Episode 4 - It’s Been a While!
Mark answers the call to save an alien species, but the mission has unexpected personal consequences.
Full cast, crew and characters
Join the r/Invincible Discord server!
Please act appropriately and follow our rules. We ask you to report any comments that are uncivil/malicious or don’t belong in the non-comic spoiler thread.
DO NOT post comic book spoilers in this thread - use [the comic spoiler discussion thread](LINK HERE) for discussion using comic book context
Please report comments discussing comic book spoilers in this thread.
Ikr but won’t they ALL know they’re clones now that he has the memory of killing what could potentially have been the original? That’s gotta be weird. Even that one might have been a clone but now it’s certain.
Yes minor comic spoiler: >!They switch to saying basically “atleast I am not a clone of a clone”!<
I feel like they wouldn’t care about being THE original. They just care about being more original than the other one.
I always figured they get some type of amnesia since they’d be able to figure out who is the clone by which bed the original got into before cloning
Are people seriously not paying attention to the series? Like this is quite literally a fundamental aspect of their character that was explicitly laid out to the viewer as plain as day.
Can you be more specific?
They quite literally explained that they designed the machine this way. Idk how much more specific a long and deliberate scene with direct exposition can be. Again this was in the show. They cloned robot and say they designed the machine and process in a way where you would not know or remember which one you are.
Even Robot when he comes out while literally looking at the shriveled body of himself that clearly couldn’t be him says “which am I” in confusion and says why can’t I tell which one I am. Can’t be more specific than them saying we designed it this way.
My head canon is that the original Mauler was a totally different creature, small and weak but a genius. He must have recognized the value of strength and toughness so created that large blue nearly-invincible body and developed his technology to transfer himself into it, just as “Robot” did much later on.
I wonder if the comics ever expand on this
They’ve always known they’re clones, just not specifically when. There’s no way you could clone yourself that many times without having an idea. It is the same mind after all.
Plus they say they don’t label each other precisely because this is exactly what happened last time when one knew they were the clone.
Who the clone is, is a relative point. One of them is the clone and one of them is the original, relative to each other. That’s all that matters.
There’s a bit that’s left out of this episode where the mauler that poisons king mauler, clones himself. Both are clones for sure, but if king mauler was the original, then one of them is a clone, and another is a clone of a clone. So that becomes the new argument lol
During S1 when Robot fought them he dropped the line that they were both clones, and they responded with we know. They knew before this event but one had the power that they weren’t the new clone and ran with it and pissed off the new clone
It also confirmed to Mauler that they should never know who is the latest clone as it shifts the dynamic from a one-up each other duo ship to I’m in charge you are the shit kicker.
This was my thought as well. With an individual always surviving there was always a microscopic chance that one was the original. Obviously they’re fooling themselves, but how are they going to go through the mental gymnastics now when they know for a fact that neither is the original.
(My guess is they’ll just up their delusions to 11 and nothing will change with how they behave).