The Flash/Characters

With a legacy that spans over 70 years (and that's just real-time), and practically drenched in Legacy Characters, it's no surprise the Flash family has a ton of major and supporting characters.

The Flashes
All Flashes (and by some extension, other speedsters) provide examples of the following tropes:


 * Badass Family: Wally is Barry's nephew-in-law, and Bart is Barry's grandson. Barry also has his other grandkid, XS, and Wally has his children Irey (Impulse II) and Jai. Jay and Max Mercury are often considered to be adoptive grandpas of the West/Allen family.
 * Chest Insignia: Always a lightning bolt, though Jay's has always looked different from Barry, Wally, and Bart's. On top of that, the Kid Flash insignia has alway been red, and since Rebirth, Wally's has changed to resemble his DCAU costume to help differentiate from Barry's costume.
 * Fragile Speedster/Glass Cannon: Very fast, and their punches can hurt thanks to special relativity (called the "infinite mass punch"), but their endurance is simply that of a normal peak-level athelete, but this is mitigated somewhat by their sped-up Healing Factor.
 * Legacy Character
 * Meta Origin: The Speed Force--the quasi-mystical energy source that powers all speedsters.
 * Nice Guy: All four generations of the The Flash (Jay, Barry, Wally and Bart) are easily some of the most decent persons in the DC Universe. Wally can sometimes come across Jerk With a Heart of Gold depending on who he interacts with, but compared to a great deal of other heroes in this universe, he's hands down a Nice Guy as well
 * Red Ones Go Faster: There's a reason The Flash is called the "Scarlet Speedster"
 * Super Speed: But of course, and it's not just limited to running; all Flashes and similar speedsters can move any part of them fast down to the molecular level, making their Super Speed a Swiss Army Superpower, which gives them the following abilities:
 * Blow You Away: Manifests either as them running in small circles very quickly to create a large vortex, or by spinning their arms quickly to create a smaller vortex.
 * Healing Factor: Their ability to heal is sped up. It explains why Barry was able to quickly recover from being doused in several harmful chemicals. However, this was detrimental to Bart during his Kneecapping at the hands of Deathstroke.
 * Intangible Man: In the Silver Age, by rapidly vibrating their molecules, they could be intangible for short bursts of time. Wally would later lose this ability, but his run into the Speed Force replaced it with the ability to disintegrate anything he vibrates through.
 * Invisibility: They can vibrate so fast that they can't be seen.
 * Megaton Punch: Taken Up to Eleven due to special relativity, as because the Flashes can punch past the speed of light, their fists attain infinite mass.
 * Rapid Fire Fisticuffs
 * Super Intelligence: It's not used or noticed frequently by the Flashes, but their brain processes are also sped up. This notably allows them the ability of Super Speed Reading.
 * Super Senses/Super Reflexes: While running at Super Speed, they can see, hear, and smell anything as easily as they can as a normal human can at normal speed.

The Flash I
"We're going to get this done and we're going to do it fast. After all, it's how I'm used to doing things.

AKA: Jason "Jay" Garrick

First appearance: Flash Comics #1 (January 1940)

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Blue"

The original Flash (and the first well-known superhero with only a single super-power). Jay Garrick was a college student who inhaled radioactive fumes in his science lab; after waking up from a brief coma, he found he had super-speed and fought crime as the Flash. Jay fought in World War Two, was a founding member of the Justice Society of America, and became good friends with his fellow mystery man, Alan "Green Lantern" Scott. Jay retired as a result of the anti-Communist paranoia of the 1950s, but the appearance of Barry Allen as the new Flash brought him out of retirement. He's now a fatherly presence to the rest of the superhero community and one of its elder statesmen.

Like all Golden Age DC heroes, he was originally an inhabitant of Earth-2 in pre-Crisis On Infinite Earths continuity. In fact, he was the first Golden Age hero to meet his Earth-1 Silver Age counterpart, Barry Allen. After the Crisis, the history of his world was merged with that of Earth-1 to create New Earth, and his history was folded over into the new continuity. Since the New 52 reboot and the recreation of Earth-2 he is once again Barry's Alternate Universe counterpart.


 * Badass Grandpa
 * Civvie Spandex: Wears blue jeans.
 * Cool Hat (yup!)
 * Cool Old Guy: Not really cool per se, as he's shown as a non-drinking old-fashioned fuddy-duddy, but everyone respects the hell out of him, and he's known as being the most polite man ever.
 * Follow the Leader: It's hard to imagine comic books without the speedsters. Jay was the very first.
 * Freak Lab Accident: Hard Water Vapors. It was the '30s.
 * Happily Married: Going on sixty years now.
 * I Was Quite a Looker: As a young man, Jay was quite handsome
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's often drawn to look like Paul Newman.
 * Older and Wiser Mentor: Not simply to the speedsters, but also to the superhero community in general.
 * Older Than He Looks: Could pass for a guy in his late 40's early 50's. He's much older than that.
 * Overprotective Dad: Acts this way to Stargirl in the JSA again and again. He's personally chased off two suitors (Captain Marvel and a random fireman), and helped chase off Atom Smasher. Courtney does not appreciate this part of his personality.
 * Ret Gone: He's been removed from New Earth, now a resident of Earth-Two as of New 52.
 * Science Hero: A laboratory director who has saved Earth-Two with the help of Barry once.
 * Trope Codifier: The one of the very first "single power" superheroes. Any others around this time had multiple powers (like Superman), or none (like Batman).
 * Younger and Hipper: Apparently, this is what DC plans to do to him and other Earth-Two (Golden Age) heroes.

The Flash II
"Do what you have to... we must save the world. We must save the world...

AKA: Bartholomew "Barry" Allen

First appearance: Showcase #4 (October 1956)

Hair color: Blond

Eye color: Blue"

The Flash. While working in the lab late at night, forensic scientist Barry Allen was doused with chemicals and struck by lightning, this freak accident imbuing him with incredible super-speed. Inspired by the legacy of Jay Garrick, he donned his famous red spandex and became the Scarlet Speedster, the Sultan of Speed--the Flash. Barry had a years-long flirtation with Iris West that culminated in their marriage. He was a founding member of the Justice League of America and one of the world's greatest superheroes.

An active time traveler, Barry spent a few years living in the 30th century, where he and Iris had two children who became the Tornado Twins. They in turn each had a super-speedster child of their own--Barry's grandchildren, Impulse and XS.

Barry's life ended in the Crisis On Infinite Earths when he used his super-speed to destabilize and destroy the Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon, saving The Multiverse from total destruction. He was remembered as almost a patron saint of superheroes as one of the first to give their life.

Barry's friends later learned, however, that his spirit had been absorbed into the Speed Force, the quasi-mystic source of all speedsters' powers. During Final Crisis, when Darkseid conquered the Earth, through sheer force of will, Barry re-incorporated his body to stop the evil god and rejoined the living. Today, Barry is running strong yet again as the living incarnation of the Speed Force. The Flash lives again!


 * Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the Speed Force, depending on how you interpret Rebirth #4.
 * Ascended Fanboy: He was a fan of the Flash (Jay Garrick) who became... the second Flash.
 * Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence: His death in Crisis On Infinite Earths was eventually retconned into him merging with the Speed Force permanently. Word of God says that this was to set him up for coming Back From the Dead should DC want to do so. He later made a brief appearance in Infinite Crisis where he helped his grandson imprison Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force, and he permanently came back in Final Crisis.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Breakout Character: He's credited for kick starting the Silver Age.
 * Darker and Edgier: Not originally but when he came back from the dead, his past included his dad being falsely arrested for the death of his mother, which turned out to be a deliberate result of his greatest villain retconning his past.
 * Death Is Cheap: The textbook aversion... if you call 23 years an aversion. Oh well, it's as good as you're going to get for the vanguard of the Silver Age.
 * Dying Moment of Awesome: Saved the remainder of the Multiverse by turning taking using one villain to brainwash a bunch of other villains into attacking the Big Bad and destroying the Big Bad's greatest weapon.
 * Eagle Eye Detection: Part of his job as a CSI. It's also how he figured out that Professor Zoom, not Clive Yorkin, was responsible for Iris's death (of course, she wasn't really dead, but that's another story).
 * From a Single Cell: Can reconstitute himself from such extreme fates as being turned into a puddle of tar or a cloud of water vapor.
 * Hair of Gold (please, lose the crewcut)
 * Happily Married: Until the "New 52" reboot got rid of Iris West entirely.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: This is why he was left dead for so long, because everyone feared that a resurrection would completely undo its emotional value.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Hal "Green Lantern" Jordan.
 * Hot Dad: He's lookin' pretty good for a grandfather. (Of course, that's because of time travel...)
 * Insistent Terminology: Tells Bart to call him Barry instead of Grandpa, as it weirded him out.
 * Killed Off for Real: See above.
 * Nice Job Breaking It Hero:
 * Personality Powers: Subversion, he's generally slow and methodical. You want an extreme example, go find Bart. That said, he does seem to be picking up some of Wally's and Bart's personality quirks since his resurrection. His new since of urgency comes from having died.
 * The Professor: By far the most overtly intelligent of the Flashes, and a forensic scientist by trade.
 * Silver Age: The reason it exists
 * Which was part of the reason he was killed in Crisis. Since his arrival started the Silver Age, his death was to mark the end of it (though really it took place circa the end of the Bronze Age.)
 * Science Hero: He's a CSI scientist, and uses his speed in creative ways with his science knowledge.
 * Society Marches On: When created, he was intended to be something of an heroic nerd, in contrast to previous heroes, so they made him a police scientist. For nearly 30 years, he was basically treated like a lab geek by the rest of the police. When he was resurrected into a world that knows what the letters CSI stand for, however, he's retroactively seen more death than the Joker, leading to a slightly Darker and Edgier portrayal.

Kid Flash I / The Flash III
"Jay, I am no longer Kid Flash. From this day forth-- The Flash lives again!

AKA: Wallace "Wally" West

First appearance: The Flash vol. 1 #110 (December 1959)

Hair color: Red-gold

Eye color: Green"

As a child, young Wally West was the biggest fan of The Flash II. One summer, he went to stay with his aunt Iris in Central City, who was dating Barry Allen at the time. Barry then "introduced" The Flash to him, and The Flash then told Wally how he got his powers by setting up a cupboard of chemicals the exact way they were when he got them. In a huge Contrived Coincidence, lightning suddenly struck the chemicals and Wally was bathed in them, giving him the same powers as The Flash. The Flash then taught Wally everything he knew about Super Speed and gave him the identity of Kid Flash. The Flash later revealed he was Barry to his nephew another summer. Wally would later become a member of the Teen Titans.

After Barry's death Crisis On Infinite Earths, Wally took up the mantle of The Flash. Wally was initially a shameless womanizer and a jerk to most everyone, but some Character Development and his marriage to Linda Park made him a much more mature hero and he even surpassed his mentor in ability.

In the New 52 continuity, Wally doesn't seem to have had any time as The Flash or Kid Flash, as Bart is officially the first Kid Flash in the reboot continuity.


 * Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the Speed Force, in Kingdom Come.
 * Ascended Fanboy: The biggest fan of Flash II, he later became his sidekick, and later, the Flash III.
 * Berserk Button: If you harm, or try to harm, any member of Wally West's family or True Companions, he will hunt you to the end of creation and thrash you. Very soundly. Just ask Inertia or Grodd
 * Big Eater: During his early days as the Flash.
 * Coming of Age Story: His transition from being Kid Flash into being the Flash played out like this.
 * Commuting On a Bus: Since Barry Allen's return.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Green Eyes: they were originally blue, but someone accidentally colored them green early into his run (Flash v2 #28), and it stuck.
 * Handsome Lech: In the early days
 * Happily Married (yes, there is a theme here)
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Dick Grayson
 * Hot Dad
 * Kid Sidekick: When he was Kid Flash.
 * Legacy Character
 * My Greatest Failure: He has two, both involving a Face Heel Turn--ex-girlfriend Frances Kane, who he pushed to go into super-heroics but who would go on to become Magenta, and police profiler Hunter Zolomon, who he refused to use Time Travel to help fix his lost ability to walk and who would go on to become the second Zoom because of it.
 * Nerf: During Crisis On Infinite Earths, a blast from the Anti-Monitor's antimatter cannon knocked down his speed from near-light to the speed of sound. However, he was able to regain his speed once Character Development set in.
 * Personality Powers: Though not to the extent of Bart, he was very hotheaded and impulsive, though less so after his Character Development.
 * The Power of Love: A reoccurring theme with Wally, Linda, and the Speed Force.
 * Put On a Bus: During Post-Infinite Crisis
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Ret Gone: Wally's aunt Iris isn't married to Barry Allen in the "New 52" reboot. Bart Allen is now the first Kid Flash. Wally remains MIA.
 * Sidekick Graduations Stick: What you get when it works. When Barry came back, he still kept his identity as The Flash.
 * Surpassed the Teacher: After his Character Development, he officially surpassed Barry in speed and abilities. Wally is technically the fastest Flash ever made, taking account of his Kingdom Come incarnation, and probally the last one going how ridiculously fast he is in it; just how much ridiculous you ask? He became fast enough to the point of being Omnipresent.
 * Taking Up the Mantle
 * Took a Level In Badass: He lost a lot of his speed during the Crisis On Infinite Earths, but he eventually surpassed his mentor in speed along with some Character Development.

Impulse I / Kid Flash II / The Flash IV
"Bite patience!"

"AKA: Bartholomew "Bart" Allen II

First appearance: The Flash vol. 2 #92 (June 1994)

Hair color: Auburn

Eye color: Yellow"

The grandson of The second Flash, Barry Allen, he was the product of the union of the two Feuding Families: the West/Allen family and the Thawne family. He was born in the 30th century, and his connection to the Speed Force caused him to rapidly age. He was also abducted by the Earth's government (whose president was his maternal grandfather) and raised in a fast-paced virtual environment where he could mature as fast as he aged. His grandmother, Iris, eventually took him back to the present day where Wally West, the third Flash, gave him control over his Super Speed. After this, Bart took up the codename of Impulse, and moved to Alabama where he was raised by Max Mercury. He later became a founding member of Young Justice and close friends with Tim Drake (Robin III) and Conner Kent (Superboy).

