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| Sarah Simms | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The New Teen Titans #8 (June 1981) |
| Created by | Marv Wolfman George Pérez |
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| Full name | Sarah Simms |
| Supporting character of | Cyborg |
Sarah Simms is a supporting character in the DC Universe and a romantic love interest of Cyborg.
Vic Stone was brooding over how he cannot have a normal life. He has just been rejected by his girlfriend because of his disfiguring implants, and no one outside his teammates in the Teen Titans could stand being around him.
In the midst of this gloom, he was struck by a baseball. The child nervously asked for his ball and Vic handed it back, forgetting the child could see his metallic hand. To his surprise, the boy did not recoil at the sight of him, but instead marvelled at Vic's metal prosthetics, and revealed he had a regular prosthetic arm of standard plastic design. The boy called over the rest of his child physical rehabilitation support group, which was overseen by Sarah Simms, a teacher at West Side School for the Handicapped. The children immediately idolized Vic with his metallic hand and exciting life while he, encouraged by this heartening experience, became close friends with Sarah Simms. Both considered the idea of a romantic relationship, yet both were rather shy about asking for fear of creating a rift between their already strong and close platonic friendship.
Vic and Sarah's friendship was shaken when she was kidnapped by Deathstroke the Terminator in an attempt to get to the Titans. Vic felt responsible, and Sarah was upset by the event. Vic and Sarah later came to terms with this and resumed their close friendship.
Later, Sarah Simms was accosted on the street by Mark Wright, who persisted in claiming to be her fiancé even after she had repeatedly told him that they were never more than friends and co-workers. Mark, clearly unbalanced, dragged Sarah into a nearby sports shop, which he took over at gunpoint, wounding a cashier who tried to stop him. Using a rifle from the store merchandise, Mark held off the police, who surrounded the shop, while Sarah took advantage of his distraction to place a whispered phone call to Titans Tower. Cyborg, Changeling, and Raven, the only Titans on hand at that moment, arrived almost immediately, but their initial efforts to enter the store and disarm Mark were met with failure. Finally, confused and surrounded, Mark put down his weapon and collapsed into Raven's arms, surrendering.
Sarah's life entered a period of calm following her hostage situation with Mark Wright. She continued her friendship with Vic, and even attended Donna Troy's wedding as his date.
Following that, Vic's adventures left him little time for Sarah. Meanwhile, a new man entered her life: a co-worker at the West Side School for the Handicapped by the name of Gary Sellers. Sarah and Gary did not plan on a relationship, but found themselves falling deeply in love. Sarah was initially hesitant to tell Vic, and he found out by accident. He was angry at first, but later accepted they were not meant to have a true and deep romantic relationship — just a close and strong friendship.
Eventually, Gary left Sarah and she found herself single again. She romantically flirted with the idea of a romantic relationship with Joe Wilson (Jericho), but nothing ever came of it.
Sarah Simms still remains a friend to Vic Stone and the Titans.
In The New Teen Titans: "Games", [1] Sarah is killed by a bomb set by the book's mastermind. The book is stated to be outside the normal New Teen Titans continuity, so Sarah's ultimate fate remains unknown.
Marv Wolfman, on the possibility of a Vic/Sarah Simms romance: "Not necessarily. At first, I thought of it. And then decided there was nothing wrong with a good healthy friendship that isn't based on a sex. I received a letter that sort of helped me change my mind, from a black leader who felt that we had seen a lot of interracial relationships, but we haven't seen that many good, solid black-black relationships to show that a black hero doesn't always go together with a white heroine and vice versa. And that sort of got me thinking. That came very early in the relationship, that it made a lot more sense in terms of their needs to be very good friends on a platonic friendship level. He has no girlfriend who he is totally in love with in a sexual way at this time. He's just very good friends with her, And that in itself is a slightly different relationship".
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