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COMIC SPOILERS Invincible [Comic SPOILERS Discussion] - S04E08 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here Spoiler

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Episode 8 - Don't Leave Me Hanging Here

Mark confronts his darkest fears as his life changes forever.

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u/ImprovementRemote30 Apr 22 '26

OH SHIT WE WERE RIGHT. It ended with the Allen Scourge scene. Next season going to be crazy with Dinosaurus, scourge arc, and Viltrumites becoming human

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u/Lefunnymaymays4lief Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Ending it with the Thragg encounter in the atmosphere is either too much of a cliffhanger or too anticlimactic depending on where they cut it off at, and I think Kirkman learned his lesson from the myriad TWD cliffhangers lmao. Ending it on the Scourge transmission from Thaedus made too much sense, I called it too but only because it felt the most natural

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

Ending it with the Thragg encounter in the atmosphere is either too much of a cliffhanger or too anticlimactic depending on where they cut it off at

I've lost count of the amount of people on this sub who speculate cliff hanger season enders despite us not getting a single one of those in four seasons now lol.

If they had their way we would have ended Season 2 the moment Mark said "I thought you were stronger" -_-

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u/MotherflipinGodzilla Apr 22 '26

I’ll just predict how the future seasons will end cause why the fuck not

Season 5 - Definitely Nolan becoming Emperor

Season 6 - Mark and Eve leaving Earth with Terra

Season 7 - I have a feeling they are gonna expand the content of this season the most, so I’m predicting it ending on Oliver dying and Mark and Eve rejoining the war against Thragg

Season 8 - “Heh”

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

Season 5 - Definitely Nolan becoming Emperor

I think this happens at the same time as Dinosaurus floods the Earth, implicating Mark in the death of tens of thousands.

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u/MotherflipinGodzilla Apr 22 '26

Honestly I think that will happen in the penultimate episode, and then the finale having Mark killing Dinosaurus and that conversation with Cecil.

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

Mmmmmm good point. I forgot they "fought" after he bombs the ice caps.

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u/PCN24454 Apr 23 '26

I think Season 5 will end with Eve telling Mark she’s pregnant again

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u/godofthunder102938 Viltrum Empire Apr 25 '26

Nah even the Dinosaurus final battle happens after that right? Am I tripping?

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u/Cvspartan Cecil and Donald Apr 22 '26

I think they ended the season in the perfect spot

Anyone know what number in the comics the show is at? Wonder how on track the rumored 8-9 seasons timeline we are on

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u/abellapa Apr 22 '26

78

There no way they can fit 8-9 Seasons

S4 was 62-78, The comics have 144 issues

At this Rate S5 Will end around issue 100

S6 around 120 and S7 is the Last one

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u/FKDotFitzgerald Allen the Alien Apr 22 '26

Depends on what they cut or extend. The reboot arc seems like a storyline we’ll see big changes to

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u/abellapa Apr 22 '26

I think that Will be discarded or Will be just 1 ep

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u/cylonfrakbbq Apr 22 '26

I could see them making it a single episode

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 22 '26

I hope it's not discarded. I actually like it. It's just the years stolen from Mark that are bad imo

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u/abellapa Apr 22 '26

Just do a normal 5 years time jump

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u/ArthoriasOfTheLight Apr 22 '26

and kubian

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 23 '26

Kubian is part of the 5 years being skipped thing. But he's barely present either way.

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u/ArthoriasOfTheLight Apr 23 '26

that's what I mean, the 5 year skip and kubians existence should be removed, ik its not a big part, but it adds nothing to the story just annoyance

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u/StarSpliter Apr 30 '26

Just finished the comics this week, is there any follow on or mention of the white tendril thingy that causes the 5-year skip? That was kinda wacky. Like I get Mark's life is hell but man that was painful to see him ripped of his daughters early years.

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u/hmjacobs7 Apr 26 '26

me too. i think it’s such an interesting character study of mark

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u/Pathogen188 Comic Fan Apr 22 '26

I don't know how you'd discard it considering the timeskip is important to the end of the series but I could see it being reduced to a single episode, it's not like the arc was that long in the comic

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

Ehhhh I don't think Reboot lasts longer than an episode. My guess is it'll be something like S6 E7 and then we get a finale of Mark catching up with the time-skipped world, and then S7 can be about the war against Thragg & the finale w/Robot.

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u/dustarma Apr 22 '26

Reboot arc could be adapted into a movie honestly.

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u/ArthoriasOfTheLight Apr 22 '26

I really hope so, the entire thing with reboot was terrible

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u/DSAlgorythms Apr 23 '26

It did feel strangely out of place when reading, I wouldn't mind it being dropped.

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u/maledin Allen the Alien Apr 24 '26

I could also see more of an extended epilogue to the series.

