Cisco Ramon

Cisco Ramon
Biological Information
Status	Alive
General Information
Occupation	Mechanical engineer at S.T.A.R. Labs Member of Team Flash (in secret) Ally of Team Arrow (in secret)
Family	Dante Ramon (brother) Mrs. Ramon (mother)
Alter ego	Vibe
Actor	Carlos Valdes

"Am I the only one who watches movies around here?"

—Cisco to Team Flash^[src]

Cisco Ramon, nicknamed Vibe by Barry Allen, is a mechanical engineering genius and a meta-human at S.T.A.R. Labs, also formerly serving as the prison guard to their makeshift prison. He came from a rather poor Puerto Rican family, and provides much-needed comic relief around his stiff workplace. Cisco is also a member of Team Flash. He 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. He also developed a rivalry with Hartley Rathaway and a friendly relationship with Ray Palmer. It was later revealed Cisco was also affected by the particle accelerator, causing him to become a Meta-human with the ability to see through vibrations and the ability to retain memories of alternate timelines of himself before they were altered. Cisco's father was extremely abusive leading to Cisco becoming a scientist

Biography

Early life

During school years, he met Jake Puckett, who bullied him into allowing his homework being copied. At some point of his life, Cisco met Melinda Tores, who he claimed being the love of his life. Melinda actually had a crush on him, but their relationship never became romantic as his brother, Dante lied to her about Cisco wanting to become a priest. Cisco showed interests in mechanics at a young age, but his talent was not recognized nor deemed of importance by his family, as their attention were mostly on Dante despite Dante's insecurities. Cisco knew he was being under-appreciated, but it didn't stop his passion and he continued to pursue his dream. He eventually became employed at S.T.A.R. Labs under employment of Dr. Harrison Wells, but Cisco became very distant from his family even missing his brother's birthdays.

Career at S.T.A.R. Labs

During his first year at S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco became quickly at odds with his co-worker and senior, Hartley Rathaway. When Dr. Wells introduced Cisco as the newest member of Hartley team, the latter became skeptical of him, namely because on Cisco's penchant for hipster T-shirts. He was the official monkey trainer at S.T.A.R Labs. Hartley was likewise mildly annoyed when Dr. Wells placed Cisco on the same level as him, saying that "I have a good feeling about him, just as I had about you." While spending time together, Cisco and Hartley openly expressed their dislike for each other, with Hartley snidely remarking on Cisco's argot and Cisco telling Hartley that if he thought him incompetent then he should try proving it to Wells. Caitlin Snow introduced herself and intervened in their dispute, offhandedly taunted Hartley at the same time, much to Cisco's appreciation. In order to spite him back, Hartley stated Cisco would not last more than a week at S.T.A.R. Labs, but was proven wrong. After Hartley was fired Cisco was highly relieved and hoped never to see him again, and Cisco became close to Dr. Wells with Wells regarding him as a son. Cisco also become close friends with Caitlin and her boyfriend and fellow engineer Ronnie Raymond, whom Cisco also came to look up to.

Particle accelerator incident

After the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator was switched on, it worked for a few minutes, before it began to malfunction. Cisco was sent down to the core chamber with Ronnie to shut it down. Once they got down there, Ronnie requested that Cisco put the accelerator on lockdown if he wasn't back within two minutes. He was forced to lock it down, much to his distress and was promptly joined by Caitlin. They were contacted by Ronnie, who told them of his plan to direct the impending explosion upwards rather than out, and so Cisco had to adjust the particle parameters to compensate for the change. During the particle accelerator's resulting explosion, Ronnie was seemingly killed as the accelerator exploded and produced a blastwave through the city that affected numerous people in Central City and gave them super abilities. However without knowing Cisco was also affected.

Following an accident involving lightning striking him, Barry Allen was put in a coma. After his situation got critical, he was moved to S.T.A.R. Labs where he was stabilized. Sometime following his move, Cisco, along with Caitlin, met Felicity Smoak during one of her visits to see the patient.

Time in Star city

A little while later, Cisco and Caitlin were asked to pack up a S.T.A.R. Labs warehouse in Starling City, following the massive explosion that occurred in Central City. The two were doing an inventory count, discussing the particle accelerator's explosion, when they heard movement in the warehouse. They went to investigate, only to find a security guard standing there. Cisco assured him that they were almost done, though he just stared them down, creeping him out. Before the man could reply, he spat blood out and dropped to the ground, with Deathstroke appeared having murdered the guard. Though Deathstroke pursued Cisco and Caitlin through the facility intent on killing them they find a gun created by Arthur Light, who Wells had fired for apparent insanity, which was capable of harming him. When Deathstroke caught up with them and readied for the kill but Cisco shot him with the gun allowing them to escape, though Deathstroke still escaped with the device he stole.

