Esperanza Garcia

"Esperanza died 5 years ago. I'm only Ultraviolet now!"

- Esperanza to Allegra Garcia

Esperanza Garcia, also known as Ultraviolet, is a criminal and trained assassin that was recruited by an unknown organization and is the cousin of Allegra Garcia.

Early life
Esperanza was a juvenile offender who comes from a family of criminals. She was put in juvie and eventually started an gang which her cousin joined sometime later.

Getting powers
At some point, She got into a fight with her cousin Allegra when when she wanted out of Esperanza's group. When the Particle Accelerator exploded and surged across Central City, she and Allegra were blasted with the waves of the dark matter giving Allegra and Esperanza the same powers of Electromagnetic manipulation. However, Esperanza fell into a vegetative state making her cousin think she was dead because she couldn't feel her pulse. She was presumably cared by the organization while in a vegetative state and eventually when she woke up started her training be an assassin.

Hunting Allegra
In 2019, Esperanza, now going by Ultraviolet, attacks the Central City Police Department to kill her cousin until she was foiled by the Flash.

Personality
After being hit by the particle accelerator explosion, she thinks that herself as Esperanza Garcia is dead.

Esperanza has some honor when fighting, as seen in her battle with the Flash. When her waves left him on the floor, she waited for him to stand up before attacking him again.

Powers

 * Meta-human physiology: After Esperanza was blasted by the dark energy of the particle accelerator explosion, this altered her DNA and supercharged her cells, giving her access to her newfound abilities.
 * : Just like her cousin, Esperanza is able to manipulate a range of different frequencies and wavelengths of radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum.
 * : The entire electromagnetic spectrum or most of it is visible to Allegra. She can tune her vision to interpret the various ranges of energy. She can see radio waves (which include AM, FM, and TV frequencies) radar, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, power waves, x-rays, gamma rays, and even cosmic rays.
 * : Esperanza is able to generate multiple forms of radiation.
 * : Esperanza using her electromagnetic pulse emission.pnganza can emit a surge of electromagnetic energy, which can disrupt all technology nearby. Allegra used this to interrupt Cecile's cellphone and to shut off the power at CCPD.
 * : Esperanza can release blasts of UV radiation from her hands. She used this to assassinate Salvatore and the eye-witness who ID'd her cousin by a tattoo they share. She was able to hurt Barry Allen (under the persona of the Flash) who couldn't outrun the UV blasts as Ultraviolet light travels at 186,000 mph per second which is 80x faster than Barry's top speed as explained by Gideon.

Abilities

 * Peak of human physical condition: As an assassin, Esperanza is in top physical condition with fast reflexes.


 * Acrobatics/Free-running: Esperanza very agile and is able to descend from large heights.


 * Expert hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Having been trained, Esperanza is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. She was able to overpower a squad of armed police officers in a matter of seconds.


 * Multilingual: As a native Mexican, Esperanza speaks that language fluently, in addition to English.

Trivia

 * When Ralph spoke with Team Flash about everything Esperanza/Ultraviolet did to frame Alegra, Cisco said, "And, you skipped the part where this Ultraviolet person might have been trained in the art of assassination by a secret organization." This description of who may have mentored Esperanza, and the way she was dressed when she attacked CCPD to try to kill Alegra, suggests that she may have ties to the League of Assassins.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics, Esperanza Garcia is Allegra's adoptive mother rather than her cousin.