S02.E08: I Thought You Were Stronger

[AnimeMania]

(Season Finale)

An old enemy threatens everything Mark holds dear.

Premiere Date: April 4, 2024     Prime Video  

[baldryanr]

Mark needs a whole lot of time off and therapy, so naturally he'll get neither when season 3 comes around.

Can't really blame him for what he did to Angstrom, but yeah, there's a big difference between killing someone in battle (or to save an innocent) versus beating someone to a bloody pulp in a fit of berserk rage.  He should take comfort in the fact that his feeling guilty about it proves he's not an evil person.

[thuganomics85]

Glad the Angstrom threat has been put to rest, even if Sterling K. Brown made sure to go all out and give a hell of a performance for his last episode.  But it looks like this will be sticking with Mark for a while because not only is he is first kill, but he did so in a fit of rage, so now Mark is concerned that he is going to lose it again if he's not careful.  An understandable concern, but him showing any form of guilt at least proves he isn't like his dad.

Angstrom breaking Debbie's arm was brutal.  But she really is a strong despite not having any super powers.

The multiverse scenes were fun.  Had everything from a zombie world (naturally), a Fornite reference, this show's version of a Spider-Man, and Mark meeting another mysterious hero who looked a bit... batty.

Mark now knows that Eve has feelings for him thanks to Future Eve, but it seems like he's not going to act on it right now.

Repli-Kate is still with us after-all, because it turns out the real Kate has been hiding this entire time.  An advantage of having clones!

Allen and Nolan might be teaming up!

Think it was a mistake for Amazon to split up the season like they did.  Think it lessen the buzz and hype for this season.  At least they already confirmed a third one.

[Chicago Redshirt]

18 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:

Glad the Angstrom threat has been put to rest, even if Sterling K. Brown made sure to go all out and give a hell of a performance for his last episode. 

Has the Angstrom threat been put to rest? It seems like once you have a multiverse, there's an infinite number of Angstroms, at least some of which are going to have the same rage boner for Invincible and thus will come to confront "our" Invincible.

[baldryanr]

23 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

Has the Angstrom threat been put to rest? It seems like once you have a multiverse, there's an infinite number of Angstroms, at least some of which are going to have the same rage boner for Invincible and thus will come to confront "our" Invincible.

Well, we know that in comic books dead characters never, ever come back to life.  So he's 100% dead.

[ICantDoThatDave]

Way too many fake out "deaths" this season. It really lowers the stakes.

[ribboninthesky1]

Way late to catching up on the second half.  I know nothing of the source material, so I'm just going by what's been aired.  No doubt I'm meant to be sympathetic to Mark, and I can objectively acknowledge his growing pains.

That said, Debbie is the character I connected the most with.  She's been through hell and still dealing with the Nolan fallout, including raising his son by another female foisted upon her by Mark.  And of course, is collateral damage in the hero/villain saga.  And yet, she has to comfort Mark while trying to heal from her own wounds. 🙄

Mark isn't evil, blah blah, but his picture could absolutely be next to "self-involved" in the dictionary.  My feelings from episode one are largely the same: Mark as the standalone protagonist isn't interesting enough.