Roy Bivolo

"*You think this will stop me? I will make you tear each other to pieces! You will all die screaming with rage!*"
—Roy Bivolo[src]
**Roy G. Bivolo**, initially nicknamed **Prism** by Cisco Ramon, but later dubbed **Rainbow Raider** by Caitlin Snow and himself, is a meta-human thief who was affected by the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion, leaving him with the power to manipulate people's emotions. He became an inmate in the Pipeline at S.T.A.R. Labs but he, along with the rest of the imprisoned meta-humans, was eventually freed by Leonard and Lisa Snart, after which Bivolo he left with Mark Mardon.

In the original timeline, Bivolo was recruited by Hartley Rathaway to join his team to take over Central City and kill the Flash. But; due to Barry traveling through time; Hartley made amends; with Team Flash in the new timeline, thus; never getting the opportunity to create his team. In the new multiverse, Bivolo became a member of the new Rogues.

## Biography

### Original multiverse

#### Going up against Arrow and Flash

"*Anger can be a powerful emotion. If this meta-human can engender irrational feelings of anger in his victims, he can do a lot of damage.*"
—Harrison Wells[src]
Roy Bivolo was in Central City when S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator exploded. The dark matter gave him the ability to control people's emotions, specifically the power to incite uncontrollable rage in anybody around him through eye contact. Bivolo took advantage of this ability by sending the crowd of the Central City Bank into a fierce riot as a distraction that he could use to sneak past all the security and robbed it of over half a million dollars, which was disrupted by the Flash. Joe West, along with other Central City police officers later tracked him to his hideout but Bivolo used his abilities to take control of one of the officers and have him turn on his fellow partners however they were saved by the Flash and the Starling City vigilante, the Arrow. The Flash later tracked him down but when he confronted him Bivolo affected him with his powers and escaped, leaving Barry to attack Oliver. He was eventually defeated by the combined forces of the Flash and the Arrow and imprisoned in the Particle Accelerator prison.

#### Time in the Pipeline

Bivolo repeated tried to "whammy" his jailer, Cisco Ramon, leading to Cisco developing some mirrored glasses which reflected Bivolo's whammy back to himself. Bivolo then began confessing his deepest thoughts to Cisco, also explaining that he preferred the name "Rainbow Raider". After Cisco showed the metas Tina Fey films and TV shows, Bivolo tried to act out *Saturday Night Live* sketches with him, which Cisco quickly grew tired of.

#### Escape from the Pipeline

After being sedated by having knockout gas sprayed in his cell, Bivolo was moved out of S.T.A.R. Labs in a truck with the other meta-humans. He and the other metas awoke and began squabbling. However Leonard and Lisa Snart sabotaged the truck, allowing Bivolo and the others to escape. In the ensuing battle, Bivolo used his powers to manipulate Caitlin Snow, causing her to attack Cisco. After Jake Simmons was killed by Snart, Bivolo attempted to "whammy" him as well, but Lisa pointed her Gold gun a gun to his head, forcing Bivolo to power down. Leonard then recruited Bivolo and Mark Mardon into the Rogues, and the two metas left together.

#### Original timeline

##### Joining Hartley's team

Hartley Rathaway later recruited Bivolo, along with Mardon, Kyle Nimbus, and Shawna Baez, to form a team with the purpose of taking over Central City and destroying The Flash. Bivolo was only in it because Rathaway promised him that he'd be able to become richer than his wildest dreams. None of the criminals realized that Hartley was playing them all. Rathaway sent the criminals all over town to create chaos that would weaken the Flash and cause him to let down his guard. Hartley then went to Mayor Anthony Bellows and demanded that he surrender Central City to his team. When the mayor refused, Bivolo and the other metas prepared to leave the team. However, Rathaway then sent them to attack and destroy a dam, which would flood the nearby area, killing hundreds. Baez, feeling guilt and regret, informed Iris West of the plan, and she and Team Flash set up an ambush. Bivolo went around the dam, whammying every person there and causing several brutal fights to break out. He was confronted by The Flash and attempted to whammy him, but Cisco had installed colored lenses in his cowl, preventing Bivolo's powers from working. The Flash then tied Bivolo up, leaving him for the police.

#### Current timeline

However, this timeline was later erased when Barry traveled back in time and altered events, which caused Hartley to turn good and make amends with Team Flash. Thus, he never formed the team and Bivolo remained free.

His current whereabouts after are unknown, but due to not have been seen since or mentioned, it could be assumed he is living a low-life profile or has moved to another location.

#### Anti-Monitor Crisis

During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, Roy Bivolo as well as everyone in the multiverse except for the seven Paragons, was killed in an antimatter wave by the Anti-Monitor on December 10, 2019, only to be restored a month later, after the Paragons and the Spectre created a new universe.

### New multiverse

Roy Bivolo's name was seen in *Cisco's Who's Who? Binder*.

At some point in the history of Earth-Prime, Roy was a prisoner of the Central City Police Department and mysteriously disappeared. Kristen Kramer had a file on Roy and questioned his disappearance.

#### Joining the Rogues

At some point, Bivolo was recruited by Red Death to join her Rogues and help her in capturing the Flash for power up the Cosmic Treadmill. Later, Bivolo appeared with Red Death in the middle of Central City challenging the Flash, and he used his pathokinesis to subdue the hero with fear while she unleashed a wave of lightning that cut the power all over Central City. After the Flash's capture, Bivolo and the Rogues attempted to learn his identity behind the mask, before being interrupted by Mark Blaine. When Blaine betrayed Red Death, Bivolo along with the other Rogues; Owen Mercer, Andrea Wozzeck and Michelle Amar, fought him while the Flash and Iris West escaped their hideout, with Flash's last view of seeing Bivolo and the others apparently killing Blaine.

