yeah, maybe in their universe all the bad financial decisions and purchasing military gear for 3x the price is a coverup for Cecil's teleporting addiction
Yeah thats 5million in energy costs. That doesn't include repairs, maintanence, R&D, etc etc. Imagine turning on your PC in the morning and getting billed 5million dollars in utilities lol.
The fact they can send a goddamn kaiju to any part of the world, capable of giving a tough time to a viltrumite no less, practically on a whim makes it on of the strongest weapons in the arsenal. Even stronger than The Hammer IMO
@@federicocaputo9966 well the teleporter did get overloaded sending the kaiju in so there’s a work in progress there But the hammer as cool as it was just got bitch slapped by Nolan so the hammer got points for flare but ultimately didn’t set the bar very high
To me I took it as him telling the truth, its just that Cecil is very much about having as much control as possible. Meaning when he says "its not very precise" it means he truly meant to appear a foot to the left or right. Like he expects Garrus Vakarian levels of calibration with this thing.
@@RustedBuddy5192i think he lied to test the theory that omni man could sense someone in the dark, since he said the lights went out when the guardians died
@@RustedBuddy5192 A foot to the left or right is the difference between being in a chair, and being IN the chair. A teleporter better be either accurate to the nanometer or have some kind of correction fail-safe to prevent embedding accidents.
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.
Yep. And that line about the teleporter not being that precise was obvious bullshit. He would run the risk of being teleported into a wall/ground/another person even/whatever every time if that actually was the case.
That theory has one big problem tho. This doesn't prove anything, if anything it proves that nolan(if he was telling the truth) is a lot more careful now then before. Thats something that makes sense right?
In my opinion, that is how he was escaping Nolan. A "trigger happy" controller that pushes the button somewhat randomly or by the minor sign of threat. Because if they fail one time, it's over
@@IluminousOne-9.7.2probably energy + wear on parts. Kind of like how the Navy's prototype rail gun was deemed unviable because it wore down the parts rather than it simply taking alot of power.
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.
Which is why he sent the demon detective(the name escapes me) back to hell, because he was about to blow the lid on the case when Cecil is not yet ready.
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.
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.
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.
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
That last attack was where he showed a glimpse of his full speed, just like Anissa when she tore through the kaiju like it wasn't even there, they even mention that she was faster than Nolan, as she wasn't trying to hide her full capabilities (and the fact that both of them left the solar system in minutes, which is ridiculously impressive).
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
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.
It would make sense. He does mention that he (Cecil) is a very good liar, so the lie about his teleporter not being properly calibrated would come naturally, especially when it comes to mentioning the precision the teleport has. He seems to have very precise teleporting capabilities in other scenes, so not being able to teleport to the front door rather than inside the house doesn't sound like the truth. He's definitely trying to see if he can catch Nolan off-guard in the dark, there was no teleportation mishap.
@@Eric_The_Cleric A teleporter that is sufficiently imprecise it can teleport you into an internal room instead of the front door is also (probably) sufficiently imprecise it can teleport you into the ground instead of the front door. I assume it was just a lie.
it makes up for the first teleport where he teleports to the city after the aliens attack. i dont think the video guy counted that one, and i highly doubt cecil drove to the site of the attack
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
You’ve got a team of experts who are hanging on every quip, just trying to suss out when he’ll strike. “TOO CLOSE TO HOME CECIL HE’S GOING FOR IT GOGOGO!!”
how about this: they have 20 years of data on omnimans thought patterns and muscle reactions. not only would an expert be assigned the task, he would be assisted by the best AI money can buy and space travel level super computers.
I find myself craving that in games, actually. In Minecraft, I want to just instantly teleport where I'm needed instead of going through my storage system, between bases, or even walking across the room to access my furnaces and crafting table. I want a neural interface so I can feed it coordinates directly, just thinking about where I want to go and ending up there.
@@orangeball8872 Ugh fr Speed Boosts or usually boots in any sort of game are so useful, that when you run out of them, or take off the speed item, you feel like you just got out of bed in the morning with how slow you're moving.
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.
@@marselo1316 you're too nice! 😆I get what you mean but he's so full of himself he refuses to consider he could be wrong. And that not only hurts people but also lets planet killer threats break loose.
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.
@@unwweyrich4661Hey man, half of his expenditure was justified. Thats probably way better than most other govt departments. He wants to threw 10 - 20 mil away, let him. Still probably a better use in tax revenue than the other departments
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 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
@@Snooopy28 it’s more engaging to watch someone who could get instantly obliterated go up against a threat than it is to watch someone who can take it.
