Flash

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Similar 🠚 Flash cloned for Brainiac

Flash
Biographical Information
Full Name	Bartholomew Henry “Barry” Allen
Aliases	The Fastest Man Alive The Scarlet Speedster
Occupation	Police Forensics Scientist Superhero
Base of Operations	Central City Metropolis Hall of Justice Watchtower
Affiliations	Wally West (nephew) Justice League Central City Police Department
Physical Description
Hair	Blond
Eyes	Blue Purple (formerly possessed by Brainiac)
Game Information
Appeared in	Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Voice Actor	Scott Porter
First Appearance	Showcase #4 (October, 1956)

"You wanna see what a real hero can do?. I'll show you."

—Flash to Task Force X

Barry Allen is a speedster and superhero known as The Flash. In his secret identity he is a police officer working in Central City as a forensics specialist. Using his superspeed powers, he taps into the Speed Force, an enigmatic source of energy that all other speedsters tap into throughout time. He is a founding member of the Justice League.

Biography

Bartholomew “Barry” Allen was originally a forensics scientist for the Central City Police Department, until a lightning bolt struck his laboratory station where he was working at the time, striking him in the process, though he miraculously survived. He later discovered that he could run at inhumanly fast speeds, and later discovered that he could tap into the Speed Force.

Incident Reports

Arkham Origins Incident

At some point, The Flash captured Captain boomerang and threw him into Blackgate.

Arkham Knight Incident

In a Hardwick Tours poster advertising "Run to Keystone", a red streak can be seen traveling in the street, assumed to be the Flash.

Thugs mention that Gotham City was better than Keystone City because "at least [the criminals] can see Batman coming", which indirectly references the Flash and his famous superhuman speed. However this most likely isn't canon anymore due to The Flash of Keystone traditionally being Jay Garrick or Wally West's home.

As part of the next stage of his plans, Scarecrow envisioned infecting the Flash with his Cloudburst fear gas and unleashing him on Central City.

Before Kill the Justice League Incident

Flash became a member of the Justice League alongside Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern. Flash had risen to national prominence after he fought Gorilla Grodd with Superman and saving dozens of lives in Central City.

At some point, after Batman was offered a place in the Justice League, he was also known to have captured Captain Boomerang, leading to Boomerang's imprisonment in Arkham Asylum.

Sometime after this, The Flash fought the Sinestro Corps alongside The Justice League.

Some point after the league formed. Flash took a selfie with Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and Superman

When Brainiac arrived to Earth, The Flash (alongside the rest of the Justice League) traveled to his Skull Ship to figure out what his intentions were. The League were skeptical but kept an open mind thanks to Superman's insistence. However, this turned out to be a trap, which ended up in Green Lantern and the rest of the League (save for Wonder Woman and The Flash) being captured and cloned by Brainiac. Flash somehow managed to escape the Skull Ship courtesy of his speedster abilities.

Kill the Justice League Incident

When the Suicide Squad are held captive and taken on a tour of Metropolis by the brain-washed Green Lantern, Believing the cloned Green Lantern to be the original, albeit brainwashed, Flash shows up and tries to appeal to what he believed to be Green Lantern’s friendship with him. The cloned Green Lantern and the Flash disappear as they seemingly engage in a fight.

The pair re-appear after some time and continue their fight. The cloned Green Lantern attempts to convince the Flash that he has the wrong idea about Brainiac, insisting he returns to the Skull Ship, but the Flash sees through his lies. Flash tries to get through what he believed to be mind control again but fails and almost dies in a direct fight with him and the squad finds him bleeding out on a rooftop of a restaurant. Under Waller's orders the squad is ordered to take the Flash back to Hall of Justice to help ARGUS defeat Brainiac, the Squad decides to take the Flash into The Batman Experience museum to hide from the invaders but unknown to them a clone of Batman had tracked the squad. During a quick exchange Boomerang cuts Flash's finger off causing Flash to bleed out more. As the squad believes the cloned Batman to be the real Batman, albeit mind controlled, who picks up a pistol to kill the squad, Flash manages to get up with all of his remaining strength and saves the squad by pushing the bullets away but Batman brutally punches the Flash almost killing him but moments later takes him back to the skull ship for Brainiac to clone the Flash.

