History Recap / Invincible2021S01E07WeNeedToTalk

* DeducingTheSecretIdentity: In a effort to save his relationship with Amber, Mark decides to that he is Invincible to her, only for Amber to reveal she already figured it out.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Not a big one, but Amber revealing she knew about Invincible's true identity for weeks does make her anger at Mark for "ditching" everyone during an emergency last episode not make any sense. Although as she expresses her problem being his lying, it is possible that she was attempting to get him to admit the truth to her by feigning ignorance and was angered as he didn’t despite her chances.

* JerkassHasAPoint: William tells Mark upfront that the messy handling of his superhero life and the consequences that follow is entirely his fault, and he should get it together. He doesn't care how tough it is or that Mark is still a fledgling hero at best, since Mark's dad is a veteran superhero, and he has a loving mother to boot, both to support him. If he ''had'' handled it better, William's boyfriend Rick would still be human, Mark's school grades wouldn't have tanked as bad and, just as seriously, Amber wouldn't have dumped him. William gets concerned when Mark agrees with him on all these points, and expresses that maybe he should retire and stop messing everything up.

** The new Guardians of the Globe find out that Omni-Man killed the original team, realizing what the blood stain on the wall of their HQ represents.

* NoSell: Donald activates a bomb to try and ''at least'' knock out Nolan, if not kill him. Cecil already expects the chances of even that happening are zero-to-none. Nolan is seen completely unfazed when the smoke clears.

** Very downplayed with the KillSat fired upon Nolan later, as while it doesn't actually impede him in any lasting way, the second shot does give him a noticeable nosebleed. This does indicate that, if they could just keep lasering him, they would ''eventually'' take him down, but they don't have the resources for that.

** Robot's "phase one" is revealed to be uploading himself into a new body to free himself from the current, mutated one. While things don't exactly [[CloningBlues work out that way]], the clone {{Mercy Kill}}s the original and lives the life they both wanted.

* CloningBlues: The Mauler Twins warn Robot that the final process for his new body will not involve a transfer of his mind, so much as a duplication of his consciousness. They lampshade this as the reason why the twins frequently argue which of them is real and which is the clone. Robot at least subverts this when he sees his new self alive and healthy before dying in his old body in satisfaction.

* DeducingTheSecretIdentity: In a effort to save his relationship with Amber decides to that he is Invincible to her, only for Amber to reveal she already figured it out.

** Before that, the GDA soldiers fire everything at Nolan, but they are just peashooters to him and does nothing.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Nothing Nolan says can justify why he killed the original Guardians, and the fact that he continues to hide his reasons further severs the broken trust between him and Debbie. Debbie is willing to hear him out now that she's sober, and wants an explanation. He at least admits his actions are not out of mind control or a threat to his family, but that naturally makes things worse. When confronted by Cecil, he begins to understand that Nolan ''needed'' the Guardians dead, not ''wanted'' to, but his refusal to say why marks him as a threat.

* PoorCommunicationKills: William tells Omni-Man that at the college visit, a villain got their cellphones smashed. That's why no one can reach Mark. Cecil realizes it's a race against time over who reaches Invincible first and does all he can to stall Omni-Man so as to warn Mark about the man that his father really is. He's too late.

* TheReveal: Cecil's teleportation ability comes from tech used to send him to and from GDA HQ, and anywhere in between. The watches allow anyone who wears it to do the same. Plus it has its limits. Frequent uses on him and the Kaiju takes its toll on the system, preventing him from reaching Mark and Eve.

** Debbie is pissed off at Cecil for not just trying to kill Nolan, but also wants ''Mark'' to do it if the GDA can't, and that he's willing to let Mark die since he's unsure whose side Invincible is on regarding the kaiju fight. With that said, she is forced to silently agree when he points out that the other choice is letting Omni-Man storm GDA headquarters, which would forfeit the lives of everyone working there, as well as those in the world.

* JerkassHasAPoint: William tells Mark upfront that the messy handling of his superhero life and the consequences that follow is entirely his fault, and he should get it together. He doesn't care how tough it is or that Mark is still a fledgling hero at best, since Mark's dad is a veteran superhero, and he has a loving mother to boot, both to support him. If he ''did'' handle it better, William's boyfriend Rick would still be human, Mark's school grades wouldn't have tanked as bad and, just as seriously, Amber wouldn't have dumped him. William gets concerned when Mark agrees with him on all these points, and expresses that maybe he should retire and stop messing everything up.

