Someone Already Modded Invincible Series 2 Finale Cameo Into Marvel’s Spider-Man
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.
Josh Keaton as the role of agent spider (spider-man) in the Season 2 Finale of invincible pic.twitter.com/NIS8OPglsV
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
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