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Douglas Ramsey (Earth-616)

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Real Name
Douglas Aaron Ramsey
Current Alias

Aliases
Doug Ramsey

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation
Selene's undead mutant army
New Mutants

Relatives
Phillip Ramsey (father)
Sheila Ramsey (mother)

Universe


Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Student, Adventurer

Education
Xavier's School for the Gifted

Origin
Origin
Cypher was a mutant, born with his special abilities that developed during puberty.

Place of Birth
Somewhere in America

Place of Death
Paradise, an island in the North Atlantic

First appearance
Last appearance

Contents

History

Douglas Ramsey was a friend of Kitty Pryde, the X-Man Shadowcat. Both shared an interest in computers and video games which brought them closer together.

When both Professor Charles Xavier and Emma Frost discovered Doug was a mutant, they both attempted to recruit him for their respective schools. Frost offered him a scholarship to the Massachusetts Academy in hope of inducting him into her adolescent Hellions to serve the Hellfire Club's sinister needs. Pryde accompanied Ramsey on a trip to the Academy for his final interview. Kitty didn't trust Frost at all due to past experiences, and this time was no different. The White Queen captured Kitty, and was later saved by the New Mutants. Ramsey ended up not attending the school.

While Douglas became a friend to the New Mutants children, they kept their mutant powers and costumed personas from him. However, one night when the New Mutants were alone in the mansion, the techno-organic alien Warlock arrived and battled the New Mutants in the confusion that erupted. The mutants asked Ramsey for help in communicating with the alien, and revealed their secrets to him. Douglas succeeded in talking with Warlock, and both the alien and Ramsey soon joined the team. Ramsey chose the codename Cypher, as his mutant ability allowed him to decipher codes and languages. Warlock and Cypher shared a close bond, often sticking close together in battle.

Doug often felt useless in battle, even though his powers often came more in handy then others. During a mission to return their teammate Bird Brain to his home island, the villainous Ani-Mator captured the New Mutants, but thanks to the friendship made with Bird Brain, the humanoid animals that the Ani-Mator had made, came to their rescue. During the battle, Doug wanted to help their friends but felt that his powers could not help, and if he tried to fight with his hands, he would get in the way. But when the Ani-Mator aimed a gun at Wolfsbane while she was fighting a Smile-Face, Doug couldn't stand still and hurled into the way, getting shot twice by the Ani-Mator, getting un-noticed by Wolfsbane, she asked him not to dive into battle like that, his last words being "Don't be mad Rahne... I'll never... do it... again." before falling into endless sleep. After the battle, his body was found, while the Ani-Mator confessed at shooting while trying to shoot Wolfsbane, she blamed herself and that she should have died instead. Magik, in anger, threw Ani-Mator into limbo where he was eaten alive by demons. Doug's death and noble sacrifice, saving the Ani-Men and Rahne, also drove Magneto far away from his students as he blamed himself for his death as well as homo sapiens.

Recently, Eli Bard, a servant of Selene, tracked down the body of Douglas with the aid of the reanimated Caliban and reanimated him as well with the aid of the Transmode virus. Alongside the resurrected Hellions, Cypher infiltrates Utopia and, while the Hellions go after Emma Frost, he targets Magma as commanded by Selene

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Omnilingual Translation: has a superhuman facility for translating any languages, spoken or written, human or alien in origin. His superhuman skill also extended to his great facility in deciphering codes and computer languages as well as understanding hidden intentions and body language. Cypher’s skills were such that he was once able to make great headway in translating the written language of an extraterrestrial race in a matter of minutes. Cypher’s mutant talent for translating differed from the translating ability that a human who is a genius in this field, yet not a mutant, possesses, even though both people might achieve the same results with any given translation problem. Cypher’s mutant talent was an intuitive one which worked on a subconscious level, and which may in part by related to telepathy. A non-mutant human, even a genius, would have to work out a translation consciously, step by step. Rather than working the problem out step by step, in his conscious mind, Cypher instead subconsciously solved the problem. Hence, Cypher could reach the correct solution by means that appeared to be leaps of logic, and he himself may not have been consciously aware of the entire process by which he reached the right answer.

Abilities

  • Training in hand-to-hand combat
  • Gifted intelligence

    Strength level

Cypher possessed the normal human strength of a young man of his age, height, and build who engaged in regular physical exercise.

Notes

  • Warlock also perished a while after Cypher's death, but was resurrected with Ramsey's memories as the mysterious Douglock.

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