Barry Allen

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## The Flash

* The Flash
* Barry Allen

### Barry Allen: 1976 - 1988

Barry is the only surviving child of Henry and Nora Allen. As a child in Fallville, Iowa, Barry was known for daydreaming and always having his head in the pages of a comic book or science fiction novels. Barry had one real friend: next-door neighbor Patty Spivot.

### Barry Allen: 1988 - 1994

When Barry was twelve, his life turned upside when he came home from a visit to the library with Patty and found his mother murdered. Police arrested Barry's father, who professed his innocence. Unable to believe his father did this, Barry swore that he would find a way to prove his father's innocence. Barry was taken in by his aunt and uncle in Sun City. Every summer following this, Barry scrounged up enough money to buy a plane ticket to Iowa so that he could visit his father in prison and compare notes with Patty.

### Barry Allen: 1994 - 1999

Barry did well in school with a renewed passion for science and problem-solving. Barry chose to attend Midwestern University in Keystone City where his favorite sci-fi writer, Jay Garrick, taught literature. It was also a short drive away from STAR Labs in Central City where Barry's other hero, Dr. Harrison Wells, was building a particle accelerator. While attending college, Barry met Iris West, a journalism student, and the two started dating.

### Barry Allen: 1999

Barry graduated and got a job with the Central City Police Department's Forensics Division. He celebrated with a flight to Iowa to visit his father and give him a lengthy plan of all the resources to seek exoneration. Barry got through the first hour of his pitch when Henry began to cry. Henry told his son to forget about him and go enjoy his own life with Iris. Barry chuckled this off and continued with his discourse. Angry, Henry smashed the phone and confessed to the murder of Nora, stunning Barry into shocked silence. Henry then ended the visit.

After this, Barry poured into his work, neglecting Iris, and his sci-fi comic book subscriptions. When Barry stumbled upon his father's file in his lab, he fell apart. Devastated that he had spent his entire life dedicated to a lie, Barry began to tear his lab apart, getting doused in chemicals in the process.

Still enraged, Barry ran to the rooftop. He screamed at the sky or God (Barry isn't even sure of this) and as the rain hid his tears, he focused on the roof's edge and ran for it. Barry was mid-leap when a lightning bolt struck him, knocking him back onto the roof.

### Flash: 1999 - 2010

After being struck by a lightning bolt, Barry Allen slipped into a coma for six months. When he awoke, he soon discovered that a latent metahuman gene in his body had activated, changing his body to give him enhanced reflexes, an accelerated metabolism (seriously, you would not believe how much food this guy puts away on a slow day), enhanced vision, a turbocharged brain, and of course superspeed. Being the good-hearted person that he was, Barry decided to become a crime fighter like the heroes in the comic books he always reads.

After rekindling his romance with Iris West, Barry set out to become a superhero, consulting with his old college professor (and a former comic book writer turned science fiction author), Jay Garrick, to help him on his hero's journey. When villains started showing up in Central and Keystone City, Barry needed more than just a flashy (pun intended) costume and turned to Dr. Harrison Wells at STAR Labs to help him further develop his powers. Over time, Wells developed a team of experts to help Barry, including mechanical engineer Francisco Ramon, bio-engineer Caitlin Snow, Snow's fiancé and structural engineer Ronnie Raymond, and physicist Martin Stein. Together, they became the first members of the Flash & Friends.

