The Flash

## Barry Allen

**Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen** (born March 14, 1989) is a scientist in the Criminal and Forensic Science Division of the Central City Police Department. He is the son of the late Henry and Nora Allen, the legal ward turned son-in-law of Joe West, the husband of Iris West-Allen and the brother-in-law of Wally West, the archenemy of Eobard Thawne (commonly known as the **Reverse-Flash**), as well as the father of his future children, Nora and Bart West-Allen.

Barry's mother was murdered when he was 11 years old on March 18, 2000 and the blame was wrongfully placed on his father.

## Biography

### Original multiverse

#### Early life

Barry was born on March 14, 1989, to Henry and Nora Allen as an only child.

### Return to Central City 2023

#### The Investigation

Barry worked with Joe West on a investigation into Iris's murder, but failed to find enough evidence to put away Eddie Thawne as it was a stone that killed her, not Eddie.

#### The Nightmares

Barry goes home and goes to bed, where he then wakes up in the middle of the night due to a nightmare of himself seeing Iris get murdered over and over again. Barry goes to S.T.A.R. Labartories and talks to Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow and asks her to do some tests on him to find out if he has any issues.

Caitlin tests Barry and finds out he has no issues with his brain and just reveals he just needs time to grief the loss of his kids and wife.

#### Barry against Owen Mercer

Barry is called downtown and finds Owen Mercer, who is the new Captain Boomerang and the two fight. Barry fails to stop him the first time but later confronts Owen again and defeats him, and sends him off to prison.

#### Reconciling with Team Flash

Barry later reconnects with his team, thanking them for working with him.

#### The Return of Nora and Bart West-Allen

Bart and Nora return to 2023 and reveals they are still alive to Barry. Barry orders Cisco to vibe them to see if they're really them.

#### Contacting the Speed Force

Barry gets into contact with the Speed Force, who tells Barry that his powers are getting stronger.

#### The Attack of Bloodwork

Barry as The Flash confronts Bloodwork, who gets the upperhand on Barry but his powers glitch allowing Rosso to flee.

