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Angstrom Levy

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^Pre-Mutation

Voiced By: Sterling K. Brown

Invincible's arch enemy, a Mad Scientist with a huge brain and the power to open dimensional portals who dedicates his life to destroying Mark Grayson.

Action Survivor: Several of the Angstrom Levys in the multiverse manage to escape the rampages of their Invincibles/Omni-Mans by the skin of their teeth, though usually at the cost of their loved one.
Actual Pacifist: Prior to the accident, Angstrom strongly opposes any kind of violence and mentions ending war as one of his planned achievements. Unfortunately, the accident that merges him with his alternates — many of whom probably didn't share his peaceful ideals — results in him going through Sanity Slippage that prompts him to abandon his pacifism in favor of killing Invincible to "make him pay".
Adaptational Personality Change: To a minor degree, as Robert Kirkman notes that the show's version of Angstrom is more lively, vibrant, and upbeat compared to his often rather dour comic self. He's also much more noble prior to becoming a villain, as his experiment is meant to let him help trillions across the multiverse rather than done just For Science! like in the comic.
Adaptational Sympathy: Again, to a minor degree. While he still blames Invincible for his mutation and the deaths of his other selves (which came from his own actions), unlike the comic the surviving Mauler Twin surmises that the accident left Levy's memories scrambled; merged with the mentally scarred version of Levy from the Evil! Invincible universe seen in the season two premiere as well as countless other universes where Invincible turned evil and killed his alternate self's loved ones. Additionally, his experiment is done as part of a philanthropic effort to improve lives across the multiverse, something much more noble than his motive for it in the comic. Finally, there's much greater focus and exposure in the animation on what the alternate Evil Marks did to all alternate Angstroms across the multiverse, in fact, in the comic it wasn't even stated that the Evil Marks absolutely ruining Angstrom's life was a constant no matter what.
And Your Little Dog, Too!: Showing just how far he has fallen from the well-intentioned scientist he originally was, he declares it is not enough to kill Invincible, he wants to make him suffer by going after his family the same way the alternate Invincibles tormented their Angstrom Levy. This is what pushes Mark too far to the point of pulverizing him into bloody pieces.
Angstrom: This doesn't end until you and your family are dead.
Mark: STOP! THREATENING! MY FAMILY!
Arch-Enemy: Quickly becomes the Norman Osborn to Mark's Peter Parker. In fact, the season two finale indicates that Invincibles and Angstroms being arch enemies is a multiversal constant; any universe in which these two coexist, they will hate one another. Debbie notes this as another reason why Angstrom's Theory Tunnel Vision with Mark being the evil villain is so pervasive: with his Mark turning out to be a genuinely good and altruistic hero, when Levy has to deal with countless repeating memories of all the times his variants weren't every single day, Levy is essentially forced into the role of the villain by his natural opposition of Invincible, something that further unravels his frayed sanity and drives his insistent that Mark will be evil one way or another, as a form of Sanity Strengthening.
Arc Villain: He is the main villain of Season 2.
Ax-Crazy: In the season two finale Angstrom utterly loses his mind and is deadset on killing Mark, but not before torturing his family and maniacally ranting about how he isn't a villain. He fails to prove his point by breaking Debbie's arm and throwing baby Oliver around like a ragdoll.
Big Bad: Of Season 2. He also serves as one of the main competitors for the title in the Big Bad Ensemble.
Body Horror: Much to his dismay, Levy's brain grows so large that it takes up not only his head, but most of his shoulders and some of his back.
Bullying the Dragon: While his plan is sound on paper, Angstrom antagonizing and tormenting Invinicible to the point of fatigue ends up being this, as him continuously pressing him further with the threats towards his family eventually wears Mark down to just not give a fuck anymore about holding back against him and turns what would ordinarily have been a battle of attrition into a brutal, one-sided Curb-Stomp Battle that leaves Angstrom dead.
Combat Pragmatist: A big part of what makes him such a dangerous enemy. Angstrom can't beat Invincible in a straight fistfight, but he's smart enough to know this and instead of attacking him right away, he spends months preparing himself and gathering intel on how to hurt Viltrumites and Mark specifically. That's on top of spamming his teleportation powers to their fullest extent and taking Debbie and Oliver hostage to force Invincible into a position favorable to himself.
The Constant: When Angstrom experiences flashbacks of his alternate selves memories, it slowly becomes apparent that him and Invincible being nemeses is a very common theme throughout the multiverse. This actually causes problems for Levy, because whilst this would be justified with any of the countless number of Evil Invincibles in the multiverse, his native Mark is the outlier as a genuinely heroic individual. Rather than face the cruel Irony that the man he's tormented with memories of countless atrocities on his hands is the good guy and himself forced into being a villain because he opposes him, Angstrom instead pushes the narrative that Mark is or will be evil in order to keep his sanity together.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He and Omni-Man are both fantastic racists, Visionary Villains and Well-Intentioned Extremists. However while Omni-Man's racism towards humans came from the fanatical belief that they were a weak, inferior species of insects that needed Viltrumite leadership, Angstrom's hatred of Viltrumites (specifically Mark) is more justified since he's witnessed Invincible and Omni-Man's cruelty throughout The Multiverse. Angstrom was an Actual Pacifist before his Sanity Slippage kicked in while Nolan heavily believed in the Viltrumite notion of Might Makes Right. Omni-Man was (ironically) an Invincible Villain who Mark didn't stand a chance against in a fight, Angstrom massively overestimated his own strength and couldn't hold his own against Mark. While Nolan was ultimately defeated by Mark's words, Angstrom's Fatal Flaw made him far too stubborn to ever talk down.
Crazy-Prepared: He prepares for Invincible by spending months going to various universes where he can easily learn the weaknesses of Viltrumites and of Mark in particular, then uses his mother and brother as human shields, all ensuring that their first fight will have the deck stacked heavily in Angstrom's favor.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Part of the reason for his vendetta is that he has his alternates' memories of all their loved ones being lost to their own Invincibles, making him desire vengeance for families that were never his but which he loves all the same. He's particularly haunted by memories of a universe where his son was murdered by an evil version of Mark.
Everyone Has Standards: He reluctantly orders the Maulers to attack Invincible when the latter interrupts Levy's experiment in a critical juncture… but when the Maulers start actively trying to kill Mark rather than just hold him off, the pacifistic Angstrom freaks out and tries to stop them, which ends up causing the accident that disfigures him.
Evil Counterpart: To all the other Angstrom Levy's in The Multiverse with Mark as the Good Counterpart to all the other Invincible's. As Debbie surmised, he and Mark are always Arch-Enemy's but he's bitter because this world’s Invincible is the good guy and he's the bad guy.
Evil Is Petty: Tragically becomes this after his mutation, focused only on using his multidimensional abilities to make Mark's life hell despite all the good he could do with them — and did intend to do before his mutation — in favour of destroying a version of Invincible who hasn't even done the things he hates him for.
Fallen Hero: He's introduced as a kind and generous if incredibly naïve super scientist who just wanted to grant humanity access to the multiverse. Then the accident happens, his brain ends up fusing with those of his multiple alternate universe counterparts, and he becomes a complete lunatic out to kill Mark, unable to distinguish the heroic version we follow from his villainous alternates. Another aspect, as Debbie surmises, is that because this Mark remained a hero, their eternal nature as enemies meant that Angstrom was therefore forced into the villain in the narrative, an injustice that rankles him with all the memories he's suffering from of the countless other Marks his vendetta would be justified against.
Farmer and the Viper: Discussed, Angstrom is motivated by the belief and fear that Mark will become a supervillain because all the other Marks in the multiverse did so. In the alternate universes, Angstrom either a hero fighting Invincible or an unknown casuality of Mark's attacks. However, as Debbie angrily points out, Angstrom is the villain in this case, rather than the hero.
Fatal Flaw: Inability to recognize faults in his own logic. He is a Horrible Judge of Character who is so convinced of how the Mauler Twins would be won over to his side by his idealism that he turns himself into an Unwitting Pawn, and post-mutation never stops to consider that his timeline's Invincible has completely different experiences than the evil one he has alternate universe memory of, as shown by how Omni-Man actually fled Earth after beating Mark up in the show's main timeline.
Freudian Excuse: He used to be a naive, but well-meaning scientist with the ability to create portals to other universes, who wanted to help the Multiverse by assimilating all the knowledge of his alternative selves. However, he accidentally botched his own plan to save a beaten up Invincible, which caused an explosion that mutated his brain. Worst still, since most of his alternative versions belong to an universe where Invincible is the villain, he lost sight of which memories belong to him or to his others, giving him a deep hatred towards the innocent, good Invincible. As Debbie notes, all those conflicting memories have one common overlapping point where Mark and Angstrom are enemies, but because his native Mark is The Hero, Angstrom therefore became the villain in opposing him, an unfairness that further drives his insistence that Mark is evil, so he can still be the good man fighting the crazed Supervillain, like all his alternate variants.
Glass Cannon: He's just a normal guy, and a bit of a string bean on top of it. As such, he stands little chance against his foes in a physical respect… but his power to generate portals more than makes up for that. He later tries to fix this by getting cybernetic alterations that make him super strong and durable, allowing him to fight Invincible on semi-equal terms even without portals. Unfortunately for him, the key word ends up being semi and once Mark really cuts loose, he beats Angstrom into mush.
Go Mad from the Revelation: Angstrom accidentally assimilated all the trauma from his alternate universe counterparts and believes that Mark is destined to become a villain like the other Marks across the multiverse. However, he doesn't seem to realize or accept that Mark is genuinely trying to a hero and it's Angstrom who's actually the villain in this dimension.
He Who Fights Monsters: Quickly descends into this in his efforts to kill Invincible. Besides the fact that he's too insane to realize that the Invincible he's going after is one of the few who isn't evil, he starts committing actual acts of villainy in his efforts to bait Invincible out culminating in him taking Debbie and Oliver hostage.
Horrible Judge of Character: Even prior to his transformation, Angstrom is an overly-trusting and idealistic sort who sees the Maulers as reasonable folks who would be interested in his totally peaceful applications of science despite their being notorious criminals (something he fully acknowledges). After his transformation and Sanity Slippage, he goes the entirely opposite way and judges Invincible as evil — likely due to the memories of one of his alternates — and will not be dissuaded from this appraisal of the man's character no matter what.
Ink-Suit Actor: His design makes him look quite a lot like his voice actor, Sterling K. Brown.
It's Personal: The thing that sets him apart from the other villains Mark faces and solidifies him as Invincible's nemesis. Angstrom blames him for ruining his life's work, turning him into a mutated freak, and everything else bad that's ever happened to him. Meanwhile on Invincible's end, Angstrom is gleefully willing to target his family to hurt him, making their battles far more personal.
Kick the Dog:
- His whole, callous treatment of Debbie and Oliver, a toddler.
- For all his talk of being the good guy in his confrontation with Invincible, when finally battling Mark himself in a normal city, Angstrom casually teleports two random civilians to other dimensions for no reason whatsoever. Not only does he show no intention of bringing them back later, but those people are likely stuck on a Death World, lacking the powers and combat experience of Mark himself...
Knight Templar: In every dimension, Angstrom has seen that Mark has become a villain and genuinely believes that Mark will follow the same path as the others and become a villain. However, since the accident, his memories have merged with the other alternate-Angstroms, and he cannot differentiate their memories from his own.
Laser-Guided Karma: After tormenting Invincible, breaking Debbie's arm, and endangering Oliver, he ends up finally pushing Mark too far and provokes him into cutting loose, leading to Angstrom being savagely beaten into a literal bloody pulp.
Mad Scientist: A genius scientist in multiple fields even before he becomes a villain, the circumstances of his origin mean that after he does, Levy not only becomes even more of a genius than ever but also totally insane.
Mind Rape: Ultimately done to himself after his experiment goes horribly wrong. He was trying to gather knowledge from all of his parallel equivalents but he took off the headgear despite the warnings from all of the Maulers to save Invincible. Levy did gain their knowledge but he didn't factor in that he might assimilate their traumas as well and as a result, developed a burning hatred for Invincible because he can't differentiate his memories from the ones he had assimilated, specifically ones from alternate Levys who actually suffered from an Invincible who joined Omni-Man and attacked the Earth so it could be conquered by Viltrum.
Mythical Motifs: He compares himself to Prometheus from Greek Mythology when he explains his plan to share knowledge across the multiverse by becoming a living vessel of all their knowledge. However, he forgets one vital part of the myth, that Prometheus was punished by the Gods for doing this and would be punished by having his liver eaten by an Eagle every day, only for his liver to regenerate every night. Like the titan, Levy is motivated by the goal of sharing knowledge and his portals resemble flames.
My Brain Is Big: After his mutation, his brain is hideously enlarged, bulging from his head, shoulders and upper back.
Never My Fault: Despite the Mauler Twin pointing out that his choice to disrupt the machine mid-process is to blame, a crazed and mutated Levy puts the entire blame on Invincible and swears bloody vengeance.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: After enhancing himself so that he can fight superheroes on his own terms without leaning on his portals, he's super strong and hyper durable... by the standards of normal humans. By the standards of Viltrumites, he turns out to be woefully underpowered. While he gives Invincible a good beating at first, once he provokes the latter into cutting loose and using his full strength, it's all over for Angstrom.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: While he frames his revenge quest against Mark as exacting justice for all the people killed by alternate Invincibles, Debbie accuses him of really only caring about the fact that in this reality, he's the supervillain and Mark's the superhero, unlike most of the other worlds. Angstrom's enraged response indicates that she hit a raw nerve.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's actually not one at first, which is part of the reason for his experiment to gain the memories of his alternates — to close gaps in his knowledge — and why he has to recruit the Maulers to help him do so to begin with. After the accident that gives him the memories and experiences of his variants, he becomes a straight and justified example.
Poor Communication Kills: His inability to get the Maulers to stand down or to better explain to Invincible that his device wasn't a threat beyond saying "it's for the greater good" (something Invincible lampshades is something most villains end up saying) ends up costing Levy everything, ending with him maimed and mutated and a thousand of his other selves dead.
Required Secondary Powers: Although he has the power to open portals to other dimensions, he can't physically teleport from place to place. As he says to The Mauler Twins, he's in the same physical location when he travels dimensions. If he needs to be in an underground bunker in one dimension, then he needs to find a crater that's deep enough to reach that bunker in another dimension so he can open a portal and get inside the bunker.
Sanity Slippage: The accident that transforms him also drives him thoroughly insane due to flooding his mind with memories from all his alternates. In particular, the memories of those where Mark was evil and joined Omni-Man — cause Angstrom to become absolutely certain that his Invincible is also evil and must be killed.
Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Initially, Angstrom is a pacifist and genuinely benevolent scientist who just wants to use his gifts to further his understanding of the world and help people. The accident that turns him into a mutated freak also begins a descent into madness that leaves him as a supervillain obsessed with killing Invincible.
Squishy Wizard: Angstrom is able to summon people from other dimensions and can send people to other dimensions, but when he tries to fight Invincible hand-to-hand, Mark seemingly beats him to death in a frenzy.
Support Party Member: Angstrom's powers don't have an offensive purpose, he can open doors to other dimensions and close them. In the season 2 finale, Angstrom's fight against Invincible consists of Angstrom sending Invincible to alternate dimensions so he'll be killed by the inhabitants or summoning people from other dimensions to attack Mark. When Angstrom tries to kill Invincible himself, he's quickly overwhelmed and is seemingly beaten to death by a frenzied Mark.
Targeted to Hurt the Hero: A major aspect that makes him Invincible's archenemy; he has absolutely no compunctions against targeting Mark's friends and family in order to get at him. In their first major confrontation he even weaponizes this, taking Debbie and Oliver hostage to bait Invincible into a fight and keeping him in a position favorable to Angstrom.
Tautological Templar: Post-Sanity Slippage, he insists that he isn't the villain even when he takes Debbie and Oliver hostage to bait out Invincible and actually horribly injures the former.
Theory Tunnel Vision: The accident leaves him with an absolute and unshakable certainty that Invincible is not only evil, but responsible for all of Angstrom's suffering. Any viewpoint that opposes this does not factor into Levy's thought processes at all. Debbie even gets under his skin by bringing up the fact that if he and Mark are fated arch enemies across The Multiverse, then he's making himself the villain for once by opposing The Hero his native Invincible turned out to be. Instead, Angstrom insists that Mark's villainy will show itself in order to hold his fragile mentality together, focusing on the common thread of his variant selves being good men opposing an evil supervillain rather than accept that they're the one time the dynamic has been reversed.
Thinking Up Portals: His natural power and most deadly weapon in battle.
Tragic Villain: Once a kindhearted pacifist and brilliant scientist who just wanted to help people by gathering knowledge from all the other Angstrom Levy's in the multiverse. However, Angstrom causes an accident when he takes off the headset to save Invincible from the Mauler Twins, and in doing so he mutates himself by accident. Not only that, he unwittingly absorbed the collective trauma from all the alternate-Angstroms where Invincible was a supervillain instead of the hero in their respective dimensions, causing Angstrom to believe that Invincible will follow the same path as them.
Windmill Crusader: He wants to kill Invincible to save the world from him... because he's working off the memories of an alternate version of himself where Mark had a completely different life. The Mark he's fighting would probably team up with him against his evil dimensional dopplegangers. Debbie even notes during the season 2 finale that a personal aspect to his antagonism of Mark is the unfairness of his native Invincible being a genuinely heroic character when he suffers daily from the memories of all the evil Invincibles who tormented and traumatised his variants across the multiverse, making him the villain for wanting to punish Invincible.
Would Hurt a Child: He doesn't go out of his way to hurt Oliver, but he's also frighteningly cavilier with the kid's safety and makes abundantly clear that he has no hesitation to kill him if need be. To Angstrom, Oliver is pretty much just another Invincible waiting to happen, not an innocent child.

