I was wrong to raise you as a human i should have prepared you better
you're a viltromite in blood only well your true education begins now
Welcome back everyone this is going to be my invincible episode 8 finale video there were
so many moments the entire episode was basically a moment just the way they were building up to the
big reveal so we'll break it all down there was a whole bunch of easter eggs and they actually just
renewed the show for season two and season three so there'll be at least two more seasons probably
more than that too because it's actually really solid if you're brand new to the channel be sure
to subscribe to get all the episodes obviously spoiler warning for the episode if you have not
seen it yet but i'll just number these as we go along and talk about moments and easter eggs
starting with the title of the episode where i really come from all about mark learning
the truth about where omniman his father nolan grayson really comes from the series just in
general as you could all probably tell is meant to be a parody of the superman mythology and the
viltromites are kind of like their versions of kryptonians but with a really dark twist on it
so because this is an amazon tv show and it's very dark twist on dc comics also we have to talk about
the boys tv show as well because that's also a big twist on the justice league in marvel comics
the boys obviously fantastic show we're gonna be seeing season three i'll be doing videos for that
as well but whereas the boys is more of a parody of the tropes of traditional superhero comics like
the tropes of the justice league stories and the dc characters they have a very different explainer
for where superheroes really come from in the boys universe the difference with invincible is
it is actually much closer to the real mythology of superman's origin story in the comics and the
other kryptonians in dc comics history so it's like what if you were superboy and superman was
your father but also what if superman and the kryptonians were the villains of the story and
the reason why they have mark witness his father killing the immortal is that he kind of recognizes
what's going on like he first he thinks that he's been taken over by some alien parasite come
to your senses give me meg my father but then he explains to them no i'm doing this at my own free
will the funny thing about the immortal too i mean he seemingly kills him but as his name implies
he is immortal you could spend a whole 30 minute video just explaining his character's backstory
but basically the idea is that you reassemble his body correctly eventually he'll heal and he'll
come back to life as he did previously in the series they also follow that up at the end of the
episode too with cecil bringing him back again but then omniman starts telling mark the dark truth
about why he came to earth what his secret mission is that he wasn't previously willing to tell his
mother right away like he said we'll talk later then flies right through the roof of the house
but she's listening to this entire fight this entire speech the whole time his monologue so
she learns everything including the real twist that omniman kind of thinks of her as a pet
i'm gonna live forever so you have to imagine how that affects the way he perceives relationships
like all these people on earth why do you care about them so much they'll be dead in the blink
of an eye compared to our lifespan but effectively the first half of the episode is basically him
punching mark into submission you can't even call it a fight it's more like a massacre that just
slowly plays out across the planet him just throwing mark around dragging him around punching
him through the planet to different cities trying to force him to submit while destroying as much
property as possible like you say that there was a lot of property destruction during the
dc movies like man of steel during the justice league movie there were a couple of darker funny
moments too like you kind of feel bad laughing but it is kind of ridiculous when he punches him
down to the bottom of the ocean and then drags him back up he goes back through the other side of the
cruise liner instead of just going around it like he could have gone in any direction flown in any
direction but he decides to go back up through the cruise liner just because he wants to cause
more damage but while this montage of punching and violence is happening he kind of glosses over some
of the details of his backstory so mark's father nolan grayson is really the son of the former
emperor of the viltromite people so mark actually comes from a royal bloodline technically he is a
viltromite prince it doesn't give him any special extra powers or anything like that but it does
give him a level of immunity against some special viruses that are meant to target the viltrumite
people specifically but what happened a long time ago in their people's history is that nolan's
father the viltromite emperor was assassinated by someone close to him who usurped the throne then
thragg one of their most powerful viltromites to ever live got revenge killed the usurper he took
control of their military there was a huge civil war and then he used that to reform their people's
culture in their ways so when he gets to the part of his speech where he talks about his race
culling the week out so that only the strongest remained and it basically cut their population
in half that's what he's referring to after thragg took control he instituted this policy where you
see them all training against each other to become the strongest so if it wasn't clear even though
it feels like omniman is unkillable there are vultromites that are even more powerful than him
which is the thragg character so you have to imagine that it's a lot like superman fighting
other kryptonians like there would be other kryptonians who could potentially be stronger
than superman given enough time so more superman references eventually the vulture my people became
more imperialistic going around conquering the rest of the universe as he says during his speech
and what they did is they would assign different voltromites to different planets having them
integrate with people living there but secretly preparing the planet for full-blown filtramide
