Barry Allen

* Civillian
* The Flash

**Bartholomew "Barry" Allen** (Born 2001) 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 fiancee of Iris West and the archenemy of Eobard Thawne.

Barry's mother was murdered when he was 9 years old on April 13th, 2012 and the blame was wrongfully placed on his father. He was taken in by an unnamed cop and he dedicated his life to proving his father's innocence. After a giant thunderstorm appeared over top of Central City, Barry was struck by lightning from an cloud, falling into a coma for nine months. When he woke up from his coma, Barry discovered that he had developed superhuman speed and various other abilities derived from it. Using these powers to protect Central City, he began acting as a meta-human superhero known as **the Flash**, stylized as the "**Scarlet Speedster**".

Barry spent the next several months fighting crime, taking down numerous meta-human villains and other criminal elements, assisted by Kid Flash. Barry later found out that the Reverse Flash was from the future and murdered his mother.

In a final confrontation between the two, Eobard gave Barry the chance to undo what he did in exchange for assistance in returning to his time. Barry decided against doing this, which ultimately led to Thawne getting erased from existance.

Several months later, Barry came under attack by dozens of other meta-humans.

## Biography

### Early Life

Barry was born to Henry and Nora Allen as an only child.

On April 13th, 2012, Barry came home from school crying to his mom as a bully broke his favourite car. However, his mom told him that nothing lasts forever and that we should hold everything sacred.

### Death of Nora Allen

That night, Barry was awoken by a commotion. He went downstairs and saw his mother surrounded in streaks of red and yellow lightning. Barry attempted to reach his mother but she told him to stay back and amidst the streaks, Barry saw "the Man in Yellow" for a brief moment, and his father urged him to run. At that very moment however, Barry suddenly found himself 20 blocks away . Barry returned home in time to see his father being arrested by police, and was told by his father not to enter the house. He entered, seeing Joe standing solemnly over a body. When he walked away, Barry approached the body and discovered, to his horror, that it was his mother.

Following the ordeal, Barry was fostered by another cop named Darryl Frye.

### The Impossible

Barry soon headed back to work, arriving at a crime scene late. He was successfully able to identify the getaway car from the robbery and also grabbed a sample of some animal feces found on the ground, before heading back to his lab to examine the evidence. Later, Barry was the news of the big thunderstorm hovering Central City when it suddenly became unstable. As Barry tried to close his lab's rafters due to the worsening storm, he watched in confusion and awe as the liquids around him suddenly levitated, defying gravity. The thunderstorm then exploded and sent a shockwave of thunder through the city. Seconds later, Barry was struck by a yellow bolt of lightning through a window in the roof. He was sent flying backwards through the already-charged chemicals and knocked unconscious. A red flash of light appeared across Barry's cheek, rising, and then faded away.

### Becoming the Flash

When he woke up from his coma nine months later, Barry woke up in the hospital with multiple doctors surrounding him. He learned of his coma and how it had been caused by the lightning strike. Much to their annoyance, Barry chose to leave, claiming that he felt normal. Barry went back to work where he met a lovely reporter named Iris West and he paused as he saw a car about to hit the crime scene causing Barry to use his newfound powers to save Iris and everyone.

Once Barry left, noticed his hand vibrating at an unbelievable speed, shortly followed by him accidentally almost running into a bin at super speed, then breaking the back window of a cop car. Realizing the gifts he had, Barry went off running, testing out his super speed. Before long, he accidentally ran through the back of a van.

Once he began to understand his powers better he decided to do something with them and he built a suit made of a reinforced tri-polymer, making it resistant to several thousand degrees of intense heat, whether it be around Barry or it is the friction generated from his body while running; as well as resistant to grazing bullets, knives, abrasions, or scars. He hacked into the police database and found some thugs and ran around them and stopped them.

#### Meeting Wally West

When Barry once again saw Iris, she introduced him to her nephew, Wally West. A couple of days later, Iris asked him to watch Wally for a few hours while she works a story.

