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Amazon SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of “Invincible,” now streaming on Prime Video.
The “Invincible” Season 4 premiere did something that the show, and Robert Kirkman‘s original superhero comic book series, has never done before: show fans the early days of Nolan (J.K. Simmons), and how his alien planet Viltrum was nearly wiped out by a virus.
Episode 1 of the three-part premiere included a brief flashback of Nolan starting out as Omni-Man at his first costume fitting with Debbie (Sandra Oh), but Episode 2 ratcheted things up. It began with an extended look back at teenage Nolan teaching child Viltrumites the violent ways of their culture. Then, Nolan’s parents put his fighting skills to the test with a brutal beatdown, but things quickly take a turn as Viltrumites around the planet start coughing up blood. The race of powerful aliens becomes decimated by the Scourge Virus, which kills 99.9% of their world — except for Nolan, Grand Regent Thragg (Lee Pace) and a handful of others. In a chilling sequence, the survivors jettison the corpses to create rings around their planet. The rest of the episode goes back to present day, where Nolan, Allen (Seth Rogen), Telia (Tatiana Maslany) and their “Star Trek”-inspired crew search the galaxy for ways to kill the remaining Viltrumites.
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