Cyborg (Teen Titans)

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**Victor Stone**, also known as **Vic** and **Cyborg**, is one of the main characters from the *Teen Titans* animated series.

As a teenager, Cyborg was hideously mutilated in a car accident. Fortunately, his parents were foremost experts in cybernetic enhancements, so they integrated their son with a variety of advanced robotic components in order to save his life. For quite some time afterward, he was despondent about his change, and even in the series he remains somewhat unhappy with the loss of his normal life. But he retains a strong zest for life and devotes himself to making the best of his situation, to the extent he usually appears much happier than Robin does. As a cybernetically augmented human, Cyborg has several built in weapons (mainly a sonic cannon), the general resilience you'd expect of someone who's only partly squishy flesh and covered in armor, and super strength, as well as a considerable IQ that he puts to use as a Gadgeteer Genius.

In the XP4 fics, Cyborg debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Teen Titans.

## **Appearance**

Cyborg is dark-skinned muscular young man with a body cybernetic. Each parts of his body is made of blue, white & silver metal including the left side of his face where his eye is red.

## **Personality**

Cyborg is a very outgoing, cool, and fun-loving character who likes to enjoy life, especially since he found friends who consider him a person, not a freak. He is upbeat, smart, funny, and cheerful, but serious and heroic when he needs to be. He likes to enjoy playing video games, tinkering with technological gizmos and eating. He also tends to be stubborn at times and has had some serious arguments with Robin in the past, but he does make a capable second-in-command in Robin's absence. He also frequently bickers with Beast Boy, mostly about the latter's culinary taste and habit of misplacing all manners of personal items, though the two entertain a close friendship.

Cyborg often plays the protective big brother role of the team, getting quite serious when they are upset and does whatever he can to make them feel better. He is never hesitant to put Beast Boy in his place when he thinks the younger Titan is being inconsiderate of Raven's or Starfire's feelings. Likewise, Raven and Starfire also do the same for Cyborg, evident in "Car Trouble" and "Deception".

Much like the other Titans, Cyborg does not take betrayal lightly. He hates losing battles, especially to seemingly insignificant opponents. Their first defeat from Terra made him extremely angry with himself, because he had a chance to take a shot but didn't. He has been known to display emotions of anger (which he often takes out on his friends), frustration, and becoming depressed.

What emotions Cyborg feels, he feels deeply and passionately, but he also has a mature head on his shoulders at times, shown partly in how quick he is to forgive Terra after her sacrifice.

One facet of personal vulnerability is Cyborg's great personal pride in his inventions and constructions. For this reason, he tends to foster an immense dislike for anyone abusing his technology for selfish reasons, especially Gizmo and Brother Blood, and to be overprotective of his most personal projects, like the T-Car.

He also possesses a tremendous appetite, and he will consume any edibles within his reach when hungry. His favorite food is barbecue and he also especially enjoys other meat, milkshakes, pizza, and waffles. The only food he would not voluntarily touch is Starfire's cooking and tofu (especially since Beast Boy goes to great lengths to try and make him eat it) although he once mistakenly ate the alien meat substitute.

As revealed in "Troq", Cyborg has a personal dislike for bigots as shown when he became disgusted with Val-Yor when he found out what he had really be calling Starfire.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Cyborg is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the Teen Titans division. He also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Teen Titans**

In Chapter 2, Cyborg, alongside his team, were seen taking on a group called the Toy Factory at Jump City when the New Age Avengers and Herald arrives to aid them and after defeating their foes, the two groups gathered around and decided to have a conversation elsewhere.

In Chapter 3, Cyborg, alongside Beast Boy, Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams, Jake Long and Randy Cunningham, are seen playing video games in the living room inside the Titan Tower. Later when H.I.V.E. Five began to cause trouble in Jump City, Cyborg and the others arrived to stop them.

