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Vibe (real name Paco Ramone or Francisco " Cisco " Ramon) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He has the metahuman ability to emit powerful vibratory shock waves. Introduced in 1984, he joined the new Justice League formed in Detroit and became the first member to be killed in action.
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"I just love a good pop culture reference in a moment of crisis."
—Cisco to Dinah Drake
Francisco Baracus "Cisco" Ramon (born c. 1991), nicknamed Vibe by Barry Allen, is a former meta-human and former mechanical engineering genius at S.T.A.R. Labs, also formerly serving as the prison guard to their makeshift prison. He came from a Puerto Rican family and provides much-needed comic relief around his stiff workplace. Cisco is also a founding member of Team Flash. He is the best friend of Barry Allen and Caitlin Snow, a close friend of Iris West-Allen, Joe West, Ralph Dibny, and the late Harry Wells and H.R. Wells, and was also friends with Harrison Wells before learning his true identity as Eobard Thawne, though Eobard looked at Cisco as a surrogate son before and after his reveal.
Cisco is the youngest son of Mr. Ramon and Mrs. Ramon, the younger brother of the late Dante Ramon, the boyfriend of Kamilla Hwang, and the ex-boyfriend/good friend of Kendra Saunders and the late Cynthia.
Cisco was also affected by the particle accelerator, causing him to become a meta-human with the ability to manipulate the vibrational energy of reality, although he wasn't aware of his powers until nearly two years had passed since the accident. After the team defeated Cicada, he decided to inject himself with a meta-human cure of his own invention so he could live a normal life with Kamilla. His powers were later restored by the Monitor during the Anti-Monitor Crisis. However, he lost them again when the new multiverse was created.
After the Anti-Monitor was defeated, Cisco began to study the inhabitants and places of Earth-Prime that weren't a part of Earth-1 in the original multiverse. He decided to temporarily leave Team Flash in order to explore Earth-Prime. While he was away, Cisco gave his responsibilities to Harrison Nash Wells.
Original multiverse New multiverse
Cisco was an employee at S.T.A.R. Labs and a founding member of Team Flash just like he was in Earth-1. He attended to Caitlin and Ronnie's wedding. Although his powers were restored by the Monitor during the Crisis, Cisco did not have his powers on Earth-Prime. He felt like Team Flash didn't need him since so many members of the team had meta-human powers, so he worked constantly to impress Kamilla Hwang. Cisco was remorseful since no longer having Vibe's powers made it impossible to save Harry Wells and Jesse Quick when Earth-2 was destroyed.
Possible future
In a possible future, Cisco creates a device that; is able to replicate J'onn J'onzz's power of memory restoration in order to give individuals back their knowledge of the original multiverse.
Powers
•Mecha-Vibe suit application: Cisco created a suit that replicates some of his former powers. •Vibrational blasts: Cisco is able to generate clear concussive blasts of vibrations from his hands. •Synthetic entropy trap: Sometime after John Diggle's visit to Central City, Cisco upgraded his gauntlets and gave them the ability to fire synthetic entropy traps which he used to temporarily trap the Godspeed clones.