Sometime after, they met Felicity Smoak and John Diggle at the hospital. Felicity asked about Barry's condition, and Caitlin told her how it was still the same. Cisco quickly blurted out that "Iris" had been visiting him a lot. When Felicity asked who Iris was, Cisco struggled to explain their relationship, causing Felicity to walk off distressed that "Barry's in a coma, he's already moved on". A little while later, Felicity met the two of them in a lab, with a vial of Mirakuru, telling them that she needed their help and that it would be their little secret.

Working with The Flash

Nine months after he was struck by lightning, Barry awoke from his coma to Lady Gaga's Poker Face, a song he allegedly liked. He called Dr. Wells down to lab as quickly as possible, and explained to Barry what had happened, introducing he and Caitlin. The two took a break as Wells showed Barry around S.T.A.R. Labs, explaining in depth what had actually happened. Later, after discovering that he had the ability to run super fast, the team of four headed down to an airfield. He had Barry put on a suit of his creation, which would hold up when he ran fast as well allowed them to monitor his vitals and energy output. He stood back, holding a radar speed gun, as Barry raced off, knocking over Cisco. He continued to monitor his speed, before he tripped over in to barrels of water. They headed back to S.T.A.R. Labs where Thawne and Barry discussed the potential for the existence of other people like him, specifically another who had super speed like Barry, though Dr. Wells was certain that Barry was unique. He left to meet Iris. After an encounter with Clyde Mardon's weather manipulation, he returned to S.T.A.R. Labs where he was angry at Wells for lying to him in regards to metahuman abilities. Cisco found the idea of controlling the weather cool, but Barry guaranteed that it wasn't cool, as it had caused a murder. Barry returned later, sorry, offering an apology in return for Cisco and Caitlin's help in catching rogue metahumans. They agreed to help, and Cisco revealed a suit he'd designed for use by firefighters, which he believed would suit Barry's purposes well. Barry donned the suit and headed out to where they pinpointed Clyde to be. Cisco and Caitlin communicated with Barry, giving support. When Barry began to attempt to unravel it, Cisco stated his belief that Barry could withstand the pressure, which he eventually did.

After a run-in with a strongman at the Central City National Bank, Barry arrived back at S.T.A.R. Labs with a wrongly-healed ankle, after having previously broken it. They decided to re-break it, and Cisco did it as quickly as possible. Following that, Cisco and Caitlin tagged along with Barry to grab some DNA samples from the crime scene at which the strongman had been. While analyzing the sample, they helped Barry find a group of chimpanzees that had escaped from big and cool Central City Zoo. As he locked them up, they revealed that the DNA sample was that of Joey Rose, a former strongman at the Central City Circus. They delved deeper in to the closed circus, discovering that its owner had escaped from Belle Reve and killed several people. They notified Barry of this, while Dr. Wells also provided some details he knew on Mr. Bliss from having attended the circus previously, and Barry left to find the circus. Having been gone for a while, Cisco and Caitlin took a truck and crashed through the tent of the circus. Cisco grabbed Barry and Caitlin attempted to drive away, however their truck was lifted up by Joey Rose, who threw it some distance from the tent. As they crawled from the wreckage, they encountered the snake lady. The lady promised to let them pass, but Caitlin believed it to be a trap. The lady assured her that she was genuine, as they were only compliant to Mr. Bliss otherwise torture would be inflicted upon them. Before leaving, Caitlin asked what all of it was about, but the woman was only aware that something big was happening. They headed back to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Caitlin explained what had happened to Barry and Cisco further explained what the snake lady had told them. Caitlin suggested that she could experiment with psychotropic drugs on Barry, though she was unsure how he would react. Cisco noticed that Mr. Bliss had arrived at a Central City Cougars match, so Dr. Wells urged that they go down to warn everyone. Having destroyed the work van, they took Cisco's car, which Caitlin found unhygienic and tiny. As they arrived, they noticed that The Flash had already evacuated everyone. Iris greeted them and they Cisco claimed that they were there for the circus.

Cisco introducing the calorie bars to Barry.