invasion the very practical reason why he says they do things this way playing the long game
instead of just rolling up to a planet and trying to take it over on the spot is because eventually
they conquered so many planets around the universe they actually started to run into a manpower
problem where they didn't have enough viltromites to go to other new planets and conquer new places
also they had problems with rebellions and uprisings alan the alien played by seth rogen
kind of explains that towards the end of the episode when he's talking to mark about the
history of his home planet he said the reason why his home planet was destroyed was because
his people rebelled against the vulture mites so rather than take the trouble of reconquering them
and using all these resources they just decided to cut their losses and blew the planet up so
the reason why mark exists is because of that new program of them interbreeding and creating
more viltromites that way that's what omniman's whole villain monologue here is about he's trying
to get mark to turn to the dark side join me and we can rule the universe together very star wars
very apropos because mark hamill has a cameo seen as the art character the person who makes all the
super suits one of the darker moments during their fight is when omniman basically tells him
that you don't matter it'll only take another 17 years to replace you implying that he could
just fly off and have another child with another human woman because obviously he's not going to
go back to his mother but while this is happening he also clarifies some of their powers their races
abilities so as they get older their aging process slows even more meaning that theoretically a pure
voltromite could live indefinitely one with pure blood even mark who's half philtromite he says
will live for thousands of years bare minimum so this whole mission about him weakening the planet
for invasion is why he killed the guardians at the end of episode one they were basically like the
invincible series version of the justice league remember how cecil kept referencing that he tried
to get omniman on several occasions over the years to join the guardians but he kept refusing and
omniman kind of played it off like i don't need them i don't need any help he kind of tried to
instill that belief in mark like don't go joining any teams but mark wound up trying to join the
team team anyway or at least work with them it's all because omniman always knew that eventually
the guardians would be the first group that cecil would send after him earth's last line of defense
so he was systematically trying to earth's defenses to take out every possible weapon they
could use against him and i feel like steven yoon's performance is invincible as mark was
actually great in the episode you totally buy that he wouldn't care about the viltromites at all like
i don't care about some race of people that i've never met before these are all my friends that
you're trying to kill so even though he valiantly tries to fight him it's hilarious how quickly
omniman shuts him down let's just give you an idea of how much more powerful omniman is how
unkillable he really is it's all meant to be very tragic the way this plays out i feel like they
did a great job of selling that during the episode like i had to sit down for a minute after i watch
this think about my life think about my choices and one of the other best moments of the episode
is the moment that gives him pause when he has the flashback just as he's about to finish punching
mark's face in he flashes back to the baseball game when he was a child in the importance of his
wife's speech like see his happiness becomes your happiness aren't you happy now watching him and
this sort of reveals that he actually does care about mark he does care about his wife even though
he says that he doesn't at many times during the episode like he calls his wife a pet she's more
like a pet to me him sort of having that moment where he realizes he actually does care about mark
is the only thing that saved his life the only reason he didn't get smashed into a ball of goo in
the only reason why omniman didn't burn the entire planet to the ground it's just that he isn't
willing to stray from his mission so to speak i'll explain the ending of the episode too and
what happens to him next because omniman basically just takes off into outer space and you don't see
him again but there's a lot of theories that they have about where he went the thing about omniman 2
is they try to make him a little more sympathetic like he's not your straight up mustache twirling
villain even though jk simmons is fantastic as omniman and he does have a mustache that he could
twirl he tries to sell it like oh we're bringing them into the empire this is a good thing we're
going to give them all this technology all these medical advancements we're going to stop all war
but all the humans will basically become their pets so to speak so you'd have to imagine his
personality is kind of like what if superman were to grow up on krypton being instilled
purely with kryptonian values and then he came to earth how different would his personality be
he'd probably be more like the eradicator so this is basically superboy almost being killed by his
father superman like it wasn't about him trying to win the fight it's more about omniman coming to
the realization that he did care about him even though there are many times during the series
too they make them seem like they're unkillable veltromites do have weaknesses that they try to
develop there are ways that they try to fight them in the future of the series that we'll probably
find out about in season 2 season 3 in their ways of slowing them down but that's mostly what it is
all these countermeasures are mostly there to just slow them down not actually kill them but just to
explain what happened to omniman when he flew off the planet he basically took off into orbit
abandoning his mission to conquer earth that was given to him by thragg sort of like the military
leader of all veltromites normally they would punish omniman severely for abandoning his post
so to lessen his sentence what he does is he immediately decides to go take over a different
