History YMMV / Invincible

* "I thought... I thought you were stronger." [[labelnote:explanation]] Mark, horrified and covered in blood, reacting to seemingly beating Anstrong Levy to death. Used mostly as a joke about highly uneven match-ups. [[/labelnote]]

* CompleteMonster: [[ItsAllAboutMe Grand Regent Thragg]], ruler of the Viltrumite empire, continues the brutal traditions of [[TheSocialDarwinist only the strong surviving]], conquest and genocide throughout the galaxy. Ordering the deaths of countless billions, Thragg leads his people against the heroic half-Viltrumite Markus "Mark" Grayson--aka Invincible--resulting in the loss of their homeworld. Opting to lurk on Earth to breed a new army of Viltrumites with the survivors, Thragg learns his ArchEnemy, Mark's father Nolan, is the true heir of the empire. Thragg attempts to murder him, only to be defeated and exiled where he travels to Thraxa, whose native race [[YoungerThanTheyLook live their whole lives in 9 Earth months]], taking it over and forcibly breeding thousands upon thousands of disposable half-Viltrumites who initially age quickly. Initiating a new war, Thragg attempts to wipe out entire worlds to establish the New Viltrumite Empire, using [[AbusiveParents his own children]] as CannonFodder that he can send to literally break upon their enemy, dying pointlessly by the hundreds before attempting to destroy Earth and his old Viltrumite followers now defending it. A cruel tyrant obsessed with his ideals of strength at the expense of all else, Thragg remained Mark's most personal foe and the author of endless misery.

** [[ArchnemesisDad Nolan Grayson]], better known as the superhero "[[BewareTheSuperman Omni-Man]]", presents as the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity greatest hero alive]] while being a spy for the Viltrumite Empire. A successful infiltrator of Earth, Nolan lures the Guardians of the Globe into a trap to wipe them out so he might prepare Earth for a Viltrumite takeover. Upon realizing he loves his son Mark too much to kill him for opposing him, Nolan flees, later becoming an enemy of the Viltrumites where he uses his skill, strength and knowledge to assist the Coalition of Planets against his old empire, while telling Mark to use the information in his books against the Viltrumites. Finally ascending to becoming the Emperor of the Viltrumites, Nolan attempts to lead his people into a [[GoldenAge new age of peace and tolerance]].

* VindicatedByHistory: While still regarded as not one of his strongest solo work compared to his previous ones, many agreed after Jackson's passing, that Invincible was nowhere near as bad as people said it was back in 2001.

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* EvilIsCool: Excluding the IneffectualSympatheticVillain{s} of the series, there's quite a few. The main ones include Omni-Man prior to his HeelFaceTurn, Angstrom Levy, the Mauler Twins, Battle Beast, Conquest, Dinosaurus, Grand Regent Thragg, and even Robot after his FaceHeelTurn.

* EvilIsCool: Excluding the IneffectualSympatheticVillain[s] of the series, there's quite a few. The main ones include Omni-Man prior to his HeelFaceTurn, Angstrom Levy, the Mauler Twins, Battle Beast, Conquest, Dinosaurus, Grand Regent Thragg, and even Robot after his FaceHeelTurn.

* EvilIsCool: Excluding the IneffectualSympatheticVillains of the series, there's quite a few. The main ones include Omni-Man prior to his HeelFaceTurn, Angstrom Levy, the Mauler Twins, Battle Beast, Conquest, Dinosaurus, Grand Regent Thragg, and even Robot after his FaceHeelTurn.

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* SoOkayItsAverage: What listeners eventually felt about it after the controversy about Jackson's personal life died down. By all accounts, yeah, it's not a phenomenal album by Music/MichaelJackson standards, and contains some of his more infamous post-''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' trademarks: songs that [[EpicRocking go on for a hundred years]], and borrowing from [[GenreAdultery several then-popular styles of music]]. However, this is ''still'' the King of Pop, who refused to release anything unless he felt it was as flawless as possible, so the songs on their own are still great. It's telling that "You Rock My World" was the #1 downloaded song on iTunes the day MJ died and not, say, "Billie Jean" or "Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough."

** Prime Video even went so far as adding a content warning in the description that the animated series isn't for kids, which is only show they've done it for. This most likely is because this is one of their very few original [[AnimationAgeGhetto animated]] shows aimed only at adults, and the first episode may catch unsuspecting parents off guard.
** PlayedForLaughs in the 'Allen the Alien' issues, which always cut away from sex scenes, with Kirkman claiming [[BlatantLies he wants to keep the comic family friendly]]. These same issues tend to contain [[SkewedPriorities some of the most violent battles in the comic, the first having Allen's intestines and eye ripped out]]. It's a ShoutOut to the the old Comics Code, which was very lenient towards violence but extremely conservative in regards to sexual content.

** [[spoiler: A Random Omnipotent Alien gives Mark the chance to [[PeggySue go back in time and undo all of the bad things that have happened to him since the very first issue]]. After ''much'' {{Wangst}}, Mark decides [[StatusQuoIsGod he would rather keep things as they are]] (and the arc ends with the {{Cliffhanger}} that he got ''even more screwed by the universe'' (like, for example, his daughter growing up five years without him). The three-issue arc, called "Reboot", even keeps advertising the ''Invincible'' universe as "so good it ''doesn't'' needs a reboot", so we have a rare case of LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt lampshaded ''right there on the cover''.]]

