Exposing the Grift: Michael Knowles is Clueless About Invincible

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Michael Nolles, the newish political commentator who burst on the scene for incredibly terrible takes like transgenderism should be eradicated from public life and his opposition to same-sex adoption, which of course immediately landed him a position at the Daily Wire has a take on Invincible. As we all know, the latest season ended last month and Michael had an issue with one of the episodes. Let's take a listen.

[00:00:28]Do you know the show Invincible? I guess Invincible is on Amazon. I don't know. I didn't know what this show was. It's a cartoon that adults watch. Kids watch it, too. It's based on a comic book. Mr. Davies texted me about this last night.

[00:00:41]He said, "You got to cover the Invincible story." I said, "What's that?" Said, "Well, it's this comic book that became a TV show, and it's this cartoon that guys watch." I said, "Hey, hey, Ben. Ben, explain this to me like I'm a grown man." So, here is a telltale sign you're dealing with a media grifter. The guy flat out admits he doesn't even know the topic of his own video and had to get a crash course from Ben Davies.

[00:01:04]This Ben Davies and now it's likely starting to dawn on you not only which episode of Invincible these morons had a problem with, but also their lack of knowledge of the actual property itself and why they took this opportunity to grift.

[00:01:20]Can you explain the story to me? Like I don't watch I don't listen I don't want to yuck anybody's yum. a lot of subcultures out there, but I don't I hadn't heard of this show. And apparently, it's very, very popular.

[00:01:31]It's been on for about five years. And in the most recent episode, the guy, the protagonist, has gone off to save the universe. He had to go leave his girlfriend to go save the universe, but he was going to come back. In the meantime, the girlfriend decided to kill his child.

[00:01:54]Note the verbiage here. Kill his child.

[00:01:58]What actually occurred is Adam Eve had gotten pregnant by Invincible aka Mark.

[00:02:03]She had difficulty explaining to him that she was pregnant because he was dealing with a lot of other issues and she didn't want to compound them by giving him another thing to worry about.

[00:02:13]>> [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] I had an abortion.

[00:02:22]>> What? I was pregnant, Mark, and I found out just before you left. I didn't tell you because I wanted you thinking about coming home alive, not this. And when you were gone, I was so alone in the thought of going through everything by myself. I I made a decision.

[00:02:44]>> On top of that, Mark's father had returned to Earth. If you don't know anything about Invincible, basically Mark and his father are kind of like Kryptonians. Only Mark's father didn't come to Earth to save it, but to dominate it. Mark's father, known as Omniman, pretended to be Earth's champion. But when Mark gained his powers, killed this universe's version of the Justice League and nearly his own son for trying to stop him. But due to his love for his son and his wife, he exiled himself from Earth, bringing him into conflict with his own people, the Viltrammites, for failing to bring Earth under his control. Why did you make ME DO THIS? THINK, MARK. YOU'LL OUTLAST every fragile, insignificant being ON THIS PLANET. WHAT WILL YOU HAVE AFTER 500 YEARS?

[00:03:28]>> I still have you.

[00:03:41]In the episode, you see that Eve was about to tell Mark that she was pregnant, but she was interrupted by the return of Omniman asking for Mark's help to fight in a war against his people.

[00:03:51]>> Are you okay?

[00:03:54]>> I am not.

[00:03:59]I'm not okay.

[00:04:01]There's never going to be a good time for this. But Mark, >> holy [ __ ] >> I'm sorry, Mark. There's no other way.

[00:04:13]We need you. The time for war is upon us.

[00:04:18]>> So Mark was about to go on a mission he may not return from, and Eve didn't want to cloud his mind further by making him worry. Mark nearly almost died having his internal organs ripped from his body. and it took him months to recover from this. In the meantime, Eve had gotten an abortion partially because it was a child that she never wanted and she didn't know if Mark would return.

[00:04:38]Eve, while a superhero herself, has a shaky relationship with her family. So, the only real family she has is Mark.

[00:04:45]So, the stress of potentially raising a baby alone, caused her to make this decision. So, Michael, who clearly didn't watch this show and knows nothing about it, has none of that context and elected to boil this very compelling narrative down to >> the girlfriend decided to kill his child.

[00:05:02]>> She didn't kill a child. She terminated a pregnancy, one that was actively negatively affecting her body. You see, as I mentioned earlier, Eve is a superhero. Her pregnancy was causing her powers to fail, which nearly got her killed a couple of times. So, with all of this context, it makes sense why Eve decided to terminate her pregnancy.

[00:05:21]She's alone. It was affecting her body.

