Invincible season 4 episode 7 has made its Prime Video debut — and I imagine you have plenty of questions after what we just witnessed.
The critically acclaimed Amazon TV Original’s latest chapter, titled ‘Don’t Do Anything Rash’, has been hailed as this season’s best entry. However, in the hours since its release and amid the praise it has received, fans have been desperately searching for answers about the episode’s biggest talking points.
Luckily for you, I’m here to provide them – but be warned: full spoilers immediately follow before Invincible‘s latest installment. Leave this page now if you haven’t seen it yet.
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Will Oliver die in Invincible Season 4 Episode 7?
No. Okay, he gets his ass handed to him by Grand Regent Thragg, aka the de-facto leader of the Viltrum Empire and the Big Bad of the entire Prime Video show, but Oliver lives to fight another day.
Despite his older stepbrother Mark Grayson’s warning not to attack Thragg on his own earlier in this week’s episode, Oliver ends up doing just that. But Thragg, who I’ll talk more about later, makes light work of Oliver – the incredibly powerful Viltrumite severing Oliver’s lower jaw, ripping off his left arm from the elbow down and leaving him for dead.
But as I said, Invincible Season 4’s penultimate episode isn’t the end of the road for Mark’s half-Viltumite, half-Thraxan younger step-siblings.
In the final minutes of ‘Don’t Do Anything Rash’, it is revealed that Oliver’s body was recovered by the Coalition of Planets. Back on Talescria, aka the Planetary Headquarters of the Freedom Fighters, its surgeons replace his derived body parts with cybernetic prosthetics and place him in a medically-induced coma inside a stasis chamber to aid his recovery.
Is Nolan Dead In Invincible Season 4 Episode 7?
No, Mark and Oliver’s father also survive. This is despite being removed from Thragg after Nolan, Mark and Thaedus, with a little help from the Space Racer’s extremely powerful Infinity Gun, destroyed the Viltrumites’ homeworld.
However, like Oliver, ‘Don’t Do Anything Rash’ confirms that Nolan is still alive. After Mark recovers from his own downfall at Thragg’s hands, he is told by Allen that Nolan did not succumb to his life-threatening injuries. Moments later, we see Mark reunite with his father in the room where Oliver’s stasis chamber is based, further confirming that Nolan is okay.
Does Thaedus die in Invincible Season 4 Episode 7?
Unlike the aforementioned individuals, the Coalition of Planets’ Commander-in-Chief is killed in this season’s seventh chapter. In fact, he is beheaded by Thragg after Viltrum’s destruction.
It is also something of an ironic death. Earlier in ‘Don’t Do Anything Rash’ we get to see the moment before Thaedus murders Argall, i.e. the former leader of the Viltrum Empire. After Argall’s death, Thragg keeps the former’s skull as a reminder not only of the autocratic values instilled in the Viltrumites from birth, but also of Thaedus’ treachery and Thragg’s desire to exact revenge on the man responsible for Argall’s death. The fact that Thragg kills Thaedus by beheading him brings Thaedus’ journey full circle.
Why does Thragg spare Mark and Nolan in Invincible Season 4 Episode 7?
Because there are literally only a handful of Viltrumites left. Thragg wants those who remain to rebuild the nearly extinct race, so killing two of his relatives in Mark and Nolan would not be in the best interest of Thragg or the Viltrumite species.
At least that’s one answer. The second is in the last line spoken by Mark before the screen fades to black and this episode’s end credits begin – it’s that Thragg and those loyal to him are on their way to Earth.
Is Thragg about to lay waste to Mark’s home planet? I won’t spoil what happens next, but if Thragg is seeking retribution for what just happened to his own world, that would be a major reason to keep Mark and Nolan alive to witness Earth’s own potential destruction. You’ll have to find out if that’s what happens when episode 8 airs next week.
What is the Great Purge in Invincible?
After Argall’s death, Thragg takes control of the Viltrum Empire – and one of his first decrees actually puts his race on a potential collision course with mass extinction.
In the comic and its animated adaptation for adults on one of the best streaming services, Thragg encourages his fellow Viltrumites to weed out the weakest of their kind. Thus began a brief but no less disastrous civil war, where it was every man, woman and child for themselves, as the wild rumites turned on each other to eliminate all but the strongest among them.
At the end of the conflict, known as the Great Purge, those who survived rebuilt Viltrum and repopulated their now greatly reduced numbers. Although it was a hugely devastating event, it’s an idea that for a time seemed to work in Viltrum’s favor because only the toughest and most formidable members of its species remained.
At least that was the case until the Viltrumite traitor known as Thaedus released the Scourge Virus—a microorganism designed specifically to kill Viltrumites—on his homeworld and decimated its population. Would this have happened if the Great Purge hadn’t played out, and as a proxy, would the Viltrumites’ gene pool have been significantly larger? It is a question Invincible‘s source material doesn’t match, but it’s an interesting thing to consider.
Why is Thragg so strong in Invincible?
This question is answered in ‘Don’t do anything rash’. But amid everything else that happens in the series’ latest episode, it gets lost in the noise.
Essentially though, Thragg has been trained from birth to be the strongest warrior at the Viltrum Empire’s disposal. An expert combatant in many martial arts, he has also fought in countless wars over the centuries, making him an even more formidable opponent for anyone to face.
On top of that, Thragg was also bred to be Viltrum’s most powerful fighter. He wasn’t genetically engineered per se, but his pure Viltrumite DNA, combined with the above training and his survival of the Scourge Virus – the latter of which nearly wiped out the entire Viltrumite race – means that almost no one, if anyone, can best him in a duel.
Who voices Argall in Invincible?
It will be Frank Welker, whose acting career stretches back to 1969, when he voiced Fred in the original Scooby-Doo animated show..
Funnily enough, Invincible is a reunion of sorts between Welker and Peter Cullen, who voices Thaedus. In it Transformers animated series, the pair played Megatron and Optimus Prime, aka the respective leaders of the Decepticons and Autobots. Welker and Cullen also voiced characters in the Transformers film franchise, with Cullen reprising his role as Optimus Prime and Welker returning to play various Decepticons.
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