He’s what? 18? Basically nothing in viltrumite timeframe.
Literally gets dominated by Lucan using one finger.
Then he gets his ass beat by Thula, who has hundreds of years of experience minimum, mind you viltrumites get stronger with age, aaand somehow a pep talk allows him to almost kill her? What? Mind you, in the comics this Thula threw down with Battle Beast and walked away alive
That’s exactly what was happening in ep 4. Nolan helped in the beginning but then mark beat the shit out of her solo and was to win untill he hesitated. Anything else is a speculation, unless you’re blind or can’t comprehend simple things.