“We can be the good guys, or we can be the guys that save the world. We can’t be both.” So says Cecil to his team of superheroes in the new Season 3 trailer for Invincible.
The official season trailer, released on Saturday, opens with a training progress update on Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), AKA Invincible. In a surprising turn of events, we learn that Mark’s boss Cecil (Walton Goggins) has teamed up with the villain D.A. Sinclair — a sign that the tension between Mark and Cecil is about to reach a breaking point. We see Mark battling alongside his little brother Oliver, who has grown rapidly from the baby introduced in Season 2. We also get a look at Invincible’s new black and blue suit, which Mark says, “feels a little serious” — perhaps foreshadowing a tone shift in this new season, which premiers on Feb. 6, 2025.
The Prime Video show is an adaptation of the Invincible comic series by Robert Kirkman. It’s packed with high-stakes fights, but it’s also a coming-of-age story. Mark is the son of real estate agent Debbie (Sandra Oh) and a powerful superhero named Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons); after getting his superpowers much later than expected and taking on the mantle of Invincible, Mark has to balance his new responsibilities with his desire to be a normal high-school student. But he has to grow up a little quicker when he learns the truth about his father.
In a teaser trailer released last month, Mark and Cecil discuss the current state of affairs with a goofy montage of chibi-ified characters, and they make a tongue-in-cheek reference to the four-month break in the middle of Season 2. The teaser trailer specifically mentions that Season 3 won’t have a midseason break; we expect a new episode will drop each week until the conclusion on Mar. 13.
Season 2 wrapped up last April; if you still haven’t caught up, there’s no time like the present. And if you’re new to Invinicible, do yourself a favor and check out the first episode — it opens with Omni-Man defending the White House from the bickering Mauler Twins and ends with a huge plot twist. Be prepared for a large quantity of animated blood and guts (memorably, the Season 1 opening title card gets splashed with more and more blood as the show progresses). But there’s also a lot of heart, as well as fun references to other superhero franchises (The Guardians of the Globe is a barely-disguised spoof of DC’s Justice League).
Invincible has been renewed for a 4th season and may continue beyond Season 4. The show doesn’t follow the 144-issue comic’s story in order, instead shuffling between plot points and sometimes covering multiple storylines at once. Kirkman, the comic’s creator and one of the show’s writers and executive producers, has said that he hopes the show continues until Season 7 or 8. That would be “enough to cover the entire comic” and possibly include some elements that didn’t make it into the original story.
Even if you’re feeling superhero fatigue, or you weren’t the biggest fan of superheroes to begin with, you’ll find a lot to love in Invincible. The tightly-paced story has emotional heft — the superheroes can’t avoid the consequences of their superpowers — but it’s balanced by healthy doses of self-aware humor. Only Omni-Man would try to explain how learning to fly is like “peeing your pants on purpose.”
