Thawne
My wits are unmatched!
Name: Barry Allen
Nickname(s): The Streak, the Flash, the Scarlet Speedster
Alignment: Neutral Good
Appearance:
Fandom: CW/Arrowverse
Personality: When he first discovered his new-found powers, he wanted to help people. When he first tried to stop Clyde Mardon, someone unintentionally got killed because of his actions, and he lost his confidence. However, after getting advice from Oliver, he regained his confidence. As the series progresses, Barry becomes more and more confident.
Barry is very stubborn and apparently isn't likely to learn from his flaws until experiencing them firsthand, as shown during his training with Oliver. This prompted Oliver to show Barry a potential consequence of not surveying his surroundings before charging at an enemy by shooting him with two remote controlled crossbows. However, unlike Oliver, despite his pride, Barry is not about apologizing or admitting when he is wrong, even if he doesn't like to do it in the first place.
Despite his dislike of crime and meta-humans who use their new-found powers for evil intentions, killing and torturing his enemies is a line that Barry would never cross, as he criticized Oliver for torturing Klaus Markos to gain the location of Digger Harkness. He even stated that he does not use his bad experiences as an excuse to torture people in general who makes him angry.
Barry is shown to be selfless and honorable, like when he found out that Eddie was going to ask Iris to marry him, Barry did not try to stop this engagement, despite recently discovering future events; that Iris will become his wife, instead of Eddie's. Also, he pushed Patty away partly because he didn't want her to sacrifice her dream of being in CSI for him.
However, after Eddie sacrificed himself so that his descendant Eobard would have never been born and Ronnie had done the same so Central City could be saved, Barry's personality became slightly darker. He became more reclusive, distant and cold to his friends, he broke up Team Flash and went "the Lone Wolf". He also began to doubt himself as a superhero as he couldn't have saved Eddie and Ronnie and even considered not going to Central City's Flash Day, but after being motivated by Iris, he decided to go and reunite Team Flash. Even with this, he still remains somewhat guarded, especially after being brutally beaten by Zoom, he became even more so, even in his love life, as shown with Patty to point to let her go for her own safety and happiness.
Barry became less trustful of people, when Hunter Zolomon (posing as Jay Garrick) claimed that Earth One was in danger by another speedster called Zoom, Barry did not believe it, even though most of his friends did but this was mostly due to the fact that Jay reminded him of Eobard Thawne, he eventually overcame his suspicions and allowed Jay to train him to defeat Sand Demon.
Barry began to show less concern for his enemies' well-being as he lured Atom Smasher into a chamber that gave him an overload of nuclear energy, which killed him, and solidified Sand Demon which again kills him however Barry probably didn't expect it would kill them. His killing of Atom Smasher was due to his strong belief he would harm others. However, he did apologize to Atom Smasher before he died as he felt guilt, care and remorse, while he felt none for Sand Demon's death. This is likely because the latter villain was a homicidal maniac who did nothing to try to avoid the death of innocents. Finally, he was willing to kill a reanimated and mindless Tony Woodward, but felt it as a mercy killing and said that despite them being enemies, he still wanted Tony to be at rest, while Tony was also already dead and his corpse was simply reanimated, meaning that he was not actually killing him.
However, when faced with the notion of having to kill Solovar in an effort to prevent them from invading Earth One, Caitlin asked him if he was willing to take a life, meaning that he may have not truly viewed himself as having killed his enemies since he did not kill them directly. He was even tempted to try and kill Grodd due to the threat he constantly posed towards Central City and his allies, while Iris and Harry convinced him to not risk losing his humanity to achieve victory. While fighting Savitar, he threatened kill him after Wally West was trapped in the Speed Force and even attempted to kill him with a chokehold when he revealed himself as a future version of Barry. He was even tempted to kill himself to stop Savitar's creation, but relented when he was reminded of Eobard Thawne still being in existence despite the suicide of his past relative, Eddie Thawne. When stealing salvaged technology from the Dominators, he was prepared to kill King Shark, who was guarding it, using Leonard Snart's Cold Gun, until he was told that their was another way.
