We try so hard to change the ones we love. If it's any comfort, it took me a lifetime to see the futility in that. Hey... I know it hurts, but don't use it as an excuse to hide away in here. And I'm not just saying that beacuse there's a descomposing body down the hall. 
- — Silas Stone src
Doctor Silas Stone is the strict and controlling father of Vic Stone who turned him into the superhero Cyborg to save his life after an explosion. A former S.T.A.R. Labs scientist, he used his abilities to keep Vic under his thumb, but as he saw how much that hurt their relationship, he softened a bit to be more easy-going and regularly assisting him on his adventures with the Doom Patrol.
History
Creation of Cyborg
In his youth, Silas Stone became a respected scientist, befriending the immortal scientist Niles Caulder and joining S.T.A.R. Labs, where he fell in love with the scientist Elinore, whom he married. In 1996, Silas and Elinore conceived a son, Victor, who was treated strictly and lovingly for his safety, and Vic had problems with Silas because he was working and not concentrating on his soccer games. On one occasion, Silas tried to go to his son's game, but was harassed by a security guard.[1][2]
Discussion about the creation of Cyborg
When Elinore and Vic suffered an accidental explosion at home, Silas cried for his family, however, he could use cybernetic technology for both of them, and Niles convinced him to save Vic, since Elinore would have wanted it that way, so he accepted, putting robotic parts on Vic, and refusing to wear a synthetic skin on him because it was experimental. After the operation, Silas ended his friendship with Niles for forcing him to put robotic parts on his son, refusing to take Vic with his other experiments to his manor, calling out Niles for ruining strangers' lives, and implanting false memories into Vic to protect him from the truth about his mother. With Vic now empowered, Silas trained him to become a vigilante superhero named Cyborg and gave him Grid, an artificial intelligence. On one occasion, Silas asked Niles for help with a new eye for Vic and gradually regained their friendship over time.[1][3][4][5]
Problems with Vic
Silas argues with Vic about his decisions
In 2019, Silas learned of Vic's successful rescue of a woman who was going to be assaulted or killed, calling his son to talk to him and Silas was not so impressed because it took 57 seconds, scolding Vic, asking him to be better, which Vic agreed, before closing the call. The next day, Silas discovered that Vic was not on earth, so he headed to Cloverton, at Niles's manor, and found his son with Niles's patients. Silas argued with his son, discovering that Niles had been kidnapped, which he didn't care about because there was always a way back, refusing Vic to stay to look for him, since his work in Detroit was important to honor Eleanore, but Vic insisted on stay, angering Silas that Vic was full of slime, promising to make him better, which he refuses, leaving Silas to go home alone.[1]
When Vic asked Silas for a jet with the destination to travel to Paraguay in search of a clue to find Niles with the team, Silas refused to give it to him because he would not use it to return home, arguing about independence, and told his Vic that you must use your own resources to achieve it. Later, Silas sent a jet to pick up Vic and his friends from Paraguay, promising Vic that he would always be there for him, though Vic closed the call, wanting to be independent from his father.[6]
Talk from one parent to another
Silas received an alert message from Vic, traveling back to the manor to help him in his destroyed parts, deciding to put it on sleep mode to update it for 3 hours, and they both realized that he was missing a finger, deciphering that it was inside of Cliff Steele, Niles's robotic patient. While Vic was in sleep mode, Silas talked to Cliff about the explosion that caused Vic to be damaged, learning that it was to save them from Mister Nobody, the villain who kidnapped Niles, and worried about his son, claiming for his action, but Cliff defended his friend for being a hero, getting angry at Silas for being a bad father, just like him. Thoughtful at Cliff's advice, Silas woke Vic after giving him better ones, promising never to intrude on his privacy again, sharing a hug. Silas was again called by Vic to discuss how he turned off his normal notifications, including Cazh, a dating app, and considered the messages a waste of time.[7][8]
Weeks later, Silas returned to the manor to talk to Vic about getting out of the system, discovering from his roommates that Vic had disappeared, so he began to investigate and learned that Vic had desperately disabled Grid, which he group considered stress from their strict father. Silas learned from Larry Trainor, a man with a negative spirit, that Vic was kidnapped by the Bureau of Normalcy, an agency tasked with trapping oddities, and failed to enlist the help of some friends in the government to free his son, so he decided to take a more illegal way, which was to infiltrate the Ant Farm, the bureau's scientific base. With the group's help, Silas outlined a plan that involved being captured to start an escape from the inside, and Silas would pretend to be the one who caught them, leaving Rita Farr, an ex-actress with gelatinous powers, to enter Cliff and free everyone.