Cisco directed Barry to a burning building to save people inside. Midway through, Caitlin walked in, causing Cisco to shut the computers off quickly. Caitlin realized what they were doing and after Barry had saved everyone, he returned back to S.T.A.R. Labs. Cisco explained how he was the "eyes and ears" and Barry was "the feet". He queried Barry about his vitals randomly spiking during their escapade, though the latter claimed to be perfectly fine. After later fainting due to using his super speed, Barry returned to S.T.A.R. Labs, where they monitored him. Caitlin got angry at Barry, which Cisco claimed had only happened at such a level since Ronnie, her late fiance. Wishing to see why he kept fainting, Cisco modified a treadmill to fit Barry's needs. They had him gradually work up his speed while monitoring his vitals, before they noted his glucose levels, causing him to faint. When he woke up, they explained that he had acute hypoglycemia and he wasn't eating enough to keep up with his accelerated metabolism. Cisco had determined that he needed to eat the equivalent of 850 tacos (though figured that it would be different for cheese and guacamole tacos.) Detective West promptly arrived and Cisco watched on as they argued, Barry claiming that Joe had no control over him. Later, after a run in with another metahuman, Danton Black, and his many clones, Cisco was annoyed that Barry had gotten blood on the suit, which he'd made. However, Barry reasoned that some of the blood was Black's, leading to Cisco nicknaming him "Captain Clone", though no one seemed to like the name. They gathered some more of the blood and Caitlin was able to trigger the replicating process in Danton's cells, making an entirely new clone. They were able to guess that it was acting as a kind of "receiver", hence why it wasn't immediately attacking them. Suggesting that Barry go after Danton, Cisco presented Barry with a high-calorie protein bar to keep his metabolism in check. When he was in the field, the team provided support as per usual for Barry. Following Danton's ultimate death, they watched it on the news, Cisco expressed that "Multiplex", as he renamed him, couldn't hurt anyone else. Barry assured that the three of them were always with him, and that really all of them had been struck by lightning, not just Barry, at least in the metaphorical sense.

A while later, Cisco alerted Barry to a man with a gun in a getaway car being chased by cops, who Barry sped to and placed in the cop car within a matter of seconds. The following day, after the Darbinyan crime family were gassed to death by a presumed metahuman, the S.T.A.R. Labs team began researching what they could, all of them excited by the potential prospects. Joe noted that they would have to find somewhere to hold them, as Iron Heights was less than ideal, and Cisco suggested the particle accelerator. Cisco and Dr. Wells went down to the particle accelerator's core chamber, where Cisco had a hard time being due to the former night's events. They headed back up, Cisco keen to leave the area. The two of them assisted Barry after he went after the gaseous metahuman, pinpointing his location. Barry soon inhaled some of the man's toxic fumes and was forced to race back to S.T.A.R. Labs, where they extracted the gas for sampling. As Barry woke up, they discussed being able to find the metahuman's identity, whereupon Cisco instead nicknamed him The Mist. Cisco and Thawne went on to identify the gas, noting that although it was hydrogen cyanide, it had traces of a sedative (specifically that used on death row inmates before execution). They identified the metahuman, Kyle Nimbus, and his next target, Joe West. As Barry sped to Iron Heights, where Joe was visiting, Cisco offered to help Barry break in, though Barry claimed to have known how to since age 11. Barry eventually beat The Mist, capturing him, and they put him in their makeshift particle accelerator prison. Caitlin was skeptical that the prison would hold, though Cisco was certain that it would, as it had a super-conductor 100,000 times the strength of Earth's magnetic field. As Dr. Wells left, Cisco attempted to apologize for the night of Ronnie's death, however Caitlin admitted that she was okay, as she was even more proud of Ronnie. The two headed out to the movies, followed by ice cream.

Cisco played table tennis with Barry as Barry was also playing a game of operation with Caitlin and a game of chess with Wells to which Cisco lost. Soon after, they were alerted of a bank robbery by Leonard Snart. Later when Felicity visited the team, he learned that Barry knew who The Arrow was, which he found sweet. Cisco was later yelled at by Wells, who was furious Cisco built the cold gun, a weapon powerful enough to even harm Barry, despite his speed. Cisco later revealed he built the gun in fear Barry would become a psycho like the other meta-humans. Cisco managed to find a way to track down Snart by using triangulation though Felicity intervened as she managed to track him down in under a minute, as opposed to Cisco who claimed it would take half an hour. When Barry decided to take down Snart by also turning off his communications, Cisco along with Caitlin were told by Felicity that they should help Barry, despite his orders. Cisco, Caitlin, and Felicity later arrived with the S.T.A.R. Labs vacuum cleaner, claiming to Snart that it was the prototype cold gun, to threaten him to leave. Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Wells told Cisco never to create such a weapon again.

