Invincible (2021 Film)

Invincible is an 2021 adult animated superhero film Based on the Image Comics series of the same name by Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, the film follows 17-year-old Mark Grayson and his transformation into a superhero under the guidance of his father Omni-Man, also known as Nolan Grayson, the most powerful superhero on the planet but must take down evil threats and will learn the truth about his father.
From The Producer of The Walking Dead
Quote: He's Fast, He's strong, He's Super, He's... Invincible!
== Cast ==
* Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson / Invincible (voiced by Steven Yeun): The eponymous main character. After developing his powers at 17 years old, Mark discovers the harsh realities of being a superhero while struggling to define himself along with a berserker-esque rage that manifests as a result of his Viltrumite heritage. Additionally, he has worked with the Teen Team before they become the new Guardians of the Globe.
* Deborah "Debbie" Grayson (voiced by Sandra Oh): Mark's mother and Nolan's wife and an experienced real estate agent who was once long adjusted to being a superhero's spouse.
* Nowl-Ahn / Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man (voiced by J. K. Simmons): Mark's father and Debbie's husband. Born on the planet Viltrum to a super-powered alien race known as the Viltrumites, Omni-Man's parents died in his youth before he joined the Viltrum Empire's intergalactic expansion several thousand years ago. After arriving on Earth 20 years prior to the series, Omni-Man is considered the most powerful superhero on the planet with a civilian identity of a rich travel writer.
* Samantha Eve "Sam" Wilkins / Atom Eve / Phase One (voiced by Gillian Jacobs as a teen/young adult, Jazlyn Ione as a preteen, and Aria Kane as a child): A matter/energy manipulating superheroine, former member of the Teen Team, and an invitee to join the new Guardians of the Globe roster who refuses to join the latter group after learning her teammate and ex-boyfriend Rex Splode cheated on her with teammate Dupli-Kate. Struggling to find self-meaning, she chooses to help people directly with humanitarian actions.
* William Francis Clockwell (voiced by Andrew Rannells): Mark's best friend and civilian confidant who is homosexual.
* Global Defense Agency (GDA): A clandestine organization that organizes global superhero responses and utilizes advanced technology in expediting their recovery or resuscitation after death.
* Cecil Stedman (voiced by Walton Goggins): The director of the GDA who possesses a long-range personal teleporter and inducts Invincible at the start of his hero career.
* Donald Ferguson (voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos): A high-ranking GDA agent who serves directly under Cecil Stedman.
* Guardians of the Globe (new roster): Heroes who were formerly of the Teen Team merged with other experienced heroes with diverse skill sets.
* The Immortal (voiced by Ross Marquand): A millennia-old superhero and former leader of the original Guardians who was once an unnamed Celtic warrior before he was exposed to a cosmic anomaly that rendered him functionally immortal unless he is decapitated. Over the years, he went on to fight in the Crusades and become Abraham Lincoln before forming the Guardians. 
* Rudolph "Rudy" Connors / Robot (voiced by Ross Marquand and Zachary Quinto, respectively): A deformed individual with a condition that causes outside air to burn his lungs who is forced to live in a pod, operates a series of drones, and has a sizable personal fortune. Using "Robot", Connors formerly led the Teen Team before creating a new Guardians of the Globe roster. 
* Rex Sloan / Rex Splode (voiced by Jason Mantzoukas): An incorrigible superhero who can charge potential energy into anything he touches to create explosives and a former member of the Teen Team who is selected to join the new Guardians roster. 
* Katherine "Kate" Cha / Dupli-Kate (voiced by Malese Jow): A self-replicating superheroine and former member of the Teen Team who is selected to join the new Guardians roster. All Kates are numbered, with the prime Kate being numbered "1". She also has a telepathic link with her doubles, which causes her to feel what they feel.
* Rachel / Shrinking Rae (voiced by Grey Griffin): A size-manipulating superheroine who is selected to join the new Guardians roster.
* Amanda / Monster Girl (voiced by Grey Griffin): A cursed superheroine whose powers allow her to transform into a powerful masculine ogre (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson), but gradually makes her younger each time she does so. She begins the series at 24 years old chronologically and 12 physically.
* Markus Grimshaw / Black Samson (voiced by Khary Payton): An original Guardian from the team's early days who left after losing his powers. Donning an armored super-suit to continue as a hero, he joins the new roster as the veteran voice.
* Amber Justine Bennett (voiced by Zazie Beetz): Mark's insightful classmate and girlfriend.
* The Mauler Twins (both voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): Two blue-skinned, hyper-powerful, super-genius superhumans and long-time adversaries of the original Guardians. Despite their name, they are not actual twins but clones of each other, with each claiming to be the original while the other is a clone.
