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7* AlasPoorScrappy: In-universe example: [[spoiler: Rex Splode.]] Few people would have admitted to liking him when he was alive, but those who knew him were all very much hurt by his death.
8* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Just before the explosion he caused after taking off his helmet, Angstrom Levy says how he won't let death of a child ruin his greatest triumph, when Mark gets beating from multiple Maulers. Is it a case of EvenEvilHasStandards, where Angstrom despite his crimes could have some moral? Or is it more of PragmaticVillainy, where he wouldn't like to face consequences for Invincible's death? What comes to more AmbiguousSituation is that we haven't got much characterization from Levy before his evil acts and revenge on Marc, all he wanted is just gaining huge knowledge from other dimensions.
9* ArcFatigue: The "[[spoiler: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 ''one issue long''), this arc (comparatively) dragged on. Doesn't help that [[spoiler:Robot]] seemed almost unstoppable. The GrandFinale arc it led up to was awesome enough to make the fatigue worth it for most people, but just about everyone agrees it could have been shortened quite a bit.
10* CompleteMonster: [[ItsAllAboutMe Grand Regent Thragg]], ruler of the [[Characters/InvincibleViltrumites 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" [[Characters/InvincibleTheGraysonFamily 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 a short lived species' world, 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.
11* CrossoverShip: Terra [[spoiler:Grayson]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] has a surprising amount of fanart. Most likely because they're the next generation after their respective series leads.
12* EnsembleDarkhorse:
13** 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.
14** Astounding Wolf-Man and Techjacket. Enough that they've both spun off into their own books and have pretty much become independent characters in their own right.
15* EvilIsCool: Excluding the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains]] 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.
16* FriendlyFandoms:
17** With ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' fans since they're both written by Creator/RobertKirkman.
18** Since the [[spoiler:Viltrumites]] are a super-powered ProudWarriorRace that goes around sending their own to conquer unsuspecting planets, the go-to summary of them is that they're like [[Franchise/DragonBall Saiyans]]. Helping things is that [[EnsembleDarkhorse Allen the Alien's]] ability to come back stronger from near death experiences further parallel's a Saiyan's Zenkai boost.
19* HarsherInHindsight: Cecil Steadman states in his introduction in the series he had no idea that Nolan had any intention of conquering Earth. Later issues reveal that Cecil knew Nolan lied about his true intentions after they met.
20* ItWasHisSled: 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.
21* JerkassWoobie: Both Rex Splode and Bulletproof qualify in similar ways, initially characterized as rather shallow and shameless cheaters who later reveal HiddenDepths and undergo a TraumaCongaLine in both their backstories and present lives, enough to make their sleaziness and infidelity seem like insignificant flaws in comparison.
22** Rex is initially established as Atom Eve's boyfriend who randomly cheats on her with Dupli-Kate, ruining their relationship. During the early series of chapters that describe characters' backstories, it's revealed that Rex Splode came from an impoverished family who sold him to a mad scientist, spending most of his childhood undergoing the painful and traumatic experiments that gave him his powers. After escaping, he found the family that abandoned him now living comfortably and happily together, having forgotten Rex entirely. The trope is even {{Invoked}} when the narrator asks the audience to keep this in mind, and implores them not to judge Rex too harshly for his JerkAss qualities.
23** Zandale/Bulletproof doesn't get much spotlight until much later, giving a fairly negative first impression when he attempts, unsuccessfully, to seduce both Atom Eve and Monster Girl while he's still in a relationship (as is Eve, with Invincible himself). His girlfriend Carla even hints at past infidelity on Zandale's part, something she's forgiven while he's evidently failed to learn from his mistakes. Later, Zandale's own DarkAndTroubledPast is revealed: [[spoiler: he's TheUnfavorite of a pair of twins and has secretly been posing as his brother Tyrone, a scientific genius beloved by their parents but also secretly a cruel mad scientist who got himself killed while running dangerous experiments on Zandale. It gets even worse when Zandale attempts to reveal the truth to his parents. They refuse to believe Tyrone's true nature, assuming Zandale murdered him. In the ensuing argument, his girlfriend accidentally kills his mother. His father then tries to kill her and he ends up killing his father to save her.]]
24* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: In issue 63 [[spoiler: Conquest appears to have killed Eve. She involuntarily heals herself the very next issue]]. In issue 100, [[spoiler: Mark himself appears to have been killed within the first two pages by Dinosaurus. The succeeding pages show that Dinosaurus killed a clone of Mark, who's completely unharmed.]]
