No art or fictional character exists in a vacuum. Everything has a larger resonance or connections to the greater world in which it exists. Whether it's classic literature or children's television, deeper meaning can be found in anything. The same is true of superheroes in blockbusters like "Justice League," and Ray Fisher has always been open about how the DCEU's Cyborg was never meant to just be another guy punching CGI villains. Fisher saw the character as representing something more, something larger and important.
"You've lost a sense of yourself," Fisher said on TheNiceCast in 2020, discussing how Victor Stone navigates his existence as Cyborg, a superhero identity he had no say in obtaining. "It's about finding that again, finding that humanity again. And there's a ton of allegory with respect to that in being a Black man, and just the journey that Black people have taken in this country. It can go as deep as you will allow it to, and I thank my stars I was in the capable hands of Chris and Zack to able to be like, 'Hey listen, how far we want to take this? Because this can hit some hearts, man. It can really hit some hearts.'"
In being cognizant of the deeper meaning within Cyborg, Fisher found something personal and relatable he could tap into as a performer while inhabiting a larger-than-life character on a mission to save the world.