The Mauler Twins

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Voiced By: Kevin Michael Richardson

"Welcome to the world of the living, clone."

"Don't start, I'm the original!"

Hyper-powerful, blue-skinned superhuman scientists, and long-time adversaries to the Guardians. Both proclaim to be the original while stating the other is a clone.

Acquired Situational Narcissism: The reason they enforce the ambiguity on who is the clone is because anytime one of them realizes they're probably the original, he becomes incredibly arrogant and starts treating the other like a slave, predictably leading to in-fighting.
Aesop Amnesia: The moment one of the Maulers can definitely prove he's not the clone, he immediately gets so bossy, that the clone eventually gets sick of it and poisons him. This is despite them previously explaining that they purposely rig their mind transfer machine to be seamless because knowing who's the clone never ends well, meaning this has happened before.
Affably Evil: They're not outright malicious for the most part, with one of the Twins apologizing to the guard giving them their food before knocking him out and using his hand to escape. They're even willing to work with Robot to make him a new body, and adjust their Brain Uploading machine when it's clear that it has the possibility of killing his original body before the procedure could succeed - albeit, mostly because they want their payment. And when their partnership with Levy (literally) blows up in their face, the survivor offers to take the mutated Levy to a hospital. Overall they carry themselves with an air of professionalism despite their super strength and large size.
Amazing Technicolor Population: Both have blue skin for unknown reasons, it's unknown if it's because of the fact that they're clones or it came alongside their powers.
Ambiguous Clone Ending: This is their whole gimmick. It was never made clear if the original died by the time of the escape or even way before that, and so neither clone really knows if they are the original or not. Justified and intentional — according to them, knowing which one is the clone is a recipe for disaster, and the ambiguity keeps their head on straight. This gets proven in season two, as circumstances lead to one knowing he's the original or at least the older clone (he gets horribly scarred by Angstrom's machine exploding, giving him a distinguishing feature); the older Mauler immediately becomes a total asshole towards his younger self and starts dominating and abusing him, which causes the younger Mauler to murder him out of spiteful anger. Do bear in mind that, all things considered, they're probably both clones and the actual original is long dead.
Apologetic Attacker: When Robot sabotages one of their cells so the Mauler inside can escape, the twin grabs the arm of a prison guard he's friendly with to use his handprint to escape. He says a seemingly earnest, "Sorry, Pete," before he knocks him out.
Artificial Family Member: Each of them refer to the other as brother despite one or maybe both being clones.
Bizarre Alien Biology: While their huge size and blue skin mark them as no longer human (if they ever were to begin with), one Mauler surviving a massive explosion with horrific burns across half their body reveals their flesh to be a gray mass with no distinct muscle fibers.
Brain Uploading: The cloning process creates a new body with no mind. The surviving twin copies his mind into the body, with another device. They have to completely copy the mind in order to not let the recent clone know that they are said clone.
Brought to You by the Letter "S": The white portions of their costumes form a subtle "M" shape on the front of their bodies, and the black portions of their costumes form a subtle "T" shape on the back of their bodies.
Chainsaw-Grip BFG: They both carry around what appears to be futuristic miniguns when assaulting the White House.
The Chew Toy: In pretty much every appearance, the Mauler Twins are usually in worse-off positions than before, typically with one of the clones dying in the process. By the time their partnership with Levy is over, one of them is dead and the survivor has a large percentage of the right side of his body horribly scarred. He then wanders off swearing to never team up with anyone ever again.
Clone Degeneration: When escaping jail, the one who breaks them out claims he's smarter because his intelligence wasn't diluted by the cloning process, though this is more him being a dick to the other than any serious concern.
Clone Angst: When explaining their cloning process to to the Robot's new clone body, one of the twins states that they actually purposefully rig their Brain Uploading tech so that neither one remembers who started the cloning process, otherwise things would get ugly. It is a notable difference in characterization between themselves and Robot, who is instead happy for his counterpart and wishes him all the best, which they seem to subtly acknowledge. When circumstances lead to one of them knowing for sure he's the original, the clone is naturally distraught and the original lords it over him. The clone then kills the original to start again, because their dynamic doesn't work when one can actually prove they're the original.
Death Is Cheap: They've died many times, but as long as one survives they can just keep creating more clones of themselves.
- One of the twins dies during their escape from prison, with the surviving twin making a new clone not long after and carrying on as if nothing happened.
- Another one dies in the explosion caused by Angstrom Levy attempting to prematurely disconnect himself from the machine. The alternate Maulers summoned by Angstrom to protect him were also killed in the explosion. The survivor again clones a replacement, only to be killed himself by the clone because his deformity made it obvious he was the original and threw off their power balance.
Do Wrong, Right: In their attack of the White House, one of the two states that they aren't just out to kill the president, but to make a spectacle of it, chastising the other for it and denouncing him as the clone for it.
Dub Name Change: The Salvadoran Spanish dub translate their names as Demoledores, which means "wreckers".
Establishing Character Moment: One of the first things they do during their first scene is argue over who's the clone and who's the original.
Everyone Has Standards:
- While they are unrepentant villains who have no qualms about murdering people, they don't seem to want to kill people for no reason. Probably best exemplified by their act of only knocking out their security guard and firing near a man's head to try and scare him out of the truck he's in, instead of killing him outright.
- Both of twins seem to have a healthy respect for the Guardians when they ditch their guns in favor of fighting them hand to hand. Better shown when one of them exchanges banter with War Woman, only being annoyed (rather than hostile) that she was interfering with their current plan and claiming she deserved the day off.
Expendable Clone: One of them treats the other this way, using his body as a shield, and claiming he can just make another one. Then again it's ambiguous whether he's the original or the clone or even how many times this has happened.
Explosive Leash: They try to install several means to kill or mind control the clone of Robot's biological body they were paid to create. It doesn't work as Robot expected that and uncovered every nasty little trap they tried, even commenting that he'd have been disappointed if they hadn't tried. They're good sports about being caught, removing the modifications without complaint.
Expy: Of the Ultra-Humanite. Ultra was Superman's arch-nemesis before Lex Luthor, and was also a bald mad scientist initally. Ultra however gained his own unique gimmick, body transference, originally used to create a mystery story where his return was revealed to be in the body of an actress. He's most famous however for his favorite body which he tends to replicate and return to since it's introduction, a giant albino gorilla. With the gorilla body, he's as strong as he is smart, making him essentially one Mauler Twin. The "twins" aspect of the Maulers may also be a joke on how Ultra and Lex were intially almost the exact same character, Lex introduced to bring the whole "bald mad scientist" thing back without Ultra, which has been used in some stories for their own Ultra-Humanite mystery twists.
Eye Scream: One of the Maulers get a bullet in his eye thanks to taunting Steve at point blank range. He spends the rest of the fight with the Guardians having that eye closed and bleeding.
Genius Bruiser: They have super strength and toughness but are also skilled biologists and engineers, being able to create not only a cloning device but also a Brain Uploading one. This is why Robot breaks them out and collaborates with them to give himself a new clone body.
Hidden Depths:
- While not unexpected because of their intelligence. They are shown to have some knowledge of Frankenstein, even citing differences between the novel and the movie adaptations.
- They're capable chefs as well, with one claiming his bourguignon is exquisite after poisoning his brother for his arrogance.
Ignorance Is Bliss: They purposefully live like this regarding their clone status. The Maulers rig the cloning process in order for them to never know who in fact is the clone, with both of them playfully playing up this ongoing rivalry of accusing the other of being a copy; all of this to protect their sanity and to generate a feeling of simultaneous validation. They are both equally replaceable and irreplaceable; as long as one of them lived there's always a possibility of the twins being perpetual. When one breaks the mold with undeniable evidence that he's the original, he becomes a domineering asshole until the clone murders him and starts the process all over again.
- This ignorance also ensures that for all their bickering, they will still work effectively as a team. When "King" Mauler has proof that he's the original and forces the clone to be his slave, he notes the shoddy set-up of their lab equipment. This is because the power dynamic between them has been thrown out of balance now that the clone has to do the brunt of the work, and unwillingly at that, which in turn compromises their efficiency.
Immune to Bullets: They have a casual conversation about how to go about their attack on the White House while being riddled with tons of machine-gun fire, which they eventually claim tickles. That is, unless they are shot in the eye at close range.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While they may be amoral Mad Scientists, they still cannot help but shed a tear or two as they see the emotional turmoil the two Rudys go through as the new one mercy kills his original at the original's request.
Know When to Fold 'Em: When the GDA appears outside their warehouse, they were ready to fight until more GDA soldiers undid their cloaking. The Mauler Twins realize they're far outnumbered and peacefully go back to prison. They also wisely choose not to engage further with the revived and enraged Immortal after the control collar they made failed.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: One of the Maulers runs around wearing a labcoat in later episodes, most likely to differentiate himself from the other.
Laughably Evil: Their overall banter of which one is the real clone is this, and in general are quite casual and snarky.
Legacy Character: Considering that the Mauler Twins have been implied to have lost half of their duo several times before the start of the series, the likelihood of the original person surviving is extremely low, and it's likely the clones are simply cloning themselves while continuing the original's work. The possibility doesn't bother them though, as they're still convinced that they're the original no matter what and ignore all possibility of being the clone, and as shown in Season 2, breaking this mold tends to end very badly.
Leitmotif: Most of the time they are accompanied with songs by Run the Jewels.
- When cloning one of the twins, "Don't get Captured" is used, a song with themes of gentrification, racial profiling, and a broken court system relying on executions rather than reformation, with the singers emphasizing "Don't get captured".
- "Rubble Kings" is used in the series, a song about the harsh realities of urban violence and racism.
- "The Ground Below" is about fighting for your life and reputation; one is trying to fight temptation and cheat death, while the other wants to gain respect through dominance.
Like an Old Married Couple: Or the cloning equivalent of it. According to them, the constant bickering that comes from their cloning process is preferable to having them be aware of who is or isn't the original.
Mad Scientist: They're very talented and very amoral biotechnicians, although they mostly use this skill to clone themselves in order to commit crimes. When Robot contracts them, he states that he does so because he needs their unparalleled skill with tissue cloning and neural transference. Angstrom Levy also recruits them for their skill with the latter, because while he managed to build a larger version of their neural machine by basing it off their schematics, he needs their expertise in order to actually get it to work.
Oh, Crap!: The two are understandably very scared when the newly revived Immortal is not only insanely pissed off, but straight up destroyed the mind-control collar they put on him in a fit of rage, while also screaming at them for Omni-Man's location. They can only silently back away with their hands up, defensively.
Our Clones Are Different: The Twins are actually the result of a single Mad Scientist creating a clone of himself with the same memories and personality to act as a partner-in-crime and lab assistant, and whenever one Mauler Twin dies, the surviving Twin (whether they be the original or a clone) uses the cloning technology to create another Mauler Twin again. The cloning process involves extracting a blood sample, and Mauler locates a distinct blood cell which he then injects under a microscope, causing the cell to begin replicating. The clone body then grows from the blood sample inside a pod, fed processed meat through a tube to fuel its development. Once the body is fully-formed, it's still braindead, until Mauler uses a separate machine to (painfully) duplicate all his thoughts and memories onto the clone body.
Pet the Dog:
- When they clone Robot a new body, they warn him that the process would both be painful and only copy his consciousness, not transfer it. They also do their best to save him when a complication arises from his abnormal brain structure. They also show understanding when the clone of Robot realizes the full ramifications of their mind-transferal technology, with one of them even tearing up when the two Rudolphs say goodbye to one another.
- The surviving Mauler is genuinely worried for the mutated Angstrom when he sees the man is injured and delirious, openly telling him he needs to get to a hospital, though Angstrom leaves through a portal without listening, much to the Mauler's frustration.
Running Gag: The twins have constant banter over whom is the original. But due to both of them being completely identical clones, that usually leaves them confused over who was cloned from whom. In fact, it's the only thing that keeps them working harmoniously together, as when one has undeniable evidence that he's the original, he quickly becomes a domineering taskmaster until the other murders him in retaliation.
Sibling Rivalry: Their relationship is evocative of this, especially with their constant snarking and bickering over which one of them is the real Mauler and which one is the clone, while using their own accomplishments to "prove" the other is a clone. Though it turns out they purposefully make it impossible for each of them to know which is the actual clone to spare whichever one it is a lot of pain, which again brings to mind siblings who give each other a hard time but love each other deep down. That won't stop one of them from using the other as a shield against lethal laser blasts though, as he knows he can just make another clone.
Siblings in Crime: Though one (or possibly both) of them are clones, they're called the Mauler Twins and refer to each other as brothers.
Smarter Than They Look: They're introduced as your average brutes that just bullhead their way through the situation to achieve their goal, but as it turns out, they're both a Genius Bruiser and are very knowledgeable about cloning process and all the sciences that would be involved to perfect the process.
Spanner in the Works: They dig up the Immortal's body, reattach his head, put a mind control collar on him and revive the hero with the intent of siccing him on the new Guardians of the Globe. Not only does the Immortal rip apart their device, he flies off in a rage to get revenge on Omni-Man. This results in a fight where Omni-Man bisects him on live TV and in front of his son, showing Omni-Man's true nature to the world.
Starter Villain: They're the first villains seen in the series, although they never interact with Invincible until Season 2.
Super-Strength: They're at least strong enough to be able to chuck tanks and battle with some of the old Guardians of the Globe's heavy hitters.
Super-Toughness: They are also both extremely durable. A hail of bullets does about as much damage to them as a brisk rain, and they have to use a drill press to get past their tough skin to draw blood. Their eyes aren’t quite as invulnerable, however, and the GDA possesses weapons capable of eviscerating them outright.
Those Two Guys: They're technically the same person, but no matter how hard they banter, the two are usually inseparable, although it doesn't mean they don't consider each other expendable.
Turned Against Their Masters: Both times one Twin is proven to be the original or is in a position to force the other to admit to being the clone, the "clone" kills the "original" over their treatment. Given what they've said about how knowing for sure which is which always leads to problems, this is the likely outcome whenever this happens.
Villainous Glutton: Downplayed, but they are shown to have an appreciation for good food. They both enjoy the chicken pot pie they're served in prison and complain when they're being served slop instead. They also partnered with Angstrom on the condition that he finds them an alternate universe that serves good food (and worships them as gods, of course). And when not being served good food, they know how to cook it, too.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nonlethal. Their benefactor Robot springs them out of prison to commission them for a job. After building trust, completing the job, and settling their payment, their benefactor immediately tries to send them back to prison.

