Barry Allen

## Background

### 1975 - 1988: Barry Allen

Barry Allen was born as the only child of Henry & Nora Allen. He was known for daydreaming & being optimistic about everything. In school, Barry became very close with his classmates & neighbors Iris & Daniel West. The three were constantly together, leading to a close friendship between their fathers. Barry eventually developed a crush on Iris & unknown to him, she felt the same. The two never vocalized their feelings for each other. Both of their parents were well-aware of the connection between their children, often setting the two up on multiple play dates.

When Barry was thirteen, he walked home from school to find his mother murdered. The police arrest Barry's dad, who professed his innocence. Believing his dad, Barry swore he would prove his dad’s innocence. Barry was then taken in by his paternal uncle, who also lived in Central City. Around this time was when he became even closer to Iris as she became his rock during this hard time. Their close friendship led them to eventually dating.

### 1988 - 1999: Barry Allen

Barry lost his some of his optimism that day & became more a realist. He visited his dad once a month, even though his uncle wanted to prevent him from going. His dad didn't even want Barry to see him, wanting him to move on with his life. Barry went on to attend Midwestern University with a double major in Chemistry & Criminology. During his junior year of college, his father passed away in prison due to lung cancer, something he received after years of smoking. His father's death motivated him even more to prove his innocence. He immediately got a job after graduating at CCPD in the Forensics Division. Several months later, he proposed to the love of his life, Iris.

After working there for a year, Barry had already solved his mother's murder. There was a serial killer around at the time with the same ammo. He was about to leave his office when he was hit by a lightning bolt & doused with chemicals from his work. It rendered him unconscious & activated his meta gene. After bystanders witnessed it, they rushed Barry to the he was in a coma.

The coma lasted for six months & when he awoke, he found out he had enhanced reflexes, accelerated metabolism, enhanced vision, turbocharged brain & superspeed. He immediately remembered his father's case & told the police which got his father posthumously pardoned. He decided to use his new power to fight crime as the Flash. Not missing a beat, Barry was still ready to marry Iris. Only four months after he was released from the hospital, they were married.

## Romantic Relationships

* Iris West-Allen: Girlfriend (1990 - 1997); Fiancée (1997 - 1999); Husband (1999 - )

 Powers & Abilities

* **Speed Force Conduit**: After Barry was struck by a bolt of lightning & doused with chemicals, it created the Speed Force - a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time & space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up & needs to be released. When he uses his powers, he taps into that built up energy & expands it.
	+ ***Superhuman Speed***: Barry has the potential to be the fastest of the Flashes & is arguably one of the fastest beings in all of existence. He is fast enough to easily outpace Superman, as well as break any dimensional barrier . Barry is fast enough to run on actual photons, molecules, clouds & even ride on energy blasts. His speed is so immeasurable that he has moved faster than & reacted to less than an atto-second (an atto-second is one quintillionth of a second. To put this in perspective, one atto-second is to one second, what one second is to the age of the universe.)
		- ***Invisibility***: In theory, Barry could use his super-speed to turn invisible.
		- ***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
	+ ***Superhuman Reflexes***: He possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger & events, & perceive the world in slow motion.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina***: Barry's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for extended periods of time without getting tired or weak.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility***: Barry's agility, balance & bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns & leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***: He's strong enough to carry King Solovar from Central City all the way to Gorilla City in Africa. Both Barry & Wally each pushed a heavy steel cable drum, to use to wrap up a giant. Barry manages an out of control car with rapid fire pushes at super speed.
	+ ***Speed Force Aura***: The Speed Force manifests an aura around the speedster & whatever they are carrying, protecting them from adverse effects of their speed, such a friction with the air, airborne particulate matter, kinetic impacts, G-Force & the like.
		- ***Superhuman 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.
	+ ***Accelerated Healing***: Like all conduits of the Speed Force, Barry is capable of regenerating from harm much faster than any normal human.
	+ ***Electrokinesis***: Barry is able to generate & manipulate the electrical energy he draws from the Speed Force. The heat from Barry's lightning creates a thermal expansion that allows Barry's suit to be stored in his ring. By focusing the lightning in his hands, Barry is able to enhance his strikes, generate lightning to provide people with warmth, as well as electrocute people on contact.
		- ***Electro-Blast***: By focusing his frequency, Barry can turn his body into a lightning rod, in order to build up a Speed Force charge & redirect it. By doing this, he can project bolts of lightning from his hands
		- ***Negate Anti-Life Equation***: Barry is capable of negating the effects of Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation, through physical contact of his Speed Force energy.
	+ ***Enhanced Mental Process***: Barry's mental capacities are greatly enhanced by the Speed Force, allowing him to think at the speed of light and perceive events that last less than an attosecond. He is also capable of reading at superhuman rates, accumulating mass amounts of knowledge in seconds. Unlike his son, the knowledge does not stay in his memory very long & disappears after a short time.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses***: The Speed Force grants Barry enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned to his reaction speed.
		- ***Superhuman Hearing***: Barry can hear supersonic sounds, due to his super swift body being geared to those vibrations.
		- ***Enhanced Vision***: Barry can see objects & beings that are rendered invisible at normal speed, but visible to him at superspeed.
	+ ***Molecular Acceleration***: Barry can vibrate his own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes. For example, by vibrating at super speed, Barry can detect the directions of broadcast signals to different tv stations to home in on their point of origin. He has used his vibrations to allow himself to be able to run on actual photons, molecules, clouds & even ride and control energy blasts.
		- ***Phasing***: By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level & by doing so at just the right frequency, Barry can allow himself to become momentarily intangible, & phase through objects such as walls.
* **High Level Intellect:** A keen-minded individual from a young age, he displayed a natural understanding & quick capacity to learn, making it hard for his parents to help him with his homework. Barry is also very well-read, greatly impressing the award-winning Professor Martin Stein. He is also a quick study, as after reading through the various advances in physics, he instantly began making effective use of this knowledge.
	+ ***Chemistry*:** Barry is very knowledgeable & skilled in chemistry. When a detective was dosed with a blood coagulant, Barry managed to use a small amount of rat poison to thin his blood again.
	+ ***Computer Operation*:** Barry is adept with computers, as he was the only one who could write an algorithm to find Livewire that monitored the electrical manipulations to the network which her powers caused.
	+ ***Forensics*:** As a CSI, Barry is highly skilled in forensics. From a single glance of the crime scene, he can quickly determine much of the events that transpired.
	+ ***Investigation*:** Barry is a master detective, even Batman couldn't tell who was the better detective between the two of them. Superman has stated that Barry is one of the best CSIs & Detectives in the world. He can easily start to paint a picture of a crime scene before even running any tests. Barry can quickly analyze any given data & quickly form accurate theories on the given situation.
	+ ***Leadership*:** As the Flash, he is the leader of Flash Legacy. His charismatic personality allows him to lead his team without anyone ever doubting his abilities.
	+ ***Physics*:** Barry's knowledge on physics ranks among the best, as he was able to apply a new-found science & figure out how to close the various breaches between worlds.
	+ ***Tactical Analysis*:** He is able to form plans due to being able to analyze environments & predict every inch of it.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** In Barry's youth, he was trained how to box thanks to Joe. Although he remembers his time training with them, it never did stick since Barry wasn't much of a fighter growing up. He later received police training & was trained by Wonder Woman, making him a skilled hand to hand combatant.
* **Marksmanship:** Barry is proven to be adept with guns, but he does not use them if they could kill someone.
* **Unyielding Hope**
* **Flash Suit:** Barry wears a protective suit as his alter-ego, the Flash that was designed by Cisco Ramon. The suit is made out of a reinforced tripolymer & is heat & abrasive resistant, organically designed to replace firefighter turnouts. It was re-purposed to help protect Barry from the vigor's of his speed & survive certain environments. It was also upgraded with various features including sensors to track Barry's vitals, location, power output, speed level & to stay in contact with S.T.A.R. Labs.
* **Flash Ring:** Barry now utilizes a ring to store & summon his Flash suit. The ring also bears a lightning bolt symbol on it, similar to that sported on Barry's Flash suit.

