I'm Not Going Anywhere

A rocky trip to a comic convention makes the strain between Mark and Amber plain, and it only worsens as hero duties keep pulling Mark away. Elsewhere the Guardians wrestle with friction between Robot and Monster Girl, while Cecil forces Donald to watch footage proving he has died repeatedly and chose to have those memories wiped. On a personal front, Debbie accepts a date with Paul, and young Oliver keeps developing at a startling pace.

Rick, haunted by his rebuilding at the hands of D.A. Sinclair, teeters on a ledge with suicidal thoughts until Donald talks him back by admitting he too is partly machine. Determined to do better, Mark commits to Amber and his studies, but a date is shattered when Anissa appears, threatens Amber, and argues that Viltrumite rule would ultimately spare human lives. She helps Mark down a sea creature, then overpowers him in single combat while sparing his life. Realizing she can never truly share his world, Amber and Mark tearfully end their relationship. The chapter closes with Angstrom seizing Debbie and Oliver as hostages using Debbie's phone, and Allen deliberately letting himself be captured.

Anissa debuts as a new Viltrumite antagonist, foreshadowing that another of her kind, Conquest, will soon arrive to check on the empire's progress. Mark and Amber break up for good once she accepts she will never fit into his double life. Donald discovers he had died dozens of times before his most recent death and had authorized the erasure of his own memories.

Allen shows he can trade blows with a high-ranking Viltrumite, then allows his own capture as a step toward rescuing Omni-Man from execution. Angstrom Levy sets his revenge plan against Mark and the Graysons into motion.

The title echoes a line spoken by Robot. At the convention Mark meets Filip Schaff, creator of the Seance Dog comic, whose meta-commentary on animation shortcuts plays out visually as he describes them, adapted from the tenth issue of the source comic. Eric Bauza takes over the role of D.A. Sinclair for this chapter.

The Viltrumite emblem is shown in full for the first time, resembling Omni-Man's Season 1 logo. Robert Kirkman named this his favorite chapter of the series, teasing a heavily reworked adaptation of a beloved comic moment. The vault where Mark and Rex handle Octoboss borrows its look from the Fallout games.