Abilities
"Genius engineer, prodigy hacker, and the mechanic who built a cold gun that could stop a speedster." —Caitlin Snow •Genius-level intellect/Master scientist/Physicist: Cisco is one of the most intelligent people on Earth. An example of this is that he was able to design the second Arrowcave. His intellect leads him to play a crucial role for Team Flash. Cisco is a capable scientist, as he was able to create the Mirakuru cure with the help of Caitlin Snow. Cisco also has gained a lot of knowledge on the Speed Force, understanding its nature and how to get Barry Allen in and out of it. Cisco has called his brain "the Ryan Gosling of genius intellects." Cisco is qualified for 7,685 jobs in the U.S. alone. •Bilingualism: Cisco is capable of fluently speaking English and his native Puerto Rican-dialect, Spanish. •Computer specialist/Expert computer hacker: Cisco is a highly skilled computer specialist and hacker, though his skills are not on par with Felicity Smoak's. He was able to hack into the Tannhauser Industries' offsite's records. •Expert tailor: Cisco has been shown to be a highly trained tailor, having created the Flash suit, the Kid Flash suit, the White Canary suit, and his own suit, as well as aspects of the Arrow suit, the Green Arrow suit and the Spartan suit. •Guitarist: Cisco is a talented acoustic guitarist. He was able to produce a lovely melody despite being "a little rusty". •Master engineer: Cisco is a highly skilled engineer, as he helped build the particle accelerator with Eobard Thawne and has helped Team Flash by creating various gadgets and weapons for them. Three of his notable creations are Captain Cold's, Heat Wave's, and Golden Glider's signature weapons. During the six months Barry was in the Speed Force, Cisco designed a Quark sphere containing Barry's DNA and modified the Speed Force bazooka so it would free Barry and put the sphere in his prison. •Trap master: Cisco does plans to trick enemies and often uses his engineering skills. •Expert hand-to-hand combatant: Though normally staying behind the scenes to help in battles, Cisco is shown willing to get into a fistfight when the situation presents itself. He was shown able to trade blows with Hartley Rathaway. However, it should be noted that Hartley was handcuffed at the time and ultimately Cisco ended the skirmish with his technological preparation, having rigged the latter's earpiece beforehand. Since becoming Vibe and learning to better use his powers, Cisco has started to be on the field more often, able to fight against Gypsy and Cicada. Cisco was even able to hold his own against Thawne, who was possessing Nash, though Thawne ultimately gained the upper hand due to Nash's superior physical condition and Thawne's own rage.
Original multiverse
•Vibe suit: Sometime after Barry restored the timeline he saw Cisco making gauntlets, with Cisco mentioning that the Gauntlets were for 'his suit'. Initially, the suit consisted of Cisco's ordinary clothing, the gauntlets, and the Vibe glasses. He used the suit to help Barry fight Edward Clariss. When Cisco vibed Caitlin when she told him she had meta-human powers similar to Killer Frost, he was seen wearing the full completed suit, foreshadowing that he would eventually complete it. The suit seems to be made out of a leather-like material with a black, yellow, and red jacket, the pants of the suit couldn't be properly seen in the vision. The suit was eventually completed and was shown in exact detail as it was in the vision. •Reverb glasses: After encountering his Earth-2 counterpart, Cisco obtained his version of the glasses and brought them to Earth-1. Harry Wells later re-calibrated them, adjusting them to the frequency of Cisco's Earth and thus allowing Cisco to channel trans-dimensional energy and open breaches between different universes. •Vibe gauntlets: Cisco designed special gauntlets that he uses to help control his vibrational blasts and his interdimensional travel.
New multiverse
•Mecha-Vibe suit: Cisco quickly whipped up a suit to help Barry and Frost fight Eva McCulloch. It allowed him to shoot blasts that were similar to his Vibe blasts and was powered by an energy source worn on his chest. However, the energy source stopped working after a short amount of time. The suit consists of his glasses, a black jacket, the aforementioned energy source, and bulky metal gauntlets. Despite Cisco losing his powers, the gauntlets proved to be highly effective against Eva's mirror duplicates, knocking them off balance. •Mecha-Vibe glasses: Cisco wore his glasses when he used his new suit. •Mecha-Vibe gauntlets: Cisco wore his gauntlets when he used his new suit.
Erased future equipment
•Prosthetic hands: When Barry ran from 2017 to 2024 in order to try to learn Savitar's identity, he encountered a version of Cisco that had lost his hands in a fight with Killer Frost. Because of this, Cisco had a metallic pair of prosthetic hands that worked like his real hands, except for the fact that he could no longer use his powers. Due to Savitar being erased from existence, the future has been changed and it's assumed that Cisco has avoided this fate.
ArrowThe FlashVixenDC's Legends of TomorrowSupergirlChronicles of Cisco•Cisco has been killed in three alternate timelines:
•In the first alternate timeline seen in "Out of Time", Cisco looked into Dr. Wells after Barry relayed the suspicions of Mason Bridge and examined the trap the team set for the Reverse-Flash, discovering the speedster in the trap was just a hologram. Wells caught Cisco, revealed to him his true identity, and killed Cisco. However, Barry altered the timeline and in the new timeline Cisco never looked into Eobard, so Cisco's life was spared. However, because of Cisco's powers, he still retained traces of that erased timeline in his memory, including his death.
