I mean, don't you recognize that? Like... after all that, what the hell did you turn me into? I am a S.T.A.R. Labs security guard! You trated my humanity for a symbol. You robbed me of the chance to define myself. Why the hell would I give a fuck about how people see me? I've been standing before my father this entire time, appearing as the man I used to be, and he won't even embrace me. He can't even look at me. My own father won't even bring himself to hug his own son. All he can think about is fear. You wanted me to walk through this world free? Well, I want to walk the world as the man I was born to be. 
- — Vic Stone src
Cyborg (real name Vic Stone) is a charismatic, energetic, and ambitious superhero who became a member of the Doom Patrol, acting as field leader on several missions. He is enhanced with cybernetic weapons and software, making him a powerful member of the team.
History
Early Life
Vic Stone was born around 1996 to S.T.A.R. Labs scientists Silas and Elinore Stone. Raising him in Detroit, Michigan, Silas and Elinore were strict but fair and loving parents, although Vic was much closer to his mother. In his childhood, Vic wanted to get a black superhero toy, receiving a toy called "General Tony" and from that moment, Vic began to act like a real soldier without fear of making mistakes, following the orders of others. During the high school, Vic became best friends with Deric Hayes, Calvin and Marcus, with whom he spent fun times on Pizzatron-3000 and with his group of friends, he built a robot called "Mister Invincible".
He was a high school football star with a bright future in sports, but in a fit of rage, he accidentally caused a terrible explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs, killing his mother and destroying much of his body. Silas was able to save his life by replacing the lost parts of his body with cybernetic implants. Wanting to see his son do something he could be proud of, Silas added enhancements to the cybernetics, adding weapons and gadgets, and convinced Vic to fight crime with them. Donning the name "Cyborg" and aided by S.T.A.R. Labs, he became Detroit's local hero, aiming to one day become a member of the Justice League. Silas pushing Vic so hard strained their relationship, as Silas became more controlling and manipulative of his son, almost living through his achievements. Vic actually found he had a better father figure through Niles Caulder, a scientist friend of his father's, who acted as a kindly mentor and often encouraged him to visit his home, a manor just outside of Cloverton, Ohio, and meet the tenants who lived there.[6][7][8][9]
Search for the Chief
While searching for crime reports in 2019, Vic discovered that Cloverton had been destroyed, and traveled there to investigate and check up on Caulder. Arriving in town, Vic met Cliff Steele, a sarcastic and aggressive cyborg and one of Caulder's tenants who Vic would eventually grow to have a paternal bond to, but currently stood as his rival. Vic helped Cliff capture an albino donkey that was connected to the town's destruction, which Cliff explained as having the entire town and everyone in it save for himself, two of his friends, and the donkey, having been sucked into a vortex in the ground. After the donkey expelled Jane, another of Caulder's tenants with sixty-four uniquely superpowered personalities, through its mouth, the three made their way back to the manor with the donkey to investigate it further.
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An unusual doorway
Vic interrogated some of Jane's personas, attempting to find out which one saw what happened in the vortex, but none felt ready to talk. He decided to investigate the donkey head on with Niles' other tenants, a radioactive and depressed pilot named Larry Trainor fused to an alien Negative Spirit, and a molecularly unstable and flamboyant former actress named Rita Farr. They discovered that the donkey acted a doorway to the White Space, the place where Cloverton, was taken, and were unwillingly sucked into the donkey and transported to the White Space. Once there, they were relentlessly tortured by Mister Nobody, Caulder's nigh-omnipotent captor, forcing them all to relive their darkest moments and traumas, and seeding Vic with some doubt and mistrust towards his father, all as a threat to make them stop searching for Caulder. They were finally forced out by the Negative Spirit, forcing the donkey to explode and restore the town to the way it was before. Vic believed that Nobody had tortured and threatened them because he was afraid of their power, and decided to stay at the manor and search for Niles, against his father's wishes that he return to Detroit.[6]
"Magic."
