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There's a whole bunch of Easter Eggs and references
so we'll just start at the beginning of the episode and work our way through shop by shot.
Talking about Easter eggs in WTF moments as we go along.
careful for spoilers for the episode if you haven't seen it yet, but you're starting at the beginning.
The actual episode title is This Must Come As a Shock, which is a reference
to a couple of the different storylines.
The Squids storyline coming for Earth
where Shane Smith is like, Well, this will come as a shock, but I'm actually a martian.
When it turns out that the entire team knew the entire time, it just let him onto the team.
Except for Black Samson.
I love the record scratch moment. They're always like, Wait, wait a minute.
You've been a martian this whole time. He's like the only guy that didn't know.
it's also a reference to Mark's storyline coming back to Earth with Oliver
and introducing him to Debbie and him sort of integrating with the family like this
might come as a shock, but there's like a new half brother that I have now that we need to take care of.
So they're trying to start off the second
half of the season with the banger, like they ended on a big cliffhanger.
There's even a post-credits scene at the end of the episode explaining what happened to Alan the Alien.
It's all right out of the comics, so break it down as we go along.
the actual opening scene is meant to open immediately after the end of episode four, where
General Kregg and the vitrumiltes leave the planet with Omni-Man in tow, taking him to their vitrumilte
prison
We'll probably learn about that either in episode six or Episode seven leaving Invincible
to just pass out in the ashes
for a little while until he's found by some klaxons who take him back to the city in essentially
this first part of the episode is him just helping them rebuild over the course of a couple months.
They basically explained that he was on the planet for two months, which doesn't seem like that long.
But all the klaxons that he knew when he came to the planet are now super old.
Like that's how quickly they age.
this whole scene where he talks to Andriese and she sort of gives him the pep talk
they released earlier this year, the whole idea is that he's super down
on what happened to the planet being almost destroyed, all this collateral damage
because he thinks that anywhere he and his father go, it just spells doom for wherever they are.
Like they only cause trouble no matter what they try to do.
She tries to get him to see the more positive side of things.
Like, No, you could actually be here.
Like you helped us survive.
Things would have only eventually ended badly for us.
basically trying to remind him that he can be a superhero.
Like this is the whole idea.
Like you want him to become a superhero when this klaxon comes to tell him
that there's a ship ready to take him home, this is the same one from before.
Also setting up the Andriese Twist, where she shows up and is super old now like it's been two months.
But she's this old maid now about to die,
basically, to
set the whole idea of why he has to take all of her back with him.
Like this wasn't going to be a problem when your father was still here because he's a vitrumilte
He's basically going to live effectively forever unless another big vitrumilte tries to kill him.
invincible, also explains that when he was younger, Omni-Man was also worried
about that same idea with him.
Like, would he outlive him because he's half human?
They get into the weeds a little bit more with this whole concept in the comics,
but because of his half human biology, he'd normally live for upwards
of like a couple hundred thousand years, like a long, long time Oliver's half Clark's.
And DNA, though, will cut his lifetime a little bit shorter, but it'll still be extremely long.
Essentially, the village right side of their DNA overpowers their other half of their DNA in.
Eventually they start to resemble more fool ville tremendously.
Their body almost seems like it's full vitrumilte, even though Oliver's life
span won't be nearly as long is invincibles.
but one of the benefits that, though, is that he does mature very fast.
So he will come into his powers way faster than invincible.
Did there couple Mike drop record scratch moments in the episode
with big set ups like Invincible says, things are probably fine on Earth.
The Guardians of the Globe will take care of everything, setting up the cut too,
with their fight with omnipotence like things are definitely not going well.
They almost die.
He's meant to be a parody of Galactus from Marvel Comics is back.
Story in the Invisible Universe is kind of a parody of Galactus his origin story.
He travels from a universe do universe destroying each one, then moving to the next.
he's also voiced by Ross Marquand, who voiced a couple of different characters in the episode,
who is also from The Walking Dead, which is how Robert Kirkman got him to do the episode,
because Robert Kirkman is the creator of Invincible and is the creator of The Walking Dead.
but a lot of you also probably remember
that Ross Moore can now does the voice for Red Skull in the Marvel Universe.
He also does the Voice for Ultron.
He did it during What if he also does it during the live action Ultron
stuff now too, because James Spader isn't doing the voice anymore.
there are a lot of instances in the episode where you have the same actor
playing a couple of different characters, some of them are just for side characters
with one line like not really important characters, like they needed extra bodies.
