Flash Bomba

Paul Lester Sison is presented in the komiks as a man who lost the use of his legs in an accident and trained his upper body to exceptional athletic ability. Hearing a rumour about a Tikbalang — described as a mythological creature with the body of a man and the head of a horse — he arranged a contest, setting a time and place for a battle with the creature. After defeating the Tikbalang in this arranged duel, the creature granted him powers and gave him its magic hair, a talisman identified in sources as an agimat or anting-anting. This magic hair functions in the narrative as the device enabling Sison to transform into the super-powered Flash Bomba.

As Paul Lester Sison, the character is depicted as a man who has lost the use of his legs and who has developed exceptional upper-body strength through training. In his super-powered form Flash Bomba, the transformation granted by the Tikbalang's magic hair produces a being notable for enlarged hands and feet and a physically imposing, superhuman aspect. Sources emphasize the large extremities—hands and feet—while noting that he remains skillful rather than clumsy. Visually, the character appears in Mars Ravelo's komiks and was adapted for television (Komiks Presents: Flash Bomba, 2009), where costumes and logo work were modernized for the ABS-CBN series.

Sources credit Flash Bomba with superhuman strength, the ability to walk up walls, and the use of very large hands to generate 'thunderclaps' or to block almost anything; he is also portrayed as a skilled unarmed fighter despite enlarged extremities. Some summaries additionally note an ability to mystically summon 'devil horses' to create a stampede, a power mentioned in certain overviews but not uniformly detailed across all sources. In the narrative, these abilities are granted by the Tikbalang via its magic hair (agimat/anting-anting) following the arranged duel.