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Invincible is a TV series that follows a teenager whose father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. The series is rated TV-MA and features voice actors like Steven Yeun, J.K. Simmons, and Sandra Oh.
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Invincible is an adult animated superhero television series created by Robert Kirkman for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, based on the Image Comics comic book series of the same name he co-created with Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley.
Invincible is an adult animated superhero series that revolves around 17-year-old Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), who’s just like every other guy his age — except his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons).
Season 1. INVINCIBLE is an adult animated superhero series that revolves around 17-year-old Mark Grayson, who’s just like every other guy his age — except his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, Omni-Man.
- Overview
- History
- Physical Appearance
- Personality
- Powers and Abilities
- Weaknesses
- Trivia
- Appearances
Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson is the titular main protagonist of the same name He is the Viltrumite-Human hybrid superhero Invincible, as well as the son of Nolan and Debbie Grayson, the paternal older half-brother of Oliver Grayson and the primary love interest of Atom Eve.
Being a Viltrumite-Human by birth, Mark would eventually attain his powers and begin training to become his own hero under his father's wing. After a brief stint with the Teen Team, Mark worked with Atom Eve as well as the second iteration of the Guardians of the Globe to protect Earth from both domestic and extraterrestrial attacks as well as trying to defend Earth and the entire galaxy from the threat of the Viltrum Empire.
Background Information
Mark Grayson was born to Nolan Grayson, a Viltrumite male, and Debbie Grayson, a human female. One day, Nolan told Mark that he was from a planet called Viltrum and had great strength, could fly and moved at superhuman speed, leaving Viltrum in order to protect Earth. He told Mark that things would start changing for Mark when he started puberty, which excited his son. At some point after Omni Man returned home from an unknown mission, he encountered Debbie and Mark who dressed up in duct tape, calling himself "Duct Tape Man", an alternate hero persona he considered using if he wouldn't get his Viltrumite powers. Debbie then decided it would be best to just be normal, and took him to the bathroom to remove his duct tape. At a baseball game, a young Mark gets ready to hit the ball as Nolan angrily watches from afar. Debbie walks and asks what was wrong; Nolan says that if he had to watch it, he would rather do so from the sky, but Debbie told him to sit down with everybody else and not be a weirdo. Nolan mentions that the game was a waste of everybody's time since he would be doing a lot more things. Mark gets ready to hit the ball and Debbie tells Nolan to appreciate Mark as the young kid he was. She tells him that children brought good memories back and showed them what life was all about, which makes Nolan smile. Mark walks up to his parents and Nolan grabs him, telling him he had seen what he had done.
The Birth of Invincible
Mark Grayson was in the bathroom, reading a comic and his mother walked in on him to grab soap, which annoyed him. Once they got downstairs, they watch the news, in which the Mauler Twins' attack on the White House was reported. Mark told her that the Guardians were there as well, and Debbie mentioned that the White House was rebuilt very frequently at that point. Nolan makes it home and kisses his wife, who tells him that they should get him out of that suit. Mark complains that his parents shouldn’t talk about sex in front of him, but his mother tells him that he should be happy to hear them express their love. They mention they would be going to Berlin, which makes Mark jealous. However, his father tells him that he could go himself once his powers kicked in. Mark leaves for school, and looks at his father fly away with his mother. He tries flying himself, but doesn’t manage to do it and instead gets embarrassed when he finds out somebody was seeing him jump up and down. At school, his friend William Clockwell was surprised that the Guardians had let the Mauler Twins get that close to the President, but Mark points out that they hadn’t made it inside the building and that Omni-Man was there too. William calls him an Omni-Maniac and teases him. He asks Mark if he wanted to play a game, but Mark mentions that he has a job and tells him that comic books are expensive. Down the hall, Todd teases a girl, who tells him not to harass her. He insists on grabbing her arm and not letting go, which makes Mark angry and he approaches Todd, who was way bigger than he was. He punched Mark, who was only saved because Amber kicked Todd in his crotch. Once Todd left, Mark was thanked but left bruised. Later, Mark takes out the trash at his job, which isn’t an easy task for him. However, he picks up a second bag and throws it very