Cilantro

Cilantro

* Books
* Animation
* Agents of S.U.I.T.

Main information

Aliases
N/A

Relatives
N/A

Allies
Mango (Friend/Coworker)  Brash (Friend/Coworker)  Bongo and Marsha (Coworkers)  General Inspector (Former Boss)  C-ORB  Milford  Zeb

Enemies
Houdino  Maestronaut  Ripper

Alignment
Good

Status
Alive

Physical description

Age
Adult

Species
Chameleon

Gender
Female (She/Her)

Media information

First Appearance
InvestiGators: Off the Hook

Latest Appearance
Agents of S.U.I.T. (Volume 1)

Voice
Unknown

"Don't be! Not seeing me is the whole point. I'm a *chameleon!*"-Cilantro, Book 3
Cilantro is a support character of the InvestiGators series, and the main protagonist of Agents of S.U.I.T., she was a Junior S.U.I.T Agent who specialized in designing virtual missions for the S.U.I.T training simulator, Later in InvestiGators: Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S., she was promoted to Field Agent.

Appearance
She is an orange chameleon, her eyes are yellow, she has only 3 fingers on each one of her paws, her belly is of a lighter orange color, and her tail is long and coiled.
In Agents of S.U.I.T. She wears a rust brown V.E.S.T

Personality
Cilantro is a kind chameleon willing to stand out and show the world and S.U.I.T how important she is, although she is somewhat shy to talk to others and is often interrupted because of that, which makes her feel bad and become invisible, she usually takes risks and likes to do things in her own way, also judging those who look suspicious around her. She is ambitious and insightful, always trying to show how good of an agent she can be.

Biography
Investigators: Off the Hook
Her first appearance in the book happens in the first chapter, she introduces herself to Mango and Brash as the one in charge of designing virtual missions for the S.U.I.T training simulator, and as a chameleon who can camouflage with whatever, Brash mentions that she and Mango used to be Junior Agents at the same time, but Mango doesn't seem to remember her at all. She then appears for a brief scene in which Mango and Brash are testing their new V.E.S.T.S, she thinks that Sven was inspired by his camouflage ability to create them and starts playing around with Mango, but Sven tells her that's not the case, and he was inspired by his own octopus camouflage abilities, which disappoints her. She appears again in the final pages of the book, where she is disappointed that she will not be Mango's new partner agent but RoboBrash, and she becomes invisible and leaves S.U.I.T Headquarters. Downtown, she comes across one of the pamphlets that Crackerdile had created for T.A.I.L Blazers, and seems interested to know what it is about.

Investigators: Ants in our P.A.N.T.S.
In continuation of the previous book, Cilantro goes to the old opera house to see what T.A.I.L Blazers has to offer, there she finds the Embiggener, and also encounters with Maestronaut talking about his evil plan to conquer the world, which worries Cilantro and makes her go straight to S.U.I.T headquarters taking the Embiggener with her. Then, she meets with Mango and Robobrash, she explains everything that happened, Robobrash scolds her for doing field missions when she is not a field agent, and tells the General Inspector about it.
Some time later when Mango and Robobrash capture Maestronaut, she approaches Mango to congratulate them two, and at the same time, confesses that she did not encounter with Maestronaut or the Embiggener by pure casuality, but because of her feeling of disappointment and her interest in T.A.I.L. Blazers, Mango understands how Cilantro feels and is happy that she made the right decision. Mango tells Cilantro to help Monocle find out the reason why Robobrash had trouble remembering things. After the girls do that and discover what the problem was, Houdino and Maestronaut escape, destroying S.U.I.T, through Robobrash's communication system, she tells Mango about what happened, and he tells her to accompany him and Robobrash to defeat the evil villains, Cilantro manages to defeat Houdino with help of the Aunty Crime Unit, and at the end of the book she is promoted to Field Agent.

Investigators: Braver and Boulder
In one scene Mango makes a video call with her through his V.E.S.T, she tells Mango that she is investigating some crop circles, referring to her mission in Agents of S.U.I.T. (Volume 1) and the two make corn jokes, which annoys Brash, Mango He tells her how upset Brash has been feeling and she understands it, so they end the call.
Later on she makes a small appearance in the last pages of the book along with other S.U.I.T agents.

Investigators: Heist and Seek
She does not appear in the book itself, but is mentioned by Mango and Brash in a brief post-ending promotional scene, where Brash mentions to Mango that she is now having her own mission in "Agents of S.U.I.T.".

