Vic Stone

"*You don't get it. You think forcing me to relive this is torture? I relive this every time I go to sleep. I relive this when I close my eyes. You may know who I am, but you don't know shit about me. If you did, you would know that every criminal I bust and every person I save, is me fulfilling a pledge to my mom that she'll never get to hear. Trying to make her proud. Knowing I'm the reason she's not around to see it. That's my burden. That's what it means to be **Cyborg**.*"
—Vic Stone[src]

**Victor "Vic" Stone** (born c. 1996) is the alter-ego of **Cyborg**, a vigilante crime-fighter whose body was augmented with robotic parts by his father, Silas Stone.

## Biography

### Early life

Victor Stone was born in 1996 as the son of Silas and Elinore Stone in Detroit. At the age of six, he met Niles Caulder for the first time. While in high school, Vic joined the football team, his parents told him he should spend more time with his friends. Unfortunately, this led to Vic getting in trouble with his friends and caused his grades to drop, ultimately leading to his parents grounding him and suspending him from the football team for three weeks as punishment. On June 13, 2014, while arguing with his mother in her lab over his punishment, Vic angrily threw some chemicals across the room, which caused an explosion that killed Elinore, and left Vic severely injured. Silas then took Vic to S.T.A.R. Labs in the hopes of saving his life, which he managed to do by infusing Vic with cybernetic enhancements. Shortly after the accident, Niles visited to check up on Vic offered him the chance to come to Cloverton with him, however Vic declined the offer telling Niles that he had other plans. Around the same time, Vic also began fighting crime to help keep Detroit safe.

### Working to find Niles Caulder

While operating as Cyborg, Vic helped to save Patty from a robber and his accomplice. Getting critiqued on his work by his father, Vic went into privacy mode. He surveyed the news, hearing of things happening in Cloverton, Ohio, where he recalled Dr. Niles Caulder to be from. Knowing this, he traveled to the town, tying up a loose albino donkey. He met Cliff Steele, who he eventually learnt knew Dr. Caulder. The donkey suddenly spit up Cliff's friend Jane, and they rushed her back to Doom Manor. Jane suddenly came to, and Vic was introduced to a number of her personalities. One particular one, Baby Doll, was scared of Cliff, and so Vic stayed to watch over Baby Doll while Cliff went to look for answers how to get information from Jane's other personalities. Vic entertained her for a while, before pressing for answers. He accidentally brought out Katy, who chased him from the room. A number of Jane's more violent personalities surfaced, attacking both Vic and Cliff. They eventually locked her in a room, while Vic went outside to have a look at the donkey. He noticed that it had a keyhole-shaped throat, and so he and Larry were able to convince Rita to use her amorphous abilities to have a look down there. As she began looking down there, they lost a grip on her, and she fell through. Because of this, the two men followed inside the donkey. All three found themselves in an alternate dimension. In front of them were specially-labeled headphones from "Nobody", who once they put them on began narrating their actions. They were all suddenly sent to their own hallucinations, Vic reliving the night of his accident, and his mother's subsequent death. Distraught for a moment, all three were soon saved by the Negative Spirit and taken back to the normal world, along with the town of Cloverton. Vic's father suddenly turned up, scolding Vic for having been so reckless. Urging he return home, Vic asked for a few days to sort his situation out. He sought out a guest room, running into Rita, who he complimented for having been a star during their spontaneous mission.

### After the defeat of Mr. Nobody

Now in tiny form, he trains with Rita so that she can learn how to control her powers. However, his heart really isn't in it. Instead, he is fixated on ensuring that Mr. Nobody and Beard Hunter are still trapped in the painting. Once he gets back to his normal size, he quickly leaves the manor and heads to Detroit.

Eventually, he decides to work on his PTSD from surviving the accident that left a half man/half machine and his mother dead. Thus, he decides to attend a support group. At the one he settles on, he sits in and listens to others share their stories. Eventually, he gets to know one of the members after the meeting. When they leave, someone attempts to mug his newest friend, but as a war veteran, she handles the altercation quite easily. They have a quick conversation about whether the cops should be involved, and Vic eventually sees things her way and lets the would-be thief go.

Later, when Vic shows up for another group meeting, he finds out that it's been changed to Wednesdays by Roni, who takes Vic up to her place where they end up having sex after revealing their respective physical traumas to one another. Vic is eventually stood up for the date he asked Roni on, though she sends him an email revealing the truth about her past and the terrible things she's done. He leaves and Roni watches from her car. In the bus on the way home.

