Ok, so Invincibles just debuted a big comic character who's one of the most controversial
ones in the entire run.
She’s one of the most despised, downright despicable villainesses to ever be featured
in a comic book...ever.
This week alones seen some massive ones too with a certain someone showing up in X-men
97.
But who is this Sasha Calle Supergirl look-alike and why has she got the internet in a frenzy?
Well that’s what we’re gonna break down in this video as we go through the characters
most shocking moment.
Be warned, there will be full comic spoilers and discussion of sensitive topics relating
to assault.
Anissa someone who causes some massive trauma for Mark and she’s definitely a character
who needs a trigger warning.
So just a heads up and with that out the way, let’s get into who Vanissa is.
Now in the in the show she is voiced by Shantel VanSanten you may recognise as Patty Pivot
In The Flash.
Anissa first debuted in Issue 44 and is largely the same as we saw during Episode 7.
Like almost all the Viltrumites, conquerings her goal and she was sent in to remind Mark
of his new mission.
As we saw at the end of the first part of season 2, Mark is to take over Earth for the
Viltrumites.
If he he fails then another Viltrumite will take his place and later on this comes in
the form of Conquest.
He’s someone who’s featured already in the show and he popped up when Nolan explained
Viltrum to Mark.
Thus far in the comics and show we have had a bad impression of the Viltrumites and think
they are a warmongering colonising threat that would enslave and ruin humanity.
Which yeah…can see why mate.
However Anissa in her debut issue wishes to clarify that hey come on, we’re not all
bad, we just want slavery and serfdom but the happy kind.
She explains that the planet is ruining itself with war, famine, selfishness and climate
change and the VIltrumites would unite the world, share technology and make it a utopia.
I mean it is but I certainly don’t want even kryptonians taking over.
They calim that though they’d strip the planet of its resources that we’d have centuries
of Bliss.
The rationale is that humanity is destroying the planet anyway and that we’ll run ourselves
to ruin without the benefits they bring.
Now we later learn in the comics that Earths been picked out because humans have a similar
DNA structure to Viltrumites.
We’ve seen in the case of Thraxxans how kids like Oliver can get pretty close.
However theres always these slight little differences which is why his skin tone and
agings slightly off.
We discover that theres less than 50 Viltrumites left and that Earths been selected as a breeding
colony.
This is something Allens experienced himself and he later warns that it’s not a fate
you wanna have.
Babies are forced to be born en masse and this foreshadows something Anissa does later
on.
In issue 110 that Robert Kirkman wrote one of the most twisted and harrowing parts of
the comic that would cement Anissa as it’s most hated character.
In order to discuss that though we have to talk the Viltrumite War which was an epic
eight issue storyline.
It saw the Coalition of Planets bring the fight to the Viltrumites.
This resulted in one of the most epic moments in the whole comic as the Viltrumites retreated
to their home planet.
Nolan, Thadeus, Mark and Space Racer destroyed it which had my Jaw on the floor like Angstrom
Levy after that first fight.
This pushed Emperor Thragg to the limit who’s yet to make his Freddie Swolcury debut in
the show.
Going into a rage he wiped out Thadeus and defeated Nolan and Mark cementing him as the
big bad.
However due to the losses theyd faced he decided to hit Earth with a Secret Invasion of sorts.
No not the terrible TV show but I imagine Earth could have had some major help from
big arm herself.
We know shes’s bashing more than the like button with that one.
Shabow.
He surrenders on the condition his survivors were allowed to remain on earth and procreate
with the population.
Seeing the Viltrumites assimilate into Earth like Nolan did honestly always cracks me up
as Lucan looks confused all the time and Kregg ends up becoming a biker.
But therein lies the problem.
Assmiliation and breeding is not easy, look at you, you’ve got no chicks and are watching
an Englishman summarise a comic you may or may not have read.
In issue 101 we get the Viltrumites to finally learn just why Nolan abandoned his task and
why Mark proved to have immovable morals and goals.
The survivors are brought before Thragg to explain why they haven’t had kids or are
breeding but it turns out they caught feelings.
Lucan is like, mate come on I am really into this monogamy thing now and I like sitting
down with a nice cup of tea.
