{"id":828478,"date":"2025-02-20T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/invincible-season-3-is-proving-eve-needs-a-contingency-plan-for-mark-and-gillian-jacobs-has-one\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:12:39","slug":"invincible-season-3-is-proving-eve-needs-a-contingency-plan-for-mark-and-gillian-jacobs-has-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/invincible-season-3-is-proving-eve-needs-a-contingency-plan-for-mark-and-gillian-jacobs-has-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Invincible Season 3 Is Proving Eve Needs A Contingency Plan For Mark, And Gillian Jacobs Has One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) and Invincible are the same in flesh, but not always in action. After the world found out how much of a genocidal maniac his father Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) is, the young superhero had to deal with civilians being afraid of him when he was trying to help, Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins) being wary of Invincible fighting for the Global Defense Agency (GDA), and his own self-doubt over whether he might one day become his father. After the first three episodes of Invincible <\/em>season 3<\/a><\/span>, it\u2019s clear that those closest to the titular hero might need contingency plans in the event he goes rogue. And that includes the woman he loves.<\/p>\n

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The show has previously hinted at Mark\u2019s struggles with doing what\u2019s right without doing what\u2019s lethal. Let\u2019s not forget he ended season 2 in a more brutal way than his father ended Season 1, pummeling multidimensional terrorist Angstrom Levy (Sterling K. Brown) to his death because he threatened to hurt Mark\u2019s family. He rationalizes the murder even while criticizing Cecil in the Season 3 premiere for allowing Darkwing (Lennie James) and D.A. Sinclair (Ezra Miller) to work for the GDA after killing people themselves, demonstrating the kind of moral double standard that could sprout into bloody vigilante justice.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s also not forget that Levy showed us an alternate reality future in which Invincible teams up with his father to enslave Earth, a future that isn\u2019t totally ruled out as one that may come to pass. Add in the fact his younger brother Oliver channelled<\/a><\/span> his father\u2019s genetic predisposition for duty-bound murder when he slaughtered the Mauler Twins in Season 3’s third episode, and it\u2019s no wonder Cecil implanted a device in Mark\u2019s brain to subdue him at a moment\u2019s notice and has an army of robots ready to take him down.<\/p>\n

All that taken into consideration, Earth\u2019s best chance at stopping an evil Invincible could be the overpowered Atom Eve, who Mark falls in love with in Season 3, and who also fights against him in his tyrannical alternate-reality future. Invincible may be able to destroy almost anything he comes in contact with, but Gillian Jacobs, who voices Atom Eve, says her character is more powerful than what we see in the show. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy character and her powers are so immense that [Invincible <\/em>series creator] Robert [Kirkman] says they struggle to find ways to not make her just instantly win,\u201d Jacobs told Kotaku<\/em>. \u201cSo, in one version of it, I think she could take down anyone, but they always come up with really interesting things that happen in fights so that can\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nerfing Atom Eve\u2019s powers makes total sense. Eve can materialize anything she thinks of. She created a treehouse from thin air in minutes, rearranges someone\u2019s body on a molecular level, and creates a force field against intergalactic weapons she\u2019s never seen before. The writers do give her limitations for fixing large-scale calamities and healing people by restructuring their molecules, but those are built into the limits of her imagination. She couldn\u2019t build structurally sound homes for the homeless because she didn\u2019t have that architectural expertise in her mind, something she opted to rectify. If she\u2019s willing to take college architecture courses to learn how to build, she could also go to medical school and become truly unstoppable, learning how to shut down someone\u2019s vital organs or rearranging their brain chemistry to make them go insane. But perhaps, when it comes to reaching Mark, there\u2019s a more straightforward approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe might be able to just get [Invincible] through talking. Maybe she could destroy his mind from the inside,\u201d Jacobs says.<\/p>\n

That is a hell of a contingency plan for a superhero who, we\u2019ve already seen, finds certain sonic frequencies nothing short of debilitating. As of now, she has nothing to worry about with Mark\/Invincible other than scheduling dates and taking down bad guys together. But the time could come when she needs to be more than invincible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) and Invincible are the same in flesh, but not always in action. After the world found out how much of a genocidal maniac his father Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) is, the young superhero had to deal with civilians being afraid of him when he was trying to help, Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42179,795],"tags":[7932,5301],"class_list":["post-828478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-invincible","category-season","tag-invincible","tag-season"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}