* JerkassHasAPoint: William tells Mark upfront that the messy handling of his superhero life and the consequences that follow is entirely his fault, and he should get it together. He doesn't care how tough it is or that Mark is still a fledgling hero at best, since Mark's dad is a veteran superhero, and he has a loving mother to boot, both to support him. If he ''did'' handle it better, William's boyfriend Rick would still be human, Mark's school grades wouldn't tank as bad and, just as serious, Amber wouldn't have dumped him. William gets concerned when Mark agrees with him on all these points, and expresses that maybe he should retire and stop messing everything up.

* GodzillaThreshold: Cecil sends a KillSat, new Reanimen, and a Kaiju after Omni-Man in order to stop him, if not buy some time as he tries to get to Mark. The Kaiju, in particular, was something that even Omni-Man struggled with in the past.

** Mark took Eve's advise about determining if he should or shouldn't reveal his alter ego to Amber, but she never said he should constantly lie about it just to keep her LockedOutOfTheLoop.

* EyeScream: Immortal digs his thumbs deep into Omni-Man’s eyes just as the latter shoves his fist through him. While it causes Omni-Man to scream out in pain as he bleeds, but he kills Immortal again before he can blind him, making Immortal's attempt futile.

* CrazyPrepared: The Mauler Twins had the foresight to install several failsafes and control methods in Robot's clone body. Unfortunately, they're OutGambitted by the latter who a) has the foresight to scan the body beforehand, b) brings several robots to capture them, and c) brings faulty designs for the control collar incase they still got their hands on it.

* CurbStompCushion: Donald lasts the longest of the GDA members. He pulls a BFG on Nolan and shouts at his subordinates to ''run''. Nolan seems mildly impressed that he's dodging moves that took down professional soldiers but gets tired of playing and snaps his spine.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Doesn't matter what your justification is, the fact you literally created a new body for yourself via shady dealing, people are going to react negatively with even those grasping the why, still admitting they need time to process.
** Rex above all is the one most angered and disturbed by Robot making a young clone of Rex to inhabit. Not only was it done without his knowledge or permission, looking at Robot reminds Rex of his childhood, a time he’d rather forget.
** Debbie is rightly furious and upset after learning about Nolan's crimes, but she also is horrified when the [=GDA=] tries to kill him. The betrayal is fresh, but feelings you've held for twenty years don't disappear instantly, no matter what new information has come to light. Cecil reassures her that this is only a last resort; if he could talk down Nolan, he would prefer that and at least tries his best to reason with him, to ask ''why''.

* ClarkKenting: The fact Nolan does this as Omni-Man is lampshaded. Mark tells William that Omni-Man is his dad, and after William processes this he mutter "How did I never see that?" to himself.

-->'''Robot:''' (after listing all of the failsafes that the Mauler Twins put into the clone body without his foreknowledge in a bid to try and control it themselves after the deal would be complete) Please, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny I would have been disappointed if you]] ''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny hadn't]]'' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny tried]].

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Apparently while Omni-Man finished his rematch against Immortal, Invincible managed to defeat the ''enhanced'' Kaiju by tying it up to subdue it. Remember, Cecil explicitly said he couldn’t help Mark because he didn’t know if Mark would side with his dad or not, and Nolan was too preoccupied with his Immortal fight to help (not for lack of trying though), meaning Mark had no choice but to somehow take it down on his ''own''. (There's a brief moment of Mark grabbing nearby telephone wires and that zapping the Kaiju but it’s safe to assume given how juiced up Cecil said it was it probably didn't go down just from electricity alone.)

* ShoutOut: ''[[KillSat The Hammer]]'' in how it's designed, how it fires on and ultimately destroyed by Omni-Man is just one big reference to ''Manga/Akira''.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: As The Immortal is being brought back to life, we see a montage of shots of The Immortal's life. One of which reveals that he was the Abraham Lincoln of the Invincible universe as we see him about to be assassinated by John Wilks Booth. The "Amazon X-Ray" playing alongside the episode even openly says "that's right, the Immortal was also Abe Lincoln."

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Apparently while Omni-Man finished his rematch against Immortal, Invincible managed to defeat the ''enhanced'' Kaiju by tying it up to subdue it. Remember, Cecil explicitly said he couldn’t help Mark because he didn’t know if Mark would side with his dad or not, and Nolan was too preoccupied with his Immortal fight to help (not for lack of trying to help Mark though), meaning Mark had no choice but to somehow take it down on his ''own''.