* Killcannon (voiced by Fred Tatasciore): A supervillain with an arm-mounted laser cannon, and an enemy of Invincible and Atom Eve.
* Arthur "Art" Rosenbaum (voiced by Mark Hamill): A superhero suit tailor and long-time friend to many superheroes, such as Omni-Man. After helping Debbie uncover the truth about Omni-Man, Art joins her in falling into a drunken depression.
* Adam Wilkins (voiced by Fred Tatasciore): Eve's abusive adopted father who vocally disapproves of her being a superhero and wants her to be normal.
* Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilkins (voiced by Grey Griffin): Eve's soft-spoken adopted mother who acts as a buffer between her husband and daughter.
* Damien Darkblood (voiced by Clancy Brown): A demon detective (who is loosely based on both Damian Darklord from The Savage Dragon and Hellboy) who escaped from Hell to seek justice for others and save his soul, whose presence triggers a sudden cold in the ambient temperature. Cecil hires him to investigate Omni-Man before exiling him back to Hell to prevent him from exposing Omni-Man too early.
* Steve (voiced by Jon Hamm): A Secret Service agent who guards the White House's front gate.
* Matt (voiced by Max Burkholder): Steve's stepson.
* Guardians of the Globe (original roster): A decades-old superhero team who are massacred by Omni-Man.
** Holly / War Woman (voiced by Lauren Cohan): A powerful ancient warrior and co-benefactor of the Guardians.
** Alana / Green Ghost (voiced by Sonequa Martin-Green): A superheroine encased in a green suit with ghost-like powers and successor to an unnamed male incarnation (voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos).
** Martian Man (voiced by Chad L. Coleman): An exiled, shapeshifting Martian superhero.
** Josef / Red Rush (voiced by Michael Cudlitz) A Russian speedster and the team's first responder.
** Darkwing (voiced by Lennie James): A gadget-wielding caped crusader and co-benefactor of the Guardians.
** Aquarus (voiced by Ross Marquand): A hydrokinetic, piscine humanoid and king of an underwater Atlantean kingdom.
* Connie (voiced by Mae Whitman): War Woman's co-worker and business partner in the heroine's civilian identity.
* Principal B.N. Winslow (voiced by Reginald VelJohnson): The principal of Reginald VelJohnson High School.
* Doc Seismic (voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos): A mad scientist who holds socially progressive views towards the U.S. government and its past leaders, wields earthquake-generating wristbands, which give him concussions every time he uses them.
* Bi-Plane (voiced by Ross Marquand): A flight suit-empowered supervillain who attempted to destroy Denver only to be thrown into outer space by the Immortal.
* Titan (voiced by Mahershala Ali): A criminal enforcer, later a crime lord, who can manifest regenerative stone armor at will and feels that superheroes look down on him due to him and his family living in poverty. He initially works under Machine Head.
* The Flaxans: A warrior race of aliens who seek to conquer Earth despite three failed attempts and Omni-Man attacking their planet.
* Slash (voiced by Djimon Hounsou): The leader of the first three invasion forces who aims to kill Invincible for scarring him and conquer Earth.
* Olga (voiced by Grey Griffin): Red Rush's widow and friend of Debbie Grayson.
* Martian Emperor (voiced by Djimon Hounsou): The ruler of Mars.
* Vanessa (voiced by Nicole Byer): Titan's wife.
* Fiona (voiced by Nicole Byer): Titan's daughter.
* Machine Head (voiced by Jeffrey Donovan): A cyborg crime lord with an auto-tuned voice, extensive illicit funding, and Titan's former boss.
* Tether Tyrant (voiced by Reginald VelJohnson): A supervillain hired by Machine Head.
* Thokk / Battle Beast (voiced by Michael Dorn): A space-faring leonine alien warrior who seeks to find worthy opponents to fight.
* D.A. Sinclair (voiced by Ezra Miller): A mad scientist with an obsession for "improving" humanity who, to this end, created zombie cyborg super-soldiers known as "Reanimen". 
* Rick Sheridan (voiced by Jonathan Groff): William's love interest.
* Doug Cheston (voiced by Justin Roiland): A student at Upstate University
* Kyle (voiced by Khary Payton): A nerdy frat-boy who befriends Amber at Upstate University.
* Allen the Alien (voiced by Seth Rogen): An assessor of member world candidates for the Coalition, whose homeworld was destroyed by the Viltrumites. 
* General Kregg (voiced by Clancy Brown): A high-ranking Viltrumite general.