#### Discovery of the Evil Cisco

Barry is told by Bart and Nora that Cisco seems off. Barry uses this information and finds out that Cisco is from the Dark Multiverse from Dark Earth-2. Barry tells him to leave Team Flash and S.T.A.R. Labartories until he finds out the truth. He tells Caitlin, the only remaining member of Team Flash.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology:** Barry's powers comes from his connection to the Speed Force, gained when struck by dark matter lightning and exposed to several chemicals. This altered and supercharged his DNA, cells and neurotransmitters. It also augmented his bones, joints, tissue and entire physiology well-beyond peak human condition to easily handle the rigors of his powers. High-level friction, inertia, air pressure, reduced oxygen, vectors, and kinetic impact no longer affect him. After regaining his powers from inside the Speed Force, his connection to and understanding of it improved considerably, with a new-found instinctual control and efficiency, and his improved natural performance unhindered. After Oliver Queen as the Spectre unlocked Barry's full potential, restoring the Speed Force after its destruction, and bringing harmony between the four Forces of Nature, Barry's powers were greatly augmented, reaching the highest known performance of any natural speedster in existence and making him also one of the most powerful beings in the entire multiverse.
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:** Barry's molecules move at accelerated rates, mending damage far quicker and more efficiently than normal humans. Without treatment, most damage heals in under a day with no lingering signs. Even normally permanent damage, like paraplegia, is completely repaired in under a week. His body can break down food more efficiently and, as a result, expels very little waste products that he can exhale through his skin. After the Speed Force was restored, Barry's healing powers further increased, able to recover from the most grievous of injuries in under an hour.
		- **Superhuman immunity:** Due to Barry's accelerating healing factor, he is immune to most types of diseases, illnesses, sickness, drugs, poisons, toxins, etc. He also has greater resilience to radiation than normal humans, only suffering minor burns from it. 2,000 milligrams of horse tranquilizer only momentarily slowed him down until his body burned through it.
		- **Superhuman longevity:** Due to Barry's accelerating healing factor, he ages much slower than normal humans and most other meta-humans. In an erased future of the year 2024, Barry who had been the Flash for 10 years, has not visibly aged. This also enhances his vitality and health, letting him retain his youthful performance for far longer. According to Abra Kadabra, a villain from the 64th century, he is still alive and an active hero that deep into the future.
	+ **Astral projection:** Originally, with the help of a tachyon prototype, Barry was able to project his mind into the Speed Force and communicate with it. Since being taught by Wally, and with increasing both his powers and understanding of the Speed Force, Barry has learned to do this of his own accord. This enables him to contact the other Forces whenever needed.
	+ **Electrokinesis:** Barry can produce yellow electricity, a physical manifestation of Speed Force energy, from his body. It is commonly seen when running to boost his already immense speed to far higher levels. This energy can be focused into his strikes, generating enough force in his strikes to greatly harm super durable foes without any harm to himself. Alternatively, its intensity can interfere with surrounding electronics and overwhelm electric-absorption. He can focus it into specific body parts and produce strong static shocks to electrify a surface or stun targets on contact. Barry was later taught to harness it into his arms to repeatedly hurl lightning bolts to stun or repel enemies. Barry can also absorb electricity from other sources, simultaneously giving him an extra boost when running or throwing lightning. His highest levels are about 5 billion joules (equal the power of five lightning bolts). Being taught by Wally, Barry can generate several constructs to be used in battle; such as swords and shields. These constructs can also levitate to act as platforms. While originally required extensive running to build up his lightning, by 2021, Barry became able to generate his lightning without moving. By this point, he can use it to unleash heavy amounts of destructive electro-blasts in the surroundings, block energy blasts, and even destroy a speedster's powers. His lightning also has electromagnetic capacities, able to act as barriers able to repel entire cars launched at him.
		- **Speed Force aura:** As a user of the Speed Force, Barry can build up a protective aura. This allows him to withstand large gravimetric force and protects the environment from the harm caused by high-speed travel. Barry even built up his aura to be a billion times more powerful than the force of a black hole. This aura also seems to affect kinetic energy and inertia as Barry was able to throw off the Turtle's ability to steal kinetic energy and increase inertia on his victims. This also lets him grab other individuals at high speed without their momentum and kinetic energy ripping them apart and survive impact with objects moving so fast with only minor injuries.
		- **Speed Force sharing:** Barry can expand his Speed Force aura to protect other individuals he carries while moving at superhuman speed. Taught by Jay Garrick, Barry can siphon the speed energy from another speedster to bolster his own speed. After escaping from the Speed Force, gaining a greater an understanding of his power, he can use it in more passive means. By touching others, he can share his energy, letting them move, think, and heal as fast as himself, as this let Jesse recover immediately from a coma. By channeling enough energy, he can share his speed with others, letting them independently move as fast as speedsters without exhausting or affecting their own powers, until they burn through the borrowed energy. Barry is currently the only speedster known able to do this because after spending 6 months in the speed force he was able to absorb enough of its energies to share that energy with others.
		- **Speed stealing/Speed Force siphoning:** He picked up the ability to temporarily steal speed from other speedsters to empower himself and make himself faster for a time.