•In a second alternate timeline seen in "Legends of Yesterday", Cisco, along with the entire population of Central City, was killed by Vandal Savage using the Staff of Horus in his efforts to kill Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders. However, because Barry altered the timeline once more, this disaster never occurred.
•In the alternate timeline known as the Reverse-Flashpoint, seen in "Armageddon, Part 4", Cisco had been killed by Damien Darhk and the Reverse-Flash, along with the Legends and Ray Palmer.
•Cisco has a penchant for giving the villains of the Flash and Green Arrow monikers that fit their attributes, personalities, or powers. However, he claims to dislike codenames that incorporate colors such as "Green Arrow". He is also shown to dislike self-given nicknames such as "Speedy" and "the Anti-Monitor", claiming the sound of the latter made him want to "barf" and groaning every time he had to say it.
•Despite his dislike of nicknames that include colors, he gave Lisa Snart the name Golden Glider, which includes a color.
List of works he created, modified or contributed
1.The Mirakuru cure: He and Caitlin Snow were able to recreate a cure out of Mirakuru samples that ultimately helped Team Arrow stopping the super-soldiers from further destroying Starling City.[103] 2.The Flash suits: Although originally designed for the Central City Fire Department, it is later worn by Barry Allen. 3.The Cold gun: Designed before actually getting to know and becoming friends with Barry. Preparing for the worst, the gun is meant for slowing down and potentially harming the targets by firing beams that freeze the target into a state of absolute zero upon contact. 4.The Heat gun: Designed before actually getting to know and becoming friends with Barry. Preparing for the worst, the gun is meant for potentially harming the targets via firing streams of fire. 5.Wizard's Wand: After knowing meta-humans with powers like Clyde Mardon existed, it was developed as a countermeasure. In an erased timeline, it later came to its use when Mark Mardon, having the exact if not stronger powers that Clyde had, showed up to avenge his late brother. It was later built in the current timeline when Mark broke Leonard Snart and James Jesse out of prison. 6.A Cisco-ed treadmill: Built and designed specially capable of handling Barry's super-speed. 7.Calorie-densed protein bars: Specific calculations made to meet what Barry's body needed to avoid hypoglycemia. According to Cisco, it contains a number of calories equivalent to 850 tacos, excluding cheese and guacamole. 8.The Pipeline: Cisco helped to build the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, and later assisted in re-purposing it into a makeshift prison to hold meta-human criminals. 9.A girder dummy: Built to let Barry practice punching a movable iron object after the Flash was first beaten by Tony Woodward. 10.The Arrow suits: Following returning Barry to normal after altercations with Roy Bivolo, Cisco updated the suit for Oliver Queen. He made the new one out of a polymer kevlar weave; it was also 25% lighter and could carry 15% more gear. 11.Training drones: After the Flash took a beating from the Reverse-Flash, the entire team became more focused on properly training Barry; drones were introduced, with at least two of them having lasers.[104] 12.Modified ballistic shields: Feeling responsible for creating the weapon that allowed Snart remaining at large, he and Harrison Wells tweaked the shields from Central City Police Department to hold against the Cold Gun. After analyzing the Heat gun, the shields were again modified to also become fire-resistant.[104] 13.Modified earpieces: After experiencing the damage caused by Hartley's earpiece, Cisco tweaked them without their owner's knowledge. An adjustment he made to these allows Cisco to control their vibration while being worn, causing various amounts of pain to the wearer.[105] However, since Barry ended up altering the timeline so that Hartley never tried to escape the pipeline, Cisco presumably never altered Hartley's earpieces in this way. But, since Barry warned Cisco about Hartley being able to use his earpieces to escape, Cisco ended up making Hartley new, non-explosive ones. 14.A quantum splicer: Dr. "Harrison Wells" broached the idea but needed Cisco's help to finish it, hopefully, able to split up Firestorm without harm.[106] The device somehow also allowed Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein to safely merge/separate/reemerge later on.[107] This is later built into the Firestorm suit via unknown means, allowing the two counterparts to merge without having to manually put it on. 15.The Gold gun: After Dante was kidnapped by Leonard Snart and company, and was used as a bargaining chip, Cisco was forced to build a weapon for Lisa Snart. It is capable of firing beams that transform the target into pure gold upon contact. 