Trivia / Invincible (2021)

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• Acting for Two: The show features several experienced voice actors in multiple roles.
  • Ross Marquand plays The Immortal, Aquarius, Rudy, Kursk, and Bi-Plane.
  • Grey Delisle plays Monster Girl (in human form), Shrinking Rae, Olga, and Eve's mother.
  • Kevin Michael Richardson plays the Mauler Twins, Monster Girl's monster form, and the Flaxan Leader.
  • Chris Diamantopoulos plays Donald Ferguson, Doc Seismic, Todd and Isotope.
  • Fred Tatasciore plays Kill Cannon and Eve's father.
  • Nicole Byer plays Titan's wife Vanessa and daughter Fiona.
  • Clancy Brown plays Damien Darkblood and General Kregg.
  • Tatiana Maslany voices Telia, Aquaria, and Queen Lizard.
• Actor-Shared Background: Some of the characters are racelifted to share their voice actors' ethnicities, such as the Caucasian-American Mark being changed to biracial Korean and Space-Caucasian in the show or Caucasian-American Amber being changed to African-American like her voice actress Zazie Beetz.
• All-Star Cast: The show has a rather impressively large cast of well-known actors in major or supporting roles, including Steven Yeun, J. K. Simmons, Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh, Zazie Beetz, Mahershala Ali, Jon Hamm, Walton Goggins, and more.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!:
  • Omni-Man doesn't say "Think, Mark, think!" during the iconic scene in Episode 8. He only says "Think, Mark!" without the second 'think'. He does, however, say the former line in the original comic, which may be where the confusion comes from.
  • Omni-Man's "That's the neat thing, you don't." is often misquoted as "That's the neat part, you don't."
• Blooper: When Debbie is browsing newspaper articles about Damien Darkblood, it's quite easy to see the lorem ipsum text that got left in around the main headlines.
• Colbert Bump:
  • Season 1's usage of "Tom Tom" resulted in view spikes for Holy Fuck.
  • Season 2 has also seen a jump in views for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, as their "Avalanche" song is used for Omni Man's space journey.
• Content Leak:
  • Character models from season 3 were leaked after the second season finale, confirming that the Invincible War and Mark's fight with Conquest will be adapted in the final two episodes of the season, along with the debut of characters such as Brit and Wolf-Man.
  • Animation storyboards and other assets, by uncredited North Korean animators, were uncovered in December 2023 by cyber-sleuth Nick Roy. The batch, featuring released and unreleased work on episodes, were found on a North Korean server passed between a Chinese vendor. One storyboard board, featuring a scene from "That Actually Hurt", was used in an April 2024 exposé by CNN.
• Descended Creator: Executive producer Seth Rogen voices Allen the Alien.
• Dueling Dubs: Just like what happened with the Latin American Spanish dub of The Boys (2019), the one from this show had a newer one, done also in Mexico, which replace the older one done in El Salvador, starting on June 2023, and like The Boys, the Salvadoran dub was removed.
• Fake American: Debbie Grayson is voiced by Canadian actress Sandra Oh.
• Fake Guest Star: Only Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and J. K. Simmons are credited as main cast members. While those three are the largest, most central roles, Gillian Jacobs, Walton Goggins, Zazie Beetz, and Andrew Rannells all have large roles and are also in every or almost every episode but get relegated to secondary billing.
• Fake Russian: Americans Michael Cudlitz and Grey Griffin voice the Russian Red Rush and his wife Olga respectively.
• Irony as She Is Cast: After playing a woman who was victim of rape at the hands of The Boys (2019)'s evil Superman Substitute, Shantel VanSanten now plays Anissa, who is not only part of an entire race of evil Superman Substitutes, but is also a rapist in the comics.
• Meme Acknowledgement:
  • The official Twitter is quite aware of the memes about Omni-Man being J. Jonah Jameson.
  • Likewise, both the official Twitters for Invincible and The Boys (2019) are very aware of the fandom overlaps between their shows. Antony Starr also acknowledges the comparisons made between the heroes in Invincible to Homelander, joking that they're "copycats".
• The Other Marty: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Gerardo Reyero was the voice director's first choice for the voice of Omni-Man, but Amazon insisted on casting Humberto Solórzano (the recurring voice of J. K. Simmons). Instead, Reyero ended up as the voice of the Immortal.
• The Other Darrin: Rick Sheridan and D.A. Sinclair were recast for the second season with the former (originally voiced by Jonathan Groff) now voiced by Luke Macfarlane and the latter (originally voiced by Ezra Miller) now voiced by Eric Bauza.
• Playing Against Type:
  • In sharp contrast to Mark Hamill's most well-known roles, Art Rosenbaum is neither a villain nor a major hero, but a normal guy who just happens to design costumes for superheroes.
  • Seth Rogen normally plays more stoner comedy roles, his role as Allen the Alien is an all loving Dork Knight.
• Production Posse: Many actors from the television adaptation of Robert Kirkman's other notable series, The Walking Dead lend their voices to this show. In addition to Steven Yeun as Mark, the Guardians of the Globe are all played by Walking Dead alumni: Sonequa Martin-Green, Lauren Cohan, Ross Marquand, Chad L. Coleman, Lennie James, and Michael Cudlitz. Khary Payton is also in the cast as Black Samson, though his Walking Dead character debuted after Yeun left the show.
  • Like The Boys, Invincible is a co-production of executive producer Seth Rogen's Point Grey Pictures banner. Jason Mantzoukas and Ben Schwartz, both who worked with Rogen in his 2014 R-rated comedies, Neighbors and The Interview, voices both Rex-Splode and the Shapesmith. Shantel VanSanten and Eric Bauza reunite with Point Grey after portraying Becca Butcher and voicing Buster Beaver in The Boys.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Due to their legal issues after the end of season one, Ezra Miller was fired and replaced by Eric Bauza as the voice of D.A. Sinclair from season two onwards.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Andrew Rannells and Jonathan Groff are gay like their characters William and Rick. The same also applies to Groff's replacement Luke Macfarlane.
• Self-Adaptation: Robert Kirkman, who wrote the original comic series the show is based on, serves as the show's creator and co-executive producer. He's admitted that he had the show deviate from the comic in a few areas because he sees it as a way to revise his old writing now that he's a more experienced writer.
• Similarly Named Works: Both The Penguins of Madagascar and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic also have an episode called "It's About Time".
• Throw It In!: Invincible's first fight after getting his costume was initially only created as a pitch for the series, but while making the pilot, the crew decided it would work as a great way to show his introduction to the world and lead into the credits.
• Two Voices, One Character:
  • Grey Griffin voices Monster Girl as a human, while Kevin Michael Richardson voices her in monster form.
  • Robot is initially voiced by Zachary Quinto, but upon getting his new human body, he's voiced by Ross Marquand. Quinto continues voicing him when inside the suit.
• Unspecified Role Credit: Todd's voice actor was initially unknown, as the credits only list by voice actor, and the other characters and their associated actors have been known. It was later revealed that he's voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos.
• Voices in One Room: This behind the scenes video from early on shows Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and JK Simmons all recording together.

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