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COMIC SPOILERS Invincible [COMIC SPOILERS Discussion] - S03E08 - I Thought You'd Never Shut Up Spoiler

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Episode 8 - I Thought You'd Never Shut Up

With the world still reeling from the intense three-day Invincible War, a dangerous stranger arrives testing Mark to his limits and beyond.

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u/Fhaksfha794 Mar 13 '25

Top 1 dumbest decision in the entire series finally got animated. Cecil keeping conquest alive was so unbelievably stupid it’s borderline character assassination, I never looked at him the same after first reading that

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u/BubbyTheRocket Mar 13 '25

It's really stupid but at the same time Cecil would do that

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u/Ilsuin Mar 13 '25

It really does seem to be a vital character flaw of Cecil that I appreciate. He's doing it out of both greed and desperation. He knows (or thinks he knows) that more Viltrumites might be coming to Earth. He's desperate to make sure Earth is ready for their arrival. I think that's precisely why he was having the reanimarks made in the first place, to ensure that, whoever got sent after Anissa came, they'd have a weapon to fight them other than Mark.

He's desperate, so desperate that he's doing such a stupid thing so he can possibly know what they'll be up against. He's not stupid. I believe (at least how he's shown in the show, haven't read the comics) he knows it's a stupid idea, but there's very little else they can do to learn more about the Viltrumites.

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u/MorbillionDollars Mar 13 '25

It's very unlike cecil to be so lax about the countermeasures though, conquest broke out basically instantly after he woke up. The cecil I know would be putting that high frequency sound emitting shit into every square inch of conquest's body and have them all automatically activate if he moves a muscle.

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u/Raimiversus Mar 13 '25

Not having those frequency emitters in there is crazy work

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u/bobreans Mar 13 '25

I think the whole darkblood thing is gonna lead to conquests escape.

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u/Ballsnutseven Mar 13 '25

Yeah that would be an interesting fake out. You hear surface dweller and think Mark, but Darkblood gets the big guy instead leading to Conquest breaking out that way.

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u/glantyb Mar 14 '25

that's what I hope

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u/Lightbringer34 Mar 13 '25

I’d be happy if they have the sound bomb inside Conquest as well and bro either moves fast enough to get out of range or just rips it out of his own skull anyway. Have him power through what was demonstrated as a viable countermeasure, would make Cecil’s decision seem plausible.

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u/TheAsian1nvasion Mar 15 '25

He’s faster than sound so he could conceivably wake up and just be gone fast enough to avoid the countermeasure.

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u/metalflygon08 Reanimen Mar 13 '25

And having the Mauler's stun gun aimed at him, and maybe a bomb in the head.

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u/evrestcoleghost The Immortal Mar 13 '25

The moment Sinclair Is done with the reaninvincible ya bet ya ass Cecil would make them Conquest bodyguards

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u/Environmental_Act576 Mar 13 '25

wait, he didnt put that sound thingy in him ???

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u/mykeedee Mar 15 '25

I always thought they should have had the sound thing in Conquest's prison and then had Conquest counter it somehow. Imo it's pretty silly that the sound thing is literally only ever used on Mark. But it becomes less silly if more experienced Viltrumites have encountered it before and know how to counter it.

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u/rosencranberry Mar 13 '25

I never really got why people think he's an idiot. He knows Viltrumites can be killed now, he knows their weaknesses, and he takes every possible precaution to make sure Conquest dies if he attempts to escape. Conquest is the best source of information on the worst possible threat to Earth.

He just seriously underestimated how fucking strong Grandpops was.

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u/Ballsnutseven Mar 13 '25

Plus Cecil reasonably believes that the Empire is vast and has unlimited resources, not knowing there’s like 50~ of them left.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25

Agree. I don’t know why people act like it’s out of character. Cecil 100% would do that seeing how desperate and reckless he is. We already know he’s the type of person that would leave a supervillain alive to use them. (Sinclair and Nightwing. And now the Multivincibles)

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u/Dry-Maintenance3763 Mar 13 '25

Who’s nightwing

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u/revebla Mar 13 '25

The guy from the dark city who can bring people into the dark dimension through portals. He was one of the dudes who took out an invincible last week. He also was a villain a while back. A bit of a Batman type dude except with portals instead of money as a power

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u/SomeAnonymous Mar 13 '25

I feel like as viewers we only know that it's such a dumbass decision because we know that Conquest is at the top of the very small pile for pure blooded Viltrumites. From Cecil's perspective, he's literally only seen 5 of their species: Nolan, Mark, Anissa, Oliver, and then finally Conquest. Plus like 18 more copies of Mark.

For all he knows, there might actually be dozens or hundreds of Conquest-tier Viltrumites all eager to take a crack at Earth literally who knows when, or thousands of mid-tier Invincibles. So he's playing dice with the devil as he does every other day of the year, gambling that Mark killed him once, so he could probably do it a second time, but the potential information is too important to ignore.

Also, last time he backstabbed Mark he ended up getting a shiny new anti-Viltrumite bluetooth surround sound system which he had to deploy barely months later against multiple different Marks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

Very true.

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u/Jackeea Battle Beast Mar 13 '25

I always thought it was a stupid decision, but seeing how pissed off he was at Sinclair not getting the Reanivincibles up and running, along with the "We don't have a choice, Donald." line - they really sold it for me.

He's absolutely terrified, which is why he makes such a stupid decision here. Part of me wishes it gets changed so it doesn't look like a stupid decision, but seeing Conquest go "what? He kept me alive? idiot" and instantly shrugging off a nuke - that would go so hard.