Kill Cannon

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

The first villain Mark fights as Invincible. He has recurring appearances as a running gag.

Adaptation Deviation: He is actually a small villain from Eve’s rogues gallery in the comics, Invincible only fights him a little while later in his career to easily pounce him; in the show Kill Cannon is one of Mark’s early foes instead, beating him without even knowing he has a long story of fighting against Eve. The Atom Eve Special would show that him being her villain first is still true.
Arm Cannon: His name comes from his single claim to fame, a large energy cannon mounted on his arm.
Butt-Monkey: His recurring running gag appearances usually just have him to be beaten by Mark or Eve.
Flat Character: There's not much to him than a villain who blows things up.
Kick the Dog: During the fight on the bridge with Atom Eve in Season 2, Eve is distracted from the fight by trying to save a couple whose car is about to tumble over the side of the bridge and into the water below. Kill Cannon beats on Eve so she loses concentration and is unable to hold the car up, causing it to fall. He laughs with glee when it happens as well, driving home the point that he's not just a criminal, he's also a dick.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Has a black mask/helmet with a red visor, his costume has black and red color scheme all around.
Starter Villain: He is the first villain Mark fights as the newly-costumed Invincible. It turns out he was also the first villain Eve fought while she was using her powers to run around the city.
Unskilled, but Strong: His canon is unquestionably immensely destructive, but it has zero versatility in combat and outside of combat... he's basically just a guy with one hand.
Eve: Shooting, shooting, shooting. I guess when your arm's gun you really only have one trick.
Kill Cannon: It's a good trick!
Villain Has a Point: He validly points out how ridiculous it is for regular police officers to be trying to neutralize him when he clearly just shot a giant hole through a skyscraper. If Invincible hadn’t arrived, he certainly would’ve killed them all.

Bi-Plane

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Voiced By: Ross Marquand

"Denver is toast Immortal! I'm going out and I'm taking the whole city with me!"

A flight suit-empowered supervillain.

Evil Gloating: He gloats on how he has the explosives to blow up Denver, but the Immortal exploits his gloating by immediately throwing him into space.
Expy: Of the Spider-Man enemy the Vulture. Both are bald, elderly villains who wear a green jumpsuit that lets them fly around.
Harmless Villain: Downplayed. While he does have explosives necessary to blow up Denver, his Evil Gloating immediately results in his defeat from the Immortal.
Killed Mid-Sentence: The Immortal chucks him into space midway through his explanation of how he was going to destroy Denver.
Taking You with Me: He plans on using his explosives to kill both the Immortal and everyone in Denver.

Doc Seismic

Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos

"You should be on my side! We could tear down the old power structure and build a new order! I mean look at that costume they've got you in! Talk about pandering to gender roles."

A supervillain who can create powerful disruption waves through special gauntlets he made himself that can cause earth-shattering damage.

Awesome, but Impractical: According to Cecil his gloves give him brain damage whenever he uses them.
Better to Die than Be Killed: He happily stops Invincible from saving him from falling in lava and even tries to kill him as well, only failing due to Atom Eve. Subverted in that it's later revealed that he's still alive.
Beware the Silly Ones: He's a little loopy thanks to the constant concussions his gloves give him. Doesn't mean he's a pushover as his fight with Atom and Invincible shows that he can handle his own very well.
Cast from Sanity: Using his gloves is driving him insane because he gets a concussion every time he uses them.
Dance Battler: He's pretty spry and agile for a man of his age, able to keep up with two superpowered beings at once. Guess that minor in African dance paid off in his chosen line of work.
Disney Death: He seemingly falls into Lava and is killed but the finale reveals he is alive and has become the leader of lava monsters.
Eco-Terrorist: In Season 2, he takes offense to humanity making buildings out of stone, metal, and clay "stolen" from the earth, and intends to destroy all buildings not made of wood, starting with the Washington Monument.
Equal-Opportunity Evil: The show adds the detail that he's a feminist who took courses in women's studies and African dance when getting his undergraduate degree.
Expy: Of the Avengers villain Graviton with his gravity and seismic based superpowers and insanity.
A God Am I: He declares that people shouldn't worship the Founding Fathers, calling them oppressors... before claiming that he is a god "worthy of worship".
Hidden Depths: This version shows that he's more than just a seismologist gone rogue by commenting on how apparently sexist the world is by having Atom Eve wear a revealing pink superhero costume.
Atom Eve: I thought your doctorate was in Seismology.
Doc Seismic: Undergrad in Sociology and Women's Studies, I had a minor in African Dance.
Insane Troll Logic: His plans to destroy Mt. Rushmore has shades of this considering he wanted to do so since they owned slaves, but one of them was Abraham Lincoln, the man who made slavery illegal in the first place... a fact which he acknowledges in an attempted one-liner.
Insistent Terminology: He's Doc Seismic, not Professor Seismic — professors are teachers, and he never taught.
Laughably Evil: He's one of the less serious villains Mark faces in the show, with his over-the-top personality and politically-correct tendencies mostly being Played for Laughs. That doesn't mean he's a complete pushover, though.
Mad Scientist: He's a brilliant seismologist and inventor who, among other gizmos, created gauntlets that allow him to emit shockwaves. He's also completely crazy. The working theory is that he was driven nuts by his own gauntlets giving him concussions from use.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Has a Ph.D in seismology, which he used to create gauntlets that can make earthquakes which he uses for eeeeeeevil.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He criticizes the Founding Fathers for bigotry and owning slaves, and wants to give Mount Rushmore a makeover of more "deserving" heroes... most notably himself. That's not even getting into the fact that he goes out of his way to try and kill tourists and boy scouts, or the fact that the first face he went after was Abraham Lincoln.
Not That Kind of Doctor: A variant; he corrects Mark when he accidentally refers to him as "Professor Seismic" by pointing out that he never actually taught after getting his doctorate.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Used as a joke in his first episode that he specialized in many fields, although in humanities rather than hard sciences.
Politically Correct Villain: Rails against the founding fathers for being slaveowners, studied feminist theory, and claims to have a genuine appreciation for African art and culture. His extreme political views are part of his being an insufferable but comedic villain.
Straw Feminist: He claims Eve's outfit is sexist and believes she was forced to wear it, while she designed it herself.
Straw Character: His personality is a parody of social justice types, with the brain damage from his experiments escalating that to a full-blown desire to personally conquer, destroy a mountain and be worshipped.

Elephant

The Elephant

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A bumbling and incompetent elephant-themed villain who has repeated run-ins with Invincible.

Butt-Monkey: Every appearance has him defeated by Mark with hilarious ease.
Captain Ersatz: Of Marvel’s Rhino, with a similar grey costume.
Cruel Elephant: Played with. He's a supervillain with an elephant theme, but nowhere near as scary or powerful as that would imply.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: A villain with a goofy costume who should be a threat but isn't and is just an incompetent buffoon that Invincible trounces every time they meet, usually followed by carrying him away by his trunk in embarrassing fashion.
Recurring Extra: He's basically just a guy that Mark regularly punches around on the way to real problems.
The Voiceless: All his appearances have been silent so far.

Ka-Hor

Voiced By: Clancy Brown

A mummy ghost sealed in a tomb.

Canon Foreigner: He wasn't in the comics and was just created for the show.
Kneel Before Zod: In season 2 he say "BOW TO KA-HOR!".
Once a Season: So far had brief appearances in season 1 and two being an irrelevant villain.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He's sealed in his tomb and needs a vessel to be ressurected.
Villain of Another Story: He is completely irrelevant to the story of Invincible, who isn't aware of his existence.
Yank the Dog's Chain: The first time he appears, his tomb is accidentally shut closed, leaving him trapped. The next time two women arrive at his tomb and he complains that he needs a male body to be his vessel.

Titan

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Voiced By: Mahershala Ali

"Sure man, just fly away! Forget about everyone else down here!"

A criminal enforcer who generates a stone skin armor at will. A masked Mark first meets him before attaining his name Invincible.

