WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Invincible Season 1, Episode 8, "Where I Really Come From," available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

At its core, Invincible is the story of a young superhero coming up in the world as he discovers his powers and learns to integrate them into his life as a teenager and a superhero. While that story may be one audiences are more than familiar with, the series' unique spin on it is that the brutal realities of those lessons stand out in starker detail than ever before.

They're lessons that the series' titular hero pays attention to, and he needs every bit of the experience for what he's up against in the Season 1 finale.

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One of the most memorable scenes from the first episode features Mark's father Omni-Man teaching him how to fly and how to throw a punch. From there, the young hero starts a steady journey of figuring out how his fantastical abilities work. Even with his powers still budding, Invincible is extremely strong, fast and durable. But when it comes to the epic final showdown between him and his father, none of that is enough. Omni-Man reveals himself as an extraterrestrial conqueror, and in trying to stop him Invincible is outclassed in every way.

Early on it was difficult for Invincible to even fly, tumbling through the air completely lacking balance. He struggled most of all with his momentum; the sheer speed he was capable of was a threat to the human lives he interacted with and the difficulty of stopping was so great that it would leave massive craters in the ground. And both of those facets see attention in the finale, where Invincible saves a plummeting pilot without stopping too suddenly. Later, when a punch sends him tearing through Chicago, Invincible digs his feet in and forces himself to stop.

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In his lessons on how to throw a punch, Omni-Man instructed his son on how to use his flight capabilities to leverage his shots, and Mark does exactly that in one of the few instances where he manages to get some hits in on Omni-Man in their clash. They resound with the impact and he comes at his father from every angle. Even though the characters don't point it out, it's clear to the audience paying attention that Invincible is employing every lesson he has available to him to try to gain an upper hand.

Even beyond his deadlier lessons, Mark also learned about the fragility of human life during his fight with the Flaxans, and we see in his desperate attempts to save the civilians of Chicago that he is doing everything he can to protect them. The lessons clash with the new ones Omni-Man tries to impress upon him about how that same fragility makes human life relatively worthless. The hero is so traumatized in the aftermath that these new lessons are not ones he will forget either.

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In the end, Omni-Man proves to be all but unstoppable, leaving Earth behind and his son in tatters. Though Invincible eventually recovers and the series ends on an optimistic note, the young hero prepares himself for more Viltrumites as strong as Omni-Man whose encroachment on Earth is inevitable. There will be plenty more to learn as a hero if he hopes to save the planet from such a threat.

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Invincible stars Steven Yeun, J.K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen, Gillian Jacobs, Andrew Rannells, Zazie Beetz, Mark Hamill, Walton Goggins, Jason Mantzoukas, Mae Whitman, Chris Diamantopoulos, Melise, Kevin Michael Richardson, Khary Payton, Grey Griffin and Max Burkholder. The series is produced by Skybound, and executive produced by Robert Kirkman, Simon Racioppa, David Alpert and Catherine Winder. The first season is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.