I think his strength is consistent since he's fighting other superpowered individuals.

This also isn't your typical show/comic where they power up when they get angry. The 'greater power' that's shown when Mark rages is just him being more aggressive and fighting harder. It doesn't lead to harder hits, just better ones.

Mark also holds back his full strength sometimes since he's cautious about severely injuring or killing people. He's also basically a baby Viltrumite since he just got his powers and needs to actually train them to get stronger.

So, spoilers

>!Not inconsistent, just...relative. Mark is a traditional hero at the moment. He doesn't believe in killing people and would have a breakdown if he did. However, being a viltrumite, he could do so if he cuts lose. Even in his rage, he doesn't hit people that hard. If, for example, he did then everyone in that room save for battle beast would have been cracked in half. Mark is also still training, as he's literally a baby. Mark is 17 and viltrumites age slowly and slower the older they get. They live thousands of years. Mark is also more than 99% viltrumite for two reasons that the show will get into. Mark has baby viltrumite strength that must be cultivated and trained. So, if Mark hit harder: the flaxan leader would have been dead. Titan in his appearance in the first episode? Dead. Cannon arm guy? Super dead. Wolf face lady, dead. Doc Sesimic, dead. Battle Beast...amused and annoyed that Mark dares.!<

tl;dr - Mark doesn't like killing and doesn't see that as heroic as it's not the model that Mark based Invincible on.

Mark is still growing into his powers/abilities. While also building up his combat skills, also take into account he still holds back a lot. It clear to see why his strength would appear to be inconsistent to some. But it's not.

It's never super consistent in the comics, but the cat guy he fought in episode five is way stronger in the comics than the rest of the thugs. He's like, Omni-Man level.

Titan is incredibly strong. Not Mark as he is atm strong, but I believe he's in the 20 ish ton range. Like, twice as strong as Spider-Man, who is pretty damn strong.

The only issue is ep5 makes Titan feel less durable than he should be, I dont think an LMG would chip away at his armour that easily.

As for the Flaxxan, Mark was about to go for a kill strike and stopped to pull the thing off of Eve's face.

Normally he’s a 40-50 ton after he turned 17 although he does become 100 tons with a whole lot of adrenaline but mark is about 400 tons

Viltrumites likely produce adrenaline, they are genetically very similar to humans just with extra powers.

Every viltrumite seemingly is stronger when enraged and put in a fight or flight situation. they still function at peak strength and beyond even when severely injured. Like having their guts spilling out, keeping them conscious until the task is done, Things adrenaline is known for.

Examples being: lucan breaking Nolan’s back while his own guts were hanging out, Conquest in his final death throw putting a hole in mark.

He only really wins these fights, because he’s relentless, not because he got a power boost in the middle of the fight

He beat conquest, because he never let up, started biting him. Never gave him a Chance to regain his barrings. Never let go, even when his ribs were destroyed and he had a hole put in his stomach

Conquest couldn’t win if mark never gave him a chance to hit back. And he’s always been Abel to hurt him.

The difference between mark and other viltrumite is simply his will power and being Nolan’s son

Nobody considers marks age a big factor, no viltrumite is suprised at how strong he is, despite knowing he’s at around 20 years old. So, Age isn’t a big factor in viltrumite strength, they might be only capable of lifting an extra pound or kilogram each year. Stronger by the day, but not relevantly so. And that’s gap cleared just by pushing your limits more than everyone else. And he did. Eve

Oliver has a similar rise in strength, became strong enough to hold his own with other viltrumites in just 9 months of working out with Nolan. And only being 15 development wise.

1. yes its been repeatedly theorized that Viltrumites don't produce adrenaline.

2. Mark is the descendant of the royal leader of Viltrum. Whether you wanna admit that or not.

Also add the royal bloodline in the mix.

He has the indomitable human spirit.

That's been discussed in the fanbase for a while

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Mark beats all of Spiderman's villains no diff, he wins the whole civil war event for Tony or cap not sure who he'd side with by himself. Thanos never gets his first snap off. Basically he'd be among the most powerful avengers if not the most powerful with only Thor at the top of his game, captain marvel, strange etc being near him. He'd have alot if respect for the avengers but become more cocky when he realises he's so strong compared to most of them. I think he'd be the one they call to reign hulk in when he rampages being able to just fly him miles away from anywhere with lots of people and fight him till he calms down probably becoming good friends with hulk and banner.

Mark. Pretty much as soon as he gets his powers, there are only a handful of people who can possibly stand a chance.

Thor, Captain Marvel (particularly if we allow blending with What If versions that shouldn't be too different from the Prime version), magic users, etc.

Mark pretty easily. He’s way stronger than Hulk. He’s also way more durable considering he took a punch from Omni-Man that sent him flying many miles. Hulk’s leviathan punch has nothing on that.

I mean by the end of the comics >!Mark and Omni-man punch a dude through a planet!<

Yeah, depending on Invincible’s resistance to magic, Thor and Strange could definitely hurt him, but anyone after that, I’m not sure. Especially if the dude is actually trying to kill them.

IMO, no one in the MCU can really compare to Supe's strength level, which is where Mark seems to be.

Did you watch invincible? Mark would absolutely destroy everyone in the entire MCU without breaking a sweat.

The marvel comics have a lot stronger characters, but he absolutely wipes the floor with the MCU.

