Kyle Nimbus also known as The Mist was Former Hitman for The Darbinyan Crime Family a local Crime Family in Central City. However at some unknown point he was betrayed by them which resulted him getting arrested by Detective Joe West. During his trial The Darbinyan Crime Family testified against him and Judge Theresa Howard sentenced him to death by lethal injection. On the night he was scheduled to be executed it was also the same day of the activation of S.T.A.R. Labs's Particle Accelerator. During execution while most people he was dead and the execution was a success in fact they were all wrong he was brought back from the dead as a Metahuman gaining powers. Letting everyone still believe he was dead after the execution he escaped the morgue of Iron Heights Prison and swore revenge on