Cecil says himself he's a *very* good liar, and with being able to lie so fluidly and easily, you tend to have a way with words to push all the right buttons in the right order to get someone to do what you want.
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.
Not necessarily, it's pretty common in shows to have some semi-non-linear storytelling. Rewinding time a couple seconds so we can see both Nolan and Cecil's reactions at the same moment from their perspectives is a possible thing.
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.
@@Albatross0913 They're comparing the cost of the damages, and potential damage if Omniman got his way, to the total cost of using the teleporter. A drop in the bucket vs the damage, able to be mistaken for a precision error in the calculations.
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!
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.
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.
I agree. It seems to be somehow tied to his physical ability. Some of the teleports seem to strain him more than others. Like in the Nolan fight, the voice actor makes him seem more than just scared.
I assume the show takes place later since there is more advanced technology such as smartphones. If I had to guess, maybe the first season took place in 2021 when the show released.
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.
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?
Or why not just teleport something into someone? Unless its explicitly stated that's not possible, the only issue would be precision. And even then, they could teleport a kaiju-monster sized object to give some leeway.
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.
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.
$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
ok rich guy idk about you but 5 million dollars is pretty crazy to me, not a big different between 5 and 8 million either really cause when you have that much its easier to build wealth
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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
There are about 250 trillion us dollars in the world economy, us national debt is about 30 trillion and most of that is circular debt, i.e they owe, for example, China a couple trillion dollars, but China also owes them about the same amount.
@@Teth47 when you get into large sums like this, you'll start realising that money is a tool and it truly is worthless in the grand scheme of things. Nothing for more than a tool to get what you want. What is the current inflation is precisely because it doesn't have any real value which means companies are free to put their goddamn prices up as much however, this in turn generates the belief that the money doesn't have as much value, which in turn lowers the value of the money
@@solarwind Yes, money is a tool we use to stand in for actual value. It's fundamentally worthless by itself and largely controlled by people. I was just pointing out that the US does not, indeed, owe more money than there is. Fun fact though: There are about 500 quadrillion dollars invested in futures over the next decade, which means that if we don't somehow increase productivity by ~1000x in the next decade, money becomes worth 1/1000 what it currently is, or a bunch of rich people become much less rich. You and I both know which of those will happen.
@@Teth47I was pointing out that The US is debt at one point did exceed the amount of currency on the planet. It's just they decided to prick more money and if there's more money. Therefore their debt does not exceed the amount of currency on the planet and truth. What I'm trying to say is that the US debt or a country's debt is completely fictional because no one can really ever pay it back. Especially when you consider that the US owes itself the money in the first place that it actually owes money too
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
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
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The amount of trust hes putting on the person in charge of teleporting him when he's talking to Omni-man must be remarkable
definitely has to be some AI or a team of people
doesn't he control it? @@buzzlightyearpfp7641
nah has to be a neural link.@@buzzlightyearpfp7641
Or could be a chip implanted into his body so he can teleport as he please.
@@buzzlightyearpfp7641I like to think that they use the chip they got from machine head
i love how the comics say Cecil is addicted to doing it, which makes sense cause its basically his own super-power
His superpower is the American military industrial budget
@@neospiderman2165Common Cecil W
Not even batman can take the W on this one
why does it cost money to teleport? i've never seen invincible or read it
@@unimagin2bleit uses a lot of energy
Fun fact: $80,000,000 not even a drop in the bucket to the actual American military budget.
yeah, maybe in their universe all the bad financial decisions and purchasing military gear for 3x the price is a coverup for Cecil's teleporting addiction
@@aidenfurry471send him to a rehab already ong bro is hooked 💀
lol and to think these are just the ones we know about.
Its like 1 f35 plus the cost of the pilot and ground crews salary for their entire military deployment
Feel like we gotta up the price given the series began 2003
Can we just applaud how cheaply the US military is able to maintain consistent teleportation? $5 million is a killer bargain
I guessing $5M is more of the amount of energy it takes activate the teleporter and compensate certain parts. But the R&D must have been much more.
Yeah thats 5million in energy costs. That doesn't include repairs, maintanence, R&D, etc etc.
Imagine turning on your PC in the morning and getting billed 5million dollars in utilities lol.
The fact they can send a goddamn kaiju to any part of the world, capable of giving a tough time to a viltrumite no less, practically on a whim makes it on of the strongest weapons in the arsenal.
