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Guardians of the Globe
In General
In General
The Guardians of the Globe are the world's premiere superhero team. The original Guardians of the Globe were a private organization funded by the superheroes War Woman and Darkwing.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: They might be the greatest Super Team in the world, but they prove to be no match for Omni-Man, who kills them all effortlessly. Though to be fair, Omni-Man suddenly attacked them from behind and caught them entirely off guard..
- Later on, This ends up becoming subverted, due to Mark somehow travelling back in time, he was able to reveal Omni-Man's betrayal to them, which prevented them from being caught off guard. In this rematch, they fared far better and were actually able to beat him.
- Expy: Of Justice League of America.
- Walking Spoiler: All of them. It's extremely difficult to talk about them without revealing that Omni-Man has been Evil All Along and that he kills them all.
The Immortal
The Immortal
One of Earth's oldest and most powerful heroes. Unfortunately for him, he's still no match for a Viltrumite.
- Been There, Shaped History: He's served in several historical wars and was even Abraham Lincoln at one point.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Abraham Lincoln was an immortal superhero.
- Came Back Wrong: Subverted. The first time we see him resurrect, he seems to be a screaming incoherent mess. But when he faces Nolan, it becomes clear he simply woke up pissed off as hell.
- Death Seeker: The Immortal will eventually become this in the distant future. Invincible travels to the future and finds that The Immortal has created a utopia on Earth but is now purposefully killing innocents and acting tyrannical in an attempt to instigate his own murder and encourage rebels to plot against him. He forces Invincible to finally put him down.
- Establishing Character Moment: When an old villain of his, Bi-Plane, threatens to kill everyone, the Immortal tosses him into space to suffocate. If it helps, Bi-Plane was dying of terminal cancer anyway.
- Good Is Not Nice: He's known and called out by many, especially in the hero community, for being a Grade-A Jerkass. Even Cecil, who usually tolerates such behavior, calls him such. However, he is one of the most morally righteous characters in the series.
- The Good King: After destroying Robot's human body, Invincible gives the Immortal effective rulership of the world with Robot's brain to act as advisor.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Is prone to several gory injuries and deaths, but always comes back good as new thanks to his power.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The initial emphasis is on the 'Jerk' part, though the 'Heart of Gold' becomes much more apparent over time.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Has one with Dupli-Kate, who becomes the mother to his children.
- Off with His Head!: How Omni-Man initially killed him. He gets better. It's also how a time-travelling Invincible will kill him in the far future.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: His Flying Brick abilities, coupled with his immortality, would make him one of Earth's heaviest hitters. Too bad there are Viltrumites like Omni-Man and Invincible who are even stronger and faster than he is, not to mention a lot more durable. As a result he usually ends up dismembered with little to show for it.
- President Superhero: Not just any president, he's Abraham Lincoln as a superhero.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Takes one when he starts dating Dupli-Kate, explaining that the majority of his Jerkass attitude stemmed from him losing so many people and trying to distance himself from everyone else.
- Virtuous Character Copy: He's a heroic version of Vandal Savage that has other powers in addition to longevity.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: One of his main issues. Invincible's trip to the future sees him as an insane but reluctant tyrant, having finally snapped under the pressure of his longevity.
Darkwing
Darkwing I
- Expy: Of Batman.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Omni-Man seemingly kills him in the comic. On panel, there is a big surge of blood exploding behind Darkwing.
- Legacy Character: Is succeeded by his sidekick Darkboy.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue he debuts in. The reason why he is an expy of Batman, according to
Word of God, is to make his death more shocking to the reader who thought Omni-Man was following the Superman route.
Aquarus
Aquarus
- Captain Fishman: In this case, he's an actual fishman.
- Expy: Of Aquaman.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue he debuts in. The reason why he is an expy of Aquaman, according to Word of God, is to make his death more shocking to the reader who thought Omni-Man was following the Superman route.
- Your Head Asplode: How he's killed by Omni-Man. On panel, Aquarus' and Red Rush's heads are seemingly smashed together.
War Woman
War Woman
- Butch Lesbian: An extremely muscular woman, a powerful heroine, and what little we have seen of her life showed she had a girlfriend whom she was making plans to move in with.
- Carry a Big Stick: Her weapon of choice is a mace with a rounded head.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her first scene in the comic is her lying completely naked in bed, covered just enough to avoid a R rating.
- Neck Snap: Seemingly killed this way by Omni-Man, as in the panel featuring her death there is a "Snap!" onomatopeia.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue she debuts in. Later, Sinclair is seen apparently trying to reanimate her as a cyborg zombie, but it didn’t result in anything.
- Wonder Woman Wannabe: Based mainly on Wonder Woman and Big Barda, with a few aspects of Thor.
Red Rush
Red Rush
- Expy: Of The Flash.
- The Speedster: As expected, Red Rush has Super-Speed. He even wears red just like the Flash.
- Super-Speed: As an expy of the Flash, he is very fast.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue he debuts in.
- Your Head Asplode: How he's killed by Omni-Man. On panel, his and Aquarus' are seemingly smashed together.
Martian Man
Martian Man
- Expy: Of Martian Manhunter.
- Gutted Like a Fish: How Omni-Man killed him in the comic. All that is seen on panel is Martian Man's guts exploding. Based on what is learned later of Martian physiology, the only definite way to kill a Martian is to rip out the organ that acts as their heart. Ostensibly, its why Omni-Man disemboweled MM completely, to not risk missing the organ.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue he debuts in.
Green Ghost
Green Ghost
- Expy: Of Green Lantern.
- Intangible Man: His powerset.
- Legacy Character: Implied by him that he is new to the role as the Green Ghost.
- Nausea Fuel: For him in-universe. To access his powers he has to swallow a green tablet and vomit it up to depower each time. He is grossed out by it.
- Off with His Head!: He is decapitated by Omni-Man.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off by Omni-Man in the same issue he debuts in.
Black Samson
Black Samson (Markus Grimshaw)
- Black Dude Dies First: During Robot's hostile takeover, he is one of the first superheroes killed.
- Convenient Coma: His fight with Battle Beast leaves him comatose for many issues, allowing Monster Girl to make use of his suit so she doesn't rely as much on her powers.
- De-power: At the very start of the series he is forcibly retired from the Guardians of the Globe after he somehow lost his powers. Despite later getting a suit that allowed him to continue superheroics, it is hardly comparable to the power he once held.
