I’m not sure if this counts as a spoiler but I marked it as such, just in case. After watching the first ep of season 2 a few times, I started wondering why didn’t Angstrom ask Cecil for help with his project? He’s not doing anything evil/unethical. He has a good idea that could potentially work and solve a lot of issues across dimensions, so I don’t think Cecil would decline. They could then just use the Mauler twins in exchange for more comfortable prison environment and better food or cutting their sentence in half or something like that. The only reason I think Angstrom might not want this is because Cecil would have him " on a leash ", but even then, it’d be the path of least resistance and bloodshed. Is there something else I missed or a canonical reason I didn’t realize?
I might be wrong, but isn´t Cecils position a secret in and off itself? Maybe Angstrom just didn´t know about him, while the Maulers are pretty public figures as supervillains.
Alternatively, if he did know about Cecil, he surely doesn´t know about his personality and it is rather suspicious to ask for the help of two notorious supervillains. I know i wouldn´t believe Angstrom if he told me his plan and would instead suspect he´s doing it for selfish/take-over-the-world reasons and would make sure i have a way to take him out whenever i want before i´d help him. Also if Cecil declined measurements would be taken to ensure the Maulers were harder to free. Meaning Angstrom might have to hurt innocents and i think he´d be more opposed to that against non-supervillains (stranding the Maulers in an empty dimension could be considered justified).
Maybe he doesn’t know Cecil as a person exists but he definitely knows a lot about the organization and it’s goals. Considering he manage to walk right to where the super secret prison facility would be in another dimension and opened portals. He certainly didn’t just be like ‘Open a portal to the maulers’ he had to find where they are, where the prison is, how deep it is, what cells they were in down to the foot. Implies a lot of knowledge about Cecil’s organization.
I also think it’s hard to argue he doesn’t considering how much of his general knowledge of other dimensions revolves around Invincible himself and Cecil would be the primary force trying to stop him in any dimension he exists, as seen from woman Cecil with a captured Mark.
You bring up a really good point. I believe that Angstrom was aware of Cecil, since he said he was searching for someone to take on the mission of getting the machine to work, and only the Maulers had the necessary knowledge. It’d be weird if during his search he didn’t stumble upon robot, or some other figure connected to Cecil, or even Cecil himself.
As for whether Cecil would believe Angstrom or not, doesn’t really matter because of his powers. If he did ask Cecil, there’s a chance he believes him and helps him. If Cecil doesn’t believe him, Angstrom just opens another portal to a different dimension slightly different from the last one and it’s like he never asked Cecil in the first place. Though now that I’m saying this, maybe he did do that and that’s why we don’t see him trying to contact Cecil in his current dimension at the time. Fair enough
We know for a fact he was working with Robot in that dimension we open S2, Eve and Immortal too(despite the fact we don’t see Immortal in the same place as them, he was fighting Invincible as a distraction).
Different Angstrom
You’ve answered your own question here. Angstrom didn’t ask Cecil because Cecil doesn’t have the tech to download brains like that. Only the Maulers know how to do it.