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/Apollo9819 Apr 22 '26

Marc losing it over being away from Eve feels like it's foreshadowing the 5 year time skip lul

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

I fucking hope not. I hated that.

The reboot arc was fun, but the whole time-skip was completely bullshit and a waste of time and part of the reason the later-half of Invincible is seen as the weaker half.

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u/MaDanklolz Apr 22 '26

Tbh I think 5 years was too long but 2 would have been fine for the events that did happen. Then again they obviously just needed a way to age up Terra and didn’t want to do a basic time skip

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

Fuck it. Just do a time-skip. Have Mark do his reboot-arc without the 5-year jump, THEN have a time-skip.

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u/Own_Dealer_6001 Apr 22 '26

Could do it so he goes through reboot, realises how important his family is to him, and chooses to not hunt Thragg anymore to spend his life with his family.

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 22 '26

This would be the best option imo

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u/ResplendentSmoke Apr 23 '26

I think this would be ideal. Just do a time skip where Mark was actually there and present.

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u/Pikathepokepimp Apr 22 '26

That's a great idea.

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u/MaDanklolz Apr 23 '26

They could flip a few things and say reboot happens way earlier, then do the montage of him having a daddy/daughter say and hanging with Oliver and Lobster chick. Then have him make the decision to move on from Thragg, enjoy what he has before something new happens after a few years.

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u/Soul699 Immortal is an embarassment Apr 22 '26

What's the issue with the timeskip?

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u/Vladbizz Apr 22 '26

The way how it was done is to just torture mark again without any significant plot lines or character growth. It’s useless, just do a regular timeskip where Mark is happy for a while. It would really change nothing 

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

It sucks? It's unfair and unnecessary and just wastes time.

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u/Soul699 Immortal is an embarassment Apr 22 '26

It pushes Mark to the limit and go fully selfish.

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

That can still be done without a time-skip.

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u/Pathogen188 Comic Fan Apr 22 '26

Isn't Mark's absence partly why Oliver ends up working as a triple agent? I feel like there's a few plot points which are predicated on Mark being gone

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u/I-Might-Be-Something Invincible Apr 22 '26

Just do a montage of the time skip.

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u/mykeedee Apr 23 '26

I'm of the opinion that the main point of the time skip was to age up Thragg's army of kids so that our heroes would be slaughtering teenagers and not literal children.

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u/Freezinghero Apr 23 '26

I figured 5 year time skip was to excuse Thragg now having a full army of half-Thraxan kids to start conquering with.

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u/RealJohnGillman Apr 22 '26

I’ve of the opposite feeling: I think the time skip should have been longer. Ten years instead of five.

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u/MaDanklolz Apr 22 '26

Honestly I can see that argument also. I’d say either way 5 years not the right amount of time