Barry Allen

* Civilian
* Flash

### Affiliation

Original multiverseDowntown Police HeadquartersTeam Flash (secretly)Star LabsThe TrinityAlucard's team (secretly)

## Appearances

### Portrayed By

Grant Gustin

Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen aka Flash is a researcher in the Criminal and Forensics Division of the Central City Police Department.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Speed Force Connection / Metahuman Physiology**: After Barry was struck by lightning and doused with chemicals, the Speed Force was created - a mysterious cosmic force that propels time and space itself. The Speed Force generates excess energy that builds up and has to be released. The Flash is like the release valve of the Speed Force. When Barry uses his powers, he draws on this built up energy and uses it up.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Barry can move at an incredible superhuman speed. It is only fuzzy when you run.] It is so fast, in fact, the time around it seems to be slowing down so that it appears to be invisible to others within their relative timeframe. Barry has stated that he can eradicate the entire population of Tokyo (around 38 million people) in just 30 seconds. Flash's speed is so impressive that he managed to race across the multiverse just to check the cosmic vibrational frequencies of each earth. He often holds back his speed for fear of tearing a hole in time and space.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Barry's agility, balance and physical coordination are increased to superhuman levels.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Lightning can use its speed to increase its natural strength. He was able to easily punch through the metal wall of a subway train, as well as hit Superman hard enough to make him crash through a wall.
	+ **Speed Force Aura**: The Flash's body is surrounded by a "friction cushion", a field of kinetic absorbent energy that protects him and anyone who is running with or carried by him from the rigorous effects of using his speed. Including friction, airborne particulate matter, heavy impacts, G-Force and the like
		- **Superhuman Durability**: Thanks to his protective Speed Force aura, 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.
	+ **Regeneration**: Barry can heal much faster than any normal person. His arm healed within minutes after being crushed.
	+ **Aerokinesis**: By rotating his arms at super speed or walking in a circular motion, Barry can create powerful wind turbulences. He has also used the slipstream of the airflow created by its speed to pull millions of liters of water behind it to save a small village from flooding, and to pull two 600-ton barges behind it. He even managed to prevent a train from jumping off the tracks by creating a slipstream to carry and dampen it just before creating a vortex to bring it to a standstill.
	+ **Dimensional Travel**: Barry is able to use his speed to travel to other universes within the multiverse. By running at the speed of light, Barry can open a portal into the Speed Force himself, allowing him to enter and exit the dimension at will.
	+ **Electrokinesis**: Barry is able to generate and manipulate the electrical energy he draws from the Speed Force. By focusing the lightning bolts in his hands, Barry can amplify his strikes, create lightning bolts to provide heat to people, and kill people on contact with electric shocks.
	+ **Improved Mental Process**: By tapping into the Speed Force with his brain, Barry can remove the natural information bottleneck that arises due to the limitations of human physiology. Because of this, Barry can think exponentially faster than any normal person and has superhuman mental processing.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Barry has enhanced senses that make it possible to sense changes in air pressure around him as well as electromagnetic pulses in objects such as glass. It can also sense the location of other Speed Force channels by using their connection as a homing signal and tracking them. Even while he had stalled in the frozen time, Barry's senses still allowed him to notice.
	+ **Molecular Acceleration**: Barry can vibrate its own molecular structure to varying degrees for a number of purposes by adapting to different frequencies.
		- **Intangibility**: Barry is able to alter his molecular structure so that he can let projectiles pass through him.
		- **Invisibility**: If Barry vibrates fast enough he can become invisible to the human eye.
		- **Phasing**: By vibrating its molecules at the atomic level, at exactly the right frequency, it can allow itself to temporarily become immaterial and to phase through objects.
	+ **Time travel**: If he runs through the Speedforce and concentrates well, he can run through time.
	+ **Longevity**: Barry Allen can live several centuries possibly centuries.
	+ **Improved Metabolism**: Barry has an improved metabolism - this was proven when he was drinking alcohol and not getting drunk.

## Weaknesses

* **Human weaknesses**: Tearing out the heart or removing the head, human weaknesses like cancer, blindness (although it healed at some point), need sleep.
* **Supernatural Beings**: Most supernatural beings can kill him.