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| 6 | !Viltrumites |
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| 8 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 9 | !!In General |
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| 11 | A super-powered race of former pacifists who went through a massive cultural shift, resulting in a civil war that saw most of their population dead and only the strong and vicious alive, who would then become a race of genocidal space conquerors. Tremendously feared and hated across the universe for causing billions of deaths and countless atrocities with their wars of conquest. |
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| 13 | * AchillesHeel: Have a handful that they took great pains to eradicate from the universe. |
| 14 | ** One of the few they can’t circumvent is that their hearing is highly vulnerable to sonic attacks, being debilitated if not killed by them due to how their flight power works, which operate on an internal equilibrium so complex and efficient it doesn’t take much to ruin it when you got the right frequencies. |
| 15 | ** Viltrumite SuperToughness and HealingFactor are absurdly potent, but can be overloaded by sustained bombardment from highly energetic subatomic particles - such as solar plasma - which could pass through and interfere with the subatomic processes which gave Viltrumites their near-invulnerability and regeneration. [[spoiler:Taking advantage of this is partly how Invincible defeated Thragg near the end of the series, taking their fight near the surface of the Sun where sustained exposure to solar plasma wore down their Viltrumite physiology and allows even a Viltrumite as tough as Thragg to be killed]]. |
| 16 | * AllThereInTheManual: The reason why Viltrum and Human genes are such a great match, beyond Viltrumite DNA being immensely adaptive, is not explained in the comic proper; [[spoiler:in the guidebook Kirkman alludes to Humanity and Viltrum having a common ancestor in an ancient alien race]]. |
| 17 | * TheBerserker: When Anissa first tries to reason with Mark to make him accept the presence of Viltrumites on Earth, she says Viltrumites and humans aren't that culturally different at the end of the day, but she does come clean about the fact Viltrumites are much more prone to anger and desire for conflict than a regular human would, labeling her own race as being inherently built to desire combat. That’s how easy it was for them to round up the more peaceful Viltrumites and kill them off during their civil war. |
| 18 | * DominantSpeciesGenes: While they can interbreed with a wide variety of species, their features are dominant. This is naturally imperceptible with humans, but hybrids with InsectoidAliens only have purple skin to show their mixed heritage, and even that fades as they age to a color within the average human range. |
| 19 | * DyingRace: [[spoiler:#66 reveals that the Viltrumites are driven to near extinction by the Scourge Virus, a biological weapon developed by the Coalition of Planets. Many perished or were temporarily deprived of their powers, with 99% of their population lost and less than fifty full-blooded Viltrumites alive. As a result, bans on crossbreeding with other conquered races were lifted to replenish their numbers with mixed results. Nolan's original mission to Earth was to turn it into a breeding camp after learning that human DNA is almost compatible with Viltrumites]]. |
| 20 | * EmotionSuppression: It's clear that the Viltrumites potentially have as expansive an emotional range as humans do, but they suppress any feelings like pity, mercy, or empathy. This is intentional, to make their atrocities more bearable and as a self-defense mechanism lest their peers turn on them for displaying "weakness". Epitomized by Thragg, who literally has to have the feeling of love explained to him by his underlings. |
| 21 | * TheEmpire: The Viltrum Empire. |
| 22 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 23 | ** Viltrumites are based on Kryptonians from DC comics, the alien species of Superman, and thus have their standard FlyingBrick powers (see below) minus the heightened senses and heat vision. |
| 24 | ** While aesthetically based off of Kryptonians, they have a lot more in common with the Saiyans from the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise; a race of [[SuperStrength Super-Strong]], flying {{Human Aliens}} predisposed towards violence who are sent to planets (one Viltrumite each) to enslave and/or destroy its native inhabitants for their race's interests [[spoiler:and are [[DyingRace endangered]] as a direct result of their MightMakesRight warmongering, their remaining members having either had a HeelFaceTurn and started breeding with humans or are killed by more heroic members of their race.]] |
| 25 | * FlyingBrick: An entire race of them with such potency they became galactic scourges that conquered thousands of worlds with next to no equal. The exact scale of their powers isn’t consistent, as it takes till their twenties for their powers to reach their peak, with many of them still being leagues weaker than others... but often still light years stronger, faster, and tougher than 99% of the entire universe. |
| 26 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After integrating into human society, many of them begin to view Earth as their new home and ultimately help Mark and Omni-Man repel Thragg's new regime.]] |
| 27 | * HumanAliens: Are near identical to humans on a genetic and superficial level, with the only real differences you’d notice on a physical level being that all Viltrumites have shades of black hair until they reach old age and have naturally muscular body structures. In terms of psychology they are this as well, with any differences being mostly cultural, leaving the one real difference between them and humans: a greater sense of aggression and violence. |
| 28 | * HumanityIsInfectious: [[spoiler:When they are ordered to integrate into human society in order to find partners and repopulate their race, many of them end up changing from bloodthirsty conquerors to empathetic people after being exposed to actual love for the first time in their long lives. For many of them, this happens surprisingly quickly.]] |
| 29 | * HybridPower: Viltrumites can create offspring with many other alien species as their genes are extremely adaptive. Depending on the parent species, some hybrids (like Mark) can grow to become as powerful as a full-blooded Viltrumite. |
| 30 | * {{Irony}}: At the start of the series, Nolan tries portraying the Viltrumites as AlwaysLawfulGood to an impressionable young Mark, hiding the fact that they instead enslave "lesser" lifeforms [[WhiteMansBurden under the pretense of uplifting them]]. [[spoiler:By the very end of the series, the Viltrumites have since become the egalitarians his father described them as after Mark becomes the new Emperor.]] |
| 31 | * LongLivedRace: Exaggerated. The Viltrumites are capable of becoming stronger from training and their absurd life span. They are capable of living for thousands of years and outlive many different kinds of aliens. |
| 32 | * LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:Their later efforts to blend in human society manages to change the once vicious conquerors into empathic people by finding human partners who showed them what real love is; Lucan even tells Thragg there's something more to how humanity form couples compared to the Viltrumite way. It’s the perfect foundation for Mark to successfully make the Viltrumite race into a peaceful empire once he becomes their emperor]]. |
| 33 | * ManlyFacialHair: Their culture seems to favor mustaches as the standard fashion for all Viltrumite males, the ones that do not have mustaches are glaring exceptions. [[spoiler:When Mark becomes the emperor by the end of the series he actually needs to justify why he prefers to go clean shaven, reasoning that the era of pacific Viltrumites goes in hand with a clean shaven emperor, as the previous war monger emperor Thragg had the most impressive mustache of all]]. |
| 34 | * MightMakesRight: They are such firm believers of this ideal that when the likes of Lucan and Kregg first fight against Mark, they don’t care about Mark being clearly against everything Viltrum stands for, they only saw the fact Mark was actually strong enough to survive their combined assault so in their minds Mark proved himself as a viltrumite, regardless of him not caring about any of that; in their eyes Mark would follow their rule given time, or die resisting. |
| 35 | * ProudWarriorRace: Very much so. They venerate and love violence, having an incredibly engrained capacity for it on a genetic level that steered them to completely rebuild their society into one of conquest and violence. Many can overcome this urge with age and positive feedback, but the itch always exists and next to no examples exist of them not relishing combat and bloodshed on some level. |
