Marvel Comics Character Profile - Cypher
Name Douglas Ramsey Cypher New Mutants
Nationality American
Status Deceased
Powers Mutant. Cypher can understand and decipher languages and codes, both human, alien and computer.
Affiliations New Mutants
1st App. New Mutants #13
History- Doug was a teenage friend of X- Man Kitty Pride, the two shared an interest in computers. Doug's mutant power was recognised by professor Xavier early on, but due to its "passive" nature did not invite him to join his mutants until he came to the attention of the White Queen and the Hellfire Club. Doug was invited to join Emma Frost's (the White Queen) Massachusetts Academy. Accompanied by Kitty, Doug arrived at the Academy. Unknown to Doug, kitty was kidnapped by the White Queen and susequentlty rescued by the New Mutants. Doug became friends with the New Mutants but did not realise their secret identities until a an alien being known as Warlock crashed landed in the school grounds. The New Mutants called on Doug to communicate with the creature and both he and Warlock a techno organic being of living circuitry, where invited to join the team and became close friends. In battle Warlock would enshroud his friend in his own body to protect him, taking on a variety of shapes from spacecraft to a battle suit. On a mission in Asgard, home of the Norse Gods, warlock was badly injured. Doug Doug gave up part of his own life-force to save his friend and at the risk of contracting the Techno Organic virus that could transform his body into living circuitry, Doug and Warlock merged to become one entity known as Douglock. The two continued to merge in times of danger and Doug seemed free from the virus. When Warlock and Sunspot left the team to join the Fallen Angels, Doug was left alone. It was during this time that he fell in love with fellow New Mutant Rhanne Sinclair, Shortly after during a battle to save a Mutant called Bird Brain and an island of mutated creatures from a genetic engineer known as the Animator, Doug was shot and killed. He was buried and when his friend Warlock was killed shortly after, Warlocks ashes were scattered on his grave. Warlock was reborn in the being Douglock and although Doug remains dead, due to the many mergings of the two Douglock possess many of Dougs traits.