The camera pans out. Behind him, an army of alternate Invincibles, all wearing the yellow and blue, stand in perfect, mindless silence.
Mark arrives alone.
“People were inside, Cecil,” Mark replies, his voice flat. “I’ll pay for the pipes.” Invincible - Season 3
Deep space. A massive Viltrumite war fleet, hundreds strong, drops out of faster-than-light travel. At its head is Thragg , the scarred, feral emperor of the Viltrumites. He looks at a hologram of Mark holding Anissa, refusing to kill her.
The season opens not with a bang, but with a whisper of cracking pavement. Mark Grayson, still in his blue suit, hovers above a burning building in downtown Chicago. He’s faster now. More efficient. He evacuates an entire family in 1.3 seconds, extinguishes the chemical fire in another two, and subdues a B-tier villain called Magmaniac by casually flicking him into a containment truck. The camera pans out
“He put a bomb in your skull,” she whispers.
He doesn't kill her. He restrains her. Using a technique he learned from Battle Beast—redirecting an enemy’s force against their own joints—he locks Anissa in an unbreakable hold, her own Viltrumite strength turned into a prison. He holds her for seventeen hours, hovering in low orbit, until Cecil’s scientists develop a sonic dampening collar. “People were inside, Cecil,” Mark replies, his voice
“Let’s go remind him which one breaks first.”