far, discovering his powers had kicked in, which makes him say "It's about time." When Mark gets home, Debbie tells him that she had heated up German bratwurst for him. He tells her that he had an interesting day. Nolan makes it home and tells them he had been fighting a dragon in Hong Kong and gets ready to listen to Mark's day. He told them that he had been getting his powers, but his father doesn’t react until Debbie kicks him. Nolan congratulates him and tells him that they would train the next day. However, Mark couldn’t sleep and remembers when his father told him that he was from a planet called Viltrum and had great strength, could fly, and moved at superspeed, leaving Viltrum in order to protect Earth. He told Mark that things would start changing for Mark when he started puberty, which excited Mark. He leaves his room, convinced he would be able to fly, and jumps off his roof after convincing himself he finds he can fly now. He soars through the sky but nearly crashes into a plane, which sends him to the atmosphere, and he starts losing consciousness. When Mark awakens, he finds he’s close to the ground and crashes into the street in front of his house. He wakes up at 6:00 AM, very tired and his father tells him they would train. Once they are in the sky, his father tells him he would get the hang of flying, having to focus at first. His father tells him that flying could tire him, and to use momentum in order to relax from time to time. He told his son to relax and realized Mark had practiced the night before. He tells him to land, but Mark had a hard time doing so and eventually crashed into the ground. Nolan told him to hit him and to use his whole body while doing it, even practicing while flying. Nolan showed Mark how to punch, and hurt Mark, which Nolan told him was part of his preparation. The next day, William asks Mark if he was still sore from Todd's punches, but Mark says he was fine. Todd approaches Mark and puts him up against a locker, telling him he would hit him. Mark asks him to hit him as hard as he could and asked him to repeat his punches when they didn’t hurt him. Todd called him a freak and left. Mark realized he needed something to punch in order to blow off steam and hears gunfire. Three criminals run from the police after robbing a place. Mark fights the big alien and manages to hurt him. Omni-Man approached him and told him he looked ridiculous, also mentioning that he had skipped a few steps since he had caused a lot of destruction. Mark asks his father to hit him since he wasn’t ready before, but his father told him that he wouldn’t hit him. Mark grew desperate and told his father he knew that he didn’t believe in him, but he wanted to prove he was strong enough and wanted to be like him. Nolan hugs his son and tells him that he would be, then telling him to follow him. They fly to a tailor, where he tells Mark he would take him shopping for a suit. Art Rosenbaum greets Mark and tells him it was a pleasure to meet him, and gets Mark excited. Art hands him a suit, but Mark wasn’t sure about orange and yellow and wanted something more iconic, which Art understood. Art told him that he needed a name from him so he could grab inspiration from there, telling him to let him know later. Debbie calls Mark but finds he’s not home. She hears a crash close to her and Mark exits a small crater created by the impact. Mark tells her he was practicing his landings and apologizes for the destruction he was causing in the backyard, but also said that he needed to be better. However, his mother told him he needed to sleep since he had school the following day and she had to work. Mark told his mother to make him go to sleep, and she asks if the fact that she couldn’t physically move him made him feel strong and Mark simply said that what he was doing was important to him. Debbie asks him if he remembers his former bullies, and she told him about drama in her life to make him feel better. She also tells him that she was still there for him, but now instead of them being together, he was now more inclined to spend time with his father, which she understood. However, Mark says that he was nothing like his father and was more like her, asking her how he could ever live up to everything his father had done. She tells him he didn’t have to, and only had to be the best version of himself. The next day, Nolan told Mark he seemed tired while they played catch while throwing a baseball around the world. Mark told him he was scared and was worried he might not be able to be a hero, but Nolan told him that it was the beginning of a long journey for both of them and told him that it was okay to be scared but needed to push through. His father told him that kids his age believed they were invincible, but he actually was invincible. Mark rushes to Art's shop and tells him he has his name ready. Later, he sits on top of a construction crane with his new suit and flies through his city. As he did this, however, he saw a laser attack from the distance. The man shooting it was being shot at by cops, but this didn’t bother him. Mark arrived at the scene and punched the man through several walls and through the street until the man couldn’t move.