Personality

Cisco is kind, caring, intelligent, and a laid-back young man, who often at first glance seems unable to take things seriously. However, he has often proven to be surprisingly focused when it comes to helping Barry fight against crime. It's apparent that Cisco is a nerd in many of the conventional ways. He has a clear love of comics, sci-fi and pop culture, and is very excited to see such concepts made real for him, such as witnessing super-powers from assorted metahumans, in particular Barry and his super-speed. His love of comic characters has driven Cisco to often come up with names for Barry's assorted Rogue Gallery, such as Captain Cold. Cisco has great pride about his tech to the point of being extremely protective of it, such as becoming angry when Barry told him that his Flash suit was destroyed by Bette Sans Souci. Cisco is also a very careful planner as he invented a weapon specifically meant for taking down Barry in the event he turned into a corrupt meta human.

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Dimensional awareness/Retrocognition: Though Cisco was murdered by Eobard Thawne in an alternate timeline, he retains the memory of the murder. Eobard is impressed and realizes that Cisco may have been affected by the particle accelerator, as he can see through the vibrations of the universe and retain traces of alternate timelines. Cisco had dreams and visions envisioned his own death an alternate timeline made void by Barry's accidental time-traveling, and also had a vision of Atom-Smasher and Zoom speaking to each other in Earth 2 after seeing Atom-Smasher in person on Flash Day. These visions are typically hazy and dark, with a slightly distorted quality. Recently, he has been shown to get visions of events in his own world involving Earth 2's Sand Demon after touching his cells on a microscope slide, which he used to find where he was keeping Patty Spivot captive and what weapon he planned to use as a distraction. This suggests that Cisco's powers also allow him to see past events in his own timeline where he was not physically present as well. It has also been proven that Cisco can also see someone's past as shown with Kendra Saunders by making physical contact with that person. Somehow, he was able to use his powers to enable him to hit Zoom, which he lightly addressed in "Gorilla Warfare."

Abilities

• Genius-level intellect: Cisco is very intelligent and innovative, both qualities that lead him to play a crucial role for Team Flash.
• Computer specialist: Cisco has proven himself to be a highly skilled computer specialist as a member of S.T.A.R. Labs by aiding Barry in ways such as digitally monitoring police radio and surveillance cameras for criminal activity and metahuman activity.
• Expert computer hacker: Cisco is a capable computer hacker and is able to acquire sensitive or secure information when necessary, capable of breaking into any computer system. However, his computer hacking skills are not at Felicity's level. Felicity has since upgraded Cisco's computer hacking program after her visit.
• Multilingual: Cisco is capable of fluently speaking English, Spanish and Norwegian.
• Hand-to-hand combatant: Though normally staying behind the scene to help in battles, Cisco is shown willing to get into a fist fight when the situation presents itself. While unknown to what degree he can actually fight, he was shown able to trade blows with Hartley Rathaway. However, Hartley was handcuffed at the time and ultimately Cisco ended the skirmish with his technological preparation, having rigged the latter's earpiece beforehand..
• Expert Engineer: Cisco is the Mechanical Engineer of S.T.A.R Labs, Building the Particle Accelerator with Eobard Thawne and helping Barry Allen creating Gadgets and Weapons for him while dealing with Meta-Humans, like the B.O.O.T which can neutralize Meta-Humans by emitting electrical shocks in the restrainer. He was also able to create The Time Sphere which was originally created by Rip Hunter.

Appearances

Arrow

Season 2

• "The Man Under the Hood"
• "City of Blood" (on phone)

Season 3

• "The Brave and the Bold"
• "Broken Arrow"

Season 4

• "Restoration" (mentioned)
• "Beyond Redemption" (mentioned)
• "Legends of Yesterday"

The Flash

Season 1 "Pilot" "Fastest Man Alive" "Things You Can't Outrun" "Going Rogue" "Plastique" "The Flash Is Born" "Power Outage" "Flash vs. Arrow" "The Man in the Yellow Suit" "Revenge of the Rogues" "The Sound and the Fury" "Crazy for You" "The Nuclear Man" "Fallout" "Out of Time" "Rogue Time" "Tricksters" "All Star Team Up" "Who is Harrison Wells?" "The Trap" "Grodd Lives" "Rogue Air" "Fast Enough" Season 2 "The Man Who Saved Central City" "Flash of Two Worlds" "Family of Rogues" "The Fury of Firestorm" "The Darkness and the Light" "Enter Zoom" "Gorilla Warfare" "Legends of Today" "Running to Stand Still" "Potential Energy"

