I thought like this too, until I saw the fight with the granny Viltrumite. Do you know why he was able to defeat her? It wasn’t just because of Nolan convincing Mark to stop holding back, it’s because of his Viltrumite biology. Every time a Viltrumite gets beaten up and recovers, they get stronger. All of Mark’s beatings from S1 through Ep. 3 of S2 lead him to grow strong enough to beat up a veteran Viltrumite.
My understanding is that’s Allen’s thing, Viltrumites don’t get a Zenkai boost. The Viltrumite strength curve is (I think) dependent on age, experience, and genetic lineage.
But also by pushing yourself. In the show Mark complains about having to exercise and Nolan tells him to suck it up. And you are definitely pushing yourself when Battle Beast shows up or your dad forcefully feeds you subway
The viltrumites are like athletes that never get out of shape and in theory any time you survive a fighting experience what you learned in the fight is coded into your dna through powerful memories… so they could either live long and experience surviving multiple fights over 1000’s of years they become stronger orrr you could squeeze many large fights into a one year period to super jump those viltrumites genes
I thought like this too, until I saw the fight with the granny Viltrumite. Do you know why he was able to defeat her? It wasn’t just because of Nolan convincing Mark to stop holding back, it’s because of his Viltrumite biology. Every time a Viltrumite gets beaten up and recovers, they get stronger. All of Mark’s beatings from S1 through Ep. 3 of S2 lead him to grow strong enough to beat up a veteran Viltrumite.
My understanding is that’s Allen’s thing, Viltrumites don’t get a Zenkai boost. The Viltrumite strength curve is (I think) dependent on age, experience, and genetic lineage.
But also by pushing yourself. In the show Mark complains about having to exercise and Nolan tells him to suck it up. And you are definitely pushing yourself when Battle Beast shows up or your dad forcefully feeds you subway
The viltrumites are like athletes that never get out of shape and in theory any time you survive a fighting experience what you learned in the fight is coded into your dna through powerful memories… so they could either live long and experience surviving multiple fights over 1000’s of years they become stronger orrr you could squeeze many large fights into a one year period to super jump those viltrumites genes