This article incorporates spoilers for the Invincible Season 3 finale.
After eight episodes that includes large character deaths, a number of Invincibles (Steven Yeun), and so, a lot blood and guts, Invincible Season 3 is within the books. Unlike Season 2, which ended with a comparatively quieter tag for the finale, Season 3 not solely teed up a ton of storylines for the already-in-production Season 4… It additionally included a mid-credits scene that units up a storyline Invincible co-creator Robert Kirkman by no means obtained to do within the comedian books.
Before we get to that closing montage – and mid-credits scene – a little bit of rationalization in regards to the finale itself. It’s for probably the most half one, lengthy combat scene as Invincible, Oliver (Christian Convery) and Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs) tackle the vicious Viltrumite warrior Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Conquest is ostensibly on Earth to organize the world for Viltrumite, er, conquest, however as he explains repeatedly to Invincible, he actually loves destroying and torturing issues.
Invincible Season 3 Ending Explained
After Conquest seemingly kills Eve, Invincible, who has had each arms damaged, completely loses it and bashes Conquest to “loss of life” along with his personal head. Some would possibly say that is candy, candy vengeance for Negan (additionally Morgan) famously bashing Glenn Rhee’s (additionally Yeun) head in on The Walking Dead, nevertheless it comes straight from the Invincible comics, which got here out in 2009. So extremely satisfying to look at if you would like #Justice4Glenn, but in addition largely only a good coincidence.
In any case, Eve is not useless and divulges – as followers who watched the Atom Eve Special discovered – that when she’s put in moments of maximum stress, she’s capable of get previous the psychological blocks that in any other case cease her from transmuting residing matter, as an alternative of simply inert supplies. However, eagle-eyed followers can even notice that when she transmutes Invincible’s costume later within the scene once they’re about to have intercourse, it’s made from crops… So she might have damaged by way of these blocks in an even bigger manner than she realizes.
The ultimate conclusion of the episode, and the arc of the season, is that Invincible visits his half-brother Oliver in a hospital mattress. And whereas Oliver thinks Invincible goes to inform him that killing is flawed… Invincible has determined that if anybody threatens his household once more, simply as Angstrom Levy (Sterling Ok. Brown) did within the earlier episode, and Conquest this week, he gained’t hesitate to kill them.
It’s a shocking transfer from the present, although once more one pulled instantly from the comedian books, virtually phrase for phrase. While the big majority of superhero media, from TV reveals to films, to the unique comics wrestle with the “ought to heroes kill?” debate, Invincible has firmly fallen on the aspect of “yeah, when obligatory.” Still, an ominous musical sting performed below Invincible’s pro-death penalty assertion factors to extra challenges coming the best way of his realigned ethical compass. So anticipate that this debate may not be as open and shut because the finale signifies.
Beyond that, the actual eyebrow-raising moments are saved for that montage. So let’s break these Season 4 teases down, one after the other.
Return of The Sequids
Last seen in Season 2, Episode 6 “It’s Not That Simple,” the Sequids are extremely harmful Martian mind slugs who virtually beat the Guardians of the Globe of their final encounter, together with Invincible and Atom Eve. They had taken over the mind of an astronaut named Rus Livingston (Ben Schwartz), who was lastly freed and introduced again to Earth after a horrifying, harrowing ordeal. Unfortunately for Rus, after he returned to his condo, which had been trashed by Shapesmith (additionally Schwartz), he threw up a Sequid within the sink – which instantly took over his physique, once more.
That plotline has been on maintain for the reason that aforementioned episode, however seems to be prefer it’s coming again in an enormous manner in Season 4. While all the pieces else has been occurring this season, the Sequids have been steadily constructing a military within the sewers, together with what seems to be like tons of of human staff and others. Given we have been informed that if the Sequids ever made it to Earth it was recreation over for humanity… Yeah, that’s unhealthy! “Not lengthy now,” says Russequid. Uh-oh!
Battle Beast Is Back
At the top of Season 3, Episode 4, “You Were My Hero,” the unstoppable Battle Beast was preventing a Viltrumite within the chilly, darkish reaches of area. We catch as much as him right here, in addition to the scattered stays of the Viltrumite… BB is in suspended animation however is rapidly picked up by an alien ship. And a number of seconds after that, he wakes up, prepared for battle. He desires “extra!”
If issues pan out on the TV present the identical manner they do within the comedian, the ship was a part of the Coalition of Planets, the group preventing again towards the Viltrumites. Alongside Allen the Alien (Seth Rogen) and Nolan Grayson (J.Ok. Simmons), it seems to be just like the Coalition lastly has a preventing likelihood towards the unstoppable aliens.
