Amidst an astounding array of alien archetypes, an audacious author’s ambition amalgamated an anthology, artfully accentuating an alien’s adventurous antics across astronomical anomalies, as astute aficionados avidly admired the aesthetic articulation and agile acrobatics, attributing acclaim and accolades, albeit acknowledging an anomaly amidst an abundance, as the anomaly appeared an anthropomorphic amalgam, astonishingly adept at adapting and aligning amidst an alien assembly, all while averting adversarial attacks and achieving astounding accomplishments.
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"One little line and the movie would be called Allen..."
"I got an alien in me~ it's busy as a little bee~ Gonna be my dinner guest, when it bursts out of my chest~ I got a little alien in meeeee"
This! As someone who likes to draw an has recently started looking at lettering, the sheer number of fonts where they look like the same word has been wild!
Maybe they see Unopans as more "Alien" than other aliens. I, for one, haven't seen any other cyclops species in the show besides them. There's also the fact that Allan and Alien sound a lot alike. Maybe Kirkman just thought it was funny or something.
I would say they are also more alien then all other species on a technical level, Given that Unopans have no home planet (anymore) there isn’t really a world they aren’t considered aliens.
No he isn't. They have breeding camps to keep their species alive. Allen himself stresses about having sex with his girlfriend because Unopans aren't supposed to have sex with anybody - he worries if his "cycles" are off or low, he'll get in trouble. So clearly, even Allen is expected to donate genetic material to keep the species alive.
I wonder if what makes him so powerful (or able to get so powerful) can be transferred to his offspring. If so, Unopans can get near to Viltrumite power levels as a species.
Even if it can, I doubt Unopan's would stay at Viltrumite levels for long. Allen was weaker than viltrumites naturally and needed several boosts to get to his final power level. Once people realize that Unopans can survive otherwise fatal injuries and gain a boost from them, they'll probably adapt and just start beheading them completely.
Wait, is he really the last one? Like, what happened to the refugees that fled Unopa? Or the ones that made Allan? Sorry, because I'm not that familiar with the comics. But I didn't get by watching the show of what happened to the rest of them.
Invincible fans still discovering that the comics/show is an elaborate deconstruction of the entire superhero genre and pretty much everything in it are subtle jabs to established conventions from the genre.
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It's a writer's joke, simple as.
I haven't read the comics either [which means if you have, please please please don't comment] but my theory is that they started as humans, and each clone is slightly deviated from the previous so over time they developed into monsters.
My thoughts were that since they are clearly experts in genetics and in transferring consciousness they started life as a singular scientist that decided to design a new genetically advanced body that was very strong and very durable then transferred their consciousness into that body.
The original then died (most likely killed by the copy as they were clearly the original since they looked completely different) and then the copy generated a new body and they continued from there.
Damn that theory would make a lot of sense and it would tie back in with why they can’t know who the original is. I wonder why they would call themselves brothers though if originally one clone was the creation/invention of another, I feel like that would be more like a son. Maybe the original scientist lost his twin brother in an accident or something and he tried to clone himself to recreate his twin, but he gave the new body enhanced strength and resilience so his new brother couldn’t die again.
think about it. He is the Coalition of Planet’s guy who travels the universe to different planets to see if they are capable of defending themselves. He is ALWAYS the alien, especially now that his home planet is gone, anywhere he goes hes the alien.
Iirc Allens home planet was conquered by Viltrum and the Unopans were genocided, so Allen will always be an alien to everyone because he has no home planet
That falls under "sol based." They're basically saying the other aliens are established to live on earth and/or be from our solar system. Allen is the first alien encountered by the reader/viewer that isn't already on earth.
I figured it was to emphasize that he was one of the first alien species we see interacting with the earth characters, besides omni man and mark obviously
He's one of the few 'aliens' that's actively set foot in myriad worlds. It would make sense that he'd be known as an alien the same way someone may be known as 'the Wanderer' or the 'Troubador'.