And there were in the recording booth like,
Hey, could you record a couple of lines for this random character in the background here?
essentially, this scene of them fighting omnipotence is right out of the comics.
And even though they make it seem like they almost died, They do eventually
stop him and push him back to a portal into another universe.
In the comics, his main power is basically just reshaping everything around him.
Sort of like the way the Galactus consumes planets.
Invincible returns back to Earth, introduces Oliver to his mom, explains everything about Omni-Man.
This happened the past couple of months.
He's still alive. He's been captured by the vitrumiltes
explains the secret mission that General Kregg gave him to take over his father's mission.
Like now it's your job to take over Earth.
end, the idea they're going to send the vitrumiltes to check on him
and make sure that he's continuing the mission the way they told him to.
they're couple of teaser for that in the trailer for the second half of the season that's going to be anissa
so don't worry we'll talk about that when we get to that episode because there's still a little ways off.
she is going to wreck him.
And this is only their first meeting.
Like the crazy stuff when people talk about Anissa doesn't even happen till much, much later in the story.
Like this is just the first time that they meet.
when he's arguing with his mother about what they're going to do with Oliver.
Like, we can't just turn him over to Cecil.
He's going to be purple for a long time,
so we can't just give him to another random person or let him run around outside unfettered.
part of the idea is that he won't be purple forever.
And like I said, he does mature very fast.
He comes into his powers much quicker than Invincible did.
so they spend most of the episode with Debbie just sort of warming up to him, and he does
just become a natural member of the family like Debbie does, love him like another son.
Eventually.
but I think just based on the timeline that they have on the shows, by the time
we get to season three, he will have already come into his powers.
He might still be purple, though.
But eventually what does happen to him is that the voter might half of his DNA starts
to take over his body, so his skin no longer looks purple once he fully matures.
But that still takes a little while to happen. during their talk.
He also gets mad at her because he thinks
that she got rid of all of Omni-Man stuff like, wait a minute, I was looking for his books.
He told me to read his books before the vitrumiltes took him away.
That's meant to be a teaser for all the special people that he's meant to go around the universe
finding who have weapons or who are strong enough to fight vitrumiltes.
they continue the Donald arc from the first half of the season.
He's essentially learned he's a cyborg clone of his original self.
the reason why
he has all the memories that he had before is because they were able to save his original brain.
Cecil also reveals that there's a secret area inside the White Room,
possibly multiple secret areas, like it's compartmentalized.
So they're like other secret places in here that not everybody knows about this
little storyline for him is also right out of the comics.
He's essentially like a backup cloned a cyborg version of Donald.
then they go back to Invincibles college dorm room.
You see William, he's got all those pop culture references around the place.
The Magnum P.I.
poster is a magnum PI poster, as in the mathematical equation Pi.
Everyone knows what DTF means.
No explanation needed. There.
The little Boss poster is a reference to Lil Nas X and the Lady Ya-Ya poster,
obviously a reference to Lady Gaga when Cecil shows up to check on him.
There's more attention because he left Earth against his orders.
They explained the rest of what happened with the Guardians of the Globe.
They eventually did defeat omnipotence, like I said, but they want to tease
the deterioration of his relationship with Cecil.
Like they don't come to blows or anything like that.
But you can sense things are really tense between them, especially over what's going to happen to Oliver.
Ultimately.
part of the reason why Invincible doesn't want to give Oliver to Cecil
is because he's worried about what Cecil will do with him.
Basically just turn him into a glorified experiment, just running experiments on him like a guinea pig
over and over again, trying to weaponize him, in part of the idea they tease during season
one in the first half of season two is one of the reasons why Invincible ultimately turned
good and turned against his father, against the vitrumiltes is because of the positive influence.
When he was raised by his mother.
so invincible is hoping the same thing will happen to Oliver.
Like if they raise him in a good environment, like they give him a good upbringing,
he will also turn into a superhero just like Invincible.
but generally.
Invincibles relationship with Cecil will just continue to deteriorate over matters like this.
Big arguments that they'll just continue to have.
who also reveals that the Global Defense Agency has been low jacking, monitoring his mother's house.
so he's already heard everything that he told his mother.
Omni-Man still alive.
The vitrumilte are still out there.
They'll eventually come back to Earth to check on him.
when he eventually does check in with Amber, he tells her everything that happened
and she kind of explains how she's been depressed and she's been having her own problems, too.