Silas tries to help Vic
Following the plan, Silas, Cliff, Larry, and Jane, a girl with 64 different personalities, arrived at the bureau, where they met Agent Darren Jones, and he handed the trio over to be locked up as outlined in the plan. Silas met with Vic in the cell to calm him down, but not knowing the plan, Vic was upset with his father for betraying his friends, however, father and son heard escape alarms, realizing that the plan was perfect, and Silas tried to explain the escape plan to Vic. Silas tried to convince Vic to put Grid back on, but Vic had a false memory of Silas orchestrating his creation as a Cyborg, causing Vic to go on a rampage at Silas until he was nearly killed, and Vic learned that Silas never did any of those things were just false memories implanted by Mister Nobody to torture him, saddening Vic, who hugged his father through tears.[9]
Confessing the truth
Passed out, Silas was saved by Vic and the group who escaped the Ant Farm thanks to Jane's teleporting personality, Flit, and Silas was taken to the hospital by Vic and Rita, managing to survive. Upon awakening, Silas spoke with Vic, discovering that he reinstalled Grid, and heard how Nobody had implanted false memories to drive him crazy, but Silas confessed that some were not false, beginning to open up to his son, telling him that Elinore survived as well as him, and Niles convinced him to turn him into a cyborg because of his physical abilities, angering Vic that his mother could have survived. Crying, Silas confessed to Vic that he cheated on him for a long time to inspire him to make a hero because he would have put him in danger, arguing with his son for the lie, and Vic left his father on the stretcher to help his true friends while Silas she cried because of the conflict with her son.[5]
The Roni Evers Menace
Searched for cyber help
Later, Silas recovered from the hospital, fully recovered and reuniting with Vic to continue fighting crime in Detroit and helping people with problems online after Vic left the manor after learning that Niles caused his patients' accidents by finding the immortality, before Vic decided to return to the manor. During his life in Detroit, Silas was walking through the park, where he was found by Vic and Cliff, who asked for his help to improve his body, adding new improvements to be able to feel and overcome Niles, since he was dying, but Silas refused to. do so, regretting what happened to Cliff, stating that if he helped him improve his robot body, he would be Niles's accomplice, clarifying that Vic's transformation was surgery to save her, but what Niles did to Cliff was involuntary manslaughter.[4][10]
Later, Silas found himself working at S.T.A.R. Labs, being called by Vic, who demanded answers about the sale of cyber technology to the military by S.T.A.R. and Caulder Robotics, Niles' robotics company, surprising Silas, who learned that Vic was carrying out this investigation for Roni Evers, a war veteran who became his girlfriend, mentioning that he was looking to help her. Trying to avoid the topic, Silas showed his pride in Vic and Roni's relationship, advising him to take things calmly, but Vic, without getting convincing answers, decided to talk to Niles. After Roni used the uma jelly for terrorist attacks against Quorum, Silas, after learning of Niles' death, talked to Vic about his break-up, advising him that not all people can change and told him that there are people who If you can help, advice that Vic used to confront Roni.[11][12]
Reprimanded for his poor choices
Because Vic was shown indirectly helping Roni escape, Silas had no choice but to shut down Vic's technology, preventing him from being tracked by S.T.A.R. Labs, who named Vic a criminal, angering Vic because the technology was also a part of him, being defenseless against the threats he faced. Days later, Silas ended up being fired by S.T.A.R. after Roni's escape, being invited to the manor, discovering that Vic was repairing a time machine, before arguing over his decisions, scolding Vic for the act, revealing that he had lost his job. After the scolding, Silas heard that Vic had briefly gone to the afterlife, meeting with Elinore, who indirectly told him that there was another way to save him, causing Silas to confess about the synthetic skin, which caused Vic to reprimand Silas for not choosing that option and left the manor after their discussion.[13][3]
Reconnecting with Vic
Remorseful for the argument, Silas turned off Vic's locator to prevent S.T.A.R. Labs from tracking him, reconnecting his technology, happily informing Vic of the news, apologizing for not granting him the synthetic skin, but Vic was grateful for being saved by him. Days later, Silas was contacted by his former colleague and friend, the doctor Chalmers, about Vic's surgery on his synthetic skin, so Silas headed to Orsus Labs, before becoming a victim of the Eternal Flagellation, being forced to see his past and recognize his mistakes to move forward, meeting with Vic after the Flagellation.[14][2][15]
Discussion after Surgery
After Vic's surgery, Silas saw his son gain joy from not possessing cybertechnology, leading Silas to remember all the times Vic went to the hospital in his childhood, the first being in his childhood, the second during his football game, and the third where he had to turn him into Cyborg to turn him into someone who couldn't be harmed, scolding Vic for making decisions lightly. In defense, Vic became angry with Silas again for not seeing him as his son, highlighting his mistakes in seeing him only as a vigilante and for being so overprotective, assuming that Silas did not want to see him after the surgery, deciding to start living as the man he was born to be, leaving Silas crying as he remembers his past mistakes.[2]
"Is that my fucking arm?"
Over the next few months, Silas did his best to make amends with Vic, assisting his son in tech support on his bizarre adventures with the Niles's former test subjects, now a superhero team known as the Doom Patrol. Silas worked with Vic to create a new arm for Cliff, who had the sense of touch in one finger, talking to his son about his search for happiness and himself, motivating Vic to achieve it, taking pride in his heroic missions. The duo called the team to grant the new arm to Cliff, making him happy because he could feel in all of his fingers, but he refused to experiment to travel with the team to Florida and feel his grandson, Rory, a request that the Doom Patrol accepted, except for Silas, who had to leave the manor.[16]
Powers and Abilities
Abilities
Weaknesses
Notes
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Doom Patrol and is an adaptation of Silas Stone. The original character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez and first appeared in DC Comics Presents #26.
- Silas Stone is portrayed by Phil Morris.
Related
- 19 Appearances of Silas Stone (Doom Patrol TV Series)
- 12 Images featuring Silas Stone (Doom Patrol TV Series)
- 1 Quotations by or about Silas Stone (Doom Patrol TV Series)
- Character Gallery: Silas Stone (Doom Patrol TV Series)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Doom Patrol: "Donkey Patrol"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Doom Patrol: "Evil Patrol"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Doom Patrol: "Undead Patrol"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Doom Patrol: "Ezekiel Patrol"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doom Patrol: "Penultimate Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Puppet Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Doom Patrol Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Therapy Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Cyborg Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Finger Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Space Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Possibilities Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Vacay Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Dada Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Subconscious Patrol"
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Doom Patrol: "Doom Patrol"