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Invincible (Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson)

"Yeah... I can fly."

The titular Invincible. A young man new to the superhero scene, but nonetheless enthusiastic about doing good in the world.

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• Achilles in His Tent: He stayed out of super-heroics following Robot's takeover on the grounds that he's a father now and his responsibility is to his daughter. This ends when Thragg demonstrates that he's going to come for him anyway, killing Oliver, trying to kill Terra, and practically killing Eve and Mark — who're only saved by Eve's emergency organic manipulation abilities.
• Action Dad: To his daughter by Eve, Terra.
• Anger Born of Worry: During a battle against Furnace and Kursk, Oliver dives into the battle head first and gets attacked by Kursk. Invincible defeats Furnace is Kursk and then angrily berates Oliver for charging recklessly in battle. While Invincible is genuinely angry, he is still glad that Oliver is okay from the battle and is able to praise him in his flying abilities.
• Arch-Enemy: Considers Angstrom Levy to be his for threatening his family.
• Baddie Flattery: Does this a bit. Provided they aren't a threat.
• Blood Knight: Constantly has to deal with this in later issues due to his Viltrumite DNA.
• Came Back Strong: He and Eve are torn apart in the ambush that killed Oliver. When Eve's powers kick in and revive him, she also used the opportunity to increase his power so he can better fight Thragg.
• Character Development: Mark starts out full of idealism and Wrong Genre Savvy — he thinks he's in a simple world of right and wrong. As the series has gone on, numerous personal catastrophes and Gray-and-Grey Morality choices are forced on him. Nevertheless, he ultimately maintains a strong sense of right and wrong, and by the end of the series he manages to bring peace to both the Earth and a large segment of the galaxy as Emperor of the Viltrumite Empire, emphasizing the new main quality of the Empire — mercy.
• Chubby Chaser: When he sees the recently plumped-up Eve put on her costume again, he's quite pleased.
• Clark Kenting: His mask has a pair of goggles but lets the bottom half of his face bare and it even lets his hair out, not to mention it gets torn often. Most people see right through it.
• Classical Anti-Hero: In later issues, Mark finds himself frequently making mistakes which cost the lives of millions of people all over the world, and as such becomes plagued with self-doubt over his own sense of judgement and morality.
• Combat Breakdown: Whenever he is pushed into a corner in a desperate fight, he will use all his will-power to use whatever body part that is still functioning to hurt his enemy. Invincible will headbutt them, bite them, to make sure to win the fight.
  • In his fight against Conquest, Invincible loses his cool from Atom Eve's severe injuries that he is prepared to shatter his own arm purely to shatter Conquest's cybernetic arm. By the end of the battle when Invincible's arms and leg are broken, he proceeds to use his head to kill Conquest.
• Combat Pragmatist: He has no qualms fighting dirty in a life-or-death situation. In his first altercation with Viltrumites aside from his father, he holds his own against his more powerful and more experienced opponent by fighting dirty, such as kicking him in the crotch.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Either gives these out or is on the receiving end of one. Notable ones on which he is on the business include his father Omni-Man, Conquest... and basically the entire Viltrumite War storyline.
• Dad the Veteran: His father Nolan is Omni-Man, the world's premier superhero and a high ranking soldier in the Viltrumite Empire's army. He's since become this to his own children.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Although Thragg can't hear him, he gives an awesome "Reason You Suck" Speech to him about how pathetic he is for fighting over petty vengeance over not being the Grand Regent anymore.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted. His rape by Anissa is so traumatizing that he's unable to bring it up to his father and, until he confesses what happened to Eve, he's unwilling to be intimate with her — and even then, it takes a little time.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Yes. Despite starting as an optimistic hero, Mark had to face the darkest events anyone could ever hope to, including the death of friends, his ideals being proven wrong, being raped, losing many years with his daughter, and then the death of his brother and father, he had a happy ending with Eve as the king of the redeemed Viltrumites, whose powers avert the problem with the Viltrumites being long-living.
• Failure Hero: Closer inspection of his actions and their consequences in the story reveal Invincible to be this. He often makes reckless decisions and ends up paying for them later, costing the lives of millions of innocent people and making himself more disliked than he already was. Examples include his interference with Levy Angstrom's experiment which turned the man to supervillainy and eventual genocide via alternate reality Invincible clones, blindly making deals with Cecil Stedman, rescuing Dinosaurus in attempt to use his evil intellect for good which caused millions to drown from melted ice caps after it didn't work out, frequently changing his kill and no-kill stances, and eventually deciding to not even try to stop his hero-turned-tyrant comrade Robot from taking over the Earth. Even when he tries to leave Earth for a quiet life with his family, his bad decisions once again catch up with him when Thragg tries to have him and his family killed. Ultimately, however, he averts this once he becomes Older and Wiser, as new Emperor of the Viltrumite Empire.
