We really don’t know what variables changed to make our Mark variant… so variant.
We do know that Mark got his powers quite later than expected. In the Atom Eve special, it seems Omni-Mann was expecting Mark to already have powers by the time he was six or seven.
I suspect this may have been the big difference. If Mark got his powers even just five years earlier, he’d have far less human socialization, no young adult relationships, and have far more time to be indoctrinated. It’s no big deal for Omni-Man to wait out an extra decade given his lifespan, but a late-bloomer Mark is a Mark who gets extra time to appreciate the world of humans and human relationships.
We really don’t know what variables changed to make our Mark variant… so variant.
We do know that Mark got his powers quite later than expected. In the Atom Eve special, it seems Omni-Mann was expecting Mark to already have powers by the time he was six or seven.
I suspect this may have been the big difference. If Mark got his powers even just five years earlier, he’d have far less human socialization, no young adult relationships, and have far more time to be indoctrinated. It’s no big deal for Omni-Man to wait out an extra decade given his lifespan, but a late-bloomer Mark is a Mark who gets extra time to appreciate the world of humans and human relationships.