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Viltrum Empire
An intergalactic Empire ruled by a tyrannical despot named Thragg, who seeks to conquer other planets. Their current strategy is to send one of their own to act as a protector while they weaken the planet's defenses for the invasion.
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In General
- Adaptational Diversity: Nolan's recollection of how Viltrum's society truly works is much more diverse in the show, there are a lot more women and people of varied ethnicities shown in the little montage, in the comics that same scene was composed of mostly carbon copy white mustachioed guys.
- Adaptational Villainy: Though them viewing other alien races as inferior to them is straight from the comics, the comic version of the empire didn't show particular disdain towards the less humanoid races like the Thraxans like this version does.
- Alien Invasion: Their typical M.O. involves sending out a single sleeper agent to infiltrate a planet and win the locals' trust, while undermining their defenses in preparation of the Viltrumite annexation.
- Aliens Are Bastards: They are an imperialist race that view all other sapient life as being beneath them, planning to ruthlessly conquer Earth and enslave the human race.
- Ax-Crazy: They all thrive off of killing and brutally slaughtering their victims.
- Beware the Superman: A whole race of jingoistic, darwinist supermen out to conquer the galaxy.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The nature of Viltrumite beliefs based around individual worth based on strength, extreme militarism, suppression of empathy and emotion, anti-individualist values, and a downright alien code of honor, means that they operate on a completely different moral axis from the rest of the galaxy.
- To Viltrumites, empathy is outright poisonous, not just seen as a state of mind that that weakens an individual, but akin to an actual disease or foreign contaminant. As the concept of caring about other beings is so unknown to them that when one of their own, Nolan, starts to develop a sense of care and remorse, both the Viltrum Empire and even Nolan himself believe that there must be something fundamentally wrong with him. It's assumed that Earth must have poisoned or subverted Nolan's mind somehow, a hostile act that General Kregg asserts they must answer for. This is even more notable because Viltrumites aren't biologically incapable of empathy, but their culture is so toxic that they've effectively stamped out a natural emotion.
- In accordance with their Might Makes Right philosophy, Viltrumites regard the deaths of even their own with apathy, since if a Viltrumite Warrior falls in battle then they were simply too weak to survive and thus deserved their fate. But, as Allen notes, Viltrumites can be "weird" about executing one of their own outside of battle. Nolan's abandonment of his post and newfound empathy makes him both a traitor and a weakling in the eyes of the Empire, a crime for which the sentence is death, yet they insist that Nolan must be "whole" before he can be executed, so that he may face his end with honor as a final dying grace, wholeness in this case being that he has to demonstrate that he's still capable of being the ruthless Viltrumite Warrior that they know him as. Nolan's perceived weakness means he's simultaneously unworthy of life, yet also unworthy of death.
- Combat Pragmatist: This is how they do battle in general, using their immense strength and flight capabilities to tear through “lesser species” like paper. This ends up being justified when we see Viltrumites battle each other in season 2… Viltrumites are incredibly hardy and capable of fighting through seemingly lethal wounds, thus every blow must be capable of ending a fight because otherwise they’ll return to the field and remain a threat.
- Civil War: They're so focused on Social Darwinism they started one on purpose and kept it going until half their population was dead, just to cleanse their society of "weakness" and make them unstoppable.
- Crystal Spires and Togas: In the Episode 1 flashback, the Viltrumite homeworld is depicted this way. Episode 8 subverts it, showing the same people engaged in a brutal free-for-all, slaughtering each other indiscriminately to cleanse their society of weakness.
- Dominant Species Genes: While they can interbreed with a wide variety of species, their features are dominant. Nolan states that Mark is practically a pureblooded Viltrumite, which he insists is due to the "purity" of their DNA. Nolan later says that Viltrumites are only allowed to interbreed with genetically similar species, like humans, to ensure their children are as pure Viltrumite as possible. A Thraxan/Viltrumite hybrid has the appearance of a purple-skinned Viltrumite, but also has the Rapid Aging of his Thraxan parent.
- The Dreaded: Galaxy-wide, at least to the Coalition of Planets. According to Allen, a whole planet will be declared off-limits if even a single Viltrumite is sighted living on it, and the urgency of which he warns Mark of this reality portrays his own fear of them. When Anissa arrives on Earth, the GDA is immediately on high alert and Cecil begs Mark to surrender as to not provoke her wrath or a Viltrumite invasion.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Three Viltrumites — Conquest, General Kregg and Thula — who would make their debut much later in the original comics, make a cameo in Omni-Man's flashback as among those who survived Viltrum's self-inflicted purge.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Any planet that continually resists their rule gets blown up.