| 36 | * PunnyName: The philtrum is the groove on the face between the nose and the mouth, vertically delineating the area where a mustache grows. |
| 37 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Pure-blooded Viltrumites and half-human hybrids can live for thousands of years and not look it at all. |
| 38 | * TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: How Viltrumites see every non-Viltrumite. They believe that the galaxy is their play thing to build up as they see fit, and other species are merely breeding stock that they use to propagate themselves. Much of this superiority complex comes from their belief that short lives have less value than longer ones. Since Viltrumites are close to immortal, the [[WeAreAsMayflies brief lives]] of humans and other species make them unworthy candidates for forming emotional attachments. |
| 39 | * TheSocialDarwinist: Built an entire culture around this mindset that saw most of their weaker and peace loving counterparts dead (which was most of their race). They venerate strength and purity, seeing any weakness or betrayal of their new culture as grounds for immediate execution no matter who or how young they may be (with Viltrumites even getting medals for killing the weak). With those considered “worthy” of being a Viltrumite being measured by their strength and capacity for violence (the greater the capacity, the greater the station). However, this is not a species mindset, as their general psychology is next to identical to a human (with just a lot more built in aggression and violence), so any of them can be broken off this given enough time and exposure to outside influences. |
| 40 | * StrongerWithAge: Downplayed. 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. As such, it’s very rare for a young Viltrumite to be stronger than an older one. |
| 41 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: Their DNA is powerfully self repairing and can adapt to hybridize with seemingly any species, but gradually rewrites itself so that the resulting hybrid's genome is [[UnevenHybrid majorily Viltrumite]]. |
| 42 | * TechnologyUplift: Standard procedure for any race they conquer and the justification they use to paint their centuries of conquest in a better light for themselves and prospect targets. To their credit they do their best to help create a paradise for those who go along with their takeovers willingly until they strip the planet bare... but utterly decimate and commit near planetary genocide on those who even slightly resist. |
| 43 | * VestigialEmpire: [[spoiler:The Viltrum Empire is in a very weakened state as 99% of their population were killed off by the Scourge virus. The Viltrumites covered up the deaths caused by the virus and keep up empty threats to the Coalition of Planets]]. |
| 44 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Viltrumites like Anissa and Nolan claimed that planets would be turned into utopias under Viltrumite rule. While it's true on their part until they stripped the planets' resources bare as mentioned above, others like Conquest relished in violent annexation for their enjoyment. |
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| 47 | [[folder:Grand Regent Thragg]] |
| 48 | !!Grand Regent Thragg |
| 49 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_473.png]] |
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| 51 | Grand Regent of the Viltrumites, Thragg was trained from birth to be the strongest among them. |
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| 53 | * AbusiveParents: He uses his children as cannon fodder -- sometimes quite literally throwing them at Mark. This comes back to bite him in the ass. When it becomes clear that Mark (the enemy) cares more about Thragg's kids than he does, the kids quickly turn their backs on their father. |
| 54 | * TheAce: A villainous example. Thragg is the strongest Viltrumite in the entire series, trained from birth to be the strongest of all. He's so strong he can fight several Rognarrs (one of the few creatures in the universe that present a threat to a Viltrumite) by himself and win without trouble. The only characters that come even near his level of strength are Nolan, Battle Beast, Allen and Mark. |
| 55 | * AggressiveNegotiations: [[spoiler: Thragg pretty much forces Mark to accept his deal to keep the Viltrumites on Earth to interbreed and pull their ranks back up until it would be time to conquer it. Mark is extremely displeased, but he didn't have much of a choice--he knew that he didn't stand a chance against Thragg at that moment, and with the remaining Viltrumites already blending in amongst humanity all around the world, each of whom is a PersonOfMassDestruction that can ''casually'' cause untold casualties, there was no way to avoid planetary disaster except giving in.]] |
| 56 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As powerful as Omni-Man is, Thragg is on a whole different level. Nolan gets completely outclassed in all of their confrontations and has to rely on outside help just to stand a chance, [[spoiler: and even then it's not enough to save him in their final battle]]. |
| 57 | * ArchEnemy: To both Invincible and Omni-Man. |
| 58 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Was raised to meet this expectation. He is easily the Viltrumites' greatest fighter, and his position reflects his power is that he is TheDreaded to everyone. |
| 59 | * AxCrazy: For Thragg, killing's as fundamental as breathing. The man should be the ruler of his own padded cell instead of an entire planet. |
| 60 | * BadBoss: In contrast to TheGoodKing Omni-Man and Invincible, he has no tolerance for failure and little patience for those who don't commit to their assignments. |
| 61 | * BeastOfBattle: In the final battle, he enters the fray with two Rognarrs as bodyguards. They end up being the most dangerous threat apart from Thragg himself, [[spoiler:killing Anissa and nearly Atom Eve as well.]] |
| 62 | * BerserkerTears: [[spoiler:Briefly, when Viltrum is destroyed]]. |
| 63 | * BigBad: Of the entire series. Thragg is the key reason why the Viltrumites are the way that they are, and doesn't take well to losing his position of power. |
| 64 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Shares this position with Robot, though Thragg is by far the more dangerous and evil of the two.]] |
| 65 | * ChildSoldiers: Raised his half-Thraxan children as this and was one himself, being born and bred to be the strongest Viltrumite their race had ever seen. |
| 66 | * CurbStompBattle: In almost every fight he takes part in, he wins while taking no damage. More often than not, his enemies injure themselves by hitting him. |
| 67 | ** Invincible and Omni-Man are completely outclassed by Thraag when they first face him, the latter shattering his hand punching Thraag. They only survive because Thraag spares them. |
| 68 | ** When he's attacked by [[spoiler:Dinosaurus, who's trying to save Mark, Dinosaurus can't do a single bit of damage to Thragg and injures himself trying to maul the Viltrumite. Thragg, on the other hand, really lets Dinosaurus have it.]] |
| 69 | ** When he comes to kill Mark to get revenge for destroying Viltrum, [[spoiler: he kills Oliver and nearly kills Mark and Eve while not taking a scratch on him.]] |
| 70 | ** Omni-Man is as outclassed as ever in the final fight with Thraag [[spoiler: and dies from the wounds Thraag inflicts on him.]] |
| 71 | ** Subverted in his fight with [[spoiler:Battle Beast]], who proved to be the only being in the universe he couldn't immediately kill, [[spoiler:with their brawl taking over ''several days'' and Thokk coming very close to winning. Had Battle Beast not [[WorfHadTheFlu intentionally injured himself]] to [[HonorBeforeReason make the fight "fair"]], it's quite possible that Thragg would've lost.]] |
| 72 | * DeadpanSnarker: Serious most of the time, but Thragg admits he has a sense of humor when "[[SingleStrokeBattle fighting]]" Oliver. |
| 73 | -->'''Thragg:''' (stops Oliver's punch) You are a funny one, I gather. Always cracking jokes. Very good. I enjoy a good joke, myself. Stop me if you've heard this one... (rips off Oliver's arm and knocks his jaw off with a single punch)\ |
| 74 | '''Thragg:''' (tossing away Oliver's mangled arm) Seemed like such a nice boy... |
| 75 | * TheDreaded: All of the remaining Viltrumites are terrified of Thragg with even the battle-hungry Conquest cowering in fear in front of him and Omni-Man himself cautiously warning Mark against facing him. He swiftly lives up to the reputation once he starts fighting. The fact he even managed [[spoiler:to kill Battle Beast made him even more feared through the verse]]. |
| 76 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: He indulges in this trope after he's deposed as leader of the Viltrumites for not being of the royal bloodline and the true heir, swearing vengeance against the remainder of his kind for deposing him despite his supposed dedication to preserving their race and culture for thousands of years. |