Barry is a forgiving individual, as after Eobard was erased from existence, it took him months before he finally forgave the latter for murdering his mother, and framing his father for his crime. He stated that no matter how much he hated Eobard, he couldn't bare hating him anymore. This hatred, however, was apparently rekindled when Eobard's time remnant appeared, enough that Barry came close to beating him to death. Barry showed great outrage and disgust at learning that their antagonistic relationship in the future and Eobard's own hatred of Barry was because Eobard was jealous of the Flash and wanted to become better than him. After being forced to release Eobard from captivity, they both stated that they hated each other, with Barry being bitter at having Eobard murder his mother in the past to restore the timeline.
Despite his honorable ways and proclivity for pacifism in the face of deadly and often ruthless and sociopathic enemies, Barry does harbor some very disturbing and homicidal feelings towards some of his enemies in particular. These two being Zoom and the Reverse-Flash, due to their parts in the deaths of his father and mother respectively. After the capture of Eobard Thawne in the particle accelerator on the first occasion, Barry expressed an unhinged and blood-thirsty desire to kill him, even spitting with rage when he voiced this overwhelming need of his. This is in almost direct opposition to his normally restrained and merciful attitude towards his enemies. His desire to kill Hunter Zolomon may even be greater, due to how thoroughly Hunter had betrayed Barry and his friends, and how Hunter tortured Barry by kidnapping his father and then stabbing him through the chest with a vibrating hand, all the while this death took place in the same room where, approximately 16 years prior, Barry's mother was murdered by Eobard. This replication of his mother's murder with his father profoundly affected Barry, and has awakened a need for cold-blooded vengeance in him that he has never felt before, having had the pain of losing both parents in the same way, each to a deranged speedster, compound one another, tearing him apart emotionally.
Because of all the tragedy Barry had suffered and being unable to cope with it, he made a trip back in time, saving his mother, reforming the current timeline. Despite him seemingly recovering, Barry seemed to be trying to kill the Rival after he impaled Wally West in the back, the only thing stopping him from doing so is his memories fading away.
Once Barry realized how big a mistake he made once seeing Wally injured, he attempted to correct the time, yet was only somewhat successful. When Jay Garrick intervened in his attempts to correct the damaged timeline, he taught Barry that time travel must not be abused, and he must learn to live with his mistakes, instead always trying to undo them.
Although he does have guilt and remorse for his actions, especially if they have unintentionally hurt the people he cares about, at the same time, arguably Barry's greatest fault is his guilt for actions he believes could have been stopped. Due to this, he has tried rectifying his mistakes by time travel, but has actually ended up causing even bigger problems than what he initially sought out to prevent. The most major example being the creation of Flashpoint, which drew in not only Savitar, but the Dominators as well.
Additionally, as said several times by Joe and seen many times throughout the series, once Barry makes up his mind about something, makes a decision, or sets his mind to something, it is impossible for anyone to talk him out of it, including Joe, Iris, and even Henry Allen.
Barry's heroic and peaceful nature hid a more complex and powerful set of emotions that he does not fully express but has always harbored on a subconscious level. While as both a civilian and the Flash or when pushed over the edge by enemies, Barry has been known to act on nearly 14 years of repressed anger and emotional stress. These emotions are obvious after being exposed to Roy Bivolo, voicing unfounded contempt for others unusual in Barry's usually calm nature and respectful attitude such as snapping at Joe for imprisoning and criminalising his father, speaking down at David Singh for his constant barking/disrespect and condescendingly voicing jealousy for the Arrow. Barry admits that after being cured that although it was Bivolo's doing, he did mean some of the things he said during his fight with Oliver.
Backstory: http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Allen
Powers/Abilities:
Powers
▪ Earpieces: On his suit's cowl, Cisco installed two lightning-bolt shaped earpieces on Barry's suit to maintain a communication link, which he can manually turn off. The devices also include headset cameras to maintain video coverage.
▪ 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.