16.Canary Cry: While in Starling City with Joe investigating Harrison Wells Cisco met Laurel who revealed her identity as the Black Canary to him and asked him to upgrade her sonic device. While the two were getting ready to leave Cisco gave her the new device which now looked like a necklace/choker. 17.Vibe glasses: After Team Flash discovers the Time Vault and that Harrison Wells is the Reverse-Flash, Cisco built to special glasses help himself into his dream of being killed by Harrison, however, is horrified to discover that Harrison is, in fact, Eobard Thawne; Eddie Thawne's descendant from the future, it is later revealed that the streams of Cisco's are actually visions, revealing that Cisco is a meta-human. 18.Time Sphere: Built to help Eobard Thawne go back to his timeline which was originally designed by Rip Hunter. 19.B.O.O.T.: Built to neutralize meta-humans for Central City Police Department. 20.Green Arrow suit: Made for Oliver Queen shortly before his temporary retirement from vigilante activity.[108] 21.Arrowcave: With the help of the rest of S.T.A.R. Labs, created a new, highly updated version of the cave underneath the late Sebastian Blood's campaign office, modifying his former Mirakuru lab to do so.[109] 22.Speed dampening serum: Cisco designed weapons for the serum.[110] 23.The gauntlets: Cisco created these gloves in effort to take the Staff of Horus from Vandal Savage.[111] 24.White Canary suit: Made for Sara Lance as a replacement for her Canary suit and to join Rip Hunter's team. 25.Vibe gauntlets: Cisco created these gloves to channel his power into concussive vibrational blasts. 26.Vibe suit: Combining the Vibe glasses and the gauntlets, Cisco made what he mentioned was his suit, as of his fight with Gypsy throughout the Multiverse, the suit was completed, adding a red and yellow padded jacket and pants. 27.Interdimensional extrapolator: Cisco created this for Kara Danvers so she can travel anytime to Earth-1 from Earth-38 and back. He later gave one to Leo Snart as well, allowing Leo to freely travel between Earth-1 and Earth-X. 28.Cerebral inhibitor: Cisco created this machine in order to resolve Savitar's knowledge of any plans they created by preventing Barry from creating new memories. However, this machine instead erased Barry's old memories instead. According to Savitar, it will be used in the future against somebody named DeVoe, later revealed to be Clifford DeVoe, aka The Thinker. 29.Speed Force bazooka/Interdimensional quantum splicer: Cisco modified the Speed Force bazooka created by Tracy Brand after Savitar captured him and stole the device. However, instead of creating an Interdimensional Quantum Splicer as Savitar had ordered him to do, he secretly modified the device to act as a "Skeleton key" so Jay Garrick could get out of the Speed Force prison. He modified the device further with assistance from Harry Wells, Tina McGee, Felicity Smoak, Curtis Holt, and Tracy Brand to get Barry out of the Speed Force prison without rendering the dimension unstable (but putting a quark sphere in the prison in his place), thereby preventing it from causing a Speed Force storm. 30.Elongated Man suit: Worn by Ralph Dibny when in out in the field as a superhero. It has an adaptive nano-weave structure that is malleable on the sub-molecular level. 31.Firestorm cure: With assistance from Harry Wells, Cisco was able to create a serum which he dubbed "The Calm After the Firestorm", which, when taken by either Jefferson "Jax" Jackson or Professor Martin Stein, would sever their psychic connection. This would trick the Firestorm matrix into thinking that Jax and the professor were merged (when in reality, they weren't), thereby stabilizing Professor Stein so that he could avoid a nuclear meltdown. This also neutralized all of the powers of both Jax and Martin. 32.Meta-human cure: With assistance from Caitlin Snow, Cisco was able to create a serum which, when taken by a meta-human, would remove their powers by suppressing the dark matter in their pituitary gland. Once a meta-human has taken the cure, there is no known way to reverse the process. 33.Killer Frost suit: Cisco created this suit as a gift for Killer Frost. 34.Paragon detector: A device originally built by Ray Palmer to identify the 7 Paragons,[112] Cisco assisted him with the finishing touches. 35.Martian memory restorer: In a possible future, Cisco creates a device that is able to replicate J'onn J'onzz's power of memory restoration in order to give individuals back their knowledge of the original multiverse. 36.Mecha-Vibe suit: Cisco quickly whipped up a suit to use in a fight against Eva McCulloch. 37.Mecha-Vibe gauntlets: Cisco created gauntlets that can fire sonic blasts (functionally similar to his Vibe blasts) powered by an energy source from his suit. 38.Isotope detection system: Cisco helped Chester P. Runk build a system that gave Team Flash the ability to detect foundational isotopic signatures, so they would know if "Fuerza" or "Psych" was headed towards Central City. 39.Prismatic light grid: Cisco built a prismatic light grid that Team Flash used to reverse Roy Bivolo's whammy effects.
