Ignite the Invincible

Spanning both centuries and dimensions, this arc follows the brothers Dropkick and Fightmaster as they cross time to find a weapon against a despot and to recruit an unwilling Invincible into their cause. The ruler they hunt turns out to be a far-future version of The Immortal, a leader whose mind has decayed into cruelty. The event weaves together a modern museum heist, a ruined Paris date, and a grim vision of the world Mark could one day inherit.

Generations from now, Invincible has broken the Viltrum Empire and toppled its ruler, only to be crowned emperor himself while battling a virus he eventually survives. Choosing family over the throne, he departs Earth with Eve and their children, handing stewardship to The Immortal. That trust curdles. Though the ancient hero starts steady, his sanity frays, and soon he runs slave camps and endless wars until a resistance forms against him. Dropkick and Fightmaster enlist after their mother is taken and likely slain by the ruler they call the King.

The brothers learn that ink drawn from the Declaration of Independence could poison him. Back in 2024, Rex Splode and Mark stop thieves led by Multi-Paul from stealing the document at the Archive Building, but the future pair slip away with it, and their poison attempt fails. When Mark and Eve are enjoying Paris, the brothers interrupt to beg Mark's help; he refuses, so they haul him into the future. There the trio is seized by the King's guards, and Mark finally faces the ruler: The Immortal, overjoyed to see him yet desperate to die. Blaming Mark for the sickness and the crown that ruined him, the King attacks and even chokes the brothers, until Invincible grants his plea and tears his head from his body.

Fightmaster and Dropkick thank Mark, but he is left shaken by having killed a man he once counted as a friend. The brothers insist the tyrant was no longer the hero he had been, and that the killing set things right. As mechanical guards power down, an announcement declares the people free, and Mark is sent home to watch civilians pour from the prison camps, celebrating the fall of their King. Returning to his own era, Mark confesses to Eve what he was forced to do. She reasons that The Immortal likely felt his time had come, and she treats the emperor tale as one of many alternate selves that need never come to pass. Eve promises they will face whatever comes together, adding that she would beat him herself if he ever turned to the Empire, a vow that foreshadows later clashes with evil Invincibles.