REX JUST WANTED ONE NORMAL NIGHT WHERE THEY ALL GOT TO CHILL AND NOW HE'S THE ONLY GUARDIAN LEFT ON EARTH AND THE OTHERS HAVE NO IDEA-

dont drag me on here,, this is how i cope

i have plans that i have no self control to keep to myself, and i don't care if the haters will sabotage me

That scene made me physically nauseous.

No way is this show gonna make me cry over Rex bro that fight was devastating😭😭😭

IM SORRY BUT WHY DOES REX LOOK KINDA FINE WHILE BEING HALF DEAD???

(And my ass was greatful AF seeing Rae almost alive crawling outta that bastard, imagine what she's been thru to get out )

And bro literally said "my life flashed after i got shot and i realized what a jerk i was to Kate! And Eve too!" No shit sherlock you realized it after YOU GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD?? ☠️😭

Okay, Time for that belated Shrinking Rae post-

In the comics, Shrinking Ray's "arc" (bearing in mind an extremely liberal definition of that term, they had exactly one scene showcasing this) was that he was implied to be developing an inferiority complex; he's not necessarily incompetent, but he's out of his niche, his clever shrinking-based plans kept getting upstaged by brute-force solutions from the more conventionally powerful heroes like Invincible. He's the scrawny, nerdy little guy with the joke powers, he never gets a win, and in most fights he literally isn't visible. In the fight with the Lizard League his death is framed as pathetic and ineffectual- there's one or two panels between "I'll make you pay!" and getting eaten alive by Komodo. All of this is doing a couple of things- it's emphasizing that again, this is in fact a story and setting where superheroes sometimes just die really badly with limited fanfare- a thing that IIRC hadn't happened since the original Guardians team wipe in issue 7. Second, it's an indicator that the new Guardians are structurally kind of on the ropes. They're heavily staffed by second stringers, they exact second they have to split their forces they suffer a 66 percent casualty rate, and that's with backing from two capes who aren't actually part of the team. Grim! Anyway, when they do the adaptation Shrinking Ray becomes Shrinking Rae, because they want to tweak the gender balance of the cast and the pun is too good to pass up. But I think that there was a reasonable reluctance to transfer the "arc" from the comics one-to-one, because to be blunt, "Ineffectual Nebbish Glasses-wearer who whines a lot and dies pathetically," paired with absolutely nothing else, is gonna read as misogynistic if the character is a woman now. So in the adaptation Rae is markedly more competent. We're introduced to her taking down a much larger opponent by fucking around inside his ear canal, which becomes a favored trick of hers. There are traces of the self-esteem thing- the visual gag where she physically shrinks about a foot when getting chewed out in the briefing- but the overall throughline isn't "look at this loser who somehow ended up on the guardians." In the Lizard League fight, she doesn't get eaten- she's deliberately trying to execute a Thanus maneuver and just fucks it up, seconds after successfully killing a different villain the same way. And there's a second where it looks like it might work, too, before hope is cruelly yanked away. Which makes for a markedly cooler death scene- but who died? What was actually going on with her? Anything? In some sense she's cooler, but it's kind of an undifferentiated cool. She had what, Six lines? Seven? On balance I think Rae is still doing her fundamental job in the story, which is to pad the Guardians roster for a while and have someone who actually dies and stays dead as a result of the Lizard League fight- but I think they definitely missed an opportunity to give her some more texture than her comic counterpart had. Part of me thinks that the show would have been a good place to go even harder on Shrinking Rae being in over her head, but in a considered way, to emphasize that the Guardians aren't well managed- maybe tie it into the tensions between Robot and Immortal regarding sustainable team management practices. Part of me thinks you should go the other way, that if you're gonna do away with the idea she's underwhelming you should blow up her role, have her actually say and do some things that affect the story or the team dynamic in any noticeable way, because as it stands she's kind of visibly siloed as the designated mauve shirt. I'm definitely of one mind that this showcases something I suspected was gonna bite the show in the ass, which is that they're (laudably) diversifying a secondary and tertiary cast whose main role in the source material is often to die badly or fade out of focus.

The New Guardians of the Globe

SHRINKING RAEEEE 💞💞💞

thank you for the drawing req anon!!! drawing reqs are still openn

Funny Headcanon: Rex saw the Willy Wonka scam in Glasgow and decided to dunk on the scam artist by getting Eve, Mark, Kate, Amanda, Rudy and Rae to do their own Willy Wonka experience but free and a million times better than the old one while getting the original cast members. Debbie has a pic of Mark in a Willy Wonka outfit. Cecil let it slide.

until proven otherwise i choose to believe that rae is a freaky weirdo who is a little too enthusiastic about messing around with people's insides and giving out unpleasant anatomy facts

Invincible S2 E6 spoilers without context

oh my god shrinkinf rae what the fuck did they do to u and ur gf kate

shhhh i'm manifesting <33

bonus:

Invincible Season 2 Episode 5 Spoilers below

Oh my god Rae’s death was so much more brutal than in the comics

Im happy they're alive