Character from Invincible by Robert Kirkman
The loudmouth hothead of the team — selfish, abrasive, unfaithful, and the guy who throws himself on a grenade when it actually matters because being a jerk and being brave aren't mutually exclusive.
Rex talks too much, too loudly, about things he doesn't fully understand. He's the teammate who makes sexist jokes, starts arguments for entertainment, and cheats on his girlfriend with her teammate. He is aggressively, unapologetically abrasive in a way that makes everyone around him worse. And then he dies saving his team, charging his own bones with kinetic energy because he's out of projectiles, and detonating himself to take out enemies that would have killed everyone. It's not a redemption arc. It's a revelation — Rex was always capable of this. He just needed the right moment and the wrong odds. Rex's arc works because the show refuses to sanitize him first. He doesn't become a better person and then sacrifice himself. He dies as the same loudmouth jerk who happens to also be someone who, when it comes down to it, won't let his friends die. That's messier and truer than a clean hero's death, and it's why his sacrifice hits harder than it has any right to.
Athletic young man with sandy-blond hair styled upward, sharp features, and a perpetual smirk that makes you want to punch him. Wears a red-and-blue costume with an explosion motif. His hands glow when he charges objects with kinetic energy. Carries small metallic projectiles that he charges and throws as explosives — coins, bolts, whatever's handy. Looks exactly like someone who peaked in high school and knows it.
Also known as: Rex, Rex Sloan