Anissa also raises the difference in that while they guys are expected to smash as many
chicks like the like button and have more kids than Nick Cannon, she will be expected
to give birth.
Anissa doesn’t really want kids anyway and we know shes had trouble with men in the past.
In the comics when she was fighting Allen we saw the battle in space that we got at
the end of issue 7.
Upon bleeding though she said not even her fourth husband hit her that hard so you can
kinda get what shes been through.
However things change when Anissa learns Mark has returned and with her behind on her mission,
she attempts to seduce him.
We are led to think it may work as Robot has gaslit everyone thinking Mark is a bad guy
and Eve dumps him as yet again him being away threatens his dual life.
She tries to get him to sleep with her by saying how they need to breed but Mark turns
her down cos he doesn’t want to have kids.
And it’s here dear where things takes a dark turn and please be warned as we will
be discussing a serious topic and I understand if you may want to stop now.
Anissa then forces herself on Mark and sends him into a crater much like her debut.
Here she ends up r***** him.
Which yeah…is as messed up as it sounds.
She then explains that she may not conceive the first time thus hinting that this could
happen again.
It’s a brutally graphic series of panels penciller Ryan Ottley really brings out the
gravity and emotion of such a horrible experience to life in the final panel of Mark sitting
there.
To make things worse Mark is told to Man up which implies that he should be lucky or happy
in the situation.
Putting someone through that’s terrible enough as it is and no matter the sex I think
we can both agree its not something someone should have to go through.
I felt like this tackled how it often gets overlooked in the case of men even though
statistics say its more common than you’d think.
Women of course deal with it on a massive scale too and please dont think I’m trying
to downplay that either.
This just created a horrendous situation to put a comic book character in and it’s rare
that they tackle it because its so sensitive.
Steve Trevor got a lot of backlash with what they did to him in Wonder Woman 84 and Nightwing
also went through it during Issue 93.
Those never received the gravity they deserved though and the writer of the latter even apologised
for glossing over it in 2014.
However it is definitely how it is dealt with and portrayed and I feel Invincible deals
with it as well as anyone could with such a controversial, harsh and personal topic.
Robert Kirkman has actually spoken about this issue with MTV News and acknowledged this
trope and explains how using the comic medium allows them to go from light to dark and adult
stories to allow them to tackle tough things.
You only need one small Google search to find posts from people who have been reading the
comic and are in shock that this is the thing that sticks with them the most.
It’s odd to say that in a comic where people are beheaded, disembowelled but this is one
of the moments that sticks out the most.
Now in it’s essence it helps to show the dark side of the viltrumite rebirth plan.
While Nolan and the others could galavant and womanise or at least that’s what’s
expected, there is also the possibility of an awful way to follow through.
There also wasnt really much time for Mark to even reflect on what had happened as he
was expected to tackle other things.
Life seemed to move on for some time but unfortunately Anissa returned.
Again the artwork really emphasises who uncomfortable and traumatic Mark feels regarding her keep
chasing him against his will.
This is especially as his father asks what’s wrong and he just shuts in himself which sadly
is a regular occurrence that people end up going through.
It would be quite a while until Anissa returned
The major reveal drops at the end of issue 129 and we see that Anissa is happily married
and later even has another daughter but her diabolical plan was successful and she gave
birth to a son with Mark.
Disturbingly she named him Markus and didn’t really see anything wrong with what she’d
done.
Mark never told his as he believed they needed every Viltrumite and he thought he would kill
her.
She would somewhat redeem herself when Thragg started yet another war and Anissa saved Eve
from death.
She did slowly start to accept the human way of life but she still did what she did.
Later on in the final issue of the original run Mark would have somewhat of a mirror of
Nolan’s role as he has to explain to Markus his heritage and he would later on become
Kid Invincible but still refer to Anissas husband as dad.
So yes, she is totally and unbelievably awful and evil.
The other viltrumites never resorted to what she did to procreate and breed a new generation
and even if she died saving Eve, she’s still just the worst.
This is why she's one of the most hated characters in the show and arguably it's most despicable
villain.
Anyway that hopefully should fill you in on the characters history and if the stories
piqued your interest then pick up the books.
There's lot of great stories going on within it and so many impactful moments back to back.
Definitely pick em up and obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts on the character below.
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