- Expy: Of Iron Man and Black Lightning.
- Powered Armor: He wears one due to losing his powers before the start of the series. Later, his natural powers return and said armor retired after Monster Girl destroyed it in combat.
- Sole Survivor: As he was depowered at the time, he was the only immediate survivor of the original Guardians of the Globe deaths. The Immortal did return to life, but he was functionally dead for some time.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: He is killed quickly and unceremoniously while working as a barber during Robot's hostile takeover.
Teen Team / Guardians of the Globe II
In General
In General
The Teen Team was a band of super-powered teenagers. Together they fought crime and global menaces until the team was disbanded in a cloud of drama and ambition.
- Inadequate Inheritor: The opinion of Cecil and Donald. Although very much successful by and large, their response time, inability to keep collateral damage down and failure to handle the real heavy hitter threats as well as they’d like makes them this in their eyes. As the years go on though and the roster grew and evolved they eventually subvert this, being even more effective than their predecessors.
Robot (Spoilers Unmarked)
Robot (Rudolph "Rex" Conners)
Robot is, to all appearances, exactly what his name implies. He's actually a mutated scientist using a remote-controlled robot body. He later transfers his mind to a clone of Rex Splode, and later still pays tribute to Rex's Heroic Sacrifice by taking his name.
- Affair? Blame the Bastard: After he finds out that Monster Girl had an affair with Zall Zaxal, he orders the Zaxal family line to be exterminated, including the unborn child of Zall. He is upset that the child, Monax, survived.
- All There in the Manual: One specific thing about Robot's fate at the end of the series is only given at the fan-mail session of the same final issue: one perceptive reader noted that The Immortal ending up as the leader of the world at the end is his exact same fate as in the terrible alternate universe shown early in the series where The Immortal goes crazy and villainous as the centuries goes by; Kirkman confirms that The Immortal of that world went crazy because Robot was also his advisor in that universe, but the key difference is that Mark was not present anymore in the alternative universe, with that said Kirkman wonders who Mark will find in charge of Earth if he stops checking by periodically.
- And I Must Scream: He spends the rest of his days as a Brain in a Jar and while other people will listen to his ideas, that is about the full extent of it.
- Bait-and-Switch: For a while Robot’s plan to make a clone of himself without any of his deformities was a framed in mystery, as if he was actually a villain planning something nefarious, turns out he just wanted a better life for himself; then all went south he grows more and more antagonistic later in the series due crucial events that made Robot more cynical, planning world domination to enact his own views of world peace.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Becomes one of the book's primary antagonists alongside Thragg following his Face–Heel Turn, though he will cooperate with Mark against Thragg. Once Thragg is dead, he remains the final threat that the heroes have to take down.
- Book Ends: At the start of the story, he was a deformed man trapped in a liquid tank. By the end of the series, his clone is condemned to a similar fate, this time as a Brain in a Jar.
- Brain in a Jar: His fate after Mark defeats him in #142. He is kept alive in this state so he can give advice to the Immortal, whom Mark has tasked with watching over the world. Robot admits that while he is very lonely, maybe this is for the best.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: After his Start of Darkness, he can't stop screwing over people. This is especially evident in the Wham Shot at the end of #141, where he had an entire blockade of robots blocking off the returning heroes after Thragg's defeat.
- Control Freak: Not at first but his time in the Flaxan dimension definitely made him one. He usually dresses it up with a lot of Logos and some well placed Pathos, but at the end of the day he's a man who's bitter that his intellect and leadership skills in a comparably more inept world aren't as valued and respected as he'd like, so he'd rather rule that world and make it as moral and functional as possible...and death to anyone who thinks otherwise and would pose a threat. His entire purge of the superhero community being driven by this; removing those he'd figured would be the biggest obstacle or hardest to control in his grand schemes, and whenever that failed he'd manipulate them into being in his employ via talking them into believing his ideas and skills as being for the benefit of the world and offering hollow gestures of apology and recompense for his actions.
- Didn't Think This Through: He decides to kidnap any of the children who are part-Viltrumite, but clearly did not think that their parents will most likely go against him since they care about and love those children. He also did not think that those who sided with him will still have standards since those who agreed with him and sided with him turn against him, and this ends up causing him to be taken care of by Mark who turns him into a Brain in a Jar since he does have knowledge that will be helpful to everyone else, but as punishment he will end up spending the rest of his life in a jar so he does not do any more harm.
- Driven to Suicide: The cloning process duplicates his consciousness rather than transfers it. This means his original body still exists in a painful state. He asks for the Rex clone to kill him to end his suffering.
- Drunk with Power: One of the things that pushed him towards his Face–Heel Turn, as it left him with an urge for complete control and authority that was only distracted by his work and relationship. His time in the Flaxan dimension as its ruler pushed him to greater moral and ethical law than Monster Girl ever thought possible, essentially turning the once ruling class into second-class citizens at best, driven by his belief that given the chance they’d seize power from him and undermine all his work. Once that did come to pass thanks to Monster Girl, he abandons any scruples of seeing them as people and, once they topple the regime and plan to head home, has his loyalists dedicate themselves to wiping out the entire bloodline with extreme prejudice behind Monster Girl's back, largely motivated by her affair with Zall Zaxal and their constant undermining of his authority. He gets over this once he gets back to Earth, but over time gets fed up with his lack of control and yearns for the days he was in charge and doing this his way.
- Enemy Mine: Despite having fallen out with Invincible following his coup, the two form an alliance in taking down Thragg when he proved too great a threat to ignore. But once Thragg is out of the picture, Robot promptly betrays Invincible and becomes the Post-Final Boss.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- He's surprised by Invincible killing Rus Livingstone, saying he was mind-controlled and still could've been saved.
- Subverted in his condemnation of Mark for enabling the destruction Dinosaurus caused. When betraying Invincible, Rex admits that he was actually impressed by what Mark did and contemplated having him as an ally once he launches his coup.
- Evil Costume Switch: He uses upgraded black armour instead of his usual reddish while executing his takeover.
- Expy: Initially of Robotman, then of Lex Luthor and Ozymandias after his Face–Heel Turn.
- Future Me Scares Me: In Reboot?, Robot's past-self infers what Mark is carefully not saying about his future self, and observes that he's always been scared of detaching himself from humanity like that and becoming a monster.