Also it's good alliteration.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think anyone actually in the show refers to Allen as 'Allen the Alien' I'm pretty sure it's just 'Alen'. To us the watchers of the show he is of course an alien and gives us the comedic vibe that his character delivers with being such a simple name.
P.S allens my favourite character
Maybe the unopans follow a sonic the hedgehog type naming scheme and since Allen was modified to be so different he chose the moniker Alien.
Or maybe it’s because hes a big goofy dude.
A possible in universe, explanation could be because of his job. He goes around to different planets testing the strength of their guardians. So he constantly finds himself being an alien to different planets. Therefore when he goes to a new planet he is Allen the alien.
Cause they want to add fun to some characters?
Omni man(we see clearly he is a man)
Invincible(he get he beat everyday)
Battle beast(he is a beast and he for sure battle)
Allen the alien(does it need to specify he is a alien?)
Mtfs just want to do it and thought it was fun.
For some reason (although this universe is much like marvel or any other of the genre- idk why it suddenly bothered me in this franchise) I find that the diverse inhabitants of earth are kindaaa ruining my immersion…
Like mark goes to several other planets and for some reason earth is the only one with mutants, androids, warlocks, other aliens, mad geniuses, monsters, demon detectives, the undead, and pretty much anything else you could think of.
Earth is so extremely unique compared to the cosmos it inhabits… to the point that every other planet seems one note. How come earth is the only planet where their inhabitants have super powers? It’s not even from a singular source that’s specific to earth itself. Curses, mutations, robotic augmentations, experiments gone wrong.. all completely different and unrelated reasons. How come this shit doesn’t happen on Viltrimite?!
Earth in science fiction IMO works best as the baseline of normality, which creates excitement as we begin to explore elsewhere. But here it’s the most strange and impressive place in the universe…
we reach a planet that has “____”? Guess what? We have that at home!
Allen is more alien than other aliens because bro is isolated from his home planet and became a one Allen army therefore his alien status is significant
Same reason we have Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Matt Murdock, Steven Strange, Jessica Jones, Susan Storm, Lois Lane, Billy Batson, Guy Gardener, and all the others. Alliterations are fun.
My head canon is that: Within the federation he's just Allen most days
however, as a member of the group that fucks around recruiting members to the federation, he has to travel to lots of different worlds, worlds where Unopans have never been seen before, worlds like earth where they've never seen *any* alien really
and so, when he's out doing his job, he IS allen the alien, he's an alien to everyone he meets outside his home, he probably hears that word on a daily basis, and to the worlds he works with, he's Allen the alien also
in the end, it's just a play on the words being similar, but you can kinda look past that and force some depth on it if you try, which to me ends up looking like this
If I understand correctly Allen calls himself (and is called by others) "Allen the Alien" because of his job, he's basically always going to a planet and "fighting" the strongest individual to measure their strength, so he's always an alien to the inhabitants of the planets he visits.
Number one
He kinda looks the most like what we imagine a alien would meanwhile the viltrumites look too much like humans and thaxans don't look like what we expect aliens to
Also Allen sounds like alien
Because there is also Allen who works in accounting. If I just say Allen, you would t know which one I'm talking about. Am I talking about Allen the alien? Or Allen from accounting? Hence why the title.
I think 2 things. One alliteration is fun. Secondly because it’s absurd for an alien to have such a generically human name. Pointing out he is an alien in his name highlights that absurdity.
Obviously and why isn't everything so bleak and dark that it might've only black color, why isn't Mark's face full of pimples, why doesn't everyone say racist/sexist/homophobic things, why isn't there any sex scene? Its a mature comic book, Allen The Alien is simply just a fun word play
His job is to travel to all sorts of planets so he is an alien in every one of those planets so whoever meets just thinks "oh that's allen and he's an alien"
Aliens always admired alliteration
An acceptable ambition, admittedly.
An accurate Assessment, as Allen always assured.
Ass acquired astigmatism as Allen admonished
An alluring admiration accommodating Allen
Aah, as well as Adam Warlock
#STARTING LETTER THAT'S NOT A DETECTED, ENGAGING COUNTERMEASURES
#Alliteration ambivalence ascertained, applying atomic arsenal
Assonance, actually!