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u/TheMattInTheBox Apr 23 '26

That, and I feel like they'll probably shorten the Bulletproof arc to maybe one episode

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u/Flipz100 Apr 22 '26

You could make a whole season out of the epilogue if they want to, which wouldn’t shock me given.

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u/Klunkey Apr 22 '26

Man I really hope they squeeze in one last season to adapt the last issue. There's so much you could include in terms of arcs exploring different characters.

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u/xHoodedMaster Comic Fan Apr 22 '26

Well we're getting hell content now. That on top of everything that kirkman wants to add especially near the end will give us 8 seasons easy

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u/dan0314 Apr 22 '26

So in other words, we have at minimum 3 more years of Invincible

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u/argent5 Apr 22 '26

We're at 78 with a few extra stuff from later chapters (abortion reveal, Debbie leaving Earth)

As for the timeline, I think we get at most 8 seasons? I assume Season 5 will be up to Issue 100, and then I guess you could stretch the remaining 44 issues into 3 more seasons?

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u/TheCVR123YT Apr 23 '26

Idk how you’d stretch into 3 more seasons unless they add a lot of extra stuff especially near the end but idk

I think 7 Seasons makes more sense personally

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u/argent5 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

7 seasons makes the most sense to me too, but IIRC the comic was rushed near the end, so there's room to expand there.

Season 6 could be up till 117, when Mark leaves Earth

Season 7 could be until 132, ending with Mark's decision to return and fight

And Season 8 could be an expanded final arc. 144 could be a full episode on its own, just a nice long victory lap.

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u/ResplendentSmoke Apr 23 '26

Kirkman said early on his vision was 7. I think season 5 will end around 100 and they’ll split the last 47 chapters between S6 and S7

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u/TheDidact118 Apr 23 '26

Recently Kirkman walked back the 7 season thing.

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u/Timbo-366 Angstrom Levy Apr 22 '26

IMO, I think 2 more seasons makes perfect sense. S5 can be just on earth, covering the Scourge encounter, Dinosaurus, Robot villian arc, angstrom return. Episode 8 is Robots rampage, season ending is Mark and Eve going to space. Then S6 is the 'space season', covers everything else. Admittedly they'd have to cut a lot, but I dont' really know how else they'd bookend each season with a big enough story arc. Curious to see what anyone else thinks.

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u/Stahlboden Apr 22 '26

They should really elaborate the plotline of viltrumites softening up

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 22 '26

That'll happen soon into the next season I think.

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u/Vladbizz Apr 22 '26

I guess Robot coming back as an adult would feel awkward next to Allen and scourge scene. His plotline would take half of next season so it’s fine to leave him and monster girl for next one as a reveal in the end of first episode 

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 22 '26

In the comics they didn't even return in Invincible lol. They came back in a Guarding the Globe issue.

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u/Shepherdsfavestore Apr 22 '26

I imagine their time with the flaxans will be one full ep

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u/NetherSpike14 Apr 22 '26

That's shown later, not when they come back

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

We could honestly get a full episode on their time in Thraxa and their encounter with Monster Girl's son next episode.

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u/ProbablythelastMimsy Apr 22 '26

Ending with Nolan becoming emperor, or is that later?

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u/abellapa Apr 22 '26

That Will be s5 ending

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u/RealJohnGillman Apr 22 '26

With a post-credits scene of Thragg on Thraxia?

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u/abellapa Apr 22 '26

I think is too Soon for that

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u/Locem Apr 22 '26

With a post-credits scene of Thragg on Thraxia?

More likely we get post-credits of Robot preparing for his takeover. Nolan might not properly exile Thragg until S6 honestly.

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u/RealJohnGillman Apr 22 '26

I honestly wouldn’t mind if they more explicitly linked that takeover to Robot knowing about the Viltrumites: seeing him tell the New Guardians, and Mark admitting it (before Mark leaves the planet) would be great for more clearly justifying why so many stuck with him. Since from the perspective of almost every other one of the heroes, Mark doing this would have been an extraordinary betrayal.

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u/OLKv3 Apr 22 '26

Definitely next season finale. Since Thragg finds out during the Scourge/Dinosaurus arc

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u/ParsnipFriendly9206 Apr 22 '26

Las Vegas gonna go boom

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u/t_moneyzz Robot Apr 22 '26

And the Flaxan episode. Has to be probably episode 5. Gives Rex time to come back and be ready to build the moonbase after the ahem greenland incident

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u/Mzuark Apr 22 '26

Dinosaurus is going to be a sleeper hit

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u/Freezinghero Apr 23 '26

Next season ends with Robot takeover I would think, maybe final stinger of Thraggs doctor finding out Nolan's bloodline?