[00:05:23]Having the baby would put immense stress on the father, who was dealing with severe mental issues, and she wasn't aware if he'd ever return alive. It is not a decision the show treats lightly, and it even causes her to lose her physical fitness.

[00:05:35]>> But not using my powers, living here, eating with my parents, I haven't had the time to take care of myself much.

[00:05:42]So, >> all I noticed was how much I missed you.

[00:05:49]>> I missed you, too.

[00:05:51]>> Funnily enough, I asked a question two years ago that this show answers with this very situation.

[00:05:57]>> They have to take down Peter Parker in order to bring up Michael Brown. That's it's just simple, >> Miles.

[00:06:04]>> And this is something that you only see with male characters. For example, Thor.

[00:06:09]Uh I forget for Mighty Thor. He put on weight and became depressed. Something that the mighty Thor would never do.

[00:06:17]>> But was done to take down the character.

[00:06:21]Something you don't see with female characters. They >> That just not true. That's just realistic character progression if you ask me. If he's sitting on his ass all day playing video games and eating junk food, what's going to happen? He's going to gain weight. I don't understand your your problem with it. It just it shows a realistic depiction of depression and this idea that this has never happened to women. I I don't even need to provide any examples. The people in the comment section are going to do that for me. So, those of you in the comment section, provide examples of a female character in anything gaining weight as a result of going through a traumatic event.

[00:07:04]You prove him wrong.

[00:07:06]>> Got you, [ __ ] face.

[00:07:09]And then this is how the revelation of this crime plays out.

[00:07:13]>> I made a decision, but I should have I don't know. Oh my god. Eve, sorry I did this to you. I should have been here.

[00:07:26]Oh my. Oh my. The superhero goes away to save the universe.

[00:07:35]And when he comes back to thank him, his girlfriend gets a little chubby and kills his child.

[00:07:42]>> So, as we all can see, Michael is very, very stupid. But even worse, he's disingenuous. He's presenting what we all just saw as something done to Mark opposed to a decision made by a person who was not ready to have a child and who was unsure if her boyfriend would ever return home alive. His overemphasis on to save the universe implies that this is Mark's reward. A selfish woman who kills his child.

[00:08:09]>> But remember, Michael does not know anything about this show and had to have it explained to him.

[00:08:14]>> Like I'm a grown man.

[00:08:16]>> Meaning he has no context or knowledge about the events leading up to the literal last episode of a four season TV show and is using this show to push his anti-abortion message. Mark was in a state of severe mental instability and had been lashing out prior, even killing opponents, something he'd sworn not to do. Mark was figuratively and literally dealing with the weight of protecting the Earth and trying not to be his father, but still ended up killing people. Anyway, imagine telling this man that he's about to be a father, and then he is immediately asked to go fight an impossibly powerful enemy that nearly kills him. With all of this context, Eve's decision then becomes far more understandable. even if you disagree with abortion. I'd also like to remind the audience that this is a piece of art based on a comic book where in that comic book, these very same events took place with Eve having an abortion due to Mark's absence and subsequently gaining weight. In that comic, you see the words spoken in the show are nearly word for word out of the book. It is not something the show is making up and instead is something Robert Kirkman wrote. In other words, they are following the source material. Art is a medium where anything is explorable and I'd argue should be explored, especially when those subjects are uncomfortable.

[00:09:31]Depicting difficult situations allows the reader or viewer to explore their own thoughts on these ideas and helps foster empathy, introspection, and a deeper understanding of perspectives they may never personally experience.

[00:09:42]Stories are not endorsements simply because they portray uncomfortable or morally complicated subjects. In many cases, art functions as a mirror rather than a manifesto. By presenting characters with flawed beliefs, painful choices, or tragic outcomes, a story invites the audience to wrestle with the consequences of those actions instead of passively being told what to think. That process of engagement is part of what gives storytelling its emotional and intellectual value. Sanitizing difficult subject matter does not eliminate those ideas from reality. It only limits our ability to properly engage with difficulty should we encounter it. I'll say it again. Depiction is not endorsement. Stories exist precisely to examine humanity. Because Michael is a ding grifter conservative, he doesn't understand this concept.

[00:10:36]And then, as if that weren't bad enough, his response is, "I'm so sorry that I did this to you. I'm sorry that I went off to save the universe.