In Chapter 4, Cyborg, alongside his team, the New Age Avengers and Herald, are seen taking a break from searching a *Blessed* at the Pizza House somewhere in Jump City when they met The Hunting Team. When the Emotionless attacked the city, Cyborg and his team alongside The Hunting Team jumped into action while the others stayed behind. They later fought and defeated a number of Emotionless while saving a girl named Serra Deville at the same time. After the battle, Herald and the New Age Avengers met up with them and told The Hunting Team that Hunter Isaac Rey is sent back to Neo-City and later discovering Serra as the *Blessed*.

In Chapter 5, Cyborg, alongside Eddy Skipper McGee, Edwin "Ed" Horace Williams, Jake Long and Beast Boy, are seen camping outside the Titan Tower when a spacecraft landed near them where they later met an alien girl named Panooki Zarrya whom seemingly fell in love with Eddy, much to their shock. Later, they brought Panooki inside the tower and after learning the local language, Panooki introduced herself and told everyone her task to find a male to marry and found Eddy. The next morning, Cyborg, alongside everyone are gathered around the lounge, eating breakfast and having a conversation.

In Chapter 6, Cyborg, alongside Eddy Skipper McGee and Lunette Yaeger, showing Panooki Zarrya around the streets of Jump City when they came across a magician-criminal named Mumbo and chased him around the city. Later that day, Cyborg was in awe after Eddy managed to reform Mumbo and got him to join them.

In Chapter 7, Cyborg, alongside his team, the New Age Avengers, The Hunting Team, Herald, Serra Deville, Panooki Zarrya and Mumbo were present inside the Titan Tower where Kid Flash and Jinx told them about the Toy Factory's plan on attacking the city. Cyborg is later present at the heroes assembly, getting themselves ready for the attack.

In Chapter 8, Cyborg took part in the battle against the Toy Factory in Jump City.

In Chapter 10, Cyborg is present when Marcus "The Kane" McGee defeated Andy the Ragdoll and then witnessing the Toy Factory retreating into a portal. He is later present at the Toy Factory's base where it's been decided to destroy the toy machine and the remaining toys be donated to charity.

In the epilogue, Cyborg is revealed to have joined the Heroes Coalitions.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries**

In Chapter 72, Cyborg, alongside his team, the New Age Avengers, The Hunting Team, Panooki Zarrya, Mumbo and Serra Deville, were briefly seen having a karaoke sessions at the living room inside the Titan Tower in Jump City.

In Chapter 74, Cyborg is present during the street fight between Darren Cross and Sean Paul in an underground parking lot at one mall somewhere in Neo-City.

In Chapter 78, Cyborg is present at the charity event in the central park of Neo-City and later witnessed the arrival of DES.

In Chapter 80, Cyborg is amongst the many crowd-goers for a charity concert in a park somewhere in Neo-City where he witnessed the Crew 5's performance, the ScamLords & the Gemstars' collaboration performance and Marcus "The Kane" McGee's harp performance, much to his awe.

In Chapter 81, Cyborg is seen running outside the Training Camp for some odd reason.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - AKB0048**

In Chapter 25, Cyborg is present in confronting the DES Soldiers in Neo-City.

In Chapter 29, Cyborg is amongst the thousands of AKB-fans gathered around the concert hall in a city somewhere Kasumigastar and later witnessed the return of Atsuko Katagiri and the rest of the missing idols, and had a great time watching the performances afterwards.

In Chapter 32, Cyborg took part of paying respects for Mace Wyndu's death by attending his funeral via burial at sea in Atamistar before witnessing the arrival of a fleet of Dimensional Defense Union ships whom paid their respects for Mace by gifting him with a Heroes' Tribute.

