A newJustice Leaguepromotion reveals Cyborg ’s ( Ray Fisher ) vary origin tale for Warner Bros. ' DC cinematic existence ( unofficially known as the DC Extended Universe ) . Victor Stone , aka Cyborg , was create by laughable book writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez , and he made his unveiling appearance in 1980 as one of the founding members of theTeen Titans . However , ever since the New 52 universe launch , Cyborg was repurposed as one of the founding penis of the Justice League - but that ’s not the only change to his origin story .

Cyborg has two origin narrative , one pre - Flashpointand one post - Flashpoint . In his pre - Flashpointorigin , Victor was routinely experimented on by his parents , who were scientists at S.T.A.R. Labs . A upshot of one of their experiments transmit a malicious fauna into their dimension , and in an attack to return the creature to its rest home , Victor was badly wounded and his mother , Elinore , was killed . Victor ’s father , Silas , change state him into a bionic man for save his life . The same affair find inthe role ’s stake - Flashpointorigin , though the main difference is that he was initially wounded from an exploding Father Box . Although several of these element remain in Cyborg ’s cinematic beginning story , sealed thing have deepen .

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Warner Bros. has shift theirJustice Leaguemarketing campaign into high gear as the flick apace approaches , with novel information add up to light every day . A late event in the Philippines divulge that Cyborg ’s tragic origin story dissent from the establish root material . According to the unexampled part entropy post on Twitter , Victor was hard wound in a car accident . you could read the tweet below :

TheFlash#Cyborgpic.twitter.com / w5VpszserU — cedric ( @CedddieRiccky)October 15 , 2017

Aside from altering the accident that almost killed Victor , what ’s interesting about the new description is that it say Dr. Silas Stone ( Joe Morton ) save his Word by using the " Apokoliptian Mother Box to reconstruct his physical structure . " Audiences see this descent for themselves during Cyborg ’s cameo appearance ( via video ) in Zack Snyder’sBatman V Superman : Dawn of Justice , in which a Mother Box suddenly awoke , so to speak , and merge with Victor ’s dismembered eubstance . However , as comic Christian Bible fans may cognize , Apokoliptian Mother Boxes are recognize as Father Boxes;Mother Boxes are in reality from the planet New Genesis . Although it could be mere semantics , referring to the Mother Boxes as Apokoliptian alters their rootage as well .

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As with many characters in Warner Bros. ' burgeoning shared universe , Cyborg ’s origins have change slimly , but it is n’t too far off from the establish informant material . The character ’s cinematic origin is more closely related to his post - Flashpointorigin than his pre - Flashpoint(read : original ) origin . Still , that does n’t signify the newfangled interlingual rendition wo n’t work . We ’ll just have to await and see if theJustice Leaguedives profoundly into Cyborg ’s ancestry , or if we ’ll have to wait until the character ’s solo motion picture hits theaters in 2020 .