You have a mission. Assigned to you by your true people. You will complete it.Anissa ordering Invincible to complete his father's mission in "I'm Not Going Anywhere"
Anissa is a major antagonist in Invincible, serving from Season 2 and onward.
She is a high-ranking Viltrumite warrior and the most powerful female Viltrumite of the Viltrum Empire, dedicated to aiding the Viltrumite mission to make it the only empire in the universe.
Appearance
Anissa is a tall, tan-skinned woman with short, cropped black hair, high cheekbones, and blue eyes. She is considered very beautiful and attractive with slender yet curvaceous frame. At the same time, she sports a toned and well-defined athletic musculature. Like the rest of her race, she wears the traditional Viltrumite outfit, however unlike most, the outfit's front area is colored grey, with the Viltrumite logo of a linear three by three symbol shape cover the circular logo.
Personality
Anissa possesses a captivating blend of beauty and power. While she may be seen as more of a soldier than a warrior, her practical and logical nature is evident. Anissa demonstrates a remarkable level of understanding, striving to be reasonable and compassionate or at least restrained. Attempting to convince Mark that conquest by the Viltrumites would spare the people of Earth from unnecessary suffering and pain all the while securing a prosperous future.
However, beneath her reasonable and perhaps compassionate demeanor, she is still a Viltrumite, and thus, predisposed to use force in response to opposition, to ascertain dominance. She takes it upon herself to "educate" Mark, helping him realize the overwhelming odds he faces. Still, Anissa's disciplined and rational approach sets her apart from the more bloodthirsty Viltrumites. While she shares their ruthless tendencies, she still desires to minimize needless human casualties, hoping to avoid a full-scale massacre in the Viltrum Empire goal to take control of Earth. Yet, for all her mental discipline, honed from centuries of experiences, she finds herself helplessly baffled to Invincible's illogical empathy towards the people of Earth.
Being the proud soldier that she is, Anissa takes great pride in her strength, and was uniquely vexed upon learning that Allen, a Unopan, was able to injure her with relative ease.
Powers & Abilities
Powers
- Viltrumite Physiology: As a Viltrumite, Anissa is an advanced being with extremely potent and well-developed genetics. To which, she eventually manifested a wide array of abilities common among the race. At the same time, ranking among the elites of her race, her powers are considerably more advanced than most others, recognized as the strongest female Viltrumite to ever exist. Based on her bone and muscle density scans, the Global Defense Agency simulation discovered that Invincible had less than 18% chance of simply surviving his first fight against her. Additionally, both Cecil and Donald believed that all of Earth's superheroes combined wouldn't be enough to defeat her.
- Decelerated Aging: Anissa possesses an extraordinarily lifespan. This stems from her body gradually aging slower the longer she lives. From this, it allows her to retain her health, vitality, conditioning, performance, and youthful appearance that much longer. Despite being thousands of years old, she remains a youthful-looking and robust individual who entire performance remains unhindered.
- Dominant Genes: Viltrumite genes are extremely adaptive and powerful. As a Viltrumite, Anissa's genetics are so potent, she can reproduce with almost any other race and her genetics will almost completely overshadow the inherit genetics of the mate, making said offspring almost purely Viltrumite themselves. Likewise, the more naturally compatible the genetics are to the mate's race, the sooner and more likely the offspring will inherit all the standard Viltrumite abilities.
- Flight: Anissa can levitate herself in the air and propel herself in any direction her desires, able to alter her trajectory mid-flight, letting her maneuver seamlessly through various environments. She is also able to fly through space.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Anissa's body is incredibly resilient, allowing her to withstand a wide range of attacks without sustaining any significant harm. She is unfazed by virtually any environment, or lack thereof. She can walk away unscathed from explosions, bullets, and even powerful energy-based assaults.
- Reactive Adaptation: Anissa has a propensity for continual growth and improvement throughout her lifespan. Her physical strength, speed, and durability progressively augment in correlation with the level of adversity she faces or the severity of injuries she recovers from. Moreover, her combat experience fosters an innate ability to assimilate knowledge and insights from past encounters, enabling her to gradually refine her tactics and enhance her efficiency in subsequent engagements.