planet he basically goes for the easy layup so maybe we'll see a teaser for that in season two
or season three at some point omniman is still part of the story but basically he leaves the main
story for a little while because the main story is all about mark's life is invincible if you
have read the comics please don't post spoilers for what happens to omniman way later on but he
does come back in a big way eventually then after the montage of destruction and violence cecil and
his mother arrive to take mark to their special hospital and after he recovers it's still only
like halfway through the episode basically the aftermath is just as huge the big reveals in a lot
of the second half of the episode is really just table setting for season two and season three just
teasing all the big stuff that mark is going to deal with so probably one of the next big reveals
is when cecil takes them into their special lab and reveals that special frequency of light
that most humans aren't capable of seeing because they've been lacing the water this whole time i'm
sure conspiracy theorists will love that but it's also about what they're doing inside the lab you
like pan around you see all these different scenes of them testing weapons testing armor and you see
them bringing the immortal back to life he also has a big speech with alan the alien at the end
where he asks him what are you gonna do next and they have that huge montage of all the different
story lines and characters that i'll explain in a second all big teasers for season two but he
says basically finish high school i guess he'll continue to try and not fail out of high school
for lack of attendance while rushing off every five seconds to deal with more earth-shattering
catastrophes and supervillains so if you haven't read the comic book series it's all out there like
the comic book series ended a while ago so you can actually read the entire story even though the
tv show story is actually a little bit different robert kirkman also revealed the reason why he's
changing the comic book story a little is because he just believes that he's a better writer now he
wrote the comic book story when he was in his 20s he's like i was just wasn't as good of a writer
back then but then amber comes back around on him so she'll be back in season two they kind of imply
that they getting back together as a couple he's also got this long-running romance with adam eve
in the comics and without giving away big spoilers they kind of teased their chemistry during season
one but i'm assuming that they won't get together till like the end of season two maybe season three
robert kirkman explained that he's got about seven seasons worth of material just adapting
the comics so i think they'll eventually get to everything it's just a question of
how much they'll speedrun the comic book story and what they'll cut out but they do go back to
mark hamill's character have a tag scene with art i think just because they have mark hamill
like oh man we need to use them in this episode at least once mark eventually does get a couple
invincible costume changes and they do get into some multiverse tropes so you see many different
versions of invincible costumes so hopefully they'll bring mark hamill back in future seasons
then that whole speech that allen the alien goes out on about them fighting the viltromites is kind
of like them taking their big brute shot calling their avengers end game so he talks about the
coalition of planets trying to assemble an army to defeat the vultromites and that's meant to be
their endgame their avengers endgame moment that they're building up to like in the first avengers
movie thanos shows up in the post credit scene to let you know that he is the end game of this story
arc the infinity saga this whole final battle for independence from the viltromites that they're
teasing on invincible that's like the show's version of end game but the way alan explains
it no one up to this point has ever been powerful enough to fight the viltromites they're literally
unkillable for the most part i mean one vulture might could kill another voltromite but for the
most part if you're not a voltromite you have zero chance against them which is why invincible
is kind of like their new luke skywalker just to make another mark hamill reference
i guess in this scenario thragg would be kind of like the show's version of emperor palpatine
we might meet him during season two maybe not till season three they might wait a while on that but
here are all the scenes that they tease for season two in that ending montage so they re-arrest the
maulers lock them up this guy with the cast on his arm was the same guard that they wrecked when
they were escaping these are the flaxsens plotting to attack earth again they were the aliens using
the time dilation devices from another dimension omniman had basically traveled to their home world
and obliterated it in the span of a couple weeks it was actually a really badass scene then you
see doc seismic again from episode 3 controlling a bunch of magma golems preparing to attack again
you see those parasites that took over mars spreading and getting even worse they show
you titan again who took over as the boss of the city after they got rid of his old boss then right
on cue you see battle beast also from the same episode who almost wound up killing invincible
and probably one of the bigger teasers here is cecil inspecting the newest upgraded riannamen
drones they're kind of like the show's version of terminators they just keep iterating making them
more and more powerful as a last resort against the viltromites when they eventually do show up
and if you didn't know the song that's playing over this montage is called i hate to tell you
i told you so by the hives very apropos because it's also meant to be a reference to the plot
of the episode and what's in store for mark next for invincible so everyone just post your favorite
moment from the episode in the comments below or from the series in general i'll do more videos for
season two when they start releasing more footage but it's only going to get crazier things will
only escalate and if you do want to you can go read the comics right now my next video will be
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