Angstrom Levy is the secondary antagonist of Invincible, serving as the main antagonist of Season 2 and one of the main antagonists of Season 3.
He was a brilliant human with the ability to traverse through out different dimensions. Seeing all the possible realities the multiverse held, he sought to pacifically innovate and save his reality by gaining the knowledge from his alternate selves. His noble plan would go awry when Invincible intervened, unwittingly disfiguring him and granting the fallen pacifist the memories of all his alternate selves. Driven insane, Levy became obsessed in his quest of vengeance against Invincible.
During his reckoning, Levy attempted to assassinate Debbie and Oliver Grayson, but was defeated by Invincible in a battle across the multiverse until he was himself killed by his arch-nemesis. However, he was saved by The Technicians, whom he teamed up with to exact revenge and bring forth a team of evil Invincibles to begin a devastating war on Earth, though his plans were ruined when the Invincibles turned on him and, defeated by Invincible himself, Levy was amputated and punished by the Technicians for failing to keep their deal.
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Appearance[]
Before his accident, Angstrom Levy's physical appearance was that of a tall, slender, African-American man who wore a blue button down shirt and black pants, having a black goatee and brown eyes.
After his accident, most of his hair was burned off, and the entirety of his skull and back were grotesquely enlarged with a pinkish vein from the middle of his head to his spine, almost resembling a gigantic brain. In the following episode, he was seen wearing a dark cloak with cybernetic enhancements, such as a machine to support his spine and a nasal annular, all of which most likely act as a life support system.
When he returned to see Invincible, Angstrom is wearing a formal black and red suit that he bought from another dimension.
Upon being repaired by the Technicians, Angstrom's appearance was significantly altered. He acquired several cybernetic implants, notably around his head, and his now sported a large facial scar with one of his eyes being blinded. For attire, Angstrom now wore a black suit with silver armor, and a red cape.
Personality[]
Angstrom's plan.
At first, Angstrom Levy of the main universe was more of a pacifist, as he said to the Mauler Twins prior to his disfigurement. His chosen method to save all worlds and not just his own, however, was quite extreme, involving gathering alternate versions of himself and transferring their memories into himself.
Angstrom's plan to save reality comes to a dramatic end.
He did not condone destruction and murder, and nearly gave his life and sacrificed his grand plan to save Invincible from dying at the hands of the alternate Mauler Twins. He considered his ability to transport to other realities a gift, and wanted to save the multiverse by using the knowledge from his other selves - one universe, therein, at a time. He would also give the Mauler Twins their own reality as a reward for their service showing his good faith towards people he aligned himself with. Despite that, he is shown to be desperate at times of completing his goals like using the twins, who are certified villains, to build a machine for his "utopia", noting that "no one else" qualifies, then also summoning other villainous Mauler Twins from other realities in hopes of delaying Invincible's destruction of the machine.
You will reap what you sow.
After his disfigurement, Angstrom Levy's mind became unstable and due to the new memories clouding his mind, he blamed Invincible for the accident. He had countless memories of different Invincibles slaughtering people close to him and was no longer able to tell the difference between the memories of his variants and his own. His new goal became to exact vengeance on the Invincible that did this to him.
The new Angstrom was shown to have developed some more ruthless and malicious traits unlike his original pacifistic self. He was also shown to be intelligent and deceptive, such as when he manipulated a defeated variant of Invincible into providing information.
It is interesting to note that prior to the accident, one of the Angstrom's variants despised Invincible and expressed hatred of him along with his father as well. This Angstrom wished to bring justice if not vengeance down on the Invincible, and likely many other variants had the same goal. He was shown reacting with anger to the main Invincible when he arrives to stop the machine, being unaware that this variant is a hero, and somewhat foreshadowing the views of the final amalgamated Angstrom.
Angstrom's personal desire for vengeance for his disfigurement, paired with the shattered memories of his many alternate selves, makes him deluded against Invincible and even his family. He specifically targeted this variant of Invincible despite being one of few if not the only one that is not a villain. Angstrom apparently believes that Invincible will always become a villain, no matter what reality he is from and this is taken to such an extent that he almost killed Debbie Grayson in a fit of rage when his views on this universe's Invincible were challenged.
Following his first defeat by Invincible and the initiation of the Invincible War, Angstrom has seemingly become even more depraved and ruthless. He no longer cares who he must use or hurt in order to exact his vengeance on Invincible.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Angstrom transports Invincible from his neighborhood in the middle of the night to far up in the sky in broad daylight.
- Dimensional Travel: Angstrom was born with the ability to open traversable portals between his own dimension and parallel realities. Angstrom is able to use this to great effect in battle, opening portals to disorient and trap his targets.