- The Empire: An intergalactic space empire that subjugates many planets.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Their ranks include both men and women of various ethnicities, so they're at least not racist or sexist against their own.
- Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: They are a futuristic spacefaring society and wear plain white clothes. Their buildings also look like giant iPods.
- Evil All Along: In Episode 1 a flashback shows Nolan claiming that the Empire are saviors. The reality is that they are murderous conquerors at worst and imperialists at best.
- Fantastic Racism: They see other alien races as inferior to them, needing their leadership due to their shorter lifespans and biological inferiority. They even have levels of inferiority in their belief system, as a humanoid race with some good qualities for procreation is more tolerable than one that is not (like the Thraxans, as Nolan points out when asking Mark for help).
- Flying Brick: All Viltrumites have the classic powerset of Flight, Super-Strength, Super-Speed and Super-Toughness. While many other species in the universe also have similar powers (even heroes and villains on Earth), these basic abilities are so incredibly potent and high-powered that they've become The Dreaded across the Universe. Even Cecil admits that they are effectively unstoppable, stating "One Viltrumite, all by her lonesome... and we're fucking useless". It's telling that when Nolan was pushed to the point of ending his life, he had to find the event horizon of a black hole in order to find something strong enough for the task.
- Greater-Scope Villain: For the first season, as they were the ones who sent Omni-Man to conquer Earth.
- Healing Factor: On top of their Nigh-Invulnerability, a Viltrumite can shrug off injuries that would be fatal on an equivalent human thanks to their rapid healing. Fractured skulls, shattered jawbones, torn-open stomachs, ripped-out intestines, give a Viltrumite time and they can heal it off, and it often takes repeated injuries on this level to wear them down. They can even regrow teeth! Rex is pretty jealous of that one.
- Human Aliens: Are near identical to humans. Females are visually indistinguishable from human women, and the only difference their males show from human men is the mandatory mustache.
- Light Is Not Good: They dress in all white and pose as saviors but they are genocidal conquerors.
- Lightning Bruiser: Every one of them is magnitudes stronger and faster than nearly anything in the galaxy. Even other super beings with similar powers come up short against a Viltrumite.
- Long-Lived: According to Nolan, Viltrumites can live for thousands of years.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: Nolan explains to Mark that Viltrumites are only supposed to interbreed with genetically similar species, like humans. When he has a child with an insectoid Thraxan, he knows the child will be immediately killed if found.
- Manly Facial Hair: All of the men whose faces were shown in the flashback have moustaches like Omni-Man, which may be a part of Viltrumite culture.
- Master Race: How pure-blooded Viltrums see themselves and even exterminated half their own population long ago just to cleanse any weakness from their race.
- Metaphorically True: Omni-Man initially described them as a civilization that's willing to send out members of their race to spread their knowledge and culture to other worlds. That's a sugarcoated version of the truth, but it's not completely wrong.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: They believe in their own genetic supremacy over other races, and early on they wiped out half their own population for being too weak. They went on to expand across the galaxy in wars of naked aggression, enslaving or dominating all other races, before stalling out through overextending their own resources.
- Not So Invincible After All: When Allen the Alien's species revolted, the Viltrumites had to resort to blowing up the planet. Not because they're cruel — well, not just because they're cruel — but because according to Allen the alternative was losing the planet. This is the first hint that Viltrumites individually and as a whole aren't as unbeatable as they seem. After his recovery, Allen is also able to easily overpower Anissa, much to her shock.
- One-Man Army: Any Viltrumite chosen to partake in the expansion after they ceased with regular warfare has to be this by default, since they're expected to be capable of defeating the most powerful beings of their chosen planet in order to pave the way to its conquest.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: They had a worldwide gladiatorial battle to make sure only the strongest among them survive, which only ended once half of their entire population was dead. They also rarely abandon their conquest of a planet; Nolan is the first known example.
- Punny Name: "Viltrum" is a pun on "philtrum", the upper lip. On men, that happens to be where a mustache grows, and all male Viltrumites minus Mark have one.
- Really 700 Years Old: They can live for thousands of years and age slower as they get older.