Adaptational Badass: In the comics, if Titan's stone skin was damaged, he was required to shed the whole thing in order to create an undamaged armor. In the show, he is able to regenerate damage to his armor without having to shed it.
Adaptation Expansion: The show adds more layers to his moral compass and gives him a family to make his actions more understandable, while in the comics his plan to take over Machine Head’s place was more of a lone belief to make things better.
Adaptational Nice Guy: While most of his initial arc remains the same with him tricking Invincible into helping him take down his boss Machine Head just to take his place, they add more nuance to his character, showing that he was truly stuck as Machine Head's henchmen first due to repaying a debt and then under threat against his family, with him taking over simply to look out for "his own," and implying he intends to be a less ruthless crime lord than Machine Head. His entire opening scenes of the episode show that, while he's still capable of brutal murder, he's not without mercy and does feel somewhat bad about the things he was forced to do as Machine Head's enforcer.
Affably Evil: His next appearance shows him actively sparing people's lives while pulling out jobs.
Anti-Villain: He does bad things for his family, and avoids killing people when he doesn't have to.
Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a black suit after taking over Machine Head's empire.
Boots of Toughness: Wears a pair of what are presumably Timbs.
Clothing Damage: While his armor is very tough and it can take quite the beating, his clothes don't. Whenever he goes to work, he usually makes sure to take off his grey hoodie, although due to still needing pants, he keeps those on himself. By the time his job is done, it's usually peppered by bullet holes.
Corrupted Character Copy: For Luke Cage. He ticks most of the boxes: a family man with Super-Strength and a perpetually "sick-of-this-crap" personality who typically sticks to the streets. But that's where the similarities end; while Luke is an ex-delinquent who turned his life around and has a very strong sense of honor, Titan is a villain to the last and is not above manipulating a rookie superhero into helping him take over a criminal organization.
Depending on the Artist: In the comic Titan was drawn with his stone face still being able to portray emotion, to better convey his moods to the reader while in Titan form; in the show his stone face is completely still, since it is an audio-visual medium the audience can tell what Titan is feeling through his voice and motion.
Do Well, But Not Perfect: He worked his ass off to pay off his debt to Machine Head as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, that made him Machine Head's top earner and far too valuable to let go. Machine Head threatens Titan's family to keep him working.
Elemental Armor: His main superpower is to cover himself in a protective layer of stone.
Enemy Mine: He asks for Invincible's help to take down Machine Head.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a wife and daughter that he cares for very much and seeks to make their lives better.
In the Hood: Dons a grey zip-up hoodie to help keep himself incognito.
Karma Houdini: Although he had some decent reasons for doing so, he still manipulated Mark into helping him bring down Machine Head so he could take over his criminal empire. This action left Mark, Black Samson and Monster Girl badly wounded. While Titan got a beatdown from Battle Beast and the other villains, it was still nowhere near as bad as what the heroes got and he still inherited Machine Head's empire after all this, with the end result being that he got far more benefits than he did punishment out of the ordeal.
Klingon Promotion: Zig-zagged. He manipulated Mark to attempt to kill Machine Head in order to take his place and, while Machine Head was just captured in the end, Titan assumed the position as the new crime lord around as soon as Machine Head was out of the picture either way.
Noble Demon: Makes sure that innocents are safe before carrying out whatever crime he was sent to do. He also helps out the victims of his crimes like giving them money to pay for temporary housing after setting their apartment building on fire. He takes over Machine Head's criminal empire instead of dismantling it, but with the strong implication that his criminal empire will run much cleaner.
- Also prefers to leave a heist without bloodshed, even calmly explaining to a bunch of armed security that their weapons will have little effect on him, asking them if their lives are worth whatever meager pay the company gives them, then suggests they fire a few rounds around the room so it looks like they put up a fight while he walks out the door so that everyone goes home unharmed.
Noble Top Enforcer: Titan carries out Machine Head's bidding but goes out of his way to spare as many people as he can. It's actually his combination of mercy and efficiency that motivates Machine Head to force Titan to keep working for him even after Titan pays off his debt.
Pet the Dog: He is shown to be merciful to a few innocent civilians while carrying out Machine Head's orders. When he burns down an apartment people stayed in, he gives them enough cash to find somewhere else to live, and he allows one guy another 48 hours to repay what he owes instead of killing him like he was ordered after seeing a photo of his daughter. He also seemed genuinely apologetic when Mark was greatly injured while helping him, saying he wished it didn't turn out like that.
Punch-Clock Villain: He's only doing criminal activity to support his family financially, and is shown to frequently spare people caught in the crossfire of his work. Or even targets and security guards.
Redeeming Replacement: He takes over Machine Head's role as crime boss but with the stated goal of running things better and looking after the people who matter.
Scary Black Man: He's a big burly African-American under his stone armor. Downplayed, in that he's an Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain.
Starter Villain: The first villain Mark faces before he even becomes Invincible.
The Stoic: He only slightly loses his cool after a kid he spares shoots him in the face, but still commits to mercy with a stern "Go!".
Super-Strength: Not on Invincible's level, but still enough to toss a fork lifter and cave in people's skulls with thrown objects.
Super-Toughness: His stone skin is thick enough to protect him from gun fire, but concentrated shots or higher caliber bullets will destroy some parts of it and make him take cover.
Trapped in Villainy: Machine Head considers him to be too good of an asset to be allowed to quit, and threatens his family to keep him working under him. As a result, Titan starts an alliance with Invincible to take him down. Machine Head does also bring up how hard it would be for him to go straight. After arranging for Machine Head's downfall, Titan usurps his position as crime boss of his own free will, but it's with the stated intention of being a less ruthless one than his predecessor.
Vetinari Job Security: He worked so hard to be free of his debt from Machine Head that he became irreplaceable in the man's eyes.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Whenever he armors up, though mostly to prevent his hoodie from getting messed up.
The Worf Effect: Episode 5 spent most of it's opening showcasing how dangerous and powerful Titan is around regular humans and run of the mill gangsters. However, when Machine Head sics his hired supervillains on him and Mark he is very quickly taken out without providing much to the fight.

Machine Head

Voiced By: Jeffrey Donovan

"You think you can just punch your way out of this? I know where your family lives and that means you work for me until I say you're fucking done."

A crime lord that has a mechanical head.

Adaptational Badass: On paper only. The show has Machine Head state his new implant gives him quantum seer powers, which through complex probability calculations he can predict a certain future, which was Titan and Invincible going after his neck. In the comics, he was just coasting on being prepared for any attack in his office after Titan was giving off signs of betrayal.
Berserk Button: Do not destroy his furniture. Imported Italian maple costs a lot, you know.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his Laughably Evil and laid-back personality, he is the city's most dangerous crime lord. Titan shows Mark the devastation Machine Head's illicit activities have on poor communities, which is enough to convince Mark to team up with the villain to take him down.
Cyborg: As the name implies, his head is purely machine.
Didn't See That Coming: The main reason he loses in the end, as he didn't foresee Battle Beast abandoning the fight and the Guardians finally banding together to clean out the rest of the villains he hired. He also didn't see Isotope's betrayal coming, which ended in Machine Head's arrest.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Once he inserts the quantum-probability chip into his head, he reacts with what can only be described as a robotic cocaine high.
Dull Surprise: When Invincible and Titan burst into his office, he simply says a bored "Hello Invincible, Titan", this is mostly due to his quantum seer powers allowing him to see it coming.
Electronic Speech Impediment: His voice has a very slight autotuning effect on it. The autotune becomes more obvious when he's angry or emphasizing his words to make a point.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: He's called Machine Head... for exactly the reason you think he is.
Expy: Of Black Mask, a fellow sharply dressed crime lord whose face is concealed by a unique mask, though in Machine Head's case, said mask is his face/head. Even more similarities pop up when compared to the Black Mask from Batman: Under the Red Hood, who shares the amusingly hammy outbursts.
Faux Affably Evil: His upbeat, chummy attitude does nothing to mask what a transparent slime ball he is. It does contribute to his Laughably Evil nature.
Laughably Evil: While he's no pushover due to being a crime boss, his lax attitude and hamminess make him quite the treat. His auto-tuned voice also makes his hamminess a tad funnier too.
Noodle Incident: While it's believable Machine Head is wealthy enough to hire the best mercenaries on Earth to protect him and his interests, it's unknown how he came into contact with a far-reaching, intergalactic space marauder like Battle Beast and convinced him to help out with something as mundane as bouncer work.
Pragmatic Villainy: He doesn't mind that Titan shows mercy even when it goes against his orders, because he's still an incredibly efficient henchman.
Prescience by Analysis: The chip Titan steals for him grants Machine Head the ability to predict the future through sheer quantum computing power, enabling him to anticipate Titan's betrayal and prepare accordingly.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He sports this mentality against superheroes.
Machine Head: But it doesn't matter. Because like I said, Invincible's right. I'm out of my league. Except... I've got money!
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After the new Guardians of the Globe successfully beat all of his hired supervillains and Battle Beast decides the battle is beneath him and leaves, Machine Head tries to get Isotope to teleport him to safety. Too bad for him, Isotope was in league with Titan the whole time and leaves him at the mercy of the heroes.
Shame If Something Happened: Claims to know where Titan's family lives, which is why Titan can't leave him.
Sharp-Dressed Man: As expected of a man of his stature, he dons a snazzy white three-piece business suit.
Smug Snake: To a very grating degree. The level of smug this guy gives off completely bypasses his inability to make facial expressions.
Villain Has a Point: Though he delivers it in a condescending manner, Machine Head isn't entirely wrong when he points out that Titan's powers are ill-suited for normal life and that he puts them to better use as his enforcer. He's also right that Titan's status as his enforcer will make getting a normal job almost impossible.
Machine Head: Come on, like you're gonna go clean? Work the fry station at Burger Mart? That ship has sailed, amigo. This is your life now, this is what you do. [...] You're a walking pile of rocks. You. Break. Heads. That's it. That's all! Own it already!
Villain of the Week: He sticks around for one episode before he's dethroned by Titan and taken into custody.
Villain Respect: Downplayed. While he treated Titan as little more than his property, he compliments his strength, brutal reactions, and ability to get shit done. Unfortunately this makes Titan too valuable to just let go.

Isotope

Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos

Machine Head's right-hand man.

Brought to You by the Letter "S": The black undershirt he has underneath his blazer/suit jacket has a white I on it.
Hazy-Feel Turn: He leaves Machine Head at the mercy of the Guardians, and as it turns out is working for Titan.
Noodle Incident: Machine Head grills on him for a certain incident about him complaining about getting shot and he sheepishly tries to defend himself by saying it was one time.
Number Two: He's Machine Head's second-in-command. He later betrays his boss in favor of becoming this for Titan instead.
The Starscream: Played with. He betrays his boss Machine Head, leaving him behind to get captured by the Guardians. But instead of taking over his criminal empire himself, he becomes Titan's right-hand man instead when he takes Machine Head's spot and it appears the two were planning it for quite a while as well.
Teleportation: His main ability.
You Don't Look Like You: Unlike some of the cast who look different than their comics version due to ethnicity changes, Isotope looks completely different while still being a white dude. His comics self was based after one of Kirkman’s friends who happened to be a comic shop owner, the show likely didn’t want to be bind under that reference.

Kursk

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

An Eastern European electricity-based supervillain.

Captain Ersatz: Of Marvel’s Electro. He even shares a similar yellow color scheme. The only real difference being that he’s of European descent.
Early-Bird Cameo: Briefly seen in the first episode being taken down by Red Rush. It should be noted that it was similar to how he made his debut in the comic.
Elemental Shapeshifter: Can move as bolts of electricity.
Psycho Electro: Somewhat downplayed; He’s an Eastern European man that enjoys causing fear amongst random innocent people with his electrical powers. He is also gladly willing to fight for someone like Machine Head. That being said, he’s considerably less bloodthirsty and dangerous than Omni-Man. His level of villainy is actually pretty tame overall in comparison to what Invincible has gone up against so far.
Red Scare: He has an Eastern European accent, and his name is of a Russian city.
Shock and Awe: He has electricity-based powers, mostly manifesting through the ability to create large electric discharges.
Super-Toughness: He bounces back quickly from Invincible and Monster Girl's hits.
Uncertain Doom: He's last seen falling from Machine Head's penthouse after a very pissed off Robot blasts him through the wall.

Furnace

A machine-like supervillain who uses flamethrowers.

Ambiguous Robots: It's not clear what he is, but he seems to be a robotic outer shell containing a molten liquid core.
- More specifically in the comics it is revealed he is some kind of human/mutant who outputs high amounts of magma and fire, and wears the Furnace suit to channel it. In comparison, he's less talkative, and the injuries he sustains (plus the reaction to them) make it lean more into Funace actually being a sentient machine of some kind.
The Generic Guy: He is the only one of Machine Head's goons to not contribute to the fight at all, to the point it is easy to forget he's there.
Machine Blood: He leaks molten liquid after his armour is ruptured by Rex's bombs, and tries to stem the flow with his arms as if he was bleeding.
Playing with Fire: His arms transform into flamethrowers.
The Unintelligible: Thus far has only made machine noises.

Magmaniac

A supervillain made of living magma.

Bald of Evil: Evil and bald, then again that last part is probably because he's a living mass of magma.
Blob Monster: He's made of molten rock, so blowing him apart only slows him down.
Convection, Schmonvection: Despite being made of magma, no one has any problems being near him, and Shrinking Rae exploding him from the inside doesn't hurt her at all.
Elemental Shapeshifter: Is a mass of living magma.
Expy: Of Spider-Man foe Sandman, but with magma instead of sand.
Living Lava: He is literally made of magma.
The Voiceless: He has no voiced lines.

Tether Tyrant

Voiced By: Reginald Veljohnson

A supervillain who fights with prehensile tethers branching from his chest.

Clothes Make the Superman: His powers seem entirely dependent on the vest for which his tethers are attached. That said, he walks off an awful lot of punishment.
Combat Tentacles: His tethers operate like this, being strong enough to dismember a person.
Expy: Seemingly of Doctor Octopus.
Made of Iron: He can take a surprising amount of hits from a half-Viltrumite and other powerful superheroes for someone who doesn't seem to have powers beyond his Combat Tentacles. For example, getting punched into a wall and then slammed into Kursk by an enraged Invincible.
The Voiceless: Outside of gasping for breath while Shrinking Rae had him in a chokehold (while she's shrinking), he's yet to make a sound.

D.A. Sinclair

Voiced By: Ezra Miller (Season 1), Eric Bauza (Season 2)

"All human failings are simply engineering challenges crying out to be solved! We're machines and the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can reach our true potential!"

A mad scientist in college, abducting people to turn into cyborgs called "Reanimen" due to an obsession with "improving" humanity.

