that random lion

Forgive him father, he knows not what he speaks.

There is no way to know this.

Apparently, they can do just that.

Invincible is much heavier on the flying brick type characters.

Exactly. Thousands of years seems like forever to somebody who can barely live 100. But, if someone is literally immortal in the sense that they cannot die to the ravages of time, thousands of years is nothing to somebody like that.

I guess I’m wondering why it’s so bad to be part of the Viltrum empire

The first thing that you have to keep in mind is that these are people who see every race the encounter as being beneath them. It could even be said that they are what the Nazis thought that they were. Are you going to trust the word of receiving all these society changing boons from a species of warmongers who do not flinch at slaughtering entire planets? From people like that, anything they offer comes with strings attached.

Also, why doesn’t the species of lion guys (like Battle Beast from S1, and I think I saw another lion guy in S2 on that council) just go destroy Viltrum or attack Viltrumite outposts?

Because there is only one of him. Battle Beast is nothing like the rest of his species.

Easy.

Not all bad people are trying to conquer the universe. Some of them are just regular people with bad attitudes and worse morals.

This is exactly why some people just need to keep watching battle Shonen anime and nothing else.

Therapy isn’t a cure or be all end all like reddit makes it out to be.

Also, let’s just assume that his favorite comic book character was real. What are the odds that such a person would show up to his college dorm? The one that he only moved into that very same day. Him out of anybody else in the world who reads that character. Mark is not the smartest guy in the world, but even he saw that for what it was.

Debbie is literally the only character who sees Cecil for what he is. He’ll say anything to get somebody on his side or to placate them if he believes he can benefit from it. No, I’m not saying that Cecil is this diabolical villain, but, he’s a liar and will continue to lie if he thinks it will help his cause of protecting the Earth. And the thing is, Cecil is never going to apologize for that.

The simple answer is, Nolan got comfortable. He liked being a superhero and a father. It allowed him to explore parts of himself that had been repressed by Viltrumite society.

We already saw in the Atom Eve episode that Nolan was considering doing something drastic to his family, but the moment he considered it, he immediately felt ashamed. 

Exactly. We have to keep in mind that these people truly believe in the survival of the fittest, and they apply the same logic to their own lives. Ruthlessness and loyalty to the Empire are the only thing that matter.

Lucan may have been down, but he was not out, and with a very last bit of his strength he proved his veteranhood by doing what was expected of him. Completing the mission.

That is how you get accolades with these people, and that is how you have to earn your place in their society.

He did it to himself.

No, he is just the first one who took a pioneering step into nreaking away from his people’s societal norms.

Debbie and Mark undid some of the programming in him, so to speak.

Nolan got comfortable, unintentionally. He ended up liking being a husband and a superhero and basically went native.

When Mark got his powers, it was a wake up call to remind Nolan its time to stop playing house.

I think OP completely missed the point of that conversation.

Newsflash.

Grayson isn’t exactly the most Korean name, either.

It wasn’t within a few months the thing that you have to keep in mind is that Viltrumites have the exact same range of emotions as humans. But, what with the way their society Works, they are conditioned from a young age to only acknowledge ruthlessness and loyalty to the Empire. Nothing else.

We see in flashbacks that Nolan was still a little bit emotionally closed off when it came to Mark when he was a child, but he eventually started opening up and acknowledging the feelings that he had never been allowed to experience among his own people.

And when he and whenever he’s confronted about caring about something that does not fall in line with what he has been taught his entire life, he doesn’t even know how to vocalize it because it’s a feeling so alien to him.

Garth Ennis hates capeshit and he used this as an excuse to carry out his revenge fantasy on fictional people.

I have to agree with this. It’s cool that he just does not really care for traditional superheroes all like that, but let’s just keep it real, it’s pretty clear that Garth goes out of his way to put these kinds of characters through a meat grinder out of sheer pettiness.