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Fun fact: $80,000,000 not even a drop in the bucket to the actual American military budget.

The amount of trust hes putting on the person in charge of teleporting him when he's talking to Omni-man must be remarkable

Can we just applaud how cheaply the US military is able to maintain consistent teleportation? $5 million is a killer bargain

i love how the comics say Cecil is addicted to doing it, which makes sense cause its basically his own super-power

Cecil’s lie about the teleporter not being precise is genius, Nolan knows he’s full of shit, and we see how precise it really is once they face off

Fun fact: a single F-35 costs about the same as all the teleports in the show put together, just under $80,000,000

Honestly, for instant teleportation $5M seems pretty cheap

I like how Cecil teleported inside the house to secretly disprove the theory that Nolan was caught off guard with the guardians because it was dark. That teleporter has been exactly as precise as it needs to be every time.

I like how Cecil distracted nolan for longer using 35mil in teleports compared to the 400bil "hammer"

2:22 He just wasted my entire tax bill just to get a more comfortable placement on that rock

Gotta love how Cecil was basically just going down the list of mental attack vectors he thought might work on Nolan. First the Guardians - no real effect. Then Debbie - hits a nerve, clearly, but Nolan keeps it together. Finally, he invokes Mark… and for just a moment, Nolan looks ashamed.

Cool detail here is Nolan keep trying different tactics to figure out how the teleporter is predicting his attacks. He can't get close so he throws a rock, the rock doesn't work so he forces air so there's nothing solid to track velocity from. Finally he just brute forces with speed.

Cecil is far from the strongest person we've seen in the series, but i have never seen a man with bigger balls and more trust in his co workers teleporting him around. Whoever is doing that needs their pay DOUBLED on the spot.

Cecil's got the right idea. Forensic science would ABSOLUTELY figure out that it was Nolan that killed the guardians, especially if given the budget the GDA has. All that evidence everywhere; blood splatter analysts have it down to a science by now, so Cecil knew the day after, at the latest. Even without that, I'm sure the circular bone fractures in Nolan's jaw would point telltale to War Woman's Mace. Thus, for the entirety of the duration of Season one, Cecil was doing the one thing humanity CAN do in a situation like this; play dumb, and use its prep time well. Experiment on Viltrumite blood, keep sending Nolan on missions, act like everything's normal for as long as you can, In other words; "Buy us a little more time". Because humanity's only chance is Prep Time.

I like how Cecil got a bit nervous when he first dodge omniman’s attack because he wasn’t sure if the guy in charge of the teleporter could reliably teleport him out of harm’s way, but as it happens more and more he gets extremely confident until that last attack where he gets his tie snatched

Gonna round that up to an even 100m for how big that monster is

1:16 I saw this in a different comment section somewhere else but I’d argue that this one isn’t a teleporter moment as it is a cloaking moment. There’s no teleporter sound despite being in a room that would catch that noise, so it’s possible that Cecil was only cloaked and trying to catch Nolan off-guard in order to see if he really could be caught off-guard in the dark like he claims.

The interaction between Cecil and Mark while Amber "went to use the restroom" is my favorite Cecil moment because you know Amber was ease dropping the entire time

Think about the precise moment you have to make a call to teleport. Now think about the timing to reach with input and delay to outrun a viltrumite from a few yards. Give the control room a raise

$80,000,000 is what the US gov spends so they can start spending money

God cecil is just the coolest. Not only does he have no powers and is talking with the strongest thing on the planet that is trying to kill him, buts hes deliberately making him more pissed off to stall longer.

realistically, the feeling of being able to go where you wanna go with no time in between leaving and getting there would probably be very addicting

Tax dollars are being put to better use in the Invincible verse than in real life.

I unironically thought Cecil's power was teleportation. This makes the "fight" between him and Nolan even funnier

Yeah 80 million sounds like a lot but then you remember the US military’s budget was 877 billion dollars in 2022

God the genuine emotion in omi-mans face when Cecil talks to him is amazing.

