History Characters / Invincible2021TheEmpire

* CorruptedCharacterCopy:
** Viltrumites are basically evil [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Kryptonians]].
** To a lesser extent, they're essentially [[Franchise/DragonBall Saiyans]] if they weren't subjugated by Frieza and were able to expand their empire indefinitely.

** In accordance with their MightMakesRight philosophy, Viltrumites regard the deaths of even their own with apathy, since if a Viltrumite Warrior falls in battle then they were simply too weak to survive and thus deserved their fate. But, as Allen notes, Viltrumites can be "weird" about executing one of their own outside of battle. Nolan's abandonment of his post and newfound empathy makes him both a traitor and a weakling in the eyes of the Empire, a crime for which the sentence is death, yet they insist that Nolan '''must''' be "whole" before he can be executed, that he must demonstrate that he's still capable of being a ruthless Viltrumite Warrior so that he may face his end with honor as a final dying grace.

** In accordance with their MightMakesRight philosophy, Viltrumites regard the deaths of even their own with apathy, since if a Viltrumite Warrior falls in battle then they were simply too weak to survive and thus deserved their fate. But as Allen notes, Viltrumites can be "weird" about killing one of their own. Nolan's abandonment of his post and newfound empathy makes him both a traitor and a weakling in the eyes of the Empire, a crime for which the sentence is death, yet they insist that Nolan '''must''' be "whole" before he can be executed, that he must demonstrate that he's still capable of being a ruthless Viltrumite Warrior so that he may face his end with honor as a final dying grace.

** To Viltrumites, empathy is outright poisonous, as the concept of caring about other beings is so unknown to them that when one of their own, Nolan, starts to develop a sense of care and remorse towards others, both the Viltrum Empire and even Nolan himself assume that there's something fundamentally wrong with him.

* StrongerWithAge: A Viltrumite's powers take time to fully mature. Additionally, they only get stronger if they continue to push themselves physically. Not to mention, their incredibly long lifespans allow for the benefit of experience without the worries of senescence; in Nolan's words, "the older we get, the slower we age." As such, it's very rare for a young Viltrumite to be stronger than an older one. When Mark fights Nolan, Lucan, and Anissa he's completely outclassed and just barely gets the upper hand against Thula.]]

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: When [[spoiler:Allen the Alien's species]] revolted, the Viltrumites had to resort to blowing up the planet. Not because they're cruel -- well, not just because they're cruel -- but because according to [[spoiler:Allen]] the alternative was losing the planet. This is the first hint that Viltrumites individually and as a whole aren't as unbeatable as they seem.

* StrongerWithAge: A Viltrumite's powers take time to fully mature. Additionally, they only get stronger if they continue to push themselves physically. Not to mention, their incredibly long lifespans allow for the benefit of experience without the worries of senescence; in Nolan's words, "the older we get, the slower we age." As such, it's very rare for a young Viltrumite to be stronger than an older one.

* TheDreaded: Galaxy-wide, at least to the Coalition of Planets. According to Allen, a whole planet will be declared off-limits if even a single Viltrumite is sighted living on it, and the urgency of which he warns Mark of this reality portrays his own fear of them.

* HealingFactor: On top of their NighInvulnerability, a Viltrumite can shrug off injuries that would be fatal on an equivalent human thanks to their rapid healing. Fractured skulls, shattered jawbones, torn-open stomachs, ripped-out intestines, give a Viltrumite time and they can heal it off, and it often takes repeated injuries on this level to wear them down.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh, we are your people. You simply do not accept it yet."'']]

* DeathByAdaptation: Substituting for one of the generic Viltrumites that fight Nolan and Mark on Thraxa means that she also dies in the battle, whereas she remained reoccurring side and background character in the comics

** Even though Anissa understands that Mark cares for human life on an objective level, she doesn't understand ''why''. Even when trying to appeal to that care for human life in order to convince Mark to cooperate with the Viltrum Empire she's only able to argue from the [[ColdEquation perspective of humans as raw numbers whose loss could be prevented by cooperating]]. She doesn't even seem register any dissonance between threatening to massacre all the patrons at a restaurant in order to get Mark to speak with her alone and then proceeding to state that she only came to peaceably talk with him.

* NonchalantDodge: She's simply too fast for Mark to even touch her when they fight, she doesn't bother guarding herself instead avoiding all of Mark's punches with bare minimum effort by tilting her head and shifting her body slightly. Mark hits her exactly once and only because ''she let him'', [[NoSell just to show that his blows would barely faze her even if they landed]].

* FirstInjuryReaction: [[DownplayedTrope Not the first time she's been injured ever]], but when [[spoiler:Allen]] hits her hard enough to draw blood she's shocked that any [[spoiler:Unopan]] could even hurt her, which is understandable as she's demonstrated to be exceedingly powerful by even Viltrumite standards. The experience would be comparable to a human getting their nose broken by a punch from a gerbil.

* AdaptationalJerkass: She's overall more brutal on her depiction in the series. First, she threatens to kill Amber, putting her hand around her neck, just to get Mark's attention. In the comicbook she only threatened to kill his mother with no implied action along, and she immediately apologized afterwards. Then she watches dozens of innocents die while Mark is fighting a kaiju, only taking action until long into the fight, whereas her comic counterpart immediately put down the kaiju and then helped Mark save civilians just to get in his good graces. Lastly, she beats down Mark to within an inch of his life, whereas in the comic she simply knocked him down.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Anissa threatens to kill Amber, putting her hand around her neck, just to get Mark's attention. In the comicbook she only threatened to kill his mother with no implied action along, and she immediately apologized afterwards.

* AdaptationalVillany: Anissa threatens to kill Amber, putting her hand around her neck, just to get Mark's attention. In the comicbook she only threatened to kill his mother with no implied action along, and she immediately apologized afterwards.

A warrior-agent Viltrum sent to Earth to test Mark's loyalty to the Viltrumites.

A warrior-agent of Viltrumite sent to Earth to test Mark's loyalty to the Viltrumites.

A high-ranking female Viltrumite warrior sent to Earth to test Mark's loyalty to the Viltrumites.

** She's bewildered by Mark's antipathy for Viltrumites, and genuinely believes that his unwillingness to be a part of the Viltrum Empire is a sign that there must be something wrong with him. As her patience wears thin during their brief fight she lets her mask slip a bit and strongly indicates that, as far as she sees it, the fact that Mark is a Viltrumite should be all that matters to him and the fact that he would reject his own heritage makes him certifiably insane.

--->'''Anissa''': The boy refuses both reason and heritage.\\
'''Kregg''': You mean you failed to convince him.\\
'''Anissa''': General... [sigh]. He is poisoned, just like his father.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ClancyBrown