After the dissolution of Young Justice, he later joined the Teen Titans. After being shot in the knee by Deathstroke, he took up the mantle of Kid Flash. After this, he became much angstier than his original fun-personified self. He was later absorbed into the Speed Force during Infinite Crisis to temporarily imprison Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force. He returned, aged four years older, in his grandfather's Flash costume and briefly became the fourth Flash. However, his Evil Twin, Inertia, would gather up the Rogues Gallery and kill him. During the Final Crisis, he was restored back to life and de-aged, becoming Kid Flash once again.

"Farohji (on one particular artist's interpretation of said hair): ...seems Bart's been trying a new hair product or something as his hair goes inexplicably curly-wavy when this guy's pencilling."
 * Anime Hair: it's so large that you can actually pull or pick him up by the hair alone, if you're strong enough. He's quite protective of it, too.

"Bart: Well...as long as they know I can do better, I don't really see any sense in overdoing it...right?"
 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Cured when he was kneecapped by Deathstroke, as he read every book in the San Francisco Libary while he recovered, but it came back with a vengeance when he came Back From the Dead in Final Crisis.
 * Back From the Dead: After dying at the hands of his Evil Knockoff Inertia, he came back in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
 * Beware the Nice Ones: He's quite slow to anger, but do not try to hurt his family or friends, or you will regret it - as the Rival nearly found out.
 * Big Eater: Unless it's raw seafood, he'll eat it, no questions asked.
 * Brainy Brunette: He's actually quite smart, even disregarding the photographic memory, it's simply that he has the attention span of a goldfish, his thought processes are unlike anyone else's, and he just plain hates schoolwork.
 * Brutal Honesty / Bad Liar: this gets him into trouble more often than not, and when it is truthful, his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies often lead to said situation/s becoming a Cassandra Truth.
 * Brilliant but Lazy


 * Chest Insignia: As Kid Flash (and Flash).
 * Cloudcuckoolander: his non-superhero friends often call him "Daredevil" Allen, in part because of this. Does it look exciting? Screw safety concerns, he'll do it! He will be deadly serious if the situation calls for it, it's just that most of the time, it doesn't.
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: During his Impulse days.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Dead Guy Junior: it's not obvious because both Bart and Barry go by nicknames, but there you go.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Low-key, since he prefers to be straightforward about what he says, but when it's there, you can't miss it.
 * Ditzy Genius
 * Eyes of Gold: along with fitting the "trickster" personality type, it also serves as a character marker. It's probably why Meloni calls him "sunshine", since he's bright and optimistic - kinda like the sun on a good day, and the eyes reflect that. Only rarely do they turn a fierce red-orange - if that happens, then you know he's not playing around anymore.
 * Fun Personified: Initially as Impulse through-and-through. When he became Kid Flash, he had some Angst added to his personality but still retained some of his fun factor. The fun factor disappeared entirely when he became the Flash, but when he was revived as Kid Flash, he regained all of his fun from his Impulse days.
 * First Name Basis: With Barry, because being called "Grandpa" weirded him out.
 * Hair Color Dissonance: is it chocolate brown? Light brown? Auburn? Red? Did it get lighter with age? It does at least have an "autumn leaves" theme going for it...
 * Heroes Love Dogs: he has a pet Jack Russell Terrier named Dox, who unfortunately hasn't been seen since Impulse #89.
 * Hot Blooded: He definitely wears his heart on his sleeve.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: When he was aged up and became the Flash. A total 180 from his "normal" portrayal, and it didn't stick.
 * It Makes Sense in Context: One villain's description of his encounter with Bart: "And then he caught all the grenades, and then he took them away, and then he brought me a fish, and then he pulled me into my pocket, and then he made me eat a bracelet, and then he..."
 * Keet
 * Kid From the Future
 * Kneecapping: A victim of it shortly after he joined the Teen Titans. The surgery to remove the bullet was the most painful experience in his life.
 * Legacy Character
 * Long Lost Sibling: To Captain Boomerang II.
 * Motor Mouth: again, this usually gets him into trouble, since he just blurts it out without thinking (obviously!)
 * How big of a Motor Mouth is he? He annoyed The Joker to frustration! That has to count for something.
 * Nice Guy: Bart is easily one of the nicest around. His kindness and good naturesness is completly genuine. Conbined with his Cloudcuckoolander and Ditzy Genius persona it makes him rather Adorkable
 * Personality Powers: Most definitely! Essentially, he's a complete 180° of his grandfather; where Barry tends to plan things before he acts (and very orderly), Bart will leap into a situation, barely thinking about anything (and very messy).
 * Photographic Memory / Ripple Effect Proof Memory
 * Power Incontinence: In the 2006 series, when using the Speed Force took a toll on his health. He got over it.
 * Rapid Aging: When he was born, his Speed Force connection did this to him. He was physically a teenager when he was chronologically two years old. His grandmother Iris later took him to the present day in order for Wally to "speed-steal" his Rapid Aging.
 * Ship Tease: With Ravager in the Teen Titans.
 * Sidekick: Actually defied by him. He initially laughs at the idea of becoming Kid Flash and Wally's sidekick, becoming the independent hero Impulse. When he did become Kid Flash, he still proclaimed that Wally would live in his shadow.
 * Sidekick Graduations Stick: What happens when it doesn't work - this was at least partially due to Executive Meddling, and both fans and creator were extremely displeased, to put it politely.
 * Ultimately, it didn't really stick as when Bart was brought back to life in Legion of 3 Worlds, he was de-aged and became Kid Flash.
 * Sweet Home Alabama
 * Taking Up the Mantle: Initially defied at first when Wally offered Bart to become Kid Flash, as he became Impulse, and independent hero, instead. He eventually took up the Kid Flash mantle when he overheard Jay and Wally's concern that he wouldn't be able to live up to the legacy.
 * Tangled Family Tree: scion of the Feuding Families of the Flash mythos, and if Zoom's comments are anything to go by, the cause of said feud! I should note that Bart's the main reason people find the Flash family tree so confusing, mostly because of a) time travel and b) he's where most of the important bloodlines converge.
 * Theme Naming (skip to Inertia's entry for the full explanation)
 * Tyke Bomb: what he was supposed to be... thankfully, he fled before that could happen.
 * Well Done Son Guy: Thinks the reason Barry is always busy is because he's uncomfortable around Bart, who just wants to have a relationship with his Grandpa.
 * He's like this to the other Flashes, Jay and Wally, as he took up the Kid Flash identity mainly because he overheard their conversation of Bart not being able to live up to the Flash legacy.
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: Since Infinite Crisis, Superboy-Prime has displayed a fear of speedsters, Bart especially.
 * Younger Than They Look: In a sense. Bart lived an accelerated pace with aging to match. Though he may only be a few years old, he has lived 15-16 years (though the first 12 were spent in a accelerated VR in the future). The trope was completely true once when he suddenly aged to 20 for his brief run as the Flash (he got better.)

