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Henry Allen (father),
Nora Thompson-Allen (mother, deceased),
Darryl Frye (adoptive father),
Iris West-Allen (wife),
Nadine West (mother-in-law),
Joe West (father-in-law),
Daniel West (brother-in-law, deceased),
Rudy West (brother-in-law),
Wally West (nephew),
Mace West (nephew);
Dawn Allen (daughter),
Don Allen (son),
Bart Allen (grandson),
Jenni Ognats (granddaughter),
Irey West (grandniece),
Jai West (grandnephew),
Wade West (grandnephew);
Past Romances:
Patty Spivot (ex-girlfriend),
Felicity Smoak (ex-girlfriend)
Dinah Lance (former romance)
The Flash Vol 1 1
History
I spent most of my life running thinking that I was powerless to face my past, but I realized that there's nothing wrong with running, unless you're running away from doing what's right. With these powers, I run towards danger because I can do more to help more people and save them from harm... I don't think I'll do anything less different, even if I can't tap into the Speed Force. Superpowers don't always make a person better or worse from within. For the most part, they only amplify who they really are and who they wanna be.
Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen (born May 1978) was born to Henry and Nora Allen in a loving home in Central City. While Barry was nurtured by his parents as an upstanding, optimistic, curious, and goodhearted individual, one heartbreaking tragedy struck the Allens in the summer of 1989 when Barry's mother was murdered under mysterious circumstances, which a young Barry had only perceived as a series of flashing red and yellow lights inside their residence. With his father having been wrongly accused of Nora's murder, Barry grew up under the care of police officer Darryl Frye with his lifelong determination to prove his father's innocence and exonerate him of the crime as a brilliant forensic scientist for his city's police department, still remembering the "impossible" circumstances that took place on that fateful night, which resulted in his mother's untimely passing and his father's imprisonment.
In spite of the tragedy he experienced and while most of his world were telling him to move on and accept his father's fate, Barry found comfort, enthusiasm, and hope throughout the years in his blooming friendships and respectable acquaintanceships with caring and supportive people aside from his family such as Patty Spivot, Ralph Dibny, David Singh, August Heart, Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen, and Iris West, the latter being Barry's longtime friend and love interest. Also fueled by his love and passion for science, Barry was briefly present during the opening and activation of the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator around the beginning of 2002, which was renowned and anticipated by various figures to be one of the first scientific and technological marvels leading the 21st century.
However, later on the same night when Barry returned to his lab, the accelerator exploded and unleashed a wave of dark matter and various extradimensional energies across Central City, triggering a lightning storm that crashed through his lab and struck Barry while dousing himself with several chemicals around him. Waking up from six-month coma under the care of a small staff from S.T.A.R. Labs which included Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, Ronnie Raymond, and Silas Stone, Barry discovered that he had developed superhuman speed among other powers derived from an exceptional cosmic energy source which he and other speedsters would eventually dub the Speed Force, making him one of first notable metahumans of the 21st Century with extraordinary powers.
In the following years, Barry trained and put his powers and abilities to good use as a vigilante. While starting out as a lone vigilante in his first five months as a crimefighter, he would eventually gain and accept the support and assistance of his closest friends and allies—starting from his saviors in S.T.A.R. Labs—by handling threats caused by dangerous metahumans and helping out other people to safety in the face of danger while wearing a heat-resistant protective suit. His signature lightning fast super speed and constant motion to help the innocent and fight crime eventually earned him a name he had embraced in his gradual rise as a mostly respected and well-beloved superhero: the Flash. The moniker was once held by an old legend, but Barry would grow and shape his own unique identity as the Flash of modern day. In time, the Flash would discover in his missions and adventures that not only was he one of the many metahumans and heroes who emerged in his generation, but he wouldn't be the only speedster as he would either work alongside fellow extraordinarily swift souls who became his most trusted allies or face some of them as his worst enemies.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
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Barry Allen as the first Flash of the modern age (21st Century)
- Speed Force Conduit
- Accelerated Healing: Speed Force conduits are not invulnerable nor durable enough to sustain damage however if they are harmed they will heal at high speeds. Any normal wear and tear damage to their bodies are almost instantly healed.
- Decelerated Aging: Speed Force conduits have a slowed aging process. This power can be imparted on their most intimate loved ones by extended contact rather than distribution.
- Energy Construct Creation: Speed Force conduits can use the matter generated by their speed to create solid objects such as walls or bridges. This power requires constant concentration and reapplication of the construct for it to remain stable. the speedster's after images are also construct creations.
- Flight: Speed Force conduits can rotate their arms and spin their bodies like tops to achieve something of a kind of helicopter flight. However, with practice conduits can even achieve controllable flight if launched at high speeds. Despite their flight abilities they are always faster on their feet.
- Increased Perceptions: Speed Force conduits traveling at the speed of sound may miss important events as they run by. The Speed Force grants them enhanced senses that allow them to see, hear, smell, touch and/or taste at an increased speed and understand it as it is processed.
