Cecil Stedman Comic History Explained | Invincible

hello everyone and welcome back to our continuing coverage of amazon's invincible based off of the robert kirkman series of the same name this is our ninth episode in the series so feel free to check out our other videos on omni man invincible robot battle beast adam eve monster girl the immortal and rex blowed as well there should be a card on screen now if you need help finding them for the best understanding of this video it really does help to watch those videos first in today's video we will be covering the origins and entire history of cecil stedman but before we begin keep in mind that this video is not going to cover every single panel that cecil is in but it will cover the vast majority of the most important elements of his story additionally in order for the story to make the most sense i may not necessarily cover every event as it occurred in the comic books but rather in a way that presents itself most logically with that being said let's begin cecil's first appearance is in brit called death number one but he's not really an integral part of that story and only really appears for like two panels so i'd like to jump to invincible number 50 where we learn of cecil's origins for the first time cecil wasn't always the guy in charge he started out as a government agent who went on various espionage missions and took orders from above even working with the guardians of the globe on various occasions however his record as a member of the global defense agency is filled with misinformation and hearsay that makes it difficult to determine when he joined the agency and what he had done while working as an active agent it is speculated that cecil may have been responsible for the creation of the global defense agency but that has never been confirmed during one mission he was captured by two terrorist supervillains known as the order of the fraying fist who plan to release a substance known as chemical eggs no not that chemical x anyway they plan to release this deadly gas into the air to spark a revolution their plan was to vaporize an entire city to spark something in the younger generation that would teach them to live life to the fullest cecil was coordinating with brit to stop the terrorists and escape but chemical x was released just as brit arrived and cecil was enveloped in a fog of deadly chemical gas which began to melt his skin brit being immune to chemical x shoved the two terrorists into the mist killing them and then carried cecil out and returned him to the secret global defense agency who was able to apply artificial skin to his entire body aside from the iconic scar which covered the right side of his mouth this part of his face was the only portion of his skin that was remotely salvageable and he requested to keep it scarred as a reminder of those who had died during the mission whom he felt he had failed cecil remained as a high-level agent within the global defense agency for years until one day when the lizard league attacked the pentagon which was the secret headquarters for the global defense agency cecil was able to get past the lizard league and reach director radcliffe injured radcliffe needed assistance from cecil to walk and while making their way out they ran into trouble however they were saved by the order of the freeing fist shocked at the revelation that they were still alive cecil asked radcliffe how they could have survived radcliff explained that their deaths were faked and that they were brought into the agency to become the director's personal bodyguard and to assist with the training of a new elite global defense agency fighting force after the two easily defeated the lizard league member cecil was furious claiming that they should not be forgiven for the deaths they caused all those years ago and he shot them both killing the two members of the order of the freeing fist shortly after this the guardians of the globe arrived on scene to see that cecil had killed the two people in cold blood and he was arrested and sent to the stronghold penitentiary for his crimes months later the director visited steadman and convinced him to take over as director a year later nolan grayson arrived on earth and cecil approached him wanting to know who he was and what he was doing nolan informed him that he had come to the planet to protect it and to learn the customs and behaviors of the people of earth after meeting with nolan and discussing next steps cecil met with one of his advisors who informed cecil that almost everything nolan told them about the viltromites and their betterment committee was a lie however cecil wasn't really concerned with this revelation as nolan was an asset that they could use to keep the planet safe as a part of their agreement the global defense agency would not order nolan around but they would alert him of threats which more often than not he would take care of in exchange for his services the agency would help maintain his secret identity so he could live a somewhat normal life as a family man on earth and life went on this way for a while cecil would protect the world from the shadows leading the agency and working with various superheroes such as omniman brit and the guardians of the globe until one day when the guardians were murdered by an unknown assailant with the guardians out of commission cecil approached robot the leader of the teen team to assemble a new guardian of the globe team and while it seemed that robot chose the members of the new team cecil was actually indirectly responsible for hand-picking the team's new roster while still directing omniman and the new guardians of the globe to threats around the world cecil was fervently investigating the deaths of the original guardian's team his job was made infinitely easier when omniman admitted to killing the guardians and after omniman's battle with his son mark grayson cecil had the boy brought into the global defense agency to recover shortly after this cecil approached invincible with a proposition to take over the role his father held as earth's top protector and work with the agency as nolan had done for decades cecil offered mark a full scholarship and financial support for him and his mother which mark agreed to and the two began working together over the next few months cecil and mark worked well together with cecil sending mark on various missions including ones to mars and atlantis cecil also appointed the immortal former member of the original guardians of the globe as an advisor to robot cecil and mark first butted heads when mark insisted that he travel to space to help an alien race cecil rejected this idea as mark's absence would leave the earth vulnerable but mark left regardless when mark returned he didn't come empty-handed he came back with his younger half-brother excited at the prospect of having another vulture might raised on earth cecil jumped at the opportunity to assist deborah mark's mother with raising the child providing more financial support and even recommending a tutor while the news of another viltr might being brought into the fold was good for everyone cecil was still seething about mark disobeying his orders and leaving earth while he was gone the planet barely survived an attack from omnipotus so cecil reminded mark that he has paid to protect earth not other planets and while they often disagreed cecil and mark continued to work together and behind mark's back