Dark Flash
"AKA: Walter West

First appearance: The Flash vol. 2 #150 (July 1999)

Hair color: Red

Eye color: Blue (it's what tipped people off this wasn't "our" Wally)."


 * Alternate Universe
 * Darker and Edgier
 * For Want of a Nail: He's what Wally might have been if Linda had been killed.

Impulse II
"AKA: Iris "Irey" West II

First appearance: The Flash vol. 2 #225 (October 2005)

Hair color: Red

Eye color: Green"

Wally and Linda's daughter. Iris and her twin brother Jai were miscarried when Zoom attacked Linda, but a time-travel incident resulted in their sudden "spontaneous re-conception" and birth; shortly afterwards, they and their parents were caught up in the Speed Force during the Flashes' assault on Superboy-Prime in Infinite Crisis, causing them to rapidly age ten years. Both twins inherited a connection to the Speed Force; in Iris's case, it manifested as the ability to vibrate through solid matter like her father. When Professor Zoom attacked the Flash family, Iris's powers stabilized and she gained super-speed just like her father. She is now the new Impulse (much to Bart's annoyance).

In another universe, Iris grew up to become the new Kid Flash. This version of Iris encountered "our" Wally once or twice.


 * Ascended Fangirl: She's a fangirl of Bart and has taken over his old mantle as Impulse.
 * Big What: A subdued version of this trope is Bart's immediate reaction to "the new Impulse", complete with what looks like a dismayed expression on his face. Most fans went straight for the Flat What instead.
 * Fan Nickname: "Fempulse", usually reserved for Rule Sixty Three versions of Bart.
 * In Series Nickname: "Irey", in order to distinguish her from her great-aunt.
 * Intangible Man: Before her super-speed powers stabilized.
 * Kid Hero
 * Legacy Character
 * Redheaded Hero

Jesse Quick / Liberty Belle II
"AKA: Jesse Chambers Tyler

First appearance: Justice Society of America vol. 2 #1 (August 1992)

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Blue"

The daughter of Golden Age super-heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, Jesse Chambers inherited both her parents' powers--flight, super-speed, and super-strength. All her life Jesse has felt pressure to live up to her parents' legacy. She was pressured into the role of superhero by her father, but soon proved her worth as Jesse Quick, balancing her costumed escapades with running her corporation, Quickstart Enterprises. She has been a member of the Titans, JSA, and JLA; she briefly dated Wally West, but is now married to Hourman of the JSA. She briefly operated under her mother's codename before returning to her original moniker.


 * Battle Couple: With Hourman.
 * Brought to You By The Letter S: She used to have a big "Q" on her torso.
 * Civvie Spandex: Wore a jacket in the '90s.
 * Hair of Gold
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: At first.
 * Legacy Character
 * Sickeningly Sweethearts: With her husband, Hourman.
 * Well Done, Daughter Girl: Toward both her parents.

Johnny Quick
"AKA: John Chambers

First appearance: More Fun Comics # 71 (September 1941)

Hair color: Blond

Eye color: Blue"

The founder of a minor speedster legacy, Johnny Quick was a contemporary of Jay Garrick during World War Two and one of the core members of the All-Star Squadron. His learned a strange mathematical equation--"3X2(9YZ)4A"--from his mentor, a professor who translated it from a pharoah's tomb in Egypt. When recited aloud, this equation granted Johnny super-speed and flight. (He later learned that reciting the equation allowed him to tap into the Speed Force by way of his latent metagene.) Johnny married fellow superhero Liberty Belle and had a daughter, Jesse, who followed in their footsteps.

During a battle with the evil speedster Savitar, Johnny sacrificed himself to save his daughter and became one with the Speed Force. He remained within it, and was later killed there by Professor Zoom.


 * Battle Couple: With Liberty Belle.
 * Came Back Wrong: When he was reanimated as a Black Lantern.
 * Flight
 * Formulaic Magic
 * Hair of Gold
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Killed Off for Real

Max Mercury / Quicksilver
"AKA: Max Crandall

First appearance: National Comics #5 (November 1940)

Hair color: White

Eye color: Blue"

"Bart: Yesterday, you said you had plans for my future. Now you won't tell me what they are. That's not fair, Max.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Deadpan Snarker: If Bart complains about something, you can be sure Max will be nearby with a witty comment.

Max: Look at that. Eight in the morning, and already you've gotten today's life lesson."


 * Friendly Enemy: Develops this sort of relationship with one of his old foes.
 * I Have Many Names: Really, he does; Max Mercury is only the latest of them.
 * The Obi Wan
 * Older and Wiser Mentor: specifically to the speedsters this time, especially Bart. You really have to admire him; it takes guts and unending patience (and I mean unending) to raise a hyperactive speedster who literally has no concept of that word.
 * Older Than He Looks
 * Parental Substitute: He's essentially Bart's father figure.
 * Remember the New Guy: How he was introduced. Jay Garrick apparently knew him as a Golden Aged crimefighter but we don't meet him until the early nineties.
 * Time Travel: He was actually born in the 1700s and did this multiple times to get where he is today.

The Tornado Twins
"AKA: Don and Dawn Allen

First appearance: Adventure Comics #373 (October 1968)

Hair color: Red-gold

Eye color: Blue"


 * Fiery Redhead: from the information given in The Life Story of the Flash, we're meant to believe that Don was a subversion, and Dawn a straight example.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Redheaded Heroes
 * Retcon: Originally, the twins were Barry's distant descendants; post-Crisis they became his children.
 * Star Crossed Lovers: Don and Meloni
 * Theme Twin Naming
 * Unto Us a Son And Daughter Are Born
 * Zettai Ryouiki (Grade B/Dawn)

XS
"AKA: Jenni Ognats

First appearance: Legionnaires #0 (October 1994)

Hair color: Dark brown

Eye color: Amber"

The daughter of Dawn Allen of the Tornado Twins and granddaughter of Barry Allen, the Flash. Jenni was born in the 31st century and, unlike her cousin Bart, did not have super-powers. However, the alien Dominators captured her for their experiments and activated her latent metagene and connection to the Speed Force. Using her newfound powers to escape, Jenni joined the Legion of Super-Heroes as their resident speedster, XS.

XS has met the rest of the Flash family, including Bart and Barry, through time travel, and helped Wally in the fight against Savitar. She prefers living in the future, however, and remains a member of the Legion in good standing, helping them resurrect Bart after his death.


 * Genki Girl
 * Humans Are White: Averted.
 * Legacy Character: Barry's other grandchild, but since she spends her time with the Legion, she isn't seen nearly as often.
 * Motor Mouth

Ashley Zolomon
The estranged wife of Hunter Zolomon. They met in college and got married shortly before graduation, and both entered the FBI where Ashley's father was an instructor for new recruits. However, after a misjudgment on Hunter's part cost Ashley's father his life during a case, Ashley left Hunter (just one of the many unfortunate repercussions). She would later come to Keystone City and take over his former spot as the local meta-human profiler following his Face Heel Turn and transformation into Zoom.