Flaxan Invasion
Debbie Grayson wakes up and sees Nolan isn’t there. She makes herself breakfast and takes a shower, later getting ready to go outside. Mark asks her what was wrong, and she mentions that Nolan hadn’t made it home, but Mark said that he had probably gotten buried under a mountain. However, when Debbie opened the door, agents met her outside. At the clandestine Global Defense Agency, Debbie is told that the comatose Omni-Man was in their secret hospital but couldn't revive the Guardians. Donald tells her that they’ve got a lot of technology, but Debbie says they’re not interested in a tour. They make it to Nolan's room, where they see Nolan laying without responding. Cecil introduces himself and tells them that they’ve got no idea who did it. Debbie tells him that he has some nerve, but he tells them that the Guardians had been murdered and they were unable to bring them back with Nolan being the only survivor. Cecil tells them that the news would eventually spread, but he wanted them to know first. Debbie asks for materials and refuses to leave Nolan, mentioning that she had patched him up for twenty years. Donald gets a report that there was an undergoing attack with multiple casualties and Mark leaves to go help out. When he makes it, he sees a big army attacking. He goes to where the tank is and tells them to stop, but he’s blown back by an energy cannon, which kills several people. Invincible is intimidated and freezes until an old woman is shot at. He saves her and gets her out of the way, but not in time, as she’s shot in his arms. He’s shot at once again, but is saved by Atom Eve who sets up a force field and defends him. Robot tells Eve that enemy tanks would line up to kill her and she takes care of it, while Robot keeps telling everybody else what was happening. Dupli-Kate and Rex Splode continued attacking. Eve tells Invincible to take the old woman to a hospital since they had it covered. However, Robot said that it was possible they didn’t. The team started getting overwhelmed and was about to get shot at once again until the aliens started dying and leaving. Invincible storms into a hospital, but is told to freeze by GDA agents. Paramedics receive her and the agents mention Invincible was cleared. Later, Debbie finds Mark bleeding and asks if he was okay. Mark mentions he had tried being like his father and cried while his mother hugged him. At school, Mark walks down the hall, not caring if he bumped into anyone. William Clockwell finds he doesn’t respond until Mark tells him that his father had gotten attacked and was really hurt. William wished Mark the best and told him he would support him. However, Mark interrupts him when he sees Eve Wilkins, who he said he needed to talk to. Mark walked up to her he thanked her for saving his butt. Eve realized who he was, and Mark mentioned he was Invincible which Eve described as optimistic and said that everybody called her Eve. She said he looked like he needed to talk about what had happened and the two leave. Mark tells her that he never connected the dots between her and her superhero personality, which she says it’s because of psychology. He mentions that he even follows Teen Team on Instagram and she revealed that that was them, everybody's fourth favorite superhero team. Mark mentions he likes them more than Fight Force and she agrees they’re better. She asks him if he was new to the whole superhero business, and he reveals that he had just gotten his powers. She tells him that he had done well for a rookie, which he didn’t buy since people had gotten hurt and he had frozen, but she told him that he had helped people escape and revealed that she used to throw up before fights, but got used to it. Mark said that it just hadn’t been what he had expected, and she confirms that fights weren’t what they seemed on television. She tells him to meet Teen Team after school and Mark agrees. Amber greets Mark, telling him that she had found out he had gotten punched for her again. He tells her that it was a new strategy he tried, which was getting hit until Todd went home. He tells her he has to go and she sees him meet up with Eve. Eve and Invincible fly through the city and at one point, he worries that he had lost her, crashing into a billboard. They try flying again and fly through a bridge until a hole in the ground opens and Invincible meets Teen Team. When they get there, Rex makes out with Eve until he greets him, saying that they had won the fight without him, but Dupli-Kate reveals that it had been because the aliens died. Robot greets Invincible, as well as Dupli-Kate. Robot tells the team about the Flaxans and asks Invincible if they could count on him to help in the future. He asks Robot if he’s sure, but agrees later. Later, Mark visits his father, saying that even if he didn’t like being in teams, he found Teen Team to be very cool except for Rex Splode. Debbie overheard Mark talking about Eve and asked who she was, but Mark said that nobody. He thanked her for the dinners she had prepared and they talk about the side part of being a superhero. When Mark leaves, he walks into the room of the woman he had saved. The doctor tells him that her name was Maya, whose family now knew about her injuries. Mark asks if she would be okay and the doctor says that it was too soon to tell. Mark tells William that he and Eve were just friends, so his friend tells him that it seemed he was jinxing his chances of ever going out with her, saying that everybody had seen him leave school with her the last day. William tells him he’s basic, but Mark looks across the cafeteria and locks eyes with Eve, who tells him to go talk to her. Rex asks Eve and Invincible why they had gotten to the top of a building together, and Eve reminds him that they go to the same school and tells them that he had never gone to high school. Robot tells them to focus since the Flaxans were back, but this time it seemed they had found a way to resist the timestream. Eve asks Mark if he was ready, and he unconfidently says that he was. Teen Team attacks the aliens, who were fighting with superior technology than they were. Eve was able to drive many of them back, but had something thrown to her face which covered it. Mark deflected beams thrown at him by