• Flying Brick: His powerset. He has to constantly remind people that he doesn't have super senses, though.
• Good Is Not Dumb: He has tried to come up with non-violent solutions to problems before resorting to punching. It's also implied early on that he is (at least) a decent student.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: He's got the Viltrumite Healing Factor, and his habit of getting in trouble with vastly stronger and more experienced warriors means that he gets more use out of it than anyone else does. It's not a proper fight unless Mark comes out of it looking like a sack of reddish-purple pulp.
• The Good King: Eventually becomes the Viltrumite emperor and (as the final issues of the series shows) he is EXTREMELY good at it. When he faces a rebellion, he puts them down, but also picks them back up and helps them become better than ever, to tremendous success. He breaks away from self-destructive traditions and shows his people a better way, which leads to the Empire becoming celebrated all across the universe.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half human, half Viltrumite; although truth to form, Mark has much more Viltrumite in him than human, not only are Viltrumite genes dominant over any other species, they are a great match to human DNA, with human/Viltrumite hybrids ending up just a step away from being a pure blood Viltrumite.
• Happily Married: To Atom Eve. 500 years later, they're still this.
• Heroic Build: Eventually by the epilogue of the series, where Mark is likely on his fifties and then hundreds, he becomes as muscular as any veteran Viltrumite, like his father was.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He put his trust in both Titan and Dinosaurus, thinking that he could guide the amoral talents of Dinosaurus in particular to more productive ends, with disastrous results. Even Cecil, someone whose used the talents of captured villains towards his own ends, has criticized Mark for what transpired with Dinosaurus.
• Kill the Host Body: Deconstructed. The Sequids uses Rus Livingston's body to attack a city on Earth. Invincible is aware of the threat the Sequids poses if they manage to possess multiple human beings. Invincible decides that the best way to quickly stop the Sequids before they cause more damage in the future is to kill Rus Livingston. Invincible kills Rus Livingstone by punching his head off his body to defeat the Sequids. However, Robot shames Invincible for what he has done and that they could have defeated the Sequids in another way without harming Rus Livingston. Invincible's actions causes him to question his own morals and leave the battle against the Sequids. Luckily, he is later comforted by Cecil and Eve.
• Knew It All Along: Mark knew that Robot would eventually go full mask-off after conquering the Earth, and even though Mark was forced to accept his rule, it wasn't until issue #141 that he's proven right; Robot kidnaps all the half-Viltrumite children on Earth to force their Viltrumite parents to turn against Mark.
• Knight in Sour Armor: As the series wears on and he continuously is beaten upon with the harsh realities of the universe's cruelty, he never quite stops being a hero but certainly stops playing nice when shit hits the fan yet again. When he sees Thragg mortally wound Oliver and responds by decapitating Thragg's son, his words say it all:
  Invincible: Being a hero is bullshit.
• Lightning Bruiser: Shares this trope with his father and the rest of the Viltrumites. He is stronger, faster, and tougher than most people on Earth.
• Man Bites Man: He will not hesitate to bite his opponent when in a pinch, as he did with Conquest, Onaan and Thragg, ripping out the latter's throat.
• Mistaken for Masturbating: His mother once thought he wasn't just sitting on the loo, having a dump and reading a comic, but also wanking.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Adopts this line of thought once the extremely dangerous and completely unreasonable foes start appearing, with them killing or attempting to kill everyone he loves; although before Mark loses sight of himself he pulls the brakes a little, only considering killing as a last resort, trying to reach a common understanding with foes who are open to dialogue. At the end of the series, as the Viltrumite emperor it seems Mark and his people have stopped killing altogether, with mercy being being pursued at every turn, since their collective strength is enough to make aggressors think twice.
• Neck Lift: Mark holds Onaan's neck while he negotiates with Thragg to let Terra live. However, when Thragg refuses to cooperate with him and calls Mark's threat a bluff based heroic ideals, Mark squeezes Onaan’s neck so hard he decapitates him.
• Off with His Head!: Invincible performs this attack on both Rus Livingston and Onaan.
  • In the Rus Livingston case, Invincible decapitates him when the Sequids won't let go of Rus’ body. Robot scolds Invincible for it, asserting that the Sequids could have been defeated without harming Rus.
  • In Onaan's case, Mark kills him by crushing his neck into paste when Thragg refuses to give him back his daughter and doesn’t believe he’d actually go through with killing as a hero.
• Papa Wolf: Towards Terra. Mark will kill you without a second thought if you mess with her and refuse to leave.
