Flash

“	Life is locomotion... if you're not moving, you're not living. But there comes a time when you've got to stop running away from things... and you've got to start running towards something, you've got to forge ahead. Keep moving. Even if your path isn't lit... trust that you'll find your way.	„
	~ The Flash

The Flash (Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen) is a fictional superhero appearing in a series of American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Showcase #4 (October 1956), created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino. Barry Allen is a reinvention of a previous character called the Flash.

Because he is a speedster, his power consists mainly of superhuman speed. Various other effects are also attributed to his ability to control the speed of molecular vibrations, including his ability to vibrate at speed to pass through objects. The Flash wears a distinct red and gold costume treated to resist friction and wind resistance, traditionally storing the costume compressed inside a ring.

Barry Allen's classic stories introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics, and this concept played a large part in DC's various continuity reboots over the years. The Flash has traditionally always had a significant role in DC's major company-wide reboot stories, and in the crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (Nov. 1985), Barry Allen died saving the Multiverse, removing the character from the regular DC lineup for 23 years. His return to regular comics is foreshadowed during the narrative (and a single image of a blur) in Grant Morrison's crossover story Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge #3 (Nov. 2008), fully actualized in Geoff Johns' accompanying The Flash: Rebirth #1 (June 2009), kicking off a six-issue limited series. He has since played a pivotal role in the crossover stories Blackest Night (2009), Flashpoint (2011), Convergence (2015), and DC Rebirth (2016).

Barry Allen has been featured in several media, first appearing in animated form in the 1967 The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure and then in the related Super Friends program. Since then he has appeared in several DC Universe Animated Original Movies. Actor John Wesley Shipp portrayed the character in the live-action 1990s television show The Flash and the Arrowverse. Allen is currently portrayed by Grant Gustin in the Arrowverse shows in a main capacity, especially the 2014 television series The Flash, while Ezra Miller portrays the character in Crisis on Infinite Earths and the DC Extended Universe films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad (minor role), Justice League and the director's cut, Zack Snyder's Justice League. He returns in the 2023 film The Flash.

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Powers and abilities

• Genius-level intellect
• Advanced hand-to-hand combatant
• Brilliant chemist
• Speed Force grants:
  • Immense superhuman speed, agility, and reflexes via speed force aura conduit
  • Speed Force absorption, negation, and empathy
  • Electrokinesis
  • Air and temperature manipulation
  • Intangibility and invisibility via molecular vibration at high velocity
  • Time travel and dimensional travel via superluminal speed
  • Energy transformation
  • Light projection
  • Accelerated healing
  • Enhanced perceptions and senses
  • Time manipulation
  • Sonic shockwave projection
  • Hyper-accelerated metabolism

Appearances in Idea Wiki

Iago PUC's ideas

• Flash is a playable character in Marvel/DC Heroes Unite!, voiced by Wally Wingert.
• Flash is a playable character in Lego Teen Titans, voiced once again by James Arnold Taylor.

MarvelDCandFantasyFanBoy12's ideas

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Moon Silvight's ideas

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Joint ideas

• Flash appears in Multiverse Unity: Pokémon Justice, voiced by Yuri Lowenthal.

External links

• Flash (Barry Allen) on Wikipedia
• Flash on DC Database

DC Comics media

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