Exactly. I don't want to pull the rug out from Vic's history and make fundamental changes to what he's gone through and who he is (I just want his future aimed in the right direction ), but every single one of us, regardless of whatever else we may disagree on, is tired of that same old angst. And that's the arc; Vic is in the accident and struggles to accept what happened to him. Thanks to DC's crap treatment, he spends time cycling through the stages of acceptance. Which hey, some folks do, so it's fine as far as backstory goes. But the man needs to find real, lasting peace, whatever the details of that look like, and grow.
I can see how I sounded that way. Wasn't my intention, Vic doesn't have that kind of 'better than thou' ego. I was just trying to say Vic (should) no longer feel like he's 'less than' just because of the prosthetics.I do kinda disagree with "the best of both and inferior to neither" as I kinda think it reads as though he thinks himself superior.
Generally sure, but when it comes to cycling Vic's angst, it's not a "you" problem, that stupid shit has held Cyborg back for twenty years and more. That's a failing on DC that affects all of us; it's the biggest reason Cyborg hasn't become more popular, and something they absolutely need to fix. Same applies to most of the Titans really. Not even Dick and Wally fully escaped DC's obsession with repeating Wolfman's greatest hits, and having their stories limited by it.But that's really my problem, not something anyone else needs to fix.
We want pathos and drama and challenges both internal and external, but that's not the same thing as Vic spending his whole life in depression. Some characters thrive when they suffer endlessly, like Batman and Spider-Man, but that doesn't work for every character. Nobody wants a super sad Flash all the time, just as we don't want a super happy one all the time. Vic's got great gravitas and pathos, great emotional range as a character, it doesn't serve him or us fans if he's always just one emotion.And, of course, as much as I want my heroes to be happy, in the end they are fictional characters. What the fans find entertaining (and want to spend money on) is more important than the characters' happiness.