• Power of Friendship: In the final battle against Thragg, Robot decides to help his old friend one last time and sends Mark his exoskeleton. This protects Invincible from the heat of the sun for a valuable few minutes while Thragg continues to burn.
• Precision F-Strike: Sums up being left in an alternate universe by Robot after Angstrom Levy is killed, his alternate self (the emperor of that Earth) is brutally murdered in front of him, and Robot announces his intentions of conquering the main Earth.
  Invincible: Holy fuck.
• Punch Parry: Being filled with rage from Conquest stabbing Atom Eve with his hand, Invincible musters up the strength to charge at him. On the other hand, Conquest charges at Invincible, intending to deliver a powerful punch in his face. In retaliation, Invincible himself delivers a punch ofnhis own so powerful that it ends up destroying his own arm and Conquest's cybernetic arm.
• Really 700 Years Old: In the final pages of the series’ epilogue Mark is in his five hundreds, with his appearance settling at a very muscular and well preserved man in his forties.
• Retired Badass: After his daughter is born. He renounces super heroics to spend time with her until Thragg and Robot prove too great a threat to ignore.
• Rightful King Returns: Mark is the grandson of Argall, the former Viltrumite king before his assassination and the civil war that led to Thragg taking over. At the end of the comic, Mark becomes the new Emperor of the Viltrumites.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Does this a lot in the last few arcs of the series, but special mention goes to how he finally gets the better of Robot so he can maintain the utopia his enemy created while making sure he never hurts anyone ever again.
• Superman Substitute: He's more or less a reconstruction of the trope.
• Took a Level in Badass: One of the best-known examples in comics. At the start of the series, while he's still one of the heaviest hitters on Earth, he's still outclassed by the likes of his father and Battle Beast and gets his clock cleaned at almost every turn. But as he faces more and more dangerous opponents, he's able to face down against some of the toughest Viltrumites like Conquest and Thragg himself, and that was before he's even reached his prime. By the time he's reached that point, he's able to defeat Allen during a brief war between the Viltrumites and the Coalition of Planets, something that his father hadn't been able to do.
• Torso with a View: Invincible gets his stomach blown open by Conquest's fist during their rematch. Luckily, with the help of Oliver and Nolan, Invincible was able to survive his giant stomach hole to join the Viltrumite War after months of recovery.
• Totally Radical: After finding out Eve is technically immortal when she seemingly dies of natural causes.
  Invincible: Rad.
• Uneven Hybrid: Due the absurd dominance of Viltrumite genes over any known species, and how greatly it matches with humanity, Mark is actually more of a Viltrumite than human. He nor any human/Viltrumite hybrid are even, they will always be almost entirely Viltrumite.
• Use Your Head: He uses this tactic a ton. Especially when he's pissed off.
• Victory by Endurance: He kills Conquest via strangulation. To do so, Invincible needed to tightly grip Conquest's neck and not let go, while also enduring a barrage of punches from the latter, right up to Conquest running Mark through and yanking his intestines.
• Violence is the Only Option: He slowly starts to realize that violence must be used on enemies that he cannot reason with. His first battle with Conquest shows that mercy cannot work on those who seek to harm his friends and family.
  • When Thragg and the latter's children attack his family, Mark tries to reason with Thragg by saying that he will spare his son Onaan only if he leaves. Thragg instead insults Mark's ideals as a hero and says he's bluffing. In retaliation, Mark crushes Onaan's neck and then fights Thragg.
• Virtue Is Weakness: Thragg insults Mark's ideals of being a merciful hero with that being the main reason he will never save his allies. Mark instead retaliates with the knowledge that Violence is the Only Option to kill Onaan and to then fight Thragg.
• Weak, but Skilled: The main timeline of his world results in his body growing stronger through each battle he survives. Surviving life-threatening injuries caused him to get stronger in both skill and strength, and gains the power to fight other Viltrumites on equal footing. However, when Mark is transported into the Reboot timeline, he has all skills of the battles he had fought, but his younger body lacks development. When he fights the Reboot version of Omni-Man, Mark would have probably beaten him if he had his full power, but his younger body limits him into seeking help from the Guardians of the Globe.
• Worf Had the Flu: In the later issues of the main timeline, Invincible and Omni-Man are shown to be evenly matched with each other in their arm-wrestling match. Although both are even in strength, Invincible's full powers are weakened in the Reboot timeline, since he is using a younger version of his body that isn't experienced in fighting strong opponents. When Invincible gets into a fight against the Reboot version of Omni-Man, Invincible needed to flee from him and gain help from the Guardians of the Globe.
• Would Hurt a Child: After seeing Thragg mortally wound his brother, Mark decapitates Thragg's son right in front of him.
• You Are in Command Now: When his father dies in Issue 141, Mark becomes the leader of his people.

