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| “ | Yeah, I might be in the suit doing all the running... but when I'm out there helping people, making a difference... you're all out there with me. Finally realized something, we were all struck by that lightning. | „ |
| ~ Barry Allen to Team Flash. |
Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen, also known as The Flash, is the deuteragonist of DC’s Arrowverse.
He is a forensic scientist at Central City police department and was struck by lighting from an accelerator at S.T.A.R. Labs that malfunctioned and created a thundercloud, he was granted superhuman speed. Barry decided to protect Central City from threats with the aid of his friends and allies.
He is portrayed by Grant Gustin. The late Logan Williams and Liam Hughes played the younger version of the character.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
Background[]
- Fought against bullies to attempt to save his friends.
- After Henry Allen was wrongfully imprisoned, Barry tried his best to save him at the court and dedicated most of his time in exonerating him.
- He applied as a forensic scientist not just to find the culprits, but to help the victims.
- When Ralph Dibny attempted to frame Reagan for the murder of his wife, Barry reported Ralph and saved the husband.
Season 1 and Arrow Season 2[]
- Volunteered to investigate the mysterious break-in at Starling City.
- Barry saved Oliver Queen's life and kept his secret, despite Oliver being hostile with him and even considering killing him. He also gifted him a domino mask to conceal his identity better.
- Stopped several metahumans from committing carnage in Central City.
- Avoided killing the metahumans as much as he could.
- Chose saving all the passengers in the train rather than confronting Snart.
- Stopped Bette Sans Souci from killing General Eiling, despite her being justified in killing him.
- Saved Thawne from being killed by Blackout.
- He dissuaded Oliver Queen from relying so much in torture and using the death of his mother and his traumatic experiences when he was missing as an excuse.
- Went back in time to stop Weather Wizard from destroying Central City. While it was an accident and that he didn't mean to go through time, it was a good thing that he did.
- Immediately forgave Cisco for giving his identity up to Snart, understanding that his brother was being threatened and Cisco only did what he did to save his life.
- Convinced Snart to stop killing people as a challenge.
- Tried to save the metahumans inside the Pipeline while preparing the Particle Accelerator to fire.
- Attempted to save his mother by going back in time. Although he chose not to in the end, it's only because if he did, it would've affect the timeline.
- He helped Oliver Queen to free Team Arrow and Tatsu Yamashiro from the League of Assassins so they could stop Ra's Al Ghul's plan of using the Alpha-Omega virus and only didn't assist them further because he was busy dealing with Thawne.
- After Eobard Thawne was erased, he put his life on the line to stop the singularity from destroying Central City.
Season 2 and Supergirl Season 1[]
- Gave several chances to the metahumans from Earth-2 to go straight and leave committing crime for Zoom.
- Despite that he killed Atom Smasher (Earth-2) by leading him into a chamber at a nuclear plant and trapped him in it, which caused the latter to absorb too much of the plant's radiation, he was given no choice and there was no other way to stop him. The Flash at least starts apologizing, showing remorse and how he didn't want it to end like this.
- Despite that he also killed Sand-Demon (Earth-2) by throwing lightning at him, which caused him to turn into glass and shatter into the ground, he was only trying to save Patty Spivot at the time, not to mention that there was also no choice as well.
- Even though he didn't trust "Jay Garrick" who came from Earth-2 to "help" Team Flash, it was understandable considering the last time he once trusted someone who "helped" him out.
- Lets a younger Reverse-Flash go to save Cisco from being erased from existence.
- Closes the breaches around Central City to stop the metahumans from infiltrating.
- Forgives Harry Wells despite the man stealing his speed, because he tried to save his daughter and was under duress by Zoom. He later promises Harry that he will save his daughter no matter what.
- Alongside Team Flash and Team Arrow, he helps Hawkgirl defeat Vandal Savage.
- When he realized he accidentally ruined Oliver and Felicity's relationship by naively giving Felicity the blood sample paper, he tried to conform Oliver. If he knew why Felicity wanted it he would of knew of Oliver's secret problem.
- When he traveled back in time to prevent Vandal Savage from killing everyone, he warned Oliver about his breakup with Felicity and confirmed him about William being his son. Barry likely thought Oliver was going to tell Felicity about his son William, but Oliver didn't learn from his mistake of keeping secrets and Barry didn't know Oliver had a secret problem.
- Sacrificed his speed and gave it to Hunter Zolomon to save Wally West.
- Attempted to save Harry Wells from Griffin Grey despite surrendering his speed to Zoom.
