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Titans. He had so much better chemistry with them. With the Justice League I didn't find him fitting in as well. Plus due to him being reclassified as a founding member of the JL he got his own solo series which was bland. Makes me wish he was back in the Titans even more.
PS Martian Manhunter, Founding Member of JL > Cyborg, Founding Member of JL
"Plus due to him being reclassified as a founding member of the JL he got his own solo series which was bland."
I thought the plots of the series (at least the New 52 one) were interesting, but his character was just so... calm... THE WHOLE TIME! It was kind of annoying actually.
When I think of a team Cyborg is in I automatically think about the Teen Titans so I guess the Titans.
I've only read JL stuff (I'm trying out the N52 Titans soon because of Barr Tor, he is one of the few Speedsters I dont know a thing about)
Oh lord, your in for a surprise^
As far as the confusion goes, Vic’s pre-Flashpoint origin tied him into joining the New Teen Titans. He wasn’t in the superhero community at all until he was invited to found that iteration of the team. Post-Flashpoint, DC decided to take that baseline story of connecting his origin to a team, but they tied it to the Justice League instead of the Titans, making him a JL founder (seemingly to add a little ethnic diversity to the founding JL roster).
Either way, Cyborg has been a member of both the Titans and the Justice League in both New Earth and Prime Earth (the two main continuities people generally refer to). In NE, Cyborg served on the New Teen Titans (later just the New Titans) for three years in-universe (over a decade in real-time) before his body died and he became Cyberion. After an incident known as The Technis Imperative, Vic gained a new physical body after his soul was downloaded into an advanced piece of technology called the Omegadrome, formerly used by a Titan named Minion as a battle armor and space ship (it changed shape according to the user’s will). Thus, Vic adopted his Cyborg moniker again and joined a new iteration of the Titans that simply went by Titans. He had a golden, malleable body with lots of new features. Before too long, Dick and former Titans member Red Star developed a clone body for Vic. The Omegadrome merged with the body, and Vic became able to appear human but then summon the Omegadrome technology to the surface whenever he needed. He decided to leave the team for a bit and enjoy life. He served as a member of Titans L.A. during this part of his life while still using the name Cyborg. After moving to Central City, Cyborg became one of its protectors and teamed up with his old teammate Flash (Wally West) a number of times. During one of these times, his Omegadrome parts were affected by powerful energy that made it so that his body effectively looked and functioned like it originally did, but with a golden hue. Off-panel, he got upgrades and had a more advanced, silver armor before he participated in the events of “Graduation Day.”
Afterward, he formed a new team of Teen Titans that had half veterans like himself, Beast Boy, and Starfire, and then half new, younger heroes he wanted to reach Titans values to. He led this team until Infinite Crisis, when he was damaged and put into a coma for a year of in-universe time. When he woke, Cyborg put together a new roster of Teen Titans from the broken pieces of the last one, and he led the team for a while before leaving. Later, Cyborg decided to form his own team of Titans, creating Titans East. Unfortunately, his team was attacked by the Sons of Trigon. One (Power Boy) was killed, and the others were either put into comas or were critically injured. He himself was dismembered, but doctors/scientists kept him alive and rebuilt his body. The older Titans reformed, with Cyborg joining. Eventually, though, this incarnation fell apart, and Cyborg became one of four former Titans to join the then-newest incarnation of the Justice League of America, alongside Donna Troy, Dick (as Batman), and Starfire. He left active duty after a few missions, though, to become tech support. He and Red Tornado became close.
Flashpoint hit.
In the new continuity, Cyborg became a Leaguer first. But we learned as of 2018 that he had a period in the past (after joining the JL but before the start of the New 52 timeline) when he was on a Teen Titans roster. We even got to see the lineup. So he has officially been a Titan in PE. As of the most recent Teen Titans issue (#47), Cyborg was standing among other older former Titans, who approached the current young heroes. This scene further solidified his standing as a Titan in PE. Cyborg is not currently on an active JL team anymore. He was on the main team until 2018, when he founded the splinter team Justice League Odyssey, whose comic series recently ended. It looks like DC wants to push his Titan heritage into the forefront of the character again, though.
I mean.... the only reason hes on JL is because hes the token black guy so that DC can pretend it has diveristy.
With New52 combining The the New earth, Wildstorm, some vertigo and Milestone characters they could have replaced Martian Manhunter with Icon instead of Cyborg. They get the best of both worlds.
Instead, the only Icon we got to see was in a flashback splash page in the emergency wrap-up issue of Static Shock.
I feel like the Justice League treats him as an object, the Titans treat him as a person.
What do you think?