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| “ | -I don't try 'em, kid. I just catch 'em. We'll let the boys at Area 51 figure out who's naughty and who's nice. | ” |
Lt. Steel is a black-ops operative who is the commander of SECT.[pop-up 1][2]
Appearance[]
In the Original Series, Steel had blond hair that was in a buzzcut, with a long scar on his face. He wore a black shirt with two straps, carrying guns in the pockets. In addition, he wore a belt with pouches. He had grey pants.
In Omniverse, he has a flipped-up hairstyle, with dotted eyes. His eyebrows are black now. His scar is wider and more visible. He wears a blue shirt with overalls that show the SECT symbol.
Personality[]
Lt. Steel is a very serious, hard-boiled commander. He always barks orders at his men, and they always carry them out efficiently. Steel has created such a culture of fear around his squad that they will shun each other for suggesting ever disobeying one of his direct orders.[1]
Steel is somewhat uncaring and unwilling to hear out his targets. He ignored Ben and Gwen's pleas for the former's innocence, saying "I don't try 'em, kid. I just catch 'em."[1]
Steel also develops rivalries with the people he goes after, angry at Kevin by the time of Framed, and getting angry at Ben with each encounter. However, he is not so vengeful that he can't recognize when someone is no longer a threat, as was the case with Ben.
History[]
Background[]
Prior to his first appearance, Lt. Steel had had many encounters with Kevin, who was posing as the Omnitrix aliens at the time. Steel and the Special Alien Containment Team were chasing after Kevin, as well as the Omnitrix aliens, across the country.
Ben 10[]
He first appeared in Framed. When the chase was brought back to Ben, after Kevin stranded Diamondhead holding the cash that the SACT and Steel were led to believe Diamondhead was the thief. Although Ben eventually transformed back into a human without the SACT seeing it, the sight of the Omnitrix on his wrist caught Steel's interest, and he proceeded to follow the Tennysons with the utmost suspicion that they were harboring the aliens. Outmatched when he tried to confront Kevin in his mutant form, he ended up being saved by Four Arms. Steel returned the favor by first having his troops fire on Kevin, saving Four Arms's life, and by letting him go free instead of having his men attempt to take him down too, thus clearing Ben's name from which Kevin had tarnished.
He reappeared in a dream in Perfect Day during the Forever Knights' attempt to remove the Omnitrix by trapping Ben in a perfect dream world, in which a false Steel arrived and tried to convince Ben that the real Gwen and Max were Limax sent by Vilgax. When the illusion was exposed by a flaw Gwen points out in Vilgax's personality, Steel transformed into Sir Enoch.
Omniverse[]
In Animo Crackers, Steel was in charge of escorting the A.R.C. project. He and his forces were attacked by both Animos and their mutant rides enroute; then he received a call from Ben Tennyson. He mentioned that he hadn't heard from Ben in years.
Appearances[]
Ben 10[]
Season 2[]
- Framed (first appearance)
Season 4[]
- Perfect Day (impersonated)
Omniverse[]
Season 5[]
- Animo Crackers (first reappearance)
Trivia[]
- Steel shares similarities to both Lieutenant Jon Ace from Monsuno and Colonel Roderick Decker from The A-Team.
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