5 mil for teleporting a person already puts Invisible tech leages ahead of modern tech. Plus, I will say at least half the teleports were justified, especially the ones distracting Nolan at the end, and dropping the monster on him.

i think those teleportations in the final scene may be doubled. rather than warping away from Omni-Man and reappearing elsewhere, it would make more sense he's warping back to base, then somewhere else in the field

I like how in the comics panel shown in the end, it's his smile that teleports last.

To be fair, with the importance of the project as a whole, not even a dollar per American in the interest of galactic security? Probably fair.

During his confrontation with Nolan at the end, there’s a delay before he reappears after he teleports, which tells me that he gets sent back to base before he gets teleported again to wherever he wants to reappear. If that is how it works, then they’d be up to about $105,000,000 if I counted right.

to be fair.. who wouldnt just constantly use that thing if they had access to it?

I love how Cecil has no powers but is basically the only one truly able to get to Omni Man. Doesn’t need super strength to break him, just the right words

With the way these things usually work out, Cecil is probably pissing straight uranium runoff water.

most expensive conversation in history

When I started watching Invincible, I really thought teleportation was just his actual super power. Super powers aren't exactly super uncommon in the Invincible universe, they're more like quirks from the My Hero Academia universe, so it would have made sense.

Considering all the damage and devastation that Omni-Man caused in S1, this is a rounding error. Let alone the consequences of letting him run rampant.

At least he has the decency to admit this is costly for the taxpayers, rather than the government or claiming its "free".

Probably cost a little more to teleport that kaiju, especially since it stressed the system enough that it had to be fixed. If mass or volume is a factor, it might have been a couple billion just for that one transport.

funny part is that it probably got cheaper as the series goes on

Adjusting for inflation $80,000,000 in 2003 would be the equivalent to $133,770,000 in 2023 or $8,360,625 per teleport. Thank you for all the views on my dumb video!

I thought teleporting was his superpower

I get the impression that Cecil is almost always doing something, being teleported from crisis to crisis the entire day, readusting instantly to new situations due to the sheer amount of times he has to do so on a regular basis.

Pretty sure the teleportation has no operator and is thought-controlled by Cecil. After all you'd think an operator would avoid unnecessary teleportations and just tell cecil "no, just drive over here" instead, but the reaction times and gratuitous use of it tells me Cecil is the only one controlling it.

Honestly a better use of my money than another bailout for some billion dollar corporation.

“It’s like christmas morning.” I actually wanna see saxton hale vs omniman now.

Nolan’s emotions mean so much more after what I’ve seen of season 2 because he actually feels them and doesn’t understand why

This is 2003 money, btw.

and those were just on screen teleports...we don't know how many times he does teleport off screen...lol

I'd like to point out several of these particularly when confronting omni man there is a slight delay, implying he teleported away and back, meaning he actually teleport twice.

1:04 Dark Blood getting annoyed that his taxes are rising.

My main gripe with teleporters that’s actually shown here is they appear to be the perfect weapon. Cecil’s tie was cut neatly in half as it was held in place, so why not just teleport half a person to kill them?

2:46 Lovely little moment, I think if Omni-Man had said it was for his duty to his people, Cecil wouldn’t like it, but he’d be able to respect and understand it.

30 million dollars the most expensive conversation ever

I swear whoever is teleporting Cecil must have some insane reaction speed or prediction because Nolan is hella fast

$5 Mil may not be as crazy as it’s sounds now, but when the comic came out it had significantly more buying power. Still probably not a lot to the US Military, but more than we’re thinking from today’s perspective; around 8.3 Mil today

O que eu acho foda e que o Cecil diz nós quadrinhos que cada teleporte Custa Cinco milhões então contando o que ele chegou aí só nesses 30 segundos ele ja gastou 30 milhões 😂

AWWW dang! I was getting into it there! Haha got me wanting to watch the whole thing again. Cecil’s Voice actor KILLS IT! 🔥🔥 Great job.

"Jack! 80... Million. Dollars. You know how many times you can teleport with that money?" - Walter White

I love how Cecil has just simply come to love using it so much, I'd be addicted to it to haha

What I always going so cool was his scar resembles to me at least, almost like a tiny vortex spiral 🌀. Just like his teleportation device technology.