Greater Delights Await
In among the best casting coups on the present, the creepy, Cenobite-esque Technicians who fastened up Angstrom Levy, as first seen in Season 3, Episode 7, are voiced by Doug Bradley. You would possibly know him higher as Pinhead from the Hellraiser sequence. And on this teaser of coming points of interest, we get to listen to Bradley say one thing extraordinarily Pinhead.
After revealing that Angstrom has a brand new arm because of them (Invincible unintentionally amputated it final episode), Angstrom asks what they need in return. “Angstrom Levy, you’ve gotten witnessed what our ambitions have performed to our world, and what we now have needed to do to ourselves to outlive right here,” a Technician explains.
Angstrom thinks they need a brand new house, however the Technicians produce other concepts. “That is just the start of the delights we are going to obtain collectively,” the Technician says. Now, the traditional Hellraiser line is “We have such sights to indicate you” whereas the 2022 remake employed “higher delights await.” But come on, in the event you weren’t Leo Dicaprio pointing on the display meme at that line, what are we even doing right here?
In any case, to elucidate what the Technicians are as much as is to spoil one of many nice plot twists of the Invincible comics. Suffice it to say that they may tie into the motion, and we now have not seen the final of both Angstrom or the not-Cenobites.
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Marks
Despite Invincible demanding Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins) present him Conquest’s useless physique, it seems that the useless physique was a faux. In truth, Cecil has Conquest locked in a large, underground chamber because the Viltrumite’s physique reconstitutes itself.
Donald (Chris Diamantopoulos), Cecil’s right-hand man, protests that this can be a mistake. And in the event you’ve learn the comics, you already know that Donald is appropriate: you can not maintain a massively powered Viltrumite like Conquest with mere Earth supplies, irrespective of how safe Cecil makes the power. Unfortunately for Cecil, in addition to the world, on this case, Invincible was appropriate: Conquest ought to have been killed.
Invincible Season 3 Post-Credits Scene Explained
That brings us to the mid-credits scene. While all the pieces else we’ve defined above occurs within the comedian books by Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Cory Walker, this scene is totally new. And in truth, it’s one thing Kirkman all the time needed to do within the comics, however by no means discovered room for. Oh, and there’s a unbelievable, shock voice actor concerned.
Right after the top credit start, we lower to Damien Darkblood (Clancy Brown), the demon detective we haven’t seen since Season 1, Episode 4, “Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out.” In case you forgot – it aired again in 2021, in any case – Damien was investigating Omni-Man, then arrange by Cecil and despatched again to Hell. As he was sucked all the way down to the inferno, he threatened vengeance on Cecil… And that’s (probably) what we’re seeing right here.
Now lacking his trenchcoat, Damien creates a summoning circle, which calls a demon lord voiced by none apart from Bruce Campbell. And Damien hails to the king, child, by bringing “the nice beast… welcome information.” Damien explains that he has the means to revive the demon to his former glory, and the “infernal throne.” The key? A “floor dweller of nice energy, likes of which this planet has not seen for eons.” And moreover, Damien explains that “his blackened coronary heart can be sure to your service.” And how will they do this? By conjuring “him” to Hell.
In the comics, Damien Darkblood was much more of a blink-and-you-miss-him character than he was on the TV present. But as Kirkman defined to the Cartoonist Kayfabe podcast in 2020, there was initially extra deliberate.
“The factor that I actually remorse is I by no means had an journey the place the superheroes went into Hell,” Kirkman defined. “There’s been so many superhero comics the place it’s like, they obtained to go combat Mephisto or one thing, and I used to be like, ah jeez, I by no means obtained round to that. And the Damien Darkblood character was there so I may ultimately do a narrative like that, and I by no means obtained round to it.”
Part of the explanation for this can be that the preliminary storyline and reveal of Omni-Man as a foul man was purported to go almost double the size that it did within the comedian. It finally got here to a head in points 12 and 13, versus the deliberate 25. That meant there simply wasn’t as a lot room for Darkblood to be investigating Omni-Man, as a result of… Well, there was nothing left to analyze. So credit score to Kirkman and firm for letting that deliberate story play out on the TV present in a manner we by no means noticed within the books.
The large query right here is: who’s Damien Darkblood referring to? Is it Invincible? Omni-Man? Cecil? We’ll know extra when Season 4 of Invincible premieres on Prime Video.