List of individuals he nicknamed
1.Danton Black as Multiplex (first try: Captain Clone) 2.Kyle Nimbus as The Mist 3.Leonard Snart as Captain Cold 4.Bette Sans Souci as Plastique[113] 5.Tony Woodward as Girder 6.Farooq Gibran as Blackout[114] 7.Roy Bivolo as Prism (later re-dubbed by Caitlin Snow as Rainbow Raider) 8.Digger Harkness as Captain Boomerang[115](first try: Kaboom Boomerang) 9.Eobard Thawne as Reverse-Flash[104] (first try: Opposite Flash)[116] 10.Mick Rory as Heat Wave[104] 11.Mark Mardon as Weather Wizard 12.Brie Larvan as Bug-Eyed Bandit (with Ray Palmer) 13.Lisa Snart as Golden Glider 14.Mari McCabe as Vixen[117] 15.Jeremy Tell as Double Down[118] 16.Earth-2 Harrison Wells as Harry 17.Henry Hewitt as Tokamak (with Caitlin Snow)[119] 18.Vandal Savage as Highlander 19.Kendra Saunders as Hawkgirl 20.Carter Hall as Hawkman [111] 21.Russell Glosson as The Turtle[120] 22.Joseph Monteleone as Tar Pit[121] 23.Eliza Harmon as Bad Flash (Eliza renamed herself Trajectory) 24.An unknown man as Thief 25.Julian Albert as Dr. Alchemy 26.Rosa Dillon as Top[122] 27.Becky Sharpe as Hazard 28.Clifford DeVoe as The Thinker[123] 29.Dominic Lanse as Brainstorm 30.Neil Borman as Fallout[124] 31.Sylbert Rundine as Dwarfstar[101] 32.Matthew Kim as Melting Point[125] 33.William Lang as Gridlock[126] 34.Vanessa Jansen as Block[127] 35.Peter Merkel as Rag Doll 36.Thomas Snow as Icicle (with Nora West-Allen) 37.Philip Master as Acid Master 38.Kimiyo Hoshi as Dr. Light 39.Frida Novikov as Turtle II 40.Alexa Rivera as Fuerza 41.Bashir Malik as Psych 42.Carrie Bates as Rainbow Raider 2.0
Cisco is a big fan of The Princess Bride. Apparently Cisco Ramon doesn't exist on Earth-38. However, as shown by Jay Garrick being Henry Allen from Earth-3, the same versions of people do not necessarily have the same name.
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The exposure to the interdimensional forces rewrote his DNA, and now Cisco uses his vibrational powers to help A.R.G.U.S. find and restrain dangerous fugitives from other realities. The second-youngest member of the Justice League of America, he is the hero known as Vibe.
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Sep 1, 2020 · In both the comics and in the Arrowverse, Cisco is a hero. In the comics, he served as a member of the Justice League under the leadership of Aquaman and Martian Manhunter during the "Justice League Detroit" years.
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Sep 25, 2020 · Cisco Ramon, aka Vibe, is a stand-out DC hero and is, undoubtedly, the most powerful of the metahumans out there - here's why.
Vibe (real name Paco Ramone or Francisco "Cisco" Ramon) is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Portrayed by actor Carlos Valdes, Vibe made his live-action debut on the Green Arrow television series Arrow, and is a starring character in the spin-off series The Flash.