== Plot ==
When hulking villainous scientists, the Mauler Twins, attack the White House, they are repelled by the Guardians of the Globe and Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man. Nolan's son Mark, who is waiting for his powers to emerge, goes to school and defends classmate Amber Bennett from bully Todd. After Todd beats Mark, Amber saves the latter and develops an interest in him. Later, Mark's powers emerge, and he tells his parents over dinner. While Nolan is initially uncertain, he nonetheless begins to train Mark on how to use them. However, wishing to emphasize the severity of being a superhero, Mark is caught off-guard by his father punching him too hard. Feeling hurt emotionally and physically, Mark blows off steam by stopping a robbery in a homemade suit. After a heart-to-heart with his son, Nolan takes Mark to meet superhero suit tailor Art Rosenbaum, who creates a proper superhero suit for Mark after he chooses to call himself "Invincible". Later, Nolan secretly ambushes the Guardians at their headquarters and kills them all before falling unconscious from damage sustained from their resistance.
The clandestine Global Defense Agency (GDA) nurses a comatose Nolan back to health, but fails to revive the Guardians. Director Cecil Stedman informs Mark and his mother Debbie. As extra-dimensional aliens called the Flaxans attack, Mark helps the Teen Team hold them off. When the Flaxans rapidly age and retreat, Teen Team leader Robot deduces this was due to a time dilation difference between the Flaxans' dimension and Earth. As Mark recognizes Atom Eve as classmate Samantha Eve Wilkins, they share their secret identities and become friends. The Flaxans return with anti-aging technology, but Mark and the Teen Team destroy them, forcing another retreat. The Flaxans return once again and nearly succeed until a recuperated Nolan forces them back to their dimension, where he devastates their planet in retaliation before returning as news breaks of the Guardians' deaths. Meanwhile, Mark skirmishes with Allen the Alien, who wants to test Earth's defenses for the Coalition of Planets. Using a time-out to talk and learning of Allen's mission, Mark helps Allen realize he confused "Earth" for another planet called "Urath" and leaves on good terms. Concurrently, demon detective Damien Darkblood investigates the Guardians' deaths for Cecil, theorizing the killer was among the heroes.
Following a televised funeral, the Graysons attend the Guardians' private burial with their loved ones, where Darkblood questions Nolan privately and hints at his suspicions. Cecil commissions Robot to form a new Guardians roster of his choosing, given his handling of the Flaxan invasions, so Robot merges the Teen Team with experienced heroes Monster Girl, Black Samson, and Shrinking Rae. However, Eve immediately quits, still resentful of her teammate and ex-boyfriend Rex Splode after catching him cheating on her with teammate Dupli-Kate. Mark gets Amber's number and sets up a "study date", which is interrupted when he helps Eve stop Doc Seismic from attacking Mount Rushmore. Nonetheless, an intrigued Amber waits for him. When Rex tries apologizing to Eve, she refuses to accept and seeks out Mark, only to discover him with Amber. Despite being saddened, she acknowledges his happiness and quietly leaves. With Robot's unseen help, the Maulers escape from their GDA prison, though one sacrifices the other. When Darkblood questions Debbie, he finds Nolan shared little with her. This encounter leaves her suspicious of Nolan, who senses Darkblood's lingering presence.
Angry that the GDA has not caught the original Guardians' killer yet, Red Rush's widow, Olga, commissions Debbie to sell her house so she can return to Moscow. Cecil asks Nolan to protect the first mission to Mars, but the latter refuses, citing his duty to protect Earth, so Mark volunteers. Despite successfully landing, Mark's inattentiveness allows Martians to abduct the astronauts. The Martian Emperor orders their execution to prevent the parasitic Sequids from reaching Earth and destroying the universe. Mark hastily evacuates the astronauts, unaware that a Martian had secretly replaced one of them while the real astronaut is possessed by the Sequids and launches an invasion of Mars. As Nolan and Debbie vacation in Rome to rekindle their relationship, he manipulatively regains her trust with half-truths. Cecil realizes Nolan is the killer, but cannot act until he determines the latter's motive and a way to stop him. Knowing he will not drop the case, Cecil exiles Darkblood to Hell, unaware that the detective hid his notepad in Debbie's closet. As the surviving Mauler begins cloning himself, Robot monitors his progress and methods before stealing a DNA sample from Rex on his real self, the deformed Rudy Connors', behalf.
