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 effectively from the unique movie, the brand new Cyborg trailer exhibits that the character might need an expanded position in Snyder’s model of the film.

The teaser solely exhibits us a number of seconds of Cyborg; the principle focus is on his alter ego, Victor Stone. We see Stone a metropolis in ruins and listening to messages from his household. Whereas there have been actually hints of who Victor Stone and his household had 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 appear to be the character may have a extra vital emotional arc within the expanded movie.

This seemingly new deal with 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 response to Selection.

In an announcement on Twitter from early March, Fisher acknowledged that there have been “studio executives (significantly Geoff Johns) saying, ‘we will’t have an indignant Black man on the middle of the film’ — after which these executives [using] their energy to scale back and take away ALL Black folks from that film.”

Nevertheless, 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 might be a sign of the totally different model of the character that Fisher promised.