Even stronger than The Hammer IMO
@@federicocaputo9966 although, teleporting that kaiju fryied the machine.
@@federicocaputo9966 well the teleporter did get overloaded sending the kaiju in so there’s a work in progress there
But the hammer as cool as it was just got bitch slapped by Nolan so the hammer got points for flare but ultimately didn’t set the bar very high
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
To me I took it as him telling the truth, its just that Cecil is very much about having as much control as possible.
Meaning when he says "its not very precise" it means he truly meant to appear a foot to the left or right. Like he expects Garrus Vakarian levels of calibration with this thing.
@@RustedBuddy5192i think he lied to test the theory that omni man could sense someone in the dark, since he said the lights went out when the guardians died
They actually used two versions through the show
Still doesn't prove that he didn't lie about precision but it would explain if he made a mistake
@@RustedBuddy5192 A foot to the left or right is the difference between being in a chair, and being IN the chair. A teleporter better be either accurate to the nanometer or have some kind of correction fail-safe to prevent embedding accidents.
@@Eidako just type "noclip" and you'll be fine (I guess that's another $5 million tho 💀)
Fun fact: a single F-35 costs about the same as all the teleports in the show put together, just under $80,000,000
And the price is getting lower every year
Oh yeah, they can definitely pay for his teleportation addiction
Our military is entirely corrupt
Time to start investing in teleportaition
Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of Cecil's teleporting
I like how Cecil distracted nolan for longer using 35mil in teleports compared to the 400bil "hammer"
He also risked his life 4 different times and nearly died face to face with omni-man
Ah, yes... but did the teleports give Nolan a nosebleed?!
Clearly worth the extra investment.
They decimated a whole town to distract ONE MAN for 2 minutes. Classic US government.
@@pocketwatched tbf if the teleporter couldve handled tossing more than 1 kaiju at nolan it'd still be a much better investment.
Honestly, if it can handle a kaiju, it can handle nukes
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.
holy crap you're right
I think it was also to measure his reaction time and speed so that Cecil could maintain a safe distance during the stalling conversation later.
@@achoo9165 smart af
Yep. And that line about the teleporter not being that precise was obvious bullshit. He would run the risk of being teleported into a wall/ground/another person even/whatever every time if that actually was the case.
That theory has one big problem tho. This doesn't prove anything, if anything it proves that nolan(if he was telling the truth) is a lot more careful now then before. Thats something that makes sense right?
2:22 He just wasted my entire tax bill just to get a more comfortable placement on that rock
It was for asserting dominance
“I ain’t even mad”
-It's over Nolan, I have the high ground
-I don't need ground
In my opinion, that is how he was escaping Nolan. A "trigger happy" controller that pushes the button somewhat randomly or by the minor sign of threat. Because if they fail one time, it's over
Worth it to make it look more cinematic
Honestly, for instant teleportation $5M seems pretty cheap
I wonder... Why 5M$? From energy bill? If yes, in the world where you can literally teleport better energy sources surely exist.
thats per use. total cost could be 1t depending
Well, not quite instant. As we see when he's talking with Omniman, there is a slight delay between when Cecil disappears before he reappears.
@@IluminousOne-9.7.2probably energy + wear on parts. Kind of like how the Navy's prototype rail gun was deemed unviable because it wore down the parts rather than it simply taking alot of power.
The comic came out in 2010. Adjust it for inflation.
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.
Which is why he sent the demon detective(the name escapes me) back to hell, because he was about to blow the lid on the case when Cecil is not yet ready.
@@jared16795 Exactly.
He also tested the theory that Nolan "couldn't see who attacked in the dark" by teleporting to his house in the dark
.....are we the batman of the universe in Invincible?
@@BadEnd98man Cecil sure got some balls of steel playing with his life like that
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.
Maybe it’s Donald. Which would explain why he was so insistent on always having him around to the point on cloning him.
@@dominickstewart433 That would unironically be awesome.
What if the one controlling the teleport is the one being paid the $5 million.
@@dominickstewart433Donald was already dead when this fight happens
he shows his watch to mark in the comics he does it himself
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.
The thing is, the person controlling the teleporter for Cecil is very trigger happy as they are soley relying on Nolan's body language
Definitely Howard.
@@sterlingarcher74 At that moment Howard is dead.