Omni-Man

Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson) / Nowl-Ahn

^{Click here to see his Post-Reboot Appearance}

An alien from the planet Viltrum, the most powerful superhero on Earth, and Mark's father. He was really a secret advance scout for a Viltrumite invasion, but has since become a completely changed man.

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• Awesome by Analysis: Figured out that Anissa raped Mark. All from seeing how they act together.
• Belated Love Epiphany: Ironically happens not only after he is married to Debbie for years and has been a father to Mark, but after he nearly kills Mark and openly declares that Debbie means nothing to him. He later realizes that it was all a lie and that he had truly fallen in love with Debbie and Mark but his Conflicting Loyalty made him say and do awful things.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Trying to punch Thragg left him with multiple compound fractures in his arm.
• Expy: Starts out as an Expy of Superman (but ten issues in, his plot becomes Beware the Superman).
• A Father to His Men: After becoming the Viltrumite Emperor, he strives to help his people survive and remake themselves from the monsters they made themselves into.
• Flying Brick: His powerset, and he's leagues above those on Earth with the same abilities.
• The Good King: Once he reclaimed his rightful throne, Nolan became a just ruler, far better than Thragg ever was. He led the Viltrumites away from Thragg's murderous crusade and set them on the path of reforming and rebuilding themselves as something better, which Mark continued and finished when he succeeded him.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He started out as a spy, then became a superhero and fell in love. Then he relapsed into his role, then turned traitor against his race and stayed on the Heel side. Then he came back and took over the Empire for the better, then died as a hero.
• Hero Killer: Assassinated the Guardians of the Globe to ensure that the Viltrumite invasion wouldn't be thwarted by them. The Immortal is the only one who survived due to his regenerative powers.
• Human Aliens: He is a Viltrumite, an alien race that closely resembles humans.
• Humanity Is Infectious: When Nolan first confronts Mark about what the Viltrumites really are and what Mark should do now (that is, helping him conquer Earth), he goes to great lengths to tell why humanity is worthless, but even back then small glimpses of Nolan truly coming to care about Mark and Debbie are apparent with him not killing a defiant Mark, going away from Earth in tears. That paves way for Nolan and Mark’s reconciling later, and then Nolan with Debbie, by the end in his deathbed Nolan tells Mark he has truly changed him, and now he should do the same for the remaining Viltrumites as their emperor.
• Mayfly–December Romance: He is thousands of years old and romances Debbie, a normal human. He later mates with Andressa, a sentient praying mantis alien who only lives for 9 months.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nolan's decision to let Thragg live and banish him into space allowed Thragg to find the planet where Nolan once sired Oliver, impregnate scores of females, and birth legions of babies to create a new Evil Viltrumite Empire under his rule. That's not even taking into account that Thragg kills Oliver and attempts to kill him and his family. It culminates in him being mortally injured and nearly ripped in two by Thragg.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He's nearly impossible to harm, much less kill, due to his Viltrumite physiology. However, even he has his limits. During the Viltrumite War, Thragg punched through his torso and it nearly killed him. Near the end of the comic, it took having nearly his entire torso obliterated and being nearly ripped in two to ultimately kill him, and he still managed to live long enough to outlive Thragg and have one last talk with Mark.
• Papa Wolf: Goes ballistic whenever he even suspects that Mark is being hurt. When he found out that Mark was infected with the Scourge Virus that Allen tried to unleash on the Viltrumites living on Earth, Nolan furiously swore to kill him if Mark died, despite Allen having already defeated him easily. He also held his son while he cried into his shoulder after he figured out Anissa raped him.
• Really 700 Years Old: The first character in the series to bring up the fact Viltrumites live for thousands of years, while trying to tell Mark his time on Earth was only a fraction of his life, a meaningless footnote; Nolan already has white hair then, later in the series it is stated Nolan has had many world conquering accolades under his belt before he came to Earth, he is definitely over thousands of years old.
• Royal Blood: Nolan is the son of Argall, the previous Viltrumite emperor. His past was hidden from him by Thragg to protect him from Thaedus, his killer. He eventually takes his rightful throne after he rediscovers his heritage and Thragg is exiled.
• Superman Substitute: At first, anyway. Then he turned out to be a secret agent of an imperialistic race sent to conquer Earth. He turned towards good later on thanks to the love of his family, but still holds onto to the less unsavory parts of his Viltrumite heritage.
• Walking Spoiler: Oh Nolan. His role as being one of the first major villains in the series' first few arcs. Then followed by his Heel–Face Turn later. Then his ascension to become emperor of the Viltrumites.
• World's Strongest Man: During his time as a superhero, he was described by many, including Cecil, to be the Earth's most powerful superhero and strongest individual. It's not until many years later that Mark is able to match Nolan's strength. Even among the Viltrumites, only Thragg is shown to be stronger.
  • An issue of the Erik Larson run of Supreme has Omni-Man battle the Rob Liefeld incarnation of the character and win. Supreme was unable to do any meaningful damage to him and their fight ended in a Double Knockout.

Debbie Grayson

Deborah "Debbie" Grayson

Mark's mom and Nolan's wife. A rather average woman desensitized to the crazy and superpowered world around her.