In November 2021, Barry took Wally to his Crime Lab at CCPD. However, when Mark Mardon released hundreds of lightning bolts in Central City, Wally was about to be struck by a bolt when Barry attempted to save him only to siphon kinetic energy into Wally almonds after getting struck.

#### Another Earth

While running with Wally West, Barry was think about going faster and accidentally opened a portal to another world. He later met Superman and helped him stop Morgan Edge. Afterwards, Superman and Flash raced and sent Barry back to his world.

#### Positive Vs Negative

Barry returns to continue his fight with the Reverse Flash. After he arrested Turtle, Thawne confronted and fought Flash. He later found out that Thawne was the one that killed his mom all those years ago. When Thawne kidnapped Iris and took her to the 25th century, Barry built a device that helped him channel his speed and time travel. He successfully saves her but, Thawne later escaped and entered the Negative Speed Force.

In order to get the answers to stop Thawne, Barry struggles to fight his arch nemesis. However, Wally gives him the idea to contact the speed force for assistance.

#### The Reign of Darkseid

In early December 2022, Barry and Wally noticed a breach opening up with Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and Hal Jordan from Earth-0 recruiting the two speedster for the fight against Darkseid. Barry later went to the Batcave to figure out how to stop Darkseid.

Afterwards, when Darkseid found and activated the Anti-Life Equation, Barry, along with six other heroes were the only beings in existence with free will. Two weeks later, along with the other six heroes, Barry later became a founding member of The Justice League.

### Possible Futures

Pursuing a case, Barry travels to some point in the future during the 25th century and ends up dazzling saving a crowd that Eobard believes he was meant to dazzle and save. This marks the beginning of Eobard's lifelong vendetta against the Flash.

## Personality

#### As a Civilian

He is also someone who is regularly late. He is also considered a comic geek.

Much like the Earth-0 heroes, Barry has a strong sense of justice; due to the fact that he knows that his father, Henry Allen is innocent of a crime that he was convicted of, he joins the forensics department to both learn how to investigate crimes and study cases with unexplained elements, to prove his personal account of his mother, Nora Allen's murder true and ultimately, free his father. Barry is very intelligent, like James Olsen he is socially awkward, as he sometimes gets nervous and babbles.

Barry has good morals; for example, he does not like to lie about who he really is.

#### As The Flash

When Barry first discovered his new-found super powers, he wanted to help other individuals. Barry's sense of justice has gotten stronger; to the point of using his new-found super powers not only to help other individuals, but to also fight other meta-humans who would use their new-found super powers for evil intentions; such as the meta-human who murdered his mother, Nora Allen.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Powers

