Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20121220000249/@comment-1895174-20130105220742

Tupka217 wrote: They're most definitely jocks, not nerds.

Can't they be both? All a character has to be is black and tech savvy to fit the archetype. Mal's character on the show has definitely been that up to this point, and Cyborg is as well depending on who's writing him.

And Greg Weisman hasn't melded two characters together like this before - He made one of the Enforcers into Shocker for Spectacular Spider-Man. So while we now know it isn't going to happen, Mal becoming Cyborg at some point wasn't an infeasible idea.