Vic decided to take control of the team as the leader, often making plans and acting as the straight man to the others' antics. Over the course of the mission, Vic began befriending the members, acting as a teacher for Rita in becoming a hero, becoming close friends with Jane, and seeing Cliff as a better father figure than his actual father. Vic and the team continued to search for clues, but they led nowhere until they encountered Willoughby Kipling, a sorcerer and friend of Niles, and helped him stop the Decreator summoned by the Cult of the Unwritten Book. He began to trust his father more, as he feared that he would do something wrong to him.[7][10][11][12]
After group therapy went awry, Vic and Larry met Danny, a non-binary street sentient and friend of Niles. He and Larry helped Danny beat the agent Darren Jones and the Bureau of Normalcy. While Cliff was on Jane's mind, Vic and Rita encountered the Beard Hunter, a metahuman who gained knowledge from people by eating their facial hair. Vic lost control of his technology to the Beard Hunter, but managed to contain the blast.[13][14][15]
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Parental distrust
By unplugging his technology, Vic helped Jane search for Dolores Mentallo. While Jane was facing an abusive man, Vic was kidnapped by the Bureau of Normalcy. While in captivity, Vic recovered his technology and tried to avoid Grid's voice due to giving him headaches by showing him images of his accident. Vic was reunited with Silas, but discovered that he betrayed his friends to get to him. While Silas was trying to give him a chip with Grid inside to be able to escape with the others, Vic saw a video in which Silas was the provocateur of his creation, which caused Vic to attack his father. Vic realized that it was all a hoax on Nobody's part.[16][17]
The truth comes to light
Vic, Silas, and Rita were sent to a hospital thanks to Flit. Determined, Vic left the team as he was capable of killing them all. After learning that Niles convinced Silas to save him and not Elinore, Vic got upset with Niles and went looking for his friends. In the White Space, Vic met with the others and was present when Nobody forced Niles to tell the truth, which was that he was the one who caused his accidents, causing the entire team to rage with him. Nobody froze time and sent everyone back to the manor to go their separate ways.[18][19][20]
Relationship with Roni
The team to the rescue
Eventually, the team was lured back to Doom Manor by Mister Nobody for a second revenge scheme, having kidnapped Danny and the Chief's daughter, Dorothy Spinner, a naive but powerful girl able to bring her imaginary friends to life, including a dangerous, potentially world-ending one called the Candlemaker. Dorothy had been the reason for Caulder's immortality experiments, wanting to outlive her to protect the world from the Candlemaker. For the sake of the girl, the team went to rescue her and Danny. Vic and the team managed to save Dorothy and Danny from a giant cockroach and a giant rat, but in saving Dorothy, the team, except for Larry, turned them into miniature. The team spent several months in miniature waiting for Larry to find a way to grow them. Eventually, they were restored the normal size by Willoughby Kipling, in exchange for Caulder's longevity talisman, leading him to finally begin to die. Determined, Vic left the manor to return to Detroit.[20][21]
Love in the air
Vic began attending therapy sessions, where he met a girl named Roni Evers, a military veteran, who suffered a terrible accident. Vic and Roni started a relationship, but it didn't date as well, as Roni dumped him. He decided to return to the mansion to think about Roni and with the advice of Maura Lee Karupt and Cliff, Vic met with Roni and apologized to her and they both managed to reconcile by resuming their relationship.[22][23][24][25]
Internal idiots
After spending a night with Roni, Vic helped her with her pains and discovered that she had cybernetic enhancements implanted by S.T.A.R. Labs and Caulder Robotics. Vic calls Silas, who is more excited for him to have a girlfriend than to help him discover technology. Vic decided to take Roni to the manor to find out the truth, but Niles was not there. Upon opening a mystery box that released a pink gas, Vic, Larry, and Roni began to have bad ideas that would lead to their death, but with the help of Miranda and Kipling, they defeated the cause of the gas, the Scants.[26][27]
Mourning a monster
Vic investigated a murder with Rita and discovered that Roni used the Scants' Uma Jelly to blow up a senator, so Vic tried to stop her, but the two had a fight, which led to the end of their relationship. Vic was comforted by Rita and the duo joined the rest of the team to save Niles and Dorothy to prevent the Candlemaker from turning the world to wax. After a long battle, Dorothy finally rested control of the deity, but during their fight, Caulder succumbed to the ailments of his age, and his death was both celebrated and mourned by his test subjects. A week after the Chief's death, Vic repaired Cliff and finally found Roni to try to give her a second chance, but she kept stealing Quorum, so Vic called the authorities to arrest her.[1][28][29]
Going Offline
Offline
Vic lost his technology thanks to Silas due to helping Roni escape and S.T.A.R. Labs was looking for him, so Silas deactivated his technology to avoid being located, which made Vic angry. To forget their problems, Vic, Jane, Rita, and Cliff went on vacation to Codsville. The group met Garguax, an enemy of Niles. Vic wanted the team to help face him, but everything led to an argument causing their friendship to break until they managed to reconcile by dancing. The entire team was assassinated by Garguax's assistant, Samuelson, which led them to the afterlife where they had to face their personal purgatories. Vic managed to talk to his mother and with the help of Larry and the Dead Boy Detectives, the team was brought back to life. The team met a strange time traveler who was coming looking for Niles. Vic and the team turned into Zombies and helped Kipling face Darren Jones and an army of Butts to retrieve Niles' head, who sacrificed himself to bring them back to normal.[30][31][32]
"Why are you, Cyborg?"