| 77 | * EnemyMine: Is willing to team up with Mark or Nolan to prevent the end of the Viltrumite race. |
| 78 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being an insane and genocidal warmonger, he seemed to love Viltrum and his people, and believed the only way for them to survive was under his rule... [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Up until he was rejected by the Viltrumites]], who decided to follow in Nolan's footsteps and live in peaceful coexistence with humans; at this point he doesn't care about anything other than revenge, even if it means killing off the remainder of the pure-blooded Viltrumite populace because of his bruised ego. While he ''seemingly'' loved his twin children, Onaan and Ursaal (he was outraged when Mark killed Onaan and threw his corpse at him, and he hugged Ursaal when she mourned his death) it wasn't unconditional love, as he just barely finds it in himself to restrain his anger and return Ursaal's hug. His later claim that all weak Viltrumites deserve to die implies Onaan's death did not faze him at all]]. |
| 79 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's baffled by Battle Beast's BloodKnight tendencies, pointing out that what he does is for the good of Viltrum rather than to satiate his blood lust. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope He ends up subverting this]] when the Viltrumites strip him of his status as Regent, at which point he dedicates himself to revenge]]. |
| 80 | * EvilCounterpart: To both Invincible and Omni-Man, especially to the latter. While Nolan represents Viltrum's potential to change for the better, Thragg represents the worst aspects of Viltrumite culture that continues to stick to the old ways of conquest and slaughter. This is highlighted by the way [[spoiler:they both rule Thraxa. Nolan's rule was largely benevolent and managed to start a small but loving family. Thragg, on the other hand, turned the planet into a BabyFactory where his children are to serve as CannonFodder.]] |
| 81 | * EvilIsPetty: And how. [[spoiler:After being removed from his status as Regent due to Nolan's more legitimate claim, he has started a war against his own people with an army of children he sired. When Mark finds out the reason, he thinks Thragg is pathetic and alone]]. |
| 82 | * {{Expy}}: Of Superman villain General Zod. |
| 83 | * EyeScream: Suffers this during his battle with Battle Beast, who bites into his face. |
| 84 | * FatalFlaw: Thragg is the strongest Viltrumite alive, but that's really ''all'' that he is. He's not smarter, or wiser or any more fit to lead beyond his overwhelming power, and he lacks both [[LackOfEmpathy empathy]] and imagination so he isn't really capable of adapting to anything outside of his very narrow view of the universe...and he thinks that if he can't adapt to the universe, then the universe must adapt to ''him'' instead. In short, Thragg thinks MightMakesRight because "might" is the only thing he has going for him to begin with. |
| 85 | * FreddieMercopy: He's basically what '80s Freddie Mercury would look like if he took steroids. |
| 86 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The mastermind behind the Viltrumite Empire’s plans, sending Omni-Man to Earth and later Conquest before becoming more active himself over the course of the series. |
| 87 | * HairTriggerTemper: To [[AxCrazy absolutely insane levels]]. Any meager slight, inconvenience or challenge to his authority is immediately met with bloodshed. Even when being diplomatic, it's common for him to mention how low his patience is running. |
| 88 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He has killed Thadeus, Battle Beast, Oliver, and Nolan by the end of the story. He would have also killed Mark were it not for Eve's powers kicking in]]. |
| 89 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Despite presenting himself as better than Battle Beast due to fighting for Viltrum rather than his own bloodlust, he’s all too eager to try and destroy his own people after they spurn his rule. |
| 90 | * HurlItIntoTheSun: [[spoiler:Mark hurls himself and Thragg into the sun to render Thragg vulnerable. Robot sending one of his suits to protect Mark grants him a few crucial seconds of protection from the searing heat that Thragg lacks (which neatly illustrates the difference between them -- Mark's enemy is willing to help him while Thragg is alone). After Mark finishes the battle by tearing out Thragg's throat with his teeth, the dying Thragg sinks helplessly into the sun and burns up into nothing]]. |
| 91 | * InvincibleVillain: As the strongest Viltrumite, Thragg runs through various fighters in the series with ease. The first fight he lost was because he was being ganged up on by 4 other Viltrumites. [[spoiler: In the end Mark didn't defeat him by overpowering him but rather by forcing him to fight in the sun where he would slowly but surely burn to death.]] |
| 92 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being bred and raised to become the strongest Viltrumite, [[spoiler:Thragg's offspring are extremely weak and fragile by Viltrumite standards, with many of them literally smashing their bodies apart when colliding into Omni-Man.]] |
| 93 | * TheJuggernaut: Viltrumites are all but unstoppable. Thraag is to other Viltrumites what they are to other beings. It is not until very late in the series that someone even makes him bleed. |
| 94 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Simply killing Battle Beast wasn't enough; he skins his hide and ''wears it as a cape'' like some sick trophy for himself. It's made worse by the fact that he wears Battle Beast's pelt right in front of his own people when he conquers their planet]]. |
| 95 | * LackOfEmpathy: Perhaps his greatest flaw besides his self-centeredness is his complete lack of empathy for others. His little understanding or care for other people's feelings leads him to underestimate them and fail in his objectives each time. |
| 96 | * MotiveDecay: He went from wanting to conquer other planets and protect his people regardless of the cost, to wanting revenge on Mark, everyone he loves, and the Viltrumites, the same people he wanted to rule over and was committed to preserving. |
| 97 | * {{Narcissist}}: At his core, he wants to be the leader of the Viltrumites, and if he's not ([[spoiler:which happens]]), he calls UngratefulBastard on all of them and tries to kill them all despite his supposed dedication to preserving their race and culture; or, if we're being charitable, Thragg can't distinguish between Vitrumite culture and himself, so while he ''might'' be willing to stand aside for another leader, this is conditional on Thragg being given the respect he feels he deserves for being the leader for thousands of years, and on his replacement being committed to continuing the Viltrumite way- hence, in his mind, it's not that ''he'' betrayed the Viltrumites, it's that the Viltrumites betrayed ''him'' and themselves. |
| 98 | * NemeanSkinning: [[spoiler:Takes to wearing Battle Beast's pelt as a regal cape after their battle]]. |
| 99 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: After Viltrum is destroyed, he arranges to have the surviving Viltrumites live on Earth (on the condition that they won't destroy Earth or interfere in human affairs) for the time being so they can repopulate, and then continue their conquest once they have sufficient numbers. What he fails to anticipate is that, like Nolan, most of them [[HumanityIsInfectious rapidly become less violent and evil after even a short time living on Earth]] [[LoveRedeems and experiencing positive relationships]]. By the time Thragg is deposed and Nolan takes over, most Viltrumites have lost interest in violent conquest and actually want to be a positive force in the universe. |
| 100 | * NighInvulnerable: Even for a Viltrumite. Most Viltrumites simply shrug off attacks from other enemies. Thraag is so durable that hitting him typically results in his enemy shattering their hand. |
| 101 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Thragg has some superficial resemblance to General Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, in that both are moustachioed semi-Fascist types who rule as Regent in place of an absent King; Thragg is even introducing sporting the exact same type of fur-coated cape that Franco was know to wear. That being said, Thraggs' overall philosophy of MightMakesRight and genocidal SocialDarwinist beliefs otherwise makes him closer to a muscular, superpowered Space Hitler. |
| 102 | * NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: [[spoiler: While Thraag appears indestructible for most of the series, his near death from fighting Battle Beast shows that he can be killed. Invincible later manages to kill him in the FinalBattle by taking the fight into the sun.]] |
