History ComicBook / Invincible

** Battle Beast's girlfriend Thresha.

* AchillesHeel: Viltrumites have few weaknesses. The easiest one to exploit is their equilibrium. Due to the fact that Viltrumites can fly, they have incredibly advanced and complex inner ears. This makes them extremely vulnerable to high-pitched frequencies. It can do everything from causing severe pain to inducing a waking-dream coma, and can possibly kill them outright. At the very least it immediately disrupts their ability to fly.

** In issue 15, when Invincible went through an Atlantean force field that kept the water back in the visitors' area, he noticed that it's just like "[[ThePhantomMenace in that crappy Star Wars flick]]".

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the IntercontinuityCrossover with Spider-Man, he warns Mark not to hit Doctor Octopus too hard, citing the latters GlassCanon status. Sure enough, this winds up coming into play ''big time'' during the showdown with Angstrom Levy.

* CloningBlues: The Mauler Twins are a mutated MadScientist and his clone. They simply cannot agree on which was the original.
** Eventually, a sequence of events occurs which guarantees the original--whichever he may have been--is now dead. The Twins miss a single beat...and then commence arguing over which is the lower-generation clone!
** They are also, coincidentally, [[JustForPun blue clones]].
** Later subverted,when the one who was the "higher" clone started lazing around and ordering the "inferior" clone about, it seems CloningBlues was part of their motivation to actually do their work, so the "inferior" kills the lazy clone then clones himself to ensure equal partnership.

* CatchPhrase: "This is so gay" when he's carrying another man (in a necessarily suggestive pose) while flying. May be said by Invincible, the passenger or [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike some third party, for slightly mysterious reasons]].

** Eventually Mark starts carrying people by holding onto them just under their armpits. He still receives a common complaint--that it's really uncomfortable.
** Both complaints usually elicit one of two reactions from Mark: Either "I know" or "Shut up."

* ''Foreshadowing'': During the IntercontinuityCrossover with Spider-Man, he warns Mark not to hit Doctor Octopus too hard, citing the latters GlassCanon status. Sure enough, this winds up coming into play ''big time'' during the showdown with Angstrom Levy.

* ForWantOfANail: Angstrom Levy notes that in all the {{alternate universe}}s he's been to, very few Invincibles have been good. The common factor for an Invincible being evil or turning evil has been a lack of an Atom Eve.

** The second issue features the [[Film/BackToTheFuture Twin Pines Mall]].

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In the issue where Mark is bounced from dimension to dimension by Angstrom Levy, he crashes into Dr. Octopus during a confrontation against Spider-Man, meets Batman, and ends up on worlds similar to ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' and ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', the latter of which Kirkman writes.

* AllDeathsFinal: The Immortal, true to his name cannot die, and it's possible to travel to alternate dimensions to see parallel versions of people who are dead in your reality. But in a rare case for a Super Hero universe, dead means dead.

* CreatorProvincialism: Present since the beginning, with the agency for the defense of the whole planet being a ''USA'' agency (the base is under the Pentagon, even), but it goes UpToEleven after [[spoiler: Robot takes over the world.]] Without getting into too much political discussion, it is pretty debatable whether a stronger American interventionism would be the solution for North Korea, and mentioning the sanctions being lifted when the USA put them there in the first place is equally debatable in taste. The idea of education and healthcare being made free as a result of a genius financial plan is also baffling for people who live in country where those are already free and pretty much functioning, particularly when they ''definitely'' don't have financial geniuses at the helm, making it seem that the issue is more viability and not principle.

