Justice League Made Aquaman Even Worse By Merging Him With Cyborg
In DC Comics' Justice League, neither Aquaman nor Cyborg are the most popular heroes. However, combining the two didn't do either of them any favors. Instead of improving the character, making them a single hero just made them utterly absurd, as seen in Superman/Batman #60.
The Justice League and the Teen Titans have had overlapping members, but on occasion DC will take its iconic heroes and villains and combine them into new iterations. This series created hybridized versions of Brainiac and Catwoman, as well as Joker and Lex Luthor. While some hybrids work, quite a few don't, including Doomstroke — a combination of Deathstroke and Doomsday. Likewise, an Aquaman and Cyborg pairing does no favors to either hero.
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Superman/Batman #60 has the creative team of Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato, Rob Leigh, Adam Schlagman, and Eddie Berganza. The series combines the Justice League with the Teen Titans, creating the Justice Titans. One of the team's heroes is Aquaborg, also known as Arthur Stone. The initial idea already seems rather strange considering water and electronics don't tend to mesh well. The execution makes the concept even worse, turning Aquaman and Cyborg into a walking robotic aquarium that seemingly would only be able to function on land.
Aquaborg has a robotic exterior that encloses his human body. Instead of being part-man part-robot like Cyborg, he is all-man and all-robot simultaneously. This seems necessary due to the presence of water being held within the robotic casing. Aquaborg takes Aquaman's ability to control water and limits it by forcing him to exist within water perpetually. He can still control water,
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