If we assume that Conquest infiltrates the planet and likes humans like Nolan, how would his life be on Earth? Could he befriend some heroes or would his crazy and violent attitude scare them like the other Viltrumites? Would he also manage to start a family or would he remain single? How would he react to start his mission, would he betray the empire directly for his new friends or would having to harm his family make him more unstable and end it all?
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Show Conquest probably goes through the exact same arc as Nolan and all other viltrumites.
Comic Conquest is an animal, who would beat his Mark to death for being a weakling traitor. He then goes on a planet-wide killing spree, until Earth is subjugated.
I don’t think Conquest has the skills to pull off what Nolan did 1:1.
Nolan was basically a special agent for the Empire. He spent decades if not centuries tracking down, investigating, and if needed eliminating anything that could harm a Viltrumite and therefore threaten the Empire. That’s why the unnamed Viltrumite executioner said he had looked up to Nolan as a child, and why Conquest said Nolan’s reputation had been impressive.
Nolan, upon being sent to Earth, quickly sizes up the superhero-rich climate and puts himself on top of the hierarchy. He courts a woman using human cultural standards as best he understands (Debbie story about how Nolan brought her a tree as a superior gift to flowers). Then he gets married to human standards, has a child with a human, and then spends 17 years waiting for Mark to get his powers to enact the next phase of his plan.
Conquest is not a special agent. He’s a one-person mass murder machine.
Conquest is unstable. He is an unhinged serial killer even among a race of genocidal supremacist imperialists. I do not think he would be able to integrate into Earth culture. Omni-Man appeared to often leave enemies alive during his time as a hero, Conquest likes killing too much to do so, ever. So he would already be stigmatized by the rest of the superhero community by always killing his opponents. And that’s assuming he doesn’t take take up a side hobby of old fashioned serial murder in his free time once the list of villains starts running thin due to all the dying at his hands.
As for finding a human woman to procreate with, well, real life serial killers have fan clubs and pen pals with women who get fixated on them. If not, well, he would not be above sexual assault.
That being said, I’m assuming he shows up and takes a superhero mantle. Perhaps he shows up and just goes with a solo supervillain role. Find a woman who is deranged enough to mate with the world’s most powerful villain.
Then, once it’s established Viltrumite powers pass to the second generation, then Conquest would kick the invasion plan into gear, whether as an anti-hero or villain, like Nolan. But Conquest isn’t going to back down or be softened by 20 years like Nolan, so the events will move in a very different direction.
He isn’t going to be reformed by the love of a woman like Debbie and a child like Mark, because no woman like Debbie would be capable of loving someone as evil and deranged as Conquest.
Conquest is very different from Nolan to the extent that he probably wouldn’t receive that mission.
If he was given that mission he wouldn’t assimilate into Earth well for infiltration for the 500 year scope of the misusing. His arm and scars are to identifiable.
He also wouldn’t be able to suppress his instincts for long. He already complains about how he is forced to hold back on other missions he is given by not destroying things or killing certain people.
A prolonged mission would be his worst nightmare. He would probably not last to long before he just decides to subjugate the planet with force the old fashioned way.
This is a question for r/whatiffiction now here.
He defects from the Viltrum empire within a decade.
Conquest gets even less social interaction than Nolan from other viltrumites, doesn’t even have a name, and has been depressed for thousands of years with his only distraction being momentary violence.
He’d absolutely not want to ever give up his earth life and he’d have nothing to lose.
I give Conquest like 24 hours before he snaps. He destroys everything in his path and the global population goes from 8 to 4 billion by the time the Viltrumite Empire comes.
Thragg then does his breeding program on Earth. The Coalition probably falls as Thragg destroys it before the virus can be used.
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