0:45 Cecil just spent 10 million of taxpapers money just to drop in and check on Mark's date.

The fact that someone actually put the effort in to make this into video.

Honestly the best deployment of an $80 million weapon. Money well spent

where do you think the trillions of dollars pentagon missing each year goes?

I like it when shows or any story in genenal go over small details like this, always makes the feel world more alive

For so long I thought it was his own power

That's less than the cost of a single modern fighter jet.

"I meant to teleport to your front door. This isn't exactly swiss in it's percision" He says after multiple teleports with pinpoint accuracy.

Wholesome compilation, I always found Cecil’s teleporting really cool.

There are literally missiles in the US arsenal that cost more than $5 million per use. The main reason why the US government wouldn't use teleportation even MORE is because having a bunch of superheroes around the world acts as a more cost-effective method of dealing with potential supervillain threats.

for a good chunk of time i thought he could just naturally do that and didn't need some elaborate machine, up until he said something about 'this thing' and it's precision

Here I was thinking Cecil just had the power to teleport and great timing

I aprecciate you using The Brutal Sniper song 🙏

"This thing isn't exactly swiss in its precision" He is so lucky he hasn't teleporter INSIDE something.

This is awesome

Cheaper that I thought

ofc he's probably teleporting at times off-screen and even before the series started so the cost is even higher.

Ty for ur research dr.

I love the monster part. It felt funny.

ngl i honestly thought he just had teleportation powers lol

"Im not hiding" is such a badass quote

Just in case you're curious, if all of the US military budget for 2023 was allocated for Cecil's teleport, he could do it over 300 THOUSAND TIMES. Not 300. 300 000.

You forgot to add the teleport of the Kaiju

Huh I thought that his teleporting was his power

I love that, in the last Scene with the comic, on the last panel you can See Cecil’s smirk on his face

Cecil may well be my favourite character because really he’s just never wrong ever. I also like the voice actor that plays him

Don't forget, that was 5 million dollars in 2003. If you adjust for inflation it goes up to 7,950,000 per jump. So season 1 cecil actually did 127,200,000 by modern day standards.

Remember that the teleport is instant, so during his time with omni man trying to kill him, each one of those teleports are technically double, once back to the pentagon, and then back to some "safe" spot away from omni man

There is probably some kind of economy of scale involved here. Most of the cost is likely in R&D and set up. So the more he uses it the lower the average cost of each teleport.

Cecil is the director of a department predicated on ensuring national security in the face of supernatural threats, in a world where such threats are commonplace and constantly present. With that in mind, the argument that the several hours of his time required to travel from point A to point B is worth more than $5 million dollars holds water. And one can almost definitely argue that the destructive force Omni-man is capable of (and inflicted) is well over $80 mil in value, and Cecil's liberal use of the teleporter in order to distract him paid for itself.

I feel like Americans would actually use a teleporter that custom 5 million every time. Not caring about how much debt they end up in. After all, their debt literally exceeds the entire planets currency already. On top of that that cars you probably cost more than the 5 million to teleport since it burned out the teleporter

Love him or hate him Cecil is a badass Also, I hate how it seems like every story nowadays goes with the multiverse route so they can give every version of every story with every character to every reader, just feels lazy to me, originality is lost there even if some brands do it better than others

The tax joke in the comic is honestly one of the funniest things ever😂

and then, there's all those off screen times we never see and now, all those times from season 2.

Do we know how long each teleport takes? All of the instances when talking to Nolan could be two each, one to disappear and one to come back.

You know, this whole time I thought he was using holograms and this video was going to be about some kind of traumatic side effect he’s suffering. The truth is much more outrageous

Whoever is controlling the teleporter is a fucking god of reaction time for how how well they make him dodge every single attack from omni-man

I would assume the energy expended isn't the same for every object, and it probably scales with either the volume or mass teleported. That monster at the end could have easily been tens of bilions of dollars.