Barry Allen

## Bartholomew Henry Allen

* The Flash
* Barry Allen

### Aliases

Bartholomew, Barry, Slugger, The Flash, Allen, Scarlet Speedster, Fastest Man Alive

### Relatives

Henry Allen (Father)Nora Allen (Mother, Deceased)

Unknown Brother (Deceased)

Bart Allen (Son)

Jenni Allen (Daughter)

Libby Chambers (Aunt)

Johnny Chambers (Uncle)

Joe West (Father-In-Law)

Rudy West (Brother-In-Law)

Daniel West (Brother-In-Law, Deceased?)

Jessie Chambers (Cousin)

Wally West and Daniel Wallace West (Nephews)

### Affiliation

Flash FamilyJustice League (Founding Member)

## Biography: (Written by Vibe)

### Barry Allen: 1972 - 1976

Born on October 4th, 1972 Barry was born to Henry and Nora Allen in Fallview, Iowa. Barry had spent a majority of his childhood making friends and would quite often stand up to bullies when needed or who needed help with their homework. He would also gain an interest in sci-fi novels along with various books that were written by his favorite author, Jay Garrick. Barry would also go to the ice cream parlors with his parents for family days.

Barry also excelled at chemicals and nuclear science and got good grades while in school. In 1980, Barry along with his parents would attend a Science Expo in Midway City while on the way there the Allens car broke down and being unable to get there in time they went to a dinner for ice cream and fries in Masonville while watching fireworks. In 1984, at age 12 Barry discovered his dead mother on the floor one day after school which was what he saw a "yellow blur", which resulted in his father being wrongfully convicted.

### Barry Allen: 1984 - 1998

Moving to Central City where Barry lived with his aunt, Libby Chambers and uncle, Jonathan Chambers where Barry would barley interact with anyone but still maintain his good grades in the process where he would meet Iris West and become good friends (and mainly due to his crush on her), Iris would also help Barry open up and also create an nephew like relationship with her father, Joe West. Joe was able to transfer Henry to Iron Heights which allowed Barry more time with his father due to him being an officer in the CCPD (Central City Police Department) and would also give Barry advice whenever he'd struggle.

In 1989, his aunt and Uncle would give birth to Jessica Chambers, the next year Barry would graduate in 1990 and would go to Midwestern University with Iris which he would begin his studies of Foresnic Sciences along with meeting his role model Jay Garrick, as he would talk to him and tell Jay about how he helped him through tough times. Barry would also begin a relationship with Iris and would later gain a job at CCPD as a Foresnic Scientist at age 22.

### Barry Allen: 1998

At age 26, in 1998 Barry had continued to dig deeper into his fathers murder along with continuing his relationship with Iris. Shortly after gaining new evidence that had added more information that provided Henry's innocence, however evidence from an unknown source provided evidence fully closed off any hope of releasing Henry. Barry had threw himself towards work and focused all of this time towards Henry's case in order to prove his father's innocence.

This ended up making him ignore Iris and friends, going as far as almost breaking the relationship between Barry and Iris. A few weeks later, while working, he found nothing and became frustrated. Barry began to destroy his research which led to it knocking down a shelf full of chemicals. Running to the roof he shouted at sky in a fit of anger, contemplating suicide.

However that's when fate struck and a bolt of lighting struck him which caused Barry to be in a coma for nine months, in his last moments of consciousness his last thought was Iris. During his time in a coma S.T.A.R Labs would approach Libby and Johny in order to attempt to wake up their nephew being desperate they had accpetd in order to prevent the loss of another family member.

### The Fastest Man Alive: 1998 - 2008

A few weeks after Barry arriving at S.T.A.R Labs, he had woke up where he saw me, Caitlin Snow, and Harrison Wells where he had been introduced to Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein. After the discovery of his abilites Barry approached us to help hone his powers where me and Harrison and would create Barry's first super suit which is fine if I do say so myself.

Barry was inspired by the acts of the heroes that rose last year such as Batman and Superman, two of the first heroes of the modern age along with this Barry fought his first villian, Captain Cold to which during the battle a car was sent flying towards Joe who was one of the responding officers. After saving Joe, Barry had revealed his identity and not long after Barry had restarted his relationship with Iris but of course the trouble of all superheroes Barry was late for all of their dates (which is surprising as he's usually referred as the fastest man alive) it didn't take long for Iris to figure this out and and after a few months got married.

During their wedding Barry had meet Iris's nephew Wally West and due to the boys boredom and being unable to meet his idol Barry promised that he'd see if the two could meet. In 1999, Barry would go against Reverse Flash the first time where Thawne would reveal that he was his mothers true muder out of anger Barry and Thawne would fight throughout Central City before Barry nearly killed him when he promised to kill Iris before running off before Barry could stop him.Another thing that happened was the formation of the Justice League or at the time the Super Friends who had prevenetd the attack of the The Appexlian Invasion using a tempoary base until ARGUS had provided them two bases one in National City, the Hall of Justice and a space station, The Watchtower. Barry was deemed a founding member and would offically form the Justice League during Brainaics invansion.