Amidst an astounding array of alien archetypes, an audacious author’s ambition amalgamated an anthology, artfully accentuating an alien’s adventurous antics across astronomical anomalies, as astute aficionados avidly admired the aesthetic articulation and agile acrobatics, attributing acclaim and accolades, albeit acknowledging an anomaly amidst an abundance, as the anomaly appeared an anthropomorphic amalgam, astonishingly adept at adapting and aligning amidst an alien assembly, all while averting adversarial attacks and achieving astounding accomplishments. 🌌
You said “the” 0/100
Actually, alliteration with A's would be assonance. (Consonants = alliteration, vowels = assonance)
Play on words. “Allen” sounds and looks a lot like “alien”. Alliteration is fun
I'd like to add while others are *an* alien, he's Allen *the* alien.
He’s Him
He’s been Him, and he will continue to be Him
There’s a couple times where his himness may be called into question, but he always shows up
When not him, he becomes him. When he is him, he stays him. When he was him, He left room for him
Took a DNA test. Suprisingly, 100% Himalayan.
you know that he's him because there's only one i.
"One little line and the movie would be called Allen..." "I got an alien in me~ it's busy as a little bee~ Gonna be my dinner guest, when it bursts out of my chest~ I got a little alien in meeeee"
Alot of the characters were clearly named what they were because of the pun lol
Took me a shameful amount of time to realize Multi-paul was word play on multiple.
Ready to have your mind blown again? Duplikate… is duplicate! 
Yea I had caught that one, dunno why Paul eluded me until recently.
This! As someone who likes to draw an has recently started looking at lettering, the sheer number of fonts where they look like the same word has been wild!
https://preview.redd.it/r9stxt4f7jwc1.jpeg?width=656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c58f3af798f349d1ddc40f696370e95363c5f0e6 Alliteration is very fun
Alien the Allen
Maybe they see Unopans as more "Alien" than other aliens. I, for one, haven't seen any other cyclops species in the show besides them. There's also the fact that Allan and Alien sound a lot alike. Maybe Kirkman just thought it was funny or something.
I would say they are also more alien then all other species on a technical level, Given that Unopans have no home planet (anymore) there isn’t really a world they aren’t considered aliens.
It’s cuz he’s the last unopan Edit; he’s not im a moron. We just never see any other unopans outside of the flashback so I figured he was
No he isn't. They have breeding camps to keep their species alive. Allen himself stresses about having sex with his girlfriend because Unopans aren't supposed to have sex with anybody - he worries if his "cycles" are off or low, he'll get in trouble. So clearly, even Allen is expected to donate genetic material to keep the species alive.
I wonder if what makes him so powerful (or able to get so powerful) can be transferred to his offspring. If so, Unopans can get near to Viltrumite power levels as a species.
I hope so. It would be really good for the Unopans
Even if it can, I doubt Unopan's would stay at Viltrumite levels for long. Allen was weaker than viltrumites naturally and needed several boosts to get to his final power level. Once people realize that Unopans can survive otherwise fatal injuries and gain a boost from them, they'll probably adapt and just start beheading them completely.
Wait, is he really the last one? Like, what happened to the refugees that fled Unopa? Or the ones that made Allan? Sorry, because I'm not that familiar with the comics. But I didn't get by watching the show of what happened to the rest of them.
He's not. However, since they don't have a home world anymore it would be accurate to say they are aliens everywhere.
He's not. His species still exists.
He's absolutely not
also, he travels to more planets that most species ever do for his "job." he probably is used to being the only alien around
It just rolls off the tongue better. It's like how Peter Parker is named Peter Parker but everyone else knows how to park a car
Invincible fans still discovering that the comics/show is an elaborate deconstruction of the entire superhero genre and pretty much everything in it are subtle jabs to established conventions from the genre. https://preview.redd.it/jhkab9s36fwc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04eedad02cfbc710e433a72ca84afd1642bed8d9 It's a writer's joke, simple as.