[00:10:50]and that you were a little lonely. I mean, you still have like friends and family, but you were a little lone. You were a little upset that your husband was saving the universe, so you murdered my child. This is the clearest evidence of Michael grifting here, as basically nothing he just said is true because he doesn't know anything about the show he's trying to criticize. He implies that Eve's decision could have been made with friends and family. Eve is estranged from her family, especially her father, who not only hates that she is a superhuman, but also the fact that she's dating another superhum. Had she brought this information to her father, I'd argue he'd have taken her to the clinic himself to have the pregnancy terminated. Michael then calls Mark her husband. They're not even close to being married. He then says Eve was a little lonely. Again, Eve is estranged from her family, mainly due to her bigoted father. We see that Eve decided to live alone prior to her relationship with Mark. primarily due to her strain relationship with her family. So, as I said earlier, Mark became her family and now that Mark was gone, she effectively had no one to go through this situation with. Sure, she had Mark's mother and Mark's best friend she could potentially talk to, but pregnancy is a serious and private issue, especially at the beginning stages where it's not always easy to speak to non-family members, especially when the father is not present. Michael's attitude here also implies that he thinks this was a decision she made lightly. As we all can see, Eve gained weight due to this decision. Michael seems to think that it was the pregnancy that made her gain weight when it was the choice to terminate her pregnancy that caused severe depression and thus her lack of care for herself. She literally says that in the show, >> but not using my powers, living here, eating with my parents, I haven't had the time to take care of myself much.

[00:12:34]though.

[00:12:36]>> All I noticed was how much I missed you.

[00:12:42]>> I missed you too.

[00:12:44]>> Just for comparison, I immediately my mind went to a similar scenario. Not perfectly yet. doesn't the details don't perfectly line up, but it's similar enough to compare how an abortion re revelation scene played out in our popular media about 40, 50 years ago.

[00:13:08]>> I know you blame me for losing the baby.

[00:13:12]I'll make it up to you, okay?

[00:13:13]>> Oh. Oh, Michael.

[00:13:17]Michael, you are blind. It was an abortion.

[00:13:23]an abortion, Michael.

[00:13:25]Just like our marriage is an abortion.

[00:13:29]Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael.

[00:13:35]I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world. It was a son. A son. AND I HAD IT KILLED BECAUSE THIS MUST all end. No way you could ever forgive me. not with this Sicilian thing that's BEEN GOING ON FOR 2,000 YEARS.

[00:13:56]>> SO, that's how that scene played out not that long ago in one of the greatest movies ever made. Not that I look, I'm not not saying I'm defending that kind of behavior from a man. But that those were the emotional stakes in the in The Godfather. Okay? The the woman comes out and says, "Hey, while you were away, I had an abortion."

[00:14:16]And the man doesn't say, "Oh, I'm sorry I did that to you. I'm sorry I I what did I do to you? I went to work and I also gave you a child. I'm sorry that I did that to you. Oh, it's uh I'm sorry that I made you kill my son." That teary eyed. That was not how it played out 50 years ago.

[00:14:33]>> Then it's a good thing it's not 50 years ago, isn't it, Mikey Boy? Even you just put up your hand saying we shouldn't treat women this way. Although that was clearly performative because you do think we should treat women this way.

[00:14:45]Otherwise, there was no need to attempt to contrast Corleó's reaction to Markx.

[00:14:49]His literal only reaction in that scene was to commit domestic violence, you [ __ ] Mark's reaction was for him to be sorry that he wasn't there with her to go through a situation that he knew she went through alone. Again, Eve only has Mark, something Mark knows. He was clearly sad about losing the child, but he also deeply cares for Eve and the fact that she went through a traumatic event alone. And I find it hilarious that we're using K. Corleó's actions as an argument against the depiction of abortions in the modern day. Kay was entirely correct. She was preventing Michael from bringing another criminal into the world. You may not like how she went about it, but I think you forget that Michael Corleó was a [ __ ] mobster whose lifestyle consistently endangered his family. K. Corleó is a hero and Michael lost everything and died alone. A fate he clearly deserved.

[00:15:36]The story of The Godfather is about how Michael gradually loses his humanity.

[00:15:41]Invincible is about a hero struggling to remain human in a world constantly trying to harden him. So naturally, those stories are going to frame similar events through completely different emotional and thematic lenses. But Michael Nolles just sees this as a culture war thing, as grifters often do.

[00:16:01]50 years ago, the man was so angry at this grave injustice that he himself did an unjust thing, which is go he smacks the woman. Quite the opposite response.

[00:16:12]And notice here, K Diane Keaton, how she plays it when she says, "I had an abortion, Michael." She says, "You gave me a son and I killed him." So there's no confusion about what she did. She says, "I killed him." Abortion is murder and I committed a murder because you godfather Michael are uh evil because you mafioso are evil and so I made this moral error but I did it. Here's my rationale but I did I did commit a crime. Michael is using a 52-year-old film to argue his current position on abortion. And if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about conservatives, I don't know what will.