@@kanewilson8624I mean any human wouldn’t be able to react to the actual attack so gettin jumpy while just reading his body language makes sense
@@kanewilson8624 I always thought that at this point cecil just controls it with a thought
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.
he mentioned the guardians and himselfs friendship, he looked away in sort of shame
Cecil knows his job
Cecil was spitting hard facts
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
That last attack was where
he showed a glimpse of his full speed, just like Anissa when she tore through the kaiju like it wasn't even there, they even mention that she was faster than Nolan, as she wasn't trying to hide her full capabilities (and the fact that both of them left the solar system in minutes, which is ridiculously impressive).
Gonna round that up to an even 100m for how big that monster is
Honestly yeah, also it burnt out the teleporter so that's gotta be some money.
I'd like to imagine that the moment it pops up, the cost bar just snaps in half and falls off the screen.
shit probably skyrocketed like yakko's world inflation once it hit venezuela
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
Oh crap that's very likely
Nah that it much earlier than she had any inkling. If she did eavesdrop that makes all her reactions to Mark’s superhero moments even unfairer.
@@CptnMango9108 Why Cecil let her tho?
They have the entire house on surveillance, so unless the bathroom walls are borderline paper thin, she wouldn't really hear anything.
If she was that would make her even more of a piece of shit lol
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.
Ah wait next scene nvm
I never realized that Cecil was trying to find out that he was lying.
It would make sense. He does mention that he (Cecil) is a very good liar, so the lie about his teleporter not being properly calibrated would come naturally, especially when it comes to mentioning the precision the teleport has. He seems to have very precise teleporting capabilities in other scenes, so not being able to teleport to the front door rather than inside the house doesn't sound like the truth. He's definitely trying to see if he can catch Nolan off-guard in the dark, there was no teleportation mishap.
@@Eric_The_Cleric A teleporter that is sufficiently imprecise it can teleport you into an internal room instead of the front door is also (probably) sufficiently imprecise it can teleport you into the ground instead of the front door. I assume it was just a lie.
it makes up for the first teleport where he teleports to the city after the aliens attack. i dont think the video guy counted that one, and i highly doubt cecil drove to the site of the attack
$80,000,000 is what the US gov spends so they can start spending money
80 million is the cost for one F-35
The amount they spend on paperclips per year
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
You’ve got a team of experts who are hanging on every quip, just trying to suss out when he’ll strike.
“TOO CLOSE TO HOME CECIL HE’S GOING FOR IT GOGOGO!!”
Actually red rushes son controls the teleports so he is faster than Omni man
@@selfimprovement3682fr?
how about this: they have 20 years of data on omnimans thought patterns and muscle reactions. not only would an expert be assigned the task, he would be assisted by the best AI money can buy and space travel level super computers.
I think its simple
The chip he took from machinehead
I unironically thought Cecil's power was teleportation. This makes the "fight" between him and Nolan even funnier
You really didn't pay attention when you watched the show did you
Bro he literally says you need a watch on for the teleporter to work
@@trbz_8745and he says that the people in the room are controlling it too
Tax dollars are being put to better use in the Invincible verse than in real life.
I mean, if the taxes were used for teleportation they would definitely be more worth it
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
I find myself craving that in games, actually.
In Minecraft, I want to just instantly teleport where I'm needed instead of going through my storage system, between bases, or even walking across the room to access my furnaces and crafting table.
I want a neural interface so I can feed it coordinates directly, just thinking about where I want to go and ending up there.
anyone who plays games knows the feeling of getting an item/ability that makes you faster and not being able to play without it
@@orangeball8872 Ugh fr Speed Boosts or usually boots in any sort of game are so useful, that when you run out of them, or take off the speed item, you feel like you just got out of bed in the morning with how slow you're moving.
Yeah 80 million sounds like a lot but then you remember the US military’s budget was 877 billion dollars in 2022
This guy is saving the world on a budget😅
Wait so we managed to deplete a 100 billion in 2 years?
@@iabproductionsofficial no it’s that much every year
@@iabproductionsofficial We deplete 100 billion more than 8 times over, EVERY year.
EVERY year, we spend 877 billion dollars.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh @@terratrox7180
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.
My dumb ass probably would too, even without the teleporter.
Always go for the lulz.
@@insoporous9978you arent him lil bro
Cecil is a scumbag but yeah he's got some really cool scenes.
@@Osmoticwouldn’t say he’s a scumbag only someone who does absolutely anything to put humanitys safety first. Even if that means breaking a few eggs
@@marselo1316 you're too nice! 😆I get what you mean but he's so full of himself he refuses to consider he could be wrong. And that not only hurts people but also lets planet killer threats break loose.