| 103 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Despite his preaching about how everything he does is to preserve his race and culture, the fact that he's willing to turn on his fellow Viltrumites the moment they reject his rule proves that he's only interested in preserving his position as top dog. |
| 104 | * TheParagon: In order to be made Regent, Thragg was trained from birth, tempered to be the strongest of the Viltrumites and educated in all manners of combat, being a paragon of the social Darwinist mindset of his people. |
| 105 | * PetTheDog: He treats the Thraxan mothers of his children surprisingly well, showing no hints of disdain or anger around them, even allowing them to take the children out to play in the meadows when they were supposed to be on the run from Coalition of Planets. However, his kindness is ultimately insincere, given his ominous goals. |
| 106 | * PragmaticVillainy: Although he is still a PsychopathicManchild at his most reasonable, he did listen to Omni-Man and Invincible’s warnings on how to proceed in day to day life on Earth. He’s also willing to listen to a lesser being, as long as said lesser being gives out good advice. Make no mistake Thragg cares for no one but himself, but who will he have to rule over if he doesn't abide by native customs, nor have any competent servants who know what they will do if he blunders? |
| 107 | * PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: After being overthrown,]] Thragg is really nothing more than a pathetic overgrown child throwing a genocidal temper tantrum over not getting what he wants. |
| 108 | * PyrrhicVictory: He defeats and kills [[spoiler: Battle Beast]] after a long, grueling fight spanning several days, but is so drained he faints after the ordeal. |
| 109 | * QuantityVsQuality: [[spoiler:His army of offspring numbers in the thousands, but apart from Onaan and Ursaal, they tend to fare very poorly in battle. This is likely due to Thragg never investing much effort in training them to be anything more than literal CannonFodder, as well as them barely reaching maturity as Oliver did.]] |
| 110 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: At some point, [[spoiler:he forcibly breeds with every women on a whole planet to make offspring, all to form a new army.]] |
| 111 | * ReallyGetsAround: After getting exiled from Earth and its moon, Thragg makes himself at home on Thraxa, siring dozens if not hundreds of children. [[spoiler:Actually around a thousand or more]]. |
| 112 | * RedIsViolent: He has quite a lot of red on his costumes, particularly his cape, and he's possibly one of the most brutal and evil villains in the series. |
| 113 | * RevengeBeforeReason: The whole point of his war on his ''own people''! He essentially abandoned his commitment to saving his race and culture no matter the costs in favor of killing them all out of spite. |
| 114 | * TheSocialDarwinist: He is the pinnacle of his culture's belief in this. He believes that only the strongest of the Viltrumites can rule, unaware that the ruler he succeeded was revered for his leadership rather than strength; his inability to accept this is the greatest motivator for him to betray his own race. |
| 115 | * SoreLoser: [[spoiler: He takes losing his Grand Regent title to Nolan ''extremely'' poorly, so much so, that he tries to murder him on the spot.]] |
| 116 | * StrongAndSkilled: He is not only physically stronger than just about all Viltrumites, he's easily one of their most skilled, being a master of combat with next to no equal.[[spoiler:The only way Mark could defeat him for good was through a battle of attrition in the middle of Earth's Sun, as they both slowly burned to crisp while exchanging punches until Mark could deliver a crippling blow before being taken to safety by Allen, while Thragg disintegrated]]. |
| 117 | * TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He is the last significant antagonist of the series next to Robot. After he's killed, things mellow out]]. |
| 118 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 119 | ** [[spoiler:After watching Viltrum get destroyed, a heartbroken and enraged Thragg beats Mark to a pulp while raging that what Invincible and the other Viltrumite traitors have done is worse than anything Thragg and his followers have done; how much of a point he ''has'' mind depends on whether you consider destroying someone's planet worse than being the overlord of an expansionist space empire that routinely engages in mass murder]]. |
| 120 | ** Viltrumites believe that they deserve to rule and plunder the universe at their leisure [[MightMakesRight because they are stronger than everybody else]] - as such, Thragg is justified in disregarding his orders to find and submit to the son of Argall since that son is weaker than him and those orders were in tension with his cultural norms from the outset. Thragg represents the logical conclusion of Viltrumite beliefs, and arguably his only real hypocrisy is on continuing to call himself a "regent" rather than just publicly admitting that he doesn't care about what anyone else thinks on the matter and making himself the new King. |
| 121 | * WeHaveReserves: He has scores of his own children slaughter themselves on Mark by crushing themselves on him. |
| 122 | * WorldsStrongestMan: The strongest Viltrumite, who are already some of the most powerful beings in the known universe. Thragg is far out of most characters' league. Omni-Man (who was the WorldsStrongestMan on Earth) admits that him and Invincible combined against him is a HopelessBossFight. |
| 123 | * WouldHurtAChild: With gusto. He maimed the teenage Oliver with the intent to kill and Thragg's first act after raising his army was attacking Mark and trying to crush little Terra's skull like a grape. |
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| 126 | [[folder:Conquest]] |
| 127 | !!Conquest |
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| 130 | Second strongest of the Viltrumites. He is sent to Earth to check on Mark's progress of conquering the Earth. |
| 131 | ---- |
| 132 | * AlasPoorVillain: His on-panel actions depict him as little more than a blood-thirsty brute who loves to kill and maim anyone Thragg unleashes him upon. Nolan still gives him a funeral after Mark finally kills him, stating that Conquest was indeed a great warrior who lost his way and at least deserves the dignity of a proper burial despite his actions. |
| 133 | * AnArmAndALeg: A Rognarr ate his right arm. He gets a replacement and eventually loses that one, too. |
| 134 | * ArtificialLimbs: Conquest replaced his lost arm with a mechanical prosthetic. It gets ruined in a fight with Invincible and he replaces it again after escaping prison and returning to the Empire. |
| 135 | * AxCrazy: '''''By God.''''' Even by the standards of the other Viltrumites, Conquest is a sadistic, savage maniac, with ''only'' [[BigBad Thragg]] being worse than him. |
| 136 | * BadassBoast: As expected of an old warrior, just about ''everything'' he says is this. Even him doing something as simple as ''introducing himself'' sounds like a Badass Boast: |
| 137 | --> "Maybe you do not understand the situation. The Viltrum Empire anticipated your resistance-- [[GodzillaThreshold That is why they sent]] ''[[GodzillaThreshold me,]]'' [[GodzillaThreshold specifically.]] ''[[MyNameIsInigoMontoya I am]]'' '''''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Conquest.]]''''' I have never failed to assimilate a chosen planet, no matter its strength. If you choose to oppose me, ''you will'' '''''not''''' ''survive.''" |
| 138 | * BloodKnight: He doesn't care about expanding the Viltrumite Empire like other Viltrumites. He just wants to fight and relishes any chance to do so. |
| 139 | -->"The truth is, I want you (Mark) to resist. I'm not here because I want to spread the Viltrum Empire. I'm not here because I believe in one cause or the other, or that I'm fulfilling some kind of honorable duty. I'm here because I '''enjoy''' this." |
| 140 | * BloodSplatteredWarrior: Exaggerated: Conquest is doused in the blood of Invincible and Eve during his first fight with the former, giving him an absolutely nightmarish face when he gloats [[EvilGloating to Invincible.]] Conquest even licks Atom Eve's own blood and says it's delicious. |
| 141 | * TheBrute: Thragg made it abundantly clear that his raison d’etre is to fight and kill any threats to the Viltrumites. Thus he serves as the strongest guard dog the Viltrumites have, and typically acts as an expendable brute. |
| 142 | * CardBoardPrison: Despite being put inside a 400-ton underground prison at the middle of the desert, Conquest was able to easily break out the moment he is fully healed. |
| 143 | * CombatBreakdown: During his first fight against Invincible, the battle becomes so desperate that the both of them start to fight like savage animals to emerge as the victor. Invincible starts to use his teeth, head, and is even willing to shatter his own arm just to destroy Conquest's own [[ArtificialLimbs artificial arm]]. |