- The Social Darwinist: Mixed with actual Darwinism; fully half their population was destroyed in order to make them unstoppable, and the animation demonstrating it suggests it was basically a free-for-all.
- The Sociopath: This is a major component of being a Viltrumite, besides the Social Darwinism. They have all been conditioned to have zero empathy, remorse, or basic emotion whatsoever. Best shown where Nolan feels genuine sadness for the first time, and reacts by angrily saying he shouldn't be feeling this way. Later, he confesses to Allen that his experiences on Earth and Thraxa have changed him to the point where he's no longer sociopathic.Nolan: I'm not a Viltrumite anymore. I feel shame and regret.
- Stronger with Age: A Viltrumite's powers take time to fully mature. Additionally, they only get stronger if they continue to push themselves physically. And considering their incredibly long lifespans and that their culture is based around combat and training, it's very rare for a young Viltrumite to be stronger than an older one. When Mark fights Nolan, Lucan, and Anissa he’s completely outclassed and just barely survives his fight with Thula.
- Superpowerful Genetics: When cross-breeding with other species, Viltrumite genes remain dominant regardless of their partner. As Nolan explains to Mark, despite being born half-human, he's essentially all-Viltrumite. This goes even further in season 2, where Nolan has a child with an insectoid, extremely short-lived Thraxan, and the child's only features inherited from the mother are purple skin and slightly accelerated aging.
- There Can Be Only One: Per Nolan's own words regarding the Viltrumite's policy of expansionism, they decided after becoming the Viltrumite Empire to be the only empire in the galaxy via conquering the rest of them.
- Trojan Horse: They send their agents to pose as protectors when they're actually sent to weaken defenses, making it easier for an invasion to happen.
- White Man's Burden: What the Viltrumites' conquest of the galaxy boils down to. They claim they are bettering the worlds they conquer by giving them technology and purpose. It's steeped in the darker aspects of this trope too, showing that this "benevolence" is deeply-rooted in their firm belief that they are just better than other races, and that enslavement to a superior, longer-lived race is better for them than being free.
Nolan Grayson
Vidor
Vidor
Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos
A Viltrumite warrior.
- Canon Foreigner: Vidor is a show-original Viltrumite; there were plenty of unnamed Viltrumite fodder in the comics, though Vidor doesn’t resemble any of them.
- Eye Scream: Having his head get partially crushed by Omni-Man's fists resulted in Vidor's eyes getting dislocated.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Vidor wears transparent, yellow goggles on his eyes during his fight with Allen and Omni-Man, but no indication is shown as to what the goggles even do in the fight.
- Head Crushing: Downplayed. His head gets half-crushed from Omni-Man delivering two punches from the side of his head. After Vidor collapses from the debilitating strike, Omni-Man continues to stomp his head into the ground, though he doesn't get to finish the job before being forced to leave to save Mark from Thula.
Lucan
Lucan
Voiced By: Phil LaMarr
"You've dishonored your people!"
A Viltrumite warrior, and the second one Mark encounters.
- Adaptational Curves: In the comics, Lucan had a traditional muscular build. The show instead gives him a noticeable gut, giving him the build of a power-lifter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: His fight with Mark isn't even a fight. He shrugs off every punch Mark throws at him and pins him down with ONE finger.
- Determinator: As befitting a veteran Viltrumite soldier, Lucan doesn't even allow being disemboweled to stop him for long, as he manages to summon just enough strength to incapacitate Nolan with a well-timed sneak attack.
- Fantastic Racism: When Lucan sees that Nolan sired an offspring with a Thraxan, his reaction is one of disgust."Nolan made another child...with these disgusting creatures?"
- Gutted Like a Fish: Nolan uses his hand to slash open his belly, spilling his guts, then stabs through the wound with a stalactite for good measure. Lucan proves tough enough to get back up from this and take out Nolan, cradling his guts in one arm.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets a stalactite shoved through his belly courtesy of Nolan, nailing him to the cave wall.
- Not Quite Dead: Despite his guts spilling out and Nolan shoving a stalactite in the wound, he manages to survive and ambushes Nolan, knocking him out.
- Stout Strength: Natural Viltrumite super-strength with a power-lifter's physique.
