Invincible Season 3, Episode 3 Review – “You Want a Real Costume, Right?” - IGN

An episode that bides its time, “You Want a Real Costume, Right?” rounds out the three-part premiere of Invincible’s third season by expanding its emerging themes. The plot doesn’t quite move forward, but that’s by design. It’s a measured chapter by necessity, either forcing the characters into ethical conundrums, or highlighting the hypocrisies that they aren’t quite capable of noticing.It begins with a familiar foil-the-bank-robbery sequence, but its perspective is turned on its head. A pair of henchmen who’ve appeared briefly in prior seasons, the lava-powered Magmaniac and the tech-imbued Tether Tyrant, hold up a local branch for cash, but their dialogue-free reaction shots tell a different story than usual. They don’t seem to enjoy scaring their inadvertent hostages, especially kids, and when Guardians member Bulletproof enters the scene – floating into frame like some supernatural, Lovecraftian creature – we become firmly affixed to the villains’ point of view as they narrowly es...