Upon regaining his technology, Vic thanked Silas, but still kept thinking about the synthetic skin. Vic, Cliff, Jane, and Larry accepted the mission to stop the Sisterhood of Dada, a group of supervillains that escaped from the Ant Farm. The team parted ways and Vic ran into Lloyd Jefferson, a member of the Sisterhood with bicycle wheels on his back. Vic spoke to Lloyd, who asked him a question Why are you? Vic kept avoiding the question until Lloyd found out that Vic was coming from Laura De Mille and the team faced the Sisterhood, but they were defeated by being taken from Shelley Byron's mind. Vic started a trip to Orsus Labs and saw the rocks that his mother used to put on a tree. Remembering Elinore's words of motivation, Vic managed to make it to Orsus Labs to finally put on her synthetic skin.[4][33]
A tough decision
Vic was cared for by an old friend of Elinore's, Dr. Chalmers. Vic learned that if he agreed to put on the synthetic skin, he would lose all of his abilities as Cyborg, so he contacted Roni to ask for her opinion. Vic didn't know what to do and believed he could be a hero without his technology. Losing signal with Roni, he finally decided to lose his powers to appear normal.[34]
A trip into his subconscious
The team encountered the Sisterhood, who had Rita on their side. Vic and the others witnessed the Eternal Flagellation. Vic was turned into a toy, but was saved by Cliff and Larry. He came across his childhood toy, General Tony, this was part of the Sisterhood Flagellation. Vic learned that he lost his childhood by being a good soldier and trying to impress his father. When it was all over, Vic's surgery was over and he finally had his synthetic skin looking human again and saw that Silas was there to support him.[34][8]
New and Improved
Vic argued with Silas about not putting the synthetic skin on him in the first place. The team learned about the Brotherhood of Evil and the truth from Laura, but everyone except Rita, was unable to fight at the moment. The team tried to stop Laura, better known as Madame Rouge, but she kidnapped Cliff, which motivated the team to face the villains. During the bus ride, Vic and Jane found out about Rita's time travel and they all started arguing among themselves until the bus accidentally exploded leaving the team defeated.[35]
A true team of heroes
Upon exiting the bus, Vic, Larry, and Jane were sent by Shelley Byron back to his mind. Vic tried to help Larry accept Keeg, a negative spirit that needed to merge with him to live. To help Larry, Vic kept Keeg temporarily until they reached the manor, where Larry and Keeg merged. Vic and Jane received another visit from Laura, who was ready to reform. After Cliff lost control of his new body, Vic and the team tried to stop him to save the city. Thanks to Rita's speech, Vic and the team, including Laura, agreed to become a true team of superheroes, the Doom Patrol. As their first mission, the team went to the Suez Canal to save people from a testicle monster. Over the next few months, Vic was tasked as the team's technical support on various missions, such as when he had to crack the phone code of the villain Cell Phone Sylvia and the role of being the team's technician did not appeal to Vic.[5][36]
Reconnecting the Past
Days after his battle with the disgusting criminal Codpiece, Vic and Silas joined forces to create a right arm for Cliff, now with the sense of touch, deciding to celebrate by going to Florida, but accidentally, the team ended up traveling to 2042, where Vic found his future self, discovering that the world was destroyed by the Buttpocalypse. After urgently escaping to 2022, Vic saw a message told by his future self, which read "You can't have it all", worrying Vic. The Doom Patrol chose Laura as their new leader to change the future, but as Laura and Cliff went against Darren Jones, Vic and Jane went on a solo mission to get the last zombie Butt, posing as bureau agents, fooling the Butt Hunter, a professional hunter of the creatures.[36][2]
Reunion with old friends
