Cigar Man

**Cigar Man** is a character whose name stems from his obsession of cigars. He is the father to Chairman and Doorman.

Cigar Man is known to buy out many businesses and corporations either to funnel under his parent company, Cigarman Inc. or to dissolve them and seize the assets.

## History

### Early Life

Cigar Man graduated from Harvard with a degree in business. He had excelled with flying colors and made friends with other business-minded individuals at the time, including Sir Hargreave.

### Two Smokin' Blokes

The two agreed to build a business together under the name Two Smokin' Blokes, which was to produce tobacco-related products such as pipes, cigars, cigarettes, cigarette papers, filters, etc. But the United States had just joined the Vietnam War a month into their company's construction.

Sir Hargreave chose to sign up for the war effort - news which Cigar Man struggled with. After accepting that he would be left to run Two Smokin' Blokes alone, he gave Sir Hargreave a gift: his first cigar.

Cigar Man struggled to run the company alone, and two years in Two Smokin' Blokes was sold for $250,000.

The sale of the company tormented Cigar Man, as he felt he had betrayed his good friend. He spent three months drinking, until he decided to turn to Wall Street and spend money investing in stocks, intending to spend his money away.

### After Two Smokin' Blokes

Over the next year, Cigar Man made connections with wealthy business-owners with the intent of handling their investments for them. However, Cigar Man, known for his impressive memory, used his business skills, charisma and cunning to secretly funnel investments into a phony business known as "CMINC"; using other connections to falsify legal documents in order to keep everything under the radar, and a year before the end of the Vietnam War he bought back Two Smokin' Blokes, renaming it to Cigarman Inc.

He later purchased a popular fast food chain, some restaurants, and by a few more years he had purchased most of the business in New York entirely.

As his desire for money grew, he was tipped off about the war economy by an unknown business partner. Intrigued, Cigar Man began pumping money into the the war effort - on both sides, funding the manufacture of US and Asian firearms, thus causing a large spike in Cigar Man's income.

Sir Hargreave returned after the end of the war believing Cigar Man had saved a position for him only to find he was no longer the friend he once knew. He had been utterly overtaken by the taste of money.

The two entered a physical altercation, but ultimately Sir Hargreave left Cigar Man to run his corrupt empire.

As the years have passed, Cigar Man continued to purchase many businesses, funding entertainment industries and war efforts.

## Trivia

* Unlike a lot of Man-Men characters, Cigar Man's name comes from his interest in a particular item, rather than being part item or having the ability to command their namesake item, unlike his sons Chairman and Doorman who can summon and command chairs and doors, respectively.
* He is incredibly good at handling money, with some believing he has a photographic memory as he can remember every single transaction he has conducted as well as every single cigar he has smoked.