Full spoilers observe for Invincible season 3 episode 8.
It solely appears like yesterday that Invincible season 3 made its Prime Video debut. So, it feels bizarre to be writing that the critically-acclaimed animated collection’ newest chapter has simply ended, albeit in usually explosive style.
As the mud settles on one other jaw-dropping season finale, I’m right here to reply your greatest questions on this season’s eighth episode, titled ‘I Thought You’d Never Shut Up’. I’ll additionally speak about the place Amazon’s TV adaptation would possibly go subsequent.
Full spoilers instantly observe for Invincible‘s newest episode and the graphic novel collection it is primarily based on. Make certain you have streamed it earlier than you proceed!
Does Atom Eve die in Invincible season 3 episode 8?
Thankfully not. If you have watched episode 8 in its entirety, you will know that is the case. If you someway missed how she survived being mutilated and skewered by Conquest, although, permit me to clarify.
Atom Eve really performs a much bigger half within the battle in opposition to Conquest (extra on him later) than she does within the supply materials. Indeed, she actively tries to cease him from beating Mark to a pulp, and even makes use of her matter-transmutation skills to go toe-to-toe with the Viltrum Empire’s second-most highly effective warrior.
But, as you will keep in mind from Invincible season 3 episode 7, Eve was significantly injured through the Invincible War occasion that was hinted in any respect the way in which again in season 3’s premiere, then later teased in season 3 episode 6’s mid-credits scene, and ultimately depicted on this season’s seventh chapter. She would wrestle to tackle Conquest when totally match, not to mention having simply awoken from a week-long coma and nonetheless recovering from the injuries she sustained one episode earlier.
Despite placing up a courageous battle, Eve begins to tire and begins making errors. That permits Conquest to achieve the higher hand, smash Eve’s jaw, and seem to homicide Mark’s girlfriend by disemboweling her proper in entrance of him.
Equal components livid and distressed over Eve’s obvious demise, Mark takes his anger out on his seemingly superior foe, however even his rage-fueled assaults aren’t sufficient to assist the collection’ superhuman protagonist beat Conquest. Eventually, after one final brave effort on the eponymous hero’s half, Conquest overpowers Mark and begins strangling him nearly to dying.
Cue Eve’s death-defying return. Revived by her personal superhuman skills, Eve miraculously self-heals earlier than dealing vital injury to Conquest by firing an enormous pink laser that incinerates his costume and burns the pores and skin proper off his physique. Exhausted, a now-naked Eve collapses, however her intervention proves to be sufficient to assist Mark lastly defeat Conquest (don’t fret, we’re attending to him).
So, how does Eve come again from the lifeless in top-of-the-line Prime Video reveals? As Mark recovers from the accidents he sustained throughout his battle with Conquest, Eve reminds him (and us) that, when her organic mom was pregnant with Eve, scientists experimented on Eve within the womb and imbued her with superpowers.
What we did not know is that, whereas these experiments have been ongoing, the researchers put in a failsafe to stop Eve utilizing her skills on sentient matter. Essentially, she will be able to’t harm anybody sufficient to significantly injure or kill them.
However, these psychological blocks are overridden when Eve suffers a traumatic occasion like, you understand, nearly dying. That permits her to make use of her skills with out limitations, which is why she was capable of self-heal, thereby saving herself from sure dying. Oh, and it is why she was in a position to take action a lot injury to Conquest together with her laser blast.
Is Conquest lifeless following his battle with Invincible?
Initially, it could seem so, however Invincible followers know that no person actually stays lifeless on this universe (I’m taking a look at you, Angstrom Levy and Mister Liu…).
After Eve’s laser blast assault, Conquest is severely weakened, which permits Mark to inflict as a lot punishment as he can muster on his adversary.
After an exhausting and brutal duel, Mark lastly positive aspects the higher hand. However, each of his arms have been smashed to items by the bout that is simply ensued, so Mark makes use of his head – actually – to head-butt Conquest to dying.
Or so it could appear. After Mark wakes from the coma he fell into after seemingly killing Conquest, he calls for to see his fallen foe’s physique. Global Defence Agency (GDA) chief Cecil Stedman agrees to let Mark see it and, after viewing Conquest’s stays, Mark appears content material that there is one much less Viltrumite warrior for him to fret about.
The downside is that it isn’t Conquest’s physique. We later study that Cecil has lied to Mark – once more! – and that the corpse he confirmed Mark is nothing greater than a dummy. Indeed, it was created in order that Mark would stroll away satisfied that Conquest was no extra.
Okay, so the place is Conquest’s actual physique? The Viltrumite, voiced by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is being held in a safe, secret GDA facility six miles beneath the Earth’s floor. As Cecil tells his second-in-command Donald, the GDA have saved Conquest’s physique in order that, within the occasion that he wakes up, Cecil will power Conquest to inform him all in regards to the Viltrum Empire and the right way to cease them. Sure, Cecil, nothing unhealthy will come of this, will it…
Wait, did Conquest recreate that devastating Omni-Man practice sequence from season 1?
