Cyborg: Can't you see what's going on? Blood is messing with your minds. He's not teaching you, he's forcing you to be criminals just like him!
Brother Blood: Not exactly. You see, Cyborg, I don't want them to be like me. I want them to be like you!
Cyborg attempts to fight off the Titans East singlehandedly after they reveal themselves to be under the control of Brother Blood. While trying to call the Robin for backup, however, Cyborg is captured and restrained. Brother Blood then arrives, having just undergone surgery to make himself half robotic using Cyborg's technology. He explains his plan to do the same to each of the Titans East once he discovers what allows Cyborg to resist his mind control. Robin and the other Titans arrive, having received Cyborg's distress call despite interference from the Titans East. Starfire frees Cyborg, who then pursues Brother Blood for their final battle while the Titans do battle with the Titans East.
Tropes:
- 10-Minute Retirement: Cyborg leaves the Teen Titans. Again.
- An Arm and a Leg: In his desperation to figure out what lets Cyborg resist him, Blood begins dismembering Cyborg until only his torso is left, before then tearing into his chest. After Cyborg rebuilds himself using the Cyclones, he proceeds to return the favor by destroying Blood's arms.
- Big "NO!": Blood has one after Cyborg snaps his claws/hands right off at the wrists, and then his arms begin to crumble further up towards his shoulders. Cyborg shuts him up for good with a final roundhouse kick to send him tumbling, knocking him out cold and senseless.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Robin telling Cyborg he can't just abandon his team like the way he's doing to be the leader of the Titans East after everything they've ever gone through isn't off the mark, but Cyborg is correct that having his own team to lead is a good thing and Robin should be happy for him.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Easy to miss, and it's not really important, but last episode Robin mentioned that they needed Cyborg back home because Professor Chang escaped from jail. Guess who helps Brother Blood become a cyborg himself?
- Continuity Nod: Beast Boy mentions that Cyborg's left before, referring to his 10-Minute Retirement in "Divide and Conquer".
- Curse Cut Short:Cyborg: You can take your offer and blow it out your...
Brother Blood: INSOLENT CHILD!!! - Deus ex Machina: Cyborg is the only Titan left who can resist Brother Blood's Mind Control. Blood has effortlessly torn Cyborg's legs and arms off, controlled the other Titans, and is ripping Cyborg's circuitry apart, trying to find the component that makes Cyborg immune. Cyborg announces "It's my SPIRIT!", forms replacement limbs from parts of the Evil Knockoffs, ignores Blood's energy blasts (the ones that blew his arm and leg off 15 seconds ago), and takes Blood out with one punch. It's only after Beast Boy expresses his incredulity that we're given any explanation (Blood was trying so hard to use his Psychic Powers to control Cyborg's mind that he accidentally allowed Cyborg to access them).
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Blood making himself a cyborg did increase his psychic abilies, but it also made his brain part mechanical, meaning when he tried to hack into Cyborg's brain, it gave Cyborg the chance to hack into his, temporarily stealing Blood's psychic powers and letting him deconstruct the Cyclones to rebuild himself and defeat Blood.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Cyborg tries to invoke this when facing the Titans East, but Bumblebee is the only one able to resist Brother Blood's mind control to any degree at all, and even she isn't able to do it for long.
- Little "No": Bumblebee utters one as she tries to get back her control, adding, "This is...wrong..." But Brother Blood takes her back under his control seconds later.
- Mad Scientist: Brother Blood comes off as a bit of one when he decides to experiment on Titans East and himself with Cyborg's technology.
- Mind-Control Eyes: All of Titans East's eyes glow red when they reveal that they've been under Brother Blood's control.
- Oh, Crap!: From Blood when he realizes Cyborg has gained his Heroic Resolve, struggling to pull his hands loose from Cyborg's innards before Cyborg forces him out with a psychic blast, and a bigger one as Cyborg then rebuilds himself using the Cyclones to restore his crippled body. After that, Blood is given a well-deserved Curb-Stomp Battle that finally ends his reign of terror for good.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Robin gives one to Cyborg when he switches from one team to another. Cyborg in return gives one to Robin for not being happy with his decision, which causes Cyborg to goes as far as to say that he doesn't even care if he ever sees Robin or talks to him again.
- Say My Name: Robin weakly calls out Cyborg's name when he is paralyzed in midair by Brother Blood.
- Unwilling Robotization: Invoked by Brother Blood. While his transformation into a cyborg was willing, he wants to force the same transformation on the Titans East, believing that it will allow his already enhanced psychic abilities to more easily control his "students". He has a brainwashed Professor Chang all set to begin until the Titans arrive.
- Wham Line: During the heated argument, Cyborg reached to a point where he says that he doesn't care about his own team leader anymore. Talk about adding salt to injury.Cyborg: I'm staying. I don't care what you say, I don't care what you do, and right now, I don't care if I ever see you again!
- Wham Shot: Brother Blood Emerging from the Shadows to reveal he's become a cyborg.
- Why Won't You Die?: Rather, "Why won't you submit?!" Brother Blood has become so obsessed with trying to figure out why Cyborg is the only one able to resist his brainwashing, even turning himself into a cyborg thinking it will let him hack into Cyborg, even having a Villainous Breakdown as he tears into Cyborg's chest demanding to know what machinery lets Cyborg resist him. As Cyborg tells him though, it's not the machine half that lets him resist, it's the man half, his unbreakable Heroic Spirit.Blood: Where is it Cyborg?! I've combed through your blueprints, peeled back your armor, stripped off your machinery, but still you defy me! Where in this vile contraption is the part that allows you to resist?!Cyborg: It's not in the circuitry, is it? It's not the machine that resists you, it's me! My spirit! That's the part you can't break! I don't need you to make me a man, I already am one!