Hours later Deadshot finds who he believes to be the Flash after locating Lex Luthor a few blocks away which causes everyone at first to be surprised that he was alive after his encounters with Green Lantern and Batman. The Squad surmises that he is brainwashed, not knowing that he was a clone, after he starts to torture Luthor for fun and the Flash going after the squad after Deadshot and Harley Quinn both failing to shoot the cloned Flash, who kidnaps Lex Luthor and eventually kills him by pulling his heart out. Boomerang mocks the cloned Flash, believing him to be the real Flash, who has supposedly become everything he was against and said that he wasn't a hero with Flash replying "You wanna see what a real hero can do?, I'll show you." going super speed and getting ready to kill the squad before Wonder Woman shows up and uses the Lasso of Truth on Flash to figure out how to stop the invasion with the Flash clone briefly giving in and telling Diana that in order to save the world the Justice League has to be killed. He escapes and roams Metropolis causing terror and havoc while the squad prepares on how to defeat him.

Boomerang live streams where the squad is using Amanda Waller’s cell phone (much to her anger) and mocks the Flash on National TV which gathers the attention of the Flash causing the squad to fight the Flash. After a lengthy battle, The Flash clone is killed by the Suicide Squad and mocked by his long-time enemy and rival, Captain Boomerang.

Following parts of a Metropolis completely frozen over appearing in Earth-1, Waller would reveal to the Suicide Squad that the Flash has been supposedly brought back to life, and along with killing the next version of Brainiac the team were to also rescue the Flash with the aid of a female version of Mr. Freeze from this frozen Elseworld. Following the Suicide Squad killing another of Brainiac's bodies, The real Flash is able to escape from the Skull Ship and briefly meet up with the team again before passing out from exhaustion, though not before half-jokingly inquiring why the squad was not in jail. The Flash is brought back to recover in his display case in the Hall of Justice by the squad (but not before some of them take pictures with the unconscious hero for their own amusement), with Freeze using her cryogenic tech to aid in helping the Flash recover from his resurrection.

Later, Toyman II talked to an unconscious Flash, briefly fanboying over being in his presence, before apologizing for building the Speed Force Decoupler, stating that it was purely meant to be an experiment, acknowledging that what supposedly happened to the Flash was Hiro’s fault. He then mused that if Flash was awake, he would reassure Hiro that what happened was not his fault, before mentioning that he meant everything to Hiro (he is Hiro’s number one idol after all). He then says that when Flash wakes up, things may be tense between him and the Suicide Squad, before advising him to play nice with them, stating that deep down, they have good intentions, especially Captain Boomerang, to which Flash weakly responded with a pained groan, which Hiro misinterpreted as being a weary groan, before leaving Digger’s name out of it, before stating that he wants things to work out. He then voiced that he had a feeling that the Suicide Squad and the Justice League could stop the invasion together, comparing it to a child playing with action figures, in that there are no rules for either situation, and that he believed that everyone has a chance to do good eventually, before closing his monologue with wishing him well, hoping he will get better.

Sometime later, Captain Boomerang visited a still-unconscious Flash to taunt him, after some fake pleasantries, mocking his flaccid state as not being a good look for him, noting that his “nemesis” was supposed to be the fastest man alive, not a “bloke in the sick bay”, before mocking his lack of energy and vigor, only to gloat about having bested who he believed to be the Flash in combat, leaving him with one final remark: when he is incapacitated in his current state, he was not the Flash, but “a bloke called Barry”.

Sometime after that, he gloated to a seemingly unconscious Flash that while he was recovering he found a way to be fast like him, and that he held the title of “Fastest Man Alive”, before mockingly remarking that he may steal his costume and take it for a spin, before making a tasteless joke about the Justice League seemingly being dead, only for his jape to fall flat due to the Flash not responding back, before stating that Boomerang, who claimed to be the Flash’s most iconic foe, bested him in combat, before stating that this was paltry compared to what would happen next, before confusedly musing what that would be, before the Flash finally responded to Boomerang’s mocking diatribe, stating that he was correct, startling Captain Boomerang. Flash stated that things truly had changed, in that he had a team now. He also stated that he had been Captain Boomerang, and he truly had beaten the Flash, believing the cloned Flash’s memories to be his own, before saying that he needed to figure out how to be George Harkness. At this, Captain Boomerang, still startled by the Flash’s responding to him, stood his ground and vowed that when the Flash recovered, he would beat him again, before losing interest and leaving.

