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Adam Wilkins is a minor antagonist of the animated series Invincible. He is the psychologically abusive adopted father of Samantha Eve Wilkins, better known as Atom Eve.
He is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
What Makes Him A Hate Sink?[]
In General[]
- He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter and is generally unsupportive of her decisions and aspirations to be a superheroine.
- He's a misogynist who holds outdated views on gender roles and chastises his daughter for not having traditionally feminine aspirations as a way to cover his insecurities and fragile masculinity. He states that the only reason he ever let Eve become a superhero was because he assumed her then boyfriend, Rex was going to "protect her", even though Eve is extremely powerful herself.
- While it's shown that he does care about Eve and most of his disdain for his daughter's career choices come from a place of worry about her welbeing and the welbeing of those around her, that is simply too weak of an excuse to justify his actions, as he damaged his relationship with his daughter because of his own choices, to the point Eve started to actively dislike him. Even though he sometimes brings up good points, such as calling out Eve for using her powers in an inconsequential manner, the way he goes off about them doesn't help and only further cements him as a bad father.
- Aditionally, while it's implied that he does genuinely love his wife (especially in the flashbacks seen in the Invincible: Atom Eve special), it's rarely ever shown onscreen, and it's stated that they frequently fight a lot. It's also implied that he might even be psychologically abusive towards her as well, to the point she's completely submissive to him and enables his behavior.
- Overall, Adam is generally an unpleasant and rude person who is unreasonable to his daughter for no good reason, and is by far one of the most hated characters in the series.
Invincible: Atom Eve[]
- While it's shown he had a good relationship with Eve when she was a kid, ever since the day he learned she had a special ability to identify atoms and molecules, Adam began forming a disdain for his daughter and started acting rude and abrasive towards her.
- He was also rude to her Babysitter Zack after he started praising his daughter's advanced intelligence.
- He initially refuses to send her to a school for gifted children, calling her a freak.
- When Eve didn’t show up to her birthday he ate a part of the cake and when called out by her, he furiously yells at his daughter.
- When she runs to her room he rudely yells at her that that he and his wife are the only family she has.
Invincible[]
Season 1[]
- After finding out that Eve had broken up with Rex after she found out he was cheating on her with Dupli-Kate, Adam lashes out at his daughter, telling her to forgive him, saying that "everyone makes mistakes".
- When Eve tells him that she's considering quitting the superhero career, Adam rudely tells her that it was "about time".
- When Eve decides to leave her family home in order to become a full-time superhero away from them, Adam doesn't respect her choices and further insists that she quits her dreams in order to live a "normal life".
- He tells Eve to her face that the worst day of his life was when she got superpowers, something that really hurt Eve emotionally.
Season 2[]
- While he does take a job at Burger-Mart in order to provide for his family after being fired from his previous job at the furniture store, Adam is shown to have been very reluctant to do so and puts the blame on the superheroes for having destroyed their corporate office, essentially blaming his daughter for getting fired.
- He stubbornly refuses to get his daughter's help for income, purely out of a place of insecurity, and still persists on lashing out on Eve, despite her being very understanding towards him.
- After Eve uses her powers to turn an apple into gold and gives them to sell it, Adam angrily refuses to do so and, later on, even throws the apple in the trash.
- During their argument in Eve's second visit to their house, he blames her for an accident in Chicago, where Eve had used her powers to build on an abandoned lot, not knowing it was actually unstable. While Adam tries to rightfully talk some sense into Eve to not use her powers irresponsibly, he's still overly harsh to her, telling her that her powers don't make her a hero, they make her dangerous.
Trivia[]
- Adam serves as a paralel to Omni-Man/Nolan Grayson and a point of connection between Mark and Eve, due to both of them having rocky relationships with their fathers (Mark, especially after the Season 1 finale). Ironically, Adam is arguably way more hated than Omni-Man as, while Nolan has definitely done worse, he genuinely cares for Mark and Debbie (though he was initially unwilling to admit it) and his love and support for his son were genuine, even when he still was under the influence of the Viltrum agenda. Nolan was also able to look back at his mistakes and ultimately redeem himself down the line, whereas Adam is consistenly a stubborn jerk with little to no redeeming qualities about him.