## **Abilities**

### **Powers**

* **Cybernetic/Robotic Exoskeleton**: A large part of Cyborg's human body was replaced with cybernetic implants encased in titanium plating. His brain has been sufficiently altered as to be immune to Brother Blood's psychic powers. He possess most normal human functions though, such as needing sleep, food, and has been shown being able to get sick. However, he does exhibit machine-like traits, such as needing an appropriate power source to keep his body running. The cybernetics bestow with the following abilities:
	+ Superhuman strength and endurance. He once demonstrated that he was strong enough to pick up a whole building and swing it like a bat. is known as a level 10 hero and the highest is 10. He is incredibly durable to harm, and resistant to adverse conditions like extreme heat, cold, and sea pressure.
	+ High-end sensor, communications, and computational technology.
	+ Producing several different tools (a saw, a welding torch, a flashlight, etc.) from his arms. His fingers also have various optics and audio tools inside them.
	+ Cyborg's inbuilt offensive capabilities include his trademark Sonic Cannon (one in each arm), smaller sonic blasters located in his feet, two sets of missile launchers (one in each shoulder) and a couple of missiles in his chest..
	+ He is capable of detaching both arms from his body, either attached to a cable as a grappling hook, or launched as flying projectiles. He is able to remotely control them once detached, making them useful for reconnaissance and surveillance.
	+ At one point, he installed a super-processor chip called the Maximum-7 to further increase his abilities, but an overload forced Robin to remove it.

### **Abilities**

* **Genius Intellect**: Cyborg is an expert in the fields of mechanical engineering, robotics, physics and computer science. In addition to maintaining his own cybernetic systems, Cyborg is in charge of the technology within Titan's Tower, such as their security, analytic and electrical systems. He also invented his own specialized vehicle, which he dubbed the "T-car".
* **Leadership:** At times, especially when Robin is absent, Cyborg has demonstrated excellent leadership and tactical capabilities, which came especially handy in the formation of Titans East. He holds charisma, and an enormous amount of willpower.
* **Expert Swordsmanship Skills:** When was trapped 5,000 years in the past, he was shown to have remarkable swordsman skills as a warrior during the battle with Krall.

### **Titans Tower Merge**

When in great danger, Cyborg is actually able to merge his entity fully with Titans Tower, and draw upon its massive energy reserves. When he connects to it, a sonic beam cannon comes out of his shoulder and can obliterate a landscape. An example of this is when Slade attacked the tower with Trigon's army, he merged and was able to destroy the entire army in seconds (Although a new one rose from the earth in seconds as well). When he merged with Titans Tower, he had a cannon on his left shoulder and his hands. This caused the lights in the tower to shut down.

This ability has its own cons though. His entire power cell and the whole power of Titans' Tower is only just enough to make one blast. This is why he only uses it in desperation, and it is much like an ultimate form, much like Beast Boy's Werebeast form and Raven's white form.

## **Trivia**

* Cyborg's origin is far more gruesome in the original DC Comics: An alien blob killed his mother and dissolved the parts of his body that the machines currently replace, which were grafted on by his father.
* Cyborg's civilian name from the DC Comics, Victor Stone, and the name of his voice actor, Khary Payton, were combined in "Episode 257-494" to the name Doctor Victor Payton, the guest of a talk show in that episode. Coincidentally, this is also the name of the voice actor's father.
	+ The name "Victor" might also come from the character "Victor Frankenstein" from the novel "Frankenstein".
	+ His alter-ego Stone's name is derived from his DC Comics last name.
* In most of his appearances, Cyborg's eyes are gray and have no pupils. But, in close-up screenshots of , his eyes are dark blue and do have pupils.
* Cyborg is revealed to have had a little crush on Jinx.
* Since Cyborg drives the T-Car, it is reasonable to assume he is at least 16 years old.
* Cyborg's strength varies; he struggles to lift a 500 pound weight, but he can lift a building weighing a ton. This may be because after his first battle with Atlas, he learned that he can circumvent his limits that he thought he had, being part machine.
* Cyborg loves meat, but he hates tofu. Yet, he ate the Source at the end of "Employee of the Month".
* Cyborg considers heroes like Robot Man something of a prototype of himself. They allowed for the development of the cybernetics that saved his life.
* In the episode "Overdrive", he learned to speak Tamaranian.
* Height 6`.
* Cyborg has 35 weak spots.
* He and Starfire are the only Titans that Slade never taunted.
* In the movie, *Justice League vs. Teen Titans*, Cyborg was a member of Justice League instead of the Titans.
* Unlike Beast Boy and Robin, Cyborg is the only male whose color is different in the episode "Switched" than in the theme. In the episode "Switched", Cyborg's color is white whereas in the opening theme, Cyborg's color is azure.