Sometime later, Toyman II revisited Flash to admit, at the advice of Harley Quinn, that he messed up by supposedly ensuring the Flash’s “demise”, before assuring him that he never wanted to harm him, but before he could go on, Flash addressed him directly, much to Hiro’s surprise. Flash advised Hiro to allow himself some leeway in his behavior, half-jokingly stating that it was not Hiro’s fault that Flash was supposedly brainwashed, believing himself to have been brainwashed, addressing him by name. Hiro agreed and stated that the Flash was his idol, and that things were going smoothly at first, before asking how the Flash knew Hiro’s name. At this, Flash revealed that he had been listening to Hiro’s apology from before while he was resting, before acknowledging his genius. He also advised him that things do not always go according to plan, though that does not make him any less of a hero. Hiro then reminded him to rest, to which Flash told him to promise to remember what he was fighting for, to which Hiro endeavored to do so.

At the climax of Brainiac’s invasion, Flash, alongside Green Lantern, were deployed in a limited capacity by Amanda Waller to aid the Suicide Squad in beating the final three Brainiac iterations. When the last Brainiac was beaten, Flash, alongside his fellow Justice Leaguers would undo the damage Brainiac did to atone for what transpired.

Codex

Captain Boomerang

All you need to know about Flasher is that he’s a shiny red beacon bastard to every high school sports captain who ever thought they were better than m – you. You’re just makin’ a livin’ as a hard workin’ rebel, an’ then this guy shows up, throwin’ his weight around, callin’ himself the fastest, the funniest, the best.

Who asked, mate?! If he was any more full of himself, he’d have little Flashies drippin’ off his nose-hairs.  

From the Files of Lex Luthor

This Earth has been trained, like a planet of stupid dogs, to see unimaginable power and reduce it to a party trick, cheering for the living weapons who at any time can turn on them.

When one brings up the Flash, it’s all smiles. How fast can he go? Can he run faster than Superman? Carefully, we avoid what happens when he trips, and hits a school bus at Mach 2, or moves with such impossible speed that it tears a hole in the fabric of time itself.

My deeper concern, though, takes on a different form. In the public eye, the Flash is a media darling, a jokester with a youthful spirit who never fails to break the stony seriousness with a well-timed quip.

But think about it. Think about what’s behind the smile, and consider that the Flash lives every day in a prison of his own design. To live a normal life, he must restrain every part of himself. Imagine how slowly the world must seem to him, every second interminable. Imagine how our voices must be a bass in ears used to parsing meaning from aural blips, and how even the world’s greatest novels offer barely a moment’s respite from a billion chaotic impulses coursing through a too-hungry brain.

The Flash’s cognition makes it clear that his speed isn’t purely physical, but mental, too. He smiles, kids around, but all that pent up frustration, all of the ways he’s held himself back to fit in with our world, all of the humanity that have anchored him to our timeline - it’s now been unleashed. Don’t blink.

Abilities

• Super-Speed: Flash can move faster than the speed of Light
• Limited Electrokinesis: Flash can charge up Lightning to throw as projectiles.
• Abilities from Speed: Flash can run through time, objects, dimensions and has many more abilities.
• Super-Healing: Flash can heal at excessive speeds.
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): It's assumed Flash learn Hand-to-Hand Combat from either Batman or Wonder Woman

Equipment

• Flash Suit: Barry Allen uses his suit to protect himself and hide his identity. It is woven from a lightweight fabric designed by the scientists at WayneTech Labs. It is also built to withstand the Speed Force, and it absorbs and redistributes kinetic energy as he runs,

Weaknesses

• Cold Temperatures: Flash is harmed by extremely cold temperatures as they mess with his molecules.

Quotes

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

"What did you think would happen? You'd crawl out of your cells, swoop in, save the day?"

—Flash to Task Force X

Game Over Lines

• Everybody say "Bye bye" to Boomerang, now.
• You're not coming back from this, Boomerang.
• Oh oh ooh! I should get a pic of this for Bruce!
• Quick: what do you call a sidekick without a head?
• Good fish. STAY.
• Should've picked better friends, Shark.
• Deadshot... is about to die!
• Guess you could say I assassinated the assassin!

Gallery

Batman Arkham Knight- The Flash Easter Egg

Flash looking through Deadshot's scope.

The Flash prior to Brainiac's invasion.

Concept Art of The Flash.

Wonder Woman captures Flash within her lasso.

Promo Art of Flash

Flash briefly not mind controlled

Trivia

• Scott Porter had previously voiced the Flash in the Harley Quinn animated series.
• The Earth-2 version of the Flash seen on a billboard is seemingly inspired by Wally West.
• The Flash is very close to Green Lantern as audio logs show and when Flash died, Green Lantern mentions how close they were and is particularly affected by his death even when under Brainiac's control.