Nickname(s): The Streak, the Flash, the Scarlet Speedster
Alignment: Neutral Good
Appearance:
Fandom: CW/Arrowverse
Personality: When he first discovered his new-found powers, he wanted to help people. When he first tried to stop Clyde Mardon, someone unintentionally got killed because of his actions, and he lost his confidence. However, after getting advice from Oliver, he regained his confidence. As the series progresses, Barry becomes more and more confident.
Barry is very stubborn and apparently isn't likely to learn from his flaws until experiencing them firsthand, as shown during his training with Oliver. This prompted Oliver to show Barry a potential consequence of not surveying his surroundings before charging at an enemy by shooting him with two remote controlled crossbows. However, unlike Oliver, despite his pride, Barry is not about apologizing or admitting when he is wrong, even if he doesn't like to do it in the first place.
Despite his dislike of crime and meta-humans who use their new-found powers for evil intentions, killing and torturing his enemies is a line that Barry would never cross, as he criticized Oliver for torturing Klaus Markos to gain the location of Digger Harkness. He even stated that he does not use his bad experiences as an excuse to torture people in general who makes him angry.
Barry is shown to be selfless and honorable, like when he found out that Eddie was going to ask Iris to marry him, Barry did not try to stop this engagement, despite recently discovering future events; that Iris will become his wife, instead of Eddie's. Also, he pushed Patty away partly because he didn't want her to sacrifice her dream of being in CSI for him.
However, after Eddie sacrificed himself so that his descendant Eobard would have never been born and Ronnie had done the same so Central City could be saved, Barry's personality became slightly darker. He became more reclusive, distant and cold to his friends, he broke up Team Flash and went "the Lone Wolf". He also began to doubt himself as a superhero as he couldn't have saved Eddie and Ronnie and even considered not going to Central City's Flash Day, but after being motivated by Iris, he decided to go and reunite Team Flash. Even with this, he still remains somewhat guarded, especially after being brutally beaten by Zoom, he became even more so, even in his love life, as shown with Patty to point to let her go for her own safety and happiness.
Barry became less trustful of people, when Hunter Zolomon (posing as Jay Garrick) claimed that Earth One was in danger by another speedster called Zoom, Barry did not believe it, even though most of his friends did but this was mostly due to the fact that Jay reminded him of Eobard Thawne, he eventually overcame his suspicions and allowed Jay to train him to defeat Sand Demon.
Barry began to show less concern for his enemies' well-being as he lured Atom Smasher into a chamber that gave him an overload of nuclear energy, which killed him, and solidified Sand Demon which again kills him however Barry probably didn't expect it would kill them. His killing of Atom Smasher was due to his strong belief he would harm others. However, he did apologize to Atom Smasher before he died as he felt guilt, care and remorse, while he felt none for Sand Demon's death. This is likely because the latter villain was a homicidal maniac who did nothing to try to avoid the death of innocents. Finally, he was willing to kill a reanimated and mindless Tony Woodward, but felt it as a mercy killing and said that despite them being enemies, he still wanted Tony to be at rest, while Tony was also already dead and his corpse was simply reanimated, meaning that he was not actually killing him.
However, when faced with the notion of having to kill Solovar in an effort to prevent them from invading Earth One, Caitlin asked him if he was willing to take a life, meaning that he may have not truly viewed himself as having killed his enemies since he did not kill them directly. He was even tempted to try and kill Grodd due to the threat he constantly posed towards Central City and his allies, while Iris and Harry convinced him to not risk losing his humanity to achieve victory. While fighting Savitar, he threatened kill him after Wally West was trapped in the Speed Force and even attempted to kill him with a chokehold when he revealed himself as a future version of Barry. He was even tempted to kill himself to stop Savitar's creation, but relented when he was reminded of Eobard Thawne still being in existence despite the suicide of his past relative, Eddie Thawne. When stealing salvaged technology from the Dominators, he was prepared to kill King Shark, who was guarding it, using Leonard Snart's Cold Gun, until he was told that their was another way.