- Villain Has a Point: When Nolan tells him to stay away from his children, Lucan points out that he "knew the consequences" the moment he had them, which is objectively true: Nolan did know very well the Viltrumite's attitudes towards half-breeds, especially ones sired with non-humanoid races, and what the reaction to their existence would be.
Thula
Thula
Voiced By: Grey DeLisle
A elder Viltrumite warrior with a blade at the end of her braid.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Thula is introduced in events far earlier than her comics counterpart, outright substituting other generic Viltrumites. Originally she became a recurring side-character after Conquest's fight; in the show she appears and is active as early as when the Viltrum Empire hunts down Nolan for abandoning his post on Earth.
- Adaptation Expansion: She has a larger role in the show than in the comics, being one of the Viltrumites who squares off with Mark and Nolan on Thraxa in place of a generic Viltrumite.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Slightly so. The show portrays Thula as more conventionally vicious and hungry for battle like a Viltrumite would be; in the comics Thula was fairly quiet and only showed anger in battle in rare occasions.
- Adaptational Slimness: Muscular and busty in the comics, she's thin and has a small bust here in the series.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Downplayed. The show portrays Thula as more conventionally older, with aging lines under her eyes, to properly convey she is old even for Viltrumite standards; the comics had her drawn with softer features, as if she managed to retain much of her youth despite being one of the oldest Viltrumites seen on the series.
- Braids of Action: She has a long braid with a knife on it that can cut through Viltrumite skin.
- Blood Knight: When Mark finally manages to land a good hit on her, she licks the blood off her lip and chuckles 'finally'.
- Combat Pragmatist: Stabs Mark with her braid while he was hesitating to finish her off.
- Dark Action Girl: As a Viltrumite warrior, this is a given. She is a brutal and violent woman who gives Mark a pretty brutal beating.
- Faux Affably Evil: She promises to give Mark a quick death; said death is through strangulation by her braid.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Nolan beats her by using her own braid to yank her straight into his elbow. Face first.
- Jawbreaker: Nolan elbows her in the mouth, caving in her jaw.
- Lack of Empathy: Upon hearing of Lucan's demise, Thula is quick to coldly write him off as having been unworthy if he fell in battle. He didn't.
- Never Mess with Granny: As an elder female Viltrumite, Thula looks like an older woman and has all of her people's Stronger with Age aspects.
- Silver Vixen: While the show does have Thula's face show more standard aged features compared to the comic, her body still remains very athletic and benefit of a Viltrumite's indefinite preserved prime for battle and every other activity.
- Uncertain Doom: Unlike Nolan or Lucan, we don't see Kregg's men retrieving her body for medical treatment, leaving her fate uncertain.
- Worthy Opponent: Downplayed, but it seems she begins to hold Mark in this regard once he stops holding back while fighting her.
General Kregg
General Kregg
Voiced By: Clancy Brown
"Your father will be executed, and you will return to Earth. You will assume his mission and prepare the planet for our rule."
"We do not change our minds."
A high-ranking Viltrumite Warrior who tells Mark to conquer Earth in his father's place.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed, but he has softer facial features than his comic counterpart in earlier issues, at least before Art Evolution kicked in.
- Adaptation Distillation: In the show Kregg just warns Mark the empire will come to check on him soon, whereas in the comic Kregg said they would come to see how much he has progressed in his mission in a hundred years or so; that originally meant to portray how time is of little importance to Viltrumites, and to surprise Mark how they didn’t wait 100 years to start pressuring him on updates, and a how a certain nefarious Viltrumite took the chance to attack.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: He tells Mark that he can either kill some people to get Earth to bow to them - or the entire Viltrumite Empire will arrive to kill millions (as they did to the Thraxans).
- Baritone of Strength: Courtesy of his voice actor.
- Electronic Eyes: He has one cybernetic eye.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The idea that Mark would reject his Viltrumite heritage in the face of annihilation is so alien to him that he assumes Anissa is at fault for not turning him to the cause.Anissa: The boy refuses both reason and heritage.
Kregg: You mean you failed to convince him.
Anissa: General... [sigh]. He is poisoned, just like his father. - Faux Affably Evil: He speaks in a congenial and soft tone... as he's telling Mark they will kill his father and threatens to murder countless people on Earth if he doesn't comply with the Viltrum Empire and reacts to Mark's defiance by immediately punching the downed hero in the face.
- Meaningful Name: His name is pronounced the same way as "Krieg".
