Cyborg installs a new computer chip into his circuits, greatly enhancing and increasing his speed and efficiency eight times. But when a multiplying metahuman, Billy Numerous, appears on the scene, Cyborg may give up a lot to try catching him.
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- An Aesop:
- Don't push yourself to do everything at once. You're only human, and it pays to take it easy at your own pace.
- Know your limits, know when to stop, and get plenty of rest. Doing so will stop you from overtaxing yourself and keep you refreshed and ready for anything.
- Big "YES!": After installing MAX-7, Cyborg let out the biggest "BOO-YAH" ever throughout the series.
- Canon Foreigner: Billy was created specifically for the cartoon, although he would appear in mainstream DC Comics later.
- Continuity Nod: On his wall, you can see a picture of the kid with the prosthetic hand from "The Sum of his Parts". When Cyborg coaches a little league game, the kid is the one who slides in on home base. There's also the photo Cyborg took with Jinx during their Homecoming prom a few episodes ago.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu:
Word of God in the DVD documentary is that the more Billy divides, the weaker the copies get. Kind of makes you wonder how strong he is since one scene has a set of duplicates carrying a section of a suspension bridge. - Color Failure:
- Raven does this when she is beaten in a game of chess by Cyborg.
- Cyborg when the MAX-7 nearly nukes his main processor.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The newly-upgraded Cyborg gives one of these to Adonis early on, and is on the receiving end when he tries taking on Billy.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: In an increasingly obsessive effort to boost his speed and intellect enough to compensate for Billy Numerous's Doppelgänger Attack, Cyborg keeps upgrading and overclocking his neural processor until he eventually decides to shut down his brain's emotional center to further boost its efficiency. At this point he's talking pure Spock Speak in a deadened, soulless, metal-tinged voice.Beast Boy: "You know Cyborg's always had chips for brains, but he's turning into the one thing I never thought he could be."Raven: "What's that?"Beast Boy: "A robot."
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Cyborg's dependency on the MAX-7 is treated as though he was addicted to a drug.
- Fire Hose Cannon: Billy uses one of these to incapacitate Cyborg during their solo confrontation inside a vault.
- For the Evulz: Adonis goes to a beach to terrorize people just for fun.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Titans use Billy's multiplication powers against him, forcing him to copy himself over and over until he can't anymore, causing his powers to shut down.
- Hologram: What eventually took Billy down, with the Titans using Cyborg's holograms to trick Billy that he's fighting an army of Titans.
- Me's a Crowd: This is Billy Numerous's power.
- Mythology Gag: S.T.A.R. Labs made the chip that Cyborg got. In the original comics Cyborg's parents were scientists there, and after an accident there, it's where he becomes Cyborg.
- Outclassed at the Gym: Cyborg works out by lifting lots of weights, and is frustrated to see that Starfire is lifting much more than him with only one arm.
- Overly Preprepared Gag: The Billy duplicates steal an enormous segment of a bridge, and one gets the feeling it was just to set up a pun.Robin: Numerous, what are you doing!?
Billy: Nuthin'! And if y'all believe that, I've got a bridge to sell ya! - Overshadowed by Awesome: During his workout session with Starfire, Cyborg grunts in excursion as he lifts up a huge amount of weights on a back press station. He succeeds and felt proud of his accomplishment, until he looked to the side at Starfire, who effortlessly lifts up her weights with one arm. It then zooms out to reveal that Starfire was pressing at least triple of what Cyborg was lifting.
- Parody Commercial: Cyborg advertises a BBQ sauce called Cy-B-Q in a "get rich quick" sort of scheme.Starfire: "I thought our official marinade was zorbrian spider juice."
- Power Incontinence: While Billy can make an obscene number of clones, he does have a limit to it, something the Titans manage to exploit via the holograms they created to make it seem like there was a hundred of them, Billy having to keep making more and more duplicates to try and keep up. He eventually reaches the point where, in the midst of trying to create more, he gets stuck and the duplicates start snapping back into him, eventually overwhelming him and leaving him a dizzy mess the Titans can easily apprehend.
- Read the Freaking Manual: Cyborg intended to, but there was so much of it, including a chunk of it in German for some reason, that Cyborg said screw it and just installed it. The others actually read it once Cyborg ends up overloading his processor, allowing them to see that while the Max 7 is compatible with his systems, by diverting all of his processing capacity towards it and neglecting the other systems, it caused his core processor to overload and shut down until they manually removed it.Cyborg: "Just take a second to read the instructions...and this warning, a few disclaimers, another warning, something in German-Oh, man! I don't have time for this!"
- Rewatch Bonus: A second viewing of the final battle and one might notice at any given point, despite having multiple Titans running around, only one of them is actually fighting Billy and his clones (with the rest of the copies simply filling up the background). Which makes sense since the other "Titans" are holograms.
- Running Gag: Beast Boy getting defeated by Cyborg in a video game.
- Schedule Fanatic: It is revealed that Cyborg is one, as he seems to schedule everything he does, every day if the clock flipping past the screen is an indication.
- Tempting Fate: Cyborg claims the MAX-7 is "Totally safe"(Everyone sees the new chip)All: "Oooh.."Raven: "Yeah, that looks safe."
- The strange thing is, it actually was safe until he started using it to put off his human needs like sleep, eating, and emotion.