Barry is a forgiving individual, as after Eobard was erased from existence, it took him months before he finally forgave the latter for murdering his mother, and framing his father for his crime. He stated that no matter how much he hated Eobard, he couldn't bare hating him anymore. This hatred, however, was apparently rekindled when Eobard's time remnant appeared, enough that Barry came close to beating him to death. Barry showed great outrage and disgust at learning that their antagonistic relationship in the future and Eobard's own hatred of Barry was because Eobard was jealous of the Flash and wanted to become better than him. After being forced to release Eobard from captivity, they both stated that they hated each other, with Barry being bitter at having Eobard murder his mother in the past to restore the timeline.
Despite his honorable ways and proclivity for pacifism in the face of deadly and often ruthless and sociopathic enemies, Barry does harbor some very disturbing and homicidal feelings towards some of his enemies in particular. These two being Zoom and the Reverse-Flash, due to their parts in the deaths of his father and mother respectively. After the capture of Eobard Thawne in the particle accelerator on the first occasion, Barry expressed an unhinged and blood-thirsty desire to kill him, even spitting with rage when he voiced this overwhelming need of his. This is in almost direct opposition to his normally restrained and merciful attitude towards his enemies. His desire to kill Hunter Zolomon may even be greater, due to how thoroughly Hunter had betrayed Barry and his friends, and how Hunter tortured Barry by kidnapping his father and then stabbing him through the chest with a vibrating hand, all the while this death took place in the same room where, approximately 16 years prior, Barry's mother was murdered by Eobard. This replication of his mother's murder with his father profoundly affected Barry, and has awakened a need for cold-blooded vengeance in him that he has never felt before, having had the pain of losing both parents in the same way, each to a deranged speedster, compound one another, tearing him apart emotionally.
Because of all the tragedy Barry had suffered and being unable to cope with it, he made a trip back in time, saving his mother, reforming the current timeline. Despite him seemingly recovering, Barry seemed to be trying to kill the Rival after he impaled Wally West in the back, the only thing stopping him from doing so is his memories fading away.
Once Barry realized how big a mistake he made once seeing Wally injured, he attempted to correct the time, yet was only somewhat successful. When Jay Garrick intervened in his attempts to correct the damaged timeline, he taught Barry that time travel must not be abused, and he must learn to live with his mistakes, instead always trying to undo them.
Although he does have guilt and remorse for his actions, especially if they have unintentionally hurt the people he cares about, at the same time, arguably Barry's greatest fault is his guilt for actions he believes could have been stopped. Due to this, he has tried rectifying his mistakes by time travel, but has actually ended up causing even bigger problems than what he initially sought out to prevent. The most major example being the creation of Flashpoint, which drew in not only Savitar, but the Dominators as well.
Additionally, as said several times by Joe and seen many times throughout the series, once Barry makes up his mind about something, makes a decision, or sets his mind to something, it is impossible for anyone to talk him out of it, including Joe, Iris, and even Henry Allen.
Barry's heroic and peaceful nature hid a more complex and powerful set of emotions that he does not fully express but has always harbored on a subconscious level. While as both a civilian and the Flash or when pushed over the edge by enemies, Barry has been known to act on nearly 14 years of repressed anger and emotional stress. These emotions are obvious after being exposed to Roy Bivolo, voicing unfounded contempt for others unusual in Barry's usually calm nature and respectful attitude such as snapping at Joe for imprisoning and criminalising his father, speaking down at David Singh for his constant barking/disrespect and condescendingly voicing jealousy for the Arrow. Barry admits that after being cured that although it was Bivolo's doing, he did mean some of the things he said during his fight with Oliver.
Backstory: http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Allen
Powers/Abilities:
Powers
- Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Barry's powers come from his connection to the Speed Force, gained from being struck by dark matter lightning and exposed to various chemicals. This altered his DNA and supercharged his cells, augmenting his physiology into a lean-muscular frame well-beyond peak human condition. This lets him easily handle the rigors of his powers; he can resist high-level friction, inertia, air pressure, reduced oxygen, and kinetic impact. After regaining his lost powers by entering the Speed Force itself, he became consciously aware of it to strengthen his connection, realizing much of his true potential. This gave him much greater instinctual efficiency, able to perform more advanced abilities and improved his natural performance for much longer durations unhindered. To which, by May of 2017, his continually growing power enabled him to defeat Savitar, the reputed fastest of all speedsters.