- Helped Supergirl fight against Silver Banshee and Livewire, and although they did not defeat them, the confrontation allowed the people of National City to regain trust in Supergirl.
- He also copied his power nullifying methods in Earth-38 so criminal metahumans can be imprisoned and have due process.
- Captured Black Siren from Earth-2.
- Doesn't kill Zoom during their last battle in spite of Zolomon taunting him that he's weak and he killed his father right in front of him.
- Even if Flash did kill Zoom to avenge his father, it would've been 100% justified because Zoom is a multiversal threat and a monster in every sense of the word.
- Convinces one of his time-remnants to sacrifice his life to destroy Zoom's Magnetar. As the time-remnant is Barry with just some memories elapsed, it proved Barry is noble enough to sacrifice his own life to save the multiverse.
Season 3[]
- Despite creating Flashpoint, he reset the timeline to maintain stability of the Speed Force and the time-continuum.
- Teamed up with The Legends, Team Arrow, and Supergirl to stop the Dominators from invading Earth-1.
- He considered turning himself to the Dominators.
- Trained Wally West to become a true hero.
- While he was tricked to start a Gorilla war by Grodd, he spared the gorilla, despite everything.
- Alongside Iris he offered Savitar a place in Team Flash, even if Savitar killed H.R. Wells and attempted to kill Iris to ensure his own existence.
- Willingly went into the Speed Force as a prisoner to save the world.
Season 4[]
- After Joe told him about Iris being kidnapped by the Samuroid and regaining his consciousness, he rescued Iris.
- Tried to reason with Ramsey Deacon/Kilg%re to not go down the wrong path.
- Made peace with Ralph and trained him to be a hero. He motivated him to lose his more unpleasant traits in a similar way he did with Harry Wells and Leonard Snart.
- He alongside other heroes stopped the Earth-X Nazi invasion. When he defeats Eobard Thawne, he decides to not kill him.
- Accepted going to prison when DeVoe framed him and didn’t want to reveal his identity to protect his loved ones.
- Helped David Ratchet escape his wrongful imprisonment and helped him reach China, despite risking his secret identity to the corrupt Warden of Iron Heights.
- Helped Becky Sharpe to come to terms with her imprisonment and tries to save her alongside the metahuman inmates when DeVoe attacked the prison.
- Tried to reason with DeVoe that if he activated the Enlightenment then no one would remember their families or themselves.
- He worked with Ralph to stop the DeVoe clones and regain the control of his body.
- He and Iris forgave Marlize DeVoe for helping Clifford DeVoe and gave them a spot in Team Flash after she helped them thwart the Enlightenment.
Season 5[]
- He alongside Wally and Nora vibrated to make a falling airplane phase through a bridge so its passengers could be safe.
- Helped in A.M.A.Z.O's destruction when he was attacking Central City.
- He and Kara used their speed to delay John Deegan's reality alteration and risked their lives until Oliver could undo the effect with a special arrow he got from Mar Novu.
- Kept everyone including his meta human enemies safe from Cicada and in the process got Matthew Norvock to reconnect with his inner goodness.
- He tried to reach out and reason with Cicada. This allowed Cicada to realize his wrongdoings and redeem himself.
- After learning of Nora's intent to still a Mirror Gun, he alongside Iris and Joe infiltrated McCulloch technologies and saved Nora from Joslyn Jachham and the other New Rogues when they betrayed Nora.
- He forgave Nora for working with Thawne and tried regaining her trust.
- Stopped Nora from killing Reverse-Flash, even if it was justified.
- Tried to save his future daughter Nora from being erased from existence.
Season 6[]
- He and Ralph worked together to stop Remington Meister from destroying Central City with the "Ring of Fire" satellite.
- Stopped Bloodwork from terrorizing Central City.
- Despite his mind being mostly possessed by Bloodwork, Barry gave Iris and Cisco clues to stop Bloodwork's invasion.
- Stopped the Anti-Monitor from destroying the Multiverse and was willing to sacrifice himself to destroy the Anti-Matter cannon. He then tried to stop his Earth-90 doppelganger from sacrificing himself.
- After all Earths were destroyed, he traveled through the Speed Force to find the other Paragons to restore the Multiverse and had Oliver empower him.
- When the Anti-Monitor appeared on Earth-Prime he helped countering him and brought Ray so he delivered the team a bomb to perpetually shrink the Anti-Monitor.
- Created a heroic team after the Crisis was over so the heroes could collaborate better for menaces that are too much for solely one of them.