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.
for the cost of ALL of these teleports. you'd be able to buy a single F-35. so i'd say thats a freaking steal.
@@romanplays1 sure but most of the time he could just have sent a text😅
@@unwweyrich4661Hey man, half of his expenditure was justified. Thats probably way better than most other govt departments. He wants to threw 10 - 20 mil away, let him. Still probably a better use in tax revenue than the other departments
@@pilot7153 Just because it is better then horribly trash doesn't make it good.
Don't settle for less then good if you can.
@@romanplays1There's no Telling how Much it Cost to Build.
just How much It costs Every time It gets Turned on.
God the genuine emotion in omi-mans face when Cecil talks to him is amazing.
Absolutely, Cecil knew he was getting into his head especially when bringing up Mark & Debbie.
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
Yeah, the time delays suggest that
Especially since the last time he teleports he goes back to HQ
I like how in the comics panel shown in the end, it's his smile that teleports last.
Probably a reference to the Cheshire Cat.
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
in "superhero" stuff, i always like the people without powers the most, they literally dont qualify and can still keep up
@@Snooopy28 it’s more engaging to watch someone who could get instantly obliterated go up against a threat than it is to watch someone who can take it.
right? there is no easy way for them, just beeing smarter than theyr cheat code enemyes.@@Snooopy28
Cecil says himself he's a *very* good liar, and with being able to lie so fluidly and easily, you tend to have a way with words to push all the right buttons in the right order to get someone to do what you want.
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.
That’s still under the price of an F35
I don’t know some of them are a bit more instant.
Not necessarily, it's pretty common in shows to have some semi-non-linear storytelling. Rewinding time a couple seconds so we can see both Nolan and Cecil's reactions at the same moment from their perspectives is a possible thing.
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.
You're not the only one
Same
It not being a superpower makes Cecil ironically enough even more cooler than if it was
There's a person in the comic who has this exact superpower and works for Cecil.
Another person who didn't pay attention when watching.
to be fair.. who wouldnt just constantly use that thing if they had access to it?
Me
AND the money, don't forget that shit
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.
With the way these things usually work out, Cecil is probably pissing straight uranium runoff water.
most expensive conversation in history
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.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say, the video was calculating the cost of just using the teleporter, not collateral damage
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They're comparing the cost of the damages, and potential damage if Omniman got his way, to the total cost of using the teleporter. A drop in the bucket vs the damage, able to be mistaken for a precision error in the calculations.
I thought teleporting was his superpower
No. His super power is that his balls are made of adomantium
@@CF-or3cicost 5 mi because of the weight of his Balls
@@anonimoqualquer5503the most expensive ball's on earth then?
Me too. This scene was my first look on Cecil and I was new to invincible.
At least he has the decency to admit this is costly for the taxpayers, rather than the government or claiming its "free".
Adjusting for inflation $80,000,000 in 2003 would be the equivalent to $133,770,000 in 2023 or $8,360,625 per teleport.
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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.
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.
i cannot imagine telling cecil 'no just drive' would go well
@@mothematic "I am your fucking boss. Teleport. or you're going to Guantanamo."
I agree. It seems to be somehow tied to his physical ability. Some of the teleports seem to strain him more than others. Like in the Nolan fight, the voice actor makes him seem more than just scared.
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Maybe not _scared,_ but definitely adrenaline.
Balls in his throat and stuff.
funny part is that it probably got cheaper as the series goes on
sans undertale
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@@lucasbrav131 Massive kai cenat victory
@@The_true_Joe_mama massive W for the goonsquad
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This is 2003 money, btw.
I assume the show takes place later since there is more advanced technology such as smartphones. If I had to guess, maybe the first season took place in 2021 when the show released.
5 million in 2003 is about 7.4 in 2021. Round it up to about 120 million dollars.
“It’s like christmas morning.”
I actually wanna see saxton hale vs omniman now.
Here's the comment I was looking for. God save the queen!
I was not expecting a TF2 reference to pop up here.
don't do that, Nolan will die in seconds
Honestly a better use of my money than another bailout for some billion dollar corporation.
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.
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?
I think thats from omniman reaching it, isn't it?
