The son of two brilliant research scientists, Victor stone, earned their anger by devoting his own passion to sports rather than science. However, his life nearly came to an end when his trouble making friend Ron Evers convinced Victor to participate in a gang fight in which he was fatally wounded. He was saved by the efforts of his father, who replaced the missing parts of his body with limbs made of the metal molybdenum. Horrified with his new body, victor runs away from home. Now gifted with abilities beyond the norm, Vic also found himself an outcast and, until persuaded to join the Titans (where he met lifelong friend Beast Boy (changeling), wanted little more than to die. His life since then has been far from ideal, as he went through a number of changes which made him less and less human. Recently, however, he has regained a partially-human body and after a brief period of residence in Keystone City, he headed out to San Francisco to found the new Teen Titans, where he helps train the new heroic generation.