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• Alcoholic Parent: She becomes this soon after hearing the recordings of Nolan and Mark's fight, realizing she's been married to someone who intended to invade Earth, enslave humanity, and claims he never saw her as more than just a "pet".
• Badass Normal: While not a fighter, she's heavily involved in both her families' adventures.
• Drowning My Sorrows: During Nolan's Face–Heel Turn, he claims that he thought of her as nothing, which drove her to drink. She got better when Oliver came into her life.
• Easily Forgiven: She is heartbroken and distraught by Nolan's Face–Heel Turn. She eventually tries to move on and dates someone else. But upon seeing Nolan her feelings for him bubble up again. Nolan begs for forgiveness from Debbie and swears he will never lie to her again. Debbie tearfully does go back to Nolan.
• Expy: Of Lois Lane.
• Interspecies Romance: She is a human woman who married Nolan, an alien Viltrumite man.
• Promoted to Parent: She has experience in being a mother already through her son Mark, but she is later basically forced to take care of Oliver due his biological mother having no way of raising him past 9 months, as that was her entire lifespan, and their planet became a dangerous place; even if reluctant at first she warms up to Oliver and raises him like her own son.
• Seen It All: She isn't bothered by most of the super heroics around her, especially the early revelation her son has superpowers. Mainly because she was expecting it to happen at some point.
• Team Mom: Of both her family and as a surrogate mom for many superheroes.

Kid Omni-Man/Young Omni-Man

Kid Omni-Man/Young Omni-Man (Oliver Grayson)

^{Click here to see his Pre-Viltrumite War Appearance}

^{Click here to see his Post-Viltrumite War Appearance}

^{Click here to see his Post-Robot Rebellion Appearance}

^{Click here to see his Post-Reboot Appearance}

Mark's half-brother, Oliver was born to Nolan and Andressa (a mantis-like alien whose species, the Thraxans, have an extremely short lifespan, but learn and develop very quickly). As such, he is a gifted boy with Viltrumite powers who grew from infancy to adolescence in just a few years.

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• An Arm and a Leg: During his first fight with Thragg, the mad regent punched his lower jaw off and ripped his left arm off. Oliver surived, but was left out of commision for a while.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: To Mark, though he grows out of it.
• Anti-Hero: Initially, he's very willing to kill and doesn’t hold back half as much as his half-brother. He also hates Earth, and would betray the world a hundred times over if it means his family lives. However, he still has some morals, and is at least willing to give being hero a shot. Later defied. After nearly endangering Earth with the Scourge Virus in an attempt to kill the Viltrumites and accidentally shooting Mark with the Scourge Virus, Oliver Grayson becomes remorseful of his actions. He learns what his reckless behavior of wanting to do the greater good had strained the relationship with his father and had nearly killed his brother. He takes a level in kindness to atone for his reckless behavior and he makes it clear to Mark that he will never be the same person as he was before. He grows up to be a much better, more honorable, and balanced man — though he still prefers living off-Earth.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Played with. Despite only being an infant to toddler for most of his stay on his native world, he picked up a great chunk of the Thraxans unique conceptions of morality that’s colored by their short lifespans. He views death as a natural stage of life and not something to be particularly sad or afraid of inflicting upon others (as they’ll be dead one way or another) and thinks individual life as a whole doesn’t have any particular worth, but still views it valuable enough in greater numbers to be worth fighting for. At same time his Viltrumite heritage and influences from his human family and mentors has engrained in him a deep love for his family and friends, whose lives he puts above just about anyone else’s and would die for them if need be. In essence he sees life as only just as valuable as he personally gives it meaning unless the numbers are high enough, which is usually relegated to those he cares about on a personal level.
• Expy: Of Robin, specifically Jason Todd and Damian Wayne.
• Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. At the end of #127, he seems to be secretly in league with Thragg. It turns out he's actually a double-agent, spying on Thragg for Allen, something that ultimately gets him killed.
• Happily Adopted: Despite Oliver having clear memories of his biological mother Andressa, he warms up to Debbie as his stepmother pretty easily as she ends up raising him, referring to her as his mom no problem.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Thragg kills him by punching through his chest.
• Instant Expert: Not of his powers (although he did pick them up way faster than Mark did), but of just about anything else. Thraxans can essentially learn any skill and pick up anything once they try it once, which carried over to Oliver as he blazed through his private tutors lesson plans and was years ahead of what his approximate age group was in about every subject. By the time he’s in his late teens he claims to have learned just about everything there is to know about human knowledge and culture.
• Interspecies Romance: One of the reasons he had trouble connecting to humans was that he wasn't attracted to them, or even other Viltrumites. He grows up suspecting he's asexual, but after he moves in with Allen on a planet that has Loads and Loads of Races he discovers that he's specifically only attracted to sentient arthropods and nothing else will turn him on. He confesses this to Nolan and says it only makes sense given that he was raised by Thraxans and saw his mother as the ideal woman. He later ends up having kids with Haluma, who is basically a giant space shrimp.
• The Mole: He's working for Thragg, but no one in his family, especially Mark, knows this. It turns out that he's really spying on Thragg for Allen.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After accidentally infecting Mark with the Scourge virus when trying to poison those hiding on Earth even knowing it could possibly kill a massive amount of the human population.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Half Viltrumite, half Thraxan. Although beyond his unique skin pigmentation (which faded with age) and his accelerated aging you’d be hard pressed to tell thanks to dominant Viltrumite heritage.
• Obviously Evil: This was played up pretty strongly when he first started fighting alongside Mark, but whatever plot thread this was leading to seems to have been dropped and he's been pretty normal since then.
• Rapid Aging: Thraxians are an extremely short lived people with only a 9 month average life span. For Oliver, who is half Thraxan, this means he went from an infant to a full on adult in only a few years. Luckily his Vitrumite lineage massively slows this down the older he gets so not much of a childhood but he'll be in his thirties for a few hundred years.
• Sociopathic Hero: Early on, he has no problem killing his opponents if he feels it's for the greater good, and also displays a startling lack of empathy or care for any of his actions. He even tried to help Allen spread a virus that would kill all the Viltrumites on Earth while most likely killing all the humans as well on the grounds that the few he cared about wouldn't be on it. In his mind, as long as his loved ones are safe, everyone else could die — though the My God, What Have I Done? moment makes him really stop and think.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After nearly getting Mark killed by poisoning him with the Scourge Virus, Oliver becomes remorseful of his actions and strives to better himself in the future. At Talescria, Oliver and Mark meet each other again and Oliver becomes a much more jovial person during their interaction. He abandons his jerkish qualities and becomes a kind, loving uncle to Terra.
• Younger Than They Look: As a byproduct of his mother's species, he aged extremely rapidly prior to hitting adulthood.

