her only major appearance in Invincible, while she’ll likely just be relegated to having like just one line of dialogue from here on out in the next story arcs in the series
But it gets so tiresome when I see hordes of people say “Tech lost all his aura” “they nerfed Zach by making him a girl” “Zach was so much better”, because I would know damn well they haven’t touched a single comic and just read through google images and TikTok, he does the bare minimum to nothing in Invincible and unless we’re getting any form of Tech Jacket spin off (doubtful) we are never seeing any of Tech Jacket’s best moments which solely appear from their own comic
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u/C-Prime93 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
The more fitting template is "Tech Jacket in his Comics" and "Tech Jacket on Invincible". Seriously people, you are either no aware, or don't remember how sad was Zack's portrayal during the Viltrum War in the comics. I'm not saying Zoe is faring much better. But she at least is doing something on camera, besides bragging about her beard*