- Accelerated healing factor: Barry has dramatically heightened healing capacities. His molecules move at accelerated rates, causing his metabolism to mend any damages much quicker and efficiently than regular humans. He needs only hours if not minutes to recover with no treatment or lingering signs of the injury. Even normally permanent damage, like paraplegia, will completely repair itself within days. He recovers from any illness or contaminant instantly if not completely immune to it. Being injected with 2,000 milligrams of horse tranquilizer only momentarily slowed down until his body burned through it. This also enhances his vitality, drastically reducing his aging process while extending his health and longevity.
- Bodily vibration: Barry can vibrate different body parts for various effects. This can mask his form from being clearly perceived or distort his vocal cords to disguise his voice. He can vibrate to forcibly expel any toxins that do affect him. He can also generate great amounts of heat to recover and even be kept thermally insolated from extreme cold. Offensively, he can vibrate his limbs to seamlessly grind through highly solid targets. If he desires, he can use this skill to harm or kill a person, as he was tempted to do to Zoom.
- Geokinesis: 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. He shook S.T.A.R. Labs when he passed Mach 2 for the first time. His vibrations can even shatter targets into fragments, as he did to Savitar's armor once inside it.
- Phasing: By vibrating his molecules at the frequency of air, Barry can physically pass through solid objects. He could later do this with multiple targets, saving an entire moving train and hundreds of passengers. His efficiency can harmlessly pass through living individuals as he did to escape Atom Smasher's grasp. He can also pass through the highly complex carbine while in another universe that's vibrational frequencies differed from his own. Alternatively, he can use this as a weapon by passing his punch through a person's body, incapacitating them as he did against Solovar. During his final fight against Savitar, Barry's efficiency was able to simultaneously shift the time remnant out of its armor and encase himself in it.
- Electrokinesis: While generating enough velocity, Barry can produce yellow electricity from his body, most commonly seen when moving at high speeds, and use it in many ways. He can focus the energy into specific part of his body to produce a strong static shock on contact with the target. Taught by Hunter Zolomon, Barry can harness this build-up of electricity, to which he can repeatedly hurl lightning to stun or repel enemies, and also electrify water.
- Speed Force sharing: In addition to his Speed Force energy protecting him from extreme speeds, Barry can also expand it to protect others he carries while moving at such levels. After regaining his powers and obtaining greater understanding of them, Barry learned to use the Speed Force in more passive means. He can temporarily let others experience the energy, letting them heal as fast as himself, as shown when he made Jessie recover immediately from a coma by touching her. Later taught by Jay Garrick, Barry can siphon the speed from another speedster to bolster his own.
- Enhanced mental process: Barry's speed enhances and extends to his mental capacities, making his system and thought processing able to take 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 familiarize himself with Earth-Two science within minutes.
- Enhanced perceptions: Barry's speed extends to and enhances his senses. This allows Barry to perceive the world as if it is nearly frozen, as well as see and hear normally, even while moving at speeds faster than sound, where this would normally be impossible.
- 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 minimize the damage before it could fully penetrate his skin.
- Enhanced strength: Barry's physical strength has been heightened to peak human capacities, greatly belying his slim built, allowing him to be able to carry multiple people 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.
- Superhuman agility: Barry has demonstrated flawless coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. He can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance. He can jump and run along falling debris and launch himself tremendous distances with little build-up.
- Superhuman durability: Barry possesses inhuman resilience to injury, taking attacks and exertion much easier than normal humans and surviving impacts that would easily harm or kill a normal person. While not invulnerable nor immune to pain, he withstood Weather Wizard's lightning, the concussive blasts of Deathstorm and Reverb, and Grodd's powerful strikes, only being momentarily stunned. After regaining his powers, his resilience increased as he could quickly rebound from the zombie Girder's attacks, who could seriously injure him during their last encounter. Barry could also withstand sonic blasts from Black Siren that are powerful enough to kill normal humans. He has repeatedly survived falls from great heights with little to no harm.