 * Amicably Divorced: Not at first, due to the circumstances, but they do still have some lingering feelings for each other.
 * Friend On the Force: Eventually becomes this for Wally, once they work past their differences.
 * Love Will Lead You Back: She wants to invoke this for Hunter.
 * My Greatest Failure: She believes that if she hadn't left Hunter, he would never have become Zoom.
 * New Old Flame: For Zoom.
 * The Power of Love: Her being in a car accident is enough to snap Zoom out of his time-displaced coma that he was forced into at the climax of the "Blitz" storyline.
 * The Profiler: Takes over this role after her ex-husband's Face Heel Turn.

Chunk
"AKA: Chester Runk"


 * Black and Nerdy
 * Huge Guy Tiny Girl: He dwarfs his fiance.
 * Nerd Glasses
 * Non Action Guy: Though his abilities are incredibly powerful.
 * Power Incontinence: When he was shot by Plunder in the leadup to Crossfire, his singularity almost consumed Central City.

Chyre and Morillo
"AKA: Fred Chyre and Jared Morillo"

The founding (and only) members of Keystone City's Metahuman Hostilities Department, officers Chyre and Morillo quickly became vital allies and friends of Wally West. Chyre was an aging beat cop who lived in Keystone his whole life, while Morillo was a young hotshot who relocated from Los Angeles. Though hostile to each other at first, they quickly became good friends who always have each other's back.


 * Bash Brothers
 * Brains and Brawn: Morillo is the brains, Chyre is the brawn.
 * Healing Factor: Morillo, due to a close encounter with Cicada's energy dagger.
 * Old Fashioned Copper: Chyre isn't British, but he's still close to this trope.
 * Salt and Pepper
 * Those Two Guys

Gregory Wolfe
The draconian warden of Iron Heights Penitentiary. Wolfe turned the prison into a true dungeon where inmates are stripped of their rights, their dignity, and any hope of escape. Although he keeps the Twin Cities safe by keeping dangerous super-criminals locked up in "the Pipeline", his zeal for brutal justice often leads him to bend the very laws he has sworn to uphold, and has made him a thorn in Wally's side. He has the metahuman ability to induce violent muscle spasms, which helps him keep prisoners under control. .


 * Amoral Attorney: Prior to becoming Iron Heights' warden.
 * Badass Abnormal
 * Hellish Pupils: His eyes often glow red and/or yellow.
 * Knight Templar
 * Scary Black Man

Iris West Allen
"First appearance: Showcase #4 (October 1956)

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Brown"


 * Back From the Dead: She predeceased Barry by about six years... but she got better!
 * Hot Mom: And they actually threw in a reason why!
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Must Have Caffeine: The Flash Secret Files and Origins 2010 says she is "seemingly immune to the effects of caffeine".
 * Plucky Girl
 * Time Travel: Iris was born in the 30th century, and sent to our time to save her life.

Jai West
"First appearance: The Flash vol. 2 #225 (October 2005)

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Brown"

Wally and Linda's son, one of their twin children. While his sister Iris inherited their father's speed, Jai's connection to the Speed Force manifested as an ability to accelerate the growth of his muscle tissue, granting him temporary super-strength. He recently lost his powers, and Professor Zoom has indicated that he has dire plans for the boy.


 * Hour of Power: He could only use super-strength in limited bursts and required rest and food to avoid passing out.
 * Kid Hero
 * Pint Sized Powerhouse
 * Super Strength

Linda Park-West
"First appearance: The Flash vol. 2 #28 (July 1989)

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Brown"


 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Wally before they hooked up.
 * Closer to Earth: She's generally played as more responsible and pragmatic than Wally... unless there's a story at stake.
 * Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu: Happens the first time she meets Magenta, who at the time is staying at Wally's house. She confronts Frances about whether she still has feelings for Wally (who meanwhile is reacting with alarm at what might happen if the two women should meet, given his ex's Ax Crazy tendencies), and Frances' magnetic abilities appear to start activating in response...but when the panicked Wally rushes through the front door, he's dumbfounded to find the two in the kitchen, laughing and joking together about some of his weirder personality quirks.
 * Happily Married
 * Hot Mom
 * Hot Scientist: After the twins were born, she became "by default, the world's leading authority on velocibiology", the science of how super-speed affects the human body.
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * The Missus and The Ex: She's the Missus in the Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu situation above.
 * The Power of Love
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Terminal Velocity, there's a point when Wally is apparently killed right in front of her by Kobra. Linda- who had no superpowers whatsoever- immediately told Piper to start making weapons, saying that the last thing Kobra was going to see before he died was "the look in my eyes when I send him straight to hell".

Meloni Thawne
"First appearance: Impulse #23 (March 1997)

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Amber"


 * Hot Mom: One of Bart's friends immediately grows a crush on her at first sight.
 * Mama Bear
 * Star Crossed Lovers
 * Strong Family Resemblance: If you wanted to know where Bart got his mannerisms and crazy hairstyle from, now you do... basically, she's best described as "female Impulse without superspeed".
 * White Sheep: Yeah, the rest of her family is...quite psychotic.

Nnamdi
The son of Solovar and current ruler of Gorilla City. Under his reign, he encouraged the apes of Gorilla City to blend their advanced technology with the trees of the rainforest, bringing a more spiritual approach to rulership than his father. He has pursued a strict isolationist policy to the point of refusing to extradite Grodd for his crimes outside Gorilla City.


 * Everythings Better With Monkeys
 * Heroic Neutral
 * Hidden Elf Village: After his father's death, Nnamdi cuts off Gorilla City from the rest of the world, barring even the Flash entrance.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat

Pied Piper
"AKA: Hartley Rathaway"

The son of rich parents, Hartley Rathaway was born deaf. His parents spent millions on cybernetic implants that granted him incredible hearing, but to their dismay, he was entranced by all forms of music and forsook their expectations for him. Bored with this life, Hartley delved into sonic technology to create a flute with mind-control properties and used it to commit petty crimes and fight the Flash as the Pied Piper, one of the Rogues. Hartley never really liked crime, however, and after Barry Allen's death he reformed, becoming a superhero and one of Wally West's best friends. He also came out of the closet as one of the first gay superheroes.

Years later, Piper was framed for the murder of his parents by the second Mirror Master. This sent him unwillingly back into the criminal underworld as he tried to escape both the Rogues and the authorities. He appeared to join up with the Rogues again, but was working undercover to infiltrate them. Nonetheless, he was present when against his protests, they killed Bart Allen. He has been on the run ever since.


