Invincible followers, we have to come to phrases with an unsettling fact: Invincible has an Omni-Man (J.Ok. Simmons) downside. After flying off from Earth following his brutal pummeling of his son and the world discovering out he was a genocidal maniac trying to conquer them to proceed the Viltrumite race on the finish of Season 1, the present has largely been devoid of his enthralling combination of superhero stoicism and brutal pragmatism. After the third episode of the present season, it’s clear his son Oliver (Lincoln Bodin) is able to choose up that mantle, and Simmons is prepared for it.
On the finish of this season’s third episode, entitled “You Need A Actual Costume, Proper?” the Mauler Twins (Kevin Michael Richardson) launched an EMP missile to destroy Earth’s communications community to incentivize folks to pay to make use of their shielding system. Whereas Invincible (Steven Yeun) darted to the sky to cease the missile from impacting, his youthful brother, overly excited to make use of his newfound powers to battle evil, does battle with the pair of villains. Earlier within the episode, the present expertly displayed Oliver as a carefree youngster nonetheless determining the way to fly, pestering his large brother to hang around and practice him, and strutting round in his new superhero go well with. Up till his duel with the Mauler Twins, we had been made to consider Oliver’s superhero inexperience was merely an excuse for lightheartedness. We forgot for a second that Viltrumite blood nonetheless burns in his veins.
In a matter of seconds, Oliver kills one of many Mauler Twins by flying via his physique. Earlier than killing the second, the blood-soaked preteen coldly says, “That’s what occurs while you’re a foul man.” His actions turn out to be extra disturbing when he appears to revert again to childlike innocence, pleading that his murders had been accidents. After we spoke with Simmons, even he couldn’t consider what his pretend son had carried out.
“We get shocked and stunned by a few of these plot developments as we learn them earlier than we put them down,” the actor mentioned. “Oliver is a extremely cool new character that hopefully retains folks guessing.”
When requested if Oliver’s pragmatic reasoning for killing the dangerous guys was inherited from his father, Simmons slyly answered, “Nothing’s ever Omni-Man’s fault. Omni-Man is all the time harmless of any wrongdoings.” The sarcasm in his voice and smirk on his face instructed us all we wanted to know. The kid who wished to honor his homicidal father by donning the title Omni-Child earlier within the episode isn’t too far faraway from his exiled father. However, him reverting again to a clueless youngster who claims to have by accident killed two villains all of us noticed him homicide with clear, chilly intention means both his Viltrumite killer genes are (literal) sleeper cells that activate when somebody disrupts his ethical compass or Oliver is aware of he’s a killer at coronary heart, however should act docile with a purpose to ingratiate himself with the Earthlings he might someday conquer.
If that is solely the third episode of what’s already shaping as much as be the very best season of Invincible, we’re in for a hell of a journey. Now, let’s deliver Omni-Man again from house jail instantly.
