History NightmareFuel / Invincible2021

** Most of the alternate Angstroms and Mailers are disintegrated instantly as the machine overloads and explodes, with this conceivably happening to all the other linked machines as well.

* The look on Cecil's face when he contacts the remaining Guardians on Earth. It is as if he knows on some level he's sending Rex, Dupli-Kate and Rhae to their deaths, just to hold the line until the others get back.

* To make it even more horrific, the Lizard League has been referred to countless times by numerous other heroes as a joke. This episode gives a disturbingly realistic wake up call that [[BewareTheSillyOnes even normally crappy villains can be just as dangerous as more traditionally fearsome villains,]] especially towards heroes like Rex, Kate, and Rae who don't fit in the weight classes of Invincible, Immortal, or Atom Eve.* After Shapesmith knocked out the real Rus Livingston and took his place, Rus was found by the Sequids and effectively made into their leader for the upcoming invasion.

---> '''Omni-Man''': [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You don't seem to understand]], [[WhamLine Earth isn't]] ''[[WhamLine yours]]'' [[WhamLine to conquer.]]

--> '''Omni-Man:''' ''Pathetic.''

---> '''Debbie:''' I trust you. ''Now do something''! \\

--> '''Immortal''': '''''[[RageBreakingPoint WHERE IS OMNI-MAN!? WHERE IS HE!?]]'''''

--->'''Cecil:''' (''over earpiece'') Ok, bring him in. He's lost it. \\
'''Mark:''' You think? \\
'''Nightboy:''' You hear them too? The voices? \\

---> '''Nightboy:''' There are dark things here, hungry things.

--> '''Nolan:''' ''(Slowly crushing Vidor's skull under his foot)'' ''Do you'' '''''regret''''' ''attacking'' '''''my''''' ''family now?!'' '''''DO YOU!?!'''''

* To make it even more horrific, the Lizard League has been referred to countless times by numerous other heroes as a joke. This episode gives a disturbingly realistic wake up call that even normally crappy villains can be just as dangerous as more traditionally fearsome villains, especially towards heroes like Rex, Kate, and Rae who don't fit in the weight classes of Invincible, Immortal, or Atom Eve.

** Kate uses her clones to beat down Komodo Dragon, but he slowly starts but assuredly starts killing them faster than Kate can reproduce and eventually overpowers the last two. As she uses another Kate to try and escape his grasp, he catches the two and horrifically ''smashes them together'' leaving Kate close to (if not actually) dead. Both of the clone's bloodshot eyes are popping out...
** An enraged Shrinking Rae manages to kill one of them, itself BodyHorror in its own right. With her entering their body through their eye, bursting the inside of his skull, and moving the right eye out of her way to get out.
** She tries to do the same to Komodo, which it seems like she might be manage to accomplish (his veins and neck almost bursting) until we see Komodo slowly start to swallow and crush Rae ''while she's alive'' until Komodo spits out some of her blood.

* To make it even more horrific, the Lizard League has been referred to countless times by numerous other heroes as a joke. This episode gives a disturbingly realistic wake up call that even normally crappy villains can be just as dangerous, especially towards heroes like Rex, Kate, and Rae who don't fit in the weight classes of Invincible, Immortal, or Atom Eve.

* Rex, MightyRae, and Dupl-Kate's fight against the Lizard League goes ''south'' real fast
** Kate uses her clones to bring down Komodo Dragon but he slowly starts but assuredly starts killing them faster than Kate can reproduce and eventually overpowers the last and real one. As she uses another Kate to try and escape his grasp he catches the two and ''smashes them together'' horrificcally leaving Kate close to (if not actually) dead.
** An enraged Shrinking Rae manages to kill one of them (itself BodyHorror in its own right) before trying to do the same to Komodo which it seems like she might be manage to accomplish until we see Komodo slowly start to swallow and crush Rae ''while she's alive'' until Komodo spits out some of her blood.
** Rex manages to kill Iguana and Komodo but loses his hand as a result leaving him at the mercy King Lizard
* To make it even more horrific the lizard league has been referred to countless times by numerous other heroes as a joke. This episode gives a disturbingly realistic wake up call that even normally crappy villains can be just as dangerous especially towards heroes like Rex, Kate, and Rae who don't fit in the weight classes of Invincible, Immortal, or Atom Eve.

* Rex, Rae, Dupl-Kate fight against the Lizard League goes ''south'' real fast

* To make t even more horrific the lizard league has been referred to countless times by numerous other heroes as a joke. This episode gives a disturbingly realistic wake up call that even normally crappy villains can be just as dangerous especially towards heroes like Rex, Kate, and Rae who don't fit in the weight classes of Invincible, Immortal, or Atom Eve.

** Rex manages to kill Iguana and Komodo but loses his hand as a result leaving him at the mercy

** Similar to Nolan's murder of the Guardians, what makes it especially disturbing is how the Viltrumites They are just ''brutally, efficient'' they are with violence. They barely show a flicker of emotion while they methodically maim Allen. They're like robots programmed to commit horrific acts of violence. It goes to show just how sociopathic Viltrumites are, and the kind of culture they came from.

