History Recap / Invincible2021S02E02ALessonForYourNextLife

* NotHelpingYourCase: When trying to convince Cecil that he's ready to return to the field, Mark slams his hand on the restaurant table, denting it with his super strength.

** Angstrom refuses to let the alternate Maulers kill Mark, saying he doesn't want his utopia be built on innocent blood. However he stops the expeirment, which unleashes a massive power surge killing all of the alternate Angstroms, and turning him into a deformed and insane supervillain looking for revenge.

* PercussiveTherapy: Implied by Mark's positive reaction to the Maulers declaring they won't shut down the machine unless he forces them to.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Alluded to and defied by Angstrom, who declares that his utopia will not be built on blood when the Maulers are on the cusp on killing Invincible to protect their machine.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Both Omni-Man and Mark treat killing people with complete banality. Before they kill the resistance fighters, Omni-Man casually says that he missed lunch and feels hungry. Mark performing [[NeckSnap Neck Snaps}} on a bunch of protestors a week prior was odd to Omni-Man, but not unusual enough for him to ask about it.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Alternate!Rudy and Alternate!Eve both continue resisting Alternate!Omni-Man and Alternate!Invincible past the point it's clear they've lost. On the brink of death, Rudy gives Omni-Man one last barb, while Eve insists to Invincible that death is her preference. Unfortunately for her, Invincible doesn't respect that wish.

* ItsAllMyFault: Mark blames himself for the deaths that occurred during his fight with Omni-Man.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Both Omni-Man and Mark treat killing people with complete banality. Before they kill the resistance fighters, Omni-Man casually says that he missed lunch and feels hungry. Mark performing NeckSnaps on a bunch of protestors a week prior was odd to Omni-Man, but not unusual enough for him to ask about it.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Both Omni-Man and Mark treat killing people with complete banality. Before they kill the resistance fighters, Omni-Man casually says that he missed lunch and feels hungry.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Evil Invincible is unable to understand Eve's hatred towards him and believes her to be unreasonable. Although Invincible doesn't want to kill Eve, he is willing to snap her neck and leave her paralyze permanently without caring what she truly feels.

* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Mark asks even why she made him kill ''innocent people'', putting the full blame on her.

* PetTheDog: Despite Angstrom being responsible for his disfigurement, the surviving Mauler tells Angstrom that he needs to go to a hospital rather.

* GoodCounterpart: This actually bites Mark in the ass here ([[BeingGoodSucks But what else is new?]]), as it's mentioned that Invincible remains a heroic figure is actually an ''outlier'' amongst the various alternate universes, and most of his alternate selves are actually destructively evil in the same vein as Omni-Man, if not worse. As an example, the evil Mark seen in the episode's beginning still has feelings for Eve, which he shows by giving her a precisely-calculated NeckSnap to leave her alive but paralyzed, so he can keep visiting her, despite her clear hated for him. As a result, when Angstrom gets the memories of his alternate selves merged into his current body, he undergoes IdentityBreakdown and comes to believe that our Mark is just as evil as the majority of his counterparts, despite the scarred Mauler Twin even lampshading to him how little fault Mark actually had in his transformation.
* IdentityBreakdown: Made worse by the identity in question being ''the same person''. Angstrom trying to stop the violence between Invincible and the Mauler twins gets him turned into a BodyHorror mutant with a brain so large it grows down his neck and over his back, as a result of his brain meshed together with all the alternative versions of himself he was connecting too. This results in their memories getting mixed into his and Angstrom losing track of which universe his current body is actually from, believing that the Invincible that interrupted his experiment is just as bad/the same Invincible as his EvilCounterpart in other dimensions. This leaves him with a burning desire for {{Revenge}} against him despite Mark being pretty blameless for his current condition, as the scarred Mauler Twin lampshades.

* AdaptationalContextChange: In the comics, Angstrom's motive for revenge was for the BodyHorror he suffered and his mind being screwed with from the procedure being interrupted, [[MotiveDecay becoming obsessed with killing him after each failure.]] Here, one of the alternate Angstroms is specifically introduced to be from a universe where Invincible is evil and laid waste to humanity. When the procedure is interrupted, all the Angstroms' memories get mixed together including the before-mentioned alternate; this, along with the mention that Mark joins his father in most realities, gives another angle to why he hates Invincible so much.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite disliking Invincible and being irritated by his interference with Angstrom's experiment, not to mention in considerable pain from the fallout explosion of that, the scarred and disfigured Mauler Twin actually speaks up in his defense when the mutated Angstrom starts blaming Invincible for his new [[MyBrainIsBig deformity]], pointing out it was Angstrom's own decision to take off the helmet that was more to blame and realizing that he's getting his memories mixed up with his alternative selves when he starts babbling about Mark going on a killing spree in the millions. Even if Mark's reputation as Omni-Man's son has put him in a bad spot with the public, the Mauler Twin won't unfairly blame him for actions he hasn't done.
* GoodCounterpart: This actually bites Mark in the ass here ([[BeingGoodSucks But what else is new?]]), as it's mentioned that Invincible remains a heroic figure is actually an ''outlier'' amongst the various alternate universes, and most of his AlternateSelf are actually destructively evil in the same vein as Omni-Man, if not worse. As an example, the evil Mark seen in the episode's beginning still has feelings for Eve, which he shows by giving her a precisely-calculated NeckSnap to leave her alive but paralyzed, so he can keep visiting her, despite her clear hated for him. As a result, when Angstrom gets the memories of his alternate selves merged into his current body, he undergoes IdentityBreakdown and comes to believe that our Mark is just as evil as the majority of his counterparts, despite the scarred Mauler Twin even lamp shading to him how little fault Mark actually had in his transformation.