After Debbie finds Darkblood's notepad, her lingering suspicions return, leading to her locating Nolan's bloodied super-suit while he is away. After Samson lectures his teammates on failing to protect civilians due to their infighting, Robot secretly approaches the restored Mauler Twins with a job offer. Meanwhile, Mark promises to help Amber at a soup kitchen she volunteers at as recompense since he neglected her while working as Invincible. However, he must also help the superpowered enforcer Titan defeat his boss Machine Head, who predicted their attack and hired multiple villains for security. The Guardians arrive to help, but Mark, Monster Girl, and Samson are beaten and severely wounded by Battle Beast, which prompts the rest of the Guardians to act as a team. Seeing the other villains swiftly defeated, a disgusted Battle Beast leaves. The GDA arrest Machine Head and medevac Mark and the others, allowing Titan to take over Machine Head's organization. Eve also volunteers alongside Amber, needing direction after quitting being a superhero, but leaves when Cecil calls her about Mark's hospitalization. Elsewhere, GDA scientists test samples of Mark's blood, discovering that his cells are invulnerable to every lethal test they run.
Humbled by his week-long recovery, Mark reconciles with Amber before they accompany his best friend William on a weekend visit to Upstate University to see his crush Rick Sheridan. However, a cyborg experiment of mad scientist, D.A. Sinclair, escapes confinement and fights Mark before killing himself. As William deduces Mark's identity, Amber breaks up with Mark due to his "absence" during the cyborg's rampage and he sacrifices reconciliation to rescue William and Rick from Sinclair. Seeing Rick converted into a cyborg, William's pleas for help enable Rick to overcome his alteration and help Mark defeat Sinclair. Following Sinclair's arrest, Cecil takes an interest in his technology, which overwhelmed Mark's physiology. Meanwhile, Rosenbaum examines Nolan's bloodied suit for Debbie, confirming Nolan killed the Guardians. Both fearfully agree to stay silent, but the revelation sends Debbie into a drunken depression. Having studied her biology beforehand, Robot gathers magical ingredients to heal Monster Girl. While the Maulers continue to grow a body for Robot, they also exhume the Immortal's corpse, intending to resurrect him as their enthralled weapon against Robot. Concurrently, Eve is inspired by Amber to skip college and use her powers in direct humanitarian endeavors.
After Debbie relocates to the GDA, Cecil explains the truth before both witness Nolan kill Cecil's second-in-command, Donald Ferguson, and several GDA agents. After adding a neural link upgrade, the "Rudy" clone reluctantly euthanizes his progenitor. Paying and betraying the Maulers, the new Rudy leaves for a Guardians summons. He explains himself to the team, who are taken aback by his revelations before learning the truth about Omni-Man and their predecessors' fates. Cecil talks to Nolan before deploying Sinclair's "Reanimen" and a modified kaiju to kill him. Unfazed by Mark revealing his superhero identity, having deduced the truth weeks earlier, Amber dumps him as he never trusted her before. Mark seeks Eve's wisdom, but she criticizes his selfish behavior. When the two intercept Nolan's fight with the kaiju, Cecil orders Eve to leave Mark and rendezvous with the Guardians. When the Maulers revive the Immortal, he flies off to battle Nolan in an attempt to avenge the death of his team while Mark narrowly subdues the kaiju. News helicopters capture Nolan killing the Immortal in a live global broadcast before Nolan asks to talk to a bewildered Mark.
After revealing himself as an infiltrator for the Viltrum Empire sent to conquer Earth, Nolan fails to convince Mark to join him and overpowers his son, devastating Chicago and killing thousands. Despite being beaten into a near-death state, Mark causes Nolan to remember his love for his family. Unable to reconcile this with his duties, Nolan tearfully abandons Earth. The Guardians and Eve mobilize to aid Chicago relief efforts as the world learns of Nolan's betrayal while Cecil helps Debbie and Mark by falsifying Nolan's civilian death. A heartbroken Debbie shares a drink with a similarly heartbroken Rosenbaum as Mark and Amber rekindle their relationship after his two-week recovery. As Amber and William learn Eve is also a superhero, Cecil sends Mark to intercept an approaching Allen and updates him on recent events. Allen warns Mark that the Viltrumites will come for Earth given Nolan's uncharacteristic abandoning of his post, but he thinks that Mark can help the Coalition stop the Viltrumites' expansion. As Mark plans to finish high school, the Maulers are arrested while the Immortal recuperates under GDA protection. Villainous forces conspire to return as Cecil commissions Sinclair to mass-produce Reanimen contingency troops.
In the post credit scene, A high-ranking Viltrumite general named Kregg heard about Nolan has abandon his post on Earth.
== Sequels ==
Invincible 2: The Hero Within Part 1 (2023 Film)
Invincible 3: The Hero Within Part 2 (2024 Film)
Invincible 4: The Invincible War
== Spin Off ==
Atom Eve: A Invincible Story (2023 Film)