 * Badass Gay: Several times. Countdown to Final Crisis just cements him as a bonafied Badass
 * Break the Cutie: Countdown to Final Crisis
 * And before that getting framed for his parents' murder and having his head screwed with, being sent to Iron Heights, and oodles of other unpleasantness.
 * Chained Heat: With Trickster.
 * Coming Out Story: Considered one of the best outings in comics.
 * Disability Superpower: He was born deaf and got implants that gave him enhanced hearing.
 * Fake Defector
 * Gadgeteer Genius: While some writers have him using apparently normal instruments, others have him inventing weapons and force-field gadgets- anything that can be handwaved as "sonics".
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Heroic BSOD: When Mirror Master II tricked him into believing that he killed his own parents.
 * Lonely Rich Kid
 * Magic Music
 * Make Me Wanna Shout
 * Mind Control: He can control people with his music.
 * Parental Abandonment: They didn't even notice that he was deaf until he was two or so.
 * The Power of Rock
 * Token Good Teammate: To the Rogues. Even before his Heel Face Turn he gave away a large percentage of his loot to the poor.
 * Straight Gay

Solovar
Like all the apes of Gorilla City, Solovar was granted intelligence from contact with a mysterious meteor, but alone with the evil Grodd, he was granted psychic powers as well. Chosen as the city's king, Solovar protected his people from Grodd's depredations and became a good friend of Barry Allen. Just when Solovar opened up Gorilla City to petition for United Nations membership, however, he was assassinated by Grodd's agents. His nephew Ulgo took up the reigns of command, but soon afterwards passed kingship to his cousin Nnamdi, Solovar's son.


 * Everythings Better With Monkeys
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Psychic Powers
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Supporting Leader
 * Touched By Vorlons

The Three Dimwits
"AKA: Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan"

Alternately known as "the Three Numbskulls", "the Three Idiots", or "the Three Dopes"; a trio with a penchant for getting into trouble, forcing their friend, Jay Garrick, to bail them out. The three were originally petty criminals but turned over a new leaf thanks to the Flash's influence. Sometime after World War II, the three found a buried treasure and retired to the Caribbean; years later, they became security guards at the Flash Museum, where they were killed by the supervillain Prometheus.


 * Breakout Characters: They graduated to their own feature in All-American Comics in the Golden Age.
 * Bus Crash
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: They were Expies of The Three Stooges.

Tina and Jerry McGee
A pair of scientists working for STAR Labs in Keystone City, Tina and Jerry specialize in metahuman medicine and have helped the Flash Family for years.


 * Face Heel Turn: When Tina began having an affair with Wally (early into Wally's career as the Flash) while being estranged from her husband, Jerry used his super-speed research to turn himself into a hulking monstrosity, Speed Demon.
 * Happily Married: Though they were estranged at the time they were first introduced. They reconciled.
 * The Professor

Black Flash

 * Anthropomorphic Personification
 * Blue and Orange Morality
 * Color Character
 * The Grim Reaper
 * : Apparently, in The Flash: Rebirth.
 * The Voiceless

The Rival
"AKA: Edward Clariss"


 * Demonic Possession: After his conversion to pure energy.
 * Energy Beings
 * Evil Counterpart: To Jay Garrick.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom

The Reverse-Flash I / Professor Zoom
"AKA: Eobard Thawne

First appearance: The Flash vol. 1 #139 (September 1963)

Hair color: Silver

Eye color: Yellow"

A completely psychotic speedster from the 25th century out to destroy everything the Flash family stands for. He is a member of the psychotic Thawne family, who has feuded with the West/Allen family for centuries before his birth. Ironically enough, an ancestor of Impulse, a fact that he doesn't take kindly to.


 * Arch Enemy: Barry's Arch Enemy.
 * Ascended Fanboy: In The Return of Barry Allen it was revealed he used to be a huge fan of the Flash, to the point where he copied his powers and altered his appearance to look like Barry Allen. Then he time traveled to the past and found he would become the Flash's greatest villain. He took it poorly.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Back From the Dead
 * Due to Time Travel, he sort of came Back From the Dead before he really came Back From the Dead.
 * Due to The Dead: subverted -- the Rogues stole his body, set it on fire and yelled at him as they did it.
 * Einstein Hair
 * Evil Redhead (used to be strawberry blond before his resurrection)
 * Evil Counterpart: To Barry.
 * Eyes of Gold: I'm tempted to say this is where Bart got his yellow eyes from. Of course, he makes them look cute; Zoom doesn't.
 * Identity Amnesia: In The Return of Barry Allen.
 * Irony: How Batman/   The one opening that Batman had was when Eobard   One of the fastest individuals in fiction, and he
 * Knight of Cerebus: Very few villains have the ability to darken the story like Zoom can
 * Mad Scientist
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * The Sociopath: Without a doubt a Complete Monster
 * Time Traveller

The Reverse-Flash II / Zoom
"AKA: Hunter Zolomon"

Originally an Keystone City profiler and a valuable ally to Wally, the Flash III, he was once paralyzed in an attack on Iron Heights by Gorilla Grodd. When Wally refused to go back in time to stop this from happening (because of the risk of timestream damage) Hunter tried to use the Cosmic Treadmill himself, but it exploded, giving him the ability to alter how time flows in relation to his inertial frame. Believing Wally didn't help him because he had never experienced personal tragedy, he went on to become Wally's Evil Counterpart and out to make him experience tragedy.

"Zoom: (during "Rogue War" arc) TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND ME, WALLY!"
 * And I Must Scream: At the end of the "Blitz" story arc, when Wally forced him into one of the time-windows torn open as an initial side-effect of his then-newly-gained powers; this had the effect of freezing him in time, forcing him to watch the scene of his greatest failure over and over again.
 * Anti Villain: In his mind anyway.
 * Ax Crazy: Arguably one of the most unstable individuals in the DCU.
 * Berserk Button: When given the opportunity to "improve" a hero, or try to fix his own timeline, Zoom tends to charge in blindly. This latter one is especially painful to him, as despite knowing exactly where to find a time machine, he's the only speedster on this page who can't use it...but tries anyway, usually leading to further disaster. It also leads to him further obsessing over Wally experiencing tragedy to get the point that tragedy makes better heroes.

"Zoom: Stay away from my wife."
 * His estranged wife Ashley is revealed to be another Berserk Button for him during the Rogue War storyline. The Rogues come to where she is, intending to kill her...Zoom's response is to deliver a thoroughly sound No Holds Barred Beatdown.

"Thawne: (grinning) I've created a legacy five centuries before I'll even be born. It's backwards. It's in reverse."
 * Blow You Away: A rare variant that's portrayed as deadly effective. Zoom's favored attack is to slow down time to a crawl, then snap his fingers. The resulting concussive wave creates a sonic boom, shatters glass, stuns speedsters, and
 * Blue and Orange Morality: Zoom truly believes he's making the world a better place, one crippled wife, dead child, mutilated hero, or resurrected archvillain at a time. He also gets violently upset when villains interfere with his plans, kill people he considers true heroes, and in one case, came on to him -- he still considers himself married.
 * : Thanks to Inertia.
 * The Call Knows Where You Live: And he sees himself as The Call.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: His father was a Serial Killer who murdered Hunter's mother and then got gunned down by the police--on the same day Hunter was to leave for college.
 * His career in the FBI got cut short because he insisted backup was unnecessary and that the perp they were chasing would not be carrying a gun, leading to his (first) crippling and the death of his father-in-law.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Wally.
 * Face Heel Turn
 * If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: Subverted. Zoom intends to convince Wally that justifiable homicides exist, and that Zoom himself is a shining example.
 * Instant Costume Change: Despite the Flash comics long having explanations for where literally everyone's costumes come from (the Rogues even have a specialized tailor!), when Zolomon initially turns into Zoom, his costume simply manifests. As he is not connected to the Speed Force, he can't even use that as an explanation.
 * Time-based energy, maybe?
 * Knight Templar
 * Legacy Character: Inverted, technically. He is the first Zoom born chronologically, a fact that amuses his predecessor/successor Thawne to no end.


