Then we cut to: Mark gasping, whole, back in the power plant. Levy smirks.

For three full seconds, the screen goes black. No audio. No "Next on Invincible ." Just silence.

The real return everyone is waiting for? That’s the season’s villain tease from Episode 1: Angstrom Levy. Angstrom Levy (Sterling K. Brown) has been a ghost for four episodes. We saw him smashed, presumed dead, but in "This Must Come as a Shock," Levy reveals he has been rebuilding himself across multiple dimensions. His face is a horrifying patchwork of scars; his mind is now fractured across hundreds of alternate selves, all of them united by one burning obsession: destroying Invincible.