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Cypher (Douglas „Doug“ Ramsey) is a fictional mutant character, a superhero from Marvel Comics. He first appeared in New Mutants vol. 1 #13 (March 1984).
Doug Ramsey was born to Philip and Sheila Ramsey. Doug was a teenage friend of Kitty Pryde who she met after she moved to Westchester County to join Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. They hit it off when they discovered a shared interest in video games, computers and computer technology. Kitty’s talent for building hardware providing the perfect complement to his skill at writing the software to run the hardware.
Professor X had suspected Doug possessed a mutant power, probably connected with communications, but had not approached him to join the school, perhaps feeling a passive power might go unnoticed. Doug’s initial ignorance of the X-Men’s activities caused some problems when he was offered a scholarship at Emma Frost’s Massachusetts Academy. He does not understand that she, at the time, was one of the X-Men’s…