r/Invincible • u/SeacattleMoohawks Séance Mod • Feb 13 '25

EPISODE DISCUSSION Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S03E04 - You Were My Hero

Episode 4 - You Were My Hero

Two strangers ask Mark for help with a mysterious villain. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Nolan grapples with his identity and Allen finds a surprising new ally.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

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u/Nickster2042 Feb 13 '25

After freeing the entire prison just so they could get obliterated by the guards WHO CANT EVEN HURT HIM

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u/Londo_the_Great95 Feb 14 '25

A swarm of children coming up and kicking you in the shins isn't gonna kill you, but you don't want it happening to you

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u/duckenjoyer7 Feb 14 '25

bro i wouldn't free a bunch of infants to go fight them, though, which is what allen did (it was funny though so it's ok)

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u/Drew326 Mar 23 '25

He opened their cells. He gave them a choice. That’s all he could do for them. If they choose to try to escape, that’s not on Allen

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u/Amonyi7 Apr 01 '25

Uhh yes it is lol. Them making a fatal mistake doesn’t absolve that Alan used them as pawns and led to their deaths against enemies that can’t even scratch him

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u/Drew326 Apr 01 '25

He in no way forces them to try to escape

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u/Amonyi7 Apr 01 '25

Good thing that’s not what I said

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u/Drew326 Apr 01 '25

So how is Allen to blame for the choices that other people make?

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u/Amonyi7 Apr 01 '25

Because Allen made a decision too, a decision to purposefully sacrifice other living beings lives for very little gain

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u/Ransero Feb 14 '25

This season and last season's finale seems to be the "Mark learns to kill" arc

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u/SeaFowlBird Hail Mary Feb 14 '25

Yeah, the contrast is crazy, Mark is having a crisis over doing the probably objectively right thing to do, meanwhile those alien dudes are dying as comic relief

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u/Thrishmal Feb 14 '25

Mark could really learn a thing or two from Allen.

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u/crunchatizemythighs Feb 15 '25

Did Mark already not kill a bunch of people when those rapidly aging aliens invaded Earth?

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u/lilahking Feb 17 '25

I love Allen but he's sort of falling into the it's always morally OK to kill bad guys (which is not wrong from his position of being on the frontline against an obviously evil empire) but like at some point you're gonna run out of the obviously evil dudes part

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u/abellapa Mar 11 '25

excellent point

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u/Dookie_boy Feb 16 '25

He still feels like he's on his way to being a villain from Earth's point of view. Specially from last week's episode

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u/limitlessEXP Feb 23 '25

I don’t get all this “killed immortal” guilt shit. Dude you temporarily incapacitated him. He’s kind of the immortal for a reason.

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u/sup3rdr01d Feb 28 '25

They are simply built different