cecil began recruiting evil doers that he deemed would be useful just as director radcliffe had done many years ago cecil brought in d.a sinclair a mad scientist who reanimated corpses using advanced tech and darkwing 2 the sidekick to the original darkwing who had been murdering criminals throughout his city instead of capturing and having these people arrested eventually the mission cecil sent mark on to mars would come back to bite them as one of the astronauts that mark was escorting remained on mars and one of the shape-shifting martians had taken his place the astronaut who was stranded on mars was taken over by a hive mind of squid-like creatures known as sequoias who are planning on taking over earth so cecil assembled a strike team to deal with the threat before it was able to reach the planet but with the majority of the heavy hitting heroes out in space earth was left somewhat vulnerable to other attacks taking full advantage of this fact the lizard league took over a missile silo in wyoming and was threatening to start world war three so cecil dispatched the remaining four heroes he had at his disposal rexplode duplicate brit and shrinking ray to deal with the lizard league both missions ended up being a success however shrinking ray and duplicate were both killed by the lizard league cecil and mark continued their relationship dealing with various threats that would pop up regularly and cecil set mark up with a facility within the agency where he could train to become more powerful eventually doc seismic a supervillain mark had battled early on returned and captured every hero on the planet other than mark and adam eve cecil immediately contacted mark and sent him in but seismic with the help of his powerful creatures was able to defeat this duo as well left with no other choice cecil had to send in darkwing 2 and a horde of rihanna men created by d.a sinclair to save the day after being saved by the two villains mark had previously taken down he confronted cecil at the global defense agency sensing that mark was about to lose his cool and attack cecil walked mark into the white room a special location within the agency which emits a light which cannot be seen by the general public and there cecil unleashed his rihanna men on mark cecil tried to talk mark down and to help him see that using bad people for noble purposes was what it took to keep the planet safe but mark refused to listen because of this cecil was forced to use his trump card the communicator within mark's ear had a fail safe which when activated released a pulse which devastated mark's equilibrium and could even kill him if left active mark ran for his life straight to the guardians of the globe for help cecil continued to sick his rihanna men on a mark until he saw that they were out of control and were going to kill the young viltromite so cecil teleported to sinclair and begged him to shut them down but when he returned robot had figured out how to stop the pulsing in mark's ear which allowed him to take the rihanna man down cecil then fired mark and threatened that if he ever got in his way he'd kill invincible but mark didn't take this threat lightly and warned cecil to stay away from him or he'd kill cecil so you know just a casual afternoon of death threats after cecil and mark's fallout some of the guardians quit alongside mark while some remained under the watchful eye of the agency cecil would continue his duties and after mark's younger brother killed the mauler twins cecil arrived to talk the kid down which mark didn't take lightly this animosity would continue throughout the invincible war which was an event where a group of alternate dimension mark graysons were brought to earth after the group of marx was defeated cecil would take their bodies to create viltromite rihanna men and added them to his ever-growing arsenal immediately following the invincible war a filter might known as conquest arrived and challenged mark with the invincible rihanna men not ready for active duty cecil could do little but watch as conquest beat the brakes off of mark with the help of adam eve mark was eventually able to defeat and kill conquest or so he thought cecil actually took the viltromite warrior to a secret underground base and brought him back from the brink with the intention of using conquests however after recovering conquest escaped eventually war broke out between the viltrumide empire and the coalition of planets so mark and his brother left earth robot along with monster girl were then trapped in another dimension and the immortal as well as duplicate who didn't actually die retired from superheroing which left the guardians of the globe depleted so cecil brought in brit to lead a new team and began recruiting superheroes from around the globe instead of just the united states to form a team that spanned the entire world to be ready at a moment's notice eventually robot monster girl and mark all returned and despite the fact that cecil had been arming up for an eventual conflict with the viltromites the battle was over before he and sinclair could unleash their villager might rihanna men which the two actually seemed disappointed about cecil continued his duties as director throughout the series and even eventually reconciled with mark realizing that he probably shouldn't be keeping all of these secrets from his most powerful hero and he revealed the biltermite rihanna men to him and this working relationship continued for a while until mark freed the insane dinosaurus thinking that while dinosaurs was crazy with mark's help they could do some good just as cecil had done with darkwing 2 and d.a sinclair cecil after learning about this sent his rihanna men after the two but they were able to escape eventually dinosaurs went off the rails and killed over a million people and mark surrendered to cecil for freeing dinosaurs in the first place but instead of sending mark to prison cecil offered him the chance to work with cecil and the agency once again which mark agreed to so this next part requires a lot of explaining and for the full detail see our video on robot but essentially robot had been planning for a while to take over the planet in secret so he came up with a plan to trap mark in an alternate dimension which he did but mark was eventually able to free himself upon returning to his dimension mark went to cecil to try and find some answers but cecil had no clue what robot was up to suddenly robot appeared and took mark down using the pulse he figured out how to disable when cecil and mark first fought and then he killed cecil by cutting his throat and stomping his head into paste and that is the entire story of cecil steadman the director of the global defense agency while he and mark didn't always agree with one another they both had the same goal protect earth no matter the cost cecil's impact on the world is incalculable and his influence on mark turned mark into one of the greatest leaders that the biltermite empire would ever know cecil is one of the most layered and interesting characters that the invincible universe has to offer and i hope you all enjoyed this deep dive into his life in history thanks for watching everybody we do really appreciate it remember to like and subscribe and all that fun stuff and remember the motto it's cecil steadman over everything and i'll see you guys next time

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Published: Sun May 02 2021