• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It’s from Jessica Jones, a very, very good show. David Tennant plays a man with mind control powers who uses them in all of the worst ways you can possibly imagine. It’s technically a Marvel comics thing, but the creators were given total carte blanche and went deep into the absolute nightmarishness of the subject matter. It’s basically a mix of detective noir and horror. Tennant and Ritter both deliver incredible performances and the show really plays with the abject terror of living in a world with superhumans in it. It’s like a version of Invincible that refuses to ever undermine the horror by cracking a joke.

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      3 months ago

      If you want a less explicit example of what he does that doesn’t really spoil anything, he picks some random family’s house as a base and tells the kids to stay out of sight. Iirc they just stand in a closed closet because they can’t disobey.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, its probably.worth elaborating that his mind control power is literally, “He tells you to do something and you cannoy disobey.”

        Like in the grand scheme of things Marvel, he could have showed up to Thanos and told Thanos to end himself, and Thanos would have.