| 144 | * CombatSadomasochist: He definitely loves the thrill of fighting and goading Mark into combating him. [[spoiler: Even when Mark beats him to a pulp, he was still smiling out of satisfaction.]] |
| 145 | * CoDragons: With Kregg to Thragg. |
| 146 | * TheDragon: Acts as chief enforcer on behalf of Thragg and the Viltrum Empire. |
| 147 | * TheDreaded: Is this even among his fellow Viltrumites, to the point that they briefly stop fighting upon hearing that Mark killed him. |
| 148 | * EvilGloating: While Invincible mourns for a dying Atom Eve, Conquest “thanks” Mark in the most insulting way possible; for defying the Viltrumite Empire and giving him the excuse to go crazy in destroying the Earth. |
| 149 | * EvilIsBigger: He's a large, imposing Viltrumite who towers above Mark in every way. |
| 150 | * EvilLaugh: Conquest just laughs when Invincible swears to kill him. |
| 151 | * EvilOldFolks: He's a legendary fighter among the Viltrumites, and because Viltrumites age slower the older they get, the amount of battles he must have been in is terrifying. |
| 152 | * FaceHeelTurn: According to Nolan, Conquest was a great warrior who lost his way, implying that he wasn't that evil before. |
| 153 | * FacialHorror: At the end of the first fight with him, he manages to break Invincible's arms and one of his legs. As a last desperate attack, Invincible headbutts him multiple times until Conquest's face is horribly disfigured. |
| 154 | * FanDisservice: When Conquest is [[spoiler: [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind blasted in the back by Atom Eve in her full powered state,]]]] he gets both his clothes (showing off a lot of his muscles) and skin burnt off. |
| 155 | * FakingTheDead: Cecil makes a fake body of Conquest to trick Invincible into thinking he’s dead. In reality, he had Conquest is locked up inside a prison under a desert where he could be interrogated for information on the Viltrumite Empire. |
| 156 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Downplayed. He's quite polite to Mark throughout the fight, every now and then, calmly talking to him and explaining his reasons to be on Earth... while brutally beating Mark and some of his family members. |
| 157 | * FlayingAlive: Downplayed. [[spoiler:[[ConvenientlyTimedAttackfromBehind He gets blasted from behind]] by [[DefenceMechanismSuperpower Atom Eve after she healed herself]], burning off a chunk of his skin.]] |
| 158 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Conquest is such a violent brute that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the other Viltrumites cannot stand him.]] [[spoiler: When Invincible faces Conquest a second time, the other Viltrumites hope the fight ends with both of them dead.]] |
| 159 | * GodzillaThreshold: He is essentially this to the Viltrumite Empire. He is ''the'' greatest active warrior in their army, who ''always'' conquers every planet he's assigned to. [[spoiler: And yet his status as one of the few remaining pure-blooded Viltrumites left in the universe make his continued existence especially sacred to the Empire.]] Him being sent to Earth is explicitly because the Viltrumite Empire anticipated that Invincible would resist, and consider that possibility enough of a threat that they refused to send ''anything'' '''''less''''' ''than Conquest to stand in opposition.'' |
| 160 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Cecil fakes Conquest's death by showing Invincible a fake body, and locking the real Conquest inside a prison several miles beneath a desert. Cecil planned on interrogating Conquest to gain knowledge about the Viltrumite Empire, but it goes horribly wrong. [[IdiotBall Cecil genuinely thought]] that a [[CardBoardPrison 400-ton underground prison would hold]] [[ImplacableMan a Viltrumite who nearly]] [[CurbStompBattle killed Invincible]], who is [[NormalFishInATinyPond considered to be the strongest superhero on Earth.]] |
| 161 | * GuttedLikeAFish: In his second fight against Invincible, Conquest sharpens his hand and punches Invincible's stomach so hard that a huge hole is made. Then Conquest shoves his metallic hand inside it to crush Invincible's intestines. |
| 162 | * HiddenDepths: Conquest is actually a brute with plenty of composure. His love for fighting and carnage is genuine to the point of him openly showing disdain for feelings of anger, wrath and the like, as he reprimanded Mark for trying to overcome him with rage; he is a monster, but one that wants to be in control of what he does. |
| 163 | * ImplacableMan: Easily one of Invincible's most powerful foes and seen as virtually unstoppable, pushing Mark to use the most ''brutal'' fighting methods to keep up against him along with some assistance. |
| 164 | * KillerBearHug: Conquest attempts to restrain Invincible's attacks by bear hugging him. Invincible breaks out of the hug by biting his shoulder off. |
| 165 | * MotiveRant: Gives one to Mark after ''almost'' killing Atom Eve. |
| 166 | -->'''Conquest:''' "I should do this now-- don't know when I'll get the chance again. I want to ''[[VillainRespect thank]]'' you Mark Grayson...Invincible. '''Really.''' [[HiddenDepths From the bottom of my heart]]. It's not very often that I get to cut loose like this. I mean '''''really''''' cut loose like I have here. Usually, there are so many mission parameters. ''[[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "Don't destroy this.'' "Keep this person alive."]]'' But not here-- not with ''this'' planet. For some reason, I don't really care why, to be honest, I was told-- take control, no matter what it takes...take control of the planet. So whatever you did to piss us off-- '''''Thank you.''''' ''This has been'' '''''fun.''''' |
| 167 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is '''''Conquest''''', and he more than lives up to his name; being a violent, sadistic BloodKnight who never failed to conquer a world before he met Invincible. He's also able to seriously injure Mark, Oliver, and Atom Eve. And according to Cecil, there are probably only six heroes on the planet who could last more than a ''minute'' against him. |
| 168 | * NeverFoundTheBody: Invincible attempts to defy the trope to make sure that Conquest is dead, but is instead shown a fake body of Conquest by Cecil Stedman. Cecil [[FakingTheDead instead fakes Conquest's death in order to use the latter to learn more about the Viltrumite Empire.]] |
| 169 | * NotInThisForYourRevolution: During his first fight against Invincible, Conquest makes it clear that he does not fight for the [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Viltrumite Empire]], [[NobleDemon honor]], or a [[WellIntentionedExtremist cause]], but because [[BloodKnight he enjoys]] [[{{Sadist}} killing his enemies]]. |
| 170 | * NotQuiteDead: He is seemingly killed by the ''many'' headbutts he received from Invincible. However, Conquest manages to survive the attack due to being locked up inside a CardBoardPrison by Cecil, with the intention of interrogation. |
| 171 | * OldSoldier: Similar to Thaedus, he is very old soldier, though the similarities stop there. He's even considered very old for a Viltrumite, who live for ''thousands and thousands'' of years, and the fact that he's lived so long in ''[[TheSocialDarwinist their]]'' ''[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy culture]]'' should tell you all you need to know about how terrifying a warrior he is. |
| 172 | * PunchedAcrossTheRoom: He delivers many punches that send Invincible flying through many buildings before the latter crashes on the ground. |
| 173 | * {{Sadist}}: Unlike the rest of his species, Conquest has proven himself to be one of, if not ''the'' most, sadistic viltrumite on planet Viltrum. As soon as Conquest fights Mark, he often smirks at the superhero and tells Mark how idiotic it is to beg for mercy in his eyes. After skewering Atom Eve, he mocks Invincible for trying to love a human and tells Mark to hurry up with any remaining feeling he has for Eve as she’s dying. Conquest even thanks him for resisting the Viltrum Empire and giving him the chance to go wild, showcasing a terrifying NightmareFace. |
| 174 | * SlasherSmile: He holds a [[NightmareFace nightmarish smile]] when he gives his “thank you” speech to Invincible. |
| 175 | * SmugSnake: Implied. Conquest doesn't take either of his fights with Invincible seriously until the very end. Omni-Man explains that he won so many battles that he acts more like a spectator rather than a fighter. This ends up being his undoing in their final battle, as it allows Invincible to get the drop on him via adrenaline and by then, it is too late. |
| 176 | * TorsoWithAView: When Atom Eve arrives in his battle against Invincible, Conquest immediately impales her with his own hand. He does the same to Mark in their rematch in almost the same manner. |