Adaptational Early Appearance: He appears much earlier in the show than he does in the comics, which was long after Omni-Man had left his post on Earth.
Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, he was reluctant to create the Reanimen and did so at the urging of the GDA. Here, though, he deliberately chose to create the Reanimen himself and was gratuitously cruel during his painful experiments.
Adaptation Dye-Job: The two-piece suit he wears in the comics is black, where in the show, it's colored mauve.
Ambiguously Gay: All of his victims are men, having hand-picked all of them for their "alpha male" attributes. Even when Rick shames him for being insufferable in class, all Sinclair has to say in response is how attractive a specimen he is.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Somewhat ironically inverted. As a student, he's an obnoxious, condescending prick who makes sure everyone knows how much of a genius he is and how lowly he thinks of any viewpoint other than his own. When he's about to operate on someone, he's very Faux Affably Evil with them.
Boxed Crook: Cecil forcibly recruits him to turn dead soldiers into Reanimen as weapons against Omni-Man. Cecil in particular doesn't like enlisting his help because just talking to him makes Cecil feel dirty.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Cecil notes that the cyborgs he made were impressive enough on their own, even though they were created in a sewer, implying that he could be more useful in an actual lab. Which is foreshadowing of his decision to recruit Sinclair to the GDA instead of putting him in prison.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Has pale skin and jet black hair, and is also a deranged mad scientist.
Evil Genius: His main assets are his intellect and cybernetic skills, which Cecil remarks on and which lead to Cecil recruiting him to the GDA. When it comes to physical combat, he's obviously rather useless and is reliant on his Reanimen. He's also an Insufferable Genius as a civvie and he reserves his manners for his victims when he's about to operate on them.
The Evils of Free Will: He lobotomizes and put chips in the brains of the Reanimen to take away their free will.
Expy: Of Herbert West. His creations are called Reanimen, his personality is very much akin to Herbert's (particularly his gigantic ego and lack of ethics), and like Herbert he's a college student meddling with life and death in what he enshrines as playing god, which he feels he deserves to do. Unlike Herbert, he's a machinist, not a medical student.
Faux Affably Evil: He's very calm and polite to the people on the operating table and is much more casual when condescending them than he is in the lecture theatre.
For Science!: He is completely self-absorbed in his Reanimen project, seeing it as an actual benefit to humanity as a whole, incapable of perceiving any wrong with abducting people, mutilating and brainwashing them as horrific cyborgs.
Hate Sink: Between his massive ego and horrifying lack of a moral compass, it’s very clear that you’re not supposed to like him.
Hypocrite: He likes to speak in favor of the improvement and empowerment of mankind, but his only real scientific endeavors involved kidnapping people, stripping away their humanity and free will and reducing them into his personal minions. It's also notable that he doesn't have any known augmentations installed into him, which he was all too willing to install into others in order to "improve" them.
Insufferable Genius: He is known for thinking he's smarter than everyone else at the college (including his professors) and calls them idiots. Unfortunately, he isn't incorrect, as despite just being a pre-med undergrad freshman, he shows he is capable of creating some of the (if not the) most advanced cyborgs the world has seen, with nothing more than scraps and salvage in a makeshift lab in the sewers.
Jawbreaker: Downplayed. Invincible incapacitates him by punching him hard enough to break his jaw, giving him a good idea of what he put his victims through.
Jerkass: Is straight up called a jerk by Amber, to say nothing of how he makes his Reanimen.
Karma Houdini: Instead of "locking him up and throwing away the key", Cecil instead recruits Sinclair to the GDA for the express purpose of making more Reanimen. The smile and thumbs up Sinclair gives to Cecil in the season's epilogue showing that Sinclair is very happy with his new "job" as it gives him everything he wanted in the first place and more.
Laser-Guided Karma: While he doesn't suffer the same fate he puts through his Reanimen, Mark and William do give him a good idea of how his test subjects feel when they get mangled by him. Via a beat down and a very broken jaw courtesy of a very pissed off human and half-Viltrumite. By the second time he appears he's still healing and looks pretty ridiculous while he's at it. Adding to this, watching his newly improved second-gen squad of Reanimen bite the dust causes him to throw a childish fit by smashing a keyboard because his face is too swollen to yell.
Limited Wardrobe: He is never seen wearing anything else besides his mauve suit.
Mad Doctor: Well, Mad Pre-Med undergrad student. He kidnaps people and replaces their limbs and organs with machines, turning them into extremely powerful but enslaved cyborgs.
Named After Somebody Famous: He has the same name as David A. Sinclair, an Australian scientist who has done research on aging and regeneration. Just like Invincible's Sinclair he believes aging can be overcome.
Nominal Hero: Sinclair now works for Cecil in defending Earth from dangerous threats, but he's only doing it because A) he's forced to and B) has new opportunities to create more Reanimen.
Obliviously Evil: Genuinely sees nothing wrong with Unwilling Roboticisation and forced augmentation, believing that it's the future of humanity, and that he's doing people a favor.
Psychopathic Manchild: Basically throws a tantrum after seeing Omni-man destroy his second iteration of Reanimen.
Recruiting the Criminal: He may have been recruited by the GDA for his cutting edge work in cybernetics (largely due to the emergency situation created by Omni-Man), but Cecil makes it very clear that he's on a very short leash.
Punch-Clock Hero: After his defeat from Invincible, D.A. Sinclair is hired by Cecil to work for him in creating Reanimen robots to defend the Earth. While D.A. Sinclair continues to create the Reanimens, Cecil makes sure that D.A. Sinclair only creates Reanimens from dead corpses of humans. D.A. Sinclair is content with his work and has no problems on creating new versions of Reanimen.
Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears a mauve two-piece suit and tie which especially makes him stand out amongst the other more casually dressed college students. His choice to dress in a more formal manner than his fellow students also symbolizes how he views them all as being beneath him.
Straw Character: He is the only character who has openly transhumanistic opinions. He is also an Insufferable Genius who has no regard for human rights or lives.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He starts to work for the Global Defense Agency from Episode 7 onwards, but Cecil makes it clear that he can't stand him and that feeling seems to be mutual. By the end of Episode 8, as the smiles that Sinclair and Cecil give each other implies that they have warmed up to one another.
Villainous Breakdown: After one of his Reanimen removes his own chip and the others are defeated, and after getting a little bloodied by an enraged Mark, Sinclair is raving and babbling about how he's securing scientific progress and saving humanity from disease before Invincible shuts him up with a jaw-break.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that what he is doing is improving humanity and increasing one's lifespan — no matter how horrifying and incredibly evil it is.
Younger Than They Look: As an undergrad freshman, he'd only be about two to three years older than the teenaged Mark and William but could easily pass for someone in their mid-twenties.

The Reanimen

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Humans that were transformed into cyborgs by D.A. Sinclair.

Artificial Zombie: While the first Reanimen seen are lobotomized humans with cybernetics, the second batch created by the GDA are explained to be revived corpses, and are visibly decayed and more feral-looking as a result.
Body Horror: Their transformation is rather grisly and gory.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of a chip that Sinclair planted into their brains.
Combat Pragmatist: One Reaniman fighting Omni-Man briefly wraps the latter's own cape around his face to blind him.
Cyber Cyclops: Their helmet has a single large red eyepiece giving them this look.
Driven to Suicide: The first Reaniman that Invincible faces shook off his brainwashing just enough to be horrified by what had been done to him and commits suicide by impaling himself on a giant sundial.
Dying as Yourself: The first Reaniman that Mark fights partly overcomes the brainwashing upon seeing his unmasked reflection and then observing his cybernetic arms, and promptly kills himself.
Fate Worse than Death: Dying, or enduring Unwilling Roboticisation whilst you're conscious including an extreme Lobotomy? Hmm...
Lobotomy: As part of their conversion, Sinclair completely removes and discards large sections of their brain, targeting the parts responsible for emotion and free will.
Moral Myopia: Averted. Cecil specifically notes that the second batch of Reanimen were made from the corpses of GDA soldiers who died in the line-of-duty, as opposed to being normal people roboticized against their will by Sinclair.
Night of the Living Mooks: Recognizing that the Reanimen are capable of holding their own against viltrumites, Cecil recruits Sinclair to build more Reanimen on behalf of the Global Defense Agency, albeit using the corpses of fallen soldiers instead of living humans. After some limited success against Omni-Man, the first season finale reveals that Cecil has greenlit the mass production of improved third-generation Reanimen troops.
Our Zombies Are Different: Not the initial batch, but the second batch are zombies in all but name, being corpses given autonomy and incredible strength. They're also made by the government from the corpses of their soldiers, and are sent out to attack an alien threat.
Super-Strength: Individually they are able to go toe-to-toe with Invincible. As a group they nearly kill him and are even able to overwhelm Omni-Man for a short time.
Super-Toughness: Their cybernetics give them incredible durability, able to even take hits from Omni-Man.
Took a Level in Badass: While the original Reanimen were strong enough to give Invincible a hard time, the ones built with GDA resources were capable of putting up a decent fight against Omni-Man.
Unwilling Roboticisation: What the Reanimen were subject to. After being recruited by the GDA, the next-generation of Reanimen are made purely with already-deceased soldiers that fell in the line-of-duty.

Erickson

Steven Erickson

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"No! She's a weapon, my weapon! And it's taken me years to get her back."

Voiced by: Lance Reddick

"The man who tore you from your mother's womb and you want to save him? Adorable."

An especially ruthless former agent of the GDA and the man behind Dr. Brandyworth's experiments that created Atom Eve. Upon learning Eve's still alive, he tries to hunt her down to make her a GDA weapon.

Accidental Murder: He murders Brandyworth, if by murder, you mean accidentally blowing the poor man's brains out while clumsily wrestling with him for a gun. He also inadvertently shoots Polly while doing this, but she was already dead, with her being braindead and her body just maintained like a computer.
Adaptational Nice Guy: Only to a degree. Where his comic counterpart was vicious sadist on top of his ruthless G-Man gimmick, the show's version of Erickson is more laidback and seemingly genuine about his actions being — in his head — for the greater good. Notably, his killings of Brandyworth and the braindead Polly are totally accidental in the show; in the comic, he does it purposefully and for no reason other than to hurt Brandyworth and Eve. With all that said, he's still a nasty piece of work and a total Jerkass here, and even the parts where he's softened can just make him look even worse by adding a layer of Never My Fault to his character.
Adaptational Personality Change: He's still a total asshole and a ruthless man in black willing to do anything for his goals under a weak justification of "the greater good", but he's much more restrained and seemingly genuine about his intentions compared to his comic self, who was a sadistic, unhinged Blood Knight that took especial delight in killing superheroes if they got in his way.
Bad Boss: Erickson's default way of interacting with his henchmen is condescending insults optionally followed by vicious threats at the sign of any dissent. He bullies and threatens both Brandyworth and his replacement, shows no concern for Polly's well-being whatsoever, and treats the Phases like garbage, degrading them constantly as failures and later sending them to die against Eve with no empathy or remorse.
Doomed by Canon: He's Donald's predecessor in the GDA in terms of position and authority. Given that and that he's nowhere to be seen in the present day episodes, it's clear he's not going to be in his position for much longer after the end of the Atom Eve special. In the comics, he ends up getting killed by Brit when yet another one of his attempts to acquire a superhuman for the government goes awry, but it's not clear yet if that's his fate in the show's canon or not.
Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep voice courtesy of the late Lance Reddick, however while his is deep, it's also rather sonorous and gentle sounding in a way that you wouldn't really expect from such an abrasive guy.
Hate Sink: Imagine every negative stereotype about spies and intelligence operatives personified in a single man and you've got a pretty good idea of Erickson.
The Horseshoe Effect: Despite being an agent of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Expy GDA, an organization that is allied with the superheroes and supports them, Erickson's ruthlessness, cruelty, human experimentation, and general domineering persona all comes together to make him functionally identical to the supervillains he ostensibly is supposed to be fighting.
Jerkass: Very much so. He treats the people around him like complete shit even when he isn't being actively evil.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Eve wipes his mind after unlocking her full powers, leaving him with no knowledge of her identity or his ties to her origin.
Never My Fault: After shooting Brandyworth, he's visibly horrified and remorseful, if only because he needed the man alive… and then he immediately switches to awkwardly insisting it was an accident and not his fault.
Scary Black Man: An African-American intelligence operative and terrifyingly cutthroat one who seems to demean and dominate everyone he interacts with even when he isn't threatening them.
Spies Are Despicable: Yes. He tries to justify his actions with talk of greater goods and national securities, but none of it does anything to make him look like anything less than a cruel, monstrous man who sees other people as pawns to be used and discarded at best.
Tautological Templar: He constantly tries to justify his actions by saying that there for the "greater good" and doesn't show an ounce of regret for the monstrous things he's done.
Tranquil Fury: He's constantly angry at everyone he interacts with, but his voice is surprisingly gentle and low-key in spite of it, usually somewhat monotone. The one time he actually yells is downright shocking because he never raises his voice that high again.
You Don't Look Like You: He's been redesigned significantly for the show, having different facial structure plus hair and mustache instead of being bald. This is likely to make him more visually distinctive, as his design in the comics kinda made him look like a clone of Black Samson.

Giant

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Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

"Don't call me that! I'm the Giant and I want to be president of America- and an astronaut!"

An eight year old boy turned into a gigantic cyclops.

Cyclops: His post-transformation form.
A Dog Named "Dog": A giant cyclops who insists on being called the Giant. Justified when Robot reveals that he has the mental capacity of an eight-year old, with the naming creativity to match.
Laughably Evil: Thanks to having the mental capacity of an eight-year old and his spouting of nonsense about becoming president and an astronaut when he grows up, the Giant comes across as rather comedic - though Cecil later points out that there was a number of civilian casualties during his rampage.
Obliviously Evil: Doesn't seem to understand that rampaging through a city is wrong, and later questions why the Guardians are being so "mean" to him.
Tragic Monster: He's not evil and certainly not purposefully malicious, just a confused little boy trapped in the form of a giant monster.

Octoboss

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A goofy octopus-man villain with a poor grasp of English and an army of squid-man goons.

