After only a few months, my life had settled into a routine that involved little more than ending threat after threat to the human race.” I was not about to let it fall to another invader. Every time I turned around there was a new threat out to conquer the planet before Viltrum even had a chance. It seemed its people were almost always in some kind of danger. “Had the World Conquering Committee known Earth was such a volatile environment, they may not have chosen it.
But it was mine.” As time went on, he says, he realized the assignment would be harder than he realized:
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It was a strange planet full of strange people. “At first I hated it… and regretted accepting the mission.
Image: Robert Kirkman and Ryan Otley/Image ComicsĪs Omni-Man explains to Mark in the books, he found Earth unpleasant at first, particularly its utterly alien focus on individuality. The “weakening” process he mentions in the show was never meant to be immediate or abrupt, but was part of a long-term plan. As he explains it, he was part of a pilot program, assigned to infiltrate and survey Earth. For one thing, in the comics, Omni-Man’s big reveal speech is longer and more detailed, particularly about his initial intentions. Robert Kirkman and Ryan Otley’s comics fill in a lot of those blanks. Which leaves a lot of questions open: What was Omni-Man’s actual plan? How did posing as an altruistic, upright hero for years on end, protecting Earth from endless threats, weaken the world and prepare it for Viltrumite rule? Why did Nolan bother marrying a human woman (who he describes to Mark as a “pet”) and raising a son? Given his immense and endless power, why didn’t he just show up and start taking out Earth’s defenses? I was one of those lucky few.” And that’s about all he says about his plan before he starts brutalizing Mark (and pulverizing Chicago) in a pretty clumsy attempt to convince Mark that human lives are pointless. He was sent by a galactic empire to prepare the planet for conquest: “Our most trusted officers were each given a planet to weaken, by themselves. In the show, Nolan explains in brief that his planet, Viltrum, sent him to Earth, but that he’s been lying about his motives: He wasn’t sent by a benevolent advanced society to aid and protect Earth.
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That’s because while the show so far has been a very close adaptation of the Invincible comics series, apart from switching chronologies around and eliding over some subplots, the TV script left out key details that better explain Nolan’s motivations - and where he left the plan behind.
Omni-Man, aka suburban dad and travel writer Nolan Grayson, explains the whole business to his teenage son Mark, aka newly minted superhero Invincible, and the conversation doesn’t go well.īut while viewers finally got the explanation they’ve waited for since the pilot, it doesn’t actually make a whole lot of sense.
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Fans of Amazon’s animated superhero bloodbath Invincible got a series of shocks in the season 1 finale, which lets Earth’s most powerful superhero, Omni-Man, finally explain why he slaughtered the show’s Justice League equivalent in the season premiere.
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