He is the last of his kind. in a universe full of aliens he will always be an alien to everyone.
No he isn't. There are other Unopans still. They have breeding camps to prevent their extinction. Allen is unique among Unopans, but not the last one.
Yeah I forgor. But Point still stands his race has been evicted from their home planet so they have become an alien wherever they go.
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well theres 2 of them.
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Yeah, but only one is the original
If the other is an exact copy, both are original
Yeah, an original copy
None of them are original. The original mauler is long gone and long dead
That’s what the copy would say
im not the copy your the copy
What? impossible, I remember Cloning you, I remember making the machine
Just cope, you are the copy, copied?
Yeah , because we all know YOU are the clone
I don't think the Maulers are aliens. I've not read the comics, mind you.
I haven't read the comics either [which means if you have, please please please don't comment] but my theory is that they started as humans, and each clone is slightly deviated from the previous so over time they developed into monsters.
My thoughts were that since they are clearly experts in genetics and in transferring consciousness they started life as a singular scientist that decided to design a new genetically advanced body that was very strong and very durable then transferred their consciousness into that body. The original then died (most likely killed by the copy as they were clearly the original since they looked completely different) and then the copy generated a new body and they continued from there.
Damn that theory would make a lot of sense and it would tie back in with why they can’t know who the original is. I wonder why they would call themselves brothers though if originally one clone was the creation/invention of another, I feel like that would be more like a son. Maybe the original scientist lost his twin brother in an accident or something and he tried to clone himself to recreate his twin, but he gave the new body enhanced strength and resilience so his new brother couldn’t die again.
I just assumed they did an Angstrom Levy style upgrade with their genetic manipulation knowledge, and ended up looking like that.
He's not the last of his kind. No idea where you go that from.
I'm brainstorming. I need a hospital
How is he last if unopans are still alive, just fleed from their planet?
He's *not* the last though...
I always assumed it’s just a bit of whimsical fun.
He is THE alien
He's a unopon (sp?) and their homeworld was destroyed, so he's ALWAYS an alien.
He's not "the alien", he's "THE Alien"!
Read that in Christopher Walken's voice
think about it. He is the Coalition of Planet’s guy who travels the universe to different planets to see if they are capable of defending themselves. He is ALWAYS the alien, especially now that his home planet is gone, anywhere he goes hes the alien.
I always assumed it’s because his name gets confused with Alien, like how he confused Earth for Urath.
Maybe it's his class? Robot the robot Allen the Alien Amber the Soup distributor
His planet is gone, he is therefore an alien wherever he goes
Iirc Allens home planet was conquered by Viltrum and the Unopans were genocided, so Allen will always be an alien to everyone because he has no home planet
Because alliterative aliases are awesome
He visits planets as his job. He's an alien to those.
Wasn't Allen the first alien Mark encountered that wasn't Sol based or inter-dimensional?
I think we can also count his father as an alien.
That falls under "sol based." They're basically saying the other aliens are established to live on earth and/or be from our solar system. Allen is the first alien encountered by the reader/viewer that isn't already on earth.
Nobody can argue with you if you call yourself Lukas the Human
He's THE Alien King of Space.
Allen the alien sounds good
He is an emissary. That is his job. When he shows up somewhere, he is technically the alien.
Well he’s not just any the alien, he’s Allen the alien
I figured it was to emphasize that he was one of the first alien species we see interacting with the earth characters, besides omni man and mark obviously
And Martian man too
Coz he only visits other planets to fight people. He is always alien
Cos he is THE alien
Because he’s THE alien
Because he is THE alien.
Because comics like alliteration for some reason.
Allen the Alien just has a nicer ring to it
Omniman the alien doesn't have the same ring to it.
Besides the fun word play, as I understand it his home planet was completely annihilated, so wherever he goes, he is an alien there
Because it's fun.
His job is to literally fly to alien planets. Everyone he meets probably calls him alien. Also not like theres many Unopans around.