Shortly after, Vic decided to reunite with his old friends, returning to Pizzatron-3000, meeting Deric, Calvin and Marcus, trying to have a good time, noting that his friends resented him as he recounted his bizarre adventures and his meeting with his mother in the afterlife. Vic admitted that it felt good to stop being Cyborg, listening to the anecdotes of Deric, who now ran a robotics school and feeling nostalgic, Vic convinced his friends to play laser tag. During the game, Vic learned that Deric was upset with him for never meeting him after his operation, making Vic feel bad, who tried to make amends by receiving custody of Mister Invincible from Deric. Upon being informed by Kipling about the ancient deity, Immortus, Vic, and the Doom Patrol agreed to stop him, however, they were distracted by becoming teenagers until Vic reached the child stage and returned to Detroit to reunite with Deric.[9][37]
Friends Again
Vic became a baby being cared for by Deric until he returned to his youthful age, returning to the manor with Deric, but upon learning that Larry was captured, Vic decided to enter an interdimensional portal, which took him to the realm Orqwith, to save his friend being followed by Deric, getting angry with him for getting involved in his heroic missions, causing a conflict between the two, although Vic and Deric managed to recover their great friendship, joining forces to rescue Larry. The duo had to enter the temple of Orqwith, which was surrounded by the realm beings, the Scissormen, so using pencils from the trees and leaves, they created Mister Invincible as a giant, but the robot was destroyed, causing that Vic and Deric got caught.[38]
Battling the Scissormen
In a cell of bones, Vic and Deric managed to free themselves, saving Jane and Cliff, with whom they coordinated an escape mission: Vic and Deric would go to rescue Larry while Jane and Cliff recovered Jane's stolen longevity. With the help of their drawing skills and Orqwith blades, Vic and Deric created a sword and a Cyborg sonic cannon to fight the Scissormen army, with Vic using a flame sword to eliminate the Scissormen and guiding Deric to to use his sonic blaster. During Larry's rescue, Vic spoke to Deric about why he left the superhero mantle to feel more comfortable with his normal skin, making Deric reflect, with whom he went to the sanctum and Vic created different bubbles to protect the rest of the Doom Patrol from the destruction of Orqwith. Back in the real world, Vic and Deric said goodbye for his friend to go see his wife and children, listening to his suggestion of being a different version of Cyborg.[39][40]
Following the destruction of Orqwith, the Doom Patrol began debating whether they should stop Immortus, who managed to revive into the body of the conceited actress and Rita's arch-enemy, Isabel Feathers, thinking she was harmless as she was inexperienced with her powers. despite Laura's warnings about the power of Isabel's time. During a parade in honor of their heroism, the Doom Patrol was sent to an alternate musical reality by Isabel called Immortimas, in which the team could have their perfect lives, but after learning the truth, Vic decided to face his future thanks to a speech from Dorothy, bringing the Doom Patrol back to reality, with Isabel's warning that they were doomed.[40][41]
Cyborg returns to action
Thanks to Deric's words and his love for heroism, Vic seriously considered getting his technology back, meeting with Silas about his decision, talking about his search for happiness, which he could not find because he was saving to people, realizing that he felt good about being a superhero, reconnecting with Silas and leaving his synthetic skin behind, returning to his mantle as Cyborg, with new updates and now with the symbols of the people who helped him advance in his life: his parents, the Detroiticons and the Doom Patrol. Back in Cloverton, Vic helped the Doom Patrol defend themselves against Zombies Butts' immense army, which was led by the revolutionary Butt, Teddy, and the team attempted to save Laura from Isabel, but were banished to the Timestream.[42][3]
"This is no knockoff."