** Similar to Nolan's murder of the Guardians, what makes it especially disturbing is how the Viltrumites ''aren't angry'', or outright sadistic. They are just ''brutal''. They barely show a flicker of emotion while they methodically maim Allen. They're like robots programmed to commit horrific acts of violence. It goes to show just how sociopathic Viltrumites are, and the kind of culture they came from.

''Invincible'' might be a {{Reconstruction}} of the superhero genre, but as anyone familiar with [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} the comic]] [[NightmareFuel/{{Invincible}} can tell you]], if you're expecting that this show can serve as a breather to take the edge after a binging of ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[NightmareFuel you'd be sorely mistaken]].

''Invincible'' might be a {{Reconstruction}} of the superhero genre, but as anyone familiar with [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} the comic]] [[NightmareFuel/{{Invincible}} can tell you]], if you're expecting that this show will be LighterAndSofter than ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[NightmareFuel then you're in for a nasty surprise]].

* After the title screen is shown in the first episode as pristine and clean with triumphant music; each following episode has [[EvolvingCredits more and more blood being sprayed across it]] with a ScareChord out of a horror show. In "Where I Really Came From", a larger splash of blood almost completely covers the "Invincible" logo itself, signifying how dire a situation is going to be. "A Lesson For Your Next Life" has a ''further'' blood splatter almost completely obscure any other colour, eventually having the background FadeToBlack and leaving only the blood-red letters of "invincible" handing in the void, as if signifying that this season will somehow be even DarkerAndEdgier than the first.

** How each of the Guardians die.
*** Red Rush attempts to attack Omni-Man at full-speed, except Omni-Man can move nearly as fast as he can. After a few punches, he anticipates the next attack, grabs Red Rush before he can escape, then crushes his head in both hands (similar to [[NightmareFuel/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar Mera's death]] in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' but even more gruesome). And the poor bastard is left punching Omni-Man's chest in a frantic, desperate bid to break his hold, to the point where he breaks his hands on him in the process. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath A quick death]] '''''[[AndIMustScream it is not]].'''''
*** What makes this even more chilling is how sadistic and spiteful Omni-Man is during this scenario. The reason for this is because it's a whole lot HarsherInHindsight in regards to the last episode - Omni-Man crushes a pilot's head with a simple grab and clench of his hand liking crumpling a wet towel, taking only a split-second to accomplish. This retroactively makes Red Rush's death worse, because Omni-Man was ''deliberately'' taking his time with the speedster's horrible death, aware of how his reflexes make him perceive time much more slowly than others. What was only a few seconds for other people was ''[[AndIMustScream hours of horrible agony]]'' for Red Rush.

*** Darkwing is ragdolled into the ground so hard his head explodes and gets thrown at the direction of the intangible Green Ghost, who instinctively turns tangible again to catch her friend only to be greeted with his unrecognizable, limp corpse. She's in such a state of shock that Omni-Man is immediately able to ''impale her face'' with his open hand and use her as a shield against Aquarus's water beam, with her dead body flailing about from the high-pressure water. Aquarus's head is then promptly beaten into mincemeat with War Woman’s mace.

* Omni-Man's killing of Cecil's soldiers in his house, of which he's no less creative than he was with the Guardians of the Globe. He first notices them while they're cloaked from the sound of a floor creak and crushes one's head into the floor. Then he shoves one of their rifles through their face, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe pushes another against the countertop so hard it splits the soldier's body in half]], casually rams himself against another (they were thankfully still cloaked) and kills the last soldier (who was fleeing) by sending her flying across the street from his door, twisting her torso a full 180 degrees. She dies from the injury before Nolan moved in to do anything else but in her last moments she reaches toward the house across the street, exposing the GDA surveillance post.

* Minor, but the ending can give a bit of a terrified feeling. Usually we have some kind of mid credits scene or music. Here, we only have dead silence, with the sound of the wind in the background as the credits roll.

** Despite his instability, Nightboy has the power to travel to and from the [[VoidBetweenWorlds Shadowverse]]... and even take people with him to leave them there.

* An alternate reality shows how bleak Earth would have become had Mark chosen to go along with Omni-Man. He begins by crushing Immortal's head to permanently kill him off and only further cements his heinousness by [[CruelMercy breaking Atom Eve's neck to paralyze her as opposed to killing her.]] Shortly after, he rounds on the members of Eve's resistance to kill them with a cold, unflinching smile, [[DissonantSerenity completely blasé about the entire experience.]]
** According to Angstrom, '''most''' realities he's been to has Omni-Man and Mark turning against humanity and laying waste to it.