Agents of S.U.I.T
Cilantro, now as a Field Agent, is on one of her missions trying to capture The Dog Burglar, but she doesn't have her V.E.S.T on or did bring handcuffs to arrest him, so Ripper escapes, and is accidentally captured by Mango and Brash who were doing another mission in the same area. Brash lends Cilantro some handcuffs and tells her about the importance of always wearing a V.E.S.T, but she says that if she does her camouflage abilities are limited, after chatting for a brief moment, the InvestiGators leave to continue with his mission.
Cilantro takes Ripper to the S.U.I.T Headquarters jail, and goes to see General Inspector, who notices that Cilantro was not wearing her V.E.S.T and scolds her about it, so he decides that for this mission, he will assign her to a new department, but the instructions of where is said department located in the headquarters are so vague. She asks Bongo, Marsha and the S.U.I.T Headquarters Janitor for help, but gets nowhere with it, in the end she finds the department on her own, and meets Inspector Vague, she assigns Cilantro a mission where, with the help of Monocle, she will have to investigate a mystery happening in some cornfields, when the two girls arrive there, they meet S.C.A.R.E.C.R.O.W, a robot who tells Cilantro about the existence of a secret base underground the cornfields, she finds the base and the girls notice the bad state in which it is, so Monocle asks Cilantro to buy some things for her so they can fix the base's technology and electricity.
After doing the shopping, Cilantro meets Rusell, who thinks she is an alien lizard and starts bothering her, she becomes invisible so she can leave in peace. Upon returning to the farm, she meets Milford, the owner, and they have a conversation about the strange patterns that are being formed in the cornfields, Cilantro goes to the base again and discovers that Monocle tried to fix a robot that she found called C-UBE, Cilantro tells Monocle about what she discovered, and plans to investigate on the night what does causes them, Monocle tells her if she's going to do it, she should use her V.E.S.T. At night, Cilantro tries to investigate using night vision goggles, she discovers that the sheep for some reason are outside, but when trying to count them one by one, she starts feeling sleepy, the last thing she sees is a fling saucer, and she falls asleep.
She wakes up the next morning, and out of curiosity decides to go see where Milford is, she talks to him and then investigates in the library, she discovers that crop circles have been happening for years and they were being investigated by S.U.I.T too, she suspects of Russell, but decides instead to ask Monocle and S.C.A.R.E.C.R.O.W for help to keep watch at her while spying. Already at night she discovers that the sheep are still awake for some reason and they're eating outside, so she pretends to be one too, but she is discovered. The sheep explain to Cilantro that they just want to have more freedom, which the chameleon empathizes with, just as they reveal that they created the crop circle hoax to be a distraction.
She convinces the sheep to tell Milford how they feel, but when they find him they discover that some aliens began to hypnotize everyone, so she along with C-UBE and the sheep decide to infiltrate one of the UFOs with the help of an invisible VEST that Monocle created. They manage to do it, although she discovers that Ripper was also at the UFO by accident and curiosity, together, they arrive at one of the main bases and she takes control of one of the ship's microphones, she tells the aliens that they should make their own decisions and follow their dreams, her words convince them and they decide to stop, making the earth and its citizens return to normal, there she along with the others escape in a mini emergency UFO and arrive safely on land.
Time passes, she and Zeb meet with General Inspector, after a talk Cilantro goes to see Inspector Vague, who tells her that this whole mission was to prove how good she was working with such vague instructions, and promotes her to STARfield agent, surprising her a lot. Later, in the "Fountain of Fallen Agents" she meets with Mango and Brash, Mango tries to give her ice cream but the ice cream tasted disgusting, the alligators thank Cilantro for her heroic work and say goodbye, at the end, Cilantro asks herself if possibly in the future she will have the position of General Inspector.

Investigators: Animated Series
Her debut episode "*Cilantro and C-ORB*" is a retelling of the debut she had in the books, her introducing herself, her chameleon abilities, and her wish to be a Field Agent, until she is interrupted by C-ORB. She then makes two brief appearances in the second teaser of the series, in the first one she is spying on Maestronaut, and in the second one she is with Mango, watching how RoboBrash turned into an angry version of himself.

Trivia* Her voice actress in the animated series is unknown at the moment.
* Her name is another way to say "Coriander"
* In the animated series, she stutters when speaking.
* John Patrick Green in an interview confirmed that Cilantro's creation was done because he wanted to introduce a new female character, and he liked the idea of her being a chameleon.
* In the same interview he also confirmed that at first he planned to make Cilantro green, because that is the common color of chameleons, but since he already had two green characters (Mango and Brash), he decided to make her orange.
	+ He mentions it is "Similar to mango salad, which is topped with cilantro." Which makes sense considering Mango and Cilantro used to be Junior Agents at the same time.
* John Patrick Green also confirmed in the same interview that Cilantro is a tribute to "Sinestro" from *Green Lantern*, clarifying that it is a tribute that "no one's going to connect but me".
* She was once accidentally referenced as "Mango and Brash's sidekick" on the MacKidsBooks' twitter page, a fact that was later denied by the creator, saying that "Cilantro's no sidekick! She's a full field agent!"
* It is possible that she is ambidextrous, as she has been seen to write with both hands, although it is most likely a continuity error.
* She and Mango were planned to be adversaries, but the idea got scrapped

In Other Languages

 **Spanish (EU-SP)** | Cilantro

1. ↑ http://sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=3749
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/johngreenart/status/1620544918891683841?s=20
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/2Lu45VtiGNQ?si=3mO2gm6ODrtg\_LwS&t=2098