- Older Than They Look: He is older than Nolan, much more so, yet he doesn't have white stripes of hair on his head; only having a noticeable receding hairline.
- Pet the Dog: He takes the time to calmly explain to Mark the situation, empathizes with him a bit, and even wishes Invincible good luck on his invasion of Earth, for what it's worth.
- Pragmatic Villainy: In a twisted way he tries to understand and appeal to Mark's fondness for humanity, "allowing" him to only kill a few humans in a potential conquest of Earth if that would ease the burden on Mark's mind.
- Villain Respect: Representing the sheer absurdity of how much Viltrumites live and breathe the Might Makes Right ideology, Kregg nonchalantly approves Mark as a genuine warrior of Viltrum for surviving the combined assault on Thraxan soil, just pushing the mission of Earth's conquest on him regardless of the fact that Mark doesn't care about that in the slightest, cursing his "approval" to hell and beyond.
- Villainous Widow's Peak: Sports a standard one, General Kregg is one of the central figures of Viltrum’s mighty evil empire, as one of the upper echelons of its army.
Anissa
Anissa
"Oh, we are your people. You simply do not accept it yet."
Voiced By: Shantel VanSanten
A warrior-agent of Viltrum sent to Earth to test Mark's loyalty to the Viltrumites.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: The same as Kregg, Anissa makes her debut in the animation based off of her final established design in the comics, where she was more of a beautiful female Viltrumite rather than her initial rough female warrior look.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Anissa is generally more stoic and professional in her mannerisms as an agent of the Viltrum Empire, presenting an image that's far more cold rationality and ruthless pragmatism than her more volatile comic counterpart.
- Adaptational Jerkass: She's overall more brutal in her series introduction. First, she threatens to kill Amber, putting her hand around her neck, just to get Mark's attention. In the comicbook she only threatened to kill his mother with no implied action along, and she immediately apologized afterwards. Then she watches dozens of innocents die while Mark is fighting a kaiju, not taking action until long into the fight, whereas her comic counterpart immediately put down the kaiju and then helped Mark save civilians just to get in his good graces. Lastly, she beats down Mark to within an inch of his life, whereas in the comic she simply knocked him down.
- Adaptational Slimness: While she is just as muscular as she is in the comics, her breasts are much smaller in the series.
- Boyish Short Hair: Contrasting Thula who sports a long braid, Anissa has short hair parted at the middle and is shown to be more powerful than her predecessor.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She gives Mark a fight more one sided than arguably even his father did, just without the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Mark lands one hit on her during their fight, mostly because she doesn't even bother defending herself, to no effect. At one point, she simply holds him helplessly at arms length by the neck while thrashing him with her other arm.
- Dark Action Girl: She was sent to Earth to convince Mark to take over Earth for the Viltrumite Empire, but when he refuses, she shows him why refusing her was not the best idea.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While it ties in a little with her Pragmatic Villainy, Anissa states she would never kill civilians just for pleasure, even though she would take pleasure in the act of killing civilians if her duty required it.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: As to be expected of a Viltrumite warrior fully indoctrinated into their way of life.
- Even though Anissa understands that Mark cares for human life on an objective level, she doesn't understand why. Even when trying to appeal to that care for human life in order to convince Mark to cooperate with the Viltrum Empire she's only able to argue from the perspective of humans as raw numbers whose loss could be prevented by cooperating. She doesn't even seem to register any dissonance between threatening to massacre all the patrons at a restaurant in order to get Mark to speak with her alone and then proceeding to state that she only came to peaceably talk with him.
- She's bewildered by Mark's antipathy for Viltrumites, and genuinely believes that his unwillingness to be a part of the Viltrum Empire is a sign that there must be something wrong with him. As her patience wears thin during their brief fight she lets her mask slip a bit and strongly indicates that, as far as she sees it, the fact that Mark is a Viltrumite should be all that matters to him and the fact that he would reject his own heritage makes him certifiably insane. She ultimately concludes that, like Nolan, something about Earth fundamentally poisons the minds of those sent there.(To Mark) Be the Viltrumite you're supposed to be. Be your father's son... You have a mission. Assigned to you by your true people. You will complete it... I pray you come to your senses...
- First Injury Reaction: Not the first time she's been injured ever, but rather the first time she's been injured by a Unopan when Allen hits her hard enough to draw blood. Even though it's just a nosebleed, she briefly stares at her own blood in shock that any Unopan could even hurt her at all, which is understandable as she's demonstrated to be exceedingly powerful by even Viltrumite standards. The experience would be comparable to a human getting their nose broken by a punch from a gerbil.
- Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: As cold and ruthless as she is, Anissa is actually acting as Viltrum's equivalent of a diplomat towards Mark and the Earth, attempting to sway him to the Viltrumite cause with a reasoned argument that appeals to the hard number of human lives that could be saved by cooperating, not just from a Viltrumite assault but also from their own intragroup conflicts. She warns that the next agent sent to Earth won't bother with such measures.Remember that we started with reason.
- In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: The crux of her attempt to convince Mark to cooperate with the Viltrum Empire is her belief that humans are a fundamentally shortsighted and self-destructive species, staring down the barrel of environmental collapse and/or global war within the next two centuries, and in need of the strong hand of the Viltrum Empire to save them from themselves.Anissa: Human civilization has less than an 18 percent chance of surviving the next two centuries without the loss of billions of lives... That is the truth. The powerful of this world destroy their own home, strip resources for themselves, large areas of this planet will soon be uninhabitable due to human greed... Yet here you are, hands in fists, worrying about stopping me instead of stopping them.
Mark: It's complicated-
Anissa: No it isn't. We have the technology to repair their climate, feed their hungry, punish their criminals. We will save more of their lives in a single year than you will in a hundred. You are failing this planet and its people, do you not see that? - Lightning Bruiser: She's far stronger and tougher than Mark, completely manhandling him with little effort and moving faster than he can react until it's too late. Cecil and Donald note her to be faster than even Nolan; they can't even target her with orbital weapons because she'd easily evade any attempt.
- Nonchalant Dodge: She's simply too fast for Mark to even touch her when they fight; she doesn't bother guarding herself, instead avoiding most of Mark's punches with bare minimum effort just by tilting her head and shifting her body slightly. Mark hits her exactly once and only because she let him, just to show that his blows would barely faze her even if they landed.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Like Kregg, she tries to appeal to Mark's love of Earth by arguing that, while ruthlessly brutal, Viltrumites don't kill simply for the sake of it, and emphasizes how humanity could stand to benefit from a Viltrumite rule that would solve longstanding issues like climate collapse, scarcity and hunger, and war. She even demonstrates the benefit of having more Viltrumites around by personally helping him save a cruise ship from an attacking Kaiju.
- Random Power Ranking: While analyzing the situation Cecil calculates the danger she poses by scanning her bone and muscle density, and estimates that Mark's got around only a 18% chance of even surviving a battle with her, let alone winning.
- Reverse Arm-Fold: If she is not fighting, Anissa will adopt this body position to show how intimidating she can be.
- Sadist: Downplayed. While Anissa says she doesn't kill for pleasure, she admits she does take pleasure in killing. It's just not her main priority. She also seems to genuinely struggle with not being allowed to kill Invincible when she wants to, nearly choking him to death under her boot, only to stop at the last second.
- Talking the Monster to Death: On the receiving end of this from Mark, as he has no possible ability to take Anissa on when they start throwing hands, so he instead has to play to Viltrumite sensibilities and throw her own Pragmatic Villainy in her face by calling the fact Anissa isn't out to kill him when they clearly need him. It works and Anissa ends up leaving after issuing one more ultimatum at Mark that this is his last chance before someone worse than even her comes to settle the issue of Earth for good.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: More than even Nolan used to believe, Anissa is a byproduct of thousands of years of totalitarian Viltrumite belief, wholeheartedly seeing their rule as completely beneficial to any planet graced by their assimilation, no matter how much blood is shed if needed. Anissa sees Earth as a mess of boiling conflicts and continuous attrition that will just wipe itself out given a few hundreds of years; it needs a central power like Viltrum to usher a new centralized system to unify all of humanity under a new era of prosperity.
- The Worf Effect: Downplayed. Not long after her one-sided trashing of Mark, she coincidentally runs into Allen. He takes a hit from her and feels next to nothing, then hits her hard enough to make her bleed, something Mark pointedly failed to do. As Anissa is one of the strongest Viltrumites yet seen, this showcases the strength Allen now possesses.
- Villain Has a Point: Her description of Earth's leaders making destructive decisions out of short-sighted selfishness is one Invincible admits is accurate while still refusing to conquer it.