* **Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology:** Barry's powers come from his connection to the Speed Force, gained when struck by 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 using tachyons, his connection to and understanding of it improved considerably, with a new-found instinctual control and efficiency, and his improved natural performance unhindered.
	+ **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. His body can break down food more efficiently and, as a result, expels very little waste products that he can exhale through his skin.
		- **Superhuman immunity:** Due to Barry's accelerating healing factor, he is immune to most types of diseases, illnesses, sickness, drugs, poisons, toxins, etc.
		- **Superhuman longevity**: Due to Barry's accelerating healing factor, he ages much slower than normal humans and most other meta-humans. However, this power isn't without it's limits as Barry is dead in the 25th century.
	+ **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. By tapping into the power of the Speed Force, Barry can fill his eyes with yellow electricity. 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. Barry later learned how to harness it by directing it into his arms to repeatedly hurl lightning bolts to stun or repel enemies, and also electrify a surface.
		- **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. 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:** By touching others, Barry can share his energy, letting them move, think, and heal as fast as himself, as this let Wally recover immediately from a coma.
	+ **Superhuman durability:** Barry possesses superhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. He can take attacks and exertion, even survive impacts 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.
	+ **Superhuman mental process:** Barry's powers also augment his electro-chemical systems, nerve synapses, and brainwaves, and thought process. Granting him an eidetic 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.
		- **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. This heightened alertness enables him to instantly read and adapt to the situation.
		- **Superhuman reflexes:** Barry's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans.
		- **Telepathy immunity:** Barry's speed is so advanced that he is immune to most, if not all forms of telepathy.
	+ **Speed Force awareness:** Due to Barry's connection to the Speed Force, he can sense the presence of other speedsters with such energy in their system.
	+ **Superhuman speed:** Flash can move at such vast speeds. 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 13.2 on his own, Barry has grown tremendously faster.
		- **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.
		- **Inter dimensional travel:** Barry can move fast enough to break open portals between dimensions, allowing him to travel to different universes. Even the speed force itself.
		- **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.
			* **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. He can also generate enough heat to recover and stay thermally insulated from extreme cold.
			* **Intangibility:** By vibrating his molecules at the frequency of air, Barry can physically pass through solid matter, even sound.
			* **Time travel:** Barry's speed can breach the temporal barriers, letting him enter different points in time. However, since he cannot control where he ends up, he needs assistance from the Cosmic Treadmill.
	+ **Superhuman stamina:** Barry can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting him function much longer than normal humans unhindered.
	+ **Superhuman strength:** Barry's physical strength has been heightened beyond that of normal humans, greatly belying his slim built, allowing him to be able to carry multiple individuals at once while speeding away with them. When charging his momentum, he could smash through machinery with his bare hands or send opponents flying through the air without first running. He can even stop a speeding car unaided.

#### Abilities

* **Genius-level intellect/Master tactician/Leader:** A keen-minded individual from a young age, Barry displayed a natural understanding and quick capacity to learn. Barry is also very well-read. Barry is able to remember everything he experiences with perfect recall; when he saw the man in yellow for the first time in 9 years, Barry immediately recognized him as his mother' Nora Allen's killer, despite being only 11 years old at the time. Barry is also a quick study, as after reading through physics books.
	+ **Expert investigator/Forensics:** As a CSI of the Central City Police Department, Barry is highly skilled in forensics. From a single glance of the crime scene, he can quickly determine much of the events that transpired. Barry can quickly analyze any given data and quickly form accurate theories on the given situation.
	+ **Master physicist/Chemist/Scientist:** Barry graduated with a double major in physics and chemistry, making him a very knowledgeable scientist. Barry's knowledge on physics possibly ranks among the best on Earth One and he was able to apply a new-found science and figure out how to manipulate tachyons to increase speed.
	+ **Computer specialist/Skilled computer hacker:** Barry is adept with computers as he was the only one who could write an algorithm that monitored the weather patterns to Central City's network to stop Mark Mardon.
	+ **Master engineer:** Barry has very advanced skill in technology, as he was able to construct the Flash ring and the Cosmic Treadmill.

* **Skilled hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** In Barry's youth, he was trained how to box by his adoptive father. Although he remembers his time training with them, it never stuck since Barry wasn't much of a fighter growing up. This changed when Barry was fighting Eobard Thawne but this time, the training stuck, with boxing becoming his go-to style of combat as the Flash. While never trained extensively in hand-to-hand combat, Barry's powers combined with his intelligence and combat skills made him a formidable opponent.
* **Indomitable will/High pain tolerance:** Barry is known for his force of will, declaring that his real superpower is hope, having an endless reservoir of it. This was displayed when Barry resisted killing Thawne.