- Superhuman speed: Barry can move at vast speeds, able to run across vertical structures and over large masses of water. Using this for his various daily activities, he can complete them all in seconds. According to Eobard Thawne, Barry's speed is potentially limitless. While reaching Mach 3.3 on his own and later Mach 13.2 from tachyons, since increasing connection to the Speed Force, Barry has continually grown faster. Even when weakened in the Flashpoint timeline, he was able to decisively beat Edward Clariss/The Rival. By the time Savitar escaped the Speed Force, Barry could outrun Time Wraiths and Hunter Zolomon (now an enhanced Speed Force enforcer). In his final fight against Savitar, in desperation to save his loved ones, Barry's speed exceeded Savitar's, able to reach him and knock him out of his armor before he could react.
- Superhuman momentum: Barry can generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. He can propel himself through the air to jump tremendous heights and distances. He can also create substantial frictional force with any object he touches, and exert enough force to send people flying through the air with his attacks. This seemingly negates the weight of his target, letting him propel targets several feet and manipulate their flight path. Barry can redirect a launched bullet with no lose of force and hurl one with enough force to penetrate a powerful barrier and still pierce clean through a person. He can completely removing 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.
- Aerokinesis: Barry can use his speed to generate air flows on various levels and for various 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.
- 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 Two. 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: 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, allowing him to disorientate his enemies and then catch them off guard.
- 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. He can do this in one of two ways; either enter timelines independent from himself and unaffected by his travels or perform a time do-over, wherein he "merges" with his temporal counterpart to be fully immerse in the timeline. Regardless of the changes he makes, Barry's powers can leave him unchanged to retain all memories of the previous timeline in addition to the new timeline and differentiate between the two.
- Time remnant: 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.
- Superhuman stamina: Barry can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting him function much longer than normal humans unhindered. His enhanced stamina is due to his augmented physiology, which builds up little to no lactic acid or fatigue toxins. Even after running from coast to coast of the country to pick up a pizza, Barry remained unfazed from the prolonged running.
- Artistic: Barry is shown to be an effective sketch artist as he redrew an image of Vandal Savage's face, which freaked out John Diggle.
- Dancing: As shown in Music Meister's dream world, Barry is a talented dancer, particularly in tap and ballroom.
- Expert computer skills: 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 that her powers cause.
- Expert engineer: Barry has very advanced skill in technology. He was skilled enough to recreate from memory a variation of the earpieces used against Hartley Rathaway to help himself and Supergirl confront the sonic-powered Silver Banshee. He was also able to build a prison from which Reverse-Flash couldn't escape. In one possible future he creates Gideon, a very sophisticated artificial intelligence unit that's system was so complicated that even Cisco had no idea of how it works.
- Expert scientist/Forensic expert: Barry is a highly skilled forensics examiner. From a single glance of the crime scene, he can quickly determine much of the events that transpired. Barry has repeatedly been able to quickly analyze any given data and quickly form accurate theories on the given situation. With the Arrow, Barry correctly determined the Arrow's training background from his green attire, and that the Arrow has at least one accomplice.
- Genius-level intellect/Skilled tactician/Leader: A keen-minded individual, from a young age, Barry quickly showed a natural understanding and quick capacity to learn, making it hard for his foster-father Joe to help him with homework by age twelve. Additionally, something he learned from Oliver, Barry is able to analyze environments and predict every inch of it. Barry is also very well-read, greatly impressing the award-winning Professor Martin Stein. Barry is a capable tactician and leader. After Eobard Thawne was defeated, Barry was able to keep his team together and lead it well. Even more, Eobard (as Harrison Wells) made him the new CEO/Owner of S.T.A.R. Labs. He is also a quick study and sharp memory as after reading through the various Earth-Two advances in physics, he instantly began making effective use of it.
- Physics/Chemistry expert: Barry's knowledge and skill in chemistry is very advanced, shown when he was terrified at how certain dangerous chemicals were stored at a lab at Queen Consolidated. He was also able to cure Oliver Queen using only a small amount of rat poison and consequently dosed with a blood coagulant. He also create a compressible micro-fabric green domino mask for Oliver to conceal his identity more effectively without affecting Oliver's sight and aim. Barry's knowledge on physics possibly ranks among the best on Earth One and Two as he was able to apply to apply a newfound science and figure out how to close the various breaches between worlds.