** The alternate reality we see at the start makes it abundantly clear that despite Omni-Man's attempts to placate Mark, the process of "preparing" the Earth for the Viltrum Empire was ''not'' going to be a pleasant process. Mass death and the destruction of mankind's cities appears to have been the absolute minimum of what was going to happen once people tried to fight back.
* The end result of Angstrom disrupting the upload process in an effort to prevent the Maulers from killing Invincible- the surviving Mauler Twin has half of his body carbonized while Angstrom is left a blood-soaked mess with brains bulging out of his head, shoulders, and half of his back. This combined with the overflow of information from the other (now dead) Angstroms causes him to [[SanitySlippage quickly go mad]] and swear vengeance against Invincible, so fast that even the Mauler is shocked by the turn.

* We finally get an answer about what happened to the two criminals that Darkwing was interrogating before he was called to the Guardians headquarters in the pilot: given no one knew they were there, the two of them died of starvation and their bodies decayed down to the bone over the following year. Their bodies are shown decomposing in horrifying detail even if for a few seconds.

* Omni-Man allows a dragon to rampage through Paris while his wife begs him to save people. He doesn't even flinch and demands that she say that she trusts him.

* Omni-Man's killing of Cecil's soldiers in his house, of which he's no less creative than he was with the Guardians of the Globe. He first notices them while they're cloaked from the sound of a floor creak and crushes one's head into the floor. Then he shoves one of their rifles through their face, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe pushes another against the cooking table so hard his upper body slides across it]], casually rams himself against another (they were thankfully still cloaked) and kills the last soldier (who was fleeing) by sending her flying across the street from his door, twisting her body up. Thankfully she dies from the injury before Nolan moved in to do anything else.
** After that, he finds Donald at the nearby house where the GDA has been spying on him. Just as Donald reaches the self-destruct button, Nolan grips and squeezes his back hard enough to ''reach his spine.'' Donald manages to reach for a self-destruct button, but the blast doesn't even hurt Nolan.

* Nolan's encounter with Cecil is also tense. The gun he uses succeeds only in getting his attention, and all he has is his teleportation device to be one step ahead of Nolan. Cecil admits it's frightening that Nolan is always close to grabbing him and, after returning to the HQ, his tie is shown to have been torn in half from the teleportation field.

** He later throws Mark into a crowded city, killing an untold number of people. A building begins to crumble, and Invincible tries to save a mother and a child but fails after the building collapses, and the only thing left of them is the mother's severed arm.

* Omni-Man allows a dragon to go rampage while his wife begs him to save people. He doesn't even flinch and demands that she say that she trusts him.

* Nolan continues his penchant for inflicting gruesome injuries on his foes. He guts Lucan with a knifehand strike and follows up by shoving a stalactite through the injury; he beats Vidor and smashes his skull, though unlike Red Rush his head remains intact just... mushy, and finally he smashes open Thula's jaw so her face splits and she seemingly starts to drown in her own blood. This ultimately shows that while Nolan has definitely changed from his evil, conquering ways, he still most ''certainly'' is as ruthless as ever if you piss him off.

* Nolan continues his penchant for inflicting gruesome injuries on his foes. He guts Lucan with a knifehand strike and follows up by shoving a stalactite through the injury; he beats Vidor and smashes his skull, though unlike Red Rush his head remains intact just... mushy, and finally he smashes open Thula's jaw so her face splits and she seemingly starts to drown in her own blood.

---> '''Omni-Man:''' ''Pathetic.''

-->'''Nolan:''' I will burn this planet down before I spend another minute living among these ''animals''!

* The episode ends with Mark coming face to face with General Kregg, who out of a twisted Darwinistic respect for Mark surviving his first fight with a Viltumite, decides to have him finish Nolan's mission and prepare the Earth for the Viltrumites' rule, ending with a very explicit threat as to the consequences of defiance:

* Again we are shown just how ''ruthless'' the Viltrumites are. We see about only four of them make landfall on the Thraxan's planet and from what we see in a short amount of time they managed to kill most if not all of the populace. With Andressa and her son Oliver being the only known survivors thanks to Mark and Nolan's efforts.
* Just how outclassed Mark is by them (at least initially). His fight with Lucien could barely be called that as the Viltrumite easily pushes Mark through the floor with only his ''finger''. Making it worse is how Mark is ''very'' aware that he doesn't stand that much of a chance against them. When face to face with Thula, Mark practically tries to beg his way out of fighting her and unfortunately for him the only mercy she seems willing to give him is a quick death.

* Nolan continues his penchant for inflicting gruesome injuries on his foes. He guts Lucan with a knifehand strike and follows up by shoving a stalactite through the injury; he beats Vidor and smashes his skull though unlike Red Rush his head remains intact just... mushy, and finally he smashes open Thula's jaw so her face splits and she seemingly starts to drown in her own blood.

*** While Omni-Man's claim that he can just "make another kid" is horrifying in its callousness toward Mark, there's an extra layer to it once you consider the full context: Omni-Man is ''well'' aware by now that the whole world [[InternalReveal knows who he really is]], so unlike when he first arrived 20 years ago, he wouldn't be able to just seduce a random woman by saving her or something as he did with Debbie...but considering how he's just about unstoppable against Earth's current defenses and has zero qualms with hurting civilians by this point, '''''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil he wouldn't need her consent anyway]].'''''