Co-showrunners Robert Kirkman and Simon Racioppa, star Steven Yeun, and a special guest get into spoiler talk.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromInvincibleseason 3, episode 7, “What Have I Done?”
They weren’t easy questions to answer.
Evil Invincibles (all voiced by Steven Yeun) attack in ‘Invincible’ season 3.Prime Video
Thus begins theInvincible War.
All superheroes around the globe, includingourMark, team up for their most brutal fight yet.
And then as the dust settles, with huge casualties on both sides, an even larger threat arrives.
Angstrom (Sterling K. Brown) fights Invincible again.Prime Video
It sets the stage for one helluva final battle in the season 3 finale, which drops next week.
He’s voiced by Kirkman’s longtime friendJeffrey Dean Morgan.
“The only reason we survive that [Invincible War] is because of Mark.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan revealed as the voice of Conquest in ‘Invincible’.Prime Video
“There’s no white or black, there’s no easy answer to these questions.
If you came into the series hoping for easy answers, that’s not what the show is.”
The Invincible War
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Yeun had quite the task on his hands.
TheMinariOscar nominee andBeefEmmy winner voices 18 different versions of Mark over the course of episode 7.
It’s technically less than an hour.
I think it’s astounding.”
For me, it was most about understanding the specific psyche of the character that helped me."
Though, those considerations quickly fizzled out.
Racioppa didn’t want to be accused of bloat.
“I’m also of the mind of just, keep it moving,” he remarks.
“We put him through the ringer 100 different ways in this season,” the showrunner admits.
“What Have I Done?”
The team even recreated specific comic book panels from original artist Ryan Ottley.
The elements they couldn’t factor in, however, were the added guests.
Both are seen hurdling towards each other, fists outstretched, before the screen cuts to black.
And I knew Jeffrey could bring that."
The meta nature of casting Morgan also felt “too great not to do,” Kirkman adds.
The two stars now face each other on screen once again, but in different roles.
“He is a great actor and human and also knows how to play a tremendous heel.”
“I was trying to be aware of just voice inflection.
It’s so easy for me to get into Negan mode after this many years.”
Regarding all the fan theories about Banks voicing Conquest, Kirkman and Racioppa knew what they were doing.
“It’s kind of like giving you too many pieces of the puzzle.”
So they decided to hold that particular name back from press releases.
Morgan himself accidentally put that puzzle in jeopardy.
He also tagged the officialInvincibleshow handle.
“Robert texted me, he’s like, ‘What the f— dude?!
Because it just [put] the whole fandom in an uproar,” the actor recalls.
“Like, ‘What could he be doing?’
‘Are they doing the film now?’
It was crazy for a little bit there.
That talk did die down, though.
Everyone involved now hopes Morgan ended up surprising the fandom with Conquest’s arrival.
What does this now all mean for the season finale incursion?
“At the end of 307, Mark is at his absolute lowest,” Kirkman teases.
“He has seen other versions of himself decimate the planet.
Everyone is turned against him.
And Conquest shows up.
So he’s in this unique head space.
He’s backed into a corner.
The world is already in shambles, and Cecil calls [Conquest] ‘Mr.
10 Times Worse.’
So it’s going to get even worse somehow.”
TheInvincibleseason 3 finale drops March 13 on Prime Video.