cannons and was taken out by a kind of glue which didn’t let him move. Robot tells the team that the Flaxans seemed to have used their time wisely. When the Flaxans' leader was about to kill Eve, Invincible let out a yell which blew everything at a certain radius away from him. He punched the Flaxan leader, who started aging once his bracelet broke and saved Eve. The team realized they had to destroy the wristbands, and the aliens started dying soon after, which forced them to leave. Rex told him that he took everything he had said back, and congratulated him, followed by Eve. Mark got to the hospital and found his father was awake now. Nolan said that Debbie had told him that he was keeping the planet safe and wanted to hear everything. Mark went to Maya's room, but found out she had died, which Nolan described as part of the job. Mark left and Nolan demanded they give him his suit back. Later, news broke that the Guardians had been missing for a week. At training, Mark tried attacking his father, who at first was able to dodge his punched. However, when Mark landed one, he told him that he needed to be able to take one as well, and was about to punch him until Debbie interrupted. Cecil visited them and told them that they had seen somebody from Mars approaching Earth. Debbie refused to let Omni-Man do it, so Mark offered to do it himself. Nolan told him to knock some sense into the guy and send him back where he came from. Invincible went to space and was attacked from behind. Allen the Alien communicated via telepathy and told him that he had shaved the moustache. Invincible told him to leave and sent him towards a satellite, which was thrown back at him. Mark was punched and teased, told that if that was protecting the planet, then he was sorry for their people. Invincible took a moment to breathe, and made Allen realize that he wasn’t the same person who had fought him years ago. Invincible sent him crashing into the moon, which only made him laugh. When Invincible told him he only wanted to talk, Allen asks him if he was using his time out, which confused Invincible. However, Allen mentions that he doesn’t make the rules and grabs a rock for both of the to sit on. He tells Invincible that he’s an evaluation officer for the Coalition of Planets, making sure that there was somebody capable of defending them. Invincible told him he didn’t know what he meant, but Allen tells him that the planet "Urath" was on his list, which makes Invincible tell him that he had gotten the planet wrong since they were on Earth. Allen commented that he was in trouble, and introduced himself. Invincible presented himself, which makes Allen tell him that the name was optimistic, since he believed he was pretty vincible. Invincible is left confused and goes to outer space. People are setting up memorials for the Guardians when Flaxan portals start opening. At school, Todd grabs Mark and apologizes, saying that he was sorry he had kicked his ass. Mark thanks him and Todd tells him that Amber Bennett wanted to know if he wanted her number, which confused him at first, but agreed. Mark gets called and leaves school. The Flaxan army invades the city once again, and Robot tells Teen Team that the Flaxans were now immune to the time-stream, and they should consider the city lost. He tells them that he’ll contact Cecil and request a nuclear response, but everybody disagrees. Invincible starts fighting the army, but is swiftly brought down and punched repeatedly in the face by the leader. Omni-Man arrives and starts defending the city, resisting all the attacks thrown at him and sending the enemies back where they had come from. However, when the leader looked up at Omni-Man once more, he punched him and went into the portal with him. Teen Team was shocked to discover that Omni-Man was Invincible's father. Mark got home and told Debbie that Nolan had saved them from the Flaxans but had gone into one of the portals. Debbie asks if he would be late for dinner, which surprised Mark, but Debbie reveals that she had been worried before because Nolan had never been hurt that bad, but taking on aliens was a normal occasion. When Nolan arrived home, he had grown a full beard. He was hugged by Mark and Debbie and told them he needed a shower. Just then, a news report came out, revealing that the Guardians were confirmed dead.
Mark is a tall and handsome Caucasian male. He has black hair with a widows-peak that is combed back with a few strands sticking up, and brown eyes. While originally slim, since obtaining his powers, Mark's physique became lean and gradually more defined. After his battle against his father, Mark has visible stress faded eyebags, stemming from the stress of his fallout with his father.
As Invincible, his hair sticks out of the top of his hero suit. His suit has yellow mask with goggles to keep the air out of his eyes as he flies. The suit is yellow down the middle, stopping at his waist in an upside-down triangle shape, it also bears blue on the shoulders and going into the yellow in somewhat of an M shape. The rest of his costume is black aside from the yellow gloves and blue boots that start from his knee's down.
Mark/Invincible is a brave, competitive, nice and noble hero and is true to his own values, especially when he discovers the harsh realities of being a superhero, struggling to define himself as one, while struggling to balance lives in danger to balancing actions with schoolwork. However, underneath this lies insecurity and doubt within the young hero. Early on in his career, he did not consider himself to be strong enough to be a hero, let alone be like his father, Omni-Man.
Upon learning the truth about his father and Viltrumites, Mark became somber and introspective but was still dedicated to becoming a hero and protecting Earth, Mark struggles to move on as he is constantly reminded of his fathers actions and is met with hostility from Veteran Heroes like Darkwing II and The Immortal.
As a result, he dives into Superhero work, growing cold and distant towards his mother, wanting to forget his father. Ultimately, he sets out to prove himself as a true hero, as demonstrated when he risked his life to save the Atlantean Queen despite the fact that she had him participate in a trial by combat.
