Omni-Man Kills Your Fav

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Invincible; read at your own caution.

About

Omni-Man Kills Your Fav, or Omni-Man Crushes Skull, refers to an exploitable photoshop series depicting super villain Omni-Man from the animated series Invincible crushing various characters' skulls, splattering his face with blood. The format began on Twitter in May with the bot-run gimmick account @Omni_Kills_Fav, resulting in a number of popular examples over the course of the month.

Origin

At the end of Season 1 Episode 1 of the Amazon Prime series Invincible, Omni-Man kills every member of a superhero squad known as the Guardians of the Globe in a particularly violent scene. At one point, Omni-Man crushes the skull of one of the heroes (named Red Rush) who desperately fights back, punching Omni-Man's chest multiple times but failing to fight him off. Omni-man's face is then splattered with blood as the hero's head is crushed (shown below).

On May 11th, 2021, Twitter page^[1] @Omni_Kills_Fav, aka Omni-Man KIlls Your Fav, a "self-managed bot" according to the account bio, opened and posted their first meme, taking a series of screenshots from the scene and editing Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls into Omni-Man's grasp as if he's crushed her head (shown below). The post gained over 2,100 likes and 350 retweets in six days.

The account posted a number of variations throughout the day, continuing to do so every day since (examples from May 11 shown below).

Spread

On May 12th, Facebook^[2] page "The Dark Geek World" posted a variation of the meme with Omni-Man about to crush One-Punch Man's head, then realizes he's about to get one-punched, depicted by Omni-Man's head changing into Steve Buscemi's (shown below). The post gained over 6,200 shares and 12,000 reactions in five days.

Twitter account Omni-Man Kills continued to post a number of variations throughout May, many gaining significant traction (examples shown below). The account gained over 30,000 followers by May 17th.

On May 13th, Twitter^[3] user @IvanByAkko tweeted at the Omni-Man Kills account, "NOBODY TOUCHES MY WIFE" along with a photoshop of Omni-Man killing Atsuko Kagari from the anime series Little Witch Academia, and another image of Kagari crushing Omni-Man's head (shown below, left and right).

On May 14th, @Omni_kills_fav responded to @IvanByAkko with a video^[4] edit showing Omni-Man punching Kagari in the face. On the same day, they posted an edit of Omni-Man crushing Steven Universe's head, garnering over 26,000 likes and 3,400 retweets in three days (shown below).

Omni-Man Offers Your Fav A Cold One

On May 14th, 2021, Twitter user @Omni_kills_fav posted a new variation of the format in which Omni-Man holds Jesus' head in his hands, about to crush it, then instead offers him a beer, having too much respect for Jesus (shown below). The post gained over 3,500 likes and 600 retweets in three days.

That day, @Omni_kills_fav posted two other variations of the format, one offering a beer to Dragon Ball Z character Bardock (shown below, right), garnering over 18,000 likes in three days. The account has continued to use the format since.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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