### Weaknesses

#### Current weaknesses

* **Cold temperatures:** Because speed is produced by a build-up of heat in the target's atoms, Barry is vulnerable to extreme cold temperatures. Under these conditions, Barry's speed will be greatly reduced. Also, direct exposure to such cold will temporarily stunt his healing capacities.
* **Force fields:** Barry has a much greater difficulty phasing through force fields.
* **Hyper-metabolism:** While moving at superhuman speeds, Barry burns calories much faster than a normal person. While breaking down food far more efficiently, it requires him to consume large amounts of nutrients. Continued usage of his speed while deprived renders him disoriented and weak before ultimately passing out from low blood glucose.
* **Negative Speed Force**: If Barry is exposed to anyone with a connection to the negative speed force, it will temporarily cancel out his speed.
* **Time alterations:** While Barry's speed can break through the temporal barrier, it is not without drawbacks. If a speedster stays in the designated time period for too long, the known speedster will lose their powers and be erased from existence.
* **Power-dampening tech:** Initially, Barry's powers can be weakened, even neutralized, by specially designed tech that affects his resonance field.

#### Former Weaknesses

* **Kinetic energy absorption**: Because Barry's powers are derived from movement, the removal of the kinetic energy he builds up will leave him in a state of temporary paralysis. However, if he can build back up enough kinetic energy within himself, the effect can be negated instantly.

## Equipment

#### Current Equipment

* **The Flash's Suit**: Barry wears a protective suit as his alter-ego, the Flash, to hide his identity from his enemies, when he goes out fighting crime, it was designed by himself. The suit is made out of a reinforced tri-polymer and is heat and abrasive resistant.
* **Flash ring**: After his first encounter with The Rouges, Barry decided to build a form of transport to conceal his Flash suit. The ring also bears a lightning bolt symbol on it; similar to that sported on Barry's Flash suit.
* **Cosmic Treadmill**: Barry made a treadmill that allows him to control where in time he travels too.

## Appearances

### Man Of Steel

#### Season 3

* The Fastest Race of all times
* Red Faced (indirectly mentioned)
* Cause and Effect (mentioned)

#### Season 5

* Crisis of Two Earths, Part One
* Instant Duality (mentioned)
* Access to Earth Two (mentioned)

### The Flash

#### Season 1

* Scarlett Speedster
* Freeze Touch
* Sound & the furious
* Flaming Success
* Check the lightning
* Mirror Master
* The Gauntlet
* Man In Yellow
* Tricked Ya
* Boomerang
* Speed vs Strength
* Negative Speedster
* Untouchable
* Cybernetic Encounters
* Potential Energy
* The Attack Of Grodd
* The Secret Origin of Eobard Thawne
* Back to the Future part l
* Back to the Future part ll
* Velocity
* Speed is a Battlefield
* THAWNE

#### Season 2

* The Man Who Saved Central City
* Abra Kadabra
* Family of Rogues
* Enter the Shadows
* Attack from Gorilla City
* Enter Cobalt
* Justice War part IV
* Borrowing Problems from the Future
* Going Rouge
* Fanning the flames
* The Fire Next Time
* Mirror Mirror on the Flash
* Plastique
* Things You Can't Outrun‏‎
* Reign of Cobalt Blue
* Trajectory
* Fury of Firestorm
* Flash Pack
* Who is Malcolm Thawne
* Reverse Flash Returns, Part l
* Reverse Flash Returns, Part ll
* Bloodlines

#### Season 3

* Fallout
* The Past of Wally West
* Rise of The Trickster
* King Shark
* Family Ties
* Blood Rises
* Cult Madness
* Crisis of Two Earths, Part Four
* The Present
* All Doll'd Up

### Green Lantern Corps

#### Season 2

* Justice War Part ll
* Lanterns Reunite Part ll (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Apparently, Barry Allen doesn't exist on Earth Three

## Behind The Scenes

* In the DC comics, Barry Allen was the second hero to be known as the "Flash", taking the superhero mantle after Jay Garrick. He primarily operated during the so-called "Silver Age" and "Bronze Age" of comics, before sacrificing himself during *Crisis of Infinite Earths* to save his universe. In the current *Prime Earth* continuity, Barry Allen is once again the main Flash, although other characters, like Wally West, have recently returned.

## Reference List

1. ↑ "Scarlett Speedster"
2. ↑ "Crisis of Two Earths, Part Three"