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| “ | My body may have it's limitations but when I put my mind to it there's nothing I can't do. | „ |
| ~ Cyborg. |
| “ | Human. Tech. I don't choose sides, Grid. I'm the bridge between them. I'm a cyborg. | „ |
| ~ Prime-Earth Cyborg to Grid. |
| “ | Booyah!! | „ |
| ~ Cyborg's most famous quote and signature catchphrase. |
Victor Stone, also known as Cyborg, is a major character in the DC Universe, specifically serving as one of the protagonists in the Teen Titans and the Justice League franchises.
He is most famous for being a member of the Teen Titans and was one of the main heroes of the cartoon as well as the comics (both those based on the series and the original comics, which predated the Teen Titans cartoon). Since the New 52, he is a founding member of the Justice League.
An upcoming athlete, Stone was involved in a tragic accident that destroyed most his body, but was saved by technology that made him half-man, half-machine. He continues to struggle with keeping his humanity against his enhancements, but decided to become to a superhero to stop villains. In the New 52 storyline, Stone was injured during Darkseid's invasion, and was saved when he was merged with the energy of a father box and nanites.
Cyborg is arguably one of the most popular of the Titans and as such he was one of the core groups throughout the run of the series - he is notable as a character who is not only incredibly powerful in strength but also extremely intelligent, being a genius with an IQ of 170. Even taking into account his remaining biological body on its own Cyborg has above average strength. Despite dealing with trying to maintain his humanity, Stone has dedicated his time being a vital member of the Titans and Justice League when dealing with threats.
Since his debut, he has appeared in numerous media in films, television and video games. In most iterations in animation and video games, he is famously voiced by Khary Payton. In Smallville, he was portrayed by the late Lee Thompson Young, in the DC Extended Universe, he is portrayed by Ray Fisher, and in Doom Patrol, he is portrayed by Joivan Wade.
He was created by Marv Wolfman, the late Dick Giordano and the late George Pérez, and first appeared in DC Comics Presents #26 in October of 1980.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Cyborg was born Victor Stone to his parents, Silas and Elinore Stone. Vic's parents were scientists at S.T.A.R. Labs who performed experiments on Victor in order to increase his IQ. The experiments payed off and Victor was granted a 170 IQ at a young age but resented his parents and father in particular for trying to control him. Victor would rebel against his parents by getting involved with a thug named Ron Evers who would later become a professional criminal.
His father disapproved of Victor wasting his potential consorting with hoodlums and gang members insisting instead that Victor put his mind to use to become a superior student and get a head start on life in school, Vic rebelled against his father further by working out and getting a head start in life as a professional athlete in school instead.
Becoming Cyborg[]
One day Vic visited S.T.A.R. Labs while his parents were performing an experiment that involved opening up an inter-dimensional portal, the experiment went awry when a creature traveled through the portal and wreaked havoc on the lab. Eventually the creature was sent back through the portal but not before Elinore was killed in the creature's rampage and Victor was seriously injured. Silas saved Victor's life by rebuilding him as a cyborg, this combined with his mother's death only served to make Vic and Silas grow further apart. Vic soon became a member of the Teen Titans and took up the name "Cyborg".
Silas, wanting to help Victor put up the money to have the Titan Tower built for his son and his new team, though Silas never told Vic he was the one who made the arrangements for Titan Tower and remained an anonymous sponsor. Cyborg would find out later that his father was the sponsor of Titan Tower but also that the creature that killed his mother had also given Silas radiation poisoning. Cyborg never made peace with his father even after his death but has since come to hold a certain level of respect for him and after his father's death Cyborg only became more focused on giving his life purpose by protecting society.
His backstory was changed in Teen Titans 2003 series in which he was involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his mother, instead of being attacked by an unidentified blob like alien life-form, though in both cases he gained his cybernetic upgrade. This change was due to being too gruesome for children to watch.
New 52[]
For his origin in the New 52 (which was later adapted into the Justice League: War film), he went to S.T.A.R. Labs he to visit his father who was angry that Silas kept missing his football games, which he was getting scouted for scholarships for different colleges. When the motherboxes activate and it creates some Boom Tubes for the army of Parademons to fly through, it creates a shockwave and as Victor was too close to it, the radiation greatly affected his body (along with killing a S.T.A.R. Lab technician). Refusing to let his son die like he did his wife, Silas has Victor moved to the Red Room where he used experimental technology, nanites and energies from a Father Box to create a cybernetic body which not only saved Victor's life, but also allowed him to learn of Darkseid's Plans.
Victor soon awoke to discovered what his father did to him before several Parademons attacked, causing his Sonic Cannon automatically fire and destroy them along with half the building. Although the incident saved the life of scientist Sarah Charles, Victor was mortified over what he had become and fled the scene despite his father calling him to stay. He later stopped a Parademon from attacking a woman while wandering the streets, but after doing so, he absorbed it's components that allowed to travel via a Boom Tube. Doing so allowed him to encounter several heroes fighting against Darkseid, and assisted them due to having access to the New Gods' plan. Once Darkseid was stopped, Stone became one of the founding members of the Justice League and invited Silas to be present in the audience at the announcement ceremony.
Alterations to the timeline since then have seemingly reverted the Justice League's origins to resemble its origins on New Earth, thus calling Cyborg's involvement in its foundations into question.
Portrayals[]
Films[]
- In DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse, he was voiced by Phil LaMarr, who voices Kotal Kahn in the Mortal Kombat series, and also voiced Samurai Jack in the titular series, Bail Organa in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the title character in Static Shock.
- LaMarr reprised his voice for the character in 2019's DC Super Hero Girls.