Early on, Barry revealed his identity as The Flash to Iris when he proposed to her, to which she revealed to him that she had always known. Eventually, Iris' nephew, Wally, learned of Barry's secret and tried to duplicate Barry's accident. The experiment was a partial success and Barry decided to give Wally the proper training he needed, making Wally his sidekick, Kid Flash (later "Impulse"). Team Flash would continue to grow with the inclusion of Agent Patty Spivot of the D.E.O. and Captain Darryl Frye of CCPD. Of course, The Flash was also a founding member of the Justice League (I think he's the one who came up with the name) and has been an integral member thorough its incarnations. On a more personal note, Barry and Iris have two children: fifteen-year-old twins Bartholomew, Jr. ("Bart") and Jessica ("Jessie"), both of which inherited their father's speed and are the Teen Titans called Kid Flash and Miss Quick.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Vibe*) Flash Fact: Barry researches trivia and constantly recites what he's learned, dubbing these "Flash Facts"... and if I hear another one today, I'm gonna beat him with a keyboard.
* (*Submitted by Jelly-Gal*) Even though Barry thinks of his work as protecting the innocent, instead of damning the guilty, he supports the death penalty. Something he and my husband argue about all the time.
* (*Submitted by Oracle*) Felicity Smoak has naughty dreams about Barry.
	+ (*Reply Submitted by Operator*) OMG! Babs! How do you delete that?! I'm flying to Gotham just to kill you!!!

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Speedster Physiology**
	+ ***Accelerated Healing:*** Barry is capable of regenerating from injuries much faster than any normal human. For example, Barry can heal a broken leg in fifteen minutes.
	+ ***Electrokinesis:*** When moving at super-speed, Barry generates electric energy that he has learned to manipulate to a certain degree, enabling him to expel bolts of lightning in combat.
	+ ***Enhanced Mental Process:*** Barry's mental capacities are greatly enhanced, allowing him to think at rates far exceeding the average human. Barry can perceive events that happen at instances less than fractions of a second. He is also capable of reading at superhuman rates, accumulating mass amounts of knowledge in seconds. While Barry uses this ability often to aid in his crime-fighting, it is usually in short bursts as he feels like he's losing his humanity the longer he allows himself to retain in this state.
	+ ***Enhanced Reflexes:*** Barry possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion. Fortunately for Barry's sanity, he is able to relax this ability to enable him to interact with us slowpokes and tolerate the real world, otherwise simple things like a red light in traffic would seem like an eternity.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility:*** Barry's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ ***Enhanced Temporal Senses:*** Barry's enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned to his reaction speed.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability:*** Barry is capable of resisting tremendous kinetic impact forces that could easily crush or kill a human, without suffering any serious external or internal injuries, making him much more durable than any human.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina:*** Barry's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for extended periods of time without getting tired or weak... so long as he's not running on an empty stomach.
	+ ***Personal Frequency Shifting:*** Barry can vibrate his own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes, by adjusting to different frequencies. By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level, and by doing so, at just the right frequency, Barry can allow himself to become momentarily intangible, and phase through objects such as walls.
	+ ***Superhuman Speed:*** Barry is arguably one of the fastest beings in all of existence. He is fast enough to easily outpace Superman. His top speed is unknown, but he has been clocked at moving Mach 25 (19,000 MPH).
		- **Transdimensional Travel:** Barry is capable of breaking the dimensional barrier with his speed to traverse between dimensions.
		- **Speedster Kinetic Aura:** When running, Barry produces as aura around his body, clothing, and whatever he is carrying, protecting them from the adverse effects of their speed, such as friction with the air, airborne particulate matter, kinetic impacts, G-Force and the like.
		- **Infinite Mass Punch**
	+ ***Vortex Creations:*** By rotating his arms at super speed or running in a circular motion, Barry can manipulate the airflow around him to create strong vortexes of wind.
* **Comic Book Lore Expert**
* **Incredibly Intelligent**
* **Science Fiction Lore Expert**
* **Master Chemist:** Barry is a master of chemistry, particularly as it applies to forensic science.
* **Master Criminologist & Investigator:** As a crime scene investigator and forensic scientist, Barry is an expert in criminal psychology, forensic science, and police procedure.
* **Unquenchable Hope:** According to John Stewart, Barry's optimism and overall sense of hope would be enough to power a Blue Lantern ring, should one become available.
* **Strength Level:** Barry has shown that he is able to carry several people at a time when evacuating a dangerous area, whether feats like this are performed while running on adrenaline is not known. Barry possesses the strength level of a man his age, size, and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise, and can at least press lift his own body weight. However, his powers allow him to throw punches at speeds that, on impact, can have the same effect someone with superhuman strength can have. Barry's punching strength, when fully charged, may be enough to knock out the likes of Doomsday. Unfortunately, the one time we attempted to test this, Doomsday was able to block the attack and backhanded Barry across the Delaware Bay.
* **Indomitable Willpower**
* **Unending Guilt**
* **Costume:** Barry's friend Cisco Ramon created the Flash costume which gives Barry added protection, snack storage, and capacitors which store electrical energy. Perhaps the most impressive feat, however, is the miniaturization feature which allows this suit to be stored inside a ring that Barry wears.

