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Invincible

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At this point it’s pretty clear that Invincible is obsessed with getting as many celebrities to do voicework for the series as they can, and famously, they’ve only had one actor ever turn them down, Bryan Cranston. That’s pretty funny given a scene this past week which had a character voiced by Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks arresting Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul via the hero and villain they voiced.

But now Invincible is doing something even more fun next week, pitting Mark against a comic-famous villain, a Viltrumite named Conquest in what is going to be probably the most epic battle of the series so far.

The fun twist here is that Steven Yeun, of course, has always voiced Invincible from day one. But now, Conquest is being voiced by none other than Jeffrey Dean Morgan. So, that would be Negan from The Walking Dead (Morgan) going up against the man whose skull he famously bashed in with a barbed wire baseball bat, Glenn (Yeun).

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead

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It’s a very fun rematch and of course, will be even more brutal that just bat swings (albeit in animation, not live action) as the two face off. Invincible has just fought a dozen different versions of himself in the Invincible War, and at the end of this week’s episode, seems immediately on board with fighting Conquest, despite the fact that he has not been able to successfully take on a Viltrumite to this point, previously getting decimated by Anissa last season, who will definitely be back.

The final two episodes were promised by Robert Kirkman (who of course led The Walking Dead, hence this matchup) as the most significant and impactful of the series so far. The Invincible War certainly lived up to that, even resulting in the death of a major character, the heroic sacrifice of Rex Splode.

I do not know what happens with the Conquest fight other than obviously, Mark has to survive in some capacity, because I purposefully haven’t read the comics. But in season 3 here we are still a long way off from the eight seasons Kirkman wants, so as crazy as this will get, it’s only going to escalate from here, it seems. Tune in next Thursday to see how this all plays out, and Walking Dead fans can enjoy that long-awaited Glenn vs. Negan rematch.