Despite his vast strength, Mark always avoids killing combatants whenever possible, instead attempting to subdue them. Against villains such as the Viltrumite Thula, this has led to Mark being completely overpowered and almost killed as Mark hesitates multiple times. This is also demonstrated in Mark's battle against Machine Head's bodyguards, where a cornered Mark experiences a surge of adrenaline and manages to dispatch multiple supervillains after threatening to kill them all. When his family are directly threatened, he can lose himself in his rage easily, showed when he ruthlessly attacked Angstrom Levy after a brief exchange.
Viltrumite-Human Physiology: While Mark is technically a Viltrumite-Human half-breed, the potency of his Viltrumite genes greatly overshadow his Human genes, making him almost a pure-blooded Viltrumite. While spending almost his entire childhood unpowered, he soon manifested all inherited Viltrumite powers. His genetics are so potent that he can reproduce with almost any other race and his genetics will almost completely overshadow the inherit genetics of the mate, making said offspring almost purely Viltrumite themselves and little chance of birth-defects. Likewise, the more naturally compatible the genetics are to the mate's race, the sooner and more likely the offspring will inherit all the Viltrumite abilities. General Kregg, another veteran Viltrumite acknowledged his might and believed Mark could take over his father's mission.
•Anger Empowerment: Because of his Viltrumite-Human hybrid physiology he possesses best of the world's. In moments of extreme emotions, his strength is further augmented. This was best seen when he bravely fought the Flaxan Commander who had Atom Eve by the head, and endlessly threw fists upon him. Then there was Machine's Head forces, upon noticing Titan being incinerated, and broke out of the Tether Tyrant's arms, but the most notable when he was able to oppose Thula, a veteran Viltrumite who complimented him before Mark defeated her and only won after he lowered his guard.
•Decelerated Aging: Mark possesses an extraordinary lifespan. This stems from his body gradually aging slower the longer he lives. From this, it allows him to retain his health, vitality, conditioning, performance, and youthful appearance that much longer. As Nolan notes, Mark will live for thousands of years and still remain in his prime.
•Enhanced Lung Capacity: Mark can go for weeks at a time without air and remain virtually unhindered by it. He was shown to be able to fully operate in space without any sign of discomfort. However, this only works when he holds his breath and should he exhale, he will be without air and need to return to a breathable atmosphere to inhale.
•Flight: Mark can levitate himself in the air and propel himself in any direction he desires, perform aerial maneuvers in mid flight, able to alter his trajectory mid-flight, letting him maneuver seamlessly through various environments. He is also able to fly through space.
•Nigh-Invulnerability: Mark has a remarkable degree of resilience, which renders him nigh-invulnerable against all but the strongest of threats. He can withstand recoil of his own speed. He was able to survive brutal beating from augmented hail Mary with little discomfort. He was able to survive multiple mountain shaking punches of Omni-Man without dying. This was seen from his ferocious altercation with Battle Beast, resulting in his immobile disposition. This is also the case when he survived being beaten to death by an army Mauler Twins of other realities all the while enduring a large explosion in Angstrom's warehouse which disintegrated maulers.
•High-Frequency Sounds: The effects of high-frequency noise through Invincible's ears can be detrimental. It throws off his equilibrium, inhibiting his ability to fly, causing extreme pain, and may even possibly kill him. Depending on how strong the frequency determines that pain of attack.
•Human Emotions: Mark's human kindness and leniency in fights is what makes him lose some fights or nearly dies. Examples like when he fought Thula, or when he first fought the Flaxans.
•Invincible is voiced by Steven Yeun, well known for his role in The Walking Dead as Glenn.
•When the Invincible comic book was in development in the 2000's, Invincible was originally going to go under the name "Bulletproof". However, the name was later changed to Invincible when the comic book of Invincible released to the public. And Bulletproof became its own superhero later on in the invincible comic book.
•Originally Invincible's power was supposed to be based on solar energy, which is also a nod to Superman who absorbs solar energy via the sun.
•Invincible is based off of Superboy/Conner Kent from the DC Comics. But the general premise was "what if the protagonist was son of "Superman" in that world of already established superheroes, and what if the father turned out to be a bad guy all along".
•Invincible is also based of Gohan from Dragon Ball, who like Invincible wanted to be superhero to save lives, but also keep his identity a secret, both are alien/human hybrids who are stronger than their full-blooded fathers, also have younger brothers.
•Invincible could also be based of Spiderman/Peter Parker, as both struggle with having to keep a girlfriend and managing time for one another, they also have superpowers, and was an honorary ally of their earths team, at one point Spiderman & Invincible did team up in the comics.
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