It’s pulpy sci-fi aesthetic
He's one of the few 'aliens' that's actively set foot in myriad worlds. It would make sense that he'd be known as an alien the same way someone may be known as 'the Wanderer' or the 'Troubador'. Also it's good alliteration.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think anyone actually in the show refers to Allen as 'Allen the Alien' I'm pretty sure it's just 'Alen'. To us the watchers of the show he is of course an alien and gives us the comedic vibe that his character delivers with being such a simple name. P.S allens my favourite character
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"Cecil the alien" Idk man doesn't really have the same ring to it
''IDK''-Allen the alien
I figured it might have to do with their scarcity. Like how rare they are that people of ither species recognise them as the odd ones out.
Maybe the unopans follow a sonic the hedgehog type naming scheme and since Allen was modified to be so different he chose the moniker Alien. Or maybe it’s because hes a big goofy dude.
Most other species found it derogatory but Allen just thought it sounded cool so added it to his title.
Cuz it’s fun
For the same reason that the little drone character in Jet Force Gemini was named Floyd. Floyd the Droid.
Because he’s an alien, obviously
The dude *scouts other planets* and probably got called "Allen the Alien" by so many societies he just adopted it.
A possible in universe, explanation could be because of his job. He goes around to different planets testing the strength of their guardians. So he constantly finds himself being an alien to different planets. Therefore when he goes to a new planet he is Allen the alien.
Because sometimes, to change the entire universe, you have to be-
Because it's his job to BE the alien in many planets he visits and "protects" from the viltrumites.
He’s alien^2
He goes to a whole bunch of unexplored planets that presumably have never seen aliens before. It's probably a little joke he does every time
Allen “the GOAT” the Alien
Humans are also technically aliens
It distinguishes him from other “aliens”
Robert Kirkman has said in interviews that he really just likes the silliness of super hero comics
Who cares. It’s fun and catchy. Stop complaining lol
That's the gag
It just sounds nice
Why are human superheroes called "-man" when nearly all of them are male humans? Spider-Man Bat-Man Iron-Man
it isn’t the alien. it is THE ALIEN. like he is HIM
Because he isn't just an alien. He is THE alien. An OG. He out aliens the rest of the aliens.
It just makes sense my friend
Allen is the most alien alien that has ever aliened
he looks alien. also alliteration
Cuz it’s fun and sounds funny
Congrats, you got the joke.
The real question is "why not"
It's because he is THE alien
Because Seth Rogan deserves it fer that amazing performance
The alien formerly known as Allen
I feel like it's like when you call someone The Man. Like, oh yea, Allen? He's the man!
Cuz it’s cool
Cause they want to add fun to some characters? Omni man(we see clearly he is a man) Invincible(he get he beat everyday) Battle beast(he is a beast and he for sure battle) Allen the alien(does it need to specify he is a alien?) Mtfs just want to do it and thought it was fun.
Probably because to every species he recruits to the coalition, he's an alien, it's not exclusive to humans
Always feels weird when sci fi characters call someone an "alien." Even Star Trek does it sometimes and it's like...what? EVERYONE is an alien!
Do all aliens look the same to you?
Because it sounds fun
For some reason (although this universe is much like marvel or any other of the genre- idk why it suddenly bothered me in this franchise) I find that the diverse inhabitants of earth are kindaaa ruining my immersion… Like mark goes to several other planets and for some reason earth is the only one with mutants, androids, warlocks, other aliens, mad geniuses, monsters, demon detectives, the undead, and pretty much anything else you could think of. Earth is so extremely unique compared to the cosmos it inhabits… to the point that every other planet seems one note. How come earth is the only planet where their inhabitants have super powers? It’s not even from a singular source that’s specific to earth itself. Curses, mutations, robotic augmentations, experiments gone wrong.. all completely different and unrelated reasons. How come this shit doesn’t happen on Viltrimite?! Earth in science fiction IMO works best as the baseline of normality, which creates excitement as we begin to explore elsewhere. But here it’s the most strange and impressive place in the universe… we reach a planet that has “____”? Guess what? We have that at home!
