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| “ | You know... We talked a lot, the other versions of us, when we were stranded in that dimension alone... Before we started eating each other. We talked a lot about what turned us. A few of us... our fathers raised us to take over. The rest... there was something else that turned us... opened our eyes to who we really were. I'm guessing that hasn't happened to you yet. You haven't yet realized how different you are from the people of this planet. How stupid it is for you to waste any time protecting them, fighting for them... without getting anything in return. When they could be worshipping you. | „ |
| ~ Mohawk Mark's philosophy, as he explains it to the mainstream Mark. |
Markus Sebastian "Mark" Grayson, also known Invincible or "Mohawk Mark" is a supporting antagonist in Invincible and a minor antagonist in The Astounding Wolf-Man.
In his dimension, Mark was a little more "dettached" from human life in comparison to his mainstream counterpart, which made it easier for his father to convince him to "help" the world by allowing the Viltrum Empire to occupate it. After an unknown series of events, though presumably related to his bloodline's secrets and the absence of both his father and Thragg, Mark became the emperor of Viltrum. In his ambition for more power, he was approached by Angstrom Levy to spread his empire into countless other worlds in exchange to ruin one of his counterpart's reputation.
He, alongside the other 8 Alternate Mark Graysons remaining, were betrayed by Angstrom and left stranded in a wasteland dimension, where only two of them would survive: him, and the worst of them. After finally escaping, Mohawk Mark attempted to use Levy's powers for himself, only to be murdered by the mainstream Robot.
Biography[]
Background[]
It's implied that Mohawk Mark's backstory is extremely similar to the Mainstream Mark's, with the exception that he had a more cynical and dettached outlook at human life and his personal social bonds, implying that he was somewhere in the antisocial personality disorder spectrum.
When Omni-Man approached him about joining the Viltrum Empire, Mark didn't refuse it and joined his father. He went to the Teen Team base (which implies that the original Guardians of the Globe line-up was still active by then) and offered them a position to join the Empire, which he genuinely expected them to accept. Out of all of them, only Eve partially considered it, but everyone ultimately refused. Mark slaughtered each and every one of the Teen Team members, for the exception of Robot, who faked his death as his identity as Rudolph Conners was yet not known.
Following an unrevealed series of events, the Viltrumites arrived to Earth and started occupying it. Mark assumed the position of Emperor of the Viltrum Empire, presumably due to his royal blood and the absence of Omni-Man and Thragg. It's revealed that he had spared several human women and kept them to fill in the void that Eve's death left in his life by dressing them to look like her.
Invincible War[]
Mohawk Mark was recruited by the mainstream Angstrom Levy to ruin the reputation of the Mark Grayson of his dimension and, in exchange, Levy would help Mohawk Mark expand his Empire across all dimensions. Naturally, he accepted the offer and was among the wave of 16 Alternate Mark Graysons that stormed the mainstream Image Comics universe. On the first day of the invasion, he would go to Chicago, where he attacked and decimated Stronghold Penitentiary, freeing several supervillains and Gary Hampton the Wolf-Man in the process. Thankfully, the Mainstream Invincible arrived to the scene and fought with Mohawk Mark. Invincible questioned his counterpart as to who brought them here, but Mohawk Mark did not yield and instead pointed out how ashamed he is to see a "lesser version of him." Invincible knocks him out, but his new costume makes the Capes Inc. to confuse him by another alternate Mark, which allows Mohawk Mark to escape.
On the second day of the invasion, Mohawk Mark is seen destroying the Empire State Building, and is later seen finishing the job by decimating New York City by the third day of the invasion. After the 8 remaining Alternate Invincibles left the world in ruins, Levy calls for a regroup over the Grayson's home. Once there, Mohawk Mark notices that he was nowhere around and impatiently asks what was taking so long, only for Levy to show up through a portal seconds later saying that he prefers to make dramatic entrances. Levy asks the Marks for one last favor: to bring the Mark Grayson of this world and let him disfigure him as retribution.
One of the Marks refuses, saying that the plan was already stupid as it is and that going forward with it was going to left them wiped out before he can keep his end of the deal. Angstrom, disappointed at how they could see through his plan, pushes the remaining Marks into portals to a Wasteland dimension, leaving them to die.
Returning Home[]
During their time on the Wasteland Dimension, the Marks would talk about what turned them evil. Mohawk Mark came to the realization that it must be in their nature to be evil, and that it only must take one bad event to "open their eyes" to that nature.
As the days became months, the Marks started to get hungrier and hungrier. Until one day, a particularly Sinister version of them suggested to resort to cannibalism to keep themselves alive. Mohawk Mark helped Sinister Mark eat the first guy, as he claimed he hated him so much that it was impossible not to want to kill him. He even didn't want to eat him because of how much he hated him. This cycle of eating the weakest and most annoying Mark kept going until they were reduced to just two Marks: Sinister Mark and him.
Years later, on Angstrom's third battle with Invincible, he sends him to that very same Wasteland dimension he used to trap the Alternate Marks. In there, finding Sinister Mark feasting on the Viltrumite Mark's remains. After a confrontation between the two, Mohawk Mark comes to his mainstream counterpart's aid by beating Sinister Mark to death, showing clear resentment towards him because of the things he made him do. Just as Sinister Mark died, a now regretful Angstrom Levy opened up a portal, allowing both of them to escape. Levy apologizes to both Marks and opens up a portal to Mohawk Mark's world, only to be pulled in by him.
Back on his Empire, Mohawk Mark defeated Angstrom Levy and tried to torture him into cooperation to no avail. Mark kept him alive enough for his scientists to "pull out" his powers away from him.
Just months later, the Mainstream Invincible and Robot appeared on his world and were scorted to him by Conquest. Mohawk Mark welcomed them with open arms, having come to trust Invincible after he helped him back home. Invincible asks him for Levy's whereabouts, to which Mohawk Mark finds understandable. As he takes them both to the laboratory, he goes on a rant about what he believes is their true nature, and how it would only take one event to make him snap and be an Emperor just as insidious as he is. Mohawk Mark then shows them the mangled state of Angstrom and reveals his plans for him. Robot, having learned how much of a menace to his future plans Invincible could be, uses a frequency attack to throw off both Mark's equilibrium, then kills Mohawk Mark and his scientists through a bomb that burrowed itself through his esophagus, destroying him from the inside. Robot then finishes off Angstrom, leaving Invincible stranded in this dimension.
Legacy[]
Invincible used Mohawk Mark's costume to pretend to be him as he conspired with Mohawk Robot and the Mauler a way to get out of this dimension.
Later on, he was completely replaced by Mohawk Robot, who exchanged his mind to a clone of Invincible.
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Trivia[]
- This is the Alternate Mark Grayson with the most appearances, having appeared in 4 issues.
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