The long-awaited second season of the Prime Video animated superhero series, Invincible, finally gets a new poster. Coming courtesy of Amazon Prime Video, the poster shows off the massive cast of the series, including main character Mark Grayson aka Invincible, the superhero team Guardians of the Globe, and Allen the Alien. You can check out the newly released poster for Invincible season two below.
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As well as squashing all the characters together on a bus, the poster for Invincible season two teases that new episodes are ‘Coming Soon.’ Which, considering that the first season wrapped up back in April 2021, ‘coming soon’ cannot come soon enough. While we await an official release date (though it’s expected to land on Prime Video in late 2023), it has been revealed that the second season will find the titular superhero battling a new villain, the multiverse-hopping scientist Angstrom Levy.
Invincible is a show based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, which airs on Prime Video. It tells the tale of a young superhero named Mark Grayson/Invincible (Steven Yeun), the half-human, half-Viltrumite son of Debbie (Sandra Oh) and Nolan Grayson (J.K. Simmons). Mark thinks that his father, the superhero Omni-Man, is the Earth’s greatest defender, but he’s actually come to enslave the populace on behalf of his home planet.
After a successful first season, fans were left in suspense, waiting for any potential updates on Season 2. First, it was announced that the second season would premiere in 2023, and January of the same year would contain some updates. Then it was teased that season two “may or may not” be connected to the comic’s 20th anniversary. Then, towards the end of January, it was announced over Invincible’s Twitter to start your day at Burger Mart, an in-universe fast food restaurant, with the “special hours” being between 6 and 10:43 PT, accompanied by a picture of Invincible with Allen the Alien (Seth Rogen), who’s working on behalf of the Coalition of Planets to stop the Viltrumites, sitting at a booth in the restaurant.
Once Jan. 20 rolled around, it released a two-minute video of Invincible and Allen the Alien. They discuss if Allen ever found Urath, which Allen mistakenly thought Earth was when they first met. They also engage in some metafiction of Allen asking what Invincible’s been doing because “I think everyone agrees it’s been, like, a little ridiculous how long it’s been.” Invincible replies that he’s “been busy.”
The video also shows off the new animation style used for the second season, a storyboard, a script page depicting a conversation between Mark and Immortal (Ross Marquand), who Omni-Man killed twice during the first season, and a brief clip of Yeun in a voice acting booth. Unfortunately, instead of a specific date, the video says to expect season 2 in “late 2023 (more or less).”
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What Else We Know
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As they say, a hero is a hero, but everybody loves a great villain. And comic book creator Robert Kirkman teased the introduction of two major villains from the comics, Angstrom Levy and Conquest. Knowing that also opens up the possibility of one major comic event being adapted for the second season. The Invincible War. Here’s some background on the events leading up to that.
Levy is a scientist with the ability to travel through dimensions. The only problem is that he has no idea what’s on the other side when he opens a portal. So to that end, he gathers together all of his alternate-dimension counterparts and hooks them up to a machine that will allow him to absorb their memories. Though the procedure is a success, an accident leaves Levy with a brain deformity.
Even though the situation was mostly his own fault, Levy blames Invincible for his new appearance and swears revenge. To that end, Levy gathers sixteen evil Invincibles from alternate dimensions, one of whom’s dressed in what was going to be the character’s costume early on. Then he has them cause untold destruction across the whole planet to taint Invincible’s reputation forever. That takes up the entirety of Issue #60 in the comic.
After the dust settles and the cleanup begins, Invincible meets Conquest, who has already appeared during a brief cameo in the season one finale. The attack dog of the Viltrumite empire, Conquest, tells Invincible that he will be taking over and conquering the planet and will kill him if he gets in his way. So naturally, Invincible gets in his way, engaging in one of the series’ toughest and most brutal fight scenes that lasts multiple issues.
However, Kirkman also said that he’s going to tweak and “enhance” the Conquest story, so the series’ events most assuredly aren’t going to play out exactly as they do in the comic. How much the two mediums will differ remains to be seen, though. It seems as though fans won’t be finding out until late 2023 or, depending on the start date, early 2024.
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