Gideon is the name of several characters from the DC Universe. In the Modern Age, Gideon was the leader of the military forces of New Genesis.
In the Arrowverse, Gideon is a name used by several interactive artificial intelligences. The first A.I. was created by Barry Allen in the future and used by Eobard Thawne and Team Flash in the present. The second A.i. is the artificial intelligence of the timeship Waverider and a member of the Legends. Following the destruction of the ship, she was destroyed, but was later accidentally revived in a human body by Astra Logue using magic.
The third A.I. was a evil replica of the second Gideon downloaded by the mad scientist Bishop. Like the original, she is an interactive artificial intelligence programmed to operate the Waverider. When Bishop escaped from the ship, Gideon created her own team of Legends. Several characteres also use the name Gideon, like; Gideon Gleet, James Gideon, Gideon Rivers, and Gideon Starorzewski.
New Genesis' Gideon was created by Jim Starlin and Paris Cullins, first appearing in New Gods (Volume 3) #3. (1989) The first Gideon A.I. was created by Alison Schapker and Grainne Godfree, first appearing in The Flash episode Power Outage (2014).
The second Gideon A.I. was created by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, and Phil Klemmer, first appearing in DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode Pilot, Part 1 (2016). The third Gideon A.I. was created by Phil Klemmer and Matthew Maala, first appearing in DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode wvrdr error 100 not found (2021).
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