Atom Eve

Atom Eve (Samantha Eve Wilkins)

"You remember? We were changing into our costumes behind the dumpster at school? Remember? You asked, 'How do we fly out of here without being spotted?" I told you that these people never look up. That's just how it is. These people — they're blind to our world — what we do — how we live — the stress — the pressure. They don't want to be in our world."

A relatively experienced superhero in her own right at the start of the series, and a classmate of Mark's, they become good friends and heroic partners, before eventually getting together.

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• Action Mom: To Terra, her daughter by Invincible.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Eventually. That said, during a stressful period in her pregnancy, she loses most of the weight.
• Child Prodigy: Subverted. Whilst Sam was born with an inherent understanding of science, able to recite the molecular structure of objects even as a baby, but this superpowered intelligence did not pass over into other subjects. This made school difficult because despite being accepted by a presitigious school she was unable to keep up in any subject unconnected to her molecular powers.
• Death Activated Super Power: Her powers of molecular manipulation can't affect organic matter because of a mental block. This block is disabled when she's on the brink of death, allowing her to heal herself and the people around her whenever she's mortally wounded. It also works when she's about to die from old age, making her functionally immortal, to Mark's delight.
• Desperation Attack: An unusual example. Her powers can't alter living organic matter unless she's near death, but it mostly just seems to regenerate her and those around her, such as Mark.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted. Seems upset at Mark after he confesses about this happening to him, but shortly after, having had a little think about it and realizing how stupid her previous attitude was, comforts him, tells him to stop blaming himself for not fighting hard enough and that she's there for him.
• Expy: Of Mary Jane Watson and/or Gwen Stacy, with a costume similar to Carol Ferris as a Star Sapphire, and her powers are a combination of Green Lantern's and Firestorm's.
• Fiery Redhead: She can switch from short-tempered, impatient, violent, and aggressive to loving and warm within the span of a few pages.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Being in a Battle Couple with a Doom Magnet like Mark means that her Resurrective Immortality gets nearly as much of a workout as his Healing Factor. The comic even ends with a particularly gentle example of this trope, when it turns out that her powers work on old age, too.
• I Have Your Wife: A variation of Mark holding Thragg's son, Onaan for hostage, while Thragg hold Mark's daughter, Terra as a hostage. Mark negotiates with Thragg by saying that he will give Onaan back to him if Terra is freed. Instead of negotiating with Mark, Thragg instead calls his virtues a weakness. The end result is for Mark to take the violent option of decapeting Onaan before charging right at Thragg.
• Leotard of Power: A pink long-sleeved one.
• Love Martyr: Atom becomes this for Mark due to the stresses of his superhero life and his reckless personality. Though the trope is deconstructed when it eventually causes her to have a breakdown and attack Mark while flat out yelling at him for ruining their relationship with some new disaster or arch-villain that he keeps getting himself involved in.
• Morality Chain: For Mark. According to Angstrom Levy, many dimensions where Mark turned evil was because she was hurt or killed and he snapped as a result. She often has to engage in kissing/passionate sex and spit platitudes of You Did What You Had To Do, You Did Everything You Could, You Shouldn't Blame Yourself and It's Not Your Fault to mitigate the blame Mark feels for his actions to prevent him from caving into full depression.
• My Greatest Failure: Revealed in her mini-series. When she was still a young hero starting out, the secret government agency that created her killed her birth father right in front of her, after revealing they had cruelly experimented on her birth mother. This enraged Atom Eve so much it briefly overrode her Restraining Bolt, allowing her to alter living molecules. When she comes back down, she's horrified that she used that brief window to enact revenge on the agency — instead of saving her family.
• Necessary Drawback:
