A criminal known around Central City by his sobriquet, The Rainbow Raider, Roy G. Bivolo weaponised his pathokientic abilities to manipulate people's emotions just by looking into their eyes. This power, which Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon dubbed "the whammy effect" filled his victims with extreme hatred, anger and violence. The effects were not permanent and tended to dissipate after a short period. It was very rare for these effects to last longer than 48 hours.
He has crossed paths with The Flash and his team on several occasions. During their last encounter, he was ultimately defeated when the Scarlet Speedster used a prismatic light grid to neutralize his powers, allowing the CCPD to safely take him into custody.
In 2021, a new metahuman criminal named Carrie Bates, who also went by the name Rainbow Raider, or Rainbow Raider 2.0 to differentiate, began a string of thefts using a similar method. Although Bates shared the same ability as her predecessor, she was considered to be far more powerful. Tapping into every colour of the electromagnetic spectrum, she could emit rainbow light as vibrational energy.
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