@@danielm6089 still illustrates the point unless they show the field can only cut to a certain degree then it can be used on anything
Because they would need to put on the watch Cecil talked about
Or why not just teleport something into someone? Unless its explicitly stated that's not possible, the only issue would be precision. And even then, they could teleport a kaiju-monster sized object to give some leeway.
@@dtczyk8976 well that’s just a matter of the medium used I don’t think that cthulu monster is wearing one
and those were just on screen teleports...we don't know how many times he does teleport off screen...lol
Probably a lot more offscreen like teleporting to off screen and teleporting back on scree
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
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.
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.
1:04 Dark Blood getting annoyed that his taxes are rising.
$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
ok rich guy idk about you but 5 million dollars is pretty crazy to me, not a big different between 5 and 8 million either really cause when you have that much its easier to build wealth
30 million dollars the most expensive conversation ever
"Jack! 80... Million. Dollars. You know how many times you can teleport with that money?" - Walter White
0:45 Cecil just spent 10 million of taxpapers money just to drop in and check on Mark's date.
I swear whoever is teleporting Cecil must have some insane reaction speed or prediction because Nolan is hella fast
I love how Cecil has just simply come to love using it so much, I'd be addicted to it to haha
Honestly the best deployment of an $80 million weapon. Money well spent
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.
I like it when shows or any story in genenal go over small details like this, always makes the feel world more alive
That's less than the cost of a single modern fighter jet.
where do you think the trillions of dollars pentagon missing each year goes?
The fact that someone actually put the effort in to make this into video.
Wholesome compilation, I always found Cecil’s teleporting really cool.
"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.
Right, he wanted to test if Nolan’s lie about not being able to see who killed the Guardians in the dark was true.
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.
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.
"This thing isn't exactly swiss in its precision"
He is so lucky he hasn't teleporter INSIDE something.
He lied
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 😂
Here I was thinking Cecil just had the power to teleport and great timing
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.
For so long I thought it was his own power
This is awesome
ngl i honestly thought he just had teleportation powers lol
"Im not hiding" is such a badass quote
ofc he's probably teleporting at times off-screen and even before the series started so the cost is even higher.
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.
I love the monster part. It felt funny.
The production value is so high. It's like watching a professional show.
Cecil may well be my favourite character because really he’s just never wrong ever. I also like the voice actor that plays him
Cheaper that I thought
You forgot to add the teleport of the Kaiju
it’s literally at the end
@@jalen7480oh don’t know how I missed that lol
I aprecciate you using The Brutal Sniper song 🙏
and then, there's all those off screen times we never see and now, all those times from season 2.
Huh I thought that his teleporting was his power
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.
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.
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
There are about 250 trillion us dollars in the world economy, us national debt is about 30 trillion and most of that is circular debt, i.e they owe, for example, China a couple trillion dollars, but China also owes them about the same amount.
@@Teth47 when you get into large sums like this, you'll start realising that money is a tool and it truly is worthless in the grand scheme of things. Nothing for more than a tool to get what you want. What is the current inflation is precisely because it doesn't have any real value which means companies are free to put their goddamn prices up as much however, this in turn generates the belief that the money doesn't have as much value, which in turn lowers the value of the money
@@solarwind Yes, money is a tool we use to stand in for actual value. It's fundamentally worthless by itself and largely controlled by people. I was just pointing out that the US does not, indeed, owe more money than there is.
Fun fact though: There are about 500 quadrillion dollars invested in futures over the next decade, which means that if we don't somehow increase productivity by ~1000x in the next decade, money becomes worth 1/1000 what it currently is, or a bunch of rich people become much less rich. You and I both know which of those will happen.
@@Teth47I was pointing out that The US is debt at one point did exceed the amount of currency on the planet. It's just they decided to prick more money and if there's more money. Therefore their debt does not exceed the amount of currency on the planet and truth. What I'm trying to say is that the US debt or a country's debt is completely fictional because no one can really ever pay it back. Especially when you consider that the US owes itself the money in the first place that it actually owes money too
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
I agree but to me This story is kinda an exception since it was made 20+ years ago
Spider-Man TAS did the multiverse thing in the 90s.
well I mean it was in the comics 🤷♂️ take that out you take a big part of the story out
The comics pre dates most of the other multivise stuff. It's just has been over done it at this point.
I love that, in the last Scene with the comic, on the last panel you can See Cecil’s smirk on his face
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
The tax joke in the comic is honestly one of the funniest things ever😂
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
Ty for ur research dr.
Even in the ‘Invincible’ superhero comic book, Cecil is just plain downright Badass