  • The mental locks placed on Eve made her a more grounded super powered being who must decide carefully on how to use her powers, if not she would be exactly like Dr. Manhattan, automatically becoming the strongest character in the series by far; that limited Eve to only use the best of her abilities, bypassing the lock, only through extreme mental and physical trauma forced on her.
  • Her powers draw from matter within her body, but when she's pregnant, that can mean that her powers either take away nutrients from the unborn or use the unborn itself as fuel for her powers. Which means that she can't use her powers during pregnancy without risking the wellbeing of her child.
• Pregnant Hostage: When she was pregnant, she couldn't use her powers against Robot holding her hostage to get Mark and her during his conquest of the world because using her powers during pregnancy would endanger her unborn child (see "Necessary Drawback" entry). She had to use her powers anyway to escape, lost a leg in the process and had to stay in the hospital for while after giving birth (her child, Terra, wasn't harmed in course of the ordeal and was born healthy).
• Person of Mass Destruction: The scientist who "created" her mental limits that prevented her from fiddling with organic matter were put on her because her already immense matter manipulation powers would've made her virtually omnipotent.
• Reality Warper: Has the ability to transmute things into other objects, though mostly limits it to Swiss-Army Superpower effect because of the toll it takes.
• Really 700 Years Old: In the final pages of the series’ epilogue it is shown Eve cannot die even by natural aging, with that she resets her life cycle to that her younger twenties self, being able to live alongside Mark to his five hundreds and beyond.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: She subverts this by realizing that her matter-warping powers would be better used to stop famines than fight bank robbers. She does eventually go back to superheroing because using her powers to try to stop famines, and essentially change the world, takes a serious toll on her body, and the effects tend to be temporary at best. Because of that, this trope is eventually played straight.
• Resurrective Immortality: Whenever she's dead or dying, her powers resurrect her. This even applies to dying of old age — when she dies in the final issue, she immediately comes back young and revitalized.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Eve and Mark’s relationship goes through many ups and downs over the course of the series, with both hurting each in several ways, Mark’s many hasty decisions blowing up on his face and forcing him away from being there for Eve; while Eve does not make it easy for Mark to repent for some of the situations it was completely out of his control. Only by the very final stretch of the series Mark and Eve become a truly solid couple, and one that indeed lives together forever.
• Superpower Lottery: Immortality from natural death, the ability to create energy weapons and force fields as well as basically anything she can imagine and knows the make-up of save living beings, flight, and regeneration when near death.
• Switched at Birth: Dr Brandish — the scientist behind the project funded to experiment on Sam in utero and raise her to be a weapon — switched her with the Wilkins' dead baby so she'd have a chance to lead a normal life.
• Transmutation: Atom Eve's power. As long as she knows an object's molecular make up, she can change it into something else. And since she was created with a deep understanding of chemistry and molecular structure, her abilities are only limited by her imagination. She can change living and non-living matter, make atoms obey her will, create new atoms and form complex forms of life out of non-living matter, fly, create force-fields, shape energy to make any object she can visualize, turn intangible by passing her atomic particles through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which she is moving and augment normally unhealthy food such as cakes into nutritious foods. One major downside of her ability is that any unused atoms are absorbed into her body, which are then removed as waste. She has claimed that when she uses her powers a lot she has to "go to the bathroom" six or seven times a day.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: For Mark. She put the smackdown on Anissa, who in the past had raped Mark, and even challenged Thragg of all people when she thought he harmed Mark.