#### Invasion at CCPD and Defeat

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## Personality

"*I knew you'd be coming for me. I could see it in your eyes at the bank. When I turned those people against each other, it made you angry. You have some real anger.*"
—Roy Bivolo to the Flash[src]
*To be added*

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

"*The officer who was affected tonight says he saw a flash of red before he lost control. I suspect the meta is inducing rage via the ocular nerve.*"
—Caitlin Snow[src]
* **Meta-human physiology:** After Roy was struck by the energy of the particle accelerator explosion, this altered his DNA and cells, allowing him to access his powers.
	+ **Pathokinesis:** After surviving the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion, Roy gained the power to "whammie" people, which allows him to manipulate the emotions or feelings of an individual, specifically through the optic nerve. Through looking into people's eyes, he can overwhelm the emotion centers of the brain, particularly the parts that control executive function, and instilling uncontrollable anger by effectively nullifying a person's sense of rational restraint. When this happens, his irises glow red and the victims' irises follow suit. He can incite anger in people so extreme that the victim turns homicidal and destructive. He used this power as a thief to whip people up into uncontrollable frenzies in businesses to cause the kind of distraction he needed to slip past their security and robbed them. Individuals with heightened immune systems and healing powers such as the Flash are shown to have a unique reaction to Roy's power. While initially showing no effect, Barry Allen slowly and gradually became more emotionally sensitive. He started with being impatient with others' criticism followed by harsh resentment towards them. By the following day, his eyes finally began showing signs of Roy's power affecting him, to which he had no patience for others and easily became confrontational. Ultimately, his anger evolved into paranoia and caused him to go into homicidal rage to anyone who he thought opposed him. While he could originally only induce anger in his victims, his powers later expanded to impact targets with a wide range of feelings. He was able to induce feelings of intense fear in Flash so it would be easier for Red Death to take him. When he did this, his eyes turned yellow as opposed to his red eyes when he induced anger.

### Abilities

* **Skilled hand-to-hand combatant:** While Roy mainly relies on his powers to win fights, he is capable of holding his own in a fist fight; as shown when he fought Mark Blaine alongside the other Rogues.

### Weaknesses

"*I was thinking that if Bivolo uses color to induce the temporary psychosis, maybe we can use light and color to reverse it.*"
—Caitlin Snow[src]
* **Opaque surfaces:** Roy's powers are rendered completely useless if he is unable to stare directly into a person's eyes for any reason. For instance, his number-one weakness appears to be one-way glass. If someone is wearing glasses with mirrored lenses while Bivolo tries to use his powers on them, the glow from Bivolo's eyes will reflect off the lenses and cause him to be "whammied".
* **Colors:** A certain bright color could reverse this effect and it is most likely to be red or yellow, as Barry's red and yellow blur seemingly reversed the effect others being affected by Bivolo, and both these colors were among the many colored lights shined at Barry to return him to normal. It is possible that Barry cannot see the red and yellow lights he projects when moving at accelerated speeds and therefore could not reverse the effect himself.

## Appearances

### *The Flash*

Season 1
* "Flash vs. Arrow"
* "Grodd Lives" (mentioned)
* "Rogue Air"

Season 2
* "Family of Rogues" (mentioned)
* "The Fury of Firestorm" (indirectly mentioned)

Season 5
* "Seeing Red" (indirectly mentioned)

Season 6
* "Marathon" (mentioned)

Season 7
* "Family Matters, Part 1" (pictured)
* "Good-Bye Vibrations" (pictured)

Season 9
* "The Mask of the Red Death, Part 1"
* "The Mask of the Red Death, Part 2"

### Novels

* *The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen*

### *The Chronicles of Cisco*

* Post 3 "Chapter Two: Prism" (mentioned)
* Post 5 "Chapter Four: Cinema Cisco" (mentioned)
* Post 12 "Chapter Ten" (mentioned)

## Trivia

* "Roy G. Bivolo" is a play on the "Roy G. Biv" mnemonic for the visible spectrum of light (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet), hence the nickname "Rainbow Raider".
* People who got powers after exposure to the dark matter explosion of the particle accelerator generally become metahumans when the dark matter supercharges their cells and fuses some disparate substance they came on contact with resulting from a particular (usually lethal) scenario they were in at the time of the explosion. However, what remains unknown is what situation Roy could've been in at the time of the explosion that could've given him the power to control emotions through eye contact.

## Behind the scenes

* In the DC comics, Roy G. Bivolo, nicknamed Rainbow Raider and, sometimes Chroma, is a supervillain and an enemy of The Flash who uses goggles that emit intensely colored beams of light.
* Prism is also a nickname of several characters in DC Comics, albeit none of them is similar in powers, appearance or biography to this version of Roy Bivolo.
* A character with similar use of color appears in *Smallville*, by the name of Molly Griggs (Brainwave), except that her preferred method of takeover is through flashing colors through phones.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Chronicles of Cisco - Tumblr
2. ↑ "Flash vs. Arrow"
3. ↑ "Rogue Air"
4. ↑ *The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen*
5. ↑ "Flash Back"
6. ↑ "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
7. ↑ "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"
8. ↑ "Marathon"
9. ↑ "Family Matters, Part 1"
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Mask of the Red Death, Part 1"
11. ↑ *The Flash: Green Arrow's Perfect Shot*

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