		- **Energy absorption:** Barry is capable of absorbing Speed Force energy that he injects himself with, for more power.
	+ **Superhuman durability:** Barry possesses superhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. He can take impacts relatively unfazed that would easily kill normal humans. While not invulnerable nor immune to pain, he withstood powerful lightning bolts, concussive shock waves, sonic blasts and inhumanly strong strikes, only being momentarily stunned. After regaining his powers, his resilience has been greatly augmented, quickly rebounding from zombie-Girder's blows, who previously seriously injured him in a single blow. Barry can also remain almost unharmed when falling from certain heights that would easily killed normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman mental process:** Barry's powers also augment his electro-chemical systems, nerve synapses, and brainwaves, and thought process. Granting him an eiditic memory and perfect recall, he takes in and retain information just as fast and efficiently. Even while using his raw speed, he can clearly think, react to events, and perform actions long before normal humans can perceive them. This lets him learn in a small fraction of the normal time, able to change his entire strategy in an instant and familiarize himself with advanced new knowledge within seconds. Flash's heightened mental capacity also lets him change his entire strategy in an instant; able to catch people completely off-guard after familiarizing themselves off his previous patterns. After six months in the Speed Force, Barry's brain activity became over five times faster than it had been previously.
		- **Superhuman perceptions:** Barry's senses are also enhanced. This allows Barry to perceive the world as if it is nearly frozen. He can see and hear normally, even while moving at speeds faster than sound, where this would normally be impossible. Barry became able to easily perceive the attacks of other powerful speedsters. This heightened alertness enables him to instantly read and adapt to the situation. His perception of time, however, seems to vary by his emotional state, as in one instance, when he was waiting to check out from work, he described it as feeling as if it were hours away, while in real time it was merely minutes. Since uniting the four Forces of Nature, Barry's perception can follow the movements of other speedsters as if in slow motion.
		- **Superhuman reflexes:** Barry's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans. When shot in the neck on his blindside, Barry caught the bullet and minimized the damage before it could fully penetrate his skin. He also became able to easily react to the attacks of other speedsters.
	+ **Speed Force awareness:** Due to Barry's connection to the Speed Force, he can sense the presence of other speedster's with such energy in their system.
	+ **Superhuman speed:** Barry can move at such vast speeds. According to Eobard Thawne; Barry's speed is potentially unlimited; he can run across vertical structures and ceilings, over stretching seas, effortlessly catch speeding projectiles, complete his several daily activities in seconds and even casual walking can go unnoticed by normal individuals. While reaching Mach 3.3 on his own and later Mach 13.2 from tachyons, since increasing his Speed Force connection and ability to store-up its energy, Barry has grown tremendously faster. After six months in the Speed Force, his speed reached levels far exceeding all other known super-fast beings, noted by Gideon to be at 2325 miles per second (Mach 10908.82) or 1/80 of the speed of light. After Oliver Queen as the Spectre unlocked Barry's full potential, greatly augmenting his superhuman speed, he became much faster then before. When his powers were restored by reviving the Speed Force, Barry became even faster than Eva McCholloch, whose fractal photons manipulations let her move at a superluminal speed. Barry's speed is further augmented after bringing harmony between the four Forces of Nature.
		- **Aerokinesis:** Barry can use his speed to generate air flows on various levels and for several effects. He can create vortexes to suffocate people or extinguish fires by forming it around them. He can create large and strong tornadoes, able to repel massive targets. Alternatively, he can use this skill to propel himself through the air as a pseudo-form of flying. Later, Iris taught Barry, from her own experience as a speedster, to use this build-up to gather and direct enough water into a tidal wave capable to disperse a giant fire cyclone of over 6000 degrees Fahrenheit.
		- **Interdimensional travel:** Barry can move fast enough to break open portals between dimensions, allowing him to travel to different universes. If desired, Barry can also bring others with him as he did with Harry and Cisco to Earth-2. While originally he could not consciously control this, as his first solo use was done by accident and required assistance to return home, after greatly increasing his Speed Force connection, he can break open portals of his own accord and consciously chose his destination, even into the Speed Force itself.
		- **Speed mirages:** Taught by Harry Wells, Barry can generate illusions of himself to make it appear as if he in many places at once, when in reality he is simply bouncing back and forth too fast for the human mind to perceive the difference. He can create dozens of after-images. This allows him to disorientate enemies and then catch them off guard from appearing to be in more than one place at a time. Barry can also create a mirror speed projection, which he learned from fighting Thawne in 2049.
		- **Superhuman agility:** Barry has demonstrated flawless coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. He can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance and instantly stop running on the spot. He can jump and run along falling debris and launch himself tremendous distances without build-up. His efficiency of movement can even disassemble an entire speeding car in seconds
