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Season two of this star-packed animation is an absolute triumph. From alien fascists attacking Earth to a roided-up take on daddy issues, it’s delicious chaosThere’s no shortage of Lycra-clad heroes on screens looking to save the world, and their triumph over evil is all but guaranteed. But in the case of Invincible’s titular teenage superhero Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), there are so many world-ending events simultaneously set in motion that he enters this second season seeming royally screwed.When the critically adored first series wrapped up in 2021 (and Amazon wisely renewed it for two more seasons), we ended on a montage of potentially apocalyptic loose ends. Pink tentacled parasitic squids had overthrown Mars; the dastardly Mauler twins (Kevin Michael Richardson) were preparing to escape prison; the dimension-hopping Flaxans were plotting to attack Earth; Doc Seismic (Chris Diamantopoulos) was breeding large fanged abominations beneath a volcano; Battle Beast (Michael Dorn) was preparing for a rematch with our eponymous hero; Titan (Mahershala Ali) had become a top crime lord and was hellbent on using dragon spirits to expand his territory; DA Sinclair (Ezra Miller) and morally slippery Global Defense Agency head Cecil (Walton Goggins) were creating an army of cybernetically resurrected soldiers. On top of all this, Mark’s once beloved dad/Omni-Man (JK Simmons) beat him nearly to death after revealing that he was leading a fascist empire called Viltrum who had Earth in their sights.Invincible is on Prime Video now. Continue reading...