

His true heritage was hidden from records in order to hide him from Viltrumite enemies. Nolan was too young to remember anything about his father. When he was very young, his father was killed by a turncoat, who no longer believed in the Viltrumites' violent ways.

His father, Argall, was the Viltrumites' leader. One moment you have a guy blitzing an entire civilization, who cant even take down a Kaiju (which i honestly think only exists to thicken the plot when Mark arrives).Nolan Grayson was an alien Viltrumite born on their planet Viltrum. If there is anything to debate, its really their consistency, which honestly when debating Invincible its understandably hard to convince anyone otherwise. Not to mention the plethora of characters who are lightspeed but make conversations. The other details, like sound we should skim, because it would make a lot less sense if it were anywhere that speed or slower. If the defining feat itself is them "throwing a baseball around the globe" we should take it as it is. Which is why we honestly shouldn't be so stingy when debating fictional characters. What's really important is defining parts within the feats. Its really hard for anything in fiction to make 100% sense. The scene doesn't really make sense in general, which is unfortunate. Nolan and Mark somehow hear it arrives, so it's.slower than sound? Which doesn't really make sense. Its the fact they were casually playing baseball by throwing it around the globe, and it would be weird if it stayed afloat for an entire hour within their conversation, which is still hundreds or thousands of times the speed of sound. I am not saying that to all feats though, sometimes visual representation helps and gives us a clear idea of whats going on.īut in this particular scene, the most important context isn't whats happening around it. Its not all the time the context of the feat is represented 100% accurate to what it looks visually, just so we can see whats happening or add flair to it. In terms of consistency being able to do that is weird, but its speed relative to surroundings are details we can skim. Normal people also react to the baseball, iirc.

So unless we conclude those mundane things were also ridiculously hypersonic, that method seems a bit disingenuous. When it's circling the globe, we see it's speed relative to its surroundings, Guess you could compare how fast Nolan/Mark's arms are moving on-screen, compared to the baseball, but that's also a bit weird? But R1 is rather baseball went really far really quick, but because it went so far, they still have several seconds to react. Well, in R2 Metro Man might underestimate Nolan and not use his speed right off the bat. I don’t really think either can win via orthodox methods. Even the Flaxan-planet explosions would appear in slow-mo to the guy. Thinking about it, I don’t think taking Metro Man out by collateral is gonna happen either. Maybe in R1 Metro Man could toss Nolan far into space (he can clearly move his arms well above escape velocity), before he has a chance to take a breath? But that scenario means Nolan’s flight speed would be useful. Still, Nolan’s higher-end physical feats are a hard boundary. It’d kinda hurt the story if Mark could actually react at ridiculous hypersonic speeds at this point.
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Plus there’s tension when people were gonna fall into lava during the Doc Seismic fight. Else Mark could’ve let go of the building and saved the mother and child with time to spare. Enough to blitz normal people at least.īut yeah, I don’t particularly think Viltrumites are all that fast in-combat. Not nearly as impressive as their flight speed obviously, but it’s something. Nolan showcased some ‘Mark is too slow to hit me if I try’ stuff in episode 8.
