@Imagine_Man15 said:
I've agree with the sort of general consensus here. Vandal Savage, Gizmo (with a power upgrade), or somebody new.
It might be interesting to see Cyborg tussle with Brainiac, but he shouldn't be taken from Superman's rogues gallery
I'm really not a fan of the New 52 at all, but I agree Cyborg's overdue for an arch nemesis. Vandal Savage could be fun given his immortality, above average strength, keen mind, and well, being a cave man, as could Gizmo, who was an enemy of Cyborg in his original, FAR BETTER New Teen Titan stories. I could see Gizmo whipping up giant robots or a mechanical suit to help him fight Cyborg, Gizmo maybe smaller than Cy, but I can see them being intellectual equals & mostly relying on tech to fight each other.
Heck, DC could even take villains from the Teen Titans cartoon like Fix-It or that crazed robot Atlas & make them arch enemies of Cy. They'd fit the bill well, I mean...
1) Fix It was apparently once human but began replacing his organic parts with mechanical ones, slowly becoming more machine than man and up until the end of the episode, preferred it that way. Cy's always been afraid of winding up more machine than human, so a villain who revels in being as inorganic as possible and who has control over other machines, would be like looking in a dark mirror for Cy. Fix It could be re-imagined as a mad man obsessed with becoming a perfect, living machine, selling his skills as a tech head to other villains in order to pay for his own operations and inventions. Cy traces various villain tech back to Fix It, meets his polar opposite, & thus an epic rivalry is forged.
2) Atlas was portrayed on the show as a sentient robot who deemed humans and other organics as inferior to robots, wishing to prove himself superior over Cy, a fusion of man and machine. However, in a bit of irony, in spite of how powerful Atlas was, he was dependent on his mechanic for repairs and refits, someone he always abused, and he didn't count on Cy's human spirit getting the better of him in the end. I can easily picture Atlas as an out of control AI built by the military or some villain, an entity who deems himself better than his human creators and seeks to assert that, his pride not allowing him to stop targeting Cyborg, a human who defies Atlas' delusion that he is better than mankind. Atlas, as a robot, could endure damage normal DC flesh and blood DC villains couldn't & could return over and over in increasingly more powerful forms over time.
Either that, or a whole new villain, maybe someone with biological based weapons over tech based, or has magnetic powers like Magenta or Magneto.
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