While superhero fatigue is plaguing Marvel and DC at the box office, Amazon Prime Video's Invincible is going strong. According to the streaming service, the violent (yet heartfelt!) animated series tripled its opening-weekend viewership from the first season. Prime Video didn't reveal the specific numbers, of course, but growth is good! Invincible's second season continues to successfully adapt the original comic book series by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, boasting stellar voice-acting work from Steven Yuen, J.K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Walter Goggins, Zazie Beetz, Sterling K. Brown, and many more.
The series follows teenage superhero Mark Grayson (Yuen), who grows up idolizing his Superman-esque father, Omni-Man (Simmons). As Mark tries to figure out what it means to be a hero by crime-fighting from under his father's wing, his family's dark secrets begin to emerge. One night, the Guardians of the Globe—an analogue of DC's famous Justice League—are mysteriously murdered, and fingers point to Mark's father. Basically, the series asks the question: what if Superman was a little more morally ambiguous?
In the shocking Season One finale, Omni-Man admits to the crime and reveals to his son that he is actually an alien from the planet Viltum (think Superman's Krypton) who was sent to Earth not to protect it, but to conquer it. He just got a little lost during his stay, fell in love, and had a kid. But now that Mark is old enough, it's time for them to do what must be done—together. After briefly fighting his father, Mark lays beaten within an inch of his life. Omni-Man then flees the planet, emotionally unable to finish the job.
What Happens in the Season Two, Part One?
Season Two picks up not long after the tragic encounter. Mark is struggling to be a hero on his own, afraid that he'll turn into his father. His mother (Oh) is distraught over her husband's betrayal, Earth attempts to form a new super-team to replace the Guardians, and all manner of new villains come out of the woodwork now that Omni-Man has left the planet. On top of all that, Mark still has to graduate high school.
Feeling overworked and confused, Mark leaves Earth and puts everything on pause in Season Two's midseason finale. He agrees to help out an alien race of ant-people called the Thraxans who convince him that their world is on the brink of destruction. But when he arrives on their planet deep in the galaxy, he finds out that the whole mission was just a ruse to get him to talk to his father again. His father's betrayal is still a bit too fresh, however, and Mark has yet to process the ordeal before some more hard truths come to light.
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Now that Mark's identity is known to the galaxy, more Viltrumites will storm Earth to finish conquering the planet. In a show of their strength, three Viltrumite soldiers arrive on the Thraxan planet and decimate the entire species. They also capture Omni-Man, and tell Mark that they're going to execute his father for abandoning his post. Mark is tasked with conquering Earth in his place, or they'll wipe his planet off the map just like they did the Thraxans. What's a teenage superhero to do?
When Does Invincible Season Two Return?
Following the midseason finale, Invincible Season Two will take a break for the holidays. Part Two is expected to drop sometime in early 2024 with another four episodes. "With everything going on in that time of year with, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and a lot of family time, I think a lot of shows get lost in the shuffle," creator Robert Kirkman told Collider before the second season started. "So I think it's good to take a pause and narratively, it's gonna make things hit a little bit harder."
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