| 177 | * ToServeMan: He threatens to eat Oliver and Mark's hearts once their fight is over, and he licks Eve's blood off his fingers, commenting that he finds it "Delicious." |
| 178 | * UndyingLoyalty: Most of Conquest's loyalty towards Thragg mainly leans towards fear rather than care. |
| 179 | * VictoryByEndurance: In his second fight against Invincible, Mark strangles him to death while enduring Conquest rupturing his rips, punching though his torso and ''yanking his guts out''. |
| 180 | * VillainRespect: Develops some towards Mark in their fight. When Mark destroys his robotic hand in their PunchParry, an impressed Conquest muses that they’re finally getting somewhere. |
| 181 | * VillainousValour: As Invincible asks him if he’s given up fighting him after a headbutt. Conquest replies that he "takes the good with the bad", so Invincible gives him several more headbutts until Conquest’s face [[FacialHorror is caved in]]. In their second fight, Conquest still refuses to give up fighting even when Invincible is choking him. He even goes as far as to drive his own robotic hand into Invincible's guts before he ultimately dies from lack of air. |
| 182 | * WorfHadTheFlu: The Scourge virus weakened him, so the Rognarrs were able to maul him and take his eye and arm. |
| 183 | * WouldHurtAChild: He is more than eager to try and murder Oliver. |
| 184 | * WouldHitAGirl: He had no hesitation [[spoiler: impaling Atom Eve and throwing her on the ground in front of Mark.]] |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Anissa]] |
| 188 | !!Anissa |
| 189 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_98325.jpeg]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | Anissa is a female Viltrumite warrior and among the last remaining survivors. |
| 192 | ---- |
| 193 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: She became more interested in Mark after [[spoiler:raping him]]. He, by contrast, hates being around her. She eventually gets over it when she falls in love with a human. |
| 194 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She possesses dark hair, is a member of the same FlyingBrick race as the main hero, and has the role of being the DarkActionGirl who can be downright ruthless and evil. As far as counterparts go, she fulfills a similar role in ''Invincible'' that Ursa or Faora Hu-Ul play in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' mythos. The only major difference is that she isn't in a relationship with the Zod {{Expy}} and she eventually [[spoiler: redeems herself, giving up her ANaziByAnyOtherName mentality, and dies trying to protect Mark]]. |
| 195 | * ArtEvolution: In her earlier appearances, she was drawn with more masculine features including shorter hair. She has more feminine features later on and her hair has grown out slightly. |
| 196 | * TheAtoner: While she doesn't regret [[spoiler:raping Mark]] since it gave her her son, she is clearly sorry about it and is willing to die to save his wife and make up for what she did. |
| 197 | * BerserkButton: All Viltrumites are quick to turn violent. Something they struggle with and she admitted that she's killed for things less than taunting her. |
| 198 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Oh, so very much and she seems to enjoy it. She acted all nice and helpful in hopes of seducing Mark. When Mark rejects her, she [[spoiler:rapes him]]. When Mark attacks the drone Rex sent to negotiate with the Viltrumite, she pretended to help him up only for him to slap her hand in anger, but her only reaction is to smile. A day later, when Mark is on the Viltrumite warship she sees him and casually greets him and his anger gets the better of him and he grabs her by the throat, shouting at her to "back off". [[spoiler: However, she only revealed how much she is enjoying his anger and aggression to the point where she wants to speed up their "next meeting". The shocked Mark lets her go and she smiles as Mark denies anything that his father need to know about what happened.]] |
| 199 | * BloodKnight: She is shown to consider the fact that she must fight after failing to convince others with her thoughts to be lucky for her. Also, before she [[spoiler:raped]] Mark who tried to make her leave him alone only for her to enjoy the conflict. |
| 200 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: While [[spoiler:raping Mark]] is wrong on every possible level, from Anissa's perspective it was simply "the Viltrumite way", something that Nolan later acknowledges with great remorse once [[spoiler:he finds out what she did to Mark]]. |
| 201 | * DarkActionGirl: She is super strong, fast, ruthless, cruel and will not hesitate before she kills her enemies. She softens after the TimeSkip, thanks to her MoralityPet. |
| 202 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Nolan tells Mark that she's become a much kinder person while he was missing. Obviously Mark is skeptical since [[spoiler:[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil she raped him]]. Peculiarly, it turns out to be true (their son was an effective MoralityPet), and she eventually dies saving Eve.]] |
| 203 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: It isn't until the implication she's done something to Mark that she realized [[spoiler:raping]] the son of her leader, who is clearly more powerful than she is, was never a good idea. Cue NeckLift by an enraged PapaWolf. |
| 204 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:The reason why nobody realized she was dead right away was because her eyes were still open]]. |
| 205 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: After five years she has a husband, a daughter by him, and son [[spoiler:by Mark due to her raping him five years ago]], all of whom she loves very much. |
| 206 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She tried to convince Mark to accept the Viltrumite ways first and fought him after he refused. Later, Conquest mentions that she would try to convince others unlike him, which means she is known to try to convince others with the ways of her people instead of fighting first. |
| 207 | * EvilCounterpart: Anissa to Eve. Both of them are after the same guy. However, Eve, who had some problems with Mark leaving for a long time, along with carrying their unborn child in her womb and believing he was dead, was willing to avoid the use of her superpowers to preserve the life of her the baby and sought to bring it into a world free of super-powered violence. Anissa, who fought against Mark before, wants to ensure that she can carry out her mission to birth children in order to save the Viltrumite species, rebuild the empire and doesn't care what Mark wants, and is the opposite sort of mother-to-be: actively embracing aggression and force to ensure the birth of a child to the point of [[spoiler:raping]] Mark after seeing that the "Human's way" of seducing Mark didn't work. Also, Eve gave birth to a daughter, Terra while Anissa [[spoiler:had a boy whom she calls Marky]]. |
| 208 | * HeroicSacrifice: Pulls one to try and protect [[spoiler:Mark]] towards the end of the series, whilst [[spoiler:defending Earth]]. |
| 209 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: She enjoys Mark's aggression toward her after she [[spoiler:raped]] him as seen when he grabbed her by the throat. All to the point of admitting that it made her want to speed up their "next meeting". |
| 210 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Disturbingly {{Invoked|Trope}} by Anissa after her attempts to seduce Mark using the "earth ways" failed. She resorts to using the physical Viltrumite method [[spoiler:which is rape]]. |
| 211 | * {{Irony}}: Big-time. |
| 212 | ** [[spoiler:This vile, bloodthirsty rapist becomes a loving mother and wife]]. |
| 213 | ** [[spoiler:She also ends up HappilyMarried to a human man and having a half-breed daughter with him, despite basically having the ANaziByAnyOtherName mentality in the past]]. |
| 214 | ** [[spoiler:She ends up laying down her life to defend the Earth from a Viltrumite warlord]]. |
| 215 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When Thragg calls her out for refusing to procreate with the humans, Anissa points out that Thragg can't have the same expectations of her as he does with her male counterparts. While it's partly motivated by FantasticRacism, she's not wrong in that as a woman, she would be saddled with the additional responsibility of not just carrying her potential children but raising them as well. As such, she doesn't have the freedom of going around siring children with humans as Kregg does. |
| 216 | * KilledOffscreen: When she is last seen she is still alive but wounded after saving Eve's life, and it is unclear how wounded she actually was. It is revealed she succumbed to her wounds in between the events of two issues. |
| 217 | * LightIsNotGood: Wears white with silver, but is very much cruel and sadistic. |
