Cecil’s storyline serves not solely to reflect Mark’s but additionally to supply a worldview that he, Mark, and plenty of different characters on Invincible must confront time and time once more. “You might be the great man or the man who saves the world. You may’t be each,” Radcliffe tells Cecil after he kills the Releasing Fist goons. Cecil repeats these sentiments to Donald Ferguson (Chris Diamantopoulos) at episode’s finish earlier than he heads off to fulfill with the damaging Nolan Grayson for the primary time.
“It truly is form of a calling card of the collection,” Kirkman says of Cecil’s mantra. “Whether or not or not Mark’s going to make it by the present with out utterly turning into a villain stays to be seen. However I feel that you just’ve already seen that strains need to be crossed with a view to maintain the world secure. You’re placing characters able the place they’re making selections which can be very troublesome for a single particular person to make: questions of life or dying on large scales. That’s one thing that weighs on Mark and goes to be weighing on all of those characters. They usually’re positively going to be having to, at instances, get their palms soiled.”
For his half, Steven Yeun believes his character isn’t absolutely able to grapple with that difficult ethical dilemma simply but.
“I really feel like Mark would have a troublesome time with that assertion,” Yeun says. “He’s nonetheless very younger, and perhaps he doesn’t perceive the world from the vantage level that Cecil sees it. That’s the fantastic thing about the present. It’s confronting these troublesome conditions. There’s good intentions, after which there’s actuality after which generally there’s cynicism, after which there’s idealism that’s essential too.”
Given the outsized nature of their energy and affect, Cecil and Mark will all the time have the toughest selections to make. However determining find out how to function in a harmful world isn’t straightforward for any characters on Invincible.
“I feel that’s why you’re seeing Eve within the tree home,” Gillian Jacobs says of her character’s new, remoted dwelling. “As a result of she’s actually haunted by what she did in Chicago, how a lot worse issues may have gone. She thought she was doing the best factor, however she didn’t know what she didn’t know. Possibly the journey of the present for her is is confronting that, however she’s not there but.”