- In Justice League: Doom, he was voiced by Bumper Robinson, who also voiced Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier - The Official Game, Bumblebee in Transformers: Animated, Terraspin and Rook Blonko in Ben 10 Omniverse, War Machine in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and Ryan Kinkade in Voltron: Legendary Defender.
- Robinson reprised his voice for the character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Lego Dimensions, and Lego DC Super-Villains.
- In Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite, he was voiced by Brian Bloom, who voices William "B.J." Blazkowicz in MachineGames Wolfenstein series, and also voiced Adam "Kane" Marcus in the Kane & Lynch series, Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer video game, Matt Horner in the StarCraft series, Alex Shepherd in Silent Hill: Homecoming, Yuri in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Jackie Estacado in The Darkness II, Blackout in Skylanders, Keegan Russ in Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Nick Reyes in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
- Bloom previously voiced the character in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.
- In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, he was voiced by Michael B. Jordan, who portrays Adonis Johnson Creed in the Creed films, and also played Human Torch in the 2015 Fantastic Four film.
- In Justice League: War, he was voiced by Shemar Moore.
- More reprised his voice for the character in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, The Death of Superman, Reign of the Supermen, and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
- In JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, he was voiced by Avery Kidd Waddell.
- In the DC Extended Universe, he is portrayed by Ray Fisher.
- In DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon, he was voiced by Wataru Takagi.
- In DC League of Super-Pets, he was voiced by Daveed Diggs, who also voiced Dos in Ferdinand.
- In Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, he was voiced by Tru Valentino.
Television[]
- In The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, he was voice by Ernie Hudson, who also played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
- In the 2003 Teen Titans animated series, he was voiced by Khary Payton, who also plays Ezekiel in The Walking Dead, and also voiced Moby Lick in Street Sharks, Maurice in Codename: Kids Next Door, Aqualad in Young Justice, Knox in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Grimlock in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Azrael in the Arkhamverse, Sticky Joe in Teen Titans Go!, Rafiki in The Lion Guard, and Wasabi in Big Hero 6 animated series.
- Payton reprised his voice for the character in New Teen Titans, Injustice series, Teen Titans Go!, DC Superhero Girls, Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Cosmic Clash, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash.
- In Smallville, he was portrayed by the late Lee Thompson Young.
- In Mad, he was voiced by Hugh Davidson.
- In Robot Chicken DC Comics Specials, he was voiced by Abraham Benrubi (who also voiced Professor Utonium in Robot Chicken) and Seth Green (who voices Chris Griffin in Family Guy, and also voiced Goku in the English dub of Dragonball, Milo in Mars Needs Moms, Alfredo Linguini, Ralphie Tennelli and Thomas the Tank Engine in Robot Chicken, and Leonardo in 2012s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and also played Richie Tozier in the It miniseries).
- In New Teen Titans episode "Lighting Round", he was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who also voiced Brutus in The Secret of NIMH, Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Demolition, Action Hank in Dexter's Laboratory, Gantu and Cobra Bubbles in Lilo & Stitch, Antauri in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Snare-oh in Ben 10, Maurice in The Penguins of Madagascar, Cleveland Brown, Jr. in The Cleveland Show, General Monger in Monsters vs. Aliens tv series, Tree Rex and Stump Smash in Skylanders.
- In Doom Patrol, he is portrayed by Jovian Wade.
- In Young Justice: Outsiders, he is voiced by Zeno Robinson.
Video Games[]
- In DC Universe Online, he was voiced by Alexander Brandon.
- In LittleBigPlanet 2, he was voiced by Tom Clarke-Hill.
Quotes[]
| “ | So yeah, real friends... I didn't have 'em while I was growin' up. An' sometimes I get a bit misty-eyed 'cause I certainly do have 'em now. | „ |
| ~ Cyborg. |
| “ | Been in fights before, but never nothin' like this. These things aren't even human, and I'm fightin' on worlds not even my dad dreamed existed. Hell, don't know if this is real or a dream or a nightmare... But if I don't keep fightin', I'll never wake up to find out. | „ |
| ~ Cyborg. |
| “ | For the first time in years, I feel like I fully awakened the human part of me. And that makes me feel very good. | „ |
| ~ Prime Earth Cyborg. |
| “ | The thing you've never understood, Anomaly...is that you've always been destined to fail. Because you lack the one thing which sets us apart from you. You are nothing more that a pale clone of a human. You lack our human spirit, and our will to survive. | „ |
| ~ Prime Earth Cyborg to Anomaly. |
| “ | --Not long ago, I wondered if I'd lost my soul, even my identity, by becoming a machine--and maybe even a monster. But I wasn't a monster. I was who I'd always been. And my soul is still intact. In fact, now my soul needed the machine to embark on its journey to the next evolutionary step for humankind. It was a journey I relished taking, the only way I could--As Cyborg. | „ |
| ~ Prime Earth Victor Stone. |
| “ | It's not in the circuity is it? It's not the machine that resists you it's my spirit! That's the part you can't break! | „ |
| ~ Cyborg in the animated series. |
| “ | I am just like you, but it's not your arm that makes us the same; it's the stuff connected to it. | „ |
| ~ Cyborg in the Teen Titans animated series. |
| “ | I need to know we're the good guys. | „ |
| ~ Cyborg in Injustice 2. |
Trivia[]
- As a cyborg, Victor is immortal.
- Because Cyborg is physically a teenager but also technically an adult, he has been welcome into the Justice League but maintains permanent status as a Teen Titan.
External Links[]
- Cyborg on the DC Wiki
- Cyborg on the VS Battles Wiki
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