- Expelled Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash from Nash Wells.
- He forgave Mirror-Iris for impersonating his wife.
- He tried to protect Joseph Carver from Eva McCulloch.
Season 7[]
- After the Artificial Speed Force was destroyed, Barry refused to use it again since it nullified his emotions.
- Worked with Timeless Wells and Iris in the formation of the new Speed Force.
- Stopped Eva McCulloch/Mirror Monarch alongside Iris from replacing humanity with mirror duplicates and held hands with them so she could stop the invasion.
- He persuaded Abra Kadabra from stopping his plan to destroy Central City, spoke about losing Oliver in the Crisis and understood Abra's grief of losing his wife and his child.
- When Jennifer Pierce exploded into the ionosphere, he sent Jefferson Pierce a hadron collider to help him reconsitute Jennifer.
- Stopped the Speed Force from destroying the other Force hosts.
- Helped his future kids Nora and Bart to defeat Godspeed and his clones.
- When inside Godspeed's head he tried to make peace with him.
- Stopped Godspeed in their final battle by teaming up with his archenemy the Reverse-Flash. When Eobard stabbed Godspeed, Barry was horrified as he didn't want Godspeed to be killed. After defeating Godspeed, he gave Eobard a chance to run instead of fight.
Season 8[]
- Tried to convince Despero that he won't destroy Central City.
- He went to the future to understand what was Armageddon about.
- While pretending to be Reverse Flash, he stopped Darhk from killing Team Flash and dissuades him from killing him after showing that in the previous timeline Nora Darhk was alive.
- He worked with Damien Darhk to undo Reverse-Flashpoint.
- Saved Mia Queen and the CCPD from Eobard Thawne.
- When Despero pressured him to kill Eobard, Barry was reluctant at first but with encouragement from Team Flash he decided not to, despite all the pain Eobard put upon him.
- Saved Eobard from getting erased from existence by removing the Negative Speed Force from him.
- When Barry deduced that Despero was a tyrant in Kalanor instead of a rebel leader like he previously claimed, he confronted him for it. He later severed his connection to the Flame of Py'tar so he did not try destroying Central City.
- He offered to help Kristen Kramer to control her powers after both get to stop Goldface and Kramer deduced Barry was the Flash.
- Helped prove Jaco Birch's innocence when he is a false suspect for murders caused by Deathstorm so Birch does not suffer what Henry Allen did.
- In a deleted scene, he directed Tinya Wazzo to go to A.R.G.U.S. so Cisco could help her with her powers.
- When he met a good time remnant of Eobard Thawne, he initially was dismissive of him and thought he had an agenda, but he accepted him as an ally after seeing that he was not the same man as Thawne and that he genuinely loved Meena Dhawan.
- Stopped electrocuting Thawne after his children's pleads to avoid killing him.
- After being advised by Iris not to fight Thawne with powers or else the city may come harmed, he meditated to strengthen his access to the other forces and to undo the damage of the Negative Speed Force. He also tried to convince Thawne to stop using the Negative Speed Force to attempt destroying the world or else it would destroy him.
- Defeated Reverse-Flash in order to safeguard the Speed Force and the world.
Season 9[]
- Dissuaded Hartley Rathaway from killing Andrea Wozzeck out of vengeance by showing him that Roderick was still alive.
- He got the assistance of Jaco Birch and Keith (Goldface) to stop the Rogues and Red Death.
- He tried to save Mark Blaine after he betrayed Red Death.
- He convinced Grodd to stop working with Red Death and trust her dubious promises of getting sentient gorillas to interact with.
- When Bloodwork possessed Wally, he tried to make Wally regain control of his body.
- He alonsgide Oliver, Wally and Diggle stopped Bloodwork for good by getting him depowered.
- He asked Oliver if he was doing enough.
- When the Negative Speed Force sent him to 2000 he still tried to minimize the changes to the timeline as much as possible by not revealing himself as Barry Allen.
- He refused to kill Thawne in 2000 to avoid damaging the timeline.
- He saved his younger self from Thawne.
- He tried to convince Eddie Thawne not to fall into the Negative Speed Force.
- He forgave Nora after the Negative Speed Force possessed her.
- He convinced Eddie Thawne to stop his plan due to the consequences and his death due to overlading himself with such energy.
- After Nora West-Allen's birth, he threw a lightning bolt to empower new speedsters so he could have more time with his daughter.
External Links[]
- Barry Allen on the Heroes Wiki
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