After he reunites with Roni, the two of them find out that both S.T.A.R. Labs and Caulder Robotics were part of the modifications made to Roni, which surprised them both. As a result, Vic reaches out to his dad who is more excited about him having a girlfriend than helping him find out about the tech. He eventually brings Roni back with him to the Manor so she can meet the rest of the team. Under the influence of the scants, Roni and Vic decide to perform surgery to fix Roni. Miranda tries to intervene as it's a very bad idea, but they don't seem to think so. A helpful film reveals scants are pink humanoid pests that place bad ideas in people's heads and this causes a pink substance only Scants can see called "idiot" to come out of the infected's ears. Scants use that to create uma jelly which gives the queen powers. The only way to fix things is to kill the queen. From the whole group, Miranda appears to be the only one not infected while the rest decide they want to help kill the queen by going into the painting.

Once the Scants are dealt with, Rita tells Vic about her heroics as Beekeeper and imagines herself with in a crimefighting duo with Vic. However, Vic notices a headline that the VP of Quorum has been found murdered. To make matters worse, Vic can't reach Roni. He and Rita eventually go to Detroit. They show up at Roni's place where the FBI are currently investigating. They find the vial of uma jelly in their search. Vic eventually finds Roni at the diner and confronts her. The uma jelly from their fight with the scants has saved her from dying. However, in the process. She reveals that she did in fact, kill the Quorum VP and may kill again. Vic tries to stop her, and the two of them fight. But in the end, Vic is forced to bust out his Cyborg arm to stop her from harming him.

Some time passes and Vic locks himself in his room listening to sad love songs after his breakup with Roni. Eventually, they he and the others get dragged to the Fair to fight the Candlemaker. Once there, he shows up at Roni's place where the FBI are investigating. They find the vial of uma jelly in their search. Vic eventually finds Roni at the diner and confronts her. The uma jelly from their fight with the scants has saved her from dying. However, in the process. she revelas that she did in fact, kill the Quorum VP and may kill again. Vic tries to stop her, and the two of them fight. But in the end, Vic is forced to bust out his Cyborg arm to stop her from harming him. Vic also runs into his own imaginary friend as well, whom he named Dr. Cowboy, and looks just like his dad. Vic thinks he defeated him, but he pops right back up. Taking a page out of Cliff's tactic, Vic opens up to Dr. Cowboy and mentions his current feelings about Roni. Whereas Rita opens up about her own issues to her paper doll. Unfortunately, one at a time they all get waxed, except Cliff, who gets busted apart first.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Mechanical enhancement:** Large portions of Vic's body were replaced with robotic prosthetics, which are equipped with a variety of features.
	+ **Technopathy:** Vic's systems enabled him to hack into an ATM, using it to taunt and catch a robber.
	+ **Shield generation:** Vic's right arm, which is fully mechanical, contains the ability to generate a small holographic shield over his clothes. It is shown to be flame-resistant.
	+ **Image projection:** Vic's right arm also contains a small projector, which is capable of displaying videos on nearby surfaces, in addition to playing audio from said videos.
	+ **Enhanced strength:** Vic's body provides him with strength greater than a normal human's. He was able to easily overpower two robbers, sending one flying over 10 feet with a kick. He was able to lift Willoughby Kipling into the air with one arm, completely overpowering him.
	+ **Automated repair:** Cyborg's body is capable of regenerating his cybernetic parts, however Vic Stone did not want to activate this feature as it seemed to not only cause him great pain but it also sent an emergency beacon to his father.
	+ **Weapons systems:** Vic's body houses a wide array of weapons such as guns, missiles, and grenades.
		- **Sonic cannon:** Vic's right arm can transform into a cannon, capable of projecting powerful blasts of energy.
		- **Ion grenade:** When the ion grenade is activated, an explosion of energy erupts from Vic's body in all directions.

### Abilities

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* **Gifted intelligence**: *To be added*
* **Skilled tactician**: *To he added*
* **Skilled combatant**: *To be added*

## Equipment

* **Cybernetic enhancements:** Vic's body is equipped with a myriad of mechanical prosthetics that serve to replace his damaged body parts.
* **Grid AI system:** Vic's mechanical parts are managed by the AI named Grid. Grid is also capable of searching the internet, hacking into secured communication channels, and responding to Cyborg's verbal commands.

## Gallery

### Promotional images

#### Season 1

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## Trivia

* Vic claims that he had met the Flash; however, he may have simply been saying this to impress Baby Doll.
* According to Silas, Vic's cybernetics froze his growth after the accident.
* Vic is a foil for Cliff in particular and the Doom Patrol in general. He's already experienced, incredibly capable, well-trained, possesses state of the art cybernetics, and is happy to be a superhero. This makes him a strong contrast to the band of misfits who can barely muster any effort toward being heroes.

## Behind the scenes

* In the comics, Cyborg is a prominent member of both the Justice League and the Titans.

## References

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