Trapped in the Timestream and in a capsule created by Vic, Keeg helped the team find a way to regain their longevities, opening three different portals to the years 1948, 1949, and 1996. While the rest of the Doom Patrol traveled through the portals, Vic tried to ask someone for help through the timestream, managing to contact Deric and his students to find a back door that would help him, but during the conversation, Vic discovered that he was speaking with Deric from the future, realizing that his fate changed and he was now teaching robotics with Deric, before reuniting with the Doom Patrol to fight again in the present. The team fought Immortus and then the Butts, with Vic fighting them with his techno-sword, similar to Kipling's flaming sword, until the Doom Patrol evacuated the playhouse when Immortus opened a portal to transport himself with the Butts to go on a musical tour.[43][3]
Finding his Happiness
Following the victory against the end of the world, the Doom Patrol, with their longevity restored by Immortus, celebrated the success of the mission, before discovering that Rita passed away before regaining her longevity, but instead of being rescued, she accepted her death, asking the team to cremate his body and separate the team to move forward in their lives, a request that the Doom Patrol accepted. After Rita's funeral and the separation of the Doom Patrol, Vic left the manor to begin a new path that would lead him to his happiness and his vision of the future, motivating Laura to do the same, leaving the manor with the rest of the team. Back in Detroit, Vic became Deric's new sidekick to help the robotics club students, the new Detroiticons, do wonderful things and working as a professor, he found his happiness, teaching young people to save the world.[3]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Cybernetic Enhancement: Vic had cybernetic enhancements that provide superhuman strength, endurance, durability, and allow him to interface with computers.
- The Grid: Silas Stone created an AI System connected to Vic's subconscious, capable of hacking into secured communication channels and searching the internet.
- Computer Interfacing
- Shape-Change: Vic could reshape parts of his body into various weapons and technological equipment.
- Energy Projection: Vic could alter the shape of his right arm into a sonic cannon, which generates extremely powerful concussive blasts of red energy.
- Superhuman Strength: Vic's armored cybernetic body granted him superhuman strength.
- Force Field
Abilities
- Aviation
- Driving
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)
- Marksmanship
- Computer Hacking
- Robotic Engineering
- Dancing
- Singing
- Artistry
- Swordsmanship
Weaknesses
Other Characteristics
Paraphernalia
Transportation
- Doom Patrol Bus (Formerly)
- S.T.A.R. Labs Jet[7]
- Shipley[36] (Formerly)
- Cliff's Second Body (Formerly): When Cliff inhabited a giant robot body, Victor traveled with the Doom Patrol inside of it to pilot Shipley.
Weapons
Notes
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Doom Patrol and is an adaptation of Cyborg (Victor Stone). The original character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez and first appeared in DC Comics Presents #26.
- Vic Stone is portrayed by Joivan Wade.
Recommended Reading
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External Links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Doom Patrol: "Dad Patrol"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Doom Patrol: "Butt Patrol"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Doom Patrol: "Done Patrol"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Doom Patrol: "Dada Patrol"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doom Patrol: "Amends Patrol"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Doom Patrol: "Donkey Patrol"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Doom Patrol: "Puppet Patrol"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Doom Patrol: "Subconscious Patrol"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Doom Patrol: "Nostalgia Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Cult Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Paw Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Doom Patrol Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Therapy Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Danny Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Hair Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Frances Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Cyborg Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Flex Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Penultimate Patrol"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Doom Patrol: "Ezekiel Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Fun Size Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Tyme Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Pain Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Sex Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Finger Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Space Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Dumb Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Wax Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Possibilities Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Vacay Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Dead Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Undead Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "1917 Patrol"
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Doom Patrol: "Bird Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Evil Patrol"
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Doom Patrol: "Doom Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Youth Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Hope Patrol"
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Doom Patrol: "Orqwith Patrol"
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Doom Patrol: "Fame Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Immortimas Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Tomb Patrol"
- ↑ Doom Patrol: "Portal Patrol"
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