They're kind of teasing the deterioration of their relationship, too,
just because there is no way Absolutely no way
he can still be invincible and a regular dude going to college, leading a regular life
at the same time, like he's just not going to happen one of the changes the show has made to
the comics is with this whole relationship with Amber, it eventually dissolves much quicker in the comics.
I'm guessing they'll wait till the end of this season before they completely break up.
They cut to the guardians of the Glow Training session to show off more of their skills
and prep for the fights
they have at the end of the episode, robots plan to Fix Monster Girls Reverse Aging is essentially
like a version of what he did to himself, but in reverse cloning another body for her,
but an older version of her body, transferring her consciousness to it,
she could essentially restart her aging clock back to zero.
So each time she uses her powers, she goes younger.
All you need is to clone an older body and just do that over and over again.
And she could just keep using her powers.
then they introduce the main threat of the episode, the squids coming to Earth on the stolen spaceship
that they teased in the first half of the season, sending everyone they have except for shrinking Rey
duplicate in explode because they're the ones that wind up having to fight the Lizard League day.
The whole record drop kind of funny moment where everybody reveals that they knew that shape.
Smith was a martian this whole time, Except for black Sampson.
I think just so they can have that funny moment where there's like one guy who just didn't know,
then they do another record scratch, like another funny
cut to moment where he's revealing his backstory, how he came to Earth.
They want to make it seem all hopeful.
They use all this hopeful music, but then they all realize the whole reason the squids are threatening
Earth in the first place is because they hitched a ride using the astronaut that he's stranded back on Mars.
So had he not done that, there would be no trouble.
Like everything that's happening now is completely his fault.
so the Guardians of the Globe kind of want to kill him right now.
And all the Martians that he left back on Mars also kind of want to kill him.
they get more help from Adam Eve, who've been living with their parents for the past couple of months.
They try to give Rex upload a moment of redemption to when he gives her that whole pep talk
to set up the big twist at the end of the episode where he almost seemingly dies.
Like they want to make
you think that he's going to die, just so that he doesn't seem like a complete ass bag.
Like, yeah, I'm terrible, but he does do some nice things.
They also use the scene to remind you
about her backstory in that Artemis prequel episode, which went so hard.
Like, her backstory is almost as tragic, if not more tragic, than invincibles Back story
her entire biological family, her real mother, the children that were created in the lab
using her mother, who had been put in the test tube barely alive.
if you didn't watch that episode, essentially they all die.
Like she says that here in this moment, like they're all dead,
They remind you about their history together and her time on the teen team,
which are essentially a parody of the teen titans Inside the Invincible Universe.
The Guardians of the Globe are also kind of like a parody of the Justice League or The Avengers.
and Cecil goes to get Invincibles help with the squids.
So he joins the mission to giving him that reunion with Adam Eve.
in probably like the billionth record scratch moment in the episode, Rex Blow
sort of sets up the twist with the Lizard League saying there's no way, absolutely no way.
There be two major problems that they have to deal with.
At the same time cueing the Lizard League, attacking the military base
to try and steal its nuclear weapons when they're on the spaceship, the star Trek
reference is sort of like a double inside joke because robot references Star Trek
and Robot is voiced by Zachary Quinto, who also plays Spock in the new Star Trek movies.
they make it onboard the Martian ship and start
fighting the squids just as the B team on Earth starts fighting the Lizard League.
And they cut back and forth between both fights for the rest of the episode, sort
of showing you both of the teams almost dying.
late part of the idea is they want to make it seem like all hope is lost in both instances.
Like they're both teams are going to lose They remind you what happens to duplicates bodies
when they're destroyed, like they died just like regular bodies?
and when that happens, like when one of her bodies is destroyed,
she feels the pain of that body's death as if it were her dying to.
so each time during this fight, when one of those bodies gets squished
to nothingness, gets ripped apart, she feels it just like it was happening to her
until her final body is killed before she can spawn another one, they can escape.
So R.I.P. or it seems like she's dead.
their couple moments like that in the episode, in the fights where they want to make
you think that a couple of the characters have died, like not just one, but a couple of them have died.
shrinking.
Ray pulls a couple of Ant-Man style, kills one of them basically damaging his brain going into his eye.
It's kind of like what Ant-Man did to Iron Man's suit during Avengers Endgame.