Arm Cannon: His left arm has a cannon on it.
Combat Tentacles: He uses his tentacles to fight Rex.
Cthulhumanoid: A humanoid octopus man with an army of similarly humanoid squid people.
Funny Octopus: He doesn't try to be but his poor grammar and goofy design and Atrocious Alias make him this.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He's potentially dangerous, but compared to most villains he's a joke and his poor handling of English just makes him an even bigger laughingstock.
No-Sell: Rex's regular explosives have no effect on him. His arm cannon on the other hand...
Psycho Pink: Is a Pink supervillain who is incredibly agressive and angry.
You No Take Candle: Played for Laughs. He's making the effort to learn human languages, but English is still a second language and his speech is very accented and full of bad grammar. He still sounds pretty sarcastic though.

Kaiju

Hail Mary

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Omni-Man: "You must be desperate, I've beat this thing already."

Cecil: "Sure, but we removed its pain center and juiced it up with every drug enhancement and upgrade we had- plus all that really pissed it off, and it blames you... Good luck."

A large Cthulhu-like Kaiju that Omni-Man fought in episode 3. It survived the battle and was put into custody by the GDA.

Adaptational Badass: Omni-Man killed her with zero effort in the comics, while in the show she gave him a bit of a hard time and survived the first encounter. Heck, she seemingly survives the second encounter because Omni-Man is dealing with a resurrected Immortal and Invincible seemingly knock her and move on to fight each other
Ambiguous Gender: The creature is called both "she" and "it" at differing points. Considering this is an inhuman monster, gender probably doesn't factor at all. In the comics however, she had some feminine features, like Multiboobage.
Came Back Strong: Omni-Man struggled, but he beat her a while ago. Then the GDA took her in and injected her with every enhancement they had, before sending her out as a Hail Mary tactic against Omni-Man. Unluckily for them, Mark would make up for the boost by helping his dad defeat her.
Cthulhumanoid: A roughly hominid Kaiju with a tentacled, eyeless face.
Emergency Transformation: As Cecil runs out of options to stop Omni-Man's rampage he brings her back hyped up on every drug and enhancement GDA had. Omni-Man noted they must be desperate to fight him with something he already defeated.
Feel No Pain: Cecil had his people remove her pain center to allow her to better combat Omni-Man.
Godzilla Threshold: She is released to fight Omni-Man after the space laser and Reanimen fail to keep him back. Doing this causes their teleporter to stop working due to how big she is.
Hijacking Cthulhu: Cecil kept her alive and teleported her to fight Omni-Man. They also juiced her up on drug enhancements and remove her pain center so she'll keep fighting as long as possible.
Kaiju: She's called one in the show, and is a ginormous, destructive monster.
It Can Think: She doesn't seem to hate Cecil for the painful upgrades and drugs, being seemingly loyal to his cause. According to Cecil, she blames Omni-Man more for beating her if anything else.
It's Personal: When she fights Omni-Man a second time, she realizes he was the one who beat her the first time. As Cecil notes, that pissed her off.
Meaningful Name: A Hail Mary play (originating in American Football) generally refers to an act that probably won't work but is done out of desperation when no other option remains for success. With the rest of their arsenal exhausted, the GDA unleash her because even though she already lost before, she's their last realistic chance to put Omni-man down.
Named by the Adaptation: She was unnamed in the comics.
The Power of Hate: Half of her increased strength is from the GDA's drugs. The other half is from being so inhumanely pissed at Omni-Man.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: This thing was defeated offscreen by Omni-Man and reportedly even gave him a hard time, although this approach is justified because we get to see him and Invincible fight a more powerful version of it later.
Spared by the Adaptation: She survives both her fights with Omni-Man. The second time she seemingly just gets incapacitated by Invincible and either understands she won't win or is knocked out. Either way, the focus shifts to Omni-Man's reveal and his fight with Invincible, and she has been absent since.
Tentacled Terror: She has several tentacles around her mouth which she uses to grab Omni-man and Invincible.

Depth-Dweller

A giant crab /anglerfish kaiju Mark is forced to fight in Atlantis.

Fiendish Fish: The creature's face looks like an anglerfish, complete with a lure.
Giant Enemy Crab: It has crab claws and an exoskeleton.
Luring in Prey: It has an adorable seahorse-looking lure.
Mix-and-Match Critters: It has the head of an anglerfish, the claws of a crab, and the tail of an eel.
Super-Scream: It has the ability to make loud shouts that act as a Kryptonite Factor for Mark.
Uncertain Doom: Mark forces it down a trench, and it drags Mark along with it. Mark escapes but it's unknown if the beast was killed given how durable it was.

Cruise Ship Kaiju

A Kaiju that attacked a cruise ship and was killed by Anissa.

Always a Bigger Fish: They give Mark a hard time, but Anissa easily one-shots it, showing how much more powerful she is.
Pretty Little Headshots: Anissa flies straight through its head, causing a small hole.
Tentacled Terror: Unlike Hail Mary they have tentacles on their torso in addition to small ones on their mouth.

The Lizard League

In General

The Lizard League

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A group of reptile-themed supervillains.

Canon Foreigner: As well as Queen Lizard, the show adds a couple of extra characters to the League's Elite Mooks - an older-looking man and a huge, muscular woman fill out the ranks, though they're absent by the present day.
Early-Bird Cameo: They get name-dropped back in Season One before making their first onscreen debut in the Atom Eve Special.
Expy: Their reptilian theme makes them one to Marvel's Serpent Society. Although their masked mooks, Goldfish Poop Gang tendencies, and King Lizard's general patheticness remind one of Cobra from G. I. Joe.
Goldfish Poop Gang: As far as villains go, the Lizard League are clearly fairly low on the threat totem pole. Their first two appearances show them trounced by the heroes they are fighting and not taken seriously for a second, and even Cecil comments derisively on their ability. Supreme Lizard's comments also imply they are seen as such by the general public on social media. Their fight with Rex, Kate and Rae reveals that this perception may be somewhat incorrect, given Komodo Dragon almost kills both Kate and Rae and King Lizard doing the same to Rex, though it may be that they're usually outmatched because they're often fighting more skilled, more powerful heroes.
Cecil: If [the new Guardians] can't take down the Lizard League, they'll never be ready.
Super-Toughness : To their credit, they know how to take a beating while fighting the Guardians of the Globe.
Mooks: The more prominent members of the League have legions of nondescript, normal human henchmen at their disposal in identical uniforms.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: They're mocked on social media and even Cecil writes them off as a joke. However, when they make a move while most of the Guardians' heavy hitters are preoccupied, it becomes a bloodbath that ends with Dupli-Kate dead and Rex and Rae maimed within an inch of their lives. The implication being that they're only considered a joke because they're usually fighting the most powerful superheroes on Earth.
Dupli-Kate: I thought... these guys... were supposed... to SUCK!
Spanner in the Works: Despite their brief appearance, the Lizard League's attack threw a massive wrench in Erickson's plans to create a superweapon, as it forced Dr. Brandyworth to take Polly to a hospital to deliver her baby (the intended superweapon) before secretly giving the infant to a normal family to keep her out of the military's hands.
Small Role, Big Impact: Their attack on the military facility where Atom Eve was created led to a series of circumstances that led to Atom Eve becoming a hero instead of a military superweapon. They also trigger Rex's Heel Realization and following Character Development after King Lizard almost kills him, as well as the following plotline of Kate's apparent death.

Queen Lizard

Voiced By: Tatiana Maslany

The initial leader of the Lizard League in the Atom Eve Special and mother of King Lizard, who she groomed to become their leader.

Do Wrong, Right: She berates her son she's grooming to become the next leader of the organization for telling the group to split up when they should stick together, and that the explosion he caused could potentially reveal their presence. She's right, as the Guardians of the Globe appear soon after.
Evil Matriarch: The leader of the League in the Atom Eve Special, Queen Lizard, is a woman who is teaching her son, the future King Lizard, the ropes of being a supervillain.
Genre Savvy: She notes to her son that the team should stick together rather than split apart, and she guesses that the fact the Guardians of the Globe are defending the facility she broke into means something inside is very important.
Little Bit Beastly: Her skin is tinted green and she has sharp, snake-like teeth, but she looks human otherwise.
Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Had this dynamic in the past with her son Prince (now King) Lizard.
What Happened to the Mouse?: She has been succeeded by her son by the time of the second season, but how and when the transition in leadership took place is completely offscreen and her final fate is not alluded to.

Prince/King Lizard

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Voiced By: Scoot McNairy, Jacob Tremblay (child)

The leader of the Lizard League by the start of the series.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He smugly taunts Rex before and after shooting him in the head. He can also be heard spouting "Please!" right before Rex starts pounding his face in.
Bad Boss: His idea of "leadership" when it comes time for battles seems to mostly consist of Zapp Brannigan-style sending wave after wave of his men at the enemy to soften up their defenses and than stepping in to finish off the injured foe. Accordingly, he shows absolutely no concern or remorse about said henchmen when they die horribly in the process of winning his victory for him.
Caught Monologuing: Gets his face smashed in by Rex, while in the middle of taunting the man after he just survived getting shot in the head by King and was in no mood to listen. Not that he even could listen, given Rex's ears were still ringing from having a gun go off at pointblank range.
Dirty Coward: He doesn't take part in the fight between the League and Guardians in "This Must Come As A Shock". He only shows up after everyone else but Rex, who's missing a hand, is dead and puts a gun to Rex's head.
Epic Fail: He shot Rex right in the head and somehow failed to make it a killing shot despite Rex being right in front of him.
Klingon Promotion: He makes his bid to retake leadership of the League by putting a bullet between the Supreme Lizard's eyes, mid-speech, and challenging anyone else with a problem with the leadership.
Little Bit Beastly: As with his mother, his skin is tinted green and he has a few pointy teeth.
Nerdy Nasalness: He has a very weedy nasally voice as an adult.
Non-Action Big Bad: It quickly becomes apparent that he is not a fighter in any sense of the word and relies on hiding behind bigger and smarter goons to pull off his evil plots. He even brags to Rex that his modus operandi is mostly just waiting until everyone else has tired themselves out fighting and then swooping in to finish off the victor.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Noted by Cecil to have been captured and locked away sometime before the series began, he shows up at the tail end of Season 2's second episode to reclaim leadership and disposes of Supreme Lizard.
Overlord Jr.: When he was a kid he was "Prince Lizard" to his mother's "Queen Lizard".
Paper Tiger: Despite all his grandstanding, he is utterly helpless in a fight when he has no other goons to hide behind. He gets beaten to death by a half-dead, one-handed Rex who just survived getting shot in the head by him.
Smug Snake: Or lizard, rather. He's extremely smug and self-assured without much in the way of power to back it up, being totally reliant on his legion of henchmen to accomplish anything.
Villains Want Mercy: He feebly begs Rex to stop punching him in the face. Rex ignores his pleas, assuming he can even hear them with his ears still ringing from being shot in the head, and keeps going until King Lizard's face caves in.

Iguana

Voiced By: Malese Jow

A Iguana-themed member of the Lizard League.

Dating Catwoman: It's implied that Black Samson and Iguana had some history together, given the former's determination in trying to talk down the latter rather than fight her and Aquarus' comments that she's a "lost cause".
Femme Fatalons: Her suit features a sharp set of claws she uses to fight with.
Half the Man He Used to Be: She's killed when Rex throws a bomb at her and splits her clean in half.

Komodo Dragon

Voiced By: Jay Pharoah

A Komodo Dragon-themed member of the Lizard League.

Bond One-Liner: Played for Horror. To confirm Shrinking Rae's apparent death from the crushing muscles of attempting to expand inside his body, Komodo Dragon says "yum..." for how delicious it was to kill her in the stomach.
Boss in Mook's Clothing: He seems like an unassuming dime-a-dozen goon, but turns out to be by far the most dangerous and powerful member of the Lizard League, seemingly killing Kate, crippling Rae, and maiming Rex all while generally carrying the silo mission.
The Brute: Is the biggest and strongest member of the Lizard League.
Hero Killer: Subverted. He seemingly kills both Dupli-Kate and Shrinking Rae, but it's revealed that Rae barely survived and Kate kept a back-up clone away from the danger.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To King Lizard, being by far the most dangerous and competent member of the League. Notably, the instant he's dead, King Lizard near-immediately blows the easy victory Komodo handed him on a plate.
I'm a Humanitarian: Swallows Shrinking Rae whole, comments "Yum." after doing so, and eats Rex's hand.
Kill It Through Its Stomach: Subverted when Shrinking Rae attempts to do this to him. His toughness enables him to tank the attempt and nearly kill her instead.
Sadist: The way he says "yum" after crushing Rae inside his abdomen implies that he's referring to the satisfaction he feels at having killed someone is such a painful way.
Super-Toughness: After devouring Shrinking Rae she attempts to get big to burst out of him. It doesn't take and just causes her to seemingly meet a gruesome end pressing against his insides.
Too Dumb to Live: He bites off Rex's hand and swallows it despite having already seen that A) Rex can make whatever he touches explode and B) Rex was holding a charged coin in the hand he just bit off. He really should have seen the result coming.
Your Head A-Splode: He meets his end after biting Rex's hand off, while Rex was holding a charged up coin.

Salamander

Voiced By: Phil LaMarr

A Salamander-themed member of the Lizard League.

Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the comic version of the silo battle, Salamander died when Rex blew him up. Here, Shrinking Rae made the insides of his skull burst.
Eye Scream: Rae crawls into his head through his eye, smashes his brain underneath, then exits his head by popping out his eye.
Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying: Salamanders are amphibians, not lizards despite having a similar shape.

Supreme Lizard

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

A particularly pretentious member of the Lizard League, who briefly becomes its leader following King Lizard's imprisonment.

