Prime Video’s Invincible rarely pulls its punches, and that’s as true for audiences as it is for its eponymous hero.
It hasn’t been that long since Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun) discovered that his mild-mannered father Nolan (J.K. Simmons) was living a double life as Omni-Man, Earth’s resident Superman figure. But the revelation that Nolan was also a herald of the fascistic colonizing planet of Viltrum — and had plans to violently assimilate Earth into their empire — wasn’t far behind. Their falling out was the first of many devastating setbacks for Mark, a violent teaching moment that left our hero bruised, bloody, and reckoning with the bodies of thousands of civilians. It’s cast a long shadow over his tenure as Invincible, especially as the threat of a Viltrumite invasion (and Omni-Man’s potential return to Earth) becomes an increasing possibility.
