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looter for Invincible Season 3 , Episode 8 , " I Thought You ’d Never shut out Up"The Season 3 finale of theInvincibleTV adaptation premiered last week , bear the around-the-clock action that fans have come to carry . Much like the time of year one finale , the instalment teased what ’s to descend next seasonincluding thereturn of the bloodsucking exotic Sequidsand fan - favorite grapheme Battle Beast . While these storylines are pick out directly from the original funny series , the episode also sets up the return of another character from the first seasonanda storyline totally original to the animated series that never hap in the comics .
After being bar back to Hell in Season 1,demon detective Damien Darkblood reappearedin a mid - credits panorama of the most recent episode " I think You ’d Be impregnable . " After summoning a mysterious elderly hellish being but constitute " Demon " in the credits ( voiced by none other than Bruce Campbell ) , Darkblood promised his diabolical noble a mean of restoring him to his infernal throne by beseech a"surface denizen of bang-up power"to Hell and bind him to his service .
This is the beginning of a plot line that cobalt - creator Robert Kirkman always rue not include in the original comics - now , it ’s in conclusion coming to life , urinate the TV show even well with the welfare of hindsight .
Omni - Man and Superman ’s similarities are hard to omit , but Invincible ’s foreign don was to begin with an even more obvious copy of DC ’s Man of Steel .
Invincible Is Going to Hell
A Storyline That Robert Kirkman Couldn’t Fit into the Comics
concord toInvincibleco - God Almighty and showrunner Robert Kirkman in an interview withVariety , this new storyline has its roots in an idea he had during the original comics run that never saw the light source of day :
There ’s a plot line from the comic that I never get around to doing . Every superhero account has some chapter where they go to hell and they fight the fiend . It happens in DC and Marvel comic . It ’s a expectant mass . I never get around to doing anything like that in “ unbeatable . ” I maintain getting sidetrack and there was never a good time . So it ’s entirely possible that we may be doing something like that in the show , and that scene at the end of that episode is adjust that up .
Like any adjustment , theInvincibleanimated serial publication has made occasional changes to the source stuff , but mostly it hews fairly close to the general and overall story beats of the comedian . However , in this instance , the repair series is venturing into altogether uncharted territory . However , it ’s notquitea young idea , but rather Kirkman ’s chance to incorporate a concept he could never conform to into the original , with Damien Darkblood kicking things off .
Damien Darkblood Is Out For Revenge!
A Joke Character in the Comics Gets Elevated
When Damien Darkblood first appeared inInvincible # 8by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Ryan Ottley , he was little more than a running jape character - a potpourri ofWatchmen ’s Rorschach with a number ofHellboythrown in . The repair series has elevated Darkblood , sound by Clancy Brown , to a more serious and believable researcher attempt to solve a enigma surrounding the slaying of the Guardians of the Globe . Now , his persona increases even more , as Invincible is set up to be dragged to Hell .
AsInvinciblecomic fan are well aware , there are some major storylines on the horizonincluding the heroic Viltrumite War . Given this late development , it seems like the battle between the Coalition of Planets and the Viltrum Empire might not arrive as soon as viewers had anticipate , as Mark Graysonfinallyheads to Hell , fetch this oldInvincibleconcept to life for the first time .