- Singing: While not a fan of performing and being quite modest about this skill, Barry is shown to be a high quality singer. When being dragged into singing at a dive bar, it ultimately attracted the attention of Linda Park. He further demonstrated this skill in the dream world conjured by the Music Meister and even impressed Kara Danvers.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Despite not having much training or experience in unarmed combat, Barry's superhuman speed and reflexes combined with his intelligence makes him a formidable opponent. He was able to fight Oliver as an equal, despite the latter being more experienced in unarmed combat than Barry. Through his various battles however, Barry continued to improve his prowess, becoming a highly proficient self-taught brawler as he decisively defeated three fellow speedsters, Hunter Zolomon and Eobard Thawne, along with the Flashpoint timeline speedster while being affected by memory altercations of Flashpoint, Edward Clariss. Barry was also able to hold his own against Savitar in a later encounter, landing a few effective blows as well as blocking and countering some of his attacks. He could also fend off Hunter Zolomon's new form as the Speed Force Enforcer for a time. He was skilled enough to take out 2 A.R.G.U.S. agents by himself with no powers.
- Speed Force expert: After receiving the speed equation from Eobard, Barry gained great intelligence about the Speed Force and its usage. After regaining his connection to the Speed Force, Barry gained an even greater understanding of its nature. Furthermore, he knows how to nullify another speedster's power as he did to Eobard for three months, which he may have learned from Zoom's prison.
▪ Earpieces: On his suit's cowl, Cisco installed two lightning-bolt shaped earpieces on Barry's suit to maintain a communication link, which he can manually turn off. The devices also include headset cameras to maintain video coverage.
- Hidden camera: Cisco installed a mini-camera in the emblem on Barry's suit to give his team live video coverage in order to see where he is and better assist him.
- The Flash suit: Barry wears a protective suit as the Flash, to hide his identity when fighting crime designed by Cisco Ramon. The suit is made out of a reinforced tri-polymer and is heat and abrasive resistant, organically designed to replace firefighter turnouts. It was re-purposed to help protect Barry from the vigor's of his speed and survive certain environments. It also includes built-in sensors to track Barry's vitals, location, power output, speed level, and to stay in contact with S.T.A.R. Labs.
▪ 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.
- Electricity absorption: Barry's unique biology causes his body to produce massive amounts of electricity, which charges his molecules to allow for his accelerated movements. Should Barry be drained of this electrical energy, he will lose his powers. However, as this power is genetically coded to his DNA, he can potentially regain his speed by using more electricity to jump-start it.
- 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, because of his accelerated healing, he is unaffected by sedatives as he burns through them too quickly to have any effect. He also cannot experience a buzz from drunking as even a 500 proof alcohol only intoxicated for a few seconds. After naturally increasing his connection to the Speed Force, his performance noticeably increased, requiring noticeably less nourishment in-between his vigilante exploits.
- Kinetic energy absorption: Because Barry's abilities 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 instantly negated.
- Mortal wounds: Despite his enhanced healing, Barry can still potentially be killed by massive enough damage done to vital organs like his heart or brain.
- Power-dampening tech: Like most meta-humans, Barry's powers can be weakened, even disrupted, by specially designed tech that effects his resonance field. Each time he was trapped in the particle accelerator's pipeline, he required someone to free him from outside. As shown by Cisco Ramon of 2024, this tech can also interfere with the more advanced powers of a speedsters without slowing them down, as Cisco prevented Barry from running back in time despite still having the necessary speed.
- Time alterations: While Barry's speed can break through the temporal barrier, it is not without drawbacks. In addition to potentially causing unforeseeable, damaging changes to the timeline, such reckless actions can alert the Time Wraiths. These temporal guardians become instinctively drawn to the careless speedster, driven to capture him and draw the person into the Speed Force. Also, as shown in "Flashpoint", using his powers in a timeline he didn't actually acquire them will gradually deplete them and make him forget the original timeline.