- Infinite Mass Punch: Speed Force conduits have an increased level of strength added to their bodies which they can impart in different ways. Certain speedsters can strength each and every move they make however this requires attention and stress for each movement and therefore is almost never used. In most cases conduits can focus the Speed Force's extra-dimensional energies into one massive punch; when used in practiced this punch pushed a metahuman from one continent to another.
- Phasing: Speed Force conduits can vibrate their molecules so quickly that they can achieve intangibility for short bursts allowing them to phase through objects.
- Self-Sustenance: Speed Force conduits travel at incredible speeds which cause their bodies to work overtime. In situations where their bodies may be too fast for them to breathe they may impart on the Speed Force for sustenance. However, this almost always results in the conduits having an increased metabolism at all times requiring them to constantly refill their energy supplies.
- Sharing the Force: Speed Force conduits can allow their friends or family members to run along side them at their equaled speeds. Certain conduits who may only have minor access to the Force may achieve full levels of the Force due to the main conduit's association with it.
- Speed Force Aura - People who are propelled by the conduits during high speed situations can survive the harsh conditions associated with mach speeds. When the conduit must rescue an individual from a burning building these individuals will be protected while within the aura.
- Speed Force Conduit: People who, for whatever reason, are connected to the Speed Force are sometimes called Speed Force Conduits. This means that they are connected to the Speed Force and are tethered to it. Some characters may control their Speed Force imparted powers in different ways such as only Superhuman Strength or even directed through Lighting but no matter their adaptions they are still connected to the Force.
- Steal Speed: Speed Force conduits can steal the accelerated motion or momentum from objects or people to reduce their speed or even virtually stop them. Conduits may also steal the speed from other Speedsters or other fast moving people.
- Supercharged Brain Activity: Sometimes neglected by Speedsters who only operate at superhuman speeds and never slow down enough to understand their full potential; Speedsters can access superhuman levels in their brains further than processing information. They can test theories, understand difficult equations and run trial and error in their brains at superhuman speeds. Different conduits access this activity in different ways.
- Superhuman Speed: Speed Force conduits have one main ability above all else. Conduits are connected to the barrier and accumulation of all Speed known in their universe. These characters immediately understand how to run at superhuman speeds and their bodies instinctively understand how to react at high-speed situations. Older speedsters have a reduced but maxed speed of 770mph which is just below sonic booms allowing them to react to situations without causing civilians undo stress. Speedsters in their prime can travel at much faster speeds such as the max level of recorded aided speed on Earth and even reach the speed of light with enough willpower. It is possible for conduits to travel much faster than the speed of light however such levels require an incredible amount of stress. Speedsters unaccustomed to their max level of speeds may detach themselves from the Speed Force or even become part of the Speed Force by accident.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Speedster possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. His/her great reflexes have allowed him/she to perform feats such as dodging lightning.
- Superhuman Stamina: Speedster's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for long periods of time without out getting tired or weak.
- Superhuman Agility: Speedster's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him/her to easily maneuver and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
- Vortex Creations: Speed Force conduits that plant themselves on the ground and rotate their extremities can cause an incredible amount of wind to burst through their focused funnel. Most Speedsters use this ability automatically when they run reducing the air currents around their body to low enough levels to no longer inhibit their speed. Creatively, Speedsters can create tornadoes and gusts with their arms.
Abilities
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced)
- Acrobatics
- Indomitable Will
- Meditation
- Mushin
- Mechanical Engineering
- Stealth
- Leadership
- Pedagogy
- Intimidation
- Investigation
- Tactical Analysis
- Multilingualism
- Weaponry
- Swimming
Strength level
Class 1000+
Weaknesses
- Power Instability
- Vulnerability to Dimensional Bursts
- Vulnerability to Extreme Temperatures
- Vulnerability to EMP
- Hyper-Metabolism
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Costume Ring
- Flash Suits
- Flash Suits
Transportation:
- Speed Force
- Cosmic Speed
- Cosmic Treadmill
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- No special notes.
Trivia
- Barry was struck by the lightning bolt from a cloud of dark matter unleashed by the activation of the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator on New Year's Day of 2002.
- Barry and Iris share the same birth month, May 1978, although he was born a few weeks earlier than his wife. However, when Barry came back to life in 2021 after vanishing during the Great Multiversal Crisis in 2018, he didn't appear to have aged a day since his apparent death and ethereal limbo in the Speed Force. Meanwhile, Iris had aged as she continued to live in the present, making her almost three years older than Barry, at least biologically speaking.
- Barry is an avid enjoyer of various popular culture such as sci-fi, fantasy, and drama media, anime, manga, and musicals, a love that stemmed from him bonding with his late mother when he was a child.
See Also
- Appearances of Barry Allen (Earth-41417) (Chronological)
- Appearances of Barry Allen (Earth-41417) (Unordered)
- Character Gallery: Barry Allen (Earth-41417)
- Fan-Art Gallery: Barry Allen (Earth-41417)
- Quotations by Barry Allen (Earth-41417)
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Links and References
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