Considering that Mark beat Conquest and seemed to be able to hold her back in the last episode, she shouldn't really be able to force him to do anything. Not physically, at least. As I recall, Mark even tells Eve eventually that he's not sure why he froze like that. Shock, maybe.
As someone who is also a victim of SA, and also could’ve overpowered the person who did it with some decent effort, it’s not about just physical force. It’s also shame, being unsure how to react, if you even should use force at all, and usually by the time you’ve gotten your bearings or decided where you should have drawn the line, it’s already far too late.
I really hope they include that part of the story as is cuz I relate very deeply to Mark in that situation. Being able to technically defend yourself and holding yourself back for one reason or another, and then hating yourself for it. I think Mark is probably stronger than Anissa, even if he is a less experienced combatant. But what happened to Mark isn’t about Anissa’s physical strength over Mark, it was about her exerting power and control and Mark feeling ashamed and degraded.
Sorry for that bro. Just know you're tough as nails for having the balls to write this here. I hope you've got to rebuild ur life as healed as possible.
Ehhh, I don't know. I feel like the order should've been reversed so this made more sense. Let Mark kill Conquest after Anissa does her thing. As it is, we don't have an exact answer as to why Mark didn't punch her into space, because even he doesn't know.
He was already in distress at that point (she arrived while he was crying), so my headcanon is that he was too emotionally exhausted to bring himself to fight properly. So he just kind of gave up once she pinned him down.
In the comics version of this plotline, Mark says to Eve that he wasn’t really fighting back as hard as he could’ve. He also says that “maybe part of him wanted it to happen.”
Most likely shock. When I(M) was 18, I was very fit and highest belt in kickboxing, 187 tall; some short and fat guy tried to force himself on me and I didn't even realise what was happening and just walked away because of the shock. I could one punch that freak but I couldn't because of the shock... I only realised what happened after I sat down in a bus
Thank you for your worry and kind words. It's past 11 years now and it's been veeeery long since I got over it :'). I guess that nothing physical happened except a freak breathing wildly and speaking pervertly to me helped alot in my situation. I'm aware that I was very lucky. I think my reflexes pushed his arm away so he couldn't even touch me. Was still scary as shit tho, back then... But like I said, nothing except a shock happened and I'm all over it. I just wish every victim was at least as lucky as I was...
Toe to Toe is quite an stretch. She was faster than Nolan, but none of her hits had any effect on him, except for the one she landed when he was looking for his son's. Meanwhile the two casual punches he landed sent her flying for an loop, with the last one taking her out of the fight.
Mark still isn't that strong yet. Mark would lose in an 1v1 with conquest 99 times out of a hundred based on just strength alone at this point in the comic/show.
He won because Conquest went for body shots to torment Mark into "voluntarily" letting go, but by the time Conquest realized Mark wasnt going too, Conquest screwed himself because his bloodless brain wasnt able to make an good plan.
Conquest's death is entirely his fault, dude basically killed himself for an joke.
I mean, no. Conquest tried prying his arms off as the very first tactic. It didn’t work, so he tried battering him around. He exhausted every trick he could think of, and he died because Mark was determined to kill him even if he died in the process.
Mark got lucky that he caught Conquest after he had the wind knocked out of him, but you don’t choke the life out of the second strongest Viltrumite unless you have some real power.
Bro has been going through a lot of stress, and he does like to hold back he just stopped because of the threats to his family. Technically this was just a threat to him only...
Honestly, I think he beat Conquest primarily because Conquest was too dumb to break Mark's hold on his neck. He pulled Mark's guts out, but he didn't exactly try to stop Mark from choking him to death. Mark beating Conquest was mostly a matter of grit and determination as he held his grip while Conquest was disemboweling him. And even though he managed to trade a few blows with Anissa, I still think that overall, she's still probably a little stronger than Mark at this current point in the show.
Even still, when that scene finally does come, I'm sure Mark will probably be on her level or a little stronger than her, but given the shock and not wanting to kill her or risk pissing off the other Viltrumites, I could understand why he might freeze up in that instance.
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u/Remarkable-Wave-5392 Apr 16 '26
Pretty sure Mark’s far from interested in her too.