Ultraviolence is inevitable in Invincible. From the moment it revealed that its Superman parallel, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons), was actually an evil alien intent on colonizing Earth, brutality became one of the things that defined the series. And Season 4 doesn’t drop the ball; in actually ups the ante by transporting it to the stars.
Fans who’ve been waiting for Invincible to adapt the infamous Viltrumite War weren’t disappointed, either. Episode 7 delivered an appropriately harrowing conclusion to that intergalactic battle. Planets blew up! Our favorite characters nearly perished in gruesome ways! Grand Regent Thragg (Lee Pace) delivered a punch so powerful it was essentially a vortex! It was the kind of event that so many have been waiting to see on-screen, and it came dangerously close to overshadowing the comparatively quieter finale that followed. But just because the war is over doesn’t make its aftermath any less harrowing. Invincible Season 4 subverts the animated violence that’s always felt inescapable, opting instead for something much more psychologically scarring.