0% Approval Rating: None of the rank and file seem very impressed by his grandstanding speeches, and even Iguana Facepalms listening to him. When King Lizard returns, no one reacts to the Supreme's death beyond initial surprise and the organization immediately moves on without him.
Authority Sounds Deep: He has a very low voice and was briefly the leader of the Lizard League. Parodied though, as his voice is pretty much the only intimadating thing about him.
Harmless Villain: Far and away the most incompetent and bumbling member of the Lizard League.
Pretty Little Headshots: How King Lizard kills him.
The Starscream: He was seemingly this to King Lizard. Fittingly enough, his death scene is basically a recreation of the actual Starscream's death in the 1985 movie; shot by the leader he betrayed while giving a speech.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed at the end of the episode he was introduced in.

Aliens

The Flaxans

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A warrior race from another dimension who use their technology to capture slaves from other dimensions.

Adaptational Badass: In the comics, they mostly just show up every once in a while to fulfill the typical "Alien Invasion" plot common to most comic books. Here, they very nearly take out the Teen Team on their second invasion attempt, and by the third, they've just straight up found a way to nullify the temporal effects of interdimensional travel and are only beaten by timely interference by Omni-Man.
Alas, Poor Villain: You can't help but feel a modicum of pity for the Flaxans as Omni-Man utterly obliterates their planet and society. Especially for the remaining scientists that the Viltrumite coerced into opening a portal back to Earth with the threat of a huge chunk of land above their heads, which he drops on them anyway once they do so.
Alien Invasion: They launch three unsuccessful attempts to conquer Earth. Their third invasion ends with Omni-Man turning the tables by not only invading the Flaxans' homeworld, but also destroying every single city on the planet's surface, and exterminating most of their species close to extinction.
Aliens Are Bastards: The Flaxan troops indiscriminately massacre tons of human civilians while trying to take over our world.
Asshole Victim: Given the number of war crimes they casually commit when invading, it's a bit hard to feel sorry for Slash and the Flaxan soldiers when Omni-Man utterly wrecks their home planet's shit.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: The warlike alien empire that shows up out of nowhere to kill indiscriminately meets an emissary from a warlike alien empire who shows up out of nowhere to kill them all indiscriminately. They fail to learn the lesson.
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Invincible and the Teen Team are able to fight off the first two invasions, but it's made clear both times that their failures have only redoubled Slash's resolve to eventually succeed, resulting in the third invasion where they almost succeed if not for Omni-Man's arrival. When he's trapped in the Flaxan homeworld by accident, Omni-Man makes certain that they won't try again, single-handily sending their civilization back to the Stone Age, with his first order of business being grabbing Slash and smashing him through multiple buildings and objects until what's left of him can fit in Omni-Man's hand.
The Cat Came Back: Omni-man ravages their entire civilization and seems to leave few-to-no survivors, but the first season finale reveals that the Flaxans are not only hard at work rebuilding their world, but they are still plotting to invade Earth to get revenge.
Determinator: Credit where Credit is due. Centuries pass in their dimension and they refuse to give up on their invasions of Earth even after Omni-Man's arrival on their homeworld.
Evil Evolves: Thanks to the Year Inside, Hour Outside rules of their home dimension, they have decades to improve their technology and conquer whatever weakness defeated them the previous time, until they're eventually impossible for the Teen Team to defeat.
Expy: Of the Skrulls from the various Marvel universes, being a race of green-skinned alien conquerors.
Generic Doomsday Villain: We never find out why they want to invade the Earth and what's in it for them. The only things they do is shoot at people indiscriminately and work tirelessly to ensure that the shooting is more efficient with each invasion.
It's Personal: After Omni-Man's rampage of their planet, they plan to invade Earth again out of spite against him.
Rapid Aging: Their biggest weakness and threat whenever they try to invade dimensions away from their own. They at least found a way to circumvent it on their third invasion.
Sociopathic Soldier: They have no issue immediately gunning down human civilians every time they appear. Slash in particular really likes killing people.
Took a Level in Badass: They do so with each invasion force, having taken the years between invasions to equip themselves against what went wrong. Slash goes through it with every invasion, starting as a random soldier who Invincible scars, then comes back as a full Frontline General in a Badass Cape, then equips a suit of Powered Armor for fighting him directly.
Underestimating Badassery: In the second invasion, the Flaxans demonstrate tactics designs to counter everything the Teen Team showcased in their first fight, including liquid restraints for Mark so he could be pinned down and Forced to Watch Slash execute them in front of him. However, they underestimated Mark's true strength, resulting in him breaking free and delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Slash, allowing the rest of the Teen Team to regroup. It's thoroughly Averted in their third invasion though, as Slash comes decked out in Powered Armor that's clearly leagues beyond anything else his soldiers are using, purely for the sake of fighting Mark one-on-one, and his soldiers make it a point to keep the team from interfering. He almost wins too, before Omni-Man shows up.
The Unintelligible: They speak a language no one understands. Robot later figures out their language from recordings. Slash apparently also put in the effort to learn English on his end as well, solely for the purpose of telling Invincible Prepare to Die.
The Worf Barrage: Their energy weapons, which are capable of easily mutilating humans, don't harm Omni-Man in the slightest.
Year Inside, Hour Outside: Because time in their dimension flows much faster, each time they appear their weapons are more advanced. A side effect is they suffer from Rapid Aging outside of their home dimension. By the time Omni-Man manages to get some of the remaining Flaxans to give him a way back home, he has grown a beard due to how long he's been there (According to the comics, he was there for ten years, although Nolan was barely affected by the passage of time due to his Viltrumite physiology and his aging being slowed due to his nature as a native of the other side, whose aging nearly stops while in the Flaxans' home dimension), although by the time he returns to his home dimension it seemed like he was back by dinner. By the time of the first season finale, though months have passed on Earth, enough time has passed for the Flaxans to have begun rebuilding their planet after Omni-Man's rampage.
Zerg Rush: While they are technologically advanced, Earth's defending superheroes are still much stronger than them. The Flaxans' main advantages are not only their technological superiority but also their larger army and the fact they can appear just about anywhere at any time, making it hard to prepare for them when they do show up.

Commander Slash

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Voiced By: Djimon Hounsou

"Die."

The leader of the Flaxan army. Slash begins as a regular soldier in the first invasion, but returns as a commanding officer in the next two. He develops a personal fixation with Invincible after their first clash permanently scarred him.

All There in the Manual: His name is only visible in the casting attributions available when the video is paused when he's on-screen.
Arch-Enemy: An interesting one-sided example. He only shows up for one episode, and for less than a couple of weeks from Mark's perspective, but it's clear that he feels this way towards Invincible. Getting his distinctive facial scar from him and making it a point to try and hurt him psychologically in the second invasion, trying to execute Eve right in front of Invincible when he's rendered helpless. In the third invasion, he comes decked out in a suit of Powered Armor significantly more advanced than anything else the Flaxans show in the fight, purely to combat Invincible, with his soldiers pointedly keeping the rest of Teen Team away from his beatdown of him. Poignantly, he apparently made the effort to learn English during his kind's intervening years, solely so he could tell Mark one word during their final confrontation;
"Die."
Asshole Victim: After all the innocent people he murdered during his vain attempts to conquer Earth, it's really difficult to feel sorry for him after Omni-Man turns his body into a bloody paste.
Canon Foreigner: He's original to the animated series, and is introduced to give the invading army more of a personality.
Cruel and Unusual Death: His death is neither pretty nor quick. Omni-Man grabs Slash and flies him through multiple buildings at supersonic speed. The repeated impacts tear apart Slash's power armor and body until there's nothing left of him but a small chunk of his head, which Omni-Man then crushes with his fist.
Disproportionate Retribution: It's implied that the reason why he kept leading his army back to Earth after decades is because of the wound Invincible gave him in their first battle. A wound he got for trying to shoot an unarmed old woman... for kicks.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: He gets a nasty scar on his face after getting punched by Invincible.
It's Personal: We don't know what he's saying, but it's clear through the commander's expressions and actions that he has a grudge against Invincible for scarring him.
Made of Iron: Slash is notably more resilient than his soldiers, several of whom are seen dying or ripped apart by Teen Team's various attacks, only getting scarred across his face from Invincible clubbing him in the head with Rebar-imbedded concrete, withstanding a rage-filled beatdown from Mark when he threatened Eve and walking away under his own power, and both times the Flaxans are forced to retreat due to Rapid Aging, Slash is the last one through the portal, despite the aging effects noticeably killing several of his men, giving a variant of We Will Meet Again. It takes Omni-man reducing him to a greasy smear to put him down for good.
Named After the Injury: He's named after the long scar left on his face after his first confrontation with Invincible.
Powered Armor: In the third attack, he dons a large power suit that lets him beat down Invincible. It doesn't do much for him against Omni-Man, however.
Prepare to Die: The one word Slash ever says in English while pummeling Mark is "Die".

Sequids

"Alone, their group mind is scattered and weak but with an appropriate host, they become unified and unstoppable."

—The Martian Emperor

Aliens with tentacles that are harmless without a host, but have destroyed countless worlds.

Alien Invasion: They're described by the Martian Emperor as a world-destroying race who have left a trail of destruction across the universe. Their goal is to overwhelm Mars, and after overrunning the planet, target Earth next.
Aliens Are Bastards: They have ruined many worlds.
And I Must Scream: According to Rus himself, the hosts are aware that they're possessed.
The Bad Guy Wins: They successfully gain a human host with which to organize their Hive Mind, and they're last seen systematically overrunning the Martian race. By season 2, they've successfully overrun the Martians and board a spaceship to move on to the next world.
Crazy-Prepared: Even though the chances of Rus overcoming their control even with outside help practically impossible, the sequids still take no chances and hide within his stomach.
The Dreaded: The Martians certainly think so and prepare to execute several humans in order to prevent them from receiving a host.
Expy: Of Starro the Conqueror — they're starfish-like aliens who operate by clamping down on the faces of other beings to control them.
Hive Mind: A incredibly potent one. They only need one host, a main controller, as a focal point who can then coordinate and direct the others with near instantaneous efficiency, to such a degree they were able to conquer Mars without issue. Without a host, however, they are left next to docile and easy to handle to beings with strong enough skin.
Mind-Control Eyes: When they possess a human host, they cause the eyes to turn pitch-black with white iris-rims.
Puppeteer Parasite: Able to take control of any organism, unless the organism's skin is strong enough to not be adhered to (Invincible, a Viltrumite) or if the organism can shapeshift (The Martian race).
Slasher Smile: Their focal point host has one.
Zerg Rush: Individually, they are small and weak, but there are many of them and once they find a host, they use swarming tactics at such a frighteningly efficient level and can overwhelm almost anything with ease.

Rus Livingston

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Voiced By: Ben Schwartz

An astronaut accidentally left behind on Mars who subsequently becomes the central node of the Sequid horde. Under their command, he begins working to conquer Mars and Earth alike.

Brainwashed and Crazy: He's not really evil, just a normal guy being mind-controlled by the Sequids.
Evil Laugh: When the Sequids possess him, he lets out one of these before summoning a Sequid Zerg Rush.
Tragic Villain: He's more a victim of circumstance than a real bad guy. He gets possessed by them again after being freed and returning to earth.

Battle Beast

Voiced By: Michael Dorn

"I was promised that this world offered worthy opponents! But oh, how you disappoint. Killing you is an act of mercy."

A lion-like alien that was employed by Machine Head who wanted to seek worthy combatants.

Adaptation Distillation: In the comic, Battle Beast did see something different in Mark, offhandedly saying he was the best of the bunch there but it wasn’t enough, even after he effortlessly beat him down to then declare all present members of the Guardians of the Globe as completely worthless; in the show Battle Beast spares no special comments to Mark, he lumps him with everyone else as equally not worth his time.
Aliens Are Bastards: A particularly bloodthirsty alien who lives for nothing but brutalizing and eviscerating anyone whom he thinks is a worthy combatant.
A Beast in Name and Nature: Goes by the moniker Battle Beast, and he is a shameless Blood Knight with the appearance of a white lion-like creature.
Blood Knight: Absolutely adores fighting and wants to find strong opponents.
Bloodlust: He licks Invincible's blood off of his face, after he opens his arms out and lets the hero's blood splatter against him from the impact of Battle Beast's mace.
Braids of Barbarism: Has twin braids, and is very barbaric.
Carry a Big Stick: Carries a mace, which he puts to good use on Invincible's stomach.
Cats Are Mean: He's a lion-like alien and a ruthless bloodthirsty combatant.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Does this to Invincible and the entire Guardians of the Globe, easily subduing Invincible and throwing around the Guardians like rag dolls while also delivering blow after devastating blow on their strongest.
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: He's a powerful intergalactic warrior searching for worthy opponents and nearly kills the heroes. How the hell an earth-based crime lord like Machine Head managed to contact and hire him is anyone's guess. It's been outright compared to The Kingpin summoning Thanos for a street fight.
Great White Feline: Is a white lion-like alien and the most formidable foe Invincible faced so far.
Irony as She Is Cast: Voiced by Michael Dorn, who was infamous for playing the codifier for The Worf Effect (who incidentally also sought honor through deeds in combat). In contrast, Battle Beast is the one handing the beatdowns out.
The Juggernaut: He beats the hell out of Invincible and the new Guardians with only a burn from Robot. They survived only because he left, calling their fight a disappointment.
King of Beasts: Shares a likeness with Earth's lions and has the combat abilities to back it up.
Knight of Cerebus: He is the first threat Mark and the Guardians face that is completely out of their league. It's clear that he could have killed them all with little effort on his own if he wanted to, and puts the strongest heroes present on life support.
Lightning Bruiser: He's fast enough to blitz Invincible, a natural flyer, and completely outmaneuver the other Guardians easily, while being strong enough to brutalize them with simple blows and throw them around like ragdolls.
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: After crushing most of the heavy hitters of the Guardians of the Globe, he feels the rest are too easy to fight and decides to leave.
Battle Beast: There is no honor in killing insects.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: What his fight with Invincible and the Guardians amounted to. Invincible, Monster Girl, and Black Samson got the gruesome worst of it and end up hospitalized.
Noodle Incident: It's unknown how an Earth-based crime boss like Machine Head was able to get a handle on a powerful space-faring being like him. Though Machinehead's quantum computing coupled with Isotope's teleporting ability might have gotten his attention, Battle Beast shows he can make his own way in space.
No-Sell: The heroes' attacks barely even scratch him. Robot managed to leave a burn scar, but it's a flesh wound to Battle Beast at best.
Not Worth Killing: Why he ends up bailing on the fight against the Guardians. After beating their strongest fighters so savagely that they're on the verge of death, he decides there's "no honor in killing insects" and leaves rather than continue an unchallenging fight.
One-Man Army: He alone does more damage to Invincible and the Guardians than Machine Head's entire gang combined.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: His suit is mostly black with red gloves and accents.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He leaves without actually finishing off the Guardians of the Globe because he was unsatisfied with their fight.
Shout-Out: He is likely a reference to the 1980's toyline "Battle Beasts," which were humanoid animal toys in armor and wielding weapons. The connection is furthered by the fact that the flagship character from the line is a white lion.
Super-Strength: Proves to be far stronger than both Invincible and Monster Girl, leaving them bloody and battered with the force of his blows.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Battle Beast is an Omni-Man level alien warrior that was hired as security for Machine Head. In fact, during his introduction it's very easy to mistake him for just another colorful hired thug no more impressive or dangerous than the rest. He then proceeds to annihilate Mark, and nearly kill Monster Girl and Black Samson all the while tanking through every attack thrown his way. He trounced the Guardians so easily that he just left out of boredom.