Vixen

• "Episode 3"

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 1

• "Pilot, Part 1" (mentioned)

Comics

The Flash: Season Zero

• "The Strongman Cometh"
• "Who Let the Chimps Out?"
• "A Goodnight Hiss"
• "Big Top Brawl"
• "The Talented Mr. Bliss" (mentioned)
• "A Captive Audience"
• "Showtime"
• "The Big Finale"

Trivia

• Cisco has currently been killed in two alternate timelines.
  • In the first alternate timeline, Cisco actually 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. Though because Barry altered the time continuum, Cisco never looked into Eobard, so Cisco's life was spared. However because of Cisco's powers he still retained traces of the now erased timeline in his memory, including his death.
  • In a second timeline Cisco, along with the population of Central City, was killed by Vandal Savage using the Staff of Horus in his efforts to kill Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders. Though because Barry altered the time continuum once more this disaster never occurred but Cisco currently doesn't remember this timeline.
• In the DC comics, the character originally named Paco Ramone, later changed to Francisco "Cisco" Ramon after The New 52, is a superhero known as Vibe. Both "Paco" and "Cisco" are acceptable nicknames for the Spanish/Portuguese name Francisco. Keeping in line with his comic book roots, Cisco has a brother named Dante. Also of note, the 2013 Justice League of America's Vibe comic book was initially written by Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns.
  • Cisco asked Caitlin "Are you getting a bad vibe off this guy" when a security guard stared down at them for no apparent reason.
  • Cisco stated "You're not the only one who understands vibrations, Hartley" after immobilizing Hartley by altering his earpiece.
  • Cisco created Laurel Lance's Canary Cry choker, a device which emits powerful blasts of vibrations.
  • While investigating the death of Tess Morgan, Cisco uses a device which can detect unusual vibrations.
• Cisco is sometimes seen wearing T-shirts themed after the CBS Sitcom, The Big Bang Theory; coincidentally, one of the protagonists on the said show wears T-shirts themed after various superheroes, mostly The Flash, although before the show started.
• Cisco has a penchant for giving the villains of The Flash and Green Arrow monikers that fit their attributes, personalities or powers.
• Cisco appeared to have considered himself Barry's "best" friend even though it was rather Iris.

See also

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.
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.
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.
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 avenged his late brother.
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.
8. The Pipeline: Repurposed the particle accelerator into a makeshift prison to hold meta-human criminals.
9. A Girder: 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 Reverse-Flash, the entire team became more focused on properly training Barry; drones were introduced, with at least two of them having lasers.
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.
13. Modified earpiece: After experiencing the damage caused by Hartley's earpiece, Cisco tweaked it without its owner's knowing. A complementary device of the earpiece is able to control its vibration while being worn, causing various amount of pain to the wearer.
14. A Quantum splicer: Dr. Wells broached the idea but needed Cisco's help to finish it, hopefully able to split up Firestorm without harm. The device somehow also allowed Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein to safely merge/separate/reemerge later 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.
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. Time Sphere: Built to help Eobard Thawne go back to his timeline which was originally designed by Rip Hunter.
18. B.O.O.T.: Built to neutralized Meta-humans for Central City Police Department.
19. Green Arrow suit: Made for Oliver Queen shortly before his temporary retirement from vigilantism.
20. 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.
21. Speed dampening serum: Cisco designed weapons for the the serum.
22. The Gauntlets: Cisco created these gloves in effort to take the Staff of Horus from Vandal Savage.
23. White Canary suit: Made for Sara Lance as a replacement for her Canary suit and to join Rip Hunters team.

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. Sgt. Bette Sans Souci as Plastique
5. Tony Woodward as Girder
6. Farooq Gibran as Blackout
7. Roy Bivolo as Prism (re-dubbed by Caitlin as Rainbow Raider)
8. Digger Harkness as Captain Boomerang (first try: Kaboom Boomerang)
9. Eobard Thawne (unknowingly) as Reverse-Flash (first try: Opposite Flash)
10. Mick Rory as Heat Wave
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
15. Jeremy Tell as Double Down
16. Harrison Wells (Earth Two) as Harry
17. Henry Hewitt as Tokamak (with Caitlin Snow)
18. Vandal Savage as Highlander
19. Kendra Saunders as Hawkgirl
20. Carter Hall as Hawkman
21. Russell Glosson as The Turtle