What Cyborg’ Vision in Zack Snyder’s Justice League means
In the 2017 theatrical cut of Justice League, the Justice League members are all pretty onboard with the idea of resurrecting Superman using a Mother Box. Flash (Ezra Miller) warns of the Pet Sematary implications, but beyond that, they all seem pretty chill with the notion of bringing Superman back to life.
In The Snyder Cut, however, this scene has a major twist – while Cyborg is plugged into the Kryptonian spaceship, he sees a vision of a future that makes him extremely nervous about what they’re about to do. It goes by quickly and may not make complete sense just yet, but by the end of the film, all the pieces are in place to point to Cyborg’s vision as a premonition of events that would have occurred in Justice League 2 had Zack Snyder been able to fulfill his DCEU plans.
While Cyborg is plugged into the Kryptonian ship and Flash has gone to the edge of the ship to get enough room so he can run and supercharge the Mother Box (thereby resurrecting Superman), Cyborg says the ship is scared of the Mother Box. Indeed, the ship then begins to show Cyborg visions of a future that will take hold if they go forward with this plan.
Cyborg is the heart of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but his story was meant to continue in Justice League 2 and 3.
Among the many radical differences between the two versions of Justice League, Cyborg’s greatly expanded role in the Snyder Cut has been one of the most talked about. With a two-hour mandate imposed on the theatrical cut, story elements and characters arcs were chopped to bits, and the story of Ray Fisher’s Cyborg ended up being completely eviscerated. Cyborg’s role was minimized, now that a direct comparison can be made to the Snyder Cut , already known before the movie’s release .With the Snyder Cut released, Victor is once again “the heart of the movie” that Snyder has always described him as.
Where Cyborg’s story was meant to go from where the Snyder Cut leaves off?
Thanks to some recently revealed whiteboards of Snyder’s overall Justice League layout of the five-movie arc he had planned, we now have a fairly good idea of where Cyborg’s arc was meant to take him through Justice League 2 and Justice League 3. They provide a good general overview of Cyborg’s role in the remainder of the story.
Here’s what Cyborg’s role in Justice League 2 and Justice League 3 was meant to be.
Victor’s mechanized body and ability to interface with any form of technology effectively make him a kind of techno-Superman, but from Victor’s perspective, this all comes at the price of stripping him of his humanity, leading him to shut himself off from the world. Victor also bears a serious grudge towards his father Silas, both for not making it to his football game before his accident, believing this might have saved his mother Elinor from dying in their car crash, and for using the Mother Box to save Victor’s life, which in his mind simply made him into something not human.
Victor realizes his father’s love for him when Silas sacrifices himself to superheat the third Mother Box (giving the League a chance to locate it and Steppenwolf later).
Cyborg’s Story In Snyder’s Original Justice League 2 Plans.
In a story somewhat akin to Injustice: Gods Among Us, Superman was to be pulled over to the side of Apokolips with the Anti-Life Equation following Darkseid’s murder of Lois Lane. Darkseid would then conquer the world, with Batman, Cyborg, and their aforementioned allies forming the resistance to the invasion. Batman would then devise a plot to rewrite the timeline.
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The film would have seen Wonder Woman and Aquaman marshall the forces of Themyscira and Atlantis, with the armies of mankind also joining in and the League-leading Earth’s last stand against Apokolips, with the movie intended to mirror Darkseid’s first invasion in the history lesson in a modern context. In the final battle, Cyborg was to gain control of the Mother Boxes once again, this time destroying them and leaving Darkseid weakened.