 * Misery Builds Character: This was Zoom's rationale when he attempted to murder Wally West's wife, believing that West needed to suffer personal tragedy in order to become a better hero.
 * Motor Mouth
 * My Greatest Failure: Happened in his back-story, when he was in the FBI. He made a miscalculation that resulted in his father-in-law (the field leader) getting shot to death by the criminal they were hunting, and Hunter himself ending up with a limp after said criminal shot him in the knee. Following this, his wife left him and he got kicked out of the FBI.
 * The Profiler
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * The Resenter: Even before his Face Heel Turn, he strongly believed in Misery Builds Character, and resented Wally for not having experienced personal tragedy to make him a better hero.
 * Stealth Mentor: Believes he is this by making heroes experience tragedy.
 * Stephen Ulysses Perhero: Hunter Zolomon.
 * Possibly used to avert Fan Dumb, which has a history of reacting poorly to FaceHeelTurns in comics, claiming it's done for shock value. By the time Zolomon becomes Zoom, it's clear the previous five years' comics had been building up to that moment.
 * Super Powered Evil Side: As Zolomon, he's reasonably collected and not exactly a bad guy. As Zoom, he is completely fucking bonkers and has absolutely no qualms about performing heinous acts; in his mind, he's helping the heroes build strength and character.
 * Time Stands Still: Uses this to fake having Super Speed.
 * Timey Wimey Ball: The red lightning that surrounds him occasionally shows brief scenes from his past or future timeline.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: He views his relationship with Wally as this still, which troubles Wally all the more.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: It's implied that Zoom's temporal powers are interfering with his synaptic relays, making him highly irrational. He nearly puzzles this out himself before deciding he is The Chosen One who would drive Wally to be the best hero possible.

Inertia / Kid Zoom
"He will never have what Impulse has; will never know their approval, their pride... their love."

"AKA: Thaddeus Thawne II

First appearance: Impulse #50 (July 1999)

Hair color: Blond

Eye color: Yellow"

When Bart refused his heritage as part of the Thawne family, the Earthgov president Thaddeus Thawne created a clone of Bart named after himself. He was effectively created to be the complete opposite of Bart: slow-thinking, calculating, and utterly sociopathic.


 * Alliterative Name: with the word "thunder", no less...
 * And I Must Scream
 * Becoming the Mask: he realizes this...and genuinely considers abandoning the plan to kill Max right then and there. Old grudges die hard, though...
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * The Chessmaster: In contrast to the non-planning Bart, Thad always plans things out beforehand.
 * Cloning Blues
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * : To Zoom.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Bart.
 * Evil Knockoff: He was created specifically to be the evil Thawne Bart couldn't be.
 * Evil Twin
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Grant Morrison: Apparently had a major say in his out-of-universe creation. What that contribution is has never been stated, though we should probably be glad that he wasn't completely out of it at the time.
 * I Just Want to Be Loved: Mercury Falling revealed his hatred for Bart stemmed over his jealousy of Bart having a better life than him.
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Manipulating the Rogues into killing Bart.
 * Karmic Death: Killed in the same way the Rogues killed Bart.
 * Killed Off for Real: In Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, by the Rogues in revenge for killing Bart.
 * Meaningful Name: Roughly translates to "praise" or "desired" in Old Aramaic; sadly enough, that was all he ever wanted.
 * More literally, it would translate to something along the lines of "friend", and specifically a close friend (Aramaic תדא tadda, lit. "breast"; in context, an appellation one would give to a close friend or perhaps a younger brother (ever heard of the phrase "bosom buddy"?); the "praise" definition may be a very loose take-off of said appellation).
 * Coincidence or not, the irony between his name and personality is startling.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Bart's Red Oni
 * Slasher Smile: In a way the compleate oposide of Bart in this area. While Bart grins a full of warmth and good natured mischief, his are wild, deranged and actually sometimes borderline Nigthmare Fuel
 * The Sociopath
 * Theme Naming: With Bart. The codenames are obvious; impulse/go/Bart's flighty personality, inertia/stop/Thad's methodical way of thinking (they're not the literal definitions, but the implication is clear). Less obvious are their given names; their namesakes are the patron saints of Armenia.
 * This Is Your Brain On Evil
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: Goes from a tragic villain to an amoral monster.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Before he was killed by the Rogues, he had absolute mastery over the individual timestream of a human being, able to revert Zoom to the powerless Hunter Zolomon and kill with a simple snap of his fingers. At this time he was even more Ax Crazy that even Hunter himself

Savitar
"AKA: Unknown"


 * Cult: He led a cult devoted to the Speed Force.
 * Evil Counterpart: Arguably, to Max Mercury. Both have a quasi-mystical connection to the Speed Force that gives them powers beyond those of the Flashes.
 * Alternately, he was a counterpart to Wally and an of Zoom: the most powerful of a "family" of speedsters, capable of tricks and power uses few others would consider (a la Flash facts), and both Wally and Savitar were immune to direct effects of each other's powers. Notably, Savitar's first encounter with the Speed Force drove him to adopt a new mask that bore Zoom's colors.

Speed Demon
"AKA: Jerry "Speed" McGee"

Early into Wally West's career as the Flash, Jerry was estranged from his wife Tina, who began having an affair with the speedster. Angry and jealous, Jerry turned his hyper-physiology research onto himself, transforming into a steroid-pumped hulk of a man who could rival Wally's then-top speed of 700 miles an hour. Unfortunately, the self-experimentation caused his internal organs to collapse; fortunately, he recovered.


 * Ax Crazy: During his stint as Speed Demon.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 * Deadly Upgrade: His self-experiments gave him super-speed and super-strength, but at the cost of his organs failing and collapsing.
 * Face Heel Turn => Heel Face Turn
 * Happily Married: Following his Heel Face Turn, he and Tina reconciled.
 * Murder the Hypotenuse: He attempted to off the Flash for making the moves on his estranged wife.
 * Super Speed
 * Super Strength: A side-effect of Speed Demon's experiments.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Abra Kadabra
"AKA: Abhararakadhararbarakh / Citizen Abra"


 * Berserk Button: Saying the name of Houdini around him is a big no-no.
 * Born in The Wrong Century
 * Magic From Technology
 * Puppet Permutation: One of his most memorable stunts.
 * Stage Magician
 * Time Travel: Either an escapee or an exile from the 64th century, depending on what story you're reading.
 * Why Don't You Just Shoot Him: Despite being more insane than most of the Rogues normally feel comfortable with, his malevolence is kept in check by his showmanship -- everything must be a spectacle, and his imagination is so limited that he's usually beaten by Genre Savvy.

