David Anders

## History

The creature known only as Dinosaurus made its first appearance during the aftermath of Conquest’s assault on Invincible. He attacked the young hero, Invincible, while he was taking part in the clean up efforts after the horrific battle.

Dinosaurus thought that it would prove better for humanity to recover slowly and on its own rather than depending on the aid of the super-human(s) that were responsible for the damage in the first place. Moreover, he reasoned that he actually stood a chance of defeating the young Viltrumite since he was still recovering from the injuries he had received from Conquest.

Like many others before him, Dinosaurus quickly realized that he had under-estimated the strength of a Viltrumite. Their skirmish was suitably brief, and upon its conclusion Dinosaurus reverted back to David Anders who was incarcerated in Stronghold Penitentiary by the authorities.

David Anders remained in the penitentiary until he eventually gave up hope, and stopped caring about his situation. At that moment, he reverted to his monstrous alter ego and escaped the prison.

### What happens in Vegas…

Not one to waste time, Dinosaurus immediately moved forward with the next step in his plans. He built a series of explosive devices, and surreptitiously planted them within and around the city of Las Vegas. When his bombs were finally in place, he went on a rampage in the streets, destroying property and drawing attention to himself.

His rampage eventually gained the attention of Invincible who arrived on the scene to stop him. The two exchanged both verbal barbs and physical blows, until Dinosaurus let it slip that the whole point of his rampage was to scare the citizens of Vegas out of their city so that his bomb could destroy it.

His reasoning was simple. The amount of natural resources that were consumed to sustain the man-made city in the desert was unacceptable. Thus he would return it to its natural state, and arid desert.

While Dinosaurus soliloquized, Invincible blurred throughout the city and disabled the bomb he knew of. However, there were nearly 50 remaining bombs. They all detonated at once, wiping out the city and leaving nothing but a giant sheet of glass where the city once stood.

### From the ashes of defeat

To his own surprise, David awoke naked in the ashes of Vegas and turned himself in to the Global Defence Agency. He was imprisoned once more. This time he was deep in the bowels of the secret facility that was housed under the pentagon.

In the face of the catastrophic loss of life, the American Government decided not to rebuild Las Vegas (plus, they did not have the resources to rebuild). Instead, the Global Defence Agency used the massive sheet of glass created by the blast to build a giant solar power plant.

In short order, they realized that the plant would be capable of providing renewable power to nearly half of the United States of America. It would also provide jobs for thousands of its citizens; exactly as Dinosaurus predicted when he detonated the bombs.

Invincible saw the good that came from Dinosaurus’s criminal actions. He realized that if guided correctly, Dinosaurus’ intellect could greatly aid all of mankind. He spent days mulling it over, and eventually broke into the ultra-secure facility under the Pentagon and freed the terrorist.

With that, the two formed a pact to aid each other until they changed the world, or until one of them betrayed the other.

### The Odd Couple, part 1

The odd duo began to work on changing the world, peacefully. Then Allen the Alien returned to Earth-space with a sample of the Scourge Virus. When Invincible was forced to involve himself in the conflict that ensued, he was infected by the virus.

Regretful of his actions, Allen sought out Dinosaurus’s aid. He left him in the company of Thragg and the Earth-bound Viltrumites in order to search for a cure to the virus.

While he was present on Viltrumite command carrier, Dinosaurus intuitively realized that both he and Invincible were in danger. He surreptitiously planted yet another series of incendiary devices throughout the ship and downloaded the contents of its database into a portable drive for perusal later on.

When he went to check on the condition of his ally, Dinosaurus interrupted the Grand Regent Thragg while he throttled an unconscious Invincible. Dinosaurus let to his ally’s aid, but was mauled by the seemingly undefeatable Viltrumite lord.

### The Odd Couple, part 2

The only thing that saved his life, was that the bombs that were dispersed throughout the ship were set on deadman switches that were set to go off should Dinosaurus die.

Thragg eventually left a broken and crippled Dinosaurus alongside Invincible to dismantle the bombs. He had assumed that in his condition, Dinosaurus would be unable to escape. He was mistaken.

Dinosaurus somehow gathered the strength to carry Invincible and himself to a waiting transport, and escape down to Earth. The two crash landed close to Dinosaurus’s hidden mountain headquarters. They were eventually found, and rescued by Invincible’s allies.

### The Death Of Everyone

While Mark was recovering from his injuries, Dinosaurus had set up a bomb in Los Angeles and Greenland. Mark would visit Dinosaurus and learn of his bomb in Los Angeles. He heads to Los Angeles and gets the Guardians to deactivate it. Dinosaurus teleports there and Mark confronts him. Mark calls him insane and Dinosaurus states that Los Angeles was a distraction. He asks Mark to take a larger look and reveals he detonated a bomb in Greenland to flood the major cities around the world. Mark would then battle Dinosaurus, and Mark says that Dinosaurus must die for the sake of humanity. Dinosaurus capitalizes on Mark's inner ear weakness and plays a frequency, knocking him into a coma. He then trades his place with a lifeless clone of Mark and kills the clone for the whole world to see. Dinosaurus then pulls away back to his base. Dinosaurus would explain to Mark how he was able to get to his base and make it appear that he was killed. Mark explains that Dinosaurus caused a disaster on a "maybe" and Dinosaurus realizes that he is right. Mark then asks Dinosaurus for help in fixing his problem. Dinosaurus refuses, saying that this will be his final act and asks Mark to kill him. Mark kills him and marks his corpse with his thumb so Cecil would not fake his death like he did Conquest.