### Weaknesses

* **Metabolism:** Barry requires tremendous amounts of energy to run at superspeed and maintain his speedster physiology. Though Barry usually does this through special energy bars that Cisco has cooked up, he still requires no less than seven high-calorie meals per day to maintain his powers at peak levels. Skipping a meal has a distinct effect on his performance. If you think all this sounds bad, you should see how much a teenage speedster needs to put away... Yeesh!
* **Punctuality**

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Despite his superspeed, Barry is late for just about everything.
* Among all of the detectives he knows, Batman appreciated Barry Allen's optimistic outlook.
* Barry shares a birthday with his wife Iris.
* In the midst of a Christmas break, Barry and Patty were fencing with wooden stick-swords in her backyard when Barry accidentally sent Patty into the partially frozen family pool. Barry pulled her from the water and gave her CPR. When she finally gasped out with a deep breath, Barry let out a sigh of relief. They agreed to keep what happened a secret from their parents and Patty returned the favor by giving Barry a little mouth to mouth, aka: his first kiss.
* Barry needs to shave three times a day to prevent blowing his secret identity. Barry has found it easier to use a pair of electric clippers and maintain a certain level of stubble rather than deal with trying to be clean-shaven 24/7... not to mention the cost of razors.
* When he was in university he was roommates with Ralph Dibny.
* Barry came up with the name Aqualad for Garth, which later became the official title for Aquaman's sidekick.
* His archenemy is Zoom.

### Notes

* Due to the "No Time Travel" rule of Earth-27, Barry's origin is different from most incarnations.
* Barry's dead twin brother is a reference to the villain Cobalt Blue.
* There is a lot of power nerfing in E27. Superman can fly at Mach 9 if he pushes it. Javelins can fly faster, at Mach 12. So can the Batjet, 20 for a short time with scram thrusters.
* Barry Allen can run at Mach 25: or a little over 19,000 miles an hour. Meaning he can circle the world in less than 90 minutes. Wally West is a bit slower, but not by much. Bart & Jessie (who are Barry's twin children in E27) can run about Mach 8 right now. Zoom can match Barry and has shown to even be faster at times. Cheetah is fast enough to run on water and outpace the Hawks.
* The source of Barry and Wally's abilities are more or less identical, but their powers are not. Wally has found techniques to utilize his speed that are different from Barry and vice versa... and while the two may learn and teach each other, one is usually better at it. For instance, Barry vibrates through things almost flawlessly. Wally's phasing causes electronics to malfunction.
* Barry is better at full speed running, Wally has worked to improve his reflexes more than dead sprinting, so Wally is actually better at high-speed combat at 21 than Barry was at 31.

## Gallery

Barry AllenThe Flash (JLA)The FlashThe Flash (Enhanced)
## Network & Oracle Files

Network Files: Barry Allen 1Oracle Files: Barry Allen 1Oracle Files: Barry Allen 2Oracle Files: Barry Allen 1 (Old Version)
## Appears In

Justice League: The FoundersFlash & FriendsThe Big SevenParagons of JusticeJustice League (Unmasked)Heroes of KhandaqOperation ThrillkillerBarry with Iris West-AllenThe Flash FamilyJustice League (Animated)Justice LeagueSuper FriendsHeroes of National CityJustice League of America

## Links and References

* Appearances of Barry Allen

1. ↑ Network Files: Barry Allen (1/3)
2. ↑ Deluxe Oracle File: Barry Allen