History WesternAnimation / Invincible2021

* FiveFiveFive: Visible phone numbers starts with 555, such as Amber's phone number and the phone number to the SOS support group.

* FiveFiveFive: The area or network code of Amber's phone number.

** Rex Splode was already a {{Jerkass}} in the comics, but it is more pronounced in the show where he is more abrasive and cowardly when it comes to fighting crime. He also has zero remorse towards letting a bus of innocent people be injured/killed, showing that he cares more about being seen as a superhero than actually saving lives, but he gets better.

* BaitAndSwitch: The first episode of season 2 opens with [[spoiler:an [[AlternateUniverse alternate version]] of Earth where Mark joined Omni-Man in subjugating the planet. We see Mark on a large screen in a ruined city talking about how they can make humanity better than before but only if humanity bows down to them. He concludes by stating who he is, with a short pause making you think it is going to SmashCut to the show's title as it did every episode of the previous season. However, after a moment he properly says his superhero name and the scene just continues.]]

** Omni-Man and Invincible's power sets, although unlike Superman, they lack other powers like super-senses and heat vision.

* TheNthDoctor: As a result of [[spoiler:copying his mind to his new body in episode 7]], Robot went from being voiced by Creator/ZacharyQuinto to now voiced by Creator/RossMarquand.

*** [[spoiler:While battling Mark in the comics, Omni-Man lampshades the thousands of deaths (though little is explicitly shown during the fight) in collateral damage and his general indifference to mankind. In episode 8, Nolan goes out of his way to break Mark's will through casual killing and shows just how horrifyingly callous he is to humans, such as crushing the skull of the jet pilot, deliberately holding his son immobile as they collide with a subway train and make him watch the passengers be rendered into mincemeat, and making a point of punching him twice through a cruise ship.]]

** Bulletproof, a Guardian of the Globe that did not make the initial tryouts but was later added due to his ability of flight, does not appear in events he was there for in the comics. Such as attempting to beatdown Battle Beast alongside Black Samson and losing horribly.
*** Similarly, because Black Samson and Monster Girl are hospitalized and recover around the same time, Monster Girl's bout of using the former's power armor in place of her own powers is cut completely.
*** There is also Magnattack, a man with metal powers and the most powerful of Machine Head's goons after Battle Beast, doesn't appear as well.

** Principal "Winslow" stops Mark to talk about his attendance and grades slipping in Episode 5. The voice actor is Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson, in a subversion of an InkSuitActor.

* ClothingDamage: Mark/Invincible's costume at times takes just as much of a beating as he does -- and he takes some ''brutal'' beatings. Titan makes sure to take his non-invincible clothes excluding his pants off when he's on the job.

** Every episode title is a quote taken directly from the comics, even if said quote [[AdaptedOut doesn't actually appear in the episode.]]

* NotWhereTheyThought: PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/Invincible2021S01E02HereGoesNothing Here Goes Nothing]]" when Allen the Alien shows up to Earth and fights Mark. He was sent on behalf of the Coalition of Planets to evaluate the defenses of a planet called "Urath", but it isn't until he has a brief conservation with Mark that Mark informs him he's at the wrong planet[[note]]In his defense, not only does "Urath" sound fairly similar to Earth, the planets have similarly shaped continents [[/note]]. Making it even funnier is that it's implied he's been coming to Earth for years (and fighting Mark's father, Nolan/Omni-Man every time) and never once realized his mistake.
** Though Mark immediately assuages Allen's guilt with a more horrifying potential version. Had Allen realized his mistake earlier, he would have ended up tipping off Omni-Man that the Coalition was aware of his activities, and that probably would have started the ultra-holocaust.

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: First deconstructed, then separately parodied with [[MadScientist Doc Seismic]]. He attacks Paha Sapa, aka Mt. Rushmore, correctly accusing the real-life politicians as [[ValuesDissonance racist monsters,]] but immediately becoming even worse by further desecrating the sacred hilltop while indiscriminately murdering people who have no say in any of it. Later, in the middle of a fight with Invincible and Atom Eve, he serves as a parody by insulting the latter's apparent willingness to wear a male-designed, gender-normative superhero costume. When Atom Eve replies that she designed it herself and asks why he cares about that, Doc Seismic says that he has a degree in Gender Studies and a minor in African Dance in addition to his specialization in Seismology.

** [[spoiler:The eradication of the Guardians of the Globe goes completely different in the animation. Omni-Man seems to put some real effort into taking down the Guardians, and they deal some damage to him, whereas in the comic Nolan annihilated them without breaking a sweat. The bigger change is the tone of said events; much bigger doubt is put into why Omni-Man did all of this, with the Immortal even contemplating if he could be under mind control. Nolan being hurt as well puts an air of mystery towards the event, contrasting with the comic which was quicker to show Omni-Man's intentions. It also fixes a bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness from the comics: while the Viltrumites were portrayed as nearly unstoppable in the first few comic arcs akin to Silver Age Kryptonians, the mid-point and end of the comics showed them getting their asses handed to them by a large variety of weird and various opponents portraying them as closer to Bronze Age Kryptonians.]].

* TamerAndChaster: In addition to the early 2000's edgy jokes being removed from the show, it also removes the gratuitous {{Fanservice}} it had concerning how super heroines, female villains, and female aliens were portrayed in the comics, many, if not most, of them were in the MostCommonSuperpower group, with curves for days, often dressed in skintight LeotardOfPower to outright {{Stripperific}} outfits, and battle damage leaving said women with MaleGaze gaps in their clothing could happen as well. The show has all women more modestly dressed, with more average curves and battle damage is not fetishized in any way.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The city Mark lives in is unnamed and its location in the general United States is unspecified. The local college is generically named "Upstate College." Note that this is not 100% ambiguous; in American English, "upstate" typically refers to the parts of New York State that aren't very near New York City or Buffalo. Deepening the similarity is that New York is stuffed full of colleges, and its high-schools have a relatively high academic standard and most graduates are qualified to apply to any American university. Similarly, it is implied that Mark would have known the distance to Mars in a very practical way by his senior year.
--> It may be intended as a clear analogue of Metropolis or Gotham rather than an ambiguous reference to a real Earth city. This uncertainty is played with when Mark reacts to an attack on the White House like a real-Earth American would (it's *the White House!*), while Debbie reacts like she is from an Earth menaced by supervillains (oh, they rebuild that thing every other week).

* BaitAndSwitch: The first episode of season 2 opens with [[spoiler:an alternate version of Earth where Mark joined Omniman in subjugating the planet. We see Mark on a large screen in a ruined city talking about how they can make humanity better than before but only if humanity bows down to them. He concludes by stating who he is, with a short pause making you think it is going to SmashCut to the show's title as it did every episode of the previous season. However, after a moment he properly says his superhero name and the scene just continues.]]

* ArcWords: "[He/she/they] made me do it."

* SpaceIsNoisy: Averted. Even characters who can breathe in space need communicators or {{Telepathy}} to talk to others. While there are sound effects, particularly during fight scenes, they are distinctly muffled, implying that they are for the benefit of the audience rather than being the actual sounds playing in the show.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: In the comic series, Shrinking Ray died after being swallowed whole by Komodo Dragon. Here, his counterpart ''was'' swallowed, but she reverted to normal size in a last-ditch attempt to break out, which failed. Although this left her hospitalised, she's still alive by the end of the fight, and a couple of episodes later.]]