Real Name: Leonard Snart
Code name: Captain Cold
Prison Inmate #: 742
Appearance:
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History: Leonard Snart was born to a rather poor family on the outskirts of Central City. His father was an abusive drunkard who lost his role in the police force due to police brutality and rampant racism. He constantly beat Leonard, his sister and their mother. In fact, the only good role model in Leonards life at that point was his grandfather who often whisked Leonard and his sister away from the abusive household to take them on his delivery route. The mere journey was a blessing to Leonard, he hated his father and vowed to make something better of his life than he did.

His school life wasn't great either. He done well in classes, but in a school in which physical attributes were praised more than intelligence was he didn't really fit in. He began to become more physically active later on in his school life, but most of the time he spent his time studying. It was on his leaving year that his grandfather died. He left home soon after.

Leonard began to hitchhike across country. Getting onto freight trains whenever he could and finding what little work that needed done within the cities he arrived in. He barely made enough money to survive. That was until he met a group of people that would later be referred to as the 'Rogues'. They were headed by some self proclaimed leader called 'Knife'. He called himself that because he was too stupid to think of a gimmick and just went with the fact that he had bought a kitchen knife. As much of an idiot as Knife was, he still took Leonard under his wing and taught him all the things he needed to know about leading a small group of people. And by people, Knife meant idiots. Leonard did like the other members, but they weren't the smartest guys to say the least. The only one he really liked was a guy who went by 'Mirror Master' at least that had some gimmick to it.

On one heist, the group had to use a set of flare guns in order to signal their getaway chopper. Cold had expected that Knife and the other idiots would attempt to use the guns as a weapon and conjured up a plan with Mirror Master. Leonard made special glasses to protect their eyes from the flares under the guise that they were creating a new subtitle for themselves. Mirror's part in the plan came later. As the heist drew to an end and the chopper began to approach the cops just [i]happened[/i] to show up. Knife shot his flare and Mirror Master redirected it back at him using his mirrors. Leonard finished the last part of the plan and essentially booted the idiots off of the roof, sending them spiraling to their doom. Mirror Master made the comment that Leonards actions were "Cold", quite ironic really considering Leonards future. 

Before Leonard and Mirror Master began to reform the Rogues they done a few heists as partners to gain enough money to begin laundering and whatnot. It was around this time that Leonard gained the name 'Captain Cold'. Both he and Mirror Master were captured by the Flash and were turned over to the cops. In his time in jail, Leonard studied kinetic energy and thermal motion, realizing that absolute zero temperature would stop even the Flash. With the help of a few other prisoners, Leonard and Mirror Master broke out of prison and set about Leonards new plan of crafting a weapon to harness absolute zero in order to get his revenge. They stole blueprints and a machine that would enable the absolute zero effect. Leonard began to make the weapon when disaster struck. Upon firing the weapon it malfunctioned and essentially caused a freak accident in which Leonard gained the power of absolute zero along with other cold related powers rather than the gun just harnessing this. Leonard began to go under the pseudonym 'Captain Cold' after this event.

Cold began piecing together the new team of 'Rogues' with himself as the de facto leader. Weather Master, Captain Boomerang and the rest joined soon after. He finally had some intelligent company. With the new leader came new rules. The main being that killing was not to be done unless you were in a life or death situation or if you were getting revenge. The first person to break this rule was Boomerang. Boomerang had been in the Rogues for years and he was a more than adequate team member. It was to Colds anger that he found out Boomerang had killed an innocent security guard and expected Leonard to come to his aid. He refused in a bout of rage and left Boomerang to his fate. He felt great regret for this in the weeks to come and accepted that what Boomerang had done was an accident. 

Shortly after the event with Boomerang, Cold retired for a short while. Within the short time period that Cold had left, Pied Piper managed to mistake reverse flash for the flash himself and started a fight with him. Deafening himself and crippling Trickster 1. Cold returned to sort the group out and promptly kicked Piper out whilst giving Trickster a portion of money as a sort of leaving gift. They were ambushed on their next heist, Piper had ratted them out and got them thrown into the maximum security prison known as Belle Reve.
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Force Field
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Ice Control
Intellect
Leadership
Marksmanship
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Stamina
Stealth
Tracking
Unarmed Combat
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