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Invincible’s Atom Eve special puts Green Lantern to shame
01.08.2023 - 15:35 / polygon.com / Scarlet Witch
In comics, reality manipulation is an enticing device that can allow for all sorts of intoxicating visuals or unexpected ideas. And when adapted to the screen (especially in live action), those ideas can be held back by the limitations of the form (just like stretchy powers).
Scarlet Witch, the respective Doctors Strange and Manhattan, and Green Lantern are a few of the more famous examples, but the list of heroes and villains who can change the world before them with ease goes on. Invincible’s Atom Eve stakes her claim in that elite group, especially after the show’s stellar hourlong special that just dropped on Prime Video.
The special, “Invincible: Atom Eve,” is just under an hour long and co-written by Helen Leigh (Severance, Archive 81) and show creator Robert Kirkman (who also created the original comic). It takes a step back to tell the origin story of Atom Eve, voiced by Gillian Jacobs in the first season of the show and by Aria Kane and Jazlyn Ione in the special.
The special shows how Eve got her powers at the hands of a brutal science experiment and examines her troubled upbringing with parents who simply don’t understand her or what she’s capable of. “Invincible: Atom Eve” delivers what Invincible did best in its first season: compelling animation, slick action, and complicated family dynamics, all without the pacing problems that occasionally held the first season back.
But the real highlight is how the special makes the most of Atom Eve’s power set. Her ability to rearrange atoms at the molecular level allows her to change reality completely — transforming one object to another or creating objects out of thin air. The only thing she can’t change is living tissue (her attempt to change a squirrel into a puppy falls flat).
Off the bat, “Atom Eve” leans into how this specific teenage girl would use these powers. Eve first encounters her powers while doing some homework, accidentally making her book glass. But her real eureka moment is when her mother drops off a cream cheese and olive sandwich outside her door. Eve turns it into a juicy burger (something she will do more than once in the special), and later changes a dress gifted to her by an aunt into something more fitting with her tastes.
Perhaps the concept is best demonstrated by the episode’s big fight scene, set on a highway (and clearly influenced by Akira) when Eve encounters four other victims of genetic experimentation from the same lab that created her. It’s a harrowing sequence, as it’s arguably the first time Eve has encountered real family, and they’re here to kill her. How the scene unfolds and how Eve uses her powers creatively has people rightly pointing out that it surpasses most depictions of the similarly powered Green
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