25** Issue 114 Mark confronts Robot, who has just assumed control of the free world in the name of logic and peace, but has killed hundreds in the process, including main characters. [[spoiler: He successfully convinces Mark to give up, letting him stay in control.]]
26** [[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''.]]
27* LoveToHate: Angstrom Levy, for being an [[ItsPersonal extremely personal]] ArchEnemy of Mark and his rather creative schemes to try and ruin Mark's life.
28* MagnificentBastard:
29** [[ArchnemesisDad Nolan Grayson]], better known as the superhero "[[BewareTheSuperman Omni-Man]]", presents himself as the [[VillainWithGoodPublicity greatest hero alive]] while being a spy for the [[Characters/InvincibleViltrumites 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 new age of peace and tolerance.
30** [[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, used the Mauler Twins to rebuild his body only to turn on them afterwards, and instigated a successful slave revolt against the Flaxans while trapped in their dimension. Resentful of Mark for being given credit for helping rebuild after Dinosaurus' final attack while his efforts go unnoticed, and fearing what Mark could become upon witnessing an evil version of Invincible in an [[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 and purges of many of Earth's heroes, leading to Robot effectively [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the Earth]]. Under his rule war and poverty are almost completely eradicated, his efforts causing any potential resistance to fizzle out and forcing Invincible to leave Earth. Even after his defeat following a fatal error, 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.
31** Dinosaurus is a super-intelligent dinosaur seeking to save humanity from its own destruction. Introduced enacting destructive attacks to prevent overpopulation and encourage economic growth through reconstruction, Dinosaurus' devastation of Las Vegas--resulting in the creation of a revolutionary solar array--convinces Invincible to harness his mind for good, the two agreeing to a partnership to better the world while Invincible keeps Dinosaurus' ruthlessness in check. Dinosaurus proves to be an invaluable ally when Mark is infected with the Scourge virus, saving his life and outwitting Thragg's efforts to kill him even as he uses the opportunity to steal technology from the Viltrumites. Upon gaining free rein when Mark is temporarily depowered by these events, Dinosaurus launches an attack on Los Angeles as a mere distraction to his true plan of flooding countless cities around the world, during which he fakes Mark's death in the chaos so as to give him the freedom to aid his machinations. Both one of Invincible's most personal friends and foes, Dinosaurus is ultimately convinced that his actions are only preventing human progress and delaying their problems, and--knowing he'll inevitably return to his murderous ways--asks Mark to kill him so that his friend can bring about true change.
32* MemeticMutation: From the animated series, the "Think, Mark, think" frame of Omni-man standing over his wounded son got a lot of variations very quickly due to what an excellent meme format it is.
33** Also an example of BeamMeUpScotty since Omni-man says "Think" once in the series, unlike the comic.
34** Also from the animated series: "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."
35** 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]]
36** "I thought... I thought you were stronger." [[labelnote:explanation]] Mark, horrified and covered in blood, reacting to seemingly beating Angstrom Levy to death. Used mostly as a joke about highly uneven match-ups.
37** Thragg's resemblance to Freddy Mercury has been jokingly noted quite a bit.
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39* MemeticLoser: The Immortal. Despite being one of the heavy hitters amongst Earth's superhero community, the poor guy just cannot keep up with the Viltrumites and is more than often subjected to TheWorfEffect, with many of his onscreen fights resulting in him getting disembodied.
40* MisaimedFandom: Disturbingly, there is a decent number of readers who wished that they were in Mark's place when [[spoiler: Anissa rapes him]]. This is despite the moment clearly being an attempt to avert [[spoiler: the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, with the scene being portrayed as horrifying rather than titillating.]]
41* MoralEventHorizon:
42** Robot [[spoiler: murdering various regular characters, heroes and villains alike, in his mission to take over the planet]].
43** Anissa [[spoiler:for beating down Mark after his girlfriend broke up with him and proceeds to rape him in the hopes of getting pregnant. She even taunts him later about how she wants to do it again. While she performs a HeelFaceTurn in the 5 year TimeSkip, Mark understandably wants nothing to do with her]].
44** Dinosaurus [[spoiler: attempting to kill off eighty percent of the world's population, which doesn't quite succeed but still manages to kill almost a million people. Even he considers this to be unforgivable later, which leads to him asking Mark to kill him]].
45* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Oliver became a lot more tolerable after he began to appreciate humans better.
46* RomanticPlotTumor: Mark and Eve's WillTheyorWontThey? dynamic. The first 50 issues were spent with them dragging their feet around the fact they liked each other, Mark constantly fucking up the opportunities to be with her, and staying in a relationship with Amber despite everyone (both in, and outside universe) seeing how much he was in love with Eve. Things get much better once they get together in issue 50, and they develop into a healthy and appealing couple.
