History ComicBook / Invincible

* AirJousting: Many of the aerial battles between Viltrumites end up like this in ''Invincible'', thanks to them being a race of {{Flying Brick}}s. One of the most goretastic moments of this is the fight between [[BigBad Thragg]] and [[BloodKnight Battle Beast]], who fought a [[Main/{{Gorn}} bloody]] battle for days.

'''Mark''': Um...never mind.
** Played straight by Allen the alien. And taken to the extreme by the fact that the whole Cosmic Federation seems to use english, or the "Earth/Urath" mistake couldn't have happened.
** Justified with the interdimensional beings. The first two times, they don't speak at all. The third time they come back they do it to seek vengeance on Omni-Man, and have learned english by studying him (it's also after Omni-Man had lead a revolution in their world, so he had presumably found a way to communicate).
* AllDeathsFinal: The Immortal, true to his name, cannot die and it's possible to travel to alternate dimensions to see parallel versions of people who are dead in your reality. But in a rare case for a Super Hero universe, dead means dead.

* AndShowItToYou: After a grueling, days long fight, Thragg disembowels Battle Beast and yanks out his heart. Battle Beast thanks him for it.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Space Racer is a threat even to the Viltrumites because he has a unique RayGun that can blast through anything, including the [[spoiler:core of the planet Viltrum - allowing Mark, Nolan and Thaddeus to fly in and rip it apart from inside.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Post [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Turn]] Robot successfully takes over Earth, killing many regular characters, converting others to his cause and convincing Mark to accept this is for the better.]]

** They try this again later with [[spoiler:Rex. It doesn't work, as he manages to crush them both before they can latch onto him.]]

* CardboardPrison: Stronghold Prison is broken out of so often that they go out of their way to hire Invincible just to slow things down...and then they have ''another'' breakout.

** Eventually Mark starts carrying people by holding onto them just under their armpits. He still receives a common complaint--that it's really uncomfortable. Both complaints usually elicit one of two reactions from Mark: Either "I know" or "Shut up."

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and/or [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. In two early stories, Mark is recognized by his teacher ''even with his mask on''. Apparently masks are enough to hide your identity from the general public, but not from people who actually know you.

* ClothingDamage: Happens regularly in some of the really intense fights.

** [[spoiler: Shrinking Ray gets eaten by one of Lizard members.]]

** [[spoiler:Apparently half the new Guardians of the Globe and a number of former Invincible villains during Robot's purge.]]

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In the issue where Mark is bounced from dimension to dimension by Angstrom Levy, he crashes into Dr. Octopus during a confrontation against Spider-Man, meets Batman, and ends up on worlds similar to ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' and ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', the latter of which Kirkman writes. The cameos from Spidey and Doc Ock were sctually elaborated on in ''Marvel Team-Up'', also written by Millar.

In 2017, a LiveActionAdaptation was announced, and is still in development as of 2022. In 2018, it was announced that an ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'' animated series would be headed to Creator/PrimeVideo. It began airing on March 26, 2021, running for 8 episodes, and a second and third season have been ordered.

* FanDisservice: You think a sexy, well-endowed woman shagging a similarly good-looking young man is hot? Usually, that's true, but not when she's [[spoiler:raping him]] with a completely manic and unhinged look on her face.

* FanDisservice: You think a sexy, well-endowed woman shagging a similarly good-looking young man is hot? Usually, that's true, but not when she's [[spoiler:raping him]].

* MaleToFemaleUniversalAdaptor: Both Omni-Man, [[spoiler:Thragg]], and Allen the Alien have [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies romances]] with plenty of sex, so this trope is implied, though not explicitly shown.

* KilledOffForReal: Sometimes subverted, but most of the time, when someone dies, [[DeathisCheap they won't get ressurected easily.]]

Created by Creator/RobertKirkman and Cory Walker, this ComicBook series revolves around the life of Mark Grayson, who is pretty much your [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent typical high school student]], except for the fact that he is the son of [[SupermanSubstitute Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet]]. Over the course of his heroic career, Mark, as the superhero Invincible, has fought aliens, joined super-teams and bounced from dimension to dimension. All the while, he has to deal with choosing a college, graduating high school and, of course, falling in love.

!!This series provides examples of:

* {{Expy}}: The series is full of them, mostly minor background characters but a few have been important recurring characters. The title character's father Omni-Man starts out as an Expy of Franchise/{{Superman}} (but 10 issues in, [[spoiler: his plot becomes BewareTheSuperman]]). The original Global Guardians team were all expies of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} until they were [[spoiler: killed by Omni-Man]] and a more original team took over. Expies of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, and Comicbook/{{Robin}} remained important supporting characters longer than the rest. Cecil is ComicBook/NickFury but just barely managed to keep his eye.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Inverted, in that Atom Eve is the one that wants Invincible, who's dating another girl. [[spoiler:It ends up being played straight, as Invincible breaks up with his initial girl and ends up in a relationship with Eve]].

* WhiteIsPure: A PureIsNotGood case, as the Viltrumites are a powerful [[TheEmpire galactic empire]] obsessed with their belief in SocialDarwinism, MightMakesRight, and their own purity. They tend to dress in either all white or nearly all white.