In the very first episode Nolan seemed to go back and forth about Mark getting powers. And when mark finally did, Nolan’s response at the dinner table was disappointment/unhappiness until Debbie kicked his leg.
Might be a dumb question and I might be overlooking somethin obvious, but could someone shed some light on that for me?
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Because it meant mark would live for a very long time, and would only get stronger as time went on, so he knew that he had to start taking ivermectin earth ASAP, he was likely quite happy how things were and so was probably waiting for mark and his pet to die (as well as Cecil imo) before taking over. Mark gaining powers ruins that.
Because it meant his quiet easy life on Earth was over and he had to return to his Viltrumite Mission. I think from that moment on he just kind of switches off the part of his brain that cares because he catches his own disappointment and knows it runs counter to what he thinks he has to do. He’s in denial how important his life on Earth is to him, and when he first finds out we see his real gut reaction for just a second before he pushes it down and sets out to fulfill his mission.
He wanted to wait until his loving family was dead to get to work, because he was actually enjoying himself. Mark with powers means that isn’t going to happen.
“Damn, now I gotta kill my friends and family. Fuck.”
“wait, why am I upset at this? I’m a viltrumite. These people are nothing. Right? Right… Right? Fuck”
This question now makes me think I should go through the first season again. I forgot about that moment entirely.
It’s an internal dilemma. If Mark didn’t get his powers, Omni-Man would’ve gone along with his plan but once Mark got his powers that changed the game
His work phone rang while he was only on day two of a long vacation.
Nolan, for all his gusto, really enjoyed life on earth and he realized in that moment that he had to return to his “real life” and kill this place he was really fond off.
I think his original plan was just to wait 100-200 years for Debbie, Mark, any grandkids he’s closed to, etc to die of old age before kick starting the take over earth part of his job. Once Mark got his powers, it’s no longer an option
Just gonna take a personal vacation for a few hundred years before I get back to the office and put in some hours.
Yea like everyone else has said, this revelation brings so much of Viltrumite Nolan back. >! He knows now that Earth is a suitable candidate for a repopulation effort, as well as general feelings of duty and pride, which have snapped him out of his little life he has built. Definitely drastically affects him and his clear mood shift that begins to take over during the rest of the season until we see the culmination of what he is supposed to be all about vs what he has evolved to. !<
It’s a combo of A) he hadn’t really educated Mark on Viltrumite history and the mission and now he knows Mark is invested in his humanity, and B) he had to actually start undermining Earth’s defenses which meant killing heroes and betraying the family he’s come to love.
If he wasn’t so infatuated with the life he had built on earth would he have told mark about his viltrumite heritage earlier?
Probably not. Even though Viltrumites are generally assholes they usually love their kids and want the best for them. If Mark never got his powers, the hundred years of waiting for Mark to die would have just been a blip of a vacation for Nolan. There’d be no point in telling Mark that Viltrumites are evil conquerors because it would just hurt him, and it’s easy enough to wait him out.
Everyone hit the nail on the head but I would also add that because it took so long for mark to get his powers it meant that getting mark on his side was also going to be tricky. Mark wasn’t an impressionable dumb kid who can be molded into what he needed him to be.
Because he knew that he had to restart his plans. He was, weirdly, perfectly happy with the idea that humans were incompatible.
It was more so conflicting for him
I think a really good representation of what he was going through would have been on par with Reiner in attack on titan
Especially with how he internalized everything and almost had a split personality
His programming kicked in, but he didn’t want to lose what he had
The prevailing theory is that after 20 years of living on earth there was a part of Nolan that wanted Mark to stay powerless so he could give up on the plan and continue life as normal
Or post pone it
He wasn’t able to pretend he forgot his mission anymore.