{"id":23962,"date":"2026-09-24T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=23962"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:57:03","slug":"why-cyborg-belongs-in-the-doom-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/09\/24\/why-cyborg-belongs-in-the-doom-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cyborg Belongs in the Doom Patrol."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IT’S ME AGAIN.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m back with another DCU rant. (\u25b0\u02d8\u25e1\u02d8\u25b0)<\/span><\/p>\n

Today I am here to state my\u00a0scary opinion and defend it.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cyborg has always been a confusing character in the DCU. He never particularly fit in on any team, and that has been a running problem with his character. Lets count…the Justice League, then the Teen Titans, the\u00a0Outsiders, and\u00a0he even participated in other smaller groups.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You may ask, “Why does he not fit in? Is there anywhere that’s best for him?” Well I can tell you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY NOT THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?<\/span><\/b> (-\uff3f- )\u30ce<\/span><\/p>\n

This answer is actually relatively simple; he simply isn’t needed. Cyborg is well… a CYBORG his powers are primarily tech based,\u00a0which due to Batman’s extensive riches and technological access he isn’t\u00a0needed in that aspect. Then you could argue his strength but…Superman is RIGHT there…so yeah that’s not a fit. Onto my next point, He is simply too young,\u00a0which is going to hypocritical when i get to the teen titans but just hold my hand and trust me. All those justice league members? Yeah, they’re UNC and just aren’t able to relate to him well or get his humor which is a decent part of his character. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY NOT THE TEEN TITANS?<\/span><\/b> (\u11c2_\u11c2)<\/span><\/p>\n

Okay I’m sure you already think I’m crazy just from the idea, but you just got to hear me out.\u00a0Now he’s too OLD for the team. He is indeed still a teen yes, but he is\u00a0often portrayed a few years older than the other titans, which I’ve noticed he seems to take on a certain\u00a0“babysitter” like role in a lot of situations. I find it hugely suppresses his character\u00a0and often makes him gather a sort of resentment and lash out later.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WHATS THE HUGE PROBLEM IN BOTH?<\/span><\/b> (\u256f\u00b0\u25a1\u00b0\uff09\u256f\ufe35 \u253b\u2501\u253b<\/span><\/p>\n

Cyborg doesn’t fit anywhere because there is not a set of characters that understand what he has gone through\u00a0and his trauma. The Justice League\u00a0simply has no way to understand a total rewriting\u00a0of physical\u00a0autonomy; neither do I believe they really care.\u00a0As such a big team they often lack the time to care about such things,\u00a0and they’d\u00a0probably\u00a0just use him as ‘tech support’.\u00a0Cyborgs’ biggest fear is to be seen only as the machine and not the human that he is, so\u00a0yeah not the match for him.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the Teen Titans work much better in theory because they DO deeply care for each other. At the same time, they still can’t\u00a0really understand. What happened to Cyborg was extremely traumatic and for those who don’t know I’ll tell you now,\u00a0Cyborg grew up normally,\u00a0he was a star athlete in high school, he had a strained family but a future.\u00a0When his father\u00a0misses his football\u00a0game, he goes to the lab his father works\u00a0at and proceeds\u00a0to get mutilated in a lab disaster, for which his father then installs EXPIEREMENTAL and completely UNTESTED technology into Vic (Cyborg)\u00a0with NO consent.\u00a0So yeah, he just wakes up an ENTIRELY different person\u00a0and little more than just his father’s experiment. Back on topic, I can see Cyborg way better in the Teen Titans and especially with Beast Boy. Beast Boy is like Cyborg\u00a0in the way of being a physical appearance outcast, due to his…GREENness.\u00a0The problem is he was turned into what he is when he was too young to have lived and entire life full of connections.\u00a0There are no other titans\u00a0that can understand that in any capacity.\u00a0I would like to mention that Beast Boy before being a Titan was part of the Doom Patrol, which I bet\u00a0is why he can most relate to Cyborg.<\/span>\u00a0

This is the part where i lead into where he belongs………..<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY DOES CYBORG BELONG IN THE DOOM PATROL?<\/span><\/b> (\u3065\uff61\u25d5\u203f\u203f\u25d5\uff61)\u3065<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all,\u00a0almost the entire team has had their body permanently altered\u00a0and leaving them to be seen as freaks,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Robotman had his entire body destroyed in a racecar crash;\u00a0he’s literally just a brain in a robot. Negative Man had his entire body burned and turned radioactive in a plane crash,\u00a0causing him to have to wrap himself in bandages (wow what a weirdo\/j).\u00a0Elasti-Girl\u00a0inhaled a toxic volcanic gas and now turns into a literal blob when she’s\u00a0nervous. There are other members, but I don’t want to keep yapping on. Anyways the real kicker is Their “caretaker”, Niles, was the creator of all their accidents and mutilations.\u00a0He unconsentingly used the Doom Patrol as little more than experiments wink wink sound familiar?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theres also room for an interesting dynamic with Robotman, they are extremely similar which SOME might call a problem but I see that as m<\/span>edia illiteracy\u00a0as they are VERY different characters. Cyborg still has feeling and Robotman doesn’t and dude\u00a0Robotman can genuinely leave so much character development open for cyborg, Robotman can make Cyborg understand that he doesn’t need to prove he’s human and they can be like the silliest supporters\u00a0of each other.\u00a0Cyborg can also bring a modern tech role into the team. The doom patrol\u00a0members\u00a0are all….OLD\u00a0and though modern in their\u00a0humor, they are behind in technology….so Cyborg could bring that missing part to the team.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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AHHH…ok, I’m done for now. Stay tuned for more DC controversial opinions and rants… ^Questions are welcomed^
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IT’S ME AGAIN.\u00a0 I’m back with another DCU rant. (\u25b0\u02d8\u25e1\u02d8\u25b0) Today I am here to state my\u00a0scary opinion and defend it.\u00a0\u00a0 Cyborg has always been a confusing character in the DCU. He never particularly fit in on any team, and that has been a running problem with his character. Lets count…the Justice League, then the … Continue reading “Why Cyborg Belongs in the Doom Patrol.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":23979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[433,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23962\/revisions\/23994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}