"Human" // Invincible TRIBUTE AMV

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I loved making this video.
Invincible is an incredible show that hooked me so hard that I finished it in 3 days while ON VACATION. WITH MY FAMILY.
So it's pretty good I'd say.

Originally, I was compelled to make an Invincible amv tribute music video through the song "Born For This" by The Score. I'd used one of their songs for my technoblade amv, as they were very good at making high-energy empowering songs that could easily be used in any action amv. So, for a while, I thought that was the song I'd use.
Now, of course I considered the song "invincible" by Skrillex. But, it just didn't seem to fit as well as I wanted it to.
Then I remembered the song you hear now: "Human" by Rag 'n' Bone Man.
And after a few re-listens, I was convinced. The juxtaposition between the show's title and the song's, as well as the song's original message, mixed extremely well.

I wanted my video to focus on the fact that in a world full of superheroes, supervillains, aliens, gods, and more...in the end, we're all human.
And what I mean by that is we are all vulnerable, we all make mistakes, and we all care.

The original singer and invincible both feel as if they are expected by everyone to be their savior when, in reality, they can only do so much. Nowhere is this more clearly shown than the final fight between Mark and his father. Where, despite all his strength, Mark is completely helpless. He cannot win the fight, no matter how much he puts into it. But he's not the one who loses. Because, it is his father who gives up and is crushed by the weight of his own humanity.

Mark is human because, even though his namesake and his inherited power suggest otherwise, he's vulnerable. It becomes a running gag throughout the show for characters to make fun of Invincible's name for being "optimistic" because of simply how out of his own depth Mark is most of the time. He's constantly on the losing end of the fight and has been put into serious and even fatal conditions on the job. Usually, quite literally diving headfirst into these fights and causing considerable unnecessary collateral damage. His powers are great, but he's inexperienced and flawed. He makes a lot of mistakes. But, what makes Mark such a good hero, is that he cares. When he makes those mistakes that hurt innocents, when people he could've saved die, it takes a toll on him.

Atom-Eve can control atoms on a molecular level, but her ignorant, controlling, and overprotective father's words and desires hurt her. Rex's cheating on her, hurt her as well. While powerful, she is vulnerable at her heart. So much so that she had to move out and figure out who she even wanted to be.

Cecil has hundreds, maybe thousands of people waiting on his every command. He has access to the pinnacle of human technology, and the very best talent to execute his orders with them. And he is willing to use those resources to do anything it takes to do the right thing. But he hates that about himself. Because even if the ends justify the means, he cares enough to regret having the will to go through with it.

And then there's Omni Man. Figuratively, and literally, the most inhuman character in the series (well maybe some match him literally but, you know what I mean) and yet somehow: he's still vulnerable. And it is his human side what makes him that way. The ever-so-small side of him he grew on earth as a father is vulnerable, because he made one fatale mistake: learning to care. Maybe he isn't human enough to care about the destruction of the earth if need be, or even the inevitable death of his wife, but he learned to care for his son. And so in a moment of vulnerability, in which he realizes this, he loses the fight. Unable to destroy the one thing he's learned to care about for himself. Unable to destroy the one thing that makes him human.