Michael Cera's caped crimefighter and his ear drum-bursting victory lap is doomed before it even begins. Buzzed out of his mind on a concoction of Frenchie's creation, The Great Wide Wonder is tearing through the city, breaking the sound barrier and making no effort to apply the brakes. As a result, he makes no effort to look where he's going, either, resulting in a collision with Ironcast that is presented like a car crash. Seeing his grinning idiotic face wrapped around his own body as it first hits and then penetrates this metal man is an absurd bit of animation, and every bit as brutal as you're imagining if you haven't yet tuned in.
For any other show, that might be enough, but the GWW continues to skip across the sea like a pebble made of meat and gristle before splatting against the dock and a few nearby observers who probably didn't realize they'd inadvertently purchased the splash seats. Is it absolutely horrific? Certainly. Is it a dose of claret-covered hilarity? Yeah, kind of. But with characters like Billy Butcher and The Homelander standing by to watch, is it really that surprising?
