Zack Snyder’s Justice League is simply over per week away from launch, and the teasers are nonetheless rolling in. Whereas most of them to date have given us prolonged seems to be at characters we knew fairly nicely from the unique movie, the brand new Cyborg trailer reveals that the character might need an expanded position in Snyder’s model of the film.

The teaser solely reveals us a couple of seconds of Cyborg; the principle focus is on his alter ego, Victor Stone. We see Stone taking a look at a metropolis in ruins and listening to messages from his household. Whereas there have been definitely hints of who Victor Stone and his household have been within the unique model of Justice League, that by no means prolonged a lot previous him being upset by his new robotic physique. This teaser makes it look like the character might have a extra important emotional arc within the expanded movie.

This seemingly new give attention to Victor Stone’s character has additionally been hinted at by Ray Fisher, the actor who performs Cyborg in Justice League. Fisher has spoken out about what he described as “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and fully unacceptable” habits on the a part of Joss Whedon, which Fisher mentioned was “enabled” by Warner Bros. executives. Former Warner Bros. co-president of manufacturing Jon Berg has denied this, in accordance with Selection.

In a press release on Twitter from early March, Fisher acknowledged that there have been “studio executives (notably Geoff Johns) saying, ‘we are able to’t have an offended Black man on the heart of the film’ — after which these executives [using] their energy to cut back and take away ALL Black folks from that film.”

Nonetheless, Fisher’s assertion continued, “Zack Snyder’s Justice League stands as proof of, and opposition to, that form of discrimination.”

Whereas the ultimate outcome stays to be seen, the assured Victor Stone we see on this trailer may very well be a sign of the totally different model of the character that Fisher promised.