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Why Cecil needs to bathe in this mystery liquid. When he isn't running the Global Defense Agency, he is sometimes shown completely submerged in a bizarre vat of chemical goo. But why does he do this? To understand, you have to look at Cecil's tragic backstory. Long before the events of the show, a younger Cecil was captured by terrorists and exposed to a horrifying flesh-disintegrating gas. The chemical weapon completely melted his body. He was eventually saved by the superhero Brit, but the dam