Terra Grayson (Spoilers)

Terra Grayson

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Terra is the daughter of Mark Grayson (Invincible) and Samantha Eve Wilkins (Atom Eve).

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: She more or less becomes a female Invincible to the galaxy, as opposed to the past, male Invincibles — though her half-brother, Marky, has the title on Earth.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: For a while. She grows out of it and becomes a very responsible lady.
• Cute Bruiser: Unlike her father, Terra starts developing her Viltrumite powers at a young age, as it is expected of hybrid Viltrumites who aren't late bloomers; she learns her first steps in flight before she is ten, and clearly has a level of super strength already.
• Cheerful Child: Very happy, and loving child.
• Comically Missing the Point: At some point Mark catches her with a boy who either had duplication powers, or was very frisky. When Mark scolds her, she doesn't exactly see it his way.
  Mark: That boy was beneath you.
  Terra: And beside me and on top of me and behind me!
  Mark: That's not what I meant!
• Daddy's Girl: She's noted to be one from the start, but it really shows in Issue 127 when she instantly forgives Mark for him being absent for the first five years of her life. It helps that it was most certainly not out of choice. Not to mention, earlier, she asked him if he was her father...
  Terra: (while hugging a crying Mark) It's okay, daddy. I still love you.
• Disappeared Dad: Mark was gone for 5 years of her life. This is because an alien force time travelled him back to when he was younger and made him spend half a decade in present time there. She forgives him, though.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Her mom is a human with transmutation powers, her dad is half-human, half-Viltrumite. However, that's just on paper, biologically Terra is almost a pure blooded Viltrumite. Real biology goes out of the window with just how absurdly dominant Viltrumite genes are, completely overtaking someone who should be a quarter Viltrumite at best under a realistic heritage.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: True to form, Viltrumite blood is just too strong and dominant even between a hybrid himself and a super powered human. Terra inherited just her father's lineage, a alien doctor even classified her as purely Viltrumite to justify his prejudice in refusing treatment for her when she was a baby. Terra doesn't share any physical resemblance to Eve nor even a speck of her immense matter manipulation powers, and she grows up to also take up her father's mantle as Invincible across space, not an original identity that is a mix of both her father's and mother's.
• Meaningful Name: Terra is named after Earth.
• She's All Grown Up: This◊ is Terra after 500 years.
• Technical Pacifist:
  • She joins the galactic equivalent of the Peace Corps, but is not afraid of fighting, just does not like killing. When she is forced to fight, she blocks the opponent's blade, shattering it, with her opponent surrendering.
  • She absolutely refuses to join in the War against the Coalition of Planets because even if after decades of galactic peace it had become little more then a way for more advanced planets to exploit smaller less developed planets, her father initiated the war instead of talking it out. Its implied that she hadn't talked to her parents for years because of it.
• Took a Level in Badass: 500 years of training and fighting helps her become nearly as strong as her father.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Terra's Viltrumite powers awakened when Onaan tried to kill her by dropping her to the ground from high up in the air.
• Uneven Hybrid: The same as her father, despite being born out of a hybrid Viltrumite father and a superpowered human, Terra still has a great amount of Viltrumite genes in her; an alien doctor even only classified her as just Viltrumite once, in the grounds of refusing to treat her as a baby.

Haluma

Haluma

Oliver's partner, and the mother of his twin children.

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• Dominant Species Genes: Her children with Oliver look exactly like Viltrumite infants with orange skin, despite being only one-quarter Viltrumite. There's not a trace of bug-person in them.
• Insectoid Aliens: She's an alien lobster woman, and about as far from a Green-Skinned Space Babe as one can get.
• Interspecies Romance: She, an alien crustacean, is partnered with Oliver, who is an Uneven Hybrid of Viltrumite and Thraxan.
• Lethal Chef: Mark gets terrible indigestion from the meal she prepares him. At first he assumes it's just the product of Weird World, Weird Food, but a doctor assures him that Viltrumites can digest just about anything. Haluma's just a terrible cook.
• Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor: The only explanation for how she and Oliver were able to have children. Even the Thraxans are more humanoid than she is.
• Monstrous Mandibles: Which Oliver finds extremely attractive.
• Non Human Lover Reveal: It can be safely assumed that Oliver's partner isn't human, but when she appears on-page it's still a surprise just how non-human she is.

SPOILER CHARACTER

Markus "Marky" Murphy

Marky is Anissa's son.

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• Alliterative Name: Markus Murphy.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Preteen Terra certainly considers him this.
• Bastard Angst: Eventually gets this. He is full of self-hatred over being a Child by Rape and envious of Terra being born out of love and spending the most time with their father. He and his dad patch things up, eventually, with his dad assuring him that he doesn't hold it against him.
• Child by Rape: He's the product of Anissa raping Mark.
• Foil: To Terra. Both are Mark's kids born from two women he knows. Terra is the daughter of the human woman he loved and wanted to marry, Marky is the son of a Viltrumite woman who raped him after he refused to be her mate. Terra grew up for a few years without her father due to time travel, Marky was raised by a stepfather and was unaware of his true heritage until after his mother's death.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His mother is a Viltrumite while his father is half-human and half-Viltrumite.
• Heroic Bastard: His biological parents weren't married, much less a couple as Anissa failed to seduce Mark, nor was his father even aware of his existence until years later. Despite this, Marky would follow his father's footsteps.
• History Repeats: At some point, his idolization of his father turns to hatred, leading to them fighting each other — though he's suggested to be the one who initiated it, and it's much less brutal and destructive. Much like with Mark's own father, it is implied they eventually talk it out.
• Legacy Character: Takes over the "Kid Invincible" name as his superhero name.
• Morality Pet: His birth is likely what made Anissa less hostile.
• Took a Level in Badass: Some time after becoming a superhero, he seemingly becomes strong enough to almost kill his father.
• Uneven Hybrid: Effectively a pure blooded Viltrumite, his mother is a pure blood and his father is mature hybrid, according to the setting’s rules for Viltrumite genetics Marky was never even a human at a genetic level.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Of Robin: Damian Wayne, being the Heroic Bastard son of the hero. Damian was the son of Batman and Talia Al Ghul, though how consensual it was is dependent on writer. Damian was raised by his mother and the League of Assassins, not knowing of his father until years later, becoming his sidekick while being groomed to replace him before finding he prefers following Batman's footsteps than what Talia wanted. Marky was the product of Anissa outright raping Mark when he refused to father her children, being raised by her and a caring stepfather, not knowing about his biological father until after Anissa's death, had a much healthier upbringing by comparison and became his father's successor of his own volition rather than being groomed to take his place.

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