5 biggest differences between Invincible season 2 and the comics

1. Omni-Man and Debbie contemplate suicide

After Omni-Man leaves Earth in the comics, we don’t get any details on what he does or where he went aside from brief comments he gives to Mark on Thraxa. Mark is a lot more willing to hear his dad out in the comics, despite his motivations on Thraxa being way worse. In the show, it’s clear that Omni-Man has cut ties with the Viltrumites by this point. But in the comics, he conquered the planet of Thraxa in the hopes of offering it to the Viltrumites in exchange for a lesser punishment for abandoning his post on Earth.

The show takes Omni-Man’s selfish desire to save his own ass and morphs it into him aimlessly wandering through space while he seemingly regrets everything he did up until this point. Because remember, he not only killed the Guardians of the Globe, beat his son bloody, called Debbie a pet and murdered thousands of people, he enslaved billions of people on countless planets before even coming to Earth. Omni-Man drifting through space and almost letting himself drift into a black hole suggests that having a family on Earth changed him to the core.

Although it’s bizarre, Omni-Man learns how to love the Thraxans and they are his shot at redemption because he knows that he can’t go back to Earth. The Thraxan ship saves him from death and he returns the favor by becoming their protector and one of them.

Back on Earth, we get a shot of Debbie staring onto a highway and one can only assume she’s thinking about jumping off. Instead of opting to just have Debbie drink her pain away the entire season, the show introduced a great storyline with the support group which strengthened her story, in my opinion. It drove home the fact that the ramifications of Omni-Man’s actions drive her to the breaking point. Her friendships, career and home life were significantly impacted and the show does a great job of portraying the deep wounds Omni-man leaves.

Given the future of both characters in the comics, it will be very interesting to see how they continue to handle Debbie moving forward, because she is already 10 times more compelling in the show and Omni-Man’s arc got a much needed tune-up.

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