- Regenerative Healing: Anissa's body can recover from injuries in a day if not mere minutes. She can restore broken bones, torn muscles, damaged organs, even regrow lost anatomy with no lingering signs. Likewise, she is virtually immune to almost all forms of illness and contamination.
- Super Lung Capacity: Anissa possesses the remarkable physiological ability to sustain her breath for extended periods of time, spanning several weeks. This allows her to endure the harshness of space unprotected and make interstellar travel.
- Super Senses: Anissa possesses an exceptional auditory perception surpassing human capabilities, allowing her to discern sounds emanating from considerable distances and selectively drown out specific noises.
- Super Speed: Anissa can move at tremendous speed, able to travel anywhere in the world in mere minutes if not seconds. Her reflexes and reaction time likewise operate at similar speeds. Her speed has even noted to exceed Omni-Man's by a considerable amount.
- Super Stamina: Anissa can sustain physical exertion for prolonged periods of time without showing any signs of exhaustion. She can likewise endure some of the most grievous of injuries that would instantly kill a human, excluding too much hard to the heart or brain. She can go for several weeks without sleep or sustenance unhindered.
- Super Strength: Anissa's strength extends to the ability to lift and press several tons, making her a powerhouse in combat situations. This strength allows her to go toe-to-toe with formidable foes.
Abilities
- Intimidation: Anissa is capable of bringing the strongest of will to their dreaded knees, as proven when Cecil realized from her demonstrated strength that Invincible, the Guardians and all the other superheroes of Earth combined have less than no chance against her, and instead implored Mark to simply pretend to comply to her demands.
- Master Combatant: Despite relying mostly on her natural Viltrumite abilities to defeat opponents, Anissa is a trained warrior, relying on her millennia of experience, which makes her well skilled and formidable in hand-to-hand combatant. Against Invincible, she effortlessly anticipated all of the half-breed's attacks and easily countered with minimal effort, and would have killed him had she not held back.
Weaknesses
- Excessively High Frequency: The effects of high-frequency noise through Viltrumite's ears can be detrimental. It throws off their equilibrium, inhibiting their ability to fly, causing extreme pain, and may even possibly kill them. Depending on how strong the frequency determines that pain of attack.
- Extreme Force: While Viltrumites are among some of the strongest in the universe, they are not completely unstoppable. Viltrumites can be harmed by beings of similar or greater strength as well as powerful enough weapons.
- Scourge Virus: To be added...
Sightings
| Season 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1. "A Lesson For Your Next Life": | Absent | 5. "This Must Come as a Shock": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "In About Six Hours, I Lose My Virginity to a Fish": | Absent | 6. "It's Not That Simple": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "This Missive, This Machination!": | Absent | 7. "I'm Not Going Anywhere": | Debut | |||||||||
| 4. "It's Been a While": | Absent | 8. "I Thought You Were Stronger": | Absent | |||||||||
| Invincible: Atom Eve & Rex Splode: | Absent | |||||||||||
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1. "I Will Be There No Matter What": | Mentioned | 5. "TBA": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "TBA": | Absent | 6. "TBA": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "TBA": | Absent | 7. "TBA": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "TBA": | Absent | 8. "TBA": | Appears | |||||||||
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Trivia
- Anissa is based off of Faora from the DC Comics, and Fasha from Dragon Ball Z.
- All of them have similar appearances: short dark hair, are very unique fighters, and last letter of their name ends with an "a".
- Her physical appearance and build is also similar to two other short dark haired characters: Supergirl from The Flash, played by Sasha Calle and Dr. Anna Ripely from The Legend of Vox Machina.
- There are a few differences between this version of the character and the original comic version:
- In the comics, Anissa has been married four times.
- In the comics, Anissa was born during the Argall Era, it's unknown if this version of the character was also present in that time period.
- In her comic debut, circa issue 44, she threatened Debbie Grayson, rather than Amber Bennett who had broken up with Mark Grayson way before she came to earth, but placed no hands on Debbie and appeared at the university.
- There is a DC comic character called Thunder, real name Anissa Jones, that debuted the same year the Invincible comic run started.
- Ironically, in some cultures, Anissa means joy, grace, pure, and affectionate.