Victor Stone
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| Victor Stone | |
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| Family | Unnamed parents and sister (deceased) |
| Occupation | Member of Justice League |
| Powers and Abilities | Super strength, stamina, and durability, enhanced physical characteristics, ability to interface with computer systems and absorb data from them |
| Played By | Lee Thompson Young |
| Status | Alive |
| Appeared In | Cyborg, Justice, Justice and Doom |
"Normal? Over half my body is out of a Sharper Image catalog!" - Victor Stone, Cyborg
Victor Stone is a teenager with endoskeletal cybernetic enhancements. He is part of Green Arrow's superhero team under the code name Cyborg.
Victor is a former Metropolis High School star wide receiver. It was in that time when he met Clark Kent at Smallville while playing against him in their senior year. He was involved in a car accident that killed the rest of his family, but he was rebuilt by Dr. Alistair Kreig, who experimented on a group of test subjects for SynTechnics. Victor was the only test subject to survive the experiments, during which he was implanted with electrical and mechanical parts.
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[edit] Powers and Abilities
Because of his bionic skeleton, Victor is imbued with enhanced abilities:
- Super strength - Victor is strong enough to punch two guards across a room and can stun but not physically hurt Clark Kent .
- Super stamina - Victor can be active for long periods of time
- Durability - He survived the car crash unphased, but he isn't entirely invincible; he does bleed.
- Enhanced physical characteristics - Victor can turn his left eye into a computer monitor to hack into systems.
- Ability to interface with computer systems - Victor can take and erase data from any computer system on earth.
[edit] Season Five
Feeling sympathy for Victor and his search for his beloved girlfriend Katherine, SynTechnics scientist Dr. Hong allowed him to escape captivity. While making his escape, Victor was struck by Lana Lang's car. After watching him walk away without a scratch, Lana called Clark to investigate. Clark befriended and promised to help him. Clark took Victor to stay at his loft; however, SynTechnics security personnel broke into the barn and shot Victor in the arm. Clark and Lana took Victor to Lois' apartment, where Victor began leaking battery fluid; he would die if the wound was not treated. While Clark went to confront Lex about SynTechnics' activities, Victor, overcome by his desire to find Katherine, escaped Lana's watch and went to Katherine's house. It turned out to be a trap; Lex Luthor and Dr. Alistair Krieg, who had supervised the experiments on Victor, had lured him there, and made him return to the SynTechnics lab at gunpoint. At the lab, Lex informed Victor of SynTechnics' plans to insert a chip into his brain, thus turning him into a robot for all intents and purposes. Just when Dr. Creek was about to drill into Victor's head, Clark broke into the lab and rescued him. Clark brought Victor back to the Kent barn, where Victor thanked Clark for his actions. At that moment, Lana brought Katherine into the barn, and she and Victor shared an emotional reunion.
[edit] Season Six
"Cyborg to Aquaman. Where the hell are you fishstick?" Victor Stone, Justice
One year after his escape, Victor and Katherine broke up. Depressed and ready to give up, he was living on the streets when he met Oliver Queen. Oliver offered him food and shelter and, according to Victor, gave him "a reason to go on." Oliver recruited Victor for his fledgling hero team. Victor's technology was upgraded by Queen Industries so he could hack into schematics and security data. He has chosen the codename Cyborg for the team. Clark met Victor again while the team prepared for their first mission. After they successfully destroyed the Level 33.1 laboratory at the Ridge Facility, the team left Metropolis to travel around the globe and bring other 33.1 laboratories down.
[edit] Season Eight
When Clark and Lex disappeared from the arctic in the Fortress of Solitude, Oliver revealed that Victor and Bart Allen were searching the southern hemisphere for them and found nothing.
[edit] Season Nine
Victor helped Roulette and the rest of the league convince Oliver to retake the Green Arrow title and reform the League.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] In the Comics
The interpretation of Cyborg's character on Smallville and how he is portrayed in the source material have some similarities, but some details are radically different.
On the show, Cyborg's implants are endoskeletal, while in the comics his implants have always been exoskeletal. This creates a distinctive and different look between Smallville and the comics.
In the comics, Victor was the son of well-meaning but thoughtless scientists who tried to use him in their experiments to artificially enhance human intelligence. Victor was a troubled youth. When one of his parents' experiments brought an extra-dimensional monster to Earth, Victor was horribly maimed. His father used advanced prosthetics to rebuild his son, but at a cost of being disfigured by them. Half-man, half machine, Cyborg used his mechanical enhancements as a superhero.
Always feeling like an outsider, Victor was given a new family when Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, and Wonder Girl welcomed him into the Teen Titans with open arms. The Titans acted as a surrogate family, helping him recover his self-esteem and retain his inner humanity. Although some members have grown out of their identities in the Titans, Victor was part of group with his friends just called Titans. Soon he will join the Justice League of America led by Green Lantern Hal Jordan
the team will include many other former Titans including the new Batman (Dick Grayson), the former Wonder Girl Donna Troy and Starfire.
Another difference between the two versions of Cyborg is the character being the same age as Clark. In the timeline of this show, presuming the Teen Titans ever exist, it would be safer to assume that Victor would become a member of the JLA rather than the Titans.
[edit] Trivia
- When Victor met Clark Kent for the first time, he attacked him by throwing him into a wall. This is similar to Clark's first meeting with Andrea Rojas, Bart Allen, Arthur Curry and Oliver Queen.
- Since Clark Kent claimed to have met Victor Stone back when he played football, it is debatable whether Victor Stone or Bart Allen was the first Justice League member he ever really met or knew of.
- After Victor's arm is repaired, Dr. Krieg tells him that "it's even better than before". This could mean that his sonic cannon has been installed.
- When Clark and Vic first battle, Clark can see the details of Vic's endoskeleton with his x-ray vision. The implants in his skull are nearly identical to his comic book counterpart's exoskeleton.
- Victor is mentioned in Odyssey and is appears via photograph in Hex
- Major Zod and his soldiers later steal Luthorcorp technology in order to modify the horribly injured John Corben. Given this fact, it is highly probable that the technology which made Corben a cyborg was the same used on Victor.
[edit] External Links
- Cyborg - Wikipedia