		- **Superhuman momentum:** Barry can generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. Even little exertions from this build-up can generate tremendous force, able to knock a person out. He can propel himself to jump tremendous heights and distances. He can also create substantial frictional force with any object he touches, and exert enough force to hurl people into the air. This seemingly negates the weight of his target, able to move about as if targets are frozen, even in mid-air. This also lets him propel and manipulate the targets' flight path, including launched bullet with no loss of force and hurl them through a powerful barrier, followed by a person. He can completely remove the physical force from massive tidal waves, stabilize a giant singularity, or dispel F3 tornadoes by running around them. He can also snap his fingers to ignite flammable gas with the friction. After escaping the Speed Force, Barry can generate enough force to break down the natural durability of a target, as he effortlessly shattered his way out of his meta-human cell. With enough momentum, he can generate a powerful sonic boom through his punch able to destroy a crashing satellite.
			* **Bodily vibration:** Barry can vibrate his body for various effects. This can mask his form from being clearly perceived or distort his vocal cords to disguise his voice. His vibrations can forcibly expel any toxins in him. He can also generate enough heat to recover and stay thermally insulated from extreme cold. Offensively, he can vibrate his limbs to augment his strikes or seamlessly grind through highly solid targets, which he can use to harm or kill a person.
			* **Intangibility:** By vibrating his molecules at the frequency of air, Barry can physically pass through solid matter, even highly complex matter like carbine while in a universe of a different vibrational nature. He can do this with multiple targets, saving an entire moving train with hundreds of passengers, as well as an entire plane with hundreds of passengers with the help of Kid Flash and XS. He can also harmlessly pass through living individuals as he did to escape Atom Smasher's grasp. Barry can also vibrate just parts of his and other bodies, as he phased his hand and Ralph Dibny's arm in order to eject a needle into the latter's elastic skin and give him blood. He can extend this ability to others. During his final fight against Savitar, Barry's efficiency could simultaneously shift the time remnant out of his armor and encase himself in it. He can also pass through one target while simultaneously making harmless contact with another. Alternatively, he can passively phase through the target to incapacitate them.
			* **Invisibility:** Barry can vibrate his body so fast that that he can no longer be perceived by the human eye. When Clifford DeVoe trapped Barry in a force field prison that prevented the latter from phasing through it, Barry did this in order to "trick" Clifford DeVoe into releasing him.
			* **Seismokinesis:** By vibrating at varying frequencies and with different levels of force, Barry can create small tremors to induce extreme amounts of jolt on any target he touches, even disrupt the inter-molecular bonds and cause it to shatter. This can lead to many effects such as molecular combustion upon physical contact with the target. His vibrations can even shatter targets into fragments, as he did to Savitar's armor once inside it. If Barry wanted to, his vibrations could even destroy the world.
			* **Limited Temporal immunity:** Barry was able to reactivate his powers when the Negative Still Force froze him in time, indicating Barry’s powers have grown so strong that he is now partially immune to time related powers.
			* **Time travel:** Barry's speed can breach the temporal barriers, letting him enter different points in time. While originally only accessed by accident when under extreme stress, Barry learned to use it at will and arrive at a destination with pinpoint accuracy. Alternatively, he can enter timelines independent from himself and unaffected by his travels. Regardless of the changes he makes, Barry's powers allow him to retain all memories of the previous timeline in addition to the new timeline and differentiate between them.
			* **Temporal awareness:** Even if Barry is not responsible for any time alterations, he can still remain somewhat unaffected by it; he remembers that John Diggle and Lyla Michaels had a daughter instead of a son in the original timeline. Barry is able to subconsciously detect when other speedsters enter the Speed Force to time travel. After learning that Nora West-Allen had been working with his arch-enemy, he warned his daughter that if she attempted to enter the dimension and travel back to the present, he would feel it. Eobard Thawne later confirmed this to be the case, as it is one of the reasons for him to create the Negative Speed Force to avoid Barry's detection.
			* **Temporal dilution:** By generating enough energy, Barry can move so fast that time essentially slows down relative to him in a large area, to a complete standstill. However, he must continuously concentrate on this action as losing such focus will gradually speed back up again before ultimately returning to its original flow. He can pull others into this state, however, non-speedsters will quickly tire from it as their bodies aren't accustomed to moving at such great speeds. Other speedsters can also remain unaffected by this even provided they retain enough stamina to expand their Speed Force energy. By running around the Earth in the opposite direction with another super fast being at Mach 7, he can generate enough centrifugal force to slow the Earth's rotation and its flow of time.
			* **Temporal regression:** With Barry's ability to shift through time, he can also reverse the flow effects while running at a certain speed, while he remains completely unaffected. Ultimately, he can even grant himself a time do-over, wherein he enters the past and "merges" with his temporal counterpart to be fully immerse in the timeline. This ability is enhanced when he has a Still Force connection, as he was able to not only reverse the progression of Thawne's giant Negative Speed Force lightning tsunami, but undo it entirely so that Thawne would be obliterated by the absorption of his own energy.
			* **Time remnant construct/temporal duplication:** Barry is able to "create" a time remnant by traveling back to moments before his current-self time travels, hailing from a future that no longer exists. This allows Barry to be two places at once, enabling him to interact with the world for two separate actions simultaneously. If desired, Barry can create dozens of time remnants at once.

## Appearances

### *The Flash*

Season 1
* "World of Changes"
* "Hints of Evil"
* "The Dark Multiverse"
* "Echo of War, Part One"
* "Echo of War, Part Two"
* "Impulsive Era"
* "Welcome to Earth-2"
* "The Loop"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "World of Changes"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Hints of Evil"