Comic Spoilers: >! Mark’s little brother, who’s established to be weaker than Mark, was able to rip the Maulers apart like wet tissue paper when he was still a child!<

So Mark definitely could have taken the Maulers if he wasn’t holding back.

All it takes is an unfortunate health event that leaves you unable to perform the same quality of work you used to do for the company to drop you and then you’re out of the benefits you once had.

Short and long-term disability are both common in the US.

For example, I once had to take about a month off work after surgery. I received short term disability payments for the entire time I was out of work, my job was there for me when I recovered, and I kept my health insurance the entire time.

But, Viltrumite biology gets stronger as you they age, so eventually, those other unique factors just slowly vanish, until you look like you were always a pure Viltrumite.

!Aren’t the Thraxa/Viltrumite hybrids way weaker than Mark or other full blooded Viltrumites? They’re pretty much cannon fodder at the end!<

True, Invincible goes so far beyond just being a story about Superman if he were a dick.