- Enhanced Body: Following the incident that left him disfigured, he had the best doctors from multiple dimensions rebuild his body and improve various factors. The reconstructive surgery enhanced Levy's durability to superhuman levels. He was unhurt when Deborah Grayson broke a flowerpot on his head and even allowed him to survive the most maiming of injuries caused by an enraged Invincible, although he was still in a critical state that required immediate surgery.
- Superhuman Strength: Reconstructive surgery enhanced Angstrom's strength to superhuman levels. He was seen to effortlessly snap one of Debbie's wrists like a twig and was able to wound a weary Invincible with his powerful blows.
Abilities[]
- Genius-level intelligence: Angstrom Levy is incredibly intelligent; his intellect is on par with, or perhaps in excess of, most of Earth's brightest minds, due to absorbing the intellects of his alternate dimension counterparts, many of whom were geniuses in their own individual fields. However, he admits there are limits to his counterparts' expertise, prompting him to recruit the Maulers in the first place.
- Knife Throwing: Angstrom Levy carried at least one knife with him and was able to throw it quickly and accurately at Debbie and Oliver Grayson.
Equipment[]
- Spy Drone Orbs: Angstrom somehow acquired orb-like drones, that were deployed and equipped to spy on Invincible and his loved ones. These drones were also built for combat and could be used to hit opponents by ramming into them.
- Cybernetic Right Arm: After his right arm was cut off by his own portal when Invincible grabbed him, the Technicians built him a new cybernetic arm.
Weaknesses[]
- Limited Reach: Despite being able to traverse dimensions, he is unable to open portals with a terminus that leads to the same dimension that he's currently in.
- Spatial Limitation: Additionally, Angstrom is only able to open portals to different versions of the space he's occupying, showcased when he broke the Mauler Twins out of prison using a universe where the Global Defense Agency was destroyed.
- Visual Limitation: Angstrom is not always capable of seeing what is on the other side of the portal, showcased when he stuck his head through a portal while fighting Invincible in an attempt to locate him.
- Mental Instability: Due to an incident, Angstrom now has the memories of numerous alternate versions of himself. This has caused him to think more irrationally, being unable to differentiate what are and are not his own memories.
- Technicians: After getting rebuilt by the Technicians, Angstrom is now under their control. This is seen as the Technicians refused to obey Angstrom; Angstrom trying to escape but was subdued by his new cybernetics which they had given him.
Sightings[]
| Season 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1. "A Lesson For Your Next Life": | Debut | 5. "This Must Come as a Shock": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "In About Six Hours, I Lose My Virginity to a Fish": | Appears | 6. "It's Not That Simple": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "This Missive, This Machination!": | Absent | 7. "I'm Not Going Anywhere": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "It's Been a While": | Mentioned | 8. "I Thought You Were Stronger": | Appears | |||||||||
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1. "You're Not Laughing Now": | Mentioned | 5. "This Was Supposed To Be Easy": | Mentioned | |||||||||
| 2. "A Deal With The Devil": | Mentioned | 6. "All I Can Say Is I'm Sorry": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "You Want A Real Costume, Right?": | Appears | 7. "What Have I Done?": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "You Were My Hero": | Absent | 8. "I Thought You'd Never Shut Up": | Appears | |||||||||
Trivia[]
- Angstrom is based on The Leader.
- Angstrom Levy was confirmed in season 2, and portrayed as Mark's second major foe in the show, with the first being Omni-Man.
- Angstrom is also the fourth major character possessing high intelligence, the others being are the Mauler Twins, Robot, and Atom Eve.
- He is the second antagonist in Invincible to use portals, the first being the Flaxans.
- Angstrom is also the name of a unit of length, equal to one ten-billionth of a meter (10⁻¹⁰ m or 0.0000000001 m).
- It is used to express wavelengths and interatomic distances. Hydrogen atoms are believed to be roughly one angstrom in diameter.
- Angstrom Levy appears in the first Season 2 trailer alongside another version of himself, wearing a dark sweatshirt and hood to cover his face. This was meant to foreshadow his two appearances in the show.
Angstrom Levy and another version of himself as seen in a trailer for season 2.
- Also in the first Season 2 key trailer poster, three Angstrom Levy's can been seen, one next to the Mauler Twins, another with Bulletproof, and the last one with Donald, albeit with different clothing and facial hair.
- Angstrom Levy is the first antagonist to have a misguided vendetta for Invincible, another is Powerplex. It seems both he and Powerplex have selective memory,
- Powerplex hates Invincible as he believes he is responsible for the murder of his family during Omni-Man and Invincible’s fight that resulted in Chicago's destruction, when Invincible was actually doing his best to protect people while fighting Omni-Man. He later refuses to accept his own role in the deaths of his wife and son during his fight with Invincible.
- As for Angstrom, after he gained the memories of his variants across other universes, he was driven insane and believed that the Invincible of the mainstream dimension was responsible for the suffering his variants actually caused.
