Of course, if he HADN'T worn the crab-bot to the meeting, they would have all been fried...

Devil's Advocate: The first duty of an underling is to obey orders, but the second is to know when those orders are nonsense. I can conceive of no practical reason that Cancer was the sole candidate expected to arrive essentially stripped of both his costume and his powers.... and no, "because I said so" is not a reason. Mind, the boy is disrespectful, rude, and has a problem with authority--- but arbitrary tall-dogging isn't the way to fix that. The quickest way to guarantee that someone will behave childishly is to treat them as if they were a child.

If I seem to come down too much in favor of Cancer, well, I can't help see things from his side of it. He's a literal super-genius--- he has probably spent most of his life being smarter than any other person in the room. Yet he has to take orders from people who are (from his perspective) dumber than him, and in charge solely because they're older than him. He has nothing in common with kids his own age (he's probably spent what little time he's had in the school system head down in the toilets), and the people that DO act nice to him and indulge him are only doing so in order to use his intellect for financial gain. And having the equivalent of the loud blowhard Gym Teacher from Hell as his boss?--- crap. Small wonder if he has a mean streak.