- Happiness in Slavery: Essentially his ultimate fate. He ends up a Brain in a Jar, able to use his great intellect to assist the planet in becoming a utopia but with his ideas filtered through somebody with a much better moral compass. He admits that he actually feels relief at the burden of constantly struggling to do the right thing when he can't understand morality being taken off him.
- Hero Killer: Managed to rack up a large killcount which consisted of a majority of the world's heroes in his attempt to take over the world and make it a better place. He not only succeeds but to pour salt on the wound, he actually makes an appearance at their funerals.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Something always on Robot's mind. Robot is a superhero who is genuinely trying to help people and make the world a better place, but he constantly worries that his lack of humanity would eventually cause him to perform actions just as terrible as the villains he fights to achieve his goals. Unfortunately, he's right.
- Humongous Mecha: Robot sometimes uses much larger suits and drones for situations that need that much power.
- Invincible Villain: Everything seemed to work in his favor when he successfully took over the world. He killed off most of the superheroes and supervillains who he felt were the biggest obstacles to him without much resistance, and rather than hate him the people of the Earth support him for solving their problems. A few others heroes actually join him upon seeing what he's done for the world despite escaping his custody. Even Mark and Allen don’t do anything to prevent it. In Issue 141, however, he overplays his hand by kidnapping all the part-Viltrumite children on Earth as security against their parents, reasoning that Mark, now ruler of the Viltrumites, would come after him. This makes even those who had previously sided with him turn against him, and he ends up as a Brain in a Jar courtesy of Mark.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mark impales him through his Powered Armor, though he kept Rex alive long enough for them to preserve his consciousness.
- Jerk with the Heart of a Jerk: Around the time of the final battle, he seems to help Mark out in his final battle against Thragg with a robotic suit that gives Mark just enough protection to outlast Thragg and win. But it turns out around the same time and after the battle, he had kidnapped all the half-Viltrumite children and was planning on using them against Mark as the new leader of the Viltrumites.
- Kiss of Death: Gives one to Monster Girl before having her thrown into outer space.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After killing a majority of both superheroes, supervillains and associates of such, he was finally stripped of his rule, and reduced to a brain. Now with no way to escape, being constantly watched over to make sure he tries nothing, and the woman he loves finally giving up on him. Probably his only consolation is the fact that he can still help mankind using his knowledge.
- Manipulative Bastard: His default move whenever the more direct approach of violence doesn't work out for him. Always using a combination of his admittedly good ideas, his targets known wants and needs and any trick in the book to reframe the narrative from him being the aggressor to a necessity that needed to be taken, and that he should be forgiven and even applauded for the good it will lead to. To his credit it usually works, as his plans do see the world become much better place and he wins over most of the superhero and villain community he didn't kill, but when he tries this on Mark one last time (after many other attempts in their history) after he kidnapped the Viltrumite children to turn the empire against him, Mark decides to just turn him into a brain in a jar and not give him the chance to play this card on his allies.
- Mercy Kill: The original Rudolph orders the new one to kill him to end his suffering.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Briefly has one after murdering many of his friends and taking over Earth. This doesn't stop him from continuing with his plans, and he does them so successfully that most of his enemies agree that he was right — at first, anyway.
- Older Than They Look: After changing to the clone body. Even more so after spending hundreds of years in the Flaxan dimension, where time moves at a much slower pace.
- Only One Me Allowed Right Now: A self-enforced version. Once he clones himself and transfers his mind to the healthy clone body, he asks the clone to kill him. The clone obliges.
- Post-Final Boss: Though he's fought after Thragg, he's quickly defeated by Invincible and his allies, with his downfall serving to tie up any remaining loose ends on Earth.
- Powered Armor: After getting his cloned human body, he often wears a suit version of the original Robot, uh, robot.
- The Purge: As he launches his coup, he begins by systematically killing off those he perceives to be a threat to his rule while forcing the survivors into hiding.
- Really 700 Years Old: Literally. After he and Monster Girl spend seven hundred years in the Flaxan dimension.
- Refuge in Audacity: It takes a very special kind of bastard to appear in the funerals of the heroes you killed for no reason.
- Replacement Goldfish: Not wanting to live in his mutated body anymore, he creates a clone of Rex and copies his consciousness and memories into the new body. The new body then kills the old one at his request and lives the life Robot always wanted to.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Starts wearing a fancy suit after he takes over the world, taking quite a bit of tips from Cecil.
- The Smart Guy: As one of the most intelligent characters in the series, he is this to any group he works for.
- Villain Has a Point: While he did kill people Robot did manage to make Earth better than it ever was and did fix alot of problems. Mark himself realizes this, which is why he kept Rex alive as a brain so he could serve as the Immortal's advisor.
- Villain with Good Publicity: After his Face–Heel Turn, he's convinced all but a few in the entire world (which he effectively takes over), that he is a good man. Even a few heroes who know better, but still see what he benefits he gives to the world. This all comes tumbling down when he overplays his hand in Issue 141, however, with even his allies turning on him.
- Walking Spoiler: As you can see, it is very difficult to discuss Robot in depth without also bringing up his massive influence on the plot, and how he's the source of many of the story's big reveals.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He becomes this during and following his time spent in the Flaxan dimension.
- Would Hurt a Child: When Thragg's forces attack Earth, the Viltrumites loyal to Nolan join him to fight the madman. While they're doing that, Rex kidnaps their children from their human parents to blackmail the Viltrumites into not attacking afterwards, under Mark's leadership, or on their own initiative. This turns out to be a horrible mistake, as this instead incentivises everyone to rebel against him.
Rex Splode
Rex Splode (Rex Sloan)
A cocksure young hero with explosive powers. Anything but popular due to his difficult behavior.
- Character Development: He grows up a great deal and becomes kinder and wiser, encouraging Eve, his ex, to go for it with Mark, before his Heroic Sacrifice. However, not everyone recognized this, as his bad first impression lingered.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His family was poor and broke, forcing him to steal for the family for their survival. His family happily sold him off for food, his new father figure trained him as a Tyke-Bomb to his do his bidding, and when the government found out that he killed him accidently, he was hunted down.
- Expy: Of Gambit. Not just in his powers set, but also his past as a thief and adopted Tyke-Bomb.
- Freudian Excuse: Rex has a lot of reasons for being a huge asshole, including the fact that his family sold him away to a black ops government program and never thought about him again and being used as an assassin by his evil father figure.