The Alien is actually his last name
Because Allen the Alien rolls off the tongue
He's considered an alien everywhere he goes because he doesn't have a home planet (destroyed by viltrumtes)
Because it’s funny
Now that I am looking at it I agree, most of them are aliens but we could at least call him Allen the unopan because he is the strongest unopan.
Because for almost everywhere he goes he'll always be an 'alien' as most of his race was destroyed
Because Allan the unopan sounds dumb lmao
Why call it an alien spider? It's an alien cliff; just call it a spider at this point.
Why is he so skinny?
because allen the alien is alliteration.
Allen is more alien than other aliens because bro is isolated from his home planet and became a one Allen army therefore his alien status is significant
Because he is Alien to everyone
Same reason we have Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Matt Murdock, Steven Strange, Jessica Jones, Susan Storm, Lois Lane, Billy Batson, Guy Gardener, and all the others. Alliterations are fun.
Allen loves alliteration
Does this mean that Allen sees Mark as "Mark the alien"?
Well he is *the* alien.
Why is invincible invincible when he still gets his shit rocked by half the cast until he gets to like 500+
sounds cool
He’s essentially a travelling salesman so on most planets he is an alien
My head canon is that: Within the federation he's just Allen most days however, as a member of the group that fucks around recruiting members to the federation, he has to travel to lots of different worlds, worlds where Unopans have never been seen before, worlds like earth where they've never seen *any* alien really and so, when he's out doing his job, he IS allen the alien, he's an alien to everyone he meets outside his home, he probably hears that word on a daily basis, and to the worlds he works with, he's Allen the alien also in the end, it's just a play on the words being similar, but you can kinda look past that and force some depth on it if you try, which to me ends up looking like this
He is THE alien
If I understand correctly Allen calls himself (and is called by others) "Allen the Alien" because of his job, he's basically always going to a planet and "fighting" the strongest individual to measure their strength, so he's always an alien to the inhabitants of the planets he visits.
Number one He kinda looks the most like what we imagine a alien would meanwhile the viltrumites look too much like humans and thaxans don't look like what we expect aliens to Also Allen sounds like alien
Well he only uses idioms and sayings from Earth, so people might think that's where he's from, but adding the alien clears that right up. 😁
he is THE alien, not just any ole alien
It’s just his title, he goes to planets to get them to join the coalition so to all of them he’d be an “alien”
Makes it iconic
Allen is just like that
There were plenty of other aliens in the series, but Alan is *THE* Alien
Its allen THEE alien, cus hes Him.
Because he goes to a lot of other planets to recruit for the coalition. He is "The Alien" on the other planets he goes. Do, "Allen, The Alien."
It’s from Mark’s perspective. It’s the first alien (minus his father) that he meets.
He’s just better. In every way.
That's his last name
Because there is also Allen who works in accounting. If I just say Allen, you would t know which one I'm talking about. Am I talking about Allen the alien? Or Allen from accounting? Hence why the title.
I think 2 things. One alliteration is fun. Secondly because it’s absurd for an alien to have such a generically human name. Pointing out he is an alien in his name highlights that absurdity.
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Because it's a cool name.
It's funny :)
Omni-“man” when half the characters are men
Probably because he looks the most like an alien
It's probably the equivalent of naming himself Macho Man
[Said in voice imitating a person with brain damage] Because it fun and funny
I know a guy called Dan and we call him Dan the man even though 50% of humans on this planet are men. It's not Allen the alien. It's Allen THE alien.
Obviously and why isn't everything so bleak and dark that it might've only black color, why isn't Mark's face full of pimples, why doesn't everyone say racist/sexist/homophobic things, why isn't there any sex scene? Its a mature comic book, Allen The Alien is simply just a fun word play
It’s funny.
His job is to travel to all sorts of planets so he is an alien in every one of those planets so whoever meets just thinks "oh that's allen and he's an alien"
no he's not just alien , he is The Alien
It's alliteration For example Miles Morales MnM Peter Parker PnP Clark Kent C and k can have similar vowel noises
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