He's completely frying it.
just going to scramble this brain up like a bunch of eggs.
then she tries to pull A reverse stain is on the big one,
but isn't strong enough to destroy his body when she tries to grow bigger.
And even though you know the bone crunching, they want to make you think that she is
dead, I think, you know, early theory she's survived
because Rex blood winds are blowing up his head, creating an exit point for her.
they end their fight with King Lizard, having him with a gun to the head dead
to rights after he's gotten his hand chewed out by the big lizard
And even though he basically tells them to just go ahead and do it, like, fine, just do it.
I think they're trying to tease that
one of the other characters who survived, and I think it's going to be shrinking. Ray.
I think she'll probably grow bigger and help save him.
but I do think the duplicate is dead.
they end the eight teams fight in the episode at the mercy of the squids after Adam
passes out so her shield falls, leaving them all vulnerable
to the squids in as they cut to black, they have a post-credits scene like big surprise.
They did a post-credits scene before during the invincible episode.
So it's not like the first time they've ever done this.
But it's Alan, the alien essentially waking up inside his regeneration chamber.
His powers have healed the damage the vitrumilte did him in.
His body has grown back stronger because that's the way he was designed when they created him.
But they wind up playing it for a joke because Alan doesn't understand that part
of how his powers work until Theta shows up and explains everything to him, like,
you know, I'm plugged your life support system so that your powers would kick in
and you would heal the damage and grow back stronger.
So now you're strong enough to actually go toe to toe with a single build.
You might just explained the technicalities behind that, too.
This will continue to happen to him.
So it's like a bunch of bill termites ganging up on him and try to kill him again.
If he almost dies, he can actually heal the damage and come back even stronger.
It's like he can keep doing this, coming back stronger and stronger and stronger.
But they also play this for a bill twist
Revealing his backstory as a vitrumilte
My like, he starts talking about how he'd be so angry that Bill tonight showed up
just a status rips off his false beard.
It doesn't sound so false, though.
Like it actually sounds like the hairs ripping off the skin
That's a
moment that's right out of the comics to like date is revealing himself because of the mustache.
Like all Bill termites have some kind of mustache.
He also starts to explain his backstory as previously being the only vitrumilte
to ever rebel against the vitrumilte empire until Invincible came along.
And now Omni-Man, who's also standing against the Bill of Termites.
And we have all of our two who will help stand against them.
So they're like a bunch of old termites now that they have to help them against them.
that is actually comes from the original bill tried civil war that saw
the killing of their original emperor oracle and the ascension of the rag
and the original scourge virus the whole idea is that as he's told Alan
the alien he saw there people conquering other races long ago before the civil war
But they just assassinates their original emperor, kind of throwing them into chaos.
Then he goes off and creates the scourge virus, which kills off most of the village termites
leading to their new plan of them sending people around the universe
like Omni-Man going to earth, creating a half son, then taking over the planet.
Using that half built might.
when Thetas initially did that, he also created the coalition of planets
like he's the originator of the coalition of planets.
so he's been cooking this long term plan to try and find a way
to finally stop the build termites for many thousands of years.
Like it's been a long, long time.
we'll continue to learn more about his origin story and how he connects to the history
of the built for my empire and how everybody else in the story connects to that as well too.
Like Omni-Man, there's some stuff in their story that they'll probably save for much, much later seasons.
But the story's all out there in the comics.
If you want to go read it, you can actually go do that right now.
and basically Thaedus is sending Alan back to Earth to get invincible his help
so they can kind of start this process.
This will probably, y'know, dovetailing with Omni-Man breaking out of the vitrumilte prison
Like they're just going to be teasing that in the next couple of episodes.
So that might wind up being a season three kind of thing, I think most of the rest of the season
is dedicated to paying off the Angstrom Levy storyline with Invincible versus Angstrom Levy.
In the finale.
this is just the beginning, though.
Like they wanted to start things off with a bang or big cliffhanger,
like everybody's going to die, but secretly they'll find some way to save the day.
They did release a trailer for, like, the entire second half of the season.
I did a breakdown video that.
So I'll post the link for it in the description below.
But there's a bunch of stuff that we didn't see in this first episode.
So like I said, I think they want to close down the Angstrom levy arc or this part of the angstrom
levy arc because it has to go away completely by the end of this season.
there's a whole bunch of Easter Eggs and references in the episodes of you spotted
any that I didn't talk about in the video, just write them below in the comments
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