- Having a Blast: His powers allow him to turn inert objects into grenades.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Detonated his entire skeleton in an attempt to kill the Evil Invincible he was battling.
- Improvised Weapon: Thanks to his powers, everything is a weapon to Rex. His preferred choice being batons, golf balls, and various odds and ends he carried around. Later when gets his robot arm, he has an arm cannon installed that shoots golf balls he charges internally before firing. He even improvises his own skeleton as a weapon, dying in the process to kill one of the evil alternate Invincibles.
- Jerkass: While he does have an excuse for this, he still arrogant, self-important and confrontational to many. He grows up, and became a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, then... cue Heroic Sacrifice.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's brash, shallow in his interests, and self-centered in most in what he does. He is still a hero, and those who can see past his flaws make good friends with him.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He hurt Eve by cheating on her with Dupli-Kate, with Eve walking in on them and finding out about it. Later on, he would walk in on Dupli-Kate with the Immortal in a similar manner to Eve walking in on his cheating.
- Odd Friendship: Despite both liking the same girl and thinking the other is a jerk, Rex and Mark actually manage to eventually become something akin to Vitriolic Best Buds. It's notable since Mark doesn't really spend much time in a personal sense with any of the Guardians of the Globe beyond Rex, throws less dangerous villains Rex's way to boost his self-esteem, and visits Rex whenever he ends up in the hospital.
- Replacement Goldfish: When he finally found his parents again, they were living happily with two new kids and held no remorse over abandoning him.
- Tyke-Bomb: What his new father figure trained him to be, a loyal weapon that kills off any enemy international or within the states, or any threats to his organization.
Dupli-Kate
Dupli-Kate (Kate Cha)
Having come from a cursed bloodline, Kate Cha suddenly began creating clones of herself at a young age. Years later, she gained control of her powers and decided to use them to fight evil as Dupli-Kate.
- Disappeared Dad: Lost his mind trying to take care of his ever-fluctuating number of kids.
- Expy: She's a gender-flipped Multiple Man.
- Hereditary Curse: The indirect source of Kate's powers. One of Kate's ancestors, the Warlord Fung Cha, was cursed by the dying breath of the Emperor of China that "The seventh generation after Cha's seventh grandchild would be burdened with a family too large to care for… and it would drive him mad." That grandchild would be Kate's father, Tsing Cha, and the curse was fulfilled by giving Kate and her brother Paul duplication powers. Taking care of hundreds of children by yourself can apparently be really stressful.
- Magical Seventh Son: Her powers are indirectly the result of a Hereditary Curse to a slight variation on this effect. See above for details.
- Mayfly–December Romance: With the Immortal, even becomes the mother to his children.
- Missing Mom: Her mother died in childbirth, leaving her poor father to raise her, her brother, and all their duplicates by himself.
- Power Perversion Potential: Atom Eve walks in on Kate and several of her duplicates all having sex with Rex Splode at the same time. Later, Rex walks in on her and her duplicates doing exactly the same thing with the Immortal. With the exact same paneling.
- It's implied by the epilogue that Mark walked in on her son doing this with Terra.
- Really Gets Around: She's one of the more sexually active characters in the series. Having hooked up with both Rex and The Immortal on panel.
- Self-Duplication: Her powerset. her dupes have "1", "2", "3" etc on their uniforms. The original one, "0", always stays at a safe house in case the rest of her duplicates are killed.
Monster Girl
Monster Girl (Amanda)
A charter member of the second Guardians of the Globe, Monster Girl can turn into a giant monster at will, but ages backward with each transformation due to a curse. She is also Robot's longtime girlfriend.
- Big-Breast Pride: During her time in the Flaxan dimension she physically matures to adulthood and is quite proud of her chest. She jokes that she would have suspected Robot being only interested in her physically if they had not known each other for so long.
- Blessed with Suck: Her curse to transform into a monster causes her to grow younger, so even though she was chronologically an adult, she was in the body of an adolescent. Later Robot is able to cure the curse via a belt that "rebuilds" her body correctly on the cellular level, instead of the faulty method her curse was doing it.
- Chivalrous Pervert: A rare female example, it would seem being trapped in the body of a teenager/pre-teen for about thirty years has left her with some serious frustration and little restraint when it comes to openly appreciating the attractiveness of the male superheroes around her. Because of her appearance this, understandably, makes those she's leering at incredibly uncomfortable.
- Gypsy Curse: This is the source of her powers. When she was young, she fell in love with a man whose grandmother disapproved of their relationship, so she cursed her to turn into a monster. Apparently, Monster Girl never figured this out and initially assumed she'd contracted some sort of disease whilst traveling.
- HULK MASH!-Up: She's the resident Hulk analog of the series, up to and including her own version of Planet Hulk where she enters into a relationship with an Flaxan woman and gives birth to a half-breed son named Monax, much like how Hulk entered into a relationship with an alien woman to produce Skaar.
- Interspecies Romance: Had an affair with a Flaxian woman named Zall, and with her monster form even sired a child with her.
- Monster Modesty: Originally her monster form only wore trunks, but since then it's been decked out in something like a lycra cycling suit.
- Older Than They Look: She's around thirty but has the appearance of a pre-teen, until Robot devises a cure for her condition. Taken even further after spending hundreds of years in another dimension.
- Power at a Price: Her curse may transform her into an incredibly strong monster that allowed her to become one of the world’s greatest heroes, but it also reduces her age with each use until she was reduced to prepubescent age. Interestingly, her curses power is inversely proportional to her age, the older she is the weaker her monster form (as she observed in the Flaxan dimension as she reached her twenties) and the younger she is the stronger it is (an alternate dimension version of her, who had been reduced to baby age, transformed into a city-sized behemoth capable of massacring Viltrumites and was so strong their best strategy for dealing with her was just waiting for her to get tired and transform back on her own).
- Really 700 Years Old: After her time in the Flaxian dimension with Robot.
- Ship Sinking: The last issue makes it clear she wants nothing to do with Robot anymore.
- Spoiled Brat: She came from a very wealthy family and is prone to lashing out at people due to looking like a child.
- Super Gender-Bender: Her monster form is unambiguously male; she even fathered a child in monster form.
Bulletproof
Bulletproof (Zandale Randolph)
Click here to see him as Invincible II
An artist and old associate of the Green Ghost who eventually got into crimefighting.