### Weaknesses

* **Hyper Metabolism:** While moving at accelerated 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. Also, he is unaffected by sedatives as he burns through them too quickly to have any affect. He also cannot experience a buzz as even 500 proof alcohol only intoxicated him for a few seconds. After naturally increasing his connection to the Speed Force, his performance noticeably increased, requiring much less nourishment in-between his meta exploits.

###  Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strength:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Speed:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Range:** 8 - Paragon / Proficient
* **Strategy:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Combat:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 200 - Threat Level 5 / Elevated Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* Before Barry landed in a coma, him & Iris had decided to postpone their wedding for another year so that she could focus on her career.
* He is a supporter of the death penalty.
* Barry liked to research trivia & occasionally recite them as "Flash Facts."
* Batman told Barry than he appreciated his optimistic outlook as he was a man who worked to protect the innocent instead of damning the guilty.
* He often holds back his speed out of fear of tearing a hole in time & space itself. He also holds back his true potential because he realized, even though he could change the world with his speed. He could never truly be a part of it, for a second feels like days, every breath people take or a meaningful glance lingers for a lifetime, & a moment of regret is an eternity for him.
* Barry is skilled in cooking, regularly meals for himself & his family.
* According to Iris, one of his favorite songs is Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." He was also a huge fan of *Dragon Ball Z* in high school & was even a member of the anime club.
* Barry's favorite pizza is pepperoni, olive & jalapeño.
* He wanted to be an astronaut growing up, according to Joe.
* His favorite dessert is two scoops of cookie dough ice cream with extra sprinkles from the Mason Family Ice Cream Shop in Happy Harbor.
* Barry's blood type is O-negative.

#### Flash

* To protect their secret identities, Barry insisted he & Wally be late for everything. Barry had been late to work 72 times over the past two years. He once stated that he's never seen the beginning of a movie.
* In March 2013, he saved his nephew DJ when he crashed a car during a street race. The hero persona inspired DJ & got him to ease out of his rebellion.
* As a favor to his son, he asked for S.T.A.R. Labs to rehire Valerie & she was reisnstated as an Intern.
* He is the one that offered Fire & Ice membership to the Justice League.
* As Barry, he set up meetings between his nephew Wally & the Flash.
* After his transformation, he offered the idea of joining the Titans to Victor Stone to help with his powers.

#### Relationships

* He is generally well-liked in the League, probably being the member most liked by others. He is also one of the most approachable people on the Justice League. When things have to be reported to the founding members, people usually tell Barry first as he won't get as upset as the others.
* Barry's best friend is Hal Jordan.
* He considers Shayera Hall & John Stewart to be like older siblings, despite Shayera being a few years younger.
* He is also close friends with Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow & Ronnie Raymond.
* Barry & Iris got married on November 28, 1999.