| 218 | * LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:It took a much longer time than her fellow Viltrumites, but she eventually starts a family of her own on Earth. She is HappilyMarried to a human man and has a daughter with him, while raising Marky as well]]. Mark is understandably deeply sceptical, but it turns out to be correct, and she performs a HeroicSacrifice at the end. |
| 219 | * ManipulativeBitch: ''Oh, so very much.'' She [[spoiler:rapes]] the main character and he is affected to the point where he can't seem to have intimacy with the woman he loves, Eve. Also, Mark starts to shake at the sight of her and can't bring himself to tell his father, who is emperor of the Viltrumite and would certainly punish Anissa for what she did if he found out. He doesn't do or say anything when she whispers "missed you" to him and that is right after the birth of his daughter. Mark was so affected by what happened to the point that he couldn't stay with Eve after the birth of their daughter. Mark started to become more aggressive with Anissa as he grabbed her by the throat in front of his father, whom he told to stay out of it, only to let her go after hearing her admit that she is enjoying his aggression and it makes her want to speed up their "next meeting". Mark is so shocked that he lets her go and when his father ask him if there is something that he should know about, Mark just says "no" twice as he walks away while Anissa smiles. |
| 220 | * ObliviouslyEvil: As Nolan acknowledges later with great remorse, Anissa wouldn't have seen anything wrong with [[spoiler:raping Mark]] due to her being a product of Viltrum's fight-obsessed MightMakesRight culture. From her perspective, [[spoiler:raping Mark was standard Viltrumite intercourse]]. After spending a longer time on Earth and assimilating their ethical values, she does acknowledge in retrospect that what she did was wrong and ultimately dies in her efforts to atone for what she has done. |
| 221 | * OhCrap: Five years after she [[spoiler:raped Mark]], she got into an altercation with [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Eve]], who had full knowledge of what she did. When Nolan breaks up the fight and hears Eve mention something about the incident, [[PapaWolf he grabs Anissa by the throat and demands to know what she did]]. However, after Mark lies about the rape, Nolan lets her go -- though he eventually figures it out. Then, in the last page, we see her fly home to her husband/lover, Scott and their newborn daughter, displaying an odd sense of humanity. Then, we are introduced to a little boy who resembles a young Mark [[spoiler:and it's later confirmed that he is Mark's son]]. |
| 222 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Anissa was born on the Viltrumite home planet, witnessed the time of king Argall, the purge, the Scourge virus and Thragg coming to power which happened thousands of years ago. She doesn't look that much older than Mark. |
| 223 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:She rapes Mark in Issue 110 and her excuse for that is the Viltrumite mission of procreating with humans in order to save their kind from extinction and she wasn't performing on her end because she didn't want to mate with the humans that reside on Earth. Also that Mark is young and weak, but he has Viltrumite blood running in his veins. She informs a traumatized and crying Mark to "man-up" and that it will probably take a few more times to impregnate her and she will see him soon before flying away. This means she intends to do it again, much to Mark's horror. This event is also the reason why, in Issue 137, Mark doesn't exactly believe his dad when he tells him that she changed for the better during the TimeSkip -- though as it turns out, LoveRedeems]]. |
| 224 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She dies in battle, trying to protect Mark]]. |
| 225 | * RetiredMonster: [[spoiler:Anissa seems to have mellowed within five years, even starting a family with a normal human alongside her [[ChildByRape son through another father]]]]. |
| 226 | * SerialRapist:[[spoiler: Knowing how normal and common it is amongst Viltrumites to forcefully breed with one another--her raping Mark probably wasn't the first time of her forcing herself on a person.]] After getting punched by Allen the Alien in Issue 46, she says that her fourth husband couldn't even hit her that hard . |
| 227 | * UseYourHead: In Issue 110, when Mark rejects her, she responds by breaking his nose with a headbutt [[spoiler: and then raping him]]. |
| 228 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: She wants Mark for her mate because of his half-Viltrumite DNA. [[spoiler:She doesn't care for his consent]]. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:General Kregg]] |
| 232 | !!General Kregg |
| 233 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/general_kregg_invincible_comics.jpg]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | One of Viltrum’s top enforcers, he is in almost all conflicts the Viltrumites took part in the series, for bad and for good. |
| 236 | ---- |
| 237 | * AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Like DC's Jax-Ur who's sometimes drawn with a mechnical eyepatch, has a skinnier muscular build, and is affiliated with Zod, General Kregg is a leaner Viltrumite with a mechanical eyepatch who's affiliated with Thragg, the Zod {{Expy}}. The only major difference is that Kregg is [[ReallyGetsAround much more of a ladies man]] than Jax-Ur and grows to like Earth. |
| 238 | * ArtEvolution: Kregg was drawn more frightening and looked more pugnacious in the earlier issues of the Invincible comic. [[spoiler:His looks later soften to be a reminder that he has a change of heart (And also to the fact that the art style evolved over the years).]] |
| 239 | * BadassBiker: [[spoiler:Kregg seemly takes an interest in bikes while living on Earth, becoming a mechanic for them.]] |
| 240 | * TheBerserker: [[spoiler:When confronting Nolan in Issues 46 & 47, he suddenly, loudly berates Nolan and states to him that he would be put to death for his "disgrace" to the Viltrum empire. Afterwards, Kregg beats Nolan up for a little while just to have him sent back to his cell.]] |
| 241 | * CoDragons: With Conquest to Thragg. |
| 242 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:He arguably fits this trope better than Conquest. Despite the latter's superior strength and experience, it's shown that Kregg outranks him. When Conquest comes back to report his failure to Thragg, Kregg tells him to get on his knees before his superiors, to which Conquest meekly complies. And given that no other Viltrumite seems to possess the rank of general, this makes Kregg the second highest-ranking Viltrumite behind Thragg himself.]] |
| 243 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Quite unnoticeably, his hair was a bit fuller in his first few early appearances. [[spoiler: His hair later in the comics look shorter (he looks more like he's balding) and gets a clear widow's peak.]] |
| 244 | * ExactWords: Combined with LoopholeAbuse, General Kregg is aware that for a Viltrumite to be executed, they must have their bodies to be intact. General Kregg gets around the rule of execution by having Nolan get bruised by two Viltrumite soldiers because the rule never said that a Viltrumite can't have bruises. |
| 245 | * EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:Takes up wearing an eyepatch after blending in with human society, covering his bionic eye.]] |
| 246 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:Loses his eye due to the Scourge Virus, replacing it with a mechanical implant thereafter.]] |
| 247 | * FamilyMan: [[spoiler:After siring dozens of children with dozens of women, he actually loves them all genuinely. He is also married to all of them and takes great care of his children equally.]] |
| 248 | * LoopholeAbuse: A Viltrumite must be intact in order for them to be executed. General Kregg improvises the rule by having two Viltrumite soldiers bruise up Nolan because the rule never said that the Viltrumite can't have bruises. |
| 249 | * RankUp: Kregg is the only recurring Viltrumite other than Thragg to have a rank attached to him. As a General of the Viltrumite army, he definitely has an extensive body count and conquering accolades on his chest. |
| 250 | * ReallyGetsAround: Takes Thragg’s order to heart later, [[spoiler:he mates with dozens of human women, but he also adopts the new Viltrumite way, fully loving all the women he met and all the children he had; by his own words Kregg had no idea monogamy was mostly the standard on Earth]]. |
| 251 | * RecurringCharacter: Is seen on-screen in most of all Viltrumite conflicts in the series, by virtue of [[spoiler:keeping himself alive to the end of the series and beyond; other veteran Viltrumites who also live on don’t have as many appearances as him]]. |