- Abusive Parents: His parents made it clear that they valued his brother more than him. When they learned that he impersonated his brother after his death (caused by his attempt to use Zandale as a guinea pig to test how to get out superpowers, empowering Zandale and killing him in the process), they refuse to believe him, assuming he murdered his brother. Indeed, they outright attack him and his girlfriend, and he accidentally kills them in self-defense.
- Accidental Murder: While his father is strangling his girlfriend, Zandale pulls him off her a little too hard and breaks his neck.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: After Mark heads off to fight in the Viltrum War, he temporarily fills in as Invincible II. He still holds the mantle even after Mark returns.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses his right hand in the Invincible War, but the GDA gives him a new, completely identical prosthetic hand.
- Ascended Extra: Went from one-off character to good friend of Invincible, Guardian of the Globe, and even putting in some time as Invincible.
- Bash Brothers: With Invincible.
- Compulsive Liar: He has cheated on Carla in the past, gotten caught, and claims to have changed his ways while he continues to hit on seemingly any woman he's alone with. Then there's the matter of impersonating his dead twin brother Tyrone for their parents' benefit. And later covering up his parents' death after accidentally killing them in the ensuing chaos when they learned the truth.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Of his evil twin brother.
- The Dragon: Serves as Robot's second-in-command following his takeover.
- Face–Heel Turn: Of the Well-Intentioned Extremist variety. He joins Robot in his world conquest, though he does try to make his friends be imprisoned rather than be killed, and he accepts his new scarred, two-faced appearance as representing what he is now.
- Flying Brick: His powerset is largely the same as other bricks, but with the ability to absorb kinetic energy.
- Handsome Lech: Despite having a girlfriend, he hits on more than a few female heroes.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: After Robot is defeated, he willingly surrenders to the resistance.
- Pet the Dog: When the rest of the heroes confront Invincible for his role in the destruction Dinosaurus caused, he's the only one who stands up for Mark, arguing that he's already guilty enough as it is and is genuinely trying to make amends.
- The Scapegoat: When reveals the secrets of his origin, Zandale's parents do not believe his twin brother was an evil Mad Scientist that unwillingly tested on his artsy, less ambitious twin brother. Instead, they convince themselves Zandale killed his brother after receiving powers and assumed his identity out of jealousy.
- Self-Made Orphan: Accidentally. He and his girlfriend kill both his parents when they lash out at him in a fit of favoritism-fueled grief.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Very attractive, tall, and African-American.
- Two-Faced: What he becomes after Robot's uprising; suffering a point-blank explosive detonating from inside the Immortal's stomach to stage a prison break. He refuses to get surgery out of guilt.
- The Un-Favourite: To his parents, who consciously favor his more academic twin over him — though they're implied not to have paid too much attention to what his twin was like, either. When Zandale tells them the truth, they immediately and furiously doubt it and accuse him of killing his brother in grief.
- You Should Have Died Instead: Told this by his parents after revealing the fate of his brother, complete with threatening to see him executed for his involvement — which, let it be said, was as the victim of Playing with Syringes.
Shapesmith
Shapesmith
A Martian, disguised as human astronaut Rus Livingston, who uses his metamorphic powers to change his shape.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Rather unceremoniously and almost spontaneously killed by Robot.
- Expy: Of Plastic Man and Martian Manhunter.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Moments before his death, Shapesmith cries at Robot's betrayal.
- For the Lulz: Pretty much why he became a hero, eventually becoming more noble and a bit more serious.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Martian's have a core that keeps them alive, even if they get ripped in half as Shapesmith did in the Invincible War.
- Hugh Mann: Subverted. He has a lot of stilted dialogue about being a normal human that nobody seems to notice...until Cecil reveals they knew he was a Martian all along and everyone else was just ignoring it.
- It's All About Me: Downplayed. He isn't openly narcissistic or anything, but when push comes to shove he'll do what's best for him. On the small scale, he'll trick Art into designing a new suit for him... then just shapeshifts the suit himself so he doesn't have to pay for it. On a much larger scale, he'll jeopardize the safety of the entire Martian race to the Sequid invasion to secure a better life for himself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He was one of the Martians who wrongly believed the Sequids enslaved by the Martians are the victims and freed them, which he then made worse by leaving Rus on Mars and taking his place, which gave the Squids the host they needed to conquer the planet. He exiled himself to Earth after his people threatened to execute him for his mistake.
- Shapeshifting: His main gimmick as a hero and a species wide trait. He’s particularly adept at though, capable of holding a human form for days at a time and essentially donns his human persona indefinitely once he settled on being a hero.
Shrinking Ray
Shrinking Ray
Shrinking Ray is a member of the Guardians of the Globe who had the ability to shrink to small sizes. This power allowed him to be able to escape traps quite easily.
- Expy: Of Ant-Man and The Atom.note
- Punny Name: Shrinking Ray... shrink ray.
- Sizeshifter: He can shrink to a few inches high.
- Swallowed Whole: While shrunk, he is eaten by Komodo Dragon in one bite.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: His main power is to shrink to only a few inches high, which does allow him to sneak around mostly undetected. There is no proportional increase in strength, unlike his expies Ant-Man and the Atom, nor do we see the extent of his shrinking to subatomic levels.
- That said, he does appear to be able to enter opponents' ear canals and disrupt them that way, as he is seen emerging from Magmaniac that way.
Nightboy / Darkwing II
Nightboy / Darkwing II
Darkwing II was originally the Night Boy for the previous Darkwing. Darkwing and the Guardians of the Globe thought that Night Boy would be great someday. Therefore, he felt driven to please them. After the death of his mentor, he would inherit the previous Darkwing's legacy and become the new Darkwing.
- Back for the Finale: After many years (both in real time and in-universe) of believed to be dead, surprisingly re-emerges from the Shadowverse he was trapped in, still alive but much older.
- Casting a Shadow: His superpower is using shadows as instantaneous travel portals through something called the Shadowverse. It comes with a cost, considering the dark dimension he travels through is filled with dangerous predators.
- Expy: Has a backstory and costume akin to Nightwing, the morality of The Punisher, and the powers of Cloak of Cloak and Dagger.
- Good Is Not Soft: Actively kills criminals, unlike his predecessor, to the point he was more like a serial killer than a superhero.