** [[WellIntentionedExtremist Rudolph Conners]], aka "[[VillainWithGoodPublicity Robot]]", is the leader of the Teen Team. Coming into prominence following Omni-Man's murder of the original Guardians of the Globe, Robot used his ingenuity to accomplish his own goals while defending the Earth from various threats; using the Mauler Twins to rebuild his body only to turn on them afterwards, and instigating a successful slave revolt against the Flaxans while trapped in their dimension. Resentful of Mark for being given credit for helping rebuild after Dinosaurs' final attack while his efforts go unnoticed, and fearing what Mark could become upon witnessing a evil version of Invincible in a [[MirrorUniverse alternate dimension]], Robot sought to unify the world under his banner. Trapping Invincible in the alternate Earth, Robot launches a coup against the Global Defense Agency when Invincible got back and purges of many of Earth's heroes; leading to Robot effectively [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the Earth]]. Under his rule war and poverty almost completely eradicated; his efforts causing any potential resistance against Robot to fizzle out and forcing Invincible to leave Earth. Even after his defeat by Invincible following a fatal error of Robot's, Invincible, seeing that Robot has benefited humanity, preserved his brain to allow Robot to continue guiding humanity from the shadows, but restrained enough to prevent him from seeking absolute power again.
** [[ArchnemesisDad Nolan Grayson]], better known as the superhero "[[BewareTheSuperman Omni-Man]]", presents as the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity greatest hero alive]] while being a spy for the Viltrumite Empire. A successful infiltrator of earth, Nolan lures the Guardians of the Globe into a trap to wipe them out so he might prepare Earth for a Viltrumite takeover. Upon realizing he loves his son Mark too much to kill him for opposing him, Nolan flees, later becoming an enemy of the Viltrumites where he uses his skill, strength and knowledge to assist the Coalition of Planets against his old empire, while telling Mark to use the information in his books against the Viltrumites. Finally ascending to becoming the Emperor of the Viltrumites, Nolan attempts to lead his people into a [[GoldenAge new age of peace and tolerance]].

* ArcFatigue: The "Robot Takes Over The World" arc. In a comic that seemingly prided itself in being fast-paced (to the point that the obligatory CrisisCrossover was ''an issue long''), this arc has (comparatively) dragged on. Doesn't help that Robot is seemingly unstoppable... right up until he makes a critical mistake - [[spoiler: threatening children]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The little-seen but hugely popular Allen the Alien. Kirkman has stated that, in his experience with the fandom, Allen is nearly ''everybody's'' favourite character. He's also Kirkman's favourite character, which is part of the reason why he hardly shows up; Kirkman's well aware that all it takes is a little overexposure to turn the EnsembleDarkhorse into TheScrappy.

* SignatureScene: Some scenes stand out, at least on the internet.
** Mark's brutal beatdown on Conquest.

%%* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Rex Splode.
* ValuesDissonance: Some of the characters using the word "gay" disparagingly. While not inaccurate to how teens talked during the time of its release, the showrunners made it a point to leave that out of the animated adaptation due to it having a more inclusive appeal.

* {{Wangst}}: With good reason for sure but Mark really needs to have someone tell him to get a grip.
** To put it more clearly: As the series progresses, Mark is seen openly weeping with increasing frequency, to the point that it sours the mood of the rest of the comic, making it seem like the author is desperate for any sort of emotional reaction from the audience. By the author's own admission via AuthorAvatar, he didn't really handle the tone shifts as well as he'd hoped.

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Omni-Man is actually a mole sent by the Viltrumites to conquer the planet, and he kills the Guardians of the Globe to soften Earth's defenses. Originally meant to be a massive twist for the second volume of the series, instead it became even more known thanks to the Amazon adaptation making it a FirstEpisodeTwist]]

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Omni-Man is actually a mole sent by the Viltrumites to conquer the planet, and he kills the Guardians of the Globe to soften Earth's defenses.]]

** Heh.jpeg [[labelnote/explanation]] A descriptor for the final page of the series. It is commonly posted to signify that you've finished reading the comic. After the ColbertBump created by the adaptation, it has become very persistent, to the point where it has started to become simplified into various minimalistic forms, similarly to Loss [[/labelnote]]

* {{Wangst}} : With good reason for sure but Mark really needs to have someone tell him to get a grip.

** PlayedForLaughs in the 'Allen the Alien' issues, which always cut away from sex scenes, with Kirkman claiming [[BlatantLies he wants to keep the comic family friendly]]. These same issues tend to contain [[SkewedPriorities some of the most violent battles in the comic, the first having Allen's intestines and eye ripped out]]. It's a ShoutOut to the MoralDissonance of the old Comics Code, which was very lenient towards violence but extremely conservative in regards to sexual content.

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Omni-Man is actually a mole sent by the Viltrumites to conquer the planet, and he kills the Guardians of the Globe to soften Earth's defenses.]]

* AutoTune: Used on "2000 Watts" to make Michael's voice sound lower to fit the instrumental (which was originally demoed by Tyrese Gibson, whose backing vocals are still present on the chorus). It's true that Michael's speaking voice was deeper than his singing voice, but this is at least half an octave below even that and shows the typical artifacts.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** During his initial FaceHeelTurn, Nolan is completely shocked that Mark doesn't want to join him in conquering Earth. This after almost twenty years of raising him as nothing less than a good natured hero, making no attempt to inculcate his son with his race's BlueAndOrangeMorality growing up. Possibly justified in that, even if he didn't realize it yet, his time on Earth had changed him for the better.
** Cecil lying to Mark about Conquest being dead and keeping Conquest imprisoned to gain information from him, after Conquest wakes up from a coma, firmly places him in this territory. It's no surprise when, as soon as he awakens, Conquest breaks loose and flies off into space.

* CreatorsFavorite: Allen the Alien.