That was fast! The Invincible Season 2 finale aired just this week, and already a modder has put its standout cameo character into a video game.
Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Invincible: Season 2, Episode 8!
Season 2, Episode 8 toys with the idea of the multiverse, with Mark hurtling through other dimensions and encountering heroes on alternate Earths. In one scene, Mark meets a very Spider-Man-esque character named Agent Spider, voiced by The Spectacular Spider-Man’s Josh Keaton. This scene is a tribute to the comic book team-up between Spider-Man and Invincible from 2005’s Marvel Team-Up #14.
Hot on the heels of the episode’s release on Prime Video, Spider-Man PC modder Rezauddin Nur recreated Agent Spider inside the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the 2020 re-release of Insomniac’s smash-hit PlayStation 4 Spider-Man game from 2018. The impressive-looking mod gives Agent Spider a cel-shaded look similar to that seen in the Prime Video show. The mod is available to download from NexusMods.
Speaking this week, Invincible creator Robert Kirkman explained how the Season 2 finale’s multiple cameos came to be, revealing Amazon’s lawyers were particularly interested in the Spider-Man cameo.
“It was just trying to figure out a way to keep that moment somewhat intact from the comics,” Kirkman told Variety. “It seemed like something that would be a fun and surprising way to do it. Amazon legal, painstakingly, was like, ‘No, the costume can’t be that color. We gotta get away from this and that.’ There were a lot of eyes on that scene.
“We wanted to find an actor who had done Spider-Man before. [Supervising director] Dan Duncan came in immediately and was like, ‘Josh Keaton needs to do it. Spectacular Spider Man is a great series.’ He had worked on it and said Josh was great. He seemed like the best possible choice because it’s animation to animation. It seemed like it would be a fun thing.
“That said, he’s not playing Spider-Man. That’s Agent Spider. There might be some similarities, but I think Josh’s nuanced performance as Agent Spider is completely different than the way he played Spider-Man in Spectacular Spider-Man. But who knows? My opinion may be somewhat biased.”
Remarkably, Kirkman said he’s “pretty sure” Marvel only found out about the Agent Spider scene this week. “We didn’t call any Marvel lawyers or anything,” he added. “No, that was Amazon’s legal department’s job to make sure that Marvel didn’t need to know.”
With Invincible Season 2 done and dusted, thoughts now turn to Season 3, which Invincible star Steven Yeun discussed with IGN in a recent interview.
Image credit: Rezauddin Nur / NexusMods
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
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Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Invincible: Season 2, Episode 8!
Season 2, Episode 8 toys with the idea of the multiverse, with Mark hurtling through other dimensions and encountering heroes on alternate Earths. In one scene, Mark meets a very Spider-Man-esque character named Agent Spider, voiced by The Spectacular Spider-Man’s Josh Keaton. This scene is a tribute to the comic book team-up between Spider-Man and Invincible from 2005’s Marvel Team-Up #14.
Josh Keaton as the role of agent spider (spider-man) in the Season 2 Finale of invincible pic.twitter.com/NIS8OPglsV
— REUS | رويس (@iREUS_SA) April 4, 2024
Hot on the heels of the episode’s release on Prime Video, Spider-Man PC modder Rezauddin Nur recreated Agent Spider inside the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the 2020 re-release of Insomniac’s smash-hit PlayStation 4 Spider-Man game from 2018. The impressive-looking mod gives Agent Spider a cel-shaded look similar to that seen in the Prime Video show. The mod is available to download from NexusMods.
Speaking this week, Invincible creator Robert Kirkman explained how the Season 2 finale’s multiple cameos came to be, revealing Amazon’s lawyers were particularly interested in the Spider-Man cameo.
“It was just trying to figure out a way to keep that moment somewhat intact from the comics,” Kirkman told Variety. “It seemed like something that would be a fun and surprising way to do it. Amazon legal, painstakingly, was like, ‘No, the costume can’t be that color. We gotta get away from this and that.’ There were a lot of eyes on that scene.
“We wanted to find an actor who had done Spider-Man before. [Supervising director] Dan Duncan came in immediately and was like, ‘Josh Keaton needs to do it. Spectacular Spider Man is a great series.’ He had worked on it and said Josh was great. He seemed like the best possible choice because it’s animation to animation. It seemed like it would be a fun thing.
“That said, he’s not playing Spider-Man. That’s Agent Spider. There might be some similarities, but I think Josh’s nuanced performance as Agent Spider is completely different than the way he played Spider-Man in Spectacular Spider-Man. But who knows? My opinion may be somewhat biased.”
Remarkably, Kirkman said he’s “pretty sure” Marvel only found out about the Agent Spider scene this week. “We didn’t call any Marvel lawyers or anything,” he added. “No, that was Amazon’s legal department’s job to make sure that Marvel didn’t need to know.”
With Invincible Season 2 done and dusted, thoughts now turn to Season 3, which Invincible star Steven Yeun discussed with IGN in a recent interview.
Image credit: Rezauddin Nur / NexusMods
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
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