- Heel–Face Turn: While not a villain, his recruitment to the Guardians of the Globe is met with great concern from Mark due to his past acts of murder.
- Kid Sidekick: Formerly Nightboy.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He not only manages to survive his fight with an alternate Invincible, but also survive the Shadowverse and its dangerous inhabitants for over a decade.
- Redemption Equals Death: Not long after turning over a new leaf, he takes an evil Invincible from an alternate Earth into the shadow dimension. He is assumed dead until the finale when he re-emerges from the Shadowverse.
Wrath
Wrath
- Cain and Abel: Seemingly the Abel to her brother, Vengeance.
- Casting a Shadow: Along with her brother Vengeance, she has ties to the darkforce dimension.
- Expy: Of Raven.
- Last Episode, New Character: Appears in the Grand Finale issue.
- Purple Is Powerful: Has purple skin.
Introduced in Guarding the Globe
In General
In General
After Robot and Monster Girl end up in the Flaxan's home dimension, Cecil realizes that the Guardians' roster is spread too thin and his usual method of filling vacant spaces with one or two new heroes isn't efficient enough. Thus, he decides on a new method: gathering up as many new heroes as he can find from across the world to create a bigger roster so they're never caught off guard. These members are the result.
- La Résistance: Almost every character that survives up to that point refuses to join Robot after he takes over the world.
- Multinational Team: Invoked; Cecil wanted a team comprised of heroes from around the world so the Guardians wouldn't come across as a bunch of Americans policing the Earth. And while there are quite a few American heroes still on the team, the rest of the roster come from all over; Kid Thor is Canadian, Best Tiger is Chinese and operated out of Hong Kong, Japandroid is, well, Japanese, Cast Iron originates from an ex-Yugoslavian state, Kaboomerang is Australian, Outrun is South African, Pegasus is Swedish, Le Bruiser comes from France, El Chupacabra operated out of Mexico, and Yeti was first sighted in Nepal but is in actuality a Frost Giant and was born in Jotunheim (presumably).
Best Tiger
Best Tiger
A Hong Kong vigilante described by Robot as "a supercomputer with sidearms".
- Anti-Hero: He's motivated mostly by his pursuit of a challenge and he's not above killing or seriously wounding his enemies, but he's firmly a good guy and makes it quite clear he will ride or die for the Guardians.
- Awesome by Analysis: Tiger's specialty, but the most ridiculous instance of this trope is when he figured out that Outrun was being possessed purely from the the way she shaved her armpits, which he only noticed because of the sound the wind passing through her armpits made when she ran.
- Badass Boast: Three-quarters of his dialogue is nothing but this.Hunter: I know the brain trust at the G.D.A. calculated that once the secret police got their hands on a superhero they'd bring them to their superhero factory— but they could have just shot you in a ditch at any time.
Best Tiger: Them? Kill Best Tiger? Hunter makes joke. - Blind Weaponmaster: Subverted; his eyes work just fine, he just wears the blindfold because that's the only way combat holds any real challenge for him.
- Challenge Seeker: His primary concern is finding the toughest opponents around and dueling them to the death.
- A Day in the Limelight: Invincible Universe #4 follows Best Tiger as he systematically hunts down the Guardians of the Globe. Except not really, because it's all a fantasy sequence to occupy the Insomniac who's trying to mind control him into killing the other Guardians.
- Establishing Character Moment: He's surrounded by ninjas and he's down to one bullet, so what does he do? Remind his attackers that one bullet's always enough for him and fire a trick shot that cut through the assassins like a hot knife through butter while he deals with everybody that didn't get shot shortly afterwards.
- Expy: Of Daredevil with a little bit of Bullseye thrown in.
- Inexplicably Awesome: What's his origin story? How do his powers work? Does he even have powers? He's Best Tiger, that's all the answer you need.
- Nerves of Steel: Tiger's response to getting subjected to electric torture? Trick the chief torturer into getting too close and then bite down on his lip.
- Odd Friendship: Hangs out with the much more outgoing Kaboomerang a lot.
- One-Man Army: Doesn't matter if they're fully human mooks, robots, or alien invaders, they won't last two minutes against him.
- Pinball Projectile: His shots are usually these. He even managed to use his gun as one when he got captured by North Koreans.
- Psychic Static: Played with; he can't prevent people from reading his mind, but due to the way his brain works, he can tell when someone's actively digging around inside of it and how to subvert their control, as the Insomniac found out the hard way.
- Super-Senses: Kind of a prerequisite for someone who fights without bothering to use his eyes.
- You No Take Candle: English is pretty clearly his second language. Not that it prevents him from coming across as any less threatening, mind you.
Cast Iron
Cast Iron (Milos Stojakovic)
A hero from an unspecified ex-Yugoslav state.
- Chrome Champion: His iron skin's much darker than the typical example, but he still counts.
- Expy: Of Colossus of the X-Men.
- Hidden Depths: One panel shows him playing chess with Japandroid.
- Nice Guy: He's a very chill guy from what little we see of him.
- Taking the Bullet: Dies after throwing himself in front of El Chupacabra before War Woman II can drive her axe into his chest.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He doesn't get a whole lot of attention before dying.
- White Sheep: The rest of Milos' family used their powers to run a cartel. They consider him an embarrassment for turning his back on them.
El Chupacabra
El Chupacabra (Francisco Vasquez)
A Mexican hero who has fallen on some rough times.
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: His signature weapon.
- The Alcoholic: By the time he's recruited, he's practically living out of the bottle, which ends up getting Cast Iron killed and getting him temporarily kicked off the team. Thankfully, he eventually sobers up.
- Expy: The alcoholism and claws make him a pretty clear stand-in for Wolverine.
- Ironic Echo: During his meeting with Milos/Cast Iron's father, Francisco tries to explain he's an alcoholic, only for Mr. Stojakovic to reply there are no alcoholics where he lives, only "drinkers and the weak". Later, when the Stojakovics are being taken into custody, Francisco tosses the bottle back at him, claiming he's "too weak for it".
- Weak, but Skilled: During his fight with the Stojakovics, Francisco's completely outmatched physically as he himself admits, so he swipes some explosives from their armory, tricks them into following him to their dam, blows it wide open, and then just waits for them to surface again to take them out.
Japandroid
Japandroid
Japan's robotic protector.
- Badass Boast: When she's the last hero standing against Set:"Odds of my success: 0.0001%. Odds of my surrender: 0.0001%."
