10 Grim Realities Of Superhero Origins

8. Cyborg Would Be Useless

The origin story: Vic Stone was the only son of two science boffins who used their kid in their research, helping to grow his naturally high IQ to near-genius levels. Everything was set up for Vic to live a happy, successful life in academia, until one day he stumbled across an experiment in dimensional travel conducted by his parents. A huge gelatinous creature appeared, killed his mother, and severely mutilated Vic.

He lived, but just barely, and at a price; his father replaced his missing limbs and other injured body parts with untested prosthetics of his own design, which are big and bulky and make him look a bit like a Terminator. Initially horrified by his appearance, Vic gets over it and becomes the superhero Cyborg.

The grim reality: Prosthetics are getting pretty baller nowadays, with the simple plastic limbs of days gone by replaced with incredibly realistic replacements and robotic arms and legs which can react to the twitching of muscles or even your brain patterns, so amputees can move their pretend toes and fingers.

So the best case scenario for Vic would be getting some of these prosthetics, which would let him live a fairly normal - if at times challenging - life. Considering the amount of damage the gooey monster did to him, however, he'd probably just be dead. And if he wasn't, he'd be a vegetable, in a coma that he can't awake from because his guts are hanging out and he's missing all his limbs.