Flaxan Leader

The Flaxan Leader is a green-skinned alien marked by six antennae and black eyes with yellow, vertical pupils. In the first invasion he looks like any rank-and-file soldier, clad in a blue jumpsuit and plain white armor covering the chest, groin, shoulders, knees, and feet.

By the second assault his rise in station is obvious. The old armor shows wear, a red cape trimmed in white fur now hangs from his shoulders, and his body has aged into paler, more wrinkled skin, one antenna gone and a long jagged scar splitting his face where Invincible struck him. For the third attack he is grayer and older still, no longer fighting on foot but piloting a massive armored mech, his fur-collared cape enlarged to match the war machine.

The Leader is far crueler than the rest of his kind, sadistic and merciless. In his first outing he grins coldly while moving to kill a defenseless old woman and yanks a subordinate out of a tank without any regard for the man's safety. His defeats breed obsession; he grows colder and hunts Invincible through the people the hero loves, even trying to murder Atom Eve to wound him. By the final invasion his brutality peaks as he beats a weakened Invincible and snarls at him to die, and his arrogance leaves him refusing to retreat even against Omni-Man's overwhelming power. As a commander he shows real tactical cunning, tailoring countermeasures to his enemies' strengths and weaknesses.

The Leader's early life is a blank beyond his start as an ordinary Flaxan soldier. During the first invasion he tries to kill an elderly civilian, but Invincible intervenes, hurling debris hard enough to maim his eye and antenna and carve half his face. The Flaxans then begin aging rapidly thanks to the time gap between their world and Earth, forcing a retreat, though the soldier withdraws with a hateful glare.

He returns older and promoted to lead the second invasion, his forces now armed with advanced countermeasures. When Invincible is briefly pinned, the Leader goes after a downed Atom Eve, which enrages the hero into breaking loose and smashing the Leader's wristband; without it he ages fast again, and the Teen Team drives the Flaxans off once more. For the third invasion he comes back in a powerful mech and overpowers Invincible directly, taunting the beaten hero until Omni-Man arrives and knocks him aside.

With their weapons useless against Omni-Man, the Flaxan forces panic, but their commander refuses to flee and orders his soldiers to hold. Omni-Man singles him out, tackling him through the closing dimensional portal and trapping him in the Flaxan realm. There Omni-Man declares that Earth is not his to conquer and overwhelms him utterly, smashing him through buildings and tearing through the cities until only a shard of his skull remains, which Omni-Man crushes before laying waste to the entire dimension.