Alternate Universes

Omnipotus

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Voiced By: Ross Marquand

A mighty and hammy interdimensional conqueror who tries to attack Earth while Mark is off-world.

Expy: An Affectionate Parody of over-theatrical cosmic villains like Annihilus from Fantastic Four.
Laughably Evil: By all accounts he should be a genuine threat, but instead his hamminess and short appearances are played for quick laughs.
Large Ham: He yells practically all his dialogue and spends most of boasting about his own might.
One-Man Army: Enough to warrant a bunch of superheroes to assemble and fight him.
Skull for a Head: His head naturally resembles a spiky skinless skull.
Super-Strength: His next appearance in "I Thought You Were Stronger" has him punching the crap out of Invincible.
Villain of Another Story: His invasion of Earth was a big enough conflict to bring a horde of unaffiliated superheroes together in battle against him, but is only seen in short bursts to highlight just how much Mark missed over the three months he spent in space.

Alternate Invincibles

The Mark Grayson we know being a defender of humanity is an anomaly in The Multiverse; across many dimensions, Invincible embraced his Viltrumite heritage and joined his father in conquering Earth.

Mark Grayson (Invincible # 646)

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If you still think you can stop us. Don't forget. I'm... Invincible.

Voiced By: Steven Yeun

"Hey buddy! You sentenced yourself to death when you joined Club Resistance."

The Invincible from dimension #646 chose to side with Omni-Man, resulting in the end of humanity.

Beware the Superman: Much like Nolan, this Mark was once a superhero who helped protect Earth and save innocent lives. After siding with Nolan, he ends up aiding him in his plan to conquer Earth while killing thousands of innocent people in the process.
Blaming the Victim: Conquering the Earth, Invincible treats the earthlings as the ones who are making themselves worse by resisting the Viltrum Empire. A giant screen of Invincible always reminds humanity that they were the ones that ruined themselves, and that the Viltrumite Empire will fix everything as long as they don't resist.
Blood Knight: While fighting the Immortal, he endures all of his attacks in stride while quipping that he has been hit way harder before.
Blood-Splattered Warrior: Downplayed. His face gets bloodied from the brain meat of the Immortal's head getting crushed.
Bond One-Liner: After the Immortal's head is decapitated by Omni-Man, Invincible picks up the head to crush it completely. Once crushed, Invincible asks the Immortal if he still has the willpower to regenerate himself from the attack.
"Immortal your way out of that."
Bright Is Not Good: He still wears his bright blue and yellow costume but sides with his father to conquer the Earth and has Lack of Empathy for those beneath him.
Cruel Mercy: What he does to Eve. Rather than killing her like the rest of those who resist against the Viltrum Empire, he instead cripples her by crushing part of her neck which leaves her paralyzed and completely unable to do anything as he and his father continue their plans on conquering Earth for the empire.
Decoy Protagonist: As soon as the first episode of season two begins, it looks as though that "Invincible" had gone evil and betrayed his morals to conquer the Earth with Omni-Man. However, it turns out that the events are taking place in an alternate dimension and the main Invincible is currently dealing with his PTSD from having battled Omni-Man.
Dissonant Serenity: Invincible remains calm at murdering a ton of innocent people for the Viltrumite Empire and while Eve's resistance manages to worry him for a bit, he quickly regains his composure once he successfully cripples her from resisting.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- His relationship with Omni-Man doesn't go down the drain as it did in the main timeline, with the two treating their cracking down on the resistance as a twisted form of father and son bonding.
- Despite becoming no better than Omni-Man, the Alternate Mark is still shown to have feelings for Eve and outright tells her that he can't bring himself to kill her. Unfortunately for Eve, this translates to Mark crippling her instead.
Faux Affably Evil: To all of humanity, he talks to all of them with a casually polite demeanor and tries to connect with them through a repeated speech that they must serve their Viltrumite masters. To any sort of resistance, Invincible answers it with death, and upon getting called out as a murderer by Angstrom Levy, Invincible brushes it off with a cool attitude, while preparing to grab his head.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He's never seen without his mask's Opaque Lenses off, showing how emotionally voided he is of those lesser than him.
Head Crushing: Immediately as the Immortal's head is sliced off by Omni-Man, Invincible picks up the head to crush it out of existence, preventing the Immortal from easily regenerating.
Human Resources: He practiced how to perform a nonlethal Neck Snap on Atom Eve by using the necks of human protestors for training.
Lack of Empathy: He shows a lack of understanding over why Eve and the other heroes oppose him siding with Omni-Man to take over Earth. As much as Mark loves Eve, he is willing to keep her alive in a paralyzed state without acknowledging both the physical and mental pain he brought to her, and every time he destroys something or kills someone he passes off any blame for it onto his victims.
- To an extent, Invincible is willing to kill all the resistance members while showing a lack of hesitation.
Neck Snap: Played for Horror. Invincible had practiced with paralyzing protestors by snapping their necks in a way that kept them alive. Once he confronts Atom Eve, Invincible uses his training to nonlethally snap her neck, despite Eve's contempt and preference to die.
The Quisling: He willingly sides with his father and aided the Viltrum Empire's invasion of Earth, with him and Omni-Man singlehandedly exterminating all opposition to the Viltrumite rule.
Rogue Protagonist: Subverted. Immediately into "A Lesson for Your Next Life", Invincible appears as though he had betrayed his morals and sided with Omni-Man to take over the Earth. Later, in the introduction of Angstrom Levy, he reveals that this Invincible alongside many others had originated from different dimensions that had sided with Omni-Man to take over the Earth. As for the main Invincible, he ends up being different from the other Invincibles for instead defending Earth from Omni-Man.
Smug Super: Where the normal Mark is very humble despite his powers, this evil version of him relishes in his superhuman nature and lords it over anyone even slightly weaker than him thanks to Nolan's upbringing.
Stalker with a Crush: Towards his world's version of Eve; he loves her, but his villainy warps it into a horrifyingly possessive and abusive form where he seems to think they can still be together even after he cripples and imprisons her.
Young Conqueror: At just his teenage years, he has successfully conquered the Earth with his father and had killed off much of humanity from their resistance of the Viltrumite rules.

Mark Grayson (Black & Yellow Invincible)

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"You actually thought you could hide from me."

Voiced By: Steven Yeun

"Tell you what... I'll kill the boy quickly."

One of the many evil versions of Mark that met Angstrom Levy, distinguished by a black and yellow suit with a cape.

Early-Bird Cameo: Unlike the similarly dressed alternate Evil Marks seen in the show who were not given any exposure in the comics, this specific uniquely dressed Evil Mark is one among the few Evil Invincibles with greater plot significance in following arcs compared to the lesser important ones, Season 2's finale teases his existence by giving him a show-original and very nefarious intro by killing Angstrom Levy's son in one of the many universes.
Evil Feels Good: This one is a step above among the already reprehensible Evil Invincibles, he genuinely enjoys being a murderous fiend, lacking the ideological shield other Evil Marks adopted by accepting their Viltrumite heritage thus excusing their actions by claiming it is for the greater good.
Faux Affably Evil: Even more so than his 646 counterpart. He talks to the Angstrom Levy of his universe like as if he's an old friend of his... right before murdering his son right in front of him.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His goggles are black, making them look like Sinister Shades, and he's pure evil.
Kick the Dog: His short scene involves him murdering a child in front of his father, purely out of sadism.
Last Episode, New Character: Despite Season 2 opening with the concept of alternate universes and alternate Evil Marks right away, this particular Evil Invincible is among the actually significant ones for future events, yet he debuts in a short, but very striking, scene in the last episode of Season 2.
Slasher Smile: What sets him apart from the Dimension #646 Invincible is the disturbing smile he wears while brutally murdering Angstrom's son.
The Sociopath: From what little we see of him, it's clear that he has zero empathy, and he is one of the few versions of Mark that actively enjoys doing bad things.
Would Hurt a Child: He murders Levy's terrified son right in front of him, apparently ripping off the poor kid's head.

Omni-Man # 646

Nolan Grayson (Omni-Man)

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"But you should've died at birth."'

Voiced By: J. K. Simmons

"Let's do this Mark. I missed lunch because of that riot in Bangkok."

Whereas the main Nolan Grayson chose to flee the Earth from having nearly beaten his son, Mark Grayson, to death for refusing to join the Viltrum Empire, the alternate Omni-Man succeeds in convincing Invincible to take over the Earth. Omni-Man makes himself known by assisting Invincible in defeating the Immortal near the end of their battle.

Armor-Piercing Response: Hearing Robot declare that he too will eventually die, Nolan responds back by suggesting the former should have died at birth. Robot can only remain stationary in his dying position, while Omni-Man flies away to help Invincible kill the remaining survivors.
The Bad Guy Wins: This Omni-Man is from a universe where he succeeded in convincing his son to join him and they conquered the Earth together.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Once he confronts Immortal, Omni-Man first quickly ends him by breaking the former's arm and swinging his hand so fast that it cuts Immortal's head. The flying head soon lands on Invincible's hands and gets crushed bits.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite his Lack of Empathy, he never lost his relationship with his son here and still is close with him. The two regularly have casual yet wholesome conversations all while they nonchalantly slaughter the humans that resist them.
Kick the Dog: It isn't enough for him to mortally wound Robot. He also has to make a nasty ableist comment to the guy's face as he dies.
You should have died at birth.
Lack of Empathy: He has no empathy or compassion for the humans he views as "beneath" him, and even less hesitation to kill them over any hint of rebellion. He only shows empathy to his son when he thought he had killed Atom Eve.
Off with His Head!: Omni-Man's final attack to the Immortal is to break his arms and then quickly slice his head while the latter is distracted. Afterwards, Omni-Man quickly throws the Immortal's head for Invincible to crush it.
One-Hit Kill: He delivers a single punch at Robot's tube, resulting in it leaking out liquids that exposes Robot to the poisonous oxygen.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Unsurprisingly given the rather eugenicist viewpoint of the Viltrumite Empire's Social Darwinist attitude, Nolan views the disabled and deformed Robot as somebody who should have died at birth or not been born at all.
Skewed Priorities: Throughout the raid on the Resistance, Nolan is more concerned with the fact that he's really hungry because he skipped lunch earlier, showing just how devoid of empathy he is and how he views the slaughter he commits as just work. His son shares this sentiment.
Villain Respect: He admits that he carried a sense of respect and empathy for the Immortal due to the fact that the Immortal understood what it was like to live for thousands of years, and Nolan hoped that he could convince the hero to side with him. Of course, this does nothing to make him hesitate to murder the Immortal again for standing against him and his son.

Characters / Invincible (2021): Supervillains

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Earth

Angstrom Levy

Voiced By: Sterling K. Brown

The Mauler Twins

Voiced By: Kevin Michael Richardson

Kill Cannon

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

Bi-Plane

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

Doc Seismic

Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos

The Elephant

Voiced By: Clancy Brown

Titan

Voiced By: Mahershala Ali

Machine Head

Voiced By: Jeffrey Donovan

Isotope

Voiced By: Chris Diamantopoulos

Kursk

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

Furnace

Magmaniac

Tether Tyrant

Voiced By: Reginald Veljohnson

D.A. Sinclair

Voiced By: Ezra Miller (Season 1), Eric Bauza (Season 2)

The Reanimen

Steven Erickson

Voiced by: Lance Reddick

Giant

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

Octoboss

Kaiju

Hail Mary

Depth-Dweller

The Lizard League

The Lizard League

Queen Lizard

Voiced By: Tatiana Maslany

Prince/King Lizard

Voiced By: Scoot McNairy, Jacob Tremblay (child)

Iguana

Voiced By: Malese Jow

Komodo Dragon

Voiced By: Jay Pharoah

Salamander

Voiced By: Phil LaMarr

Supreme Lizard

Voiced By: Fred Tatasciore

Aliens

The Flaxans

Commander Slash

Voiced By: Djimon Hounsou

Sequids

Rus Livingston

Voiced By: Ben Schwartz

Battle Beast

Voiced By: Michael Dorn

Alternate Universes

Omnipotus

Voiced By: Ross Marquand

Mark Grayson (Invincible # 646)

Voiced By: Steven Yeun

Mark Grayson (Black & Yellow Invincible)

Voiced By: Steven Yeun

Nolan Grayson (Omni-Man)

Voiced By: J. K. Simmons

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