* AdaptationalContextChange: In the comics, Angstrom's motive for revenge was for the BodyHorror he suffered and his mind being screwed with from the procedure being interrupted, [[MotiveDecay becoming obsessed with killing him after each failure.]] Here, at one of the alternate Angstroms is specifically introduced to be from a universe where Invincible is evil and laid waste to humanity. When the procedure is interrupted, all the Angstroms memories get mixed together including the before-mention alternate; this along with the mention that Mark joins his father in most realities gives another angle to why he hates Invincible so much.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The alternate universe Eve has her neck snapped by her universe’s Mark in such a way that she does die but is paralyzed. Alternative Omni-Man realises that his son was specifically practicing this technique on some protesters they decimated earlier, so Mark could make sure not to accidentally kill her. Mark says that it’s so that he can visit her, despite her making it clear she hates him.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite disliking Invincible and being irritated by his interference with Angstrom's experiment, not to mention in considerable pain from the fallout explosion of that, the scarred and disfigured mauler twin actually speaks up in his defence when the mutated Angstrom starts blaming Invincible for his new [[MyBrainIsBig deformity]], pointing out it was Angstrom's own decision to take off the helmet that was more to blame and realising that he's getting his memories mixed up with his alternative selves when he starts babbling about Mark going on a killing spree in the millions. Even if Mark's reputation as Omni-Man's son has put him in a bad spot with the public, the Mauler Twin won't unfairly blame him for actions he hasn't done.
* GoodCounterpart: This actually bites Mark in the ass here ([[BeingGoodSucks But what else is new?]]), as it's mentioned that Invincible remains a heroic figure is actually an ''outlier'' amongst the various alternate universes, and most of his AlternateSelf are actually destructively evil in the same vein as Omni-Man, if not worse. As an example, the evil Mark seen in the episode's beginning still has feelings for Eve, which he shows by giving her a precisely-calculated NeckSnap to leave her alive but paralysed, so he can keep visiting her, despite her clear hated for him. As a result, when Angstrom gets the memories of his alternate selves merged into his current body, he undergoes IdentityBreakdown and comes to believe that our Mark is just as evil as the majority of his counterparts, despite the scarred Mauler Twin even lamp shading to him how little fault Mark actually had in his transformation.

** The title itself carries on the same running gag from last season with the blood splatter from prior episodes still covering it, only for ''this'' time to get hit with a blood wave so large, [[SerialEscalation it absolutely obscures any other colour]] and leaves just the blood-red letters of Invincible hanging in a black background...which then has a crack appear in it like it was a brick wall taking damage from an offscreen fight.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite disliking Invincible and being irritated by his interference with Angstrom's experiment, not to mention in considerable pain from the fallout explosion of that, the scarred and disfigured mauler twin actually speaks up in his defence when the mutated Angstrom starts blaming Invincible for his new [[MyBrainIsAlsoBig deformity]], pointing out it was Angstrom's own decision to take off the helmet that was more to blame and realising that he's getting his memories mixed up with his alternative selves when he starts babbling about Mark going on a killing spree in the millions. Even if Mark's reputation as Omni-Man's son has put him in a bad spot with the public, the Mauler Twin won't unfairly blame him for actions he hasn't done.
* GoodCounterpart: This actually bites Mark in the ass here ([[BeingGoodSucks But what else is new?]]), as it mentioned that Invincible remains a heroic figure is actually an ''outlier'' amongst the various alternate universes, and most of his AlternateSelf are actually destructively evil in the same vein as Omni-Man, if not worse. As an example, the evil Mark seen in the episode's beginning still has feelings for Eve, which he shows by giving her a precisely-calculated NeckSnap to leave her alive but paralysed, so he can keep visiting her, despite her clear hated for him. As a result, when Angstrom gets the memories of his alternate selves merged into his current body, he undergoes IdentityBreakdown and comes to believe that our Mark is just as evil as the majority of his counterparts, despite the scarred Mauler Twin even lamp shading to him how little fault Mark actually had in his transformation.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The alternate universe Eve has her neck snapped by her universe’s Mark in such a way that she does die but is paralyzed. Mark says that it’s so that he can visit her, despite her making it clear she hates him.

** Angstrom blames Invincible for the disaster, when in reality he was the one at fault - something the surviving Mauler actually points out. Invincible arrived to stop the Maulers, and was on fairly even footing fighting the two of them, until ''Angstrom'' escalated things by summoning alternate universe versions of the Maulers and things escalated to the point where Invincible was outmatched and could potentially die; at this point, Angstrom tries to take his cap off - despite being told at the beginning of the process that he couldn’t do so - in an attempt to stop the violence, but in doing so causes the explosion and his own physical transformation. Partially justified by the process being incomplete and Angstrom not being able to identify which memories are actually his own, which means that he remembers all of the deaths caused by the evil versions of Invincible as if they were his own.
* RunningGag: There are multiple moments throughout the episode where it seems like they’re about to smash cut to the show’s title… but they just say the name/word Invincible instead. We don’t see the title until Langstrom’s declaration of revenge at the end.

* NeverMyFault: Alternate Evil Mark casually states the destruction and death he and his father have inflicted on the Earth is the fault of those that resisted them.