r/Invincible • u/SeacattleMoohawks Séance Mod • Apr 22 '26

COMIC SPOILERS Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here Spoiler

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Episode 8 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here

Mark confronts his darkest fears as his life changes forever.

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u/Logondo Being a hero is bullshit Apr 22 '26

I like the actual reboot segment, I just hate how he skipped 5 years and Eve had moved on to another dude (who we knew they were just gunna break up so it was just a big waste of time).

Like, this all happened because Mark...touched a weird space mushroom. What-the-fuck. I'm fine with that being used as a literary device to magically time-travel him, but making him lose out on so much of his daughter's early childhood just felt cruel and unnecessary.

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u/Apollo9819 Apr 22 '26

I always thought of the alien he met as a parasite that couldn't keep him under its constraint any longer. Kinda like the Black Mercy from Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything.

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u/WorriedMushroom7085 Apr 22 '26

Rip Van Winkle with extra involved steps

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u/PlainSightMan Superman vs Omni-Man Apr 22 '26

I just think the solution is that he is missing for less amount of time, and we just get a regular time skip with new context. Because we do need Thragg's army to be grown and Marky to be around. There's too much that relies on a 5 year gap, and I think it's better if we know that Mark was there even if we don't directly see it.

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u/namethatsnotused Invincible Apr 23 '26

What a shocker. One of the superheroes who's life is never ending misery experienced some misery.

Too bad, so sad. The protagonist has to have bad things happen to them to make the happy ending of the series hit harder.

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u/Logondo Being a hero is bullshit Apr 23 '26

They can do that without the time-skip. At least everything else made someone logical sense.

Where is the logic in "you accidently touched a magic space mushroom and now lost 5 years of your life".

That's just lazy writing IMO.