* CreatorProvincialism: Present since the beginning, with the agency for the defense of the whole planet being a ''USA'' agency (the base is under the pentagon, even), but it goes up to eleven after [[spoiler: Robot takes over the world.]] Without getting into too much political discussion, it is pretty debatable whether a stronger american interventionism would be the solution for North Korea, and mentioning the sanctions being lifted when the USA put them there in the first place is equally debatable in taste. The idea of education and healthcare being made free as a result of a genious financial plan is also baffling for people who live in country where those are already free and pretty much functioning, particularly when they ''definitely'' don't have financial geniouses at the helm, making it seem that the issue is more viability and not principle.
** The "white room" is also a case of this. The idea of the government using chemicals to control the population through tap water comes to a very american cstring of conspiracy theories derived from their rejection of things provided by the state for free that is very baffling for non-american readers.

* FailureHero: Closer inspection of his actions and their consequences in the story reveal Invincible to be this. He often makes reckless decisions and ends up paying for them later, costing the lives of millions of innocent people and making himself more disliked than he already was. [[spoiler: Examples include his interference with Levy Angstrom's experiment which turned the man to supervillainy and eventual genocide via alternate reality Invincible clones, blindly making deals with the blatantly shady and unscrupulous Cecil Stedman, rescuing Dinosaurus in attempt to use his evil intellect for good which caused millions to drown from melted ice caps after it didn't work out, making deals with Thragg to have him and remaining Viltrumites live on Earth, frequently changing his kill and no-kill stances, and eventually deciding to not even try to stop his hero-turned-tyrant comrade Robot from taking over the Earth. Even when he tries to leave Earth for a quiet life with his family, his bad decisions once again catch up with him when Thragg tries to have him and his family killed. He even gets called out for this when he is given a chance to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, but selfishly refuses because it means giving up his marriage to Atom Eve and their daughter Terra.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Angstrom Levy notes that in all the alternate realities he's been to, very few Invincibles have been good. The common factor for an Invincible being evil or turning evil has been a lack of an Atom Eve.

* HasTwoMommies: Flaxan Emperor Monax, one of whom is [[spoiler:Monster Girl.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Thragg, the head of the Viltrumite Empire, is the strongest, best fighter of his people. [[spoiler:Not a single one of the group sent to kill him gave him more than a bloody nose. Subverted when the rest of the Vilturmites learn that Nolan is the son of their previous Emperor. They immediately switch their allegiance from Thragg to Nolan, despite Thragg still being by far the strongest. Emperor Argall, they say, was followed for his ''wisdom'', not his strength.]]

** And Knockout in the Capes, Inc backups wears GagBoobs to help her image. Her boyfriend, a fellow member of Capes, points out that they're ridiculous, until she points out that her salary went way up after she started using them.

* RealityWarper: Atom Eve has the ability to alter molecules, which provides a low-level form of reality warping. Her powers tend to take a toll on her physically when she overuses them, and because of that she tends to use her powers more like a GreenLanternRing, rather than using them to their full potential.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Invincible sees himself as being above the law and Cecil simply because he's the strongest on the planet.
** The writers themselves made it a point early in the series to show this Viltrumite attitude as a bad thing, and so Invincible's increasing tendency toward this mindset is an alarming bit of CharacterDevelopment. Eventually Mark sees the error of his ways and begins to solve problems with talking instead of fighting.

** [[spoiler: Rex Splode makes HeroicSacrafice to kill one of Evil Alternate Marks.

->'''Mark:''' I think I'm finally getting superpowers.\\
'''Debbie:''' That's nice. Can you pass the potatoes?

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of TheNeedsOfTheMany; whilst a fine and altruistic ideal, the vast majority of people just can't operate that way, because people have a natural hierarchy of caring based on personal connections. [[spoiler:Mark is literally given the chance to undo the ''millions'' of deaths caused by the series up until that point by going back in time, but he rejects it because it will mean erasing his daughter Terra from existence (and probably also his half-brother Oliver, but he never thinks of that). The time-manipulating aliens who gave him this chance in an effort to try and restore the cosmic balance give him a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calling him out on [[WhatTheHellHero how unheroic this is]], and promptly return him to a point five years in the future to where he started from as payback for screwing this up.]]