Scott Duvall a.ok.a. Powerplex is voiced by TV legend Aaron Paul (Breaking Unhealthy, Westworld, et. al.) and is launched in Invincible season 3 episode 6 “All I Can Say Is I’m Sorry.” A scientist working on the International Protection Company, Scott hates Invincible for the collateral harm he visited upon his household as his sister Jessica and her daughter Gretchen had been killed throughout the Chicago battle between Mark and Nolan. If that looks like a stable purpose to change into the Invincible-hating villain Powerplex, Invincible showunner Simon Racioppa would agree.
“I hope you come out of that episode being like ‘Powerplex had a degree about plenty of this! Like 9 out of the ten issues he mentioned he was proper about,’” Simon Racioppa tells Den of Geek. “Perhaps he went too far right here or there. However he’s not fallacious about plenty of the factors he expenses Mark with. That’s one thing that’s going to be rattling round Mark’s head for the remainder of the season.”
Like many in any other case sympathetic villains, Powerplex’s strategies to realize justice show to be somewhat flawed. Scott steals some highly effective disks from GDA to reinforce his pre-existing however weak energy-absorption and electrokinetic powers. He then begins to stage crimes to entice Invincible out for a battle. After a false begin with the a lot weaker Shapesmith (Ben Schwartz) and a tussle with Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs) on the Chicago memorial service. Powerplex efficiently lures Invincible to his house to answer a risk to Powerplex’s personal spouse, Becky, and toddler son, Jack. Although Becky is in on this ruse, Powerplex proves unable to regulate his energy and unleashes an electrical explosion that kills each her and their baby.
Whereas Powerplex by no means posed that massive of a bodily risk to a half-Viltrumite, the incident he incites turns into the newest in an extended line of painful studying experiences for poor Mark Grayson. In that regard, the comparatively weak Scott Duvall proves to be greater than a B-list villain. Or at the least Invincible comedian creator and present producer Robert Kirkman thinks so.
“Pay attention, Powerplex is ‘A-Minus’ at [worst],” Kirkman jokes. “I feel this season is in regards to the shifting floor below Mark. That is his transition from his late teenagers into maturity. That is if you begin realizing what it’s you stand for as an individual. To have a personality like Powerplex shining a light-weight on a few of the darker facets of what Mark has finished prior to now [allows him to] query the place he stands. It’s essential to have that rug pulling second in Mark’s evolution as a personality.”
The episode ends with Powerplex imprisoned and Donald Ferguson (Chris Diamantopoulos) telling Mark that they gained’t be capable to take away the highly effective disks from his physique with out killing him, leaving rehabilitation as the one choice. That represents not solely one other studying second for Mark, who has beforehand been skeptical of supervillain rehabilitation, but additionally the chance that Powerplex might return as a hero or at the least a helpful authorities asset. Ought to that be the case, Kirkman and Racioppa are assured they’ve the correct actor for the position going ahead.