| 252 | * SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:After he confronts Nolan in Issue 46, he beats him around a little and gives Nolan bloody bruises on his face. He excused it by the fact that the council for their empire never mention bruises when keeping the Viltrumite soldier whole and intact before execution. He apparently took pleasure after pummeling Nolan.]] |
| 253 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:When the Flaxans invade London, he defies Thragg's orders to not interfere and helps Earth's heroes because one of his human lovers carrying his child lives there.]] |
| 254 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He actually isn't that bad looking compared to the rest of his species. [[spoiler:The eyepatch kind of helps in some way.]] |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Lucan]] |
| 258 | !!Lucan |
| 259 | |
| 260 | A mild-mannered Viltrumite, even if capable of being just as barbaric as any other member of his race, sometimes he can be quite sensible. |
| 261 | ---- |
| 262 | * NighInvulnerability: He was able to survive getting gutted by Nolan, allowing Lucan to get the drop on him while the latter was exhausted and injured from fighting two of his teammates. Even though he collapses soon after, he was still able to recover from his wounds. |
| 263 | * OneTrueLove: Has the record of being the fastest converted Viltrumite in the series, [[spoiler:having found true love on his first try with a woman he completely devotes himself to, adopting serious monogamous commitment despite Thragg’s direct orders for mass scale breeding, since she was hurt by her previous lover having an affair]]. |
| 264 | * PostVictoryCollapse: Defeats Nolan with a surprise attack before collapsing from his wounds. |
| 265 | * TokenMinority: While he isn’t the only black Viltrumite in the series, he is the only one with any plot significance, and a small one at that. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Thula]] |
| 269 | !!Thula |
| 270 | |
| 271 | A visually striking female Viltrumite, for she is quite unique in using her single-ended braid as a weapon, with a blade at the hair end. |
| 272 | ---- |
| 273 | * BeastOfBattle: In the final battle with Thragg, she uses her bladed hair braid to cut the leash of one of Thragg's Rognarrs before taking control of it and unleashing it upon Thragg's own forces. |
| 274 | * BladeOnARope: She has a blade at the end of her braid. |
| 275 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Her own hair braids are like a chain. |
| 276 | * OlderThanSheLooks: She is one of the older Viltrumites, much older than Nolan for comparison, with only her silver hair indicating that, meanwhile she is drawn with soft facial features like any other young woman in the series. |
| 277 | * SilverVixen: She appears to be a woman in her fifties thanks to her graying hair, but still pretty attractive. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']] |
| 281 | !!Thaedus |
| 282 | |
| 283 | The first rebel who opposed the Viltrum Empire and secretly the founder and leader of the Coalition of Planets. |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * BeardnessProtectionProgram: It looks like he has been wearing a fake beard to cover up his mustache, but the truth is that Thaedus uses his strength to rip out a very real beard in one piece to show his strength and durability, proving his Viltrumite heritage. |
| 286 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Thaedus is disgusted by the ruthless and evil ways of his own people and chose to rebel against the Empire. |
| 287 | * TheKingslayer: Thaedus is responsible for killing Emperor Argall, which led to the Viltrumite civil war and putting Thragg as Grand Regent. |
| 288 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's the first Viltrumite to be disgusted by how his people acts during their days as a ruthless empire and thus is also the first one to rebel. Although he takes it one step further by killing the Emperor of the Viltrumites. |
| 289 | * OffWithHisHead: How he meets his end, having his head torn off by Thragg during the war. |
| 290 | * ThereIsAnother: He saw himself as the only Viltrumite with the audacity to rebel against the Empire, believing himself to be an anomaly. However, it was not until he learned of Invincible that it could be possible to turn other Viltrumites to the Coalition's cause. |
| 291 | * {{Unperson}}: Thragg erased Thaedus from Viltrumite history for his defection and his assassination of Argall. Then Thragg personally ends Thaedus' existence with his bare hands. |
| 292 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Thaedus is responsible for developing the Scourge virus that nearly wiped out the Viltrumites, and won't hesitate to use it again if the Coalition is close to losing the war. |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Ursaal]] |
| 296 | !!Ursaal |
| 297 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ursaal.jpg]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | Ursaal is the daughter of Thragg and an unnamed female Thraxan (Oliver's mother's species). She's Onaan's twin sister. |
| 300 | ---- |
| 301 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She has purplish skin because of her mother. [[spoiler:By the last issue she becomes more human looking, much in the same way as Oliver did]]. |
| 302 | * AngstySurvivingTwin: Ursaal and her twin brother Onaan weren't that close, and she admits that he was a psychotic monster. But she was still devastated after [[spoiler:his death at Invincible's hands]]. |
| 303 | * TheDragon: To her father, acting CoDragons with her brother until [[spoiler:Onann's death]]. [[spoiler:Her authority is enough to convince the rest of her siblings to stand down once it's clear that they're ''all'' are expendable in their father's eyes.]] |
| 304 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Responsible to Onaan's Foolish, being far more level-headed than he is and admonishes him for needlessly slaughtering a planet. |
| 305 | * HeelFaceTurn: Started as blindly obedient to her father, but turns against him after realizing he sees all of his children as being expendable. [[spoiler:When Mark finally decides to liberate Earth from Robot's rule, Ursaal and her remaining siblings side with him without hesitation]]. |
| 306 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Half-Viltrumite and half-Thraxan. |
| 307 | * PhotographicMemory: Ursaal remembers every moment of her life, all the way back to her birth. |
| 308 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Being Thragg's second-in-command, she is much more powerful than the rest of her siblings, being able to hold her own against Atom Eve (and defeat her) and General Kregg. This is likely due to Thragg actually investing some effort in training her. |
| 309 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: As a byproduct of her mother's species, she aged extremely rapidly. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Onaan]] |
| 313 | !!Onaan |
| 314 | [[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5904052_59_20.jpg]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | Onaan is the son of Thragg and an unnamed female Thraxan (Oliver's mother's species). He's Ursaal's twin brother. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He has purplish skin because of his mother. |
| 319 | * AssholeVictim: He is killed by Mark while completely helpless, but Eve doesn't mind since he put Terra's life in danger. Even Ursaal, despite mourning his death, thought he was a monster. |
| 320 | * AxCrazy: Onaan was monstrous even by Viltrumite standards. He killed countless people across many worlds, he had a cave full of the corpses of his victims and was perfectly willing to murder entire families, even children. |
| 321 | * BloodKnight: He's even more bloodthirsty than his father. During one of their conquests, he slaughters most of a planet's population while enjoying it. |
| 322 | * TheDragon: To his father with his sister as CoDragons. |
| 323 | * ImAHumanitarian: Not only did he want to kill Terra, he wanted to flay her and eat her skull just to make Mark suffer. |
| 324 | * ImplacableMan: It didn't matter what Mark and Terra did to flee from him, he just wouldn't stop pursuing them. That said, when Mark wasn't prioritizing Terra's safety, Onaan was helpless. |
| 325 | * NightmareFetishist: He kept the remains of his victims in a cave to be alone. |
| 326 | * OffWithHisHead: Mark crushes his neck to a pulp, decapitating him. |
| 327 | * UndyingLoyalty: He is the most loyal and supportive of Thragg's children and idolizes him until the end. |
| 328 | * WouldHurtAChild: When he attacked Mark and his family, he went straight towards Terra and [[ToThePain raved on how he'd enjoy killing her]]. Fortunately, Mark fended him off and ultimately killed him. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
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