The next accommodates spoilers for “Invincible” Season 3, Episode 1 (in addition to potential spoilers for future episodes).
Time-travel, characters coming back from the lifeless, and reanimated robotic corpses? It is simply enterprise as ordinary up to now within the third season of “Invincible,” the incredible adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s epic superhero comedian e book sequence centering on Mark Grayson, aka Invincible (Steven Yeun), and his household. However whereas the “Invincible” voice solid was already stacked with spectacular expertise, this newest chapter steps issues up a notch, including a slew of recent actors to the combination — the type that makes you snap and level on the display screen like Leonardo DiCaprio if you notice who you are listening to.
Along with that includes a vocal look by “Cobra Kai” star Xolo Maridueña (who drops in as each Dropkick and Fightmaster this week), the “Invincible” Season 3 premiere sees Mark going up towards the (literal) one-man military of scorned ex-superheroes that’s Multi-Paul. Pay attention arduous sufficient, although, and you will rapidly notice the latter is voiced by none apart from Simu Liu, aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s personal fist-throwing extraordinaire, Shang-Chi.
Having beforehand spent “Invincible” Season 2 sitting silently behind bars, Multi-Paul lastly good points a voice this season and makes use of it to successfully curse the identify of Rex Splode (Jason Mantzoukas), blaming him for the loss of life of his sister, Dupli-Kate (Malese Jow). The excellent news, in fact, is that she is not lifeless. Even after her battle with the Lizard League in Season 2, Kate stored a backup copy of herself protected and spent a quick time away whereas fortunately engaged to Immortal (Ross Marquand). All that is left to marvel is how Paul will deal with this info shifting ahead and the way a lot of a presence he’ll have in Season 3 general.
Multi-Paul could have loads of possibilities to return to Invincible
You do not simply casually introduce an MCU superhero into your present with out using them successfully. After making an influence this week and being ripped aside repeatedly, Simu Liu’s Paul Cha will probably return additional down the road and, coincidentally, probably work together with one other character voiced by an MCU hero. Properly, truly, make {that a} character voiced by an actor who’s been slated to grow to be an MCU hero for the previous six years.
Within the “Invincible” comics (“Invincible” #53, to be actual), Paul turns into embroiled in one other jail escape amidst an influence wrestle between Mister Liu (voiced by Tzi Ma on the animated sequence) and one of many few dangerous guys with good intentions on this universe: Titan. Within the present, this rock-armored mob boss is voiced by Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, who has been set to painting Marvel’s iconic vampire hunter Blade, since 2019. Sadly, the “Blade” film has additionally grow to be one in all Marvel Studios’ most-troubled initiatives and has been caught in growth hell just about ever because it was introduced.
At this level, sadly, it appears we’re extra more likely to hear Simu Liu and Mahershala Ali collectively in “Invincible” than see them on display screen as their MCU counterparts anytime quickly. Nonetheless, ought to Multi-Paul and Titan cross paths within the close to future, it is certain to lead to an unbelievable show of shattered stone and a number of piles of our bodies.
New episodes of “Invincible” drop Thursdays on Prime Video.