Invincible Season 3 has simply delivered an satirically surprising ending with episode six, ‘All I Can Say Is I am Sorry’, in additional methods than one. Nevertheless, any reader of the comics will know this was simply the tip of the iceberg in comparison with what’s to return.
Not solely did Aaron Paul’s Powerplex by accident electrocute his spouse and son to dying whereas making an attempt to actual revenge on Mark, the ultimate scene confirms Langstrom Levy continues to be alive with a number of Invincibles from different universes at his disposal, alongside being the one who’s been watching him all through the season.
With creator Robert Kirkman and showrunner Simon Racioppa’s habits of desirous to comply with the supply materials’s primary story beats, however leaving room for series-exclusive improvements, the move of the present has made it barely onerous to 100% assure if occasions with every season have been going to occur as they did within the comics.
Nevertheless, with the return of Langstrom and his military of Invincibles, I knew from the get-go that the Invincible Warfare Arc’s adaptation has been lastly confirmed. If the battles that comply with match these within the authentic story, it’s going to be a massacre – and we’ll doubtless be saying goodbye to 1 key character whereas saying whats up to a fan favourite we’ve but to see on the small display screen.
Warning: Main spoilers forward for each the Invincible comics and doubtlessly episodes 7 and eight of Season 3.
Invincible Warfare on the horizon
The second season already gave us an perception into what would occur if Mark gave into the Viltrumite legacy and determined to take over the world along with his father, however Invincible Season 3’s episode 7 is ready to display the complete scale of that horror with a military of the titular hero making an attempt to beat the entire world, appropriately named the ‘Invincible Warfare’.
Within the comics, the assault lasts a number of days, however is devastating with all teams of lively heroes pushed to their limits to cease only a handful of evil Invincibles. A lot of the sequence has targeted on what Mark can do when he would not maintain again his energy, however this reveals the results of our hero not restraining his morals as nicely.
Lots of Earth’s superheroes are significantly injured with cities internationally laid to waste, amounting to numerous casualties. In trade for serving to every villainous model of Mark obtain their very own objectives, Angstrom succeeds in desirous to make the world concern Invincible as a lot as they did in his personal world.
Mark’s disgrace at his failure to avoid wasting all these killed on account of his battles earlier than has already weighed on him. With episode 7’s identify, ‘What Have I Performed?’, the Prime Video present appears to indicate this would be the case each figuratively and actually as he’ll must cope seeing a number of variations of himself destroying a lot of the world.
With that, the Prime Video adaptation of the Invincible Warfare goes to really feel a heavier burden on Mark than he is ever felt, however there’ll even be a private tragedy within the lack of a sure hero to go away a big effect on us all as members of the viewers as nicely.
The tip of the highway?
The explanation for the altering of Shrinking Rae’s destiny in season 2, surviving getting eaten by Komodo Dragon whereas her male counterpart died within the comics, hadn’t been made clear till we began to see her character develop in Season 3.
Together with displaying us as viewers extra of her character and backstory, we have been handled to this model of Rae as extra of a grounded human being somewhat than the throwaway character her authentic model was. Regardless of that, her series-exclusive romance with Rex – adopted by the affirmation of the Invincible Warfare Arc’s adaptation – has made Kirkman and co’s intentions all of the extra clear this time round: so as to add further weight for the foremost upcoming dying forward.
In difficulty #60, a lone crushed Rex is dealing with dying by the hands of one of many evil Invincibles. Utterly out of ammunition to utilize his explosive skills, he detonates his personal skeleton to kill the alternate-universe-Mark Grayson, sacrificing himself within the course of.
Within the comics, Rex’s dying nonetheless hit his superhero comrades onerous, particularly Eve, given their historical past and born-again friendship. Be that as it might, everybody rapidly moved on and that upset appeared to solely be felt for a few points.
By being along with Rae this time round, that relationship, having us witness its improvement and getting invested as viewers, Rex’s dying on this model will really feel like rather more of a loss to mourn.
Alternatively, Invincible Season 3 might be going for a bait-and-switch this time round and have Shrinking Rae be killed as a substitute. Since she barely survived the second season, it could be an enormous twist that will arguably be as harsh as Rex’s dying and supply an fascinating alternate actuality of what would occur if Rex was round for the upcoming Viltrumite Warfare Arc.
However, one other second again in Season 2 with Rudy hints to Rex’s dying going about because it did earlier than. After Rex died within the comics, Rudy adopted his identify as the brand new Rex, to honor his reminiscence since his physique was cloned from his now-deceased teammate.
As a future model of Rudy as Robotic appeared earlier than Mark in Season 2 after he seemingly killed Angstrom, Eve referred to as him Rex, implying the unique did certainly die to have his identify carried on by his clone as earlier than.
It is time for Conquest
We have now all been questioning simply how far in direction of the Viltrumite Warfare arc Invincible Season 3 will go, and with how the coated occasions of every episode line-up, it appears to be like just like the finale will lastly be introducing one of many comics’ most interesting villains: Conquest.
A grizzled Viltrumite veteran showing instantly after the Invincible Warfare, who we assume is being performed by Breaking Dangerous’s Jonathan Banks, Conquest pushed Mark to his limits within the comics – each bodily and mentally – making for essentially the most intense finale on the present but.
Bones have been damaged and popped, blood gushed, and different characters like Eve and Oliver who tried to hitch the combat have been repeatedly swatted like flies. Even studying the problems myself in 2025, it confirmed simply how fragile many of the heroes in Invincible are in comparison with the Viltrumite menace, even Mark when he’s taken without warning.
If you happen to thought the ultimate towards Angstrom final season was brutal, all I can say with out going into spoilers is that Mark has to make use of his head to have a hope at beating Conquest.
With Invincible’s Season 3 finale being titled ‘I Thought You’d By no means Shut Up’, it appears to be like like we’ll get a full adaptation of Mark and Conquest’s jaw-dropping combat, and it’ll be as astonishingly violent because it was within the authentic.
Quite a lot of the important reception over season’s first six episodes, even in our personal Invincible Season 3 evaluation, is that they did not present sufficient of the Viltrumite battle. Effectively, the combat towards Conquest will likely be an instance of the phrase “high quality over amount”. Whether or not you’re as large a fan of the comics or are seeing Invincible’s story for the primary time via the present, this might be the whole lot we’ve been hoping for.
The excellent news is that regardless of how into the comics Season 3 will cowl, we now know for certain that we’ll get to see extra with Invincible Season 4 already being confirmed.
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