"I Thought You'd Never Shut Up" is the eighth and final episode of the third season of Invincible, and the twenty-fourth episode of the show overall.
Synopsis[]
With the world still reeling, a dangerous stranger arrives testing Mark to his limits and beyond.
Plot[]
A city is destroyed
Conquest and Invincible engage in a fierce battle across the city. Conquest, a brutal warmonger rather than an ambassador of the Viltrum Empire, proves to be an overwhelming opponent as the fight is broadcast on television. Oliver sees and rushes to assist his older brother in the fight.
Invincible and Conquest smashes their arms!
After awakening in the hospital, Atom Eve learns of Mark’s dire situation and joins the fray despite Cecil’s cautionary advice regarding Conquest’s lethal strength. The confrontation escalates as Conquest devastates the cityscape, mercilessly battering Mark along urban streets and coastal areas and killing hundreds of civilians. Although Eve initially holds her ground, she is eventually overwhelmed—until she reemerges to deliver a massive energy blast that damages Conquest’s skin, weakening him enough for Mark to finish him with a fatal headbutt. Both heroes are subsequently hospitalized.
Mark and Eve finally rest after both the Invincible War and Conquest's arrival.
Three days later, while Mark continues his recovery, Eve explains that her near-fatal ordeal removed long-imposed limitations on her powers—restrictions that had been in place since birth—and allowed her to access her full potential.
Meanwhile, Cecil collaborates with Sinclair to rebuild his robot army using components salvaged from the Invincible Variants killed in the Invincible War. Although Mark instructs him to burn Conquest’s body, it is later revealed that Cecil has preserved the corpse underground under surveillance in order to extract intelligence regarding the Viltrum Empire.
Shrinking Rae crying at Rex Splode's funeral.
Elsewhere, the heroes unite to honor Rex’s memory following his death. Hints of Season 4 emerge as Battle Beast is rescued from space and Angstrom is reconstructed, with plans to collaborate with the Technicians to settle a longstanding debt. In the post-credits scene, the reappearance of Damien Darkblood— now a sorcerer intent on summoning a powerful dark entity potentially linked to Mark—signals a formidable new threat on the horizon.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Steven Yeun - Invincible
- Sandra Oh - Debbie Grayson
- J.K. Simmons - Omni-Man (Credit only)
- Christian Convery - Kid Omni-Man
- Gillian Jacobs - Atom Eve
Featuring the Voices Of[]
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Conquest
- Walton Goggins - Cecil Stedman
- Chris Diamantopoulos - Donald Ferguson
- Eric Bauza - D.A. Sinclair, Doctor
- Zachary Quinto - Robot
- Ross Marquand - Rudy/Rex
- Grey Griffin - Amanda/Monster Girl (human form), Betsy Wilkins, Justine
- Khary Payton - Black Samson
- Ben Schwartz - Rus Livingston
- Cliff Curtis - Paul
- Fred Tatasciore - Adam Wilkins
- Clancy Brown - Damien Darkblood
- Sterling K. Brown - Angstrom Levy
- Doug Bradley - Technicians
- Michael Dorn - Battle Beast
- Gary Anthony Williams - Newscaster
- Bruce Campbell - Great Beast
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Trivia[]
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"I Thought You'd Never Shut Up!" - Invincible, Invincible #68
- The title of this episode is in reference to Invincible #68, where Mark says this to Dinosaurus after the latter finishes his rant.
- Worth noting is that unlike most episodes, the context for this episode's title has almost nothing to do with the episode itself. It's speculated that the reason for this was to avoid spoiling the magnitude of the battle.
- The version of this fight from the show deviates considerably from the comics.
- In the show, the fight is largely more brutal. Whereas the comics mostly avoided civilian casualties, Conquest in a display of "educative" action deliberately targeted populated areas, using his speed to indiscriminately annihilate men, women, children, and pets in his path as he dragged Mark along for his battle in the show.
- This draws heavy comparisons to Nolan's attempts to "educate" Mark by showing the fragility of human life.
- The brief moment where Conquest confides in Mark his loneliness and sorrow was not adapted from the comics and is a unique revelation exclusive to the series.
- Conquest also mentions all (but one) of the Viltrumites fear his immense power and strength.
- Conquest mentions his own experiences with Nolan, admitting he showed promise for future Viltrumites to come along with hinting at his "supposed death", but neither he or Mark are aware that it was averted.
- In the show, the fight is largely more brutal. Whereas the comics mostly avoided civilian casualties, Conquest in a display of "educative" action deliberately targeted populated areas, using his speed to indiscriminately annihilate men, women, children, and pets in his path as he dragged Mark along for his battle in the show.
- During the fight, Mark suffers from a real-world phenomenon known as hysterical strength, wherein a person's body endures very brief bouts of extreme strength while suffering from a surplus of adrenaline. Conquest specifically makes a point to rebuke the notion, stating "Getting mad doesn't make you stronger!" only to very quickly be proven wrong.
- This anecdote lends credence to a popular, yet never-confirmed fan theory that pure-blooded Viltrumites either don't produce adrenaline, or don't produce enough of it to gain its benefits, and Mark's innate ability to grow stronger being due to his human DNA granting him said adrenaline.
- There are brief sections of the fight where the animation quality noticeably improves over the rest of the episode, the season at large, and the series as a whole.
- This episode is one of the few to pick up immediately where the previous episode leaves off (along with Where I Really Come From, It's Been a While, and It's Not That Simple). The episode, and by extension, the ending of the previous one both take place a week after the Invincible War.
- Conquest's "I'm so lonely" quote has spawned a lot of memes and parodies.
- The scene of Mark yelling to Cecil for after Atom Eve is killed by Conquest has spawned a popular meme format titled "Sea Salt! I Need You Sea Salt!".
- Damien Darkblood makes his first appearance since Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out. This reappearance never occurred in the comics, making it the first wholly unique subplot in the series (other deviations from the comics are at best revisions).
- Rus Livingston was previously seen being reattached by a sequid when trying to clean up his home and now lives in the sewers, possibly because the Invincibles destroyed his apartment during the invasion.
- There was an image leak prior to the season's release that indicated that Eve's powers have malfunctioned. The comics stated it was Eve getting killed by Conquest that caused it.
- Robot's new name being Rex Conners is an interesting concept that was previously explored in the previous season's finale as a future Robot was called Rex by Atom Eve.
- Amanda says "I love you... Rex." to Rudy, acknowledging they are now a couple.
- D.A Sinclair is revealed to have a girlfriend named Justine.
- Several Evil Invincibles that were killed are shown to be acquired by the GDA, during and after the Conquest fight, the visible ones are:
- Mustache Mark
- Long Haired Mark
- Flaxan Mark
- Bulletproof Mark
- and Light Mark, who at first was considered to be killed by Powerplex.
- Robert Kirkman has stated in an interview that he wanted to bring Damien Darkblood back at some point. He also lamented the fact that he never penned a story where a hero goes to Hell and fights "the devil", and may potentially be using the show as a second chance to do just that.[1]
- This episode currently has a 9.9 rating on IMDb, making it the highest rated episode of the entire series, and one of the highest rated episodes of any show on the site.