He completely did. In a call-back to Omni-Man and Invincible’s damaging battle in Invincible season 1’s last episode, Conquest makes use of Mark’s physique to plough by and kill quite a few harmless people on a seaside resort round halfway by this season’s finale.
If additional proof was wanted, it is one other reminder of simply how brutal Viltrumites are. I do marvel, although, if it is a mere coincidence that Conquest replicates that Omni-Man practice sequence from season 1 episode 8, or if it is a transfer that each one Viltrumites use in some unspecified time in the future throughout fights with their kin. I suppose we’ll discover out if Anissa or another imposing Viltrum warriors use it in future seasons.
Do we test in with Nolan/Omni-Man and Allen earlier than Invincible season 3 ends?
Unfortunately not. Much like Invincible season 2 half 1 and Invincible season 2 half 2, we do not spend a lot time with everybody’s new favourite bromance in season 3. So in case you have been anticipating to test in with Nolan and Allen earlier than episode 8 ended, you will be sorely upset.
Spoilers however, although, I can say that you’re going to see way more of them in future seasons. Indeed, the duo tackle a a lot larger function within the comics following occasions depicted in ‘I Thought You’d Never Shut Up’, so count on them to have extra display time shifting ahead.
What’s with that Damien Darkblood mid-credits scene in Invincible season 3’s finale?
That’s laborious to reply, as a result of it units up a storyline that is not current in Invincible‘s graphic novel collection.
Almost two seasons have handed since Damien Darkblood, a demonic detective, was banished from Earth by Cecil. He was despatched again to Hell for disobeying Cecil’s orders in season 1 – certainly, Damien beforehand labored for the GDA and investigated the allegations that Omni-Man was the perpetrator behind the unique Guardians of the Globe workforce members’ deaths within the present’s very first episode.
Anyway, this mid-credits stinger reunites us with Damien as he attracts a pentagram image on the ground of a cave. This summons one among Damien’s superiors, with Damien saying he would not have awoken the Great Beast if it wasn’t essential.
Continuing, Damien informs the opposite demon that he is discovered a “floor dweller of nice energy, the likes of which this planet hasn’t seen for eons”. I’m unsure what planet he is referring to, however I’m assuming it is the one Damien lives on (is Hell an precise planet?) relatively than Earth.
Damien ends by saying the unnamed particular person possesses a blackened coronary heart that, when sure to the so-called Dark One, may restore the latter to his throne. When requested how this may be achieved, Damien says he is discovered a approach to conjure him.
What does all of this imply? I’ve no concept. As I mentioned, this storyline is totally new materials written for Invincible’s TV adaptation and, within the comics, we by no means see or hear from Damien once more after he is banished. Whatever occurs subsequent, Robert Kirkman, co-creator of Invincible‘s comic-book collection and its grownup animated adaptation, clearly goals to provide Damien a way more impactful and substantial arc within the Prime Video collection.
What about an Invincible season 3 finale post-credits scene?
You’re recent out of luck on that entrance, good friend. There’s no post-credits scene to stay round for.
Is there going to be an Invincible season 4? And when would possibly it get launched?
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Yes! Amazon renewed Invincible for a fourth season final July, with the announcement being one among 9 huge Comic-Con 2024 reveals we have been most enthusiastic about.
It could possibly be with us earlier than we count on, too. Speaking to Collider in February, Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man voice actor J.Okay. Simmons confirmed that he’d already recorded strains for the present’s subsequent installment.
And, just a few weeks later, Kirkman advised The Direct that it was his want to launch new seasons yearly. Depending on how a lot work must be executed on season 4 – I hope the workforce is not being compelled to crunch to get it out as quickly as attainable! – it could debut on Amazon’s streaming platform, aka one of many world’s greatest streaming companies, someday in 2026.
How does Invincible season 3 arrange its sequel season’s story?
That could be moving into spoiler territory, of us. I would not need to spoil any main surprises for individuals who have not learn the comics.
I can speak about what’s hinted at earlier than season 3 ends, although. I’ve no insider data, however I’d be stunned if the Sequids storyline, which you’ll remind your self about in my Invincible season 2 half 2 ending defined piece, is not picked up once more in season 4’s first two or three episodes. After all, we see that the Sequids’ human host Rus Livingston has amassed a military of extra human hosts, which have allowed the symbiotic alien species to multiply quickly within the sewers and put together for a full-scale invasion of Earth.
That storyline takes on even higher significance when you think about what Mark tells Oliver, who’s additionally recovering from accidents he sustained throughout his transient bout with Conquest, on this season’s finale. In brief: Mark admits that Oliver was proper and that, in an effort to defend the people who he loves, Mark might want to kill anybody who threatens them. If you thought season 3 was a darkish chapter in Mark’s life, you ain’t seen nothing but.
There are a lot extra subplots and character arcs that’ll play out in season 4. Battle Beast remains to be alive, Angstrom and The Technicians are working collectively on a brand new scheme, Cecil and D.A. Sinclair proceed to work on utilizing the corpses of these multiversal Invincibles to create model 2.0 of the ReAnimen, the menace from the Viltrum Empire nonetheless looms massive over proceedings, and a lot extra! So strap in, as a result of issues are solely going to get crazier from right here.
