The Flash Season 3: 7 Ups And 2 Downs From 'Paradox'

By Andrew Pollard / October 13, 2016

2. Vibe To The Rescue

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While he may have spent the majority of the episode brooding and snarling at Barry, it was pretty awesome to see Cisco Ramon come to the Sultan of Speed’s rescue as The Rival looked like he was about to do to The Flash what he did to the Flashpoint timeline’s Kid Flash.

It’s not full-on Vibe yet, but Cisco is getting there. The standard, regular timeline of Season 2 saw Cisco slowly start to embrace his superpowers, although this new timeline’s Cisco seems to be way ahead of his former self when it comes to the superhero gig.

In this new present, we can see that young Mr Ramon has already begun working on a hero outfit of his own, and the tease of potentially teaming up with The Flash again in the future suggests that there’s still plenty more to come as Cisco edges ever-closer to becoming a fully-fledged card-carrying member of the superhero club.

And to think that for a second there it looked as if Cisco may be about to go rogue…

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 13th Oct 2016

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