What is Viltrum? And who are the Viltrumites?

In this video, we discuss Viltrum, Omni-Man's home planet.

Some spoilers for both the comic book and the show.

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[FirstNameLastNameHD]

When you think about it, Viltrume is more or less how Krypton would have turned out had it not been destroyed and had a yellow sun

[jonathankent]

The Viltrumites are basically the result of someone saying "What if the Kryptonians from DC were basically space Nazis?"

[tri]

That's a great catch on the philtrum/upper lip thing, I always assumed it was a play on nazis/Hitler but is Mark really stronger than Immortal? It seemed like Mark is very durable due to being a viltrumite but his blows did not seem to hurt Nolan at all. At least Immortal drew blood and War Woman was able to bruise him.

And didn't Allen the Alien fight Nolan before on his first visit to earth that's why he asked Mark where did his stache go? He should've probably figured out Nolan was a viltrumite.

Kinda scary to know that Nolan already knows about the Coalition of Planets, he may warn the other viltrumites about them, that is unless they kill him for abandoning his post. Great video again, love this channel

[Burning-Twilight]

I'm hoping to one day get into the Invincible comic series and then check out the TV show.

But damn this species is a prime example of self destruction.

First they grew power hungry and wanted to force worlds under their boots, leading to a civil war with those who clearly didn't share the same ideals as so many others.

The need to stop this clear threat to universal conquest grew so bad that a member of their own species would rather see basically all his own kind wiped out rather then let them continue with their conquest.

Now barely even 1% of the pure blood species remains and they still are intent on conquest until the bitter end.

If I was a member of the species I would have said screw conquest and just moved on to something more peaceful.

[DepFromDiscord]

Wait, Nolan said that as viltrumites got older, they got stronger, so wouldn’t Thaddeus, guessing by his white hair, be extremely powerful?

[GetCrouchedOnNerd]

They remind me of france with the idea of the "white mans burden" where the french think they have to hold their colonies and think they are helping the "uncivilized" peoples of africa and southeast Asia and the white people gotta stay in power to keep the "lower races" civilized, and thats very racist.

Now we look at the Vultrumite Empire, they are strong and durable, stuff like that. And they live in a very social darwinistic empire(survival of the fittest basicly) they see the lower aliens as "uncivilized" and conqoring them and helping them would keep them civilized, very xenophobic

[LOGAN_BURNS]

I don’t get why mark didn’t go to that alien world where time passes much faster than earth and just age incredible fast, train and return much older, stronger and more powerful so he can take on the viltrumites and his dad 🤷‍♂️

[ziggitywiggity]

The way the scourge virus decimated the viltrumites reminds me a lot about how the saiyans were wiped out. Most of them (99.9%) were on the planet when it happened but those that weren’t there (Nolan from invincible) (Vegeta, Raditz, Nappa, Goku from dragon ball) survived

[tscravenger]

Do you think Viltrumites can become multi-planet to galaxy level if they kept training and aging slower?

[stephenbyrne]

From your description these guys must be infinitely stronger, than Kryptonians.

[g-max]

Omni man is like James Jonah Johnson fused with Superman

[aliefalyansyah]

I'm gonna copy a coment from @IvestedGman

The False Story: Basically Kryptonians
The True Story: Literally Saiyans

[dylanthomas]

O I now you answered my question about sickles forces and what if black sameson was there for the guardain fight but I was kinda hoping you’d make videos on them 🥲

[Unknownstatus_]

I always find funny that many fiction species are so similar with humans, so i always guessed that all of those races have one common ancestor

[Ajgoat]

Basically their version of hitlar won their war

[IrobertHD]

thragg is a discout freddy mercury. i would say if thrag and freddy mercury would have met freddy would have won just by whispering.

[jorge]

I still don't see what the empire gains from conquering other planets if they are so few and so strong

[senister]

Anyone know how many planets were in their empire?

[crimsonbladewielder]

They remind me of alotta aspects of kryptonians and a lil bit of the Sayian race

[WallNutBreaker]

This is what Krypton would've been had they not exploded. Heck, If Superman went on a breeding spree Earth may have become Viltrum. 😂