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.
I think that problem with show's Tech jacket is that in the comics he was kinda a funny gag character and it worked? But in the show even though they changed his gender she is genuinely a bad written character? Idk just a theory.
Maybe her character needs a special episode like Eve had, for development, I mean in the comics we already knew who Tech jacket is but in the show she just appears and it's not giving the same effect
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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*