Mark is going through an arc where he has to embrace his viltrumite side to become a better hero for humanity. This doesn't mean embrace their ideologies, but some of their nature in terms of ruthlessness and rage. So as he progresses along this, until he reaches a point where he has to start growing more as a human, he's just gonna get stronger and stronger.

season 3 mark could solo both season 2 and season 1 mark together

He's more durable and can throw a much stronger punch then he could before in S1 and S2. He'd have killed the reanimen except for the boyfriend guy. Been more useful against the Flaxons. The Maulers wouldn't have beaten the crap out of him as bad, though still would've swarmed him. He'd have been more helpful during him and his fathers fight with Viltrumites on Thraxia.

All to say if Mark was this strong from the start He'd have beaten the crap out of most of the villains before this minus obvious exceptions like Nolan and Battle Beast. Bro is still cooked against those two.

I think the holding back meme is real, but I also think that now that he is this strong, the writers are throwing stronger opponents at him to fight solo. Omni Man struggled against one Kaiju in season 1. Mark was going to struggle against a bunch of lava kaijus without support. A lot of his losses made sense. They've upped the power levels of everyone, including the Earth Heros, with appearances of new stronger or seemingly skilled heros like Tech Jacket and Best Tiger who somehow hurt Sinister Mark with a bullet.

Mark in season 1 couldn't even hurt Nolan

Mark in season 2 was able to solidly beat a Viltrumite that is about half as strong as Nolan(Thula and Vidor together are equal to Nolan, Mark beat Thula)

And Mark in season 3 is 2.3x stronger than that Mark, so he is solidly around Nolans level, probably still lower though, but at the very least he should be easily toying with low-level viltrumites like Thula and Vidor, I could see him struggling with Lucan though

he definitely got way stronger since season 1

Complete pedantry:

It takes more power (in the energy per time physics sense) to stop a meteor the closer it is to earth for the same velocity since you're working more and more against Earth's gravity, helped very minorly by air resistance from atmosphere, so it's unrealistic for him to have been able to still stop it when he didn't manage to stop it before (barring final desperate effort stuff happening)

Plus he would probably have to had put more effort into keeping the meteor still after stopping it, since if parts of the meteor began burning up he'd be at most 60 miles or so above the Earth at the edge of the atmosphere where the Earth's gravity is only ~3% less than on the surface, and he wouldn't have been able to toss it away as easily as he did at the end of the scene since at minimum he would have had to give it as much kinetic energy as had been converted from gravitational potential energy as it flew towards earth, which the scene already establishes him as having trouble with (plus the spin move itself being ridiculously fast for how much more massive than him the meteor is)

Catching that baseball that Omni man threw around the world when he first got his powers. Definitely

Being able to not die after a hit from battle beast

Tanking the Conquest nuke

Embracing Oliver. Unironically, not letting animosity get the better of him (same for Debbie), after everything Nolan did, is the greatest feat of all.

Great art

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Who’d win? The inevitable question

I guess forgiving people who did horrible things is another part of that, except Invincible handled that well unlike SU

Yeah but Invincible isn’t mid and wasn’t created by a ped0

Isn’t this the point of the whole story? Mark’s wishy-washy behavior is why he doesn’t make for a good hero.

At the beginning of the series, Mark thought that superhero-ing would be easy, and considering how he was the second most powerful person on Earth without even trying, he had good reason to be smug at the time.

Then his first real challenge happens, Omni-Man’s betrayal, and suddenly he realizes that he’s not really sure how he’s supposed to act. Because of that he gets much of his advice from other people with their own agendas and way of doing things. It constantly conflicts with what Mark thinks being a superhero is supposed to be like.

As the series goes on, he pretty much drops out of school to be a hero full time. He never really found the hero-civilian balance that most other heroes had. He also begins to lose touch with the Earth itself and its people. That’s why Mark decides that he’s just not a hero. He’s just a guy who’s been coasting off his natural talents.

I think your idea of Mark being inconsistent is predicated on the idea that his morality surrounding killing doesn't track. However, if you look at the times he does kill his enemies, his morals are generally consistent. Mark does go back to killing, yes, but he only kills in situations where it's practically necessary from his POV. Mark’s moral journey around killing was not letting it become “excessive”. Moreover, Mark stops becoming a hero in the traditional “comic book” sense, but that doesn't mean he's not heroic and doesn't want to help. He refrains from murdering people unless they are a direct, and especially pressing threat to him or those he cares about.

Mark becomes more of a grey character but is still very much keen on making the world and in turn the universe a better place. His actions by the end of the series illustrate that.

You are omitting a lot of context.

Stuff like how Dinosaurus had literally just killed millions of people, for the second time mind you, and literally tells Mark to kill him now or else he will do it again.

There are differences between killing a defeated enemy that can be safely contained, and killing in the heat of the moment, or killing a defeated but uncontainable enemy

Mark's morality should only be judged on the first case, the others are beyond morality, they are a necessity

People flip flop over time. Laos I do thin Invincible had a theme of characters stepping up to take responsibility and it's impact on them.

I believe arguments could be made for WordGirl to be in the second one (or perhaps as a debatable one), based on some recent Dwarf Star level calcs for her (admittedly involving a bit of shaky scaling)

I like Mark, but I like Hot Rod more, so hearing he wins is cool

I’m digging Invincible vs Radiant Black a LOT more recently, especially with the little short film they put on YT

Charlie is basically featless so it's no surprise that she loses.

He has no Ws because even if he’s stronger than them he will hold back for no logical reason