47* TheScrappy: Duplikate. We're supposed to find her relationship with The Immortal to be wholesome, and also serve as a more responsible and "has-its-shit-together" counterpart to Mark and Eve's relationship, but we are never shown why the Immortal cares about her so much. Not only is she shown to be a serial cheater (granted, Rex kinda deserved it), she constantly makes disparaging comments about Eve's appearance and is shown to be a stereotypical nagging and manipulative asian wife. And unlike Rex and Bulletproof's cases, we are never shown a complex backstory justifying the less savory aspects of her personality.
48* SignatureScene: Quite a few.
49** "What will you have in 500 years?!"
50** The entire fight with Conquest, especially Mark's brutal finisher.
51** Anissa [[spoiler: raping]] Mark.
52** The IdenticalPanelGag.
53** The final page of the final issue. "Heh".
54* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
55** Shrinking Ray [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim suddenly gets eaten]] by a Komodo Dragon]] early in the series. This results in him being the one with no character focus amongst the new Guardians of the Globe, which is a shame when so much more could have been done with his size-changing ability.
56** Dupli-Kate all but dropped out of the story after she became Immortal's {{Housewife}} who stayed at home after having a few kids together that she has to watch over. This results in Dupli-Kate having very little time, if any, to stand out in the second half of the series.
57** Despite his build-up as the new Martian member of the Guardians of the Globe, Shapesmith ended up being quite OutOfFocus outside of anything related to the Sequid invasion. He's then [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim suddenly axed off]] by Rex Robot]] when the latter goes through with his plan to take over Earth.
58** Multi-Paul is built up as a duplicator who went the supervillain route compared to his sister, Dupli-Kate. However, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse he disappears from the story]] after the one time Invincible and company fought against him.
59* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Rex Splode. While generally viewed as an annoying {{Jerkass}} in-universe, he's one of the most popular of the new Guardians/Teen Team with fans, with his takedown of the Lizard League and later [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice in the Invincible War]] causing many to regard him as [[BunnyEarsLawyer a legitimately badass superhero despite his flaws]].
60* ValuesDissonance: Some of the characters using the word "gay" disparagingly in earlier issues, particularly with the whole "this is so gay" RunningGag. While not inaccurate to how teens talked during the time of its release, such usage drops off significantly as the series progresses (and not just because of the characters getting OlderAndWiser), and the animated adaptation made a point to leave it out entirely.
61* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: While the art style is bright-colored and whimsical, the comic itself is ''very'' violent and dark. What doesn't help is that the series starts off as a normal lighthearted superhero comic, and even so, flip-flops from being dark to lighthearted.
62** Prime Video even went so far as adding a content warning in the description that the animated series isn't for kids, which is the 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.
63** 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 old Comics Code, which was very lenient towards violence but extremely conservative in regards to sexual content.
64* {{Wangst}}: Mark really needs to have someone tell him to get a grip sometimes. To put it more clearly: As the series progresses, Mark is seen openly weeping with increasing frequency as the series goes, to the point that it occasionally sours the mood by making it seem like the author is desperate for any sort of emotional reaction from the audience. While he has legitimate reason for it a lot of time, there are also times where you think he'd be used to that kind of thing by now. Even Kirkman himself admits via AuthorAvatar that he didn't really handle every tone shift as well as he'd hoped.
65* TheWoobie:
66** Mark's fiance breaks up with him and later [[spoiler:Anissa rapes him when he's at his lowest]], all in the same day. Even when he and Eve reconcile, the latter still haunts him.
67** Rick, who's turned into a robotic zombie super soldier against his will and even though he is partially turned back into a human, he is still affected by the trauma.
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73* CriticalDissonance: U.S. Reviews, while mixed, weren't very kind to the album, and (by Jackson's standards) it virtually bombed in its home territory, selling only two million copies. International sales and reviews, however, were much better.
74* {{Sequelitis}}: The lowest performing of all Jackson's albums made under the Epic label, both critically and commercially.
75* 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|Album}}'' trademarks: songs that [[EpicRocking go on for hours]], and borrowing from 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 really great. It's telling that "You Rock My World" was the #1 downloaded song on iTunes the day MJ passed and not, say, "Billie Jean" or "Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough."
76* 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 and actually contains some hidden gem songs.
77** The track 'Heaven Can Wait' trended on Tiktok in 2022 and was added to the 'Michael Jackson Essentials' playlist on Apple Music due to its popularity.
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