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?
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.