Cypher may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Cypher (French Group) Cypher may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Cypher (French Group), a Goa trance music group * Cypher (band), an Australian instrumental band * Cypher (film), ''Cypher'' (film), a 2002 film * Cypher (...And Oceans album), ''Cypher'' (...And Ocea ...

, a Goa trance music group * Cypher (band), an Australian instrumental band * ''Cypher'' (film), a 2002 film * ''Cypher'' (...And Oceans album) * ''Cypher'' (Spektr album) * Cypher, a circle of b-boys who take turns dancing in the center in

breakdancing Breakdancing or breaking, also called b-boying (when performed by men) or b-girling (women), is a style of street dance originated by African Americans and Nuyorican, Puerto Ricans in The Bronx borough of New York City. Breakdancing consist ...

* Cypher, a circle of poets who take turns reciting poems in

poetry slam A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word, spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. Poetry slams began in Chicago in the 1980s, with the first slam competition designed to move poetry rec ...

* Cypher, a circle of rappers who take turns freestyling or performing a freeverse in

freestyle rap Freestyle rap, also simply known as Freestyle, is a style of hip hop music where an artist normally improvises an unwritten verse from the head, with or without instrumental beats, in which lyrics are recited with no particular subject or structure ...

Video games

* ''The Cypher'' (video game), released in 1998 * ''Cypher'' (video game), released in 2012

Characters

Cypher (Marvel Comics) Cypher (Douglas Aaron "Doug" Ramsey) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears usually in the X-Men family of books, in particular those featuring the New Mutants, of which Cypher has been ...

(a.k.a. Doug Ramsey), a Marvel Comics character *

Cypher (DC Comics) The Batman family enemies are a collection of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters are depicted as adversaries of the superhero Batman and his allies. Since Batman first appeared in ''Detectiv ...

(a.k.a. Avery Twombey), a DC Comics super-villain and adversary of Batman * Cypher (''Warhammer 40,000''), a character in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe * Richard Cypher (also known as Richard Rahl), the protagonist of ''

The Sword of Truth ''The Sword of Truth'' is a series of 21 sword and sorcery novels and six novellas written by Terry Goodkind. The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, Nicci, Cara, and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander on their quest to defeat oppres ...

'' series * Cypher, a Judas-like character in the film ''The Matrix'' * Cypher Raige, a main character in the science fiction film ''

After Earth ''After Earth'' is a 2013 American science fiction apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic action film, action-adventure film co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who co-wrote the script with Gary Whitta. The film w ...

'' * Cypher, the title character of '' Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero'', a 1950s-era cartoon program * ''Cypher/Kerry Turner'', a sidekick of the Christian superhero '' Bibleman'' * Cypher, the sword-like weapon of

Strider Hiryu ''Strider'', released in Japan as is a 1989 hack-and-slash, hack and slash game developed and published by Capcom for Arcade video game, arcades. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is ruled by the tyrannical Grandmaster Meio, it follows the t ...

, a character from the ''Strider Hiryu'' manga and various related videogames * Cypher, a character in the ''Higher Institute of Villainous Education'' book series, first introduced in the second book '' The Overlord Protocol'' * Cypher, the female main antagonist of the film '' The Fate of the Furious'' * Cypher (aka Amir El Amari), the Moroccan information broker and Agent from Riot Games'

Valorant ''Valorant'' is a 2020 First-person shooter, first-person tactical shooter, tactical hero shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. A free-to-play game, ''Valorant'' takes inspiration from the ''Counter-Strike'' series, borrow ...

* Cypher, a playable "Cyber Trooper" (Mech), appearing in the Sega Video Game Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram

Science and technology

Cipher In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is ''encipherment''. To encipher or encode i ...

or cypher, in cryptography * Cypher (query language), a declarative query language for graph databases * Cypher stent, a type of drug-eluting stent * Sikorsky Cypher, an unmanned aerial vehicle

People

* Jon Cypher (born 1932), American actor *

Julie Cypher Julie Cypher (born August 24, 1964) is an American film director and gay rights advocate. She is best known as the former partner of musician Melissa Etheridge, with whom she had two children. They were one of the first celebrity same-sex coupl ...

(born 1964), American film director, also known as the former partner of Melissa Etheridge * Cypher (gamer) (Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky, born 1990), Belarusian professional ''Quake'' player

Other uses

Royal cypher In modern heraldry, a royal cypher is a monogram or monogram-like device of a country's reigning Monarch, sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the monarch's name and title, sometimes interwoven and often surmounted by a Crown (heral ...