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I think a better explanation is that Omni-man just snitched. Machine Head would never admit that he knew just because Omni-man told him, so we really would not know from that character whether or not he was actually telling the truth about having thought ahead. In fact, acting this way would be in his best interest by all margins. But I'm pretty sure they don't explain how he actually managed to get in contact with Battle Beast for a reason.

Omni-man being the mastermind behind the whole fight makes everything make much more sense.

From Machine Head's perspective, he gets to look incredibly smart and gets to send a message to anyone who would challenge him.

From Omni-man's never wanted Invincible to do this to begin with, and especially doesn't like the idea that his son is already ignoring him to go help random locals (remember he's being prepared to fight for Viltrum at the moment). So Omni-man, wanting to send a message, let's Machine Head know about this guy, finds him, and Machine Head teleports him in. Omni-man is the one who promised Battle Beast worthy opponents, because Omni-man is the one character who might have actually known who Battle Beast was and where to find him. He also has the benefit of killing the strongest members of the New Guardians. So it all worked out for him as well. And he'd never reveal this to Mark......why would he?

And Battle Beast is just a walking can of kicking ass. He only really tries to kill the people who do any damage to him whatsoever, outside of when he sees that Mark would kill the local guys. A subtheory of mine is that Black Samson got his powers back when he abandoned his suit, it was a mental lock not physical. And Battle Beast doesn't even attempt to kill any of the Guardians who didn't at least have super strength because he came purely to fight for honor.

We know that Omni-man was likely the reason for the Anonymous call, and it would make sense that he'd want Battle Beast to kill at least one of the strongest ones, since that would then provide an alternate suspect to who could kill the guardians. But Omni-man was watching from the beginning, and we just assumed he didn't say or do anything other than make that call.

It would also explain why Omni-man just watches as Battle Beast nearly kills Mark, but not actually kills him. Everyone acts like Omni-man would just stand aside because he couldn't beat Battle Beast, but at no point before or after this does Nolan just watch someone nearly kill Mark. I think he just talked to Battle Beast into just beating him up, and that's why BB tells him "killing you is an act of mercy."

He was both talking shit and also knew the real train that was coming towards the man, and that's just the beginning.

There are three specific points in Mark's life that primarily make him a good person with his powers. Him getting his powers at the time he did, Omniman's willingness to train him, and Debbie keeping him grounded.

The series establishes that Mark got his powers really late, but we actually don't know when Viltrumites get their powers. Omniman mentions that even the latest Viltrumites get their powers at 18, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all Viltrumites get their powers at 18, just that's who is left. We know from Omniman's backstory that his parents essentially jump him on his day of adulthood, so it's entirely possible that all Viltrumites get their powers by the time they become an adult....because none else are allowed to survive. Omniman is just assuming 18 because that's when humans become one on his world. Even the small children have no parents watching them at any point, so it's entirely possible that they are just chucked out and forced to fend for themselves. Mark's powers coming at this point ensured that Omniman established himself on Earth before looking to train him.

Omniman is willing to train him because of his natural drive despite being late. This is referenced by the fact that he was way better at flying than he should have been, and this showed to Omniman that Mark was already on the path to becoming incredibly strong without the need to be forced. This, combined with Mark's love for Omniman's hero image gave Omniman the need to keep up the facade just to see how much Mark can develop before they inevitably have to fight. I don't think we see any Viltrumites training, they are just expected to develop on their own because they are forced to. Our Mark may very well be the first one who ever thought they needed to practice instead of just being strong.

Debbie is the person who keeps them all grounded, forcing Omniman to be nicer while keeping Mark grounded. But she's a completely soft target that can die at any point. Mark falling into the street in front of his own house is a really different thing to think about when you consider that he could've fallen into his own house. This would explain why some evil Marks, like Maskvincible, really just want their mom back.

Knowing that our Mark has all three of these things, it's easy to develop theories as to why each variant is individually evil. Seems like Maskvincible just accidentally killed his mom at some point, Omnimark is clearly more buff than the others and might've just believed Omniman and killed him in the fight to prove himself after Omniman trained him too hard, and Sinister Mark might just be the perfect dark mirror of our Mark, who had all of these things and still turned out evil.

I think they're keeping Omnimark around for this reason, he may actually be the strongest variant because he spent all of his time training and never developed a care for others. It's more cool than to have them be background marks with no real personality.

There are infinitely bad marks because there are infinite points of failure in our hero's story. He could've been too weak or too strong for Omniman, never got his powers the right time, had a Mom that was evil or didn't care. Ultimately, our Mark got his powers at the right time, spent the right amount of time loving his Dad, and getting the right amount of love from his mom.

Try to rewatch the story with the idea that every Invincible lived this exact timeline and turned evil at a point in it. It would explain why Aangstrom is so desperate to prove to the world that our Invincible is evil, he just thinks that it's a matter of time just like all the rest of them. All the other inherent good ones have been killed in some way. In fact, we don't see any Invincible variant actually kill Aangstrom, it's entirely possible that he struck up a deal with them to use his multiverse powers for their benefit. That's why they were willing to destroy the world for some new Empire.

But unlike the other Marks, our Mark is.......