Angstrom Levy is the secondary antagonist of Invincible, debuting as the main antagonist of Season 2 and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Conquest) of Season 3.
He was a brilliant human with the ability to traverse throughout 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 nearly 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 Invincible variants to start a devastating war on Earth. However, 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. He now works with the Technicians as a reluctant ally in their own plans utilizing his powers.
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 Levy, from the main universe, began as a pacifist. He thought his ability to travel between realities was a gift, and he wanted to save the multiverse, one universe at a time. His plan was extreme, though, as he gathered alternate versions of himself and merged their memories into his own. He did not approve of killing, and he was willing to risk himself to protect others, even giving up his grand plan to save Invincible from the Mauler Twins.
Even while he tried to act in good faith, Angstrom could be desperate. He promised the Mauler Twins their own reality as a reward, and he used them to build a machine for his vision of a perfect multiverse. That willingness to use villains showed both his sincerity and his moral blind spots. At times he recruited dangerous variants to delay heroes, showing that his methods could slip from principled to ruthless when the goal felt urgent.
After his disfigurement, everything changed. The flood of other memories clouded his mind and left it unstable. He saw endless versions of Invincible wreaking death and destruction, and he could no longer tell which memories were truly his. Angstrom came to blame the Invincible he knew for the accident.
The new Angstrom kept his intelligence, but it became colder and more deceptive. He tricked a defeated variant of Invincible into giving him information, and he began to use people without regard for their lives. Where he had once avoided bloodshed, he later welcomed dangerous allies and was willing to let mass destruction happen if it would ruin the mainstream Invincible.
Many variants already hated Invincible before the accident, which fed into the final, fractured Angstrom. His 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 believes that Invincible would always become a villain, no matter the universe. This is taken to such an extent that he almost killed Debbie Grayson in a fit of rage when his views were challenged.
After his first defeat and the start of the Invincible War, Angstrom became even more depraved. He no longer cared who he hurt or used to get revenge. He recruited evil versions of Invincible, allowed them to wreak havoc, and worked to destroy the heroic reputation of the mainstream Invincible, so the world would fear and despise him.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- 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 variants, 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 is currently in.
- Spatial Limitation: Additionally, Angstrom is only able to open portals to different versions of the space he is 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 a 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; he attempted to escape but was subdued by his new cybernetics which they had given him.
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.
- 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 own variants across other universes, he was driven insane. He believed that the Invincible of the mainstream dimension was responsible for all the suffering his villainous variants actually caused.