[00:16:53]Their reluctance to adjust their thinking, even when presented with five decades of new evidence, is what being a conservative is all about. He's also missing the point of that scene. Kay's decision was an act of defiance. She's trying to punish Michael and hurt him.

[00:17:07]So, her choice of words there is to be as brutal as she can in her own way, not to argue a dumbass pro-life position 50 years later. We're also forgetting that this film was set in the 1950s, a time where abortion was illegal, and information on the practice was minimal.

[00:17:22]It wouldn't be until Ro v. Wayade in 1973 that abortion was made a constitutional right, literally the year The Godfather Part Two was being filmed.

[00:17:31]So, of course, this is the type of verbiage being used in the film. Because at that time, men like Michael were in charge. Morons that don't know what they're talking about, imparting their will on women and their bodies. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

[00:17:48]Notice in the cartoon she says, "Well, you I I I made a choice." She doesn't say, "I killed him." She says, "I made a choice." And then she almost starts to say in the cartoon, "I I just I maybe I should have maybe I shouldn't have."

[00:18:04]Maybe, but she can't even say that she regrets it or that she should have spoken to him first. That was obviously what was being left on the table there.

[00:18:12]Maybe I should have called you, talked to you, should waited. But they can't even say that. They can't even admit that.

[00:18:18]>> And this is because you grifters have zero media literacy. And in your case, Michael, you don't even know anything about the show you're bitching about.

[00:18:25]There was no calling or waiting for Mark to return. He almost died and needed months to recover. Months that could have potentially pushed the pregnancy past the point where an abortion typically takes place, which is within 12 weeks. By the way, this is what Adam Eve looked like prior to this event.

[00:18:43]This is what she looked like after. You see this media property is showing you the toll her choice took on her rather than telling you. You see through the character's actions and physical appearance that something has happened.

[00:18:57]We are also talking about the season finale of a show that is ongoing. If the comic is any indication, Mark is hurt that Eve makes the decision without him, a topic the show will surely broach in the coming season. And Eve becomes pregnant again where she states she's never going through the abortion process again. But this is what happens when you make a snap judgment about something you have no real connection to in order to culture war. The comic the scene is based on debuted in 2011. This plot point is 15 years old. It is not something they're doing just because it is a proper adaptation of its source material. What did you think they were just going to leave out a pivotal moment in the comic book? Oh, what am I saying?

[00:19:36]You don't know [ __ ] about this property in the first place.

[00:19:39]And I think for the proabortion people in 2026, they are much weaker and they are are much more self-diluted and they're much more dishonest than the proabortion activists of the 70s. You know, the proabortion activists of the 70s, say what you will about them. They had an infanticidal bloodlust, but at least they were honest about what they were doing. This is how you get Hillary Clinton, even Hillary Clinton running for president saying abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. The reason she acknowledges that it should be rare is because she knows it's murdering a baby.

[00:20:10]And she comes to the wrong moral conclusion, which is that it's okay to murder a baby if I want to. But she at least acknowledges what it is. The abortion activists today won't do that.

[00:20:20]Nonsense. Clinton is a proponent of contraception and safe sex, unlike you moronic Catholics that think condoms are evil. That is what she means by rare.

[00:20:29]that due to safe sexual practices, people who do not want pregnancy should rarely have to resort to abortion, but should still have access to it if the need arises. Michael Nolles is a [ __ ] liar. Anyway, that's the end of Michael's video. Just a silly attempt to grift on the popularity of a trending television show and to push his anti-abortion rhetoric. This video isn't an attempt to convince people who are pro-life. I truly don't give a [ __ ] what you people think about this topic. I'm a man and I think men shouldn't be able to police women's bodies, even if you disagree with this practice. But this is as clear an example as there ever has been of someone using a popular media property to push their political rhetoric. This is exactly what the likes of Nerd Rodic and Heel versus Babyface are doing. But because they have a bunch of toys behind them instead of cups with leftist tears on them, they've tricked a generation of people into believing they're simply agrieved fans taking on the woke agenda. All I see is a sea of Michael Nolles. Losers desperately disguising propaganda as media criticism because outrage is easier to monetize than honesty. Men so utterly addicted to and dependent upon the culture war that they can't even watch a fictional television show without seeing it as an opportunity to sermonize at strangers for clicks. And the saddest part is that people like this always market themselves as defenders of art and storytelling when in reality they reduce every story they touch into the same exhausting political tantrum. Different sets, same rage baiting parasites.

[00:22:10]I got my heart. This [ __ ] is the weather man. This [ __ ] is really shaky. I feel it in my SECOND LIVING on the show without what you see is a doctor on the map prepared for a war when they rip us from our neck. THEY WANT TO BE BETTER BUT EXCITING others and they all want