Amazon Prime's Invincible concluded its first season on Friday, May 1st. The finale is a standout episode in a series that's already being called one of the best comic book shows of all time. Amazon has renewed the series for two more seasons. Invincible's creator, Robert Kirkman, says that the show could easily run for seven seasons or more. That's not too surprising considering the Invincible comic series started in 2003 and ran for over fifteen years.

Invincible is the story of Mark Grayson. Mark lives in a world populated with superheroes, villains, aliens, robots, and all other kinds of comic book excitement. His father is Omni-Man (essentially a Superman parallel) and when Mark turns seventeen he begins developing powers like his father's. The show, like the comic before it, contains every facet of the superhero genre. It's an origin story, a thriller, and a tragedy.

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What sets Invincible apart from the endless catalogue of other superhero shows is its dedication to the reality of its world. Sure, there's joy and jokes to be found within Invincible, but the show isn't for the faint of heart. Every super-powered battle has consequences, and every character interaction has real stakes. Loss of life isn't handled casually. Though Invincible can sometimes look like a Boys-esque gorefest, the blood and guts aren't just set dressing. Episode seven promised a spectacular conclusion to the show's first season. The finale, "Where I Really Come From", over-delivers.

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The entire first season has been charging towards the moment when Omni-Man would need to reveal his true identity and intentions to his family. When viewers last saw Invincible, he had just witnessed his father eviscerate the superhero known as The Immortal. The truth was at last ready to come out, and the finale doesn't wait to dive into it.

Omni-Man explains the true story of his home planet, Viltrum. The Viltrumites strove to strengthen their people by culling the weak. They killed half the population (a plot point from the Invincible comics that might have inspired the MCU's Thanos).  The remaining members of the species created the Viltrumite Empire and spread throughout the galaxy. Omni-Man came to Earth and had Mark with the intention that the two of them would ready the planet for a Viltrumite invasion.

When Mark doesn't jump at the opportunity to help his father enslave everyone he's ever met, Omni-Man reveals another shocking truth to his son. Because of his Viltrumite genetics, Mark will live for thousands of years, eventually outliving the planet Earth itself. That's not enough for Omni-Man's son. Mark insists that he'll defend the Earth from his father.

Omni-Man decides to teach Mark a lesson by punching him through the streets of Chicago. The scene looks eerily like every Avengers climax put to film, but Invincible doesn't obscure the carnage and death caused by the epic battle. The violence is beyond horrific. It is, at moments, difficult to watch, despite the animated visuals. The Chicago scene, more than anything else in the show so far, calls into question the proposed live-action adaption of Invincible. Some things might be too awful to see when reenacted with real human beings.

After using Mark's body to kill thousands, Omni-Man continues to beat his son to a bloody pulp. Then the episode, seemingly without effort, shifts from stomach-turning violence to one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in comic book media, period. Omni-Man claims his loyalty is only to Viltrumite. He calls his own wife a pet, but he's unable to follow through with killing Mark. Instead, he flies off into space, leaving his broken son on the side of a mountain.

That might have been the most fitting ending for the episode. If the show's writers felt the same way, they probably also knew audiences would need at least a few lighter moments to walk away from Invincible's first season not feeling entirely hollow. A handful of scenes after the climactic fight establish what everyone is doing now that Omni-Man has apparently left Earth. As necessary, and welcome, as these scenes are, they feel like part of another episode. Mark and Amber settle their differences and get back together. The new Guardians of the Globe finally become a real team. Mark gets to have a heart-to-heart with Seth Rogen's Allen the Alien, and their conversation offers a clear "coming in season two" montage.

"Where I Really Come From" is the best episode of a phenomenal season of television. Invincible's impressive range is its biggest selling point, and the finale puts viewers through a barrage of emotions. The upbeat final note doesn't quite jive with the nearly forty minutes of horror that precede it, but that mismatch just serves to increase anticipation for more Invincible.

Amazon has confirmed two more seasons of the show. More than that will almost certainly come to pass. For now, Invincible leaves its fans aching to know what's next.

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