- Heroic Sacrifice: After she gets infested by a body-snatching alien parasite, she fights off its influence long enough to overload her nuclear core and ensure it never leaves her body.
- Improvised Weapon: Thanks to her ability to upgrade any technology, anything she gets her hands on can be a serious weapon. In one scene, she turns a pair of parking meters into automatic rifles that fire coins.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her ability to upgrade or weaponize any piece of technology to spice up the moon base's TV.
- Mysterious Past: Nobody knows who created her, or for what purpose.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: You wouldn't even tell without the name.
Kaboomerang
Kaboomerang (Daniel)
A wisecracking Australian superhero.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He'll flirt and crack innuendo to his hearts' content, but he's deeply ashamed that he technically slept with Outrun without her consent and takes great care not to overstep his bounds when they start dating.
- Glory Hound: Downplayed; his primary motivation for joining the Guardians was to make more of a name for himself, having done everything he can in his home country.
- Mind over Matter: He's revealed to be a low-level telekinetic, which he mostly uses to make his throws more accurate. Invincible Universe #12 throws the 'low-level' part out the window when he uses his powers to defuse bombs that have been scattered across the world.
- Nice Guy: He's the kind of guy who'd take you out for a pint and offer to be the designated driver.
- Official Couple: With Outrun.
- Precision-Guided Boomerang: It's all in the name. Emphasis on the guided part thanks to his telekinesis.
- Virtuous Character Copy: He's a heroic stand-in for Captain Boomerang.
- Unexpected Virgin: For all his flirtatiousness and swagger, he was a virgin before sleeping with Outrun and is very ashamed to learn that she was Not Herself at the time.
Le Bruiser
Le Bruiser
A superpowered French bulldog (yes you read that correctly) and Paris' champion.
- Cute Bruiser: She's a French bulldog who can and will rip the arm off of a grown man.
- A Day in the Limelight: Invincible Universe #6 follows Bruiser's journey through the city as she works to shut down a dogfighting ring.
- Does Not Know Her Own Strength: While assisting in the efforts to rebuild Paris, she accidentally pulls a little too hard on a statue she's helping raise.
- Expy: For Krypto the Superdog.
- Flying Brick: Like a solid number of the heroes in the game.
- Hidden Depths: Has a rather refined palate for a dog, preferring veal in her dog food.
- It's Personal: The first major city the Order sets out to destroy? Paris, her hometown. Naturally, Bruiser is pissed.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Even after reversing the Lizard League's transformation, Bruiser still retains the frog like tongue, which she demonstrates by stealing Cecil's lunch.
- Samus Is a Girl: Up until her spotlight issue in Invincible Universe, everybody referred to Bruiser as male.
Outrun
Outrun (Lily)
The Guardians' new speedster from South Africa.
- Ambiguously Bi: She sleeps with Bulletproof, Shapesmith, Kaboomerang, and Le Bruiser, and tries to make a move on Knockout (who rebuffs her). While that could easily be explained away as a result of her getting possessed, earlier in the series she also expresses a noticeable...interest in Bulletproof's nude photography.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Let us reiterate: she slept with a French bulldog.
- Official Couple: With Kaboomerang.
- Super-Speed: She's fast enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the time it takes for her to make a call to Cecil.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After being freed from Embrace's control, she promptly reads the heroes she slept with the riot act for not bothering to stop and question if she was the type of person to sleep around with anyone she makes eye contact with.
Yeti
Yeti
An excitable new hero who first cropped up in Nepal.
- 10-Minute Retirement: Brit kicks him off the team after finding out he was a child but lets him back on after realizing he was being a hypocrite- Yeti's teammate Le Bruiser is technically only six, and Monster Girl was fighting crime for years with the body of a preteen.
- Ascended Fanboy: He's over the moon to be working with his heroes, especially Brit.
- Cephalothorax: His face just sort of sits on his chest.
- Gentle Giant: Big, strong, and just an all-around nice guy.
- Kid Hero: Turns out he's only about twelve years old in Frost Giant years.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: He's actually a preteen Frost Giant.
- Super-Strength: Strong enough to beat Black Samson in arm wrestling with barely any effort.
Other Heroes
Allen the Alien
Allen the Alien
A Unopan Champion Evaluation Officer who worked for the Coalition of Planets.
- Adaptive Ability: Whenever he is beaten to near death and survives, his body becomes even stronger than before (think the Zenkai Boosts Saiyans get from Dragon Ball). It got to the point he became strong enough to kill Viltrumites by himself.Anissa: "What the HELL, Unopan!? My fourth husband couldn't hit me that hard!"
- Alternate Company Equivalent: He's a large, hulking alien hero who's friends with the main heroes, wears a Green Lantern-esque outfit sometimes, occasionally is shown to have pink skin (at least during those moments when he's in space), and answered to a council of alien elders in the Coalition of Planets at the beginning. With all these traits, he could basically be considered the Image equivalent of DC's Kilowog, if Kilowog occasionally dipped into more morally gray areas that result in some falling outs with his close friends.
- Anti-Villain: After Mark becomes the new emperor of the Viltrumites and turns them into a galaxy-spanning force for good, Allen ends up becoming this, as the prosperity the reformed Viltrumites have brought has led to planets questioning if the Coalition needs to still exist. When Mark suggests the Coalition dissolve, the Viltrumites and Coalition end up going to war, though it does end with Allen agreeing with Mark, as he was made aware of how the Coalition was exploiting the resources of smaller planets to prop up planets with bloating populations.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: After the Viltrumite War and Thaedus' death he becomes leader of the Coalition of Planets.
- Breakout Character: He went from sorta of an associate of Mark, to friend and recurring character of the cast. It got to the point he was so beloved in real life that the creator himself admitted to liking him and promised that he wouldn't die before the series ended. He even jokingly toyed with a spin-off series.
- Came Back Strong: Similar to Saiyans from Dragon Ball, every time he nearly dies and comes back, he comes back way stronger. Case in point, he went from painfully below adult Viltrumites when he started off, to stronger than most adult Viltrumites at the end of the war.
- The Chains of Commanding: After becoming the leader of the Coalition of Planets, he's forced to make incredibly difficult decisions that not only strained his friendship with Mark but cost the lives of some of his friends like Oliver and Nolan. It's clear that these decisions weigh heavily on him.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Averted. Instead of fighting Allen over a pointless misunderstanding, Mark tries talking first. When they do eventually go to war, they end up as friends again.
