Victor Stone

## Cyborg

"*Who you gonna call?*"
—Cyborg

**Victor Stone** aka **Cyborg** is a well-known football player, superhero, and a founding member of both the Justice League and the Teen Titans.

## Physical appearance

Victor is a large African American man. His father's experimental, life-saving procedure has grafted lots of metal and outdated technology to the parts of his body that were destroyed.

## History

### Becoming Cyborg and the Justice League

Victor Stone had a promising high school football career, but his father Silas did not approve of Victor's professional dreams. While at one of his games, he witnessed young orphan Billy Batson sitting in his father's seat. The two formed the beginnings of a friendship, but Victor was still angry with his father for missing the game.

He stormed into S.T.A.R. Labs to angrily confront his father. In a fit of rage, he grabbed the Mother Box they were experimenting on. However, it was at this moment that all the Mother Boxes across the country activated and exploded into portals, beginning an invasion of alien Parademons. The explosion mortally wounded Victor. To save his son's life, Silas repaired his body with the Mother Box tech as well as whatever spare parts he could find, such as a jukebox, a VHS, and an NES. Though not pretty, it worked and transformed Victor into Cyborg. Focused on stopping the invasion, he joined Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, and Captain Marvel, Billy's superhero form, in Metropolis to battle the aliens.

They learned that the ruler of Apokolips, Darkseid, was behind the invasion of Parademons. The heroes battled the monsters as Darkseid arrived on Earth to complete his invasion. He revealed that the only reason he was there was to kidnap Justin Timberlake. Batman refused to let anyone die, despite the fact that Darkseid only wished to lock the singer in a birdcage to entertain him.

Superman was taken by the aliens and Batman went to rescue him. Green Lantern was able to rally the other heroes, and they decided that the best way to take out Darkseid was to disable his eyes and thus his omega beams, which they did. Cyborg was able to send the Parademons back to Apokolips with his Mother Box tech. Batman and Superman arrived to help finish Darkseid and they managed to finally rid Earth of the New God. However, the citizens of Metropolis were very upset by the property damage, causing the heroes to run from the mob.

The President thanked the heroes for their service. Convinced that the world needed a group of heroes that could inspire people, the seven decided to form a team. Superman announced them as the Justice League of America, despite the heroes' complaints.

### Atlantean Invasion

Two years later, Victor was still evolving his technology and coming to terms with his new self. He grew increasingly worried about Dr. Serling Roquette, who kept trying to turn him into her own personal Terminator. When Cyborg received word of a strange submarine attack, he went to Greece to gather Superman and Wonder Woman. Back at the Hall of Justice, the League's new base, the heroes determined that the strange water-breathing soldiers who had attacked the submarine were from the lost city of Atlantis. Batman and Superman discovered evidence of a half-Atlantean man named Arthur Curry and unrest in Atlantis. The heroes managed to track down Curry and helped save him from some underwater monsters. Cyborg and other members of the Justice League traveled with Arthur and his companion Mera to Atlantis. It turned out that Arthur's half-brother Orm had become the king and was marching on the surface world. Cyborg and the other heroes were imprisoned and left as prey for the god Cthulu, but Arthur saved them. The League returned to the surface and battled with the Atlantean army. In the end, they won by Cyborg and Batman projecting footage of Orm admitting to killing his mother, the previous queen, to the army. They turned on their king and eventually pledged loyalty to Arthur after he impressed them with his singing ability, an important trait in Atlantean customs. Cyborg and the other Leaguers determined that Arthur was way too cool for them and would make the heroes look bad, thus conspiring to make him out to be a joke on the surface world. Arthur and Mera joined the Justice League as part-timers, known as Aquaman and Aquawoman.

### The Teen Titans

In 2005, Vic left the League to found the Teen Titans with Dick Grayson.

### Doom

In 2008, Vandal Savage used plans he'd stolen from Batman to exploit the weaknesses of the various members of the Justice League. He assembled his Legion of Doom, a team of six other villains who could each take out a hero in turn. As Cyborg was no longer a member, he avoided the attacks and was able to help Batman save the others. The Justice League then attacked Savage and his Legion at their headquarters. As a last-ditch effort to defeat the heroes and assert his control over humanity, Savage decided to kill the whole race and start over. He launched a missile into the sun to destabilize the human species. Superman begged God to save them... which He did (in reality, this was Doctor Manhattan). In the aftermath of these events, Cyborg rejoined the League since the Titans had disbanded. The members of the Justice League voted on whether or not to kick Batman out since he'd betrayed their trust so harshly. They decided to keep him on since he paid the bills.

## Resources

### Abilities

Thanks to his technological enhancements:

* **Flight:** Victor can fly.
* **Invulnerability:** Victor is largely indestructible.
* **Laser cannon:** Victor can blast a laser beam from his cannon.
* **Self-regeneration:** Victor was able to heal his damaged tissue.
* **Supercomputer:** Victor is a living supercomputer, greatly increasing his intelligence and capabilities.
* **Super strength:** Victor possesses inhuman levels of strength.
* **Technopathy:** Victor can interface and integrate with different technological systems.

## Appearances

* *Justice League War Abridged*
* *Throne of Atlantis Abridged*
* *Wonder Woman Abridged*
* *Justice League Doom Abridged*
* *Suicide Squad Abridged 2: Ticket to Heck* (no lines)
* *Young Justice Abridged*
	+ "Seeing Red" (no lines)
	+ "Father's Day" (mentioned)

## Quotes

* *"Booyah!"*
* *"Wonder Woman! Your tits, calm them."*