Later that year, Captain Cold and his new partner Heatwave had returned with Snart using a new powerful gun after beating the two and throwing them back into Iron Heights Wally had came to Central City and moved in with Joe, along with making good on his promise he made with Wally. Shortly after finding out that Barry was the Flash, Wally had stole a device that had manipulated the weather activating Wally's Meta-gene.

After a couple months of training we made sure that Wally was fully trained before joining Barry as his sidekick as Kid Flash! After gaining a third member of his crime team (bad name I know) Snart along with Heatwave had gained their own meta team member going by Mirror Master, which was Wally's debut as Kid Flash. In 2003, The Teen Titans had formed and with Barry sending Wally in an attempt to curb his hyper active personality in the process, later that year Barry and the rest of the League would fight and defeat Amazo for the first time. Later that year Clark would die in his battle against Doomsday.

In late 2003, Barry would go against the Rouges under the command of Snart with Weather Wizard, Trickster, Mirror Matser, Top, and Captain Bommerang. In 2004, S.T.A.R Labs created the Particle Accelerator and when they activated it, it failed for a couple of seconds but Ronnie was able to recover it. Later that year, Thawne had returned and revealed his true origin as a speedster from the 25th century. In the middle of 2005 Barry and Wally were able to stop Groilla Grodd for the first time, shortly after Thawne had returned once more where he taunted Narry about kiling his mother, luckily we hacked the near by cameras and caught his confession that had freed Henry in the process.

### The Flash: 2008 - 2013

In early 2008, Barry's cousin Jessie earned Speed Powers and became the hero Miss Quick. At this time, he found out that Johnny was a hero called Johnny Quick and Libby was the hero Liberty Belle. He and Johnny trained Jessie. Shortly after, The Joker had broadcasted Jason Todd's death which broke the superhero community becasue of this which led to the Teen Titans being disbanded along with any remaining Justice League members to remain while the others left. Barry and Iris's twins, Bart and Jenni had been sent from the future while we tried to send them back it's clear that nothing worked and allowed them to stay.

Later that year, Ronnie and Martin were fused to become the hero Firestorm. Barry and "Team Flash" helped them master the new power. Barry and the League had to fight Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons. In 2009, Caitlin's metagene activated and she developed an alter ego as Killer Frost. For the following months, he and Team Flash tracked Killer Frost and defeated her (by showing her that she can have a family in Team Flash) and helped Caitlin control his powers.

A few months later my own Meta-gene had activated and became Vibe. Thanks to Barry he mentored us with our powers and got our own supersuits with Groilla Grodd leading an attack on the city Barry and Team Flash were able to send Grodd back to Grodd to Iron Heights, shortly after Barts and Jenni's Meta-gene's reactivating Thawne used this chance to strike stealing both of their speed and knocked out Barry while he chased him. We called Wally to hlep us with Thawne and after the twins reasorbed their speed they helped Barry and Wally put Thawne into ARGUS custody.

During the summer of that year, Barry started to train the twins in order to keep them in one place due to their hyper personality and without the Teen Titans they spent a majority of the time in the speed lab and learning the ins and outs of being a speedster, shortly after Cyborg had created a new teenage program, Young Justice and needing time to try to find Thawne he sent the twins to focus on his search. Later that year Ralph Dibny, one of Barry's closets friends Meta-gene had activated, inspired by the acts of Barry he became the Elongated Man and after revealing his identity himself along with Team Flash trained Ralph.

### Flash: 2013 - Present Day

Barry was able to become the Director of the CCPD CSI division along with that summer Abra Kadbra had attempted to kill Barry along with the help of the Turtle, Barry had also learnt of the Speed Force along with his fellow speedsters. In 2014, Barry along with Jay had time traveled for the first time where he found out that Abra Kadvra was from the fututre and that Thawne persaude him into killing Barry. Later that month Cold and Heatwave had convinced Snart's sister to join them as Golden Glider which Barry was able to defeat.

In 2015, Max breifly took over as Kid Flash due to Bart spliting his time between Kid Flash and college as Barry and Wally would help him train and gain control over his speed. After completeing his training Max decided to change his codename instead of going by Kid Flash he chose Kid Mercury and after some upgrades to an old prototype suit for Wally Max made his debut with Barry beating Mirror Master. Shortly after Max had joined up with the Titans while Bart returned from his brief vaction as KId Flash, while Max stayed as Kid Mercury.

Barry, along with the rest of the League had stopped the ARGUS version of the Justice League, the Crim Syndicate and were able to expose Waller and hery black list projects along with stopping the new Rogues composed of Mirror Master, Golden Glider, Abra Kadvra, Heat Wave and Turtle shortly after which was stopped by Bart on his first solo mission. Shortly after Barry along with the rest of Team Flash have continued to fight crime for the remainder of that year.

## Strengths

* **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 how much a teenage speedster needs to put away... Yeesh!
* **Punctuality**

## Trivia

* 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 Thawne.
* Despite his superspeed, Barry is late for just about everything.
* Among all of the detectives he knows, Batman appreciated Barry Allen's optimistic outlook.