- Fatal Flaw: Refusal to accept direct responsibility. Since the death of Thaedus and Allen becaming new the leader of The Coalition of Planets, he developed a fairly selfish trait where he would often blame his motivations and actions on the pressure of his new role as leader. And although he would feel guilty for his actions, he would never stop doing this even decades into his position. Even when it directly impacted the lives of his friends and family.
- Flying Brick: Similar powers to most Viltrumites: Super strength, durability, speed, endurance, reflexes, and agility.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Allen has been critically hospitalized at least twice, but manages to come back as good as ever.
- Hero of Another Story: Allen has his own vaguely Green Lantern-like career and adventures, of which we only see a few snippets.
- Humanoid Alien: A burly cyclops with only three digits per hand.
- I Did What I Had to Do:
- He's willing to use the Viltrumite virus on Earth to kill off the remaining population, even though it might kill the humans instead. He ends up regretting his actions, but this leads to a rift between him and Mark.
- He also manipulated Oliver — then working as a double agent for him — into pushing Thragg for a personal meeting, knowing how Thragg would react, in order to involve Mark once more. Mark, unsurprisingly, tries to kill him, though he later accepts his reasoning.
- Let's You and Him Fight: He repeatedly ran through this scenario with Mark's dad until Mark actually tried talking to him and found out his attacks were a mistake — not the attacks themselves (he was just supposed to be the equivalent of a fight trainer to make sure that the relevant planet's champion was up to standard), but the planet. Turns out this whole time he thought he was testing the planet Urath, which is somewhere completely different from Earth.
- Manipulative Bastard: Eventually has to become this as the Leader of the Coalition of Planets, though he's not necessarily happy about it — especially when it leads to the death of Oliver, his friend. Mark is severely displeased, but (eventually) understands the reasoning and necessity.
- My Greatest Failure: He blames himself for what he did to return Mark into heroics, namely convincing Oliver to meet with Thragg and revealing the location of Mark's family, as it got Oliver killed and deeply angered Mark during his funeral, to the point he went ballistic and fought him relentlessly until Eve stopped them. When he revealed the truth to both of them, Eve nearly crushed him to death in retribution.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: What he is as the leader of the collection of planets, he always try to make the best decision and when he is wrong is fully willing to acknowledge his mistakes.
- Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel: He runs a circuit of Coalition planets, evaluating their champions' ability to defend their plant, with no sign of needing a ship.
- Took a Level in Badass: Thanks to his ability to get stronger from every near-death experience, he's able to eventually surpass Omni-Man when Allen was defeated the first few times they fought.
Damien Darkblood
Damien Darkblood
Damien Darkblood is a denizen of Hell that is known as the Demon Detective. He came to Earth and works as a private detective, usually investigating superhero matters.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Damien Darkblood, Demon Detective.
- Expy: With the outfit and investigating superheroes being murdered, he's essentially Rorschach as a demon, with some Etrigan as part of it.
- Noble Demon: Literally. He is not a bad person, but he is a bonafide demon, even with trying to solve cases.
- Occult Detective: A literal demon detective. The case he takes is actually less supernatural than he is.
- Terse Talker: Speaks short sentences. Bare minimum needed to get point across. Borders on Hulk Speak at points.
Fightmaster and Drop Kick
Fightmaster and Drop Kick
Two time-travelling martial arts masters who stole the Declaration of Independence. From the same era as the future insane Immortal.
Tech Jacket
Tech Jacket (Zack Thompson)
An ordinary, average human teenager who finds an alien armor, the titular Tech Jacket, which greatly enhances his strength as well as providing many other abilities.
- Hero of Another Story: He is the hero of his own series.
- Instant Armor: His titular "tech jacket" is bonded to him and can be summoned instantaneously.
- Mirror Universe: In Brit, there is a reality where the Geldarians are evil. Zack still finds the Tech Jacket and uses it to fight against the Geldarians.
- Powered Armor: The tech jacket armor gives him super strength and endurance, as well as advanced weaponry and the ability to breathe in space.
Firebreather
Firebreather (Duncan Rosenbaum)
The son of a normal human woman and a gigantic Kaiju father. He has to deal with both high school and proving his strength to eventually become King Of the Monsters.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Duncan has orange, scaly skin.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His mother is human, his father is a Kaiju. It is never properly explained how he was born.
- Hero of Another Story: He is the hero of his own series.
- Running Gag: When someone tries to explain how he was born (as in, how his mother became pregnant), the story is never finished. For reference, his mother can fit in his father's hand.
- Super Team: Was briefly a member of a team called the "Pact" along with Invincible, Shadowhawk, and Zephyr.
The Astounding Wolf-Man
Wolf-Man (Gary Hampton)
- Hero of Another Story: He is the hero of his own series.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Due a to a huge misunderstanding where Gary is blamed for the murder of his wife, Invincible is sent to arrest him. Thankfully, Gary is able to talk him down and explain everything.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: More or less a traditional werewolf, with a degree of superstrength, since he was chosen by the previous Alpha to become his replacement in a trial by fire scenario. He also leads his own pack.
- Super Team: Temporarily joins the Guardians of the Globe.
Capes, Inc.
Capes, Inc.
A group of super heroes who get paid to take care of crimes.
- Evil Mentor: Big Brain turns out to have orchestrated a massive villain breakout in order to secure funding for Capes, Inc.
- Hero of Another Story: Their team had a short series that introduced the team.
- Punch-Clock Hero: Played with. The Capes, Inc. team are absolutely heroic, even otherwise sexist individual Commander Capitalism, and go out of their way to fight villains. However, when they work off their designated shift they expect to receive overtime pay.
- Super Team: They are made up of various superheroes and were founded by the Meteor Twins and their Kid Sidekick Big Brain. Some members later join or at least assist the Guardians of the Globe, including Kid Thor and Knockout.
Brit
Brit
A geriatric superhero with complete invulnerability but not super strength.
- Hero of Another Story: Brit was featured in his own series, which showed him meeting his wife and her giving birth to their son, among other adventures. Of note, the third Brit one-shot shows the alien invasion that took place during Invincible #16 and how it was actually stopped.
The Dragon
The Dragon (Kurr)
- Hero of Another Story: The Dragon headlines his own series, where he operates out of Detroit.
