- Title: Invincible – This Must Come as a Shock
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“This Must Come as a Shock” picks up with Mark (Steven Yeun) recovering from the battle against the Viltrumites and helping the Thraxans before returning to home with his half-brother. We get some awkward reunions with his mother, Amber (Zazie Beetz), and others which will be expanded on in the next episode as events are put in hold to deal with an invading ship from Mars full of Sequids. Mark joins Eve (Gillian Jacobs) for a fight in space while the leftover Guardians Rex (Jason Mantzoukas), Kate (Malese Jow), and Rae (Grey Griffin) deal with the Lizard League breaking into a nuclear facility on Earth.
While awkwardly neither of the action scenes conclude in this episode (dealing with incredibly short wrap-ups in the next episode) likely because that’s the only action found in “It’s Not That Simple,” the mid-season opener pushes most of the big emotional talk to that next episode. Memorable moments include the brutal death of Kate (and apparent deaths of her teammates), the origin story of Shapesmith (Ben Schwartz) who none of his teammates (well, almost none) are surprised to learn he’s a Martian. The episode also provides the return of Allen the Alien (Seth Rogen) who will get some fun moments in the following episode.