Captain Boomerang I
"AKA: George "Digger" Harkness"


 * Back From the Dead: Recently was resurrected in Blackest Night after exposure to the White Light after being a member of the Black Lanterns Corps.
 * Battle Boomerang
 * Precision Guided Boomerang
 * Boxed Crook: His lengthy run with the Suicide Squad.
 * Captain Ethnic: Of the Australian variety.
 * Also an Ethnic Scrappy.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In Suicide Squad. Highlights include letting a teammate get shot because he didn't like her, dressing up as another super-villain so he could continue committing crimes while serving with the squad and convincing another squad member to make a run for it to see if their exploding bracelets really work.
 * Dirty Coward: In Suicide Squad
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Jerkass: Even the other Rogues don't like him much -- not because he's evil, just because he's a colossal dick.
 * Luke You Are My Father
 * * Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: While Trickster and the Top are also toy-based villains, the former's a genius inventor and the latter has superpowers. Boomerang has neither -- and, oh yeah, he's got a higher body count than any Rogue who isn't a straightforward killer.

Captain Boomerang II
"AKA: Owen Mercer

First appearance: Identity Crisis #3 (October 2004)

Hair color: Red

Eye color: Blue"


 * Face Heel Revolving Door
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Kid From the Future
 * Lamarck Was Right
 * Legacy Character
 * Long Lost Sibling: To Bart Allen, though neither ever found out.
 * Luke You Are My Father
 * Precision Guided Boomerang
 * Super Speed: Earlier on they were Flash Steps, but he later started to develop the full version.
 * Precision Guided Boomerang
 * Super Speed: Earlier on they were Flash Steps, but he later started to develop the full version.

Captain Cold
"AKA: Leonard "Len" Snart"

"Paul Gambi, running backstories past an amnesiac villain: Your name's Leonard Snart, which is two strikes against you right there...
 * Abusive Parents: His father was a violent, drunken piece of shit who regularly beat him in addition to his mother and his sister.
 * A Father to His Men: Above all Cold runs a tight ship and goes out of his way to ensure that the Rogues are focused on the job at hand.
 * And I Must Scream: What he does to Chillblaine.
 * An Ice Person: Pre-New 52, he achieved this using his weaponry. Post-New 52 he has direct cryokinesis without having to use his freezing guns.
 * Anti Villain
 * Arch Enemy: To both Flash II and Flash III.
 * Big Bad: He's the leader of the Rogues, so he automatically fits this whenever they are involved.
 * Brother Sister Team: With Golden Glider.
 * Bounty Hunter: In a reformed period, teaming up with his sister as "Golden Snowball."
 * Casanova Wannabe / Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places: In the Silver Age, he seemed to develop a crush on a different woman every week.
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check / Reed Richards Is Useless: Played straight. When called on the fact that each of the Rogues have access to technology and abilities that could make them rich legitimately, Cold freely cops to the notion that their life of crime is largely due to bad habits.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Averted. Cold may dress like an eskimo and have a silly name, but he outgrew puns years ago.
 * Embarrassing First Name: And last name.

Captain Cold himself, narrating: My name's... man, I hate it. My name's Leonard Snart. It's a bad name, I know, but my parents were bad people."


 * Even Evil Has Standards: He's practically the posterchild for this trope
 * Freeze Ray: Technically. It's really supposed to slow down molecules, the ice is a side effect. In his words, it's a cold gun, not an ice gun; his gun slows molecules to absolute zero, while Mister Freeze's just shoots ice.
 * Harmless Freezing: They are really just put in suspended animation.
 * Unless he's not feeling like it.
 * Hypocritical Humor: In "Flash and Substance"
 * I Have Your Wife: Subverted.
 * I Need a Freaking Drink
 * Literally Shattered Lives
 * Never Hurt an Innocent
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Against Chillblaine, the man who killed his sister; and, later, against Inertia, for tricking the Rogues into killing Bart Allen and making them the top public enemies.
 * Took a Level In Jerkass: In the world of Flashpoint, Snart is Citizen Cold, Central City's star hero. He's adored by the public, but the police, the villain community, and hero community all know he's nothing but a complete asshole who uses the hero facade as an excuse to do whatever he wants. But this all depends on how much the citizens actually love him, because without their support he couldn't get away with half the crap he openly pulls. He's even willing to secretly set up his battles with supervillains by baiting them with misinformation.
 * Worthy Opponent: To Wally.

Doctor Alchemy / Mister Element
"AKA: Albert Desmond"


 * Alchemy Is Magic: He has the power to transmute any element into another.
 * Casanova Wannabe: His "psychic twin"/split personality Alvin, who among other things had a habit of transmuting Golden Glider's underwear.
 * Chest Insignia: The "A" on his hood.
 * Chronic Villainy: In the Silver Age, he was frequently portrayed as a good man subject to strange criminal compulsions.
 * The Collector: He collects books, from tomes of alchemy to modern novels.
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Justified. He deliberately kept the secret of transmutation from other scientists because he believes other humans are too insignificant to deserve it.
 * Complete Monster: He's a psychotic bigoted piece of shit who views the entire human race as nothing more than potential experiments and who doesn't care how many people are maimed, killed or have their lives ruined by his sick experiments. Along with Grodd and Reverse Flash he's easily the worst of the rogues.
 * Enemy Without: During a period when he was reformed, the Philosopher's Stone created an Evil Twin named Alvin so that his repressed villainous side could act out.
 * Evil Redhead: The aforementioned "Alvin."
 * For Science: Though originally a thug like most of the other Rogues, Alchemy's main motivation is to expand his knowledge and abilities, to the point where he refused to leave his cell during a prison break, killing his would-be rescuer, because he hadn't finished reading the books he already had. The second he was done, he left jail on his own.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: From the mid-1960s to the 1990s; these days he's just pure evil.
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Philosopher's Stone
 * Redemption Demotion: At one point while he was reformed and holding down a generic white-collar job, Professor Zoom sought him out after reading about his noted chemical genius. He claimed that even if he wanted to help, he only had that knack for chemistry when his "evil side" was ascendant (not that he did all that much with it then, either). At another point post-Crisis, he had a job as a university professor but struggled with his research since "Alvin" had control of the Philosopher's Stone.

Double Down
"AKA: Jeremy Tell"


 * Body Horror: His cards come from chunks of his own flesh.
 * Death Dealer
 * The Gambler
 * Pungeon Master: Card and gambling puns.

Golden Glider
"AKA: Lisa Snart"


 * Avenging the Villain: Took up supervillainy to avenge the death of her lover the Top.
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Brother Sister Team: With Captain Cold.
 * Color Character
 * The Dark Chick
 * Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry: She used jewelry based gadgets.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Gold Makes Everything Shiny
 * Mini Dress of Power
 * Outlaw Couple: With the Top.
 * Later, with a variety of Captain Cold Expies she named Chillblaine.
 * Pimped Out Dress
 * Pretty in Mink: She wore an ice skating dress with white fur cuffs.
 * The Smurfette Principle: Lisa was the only female Rogue for a long, long time.
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge

Heat Wave
"AKA: Mick Rory"


 * Convection Schmonvection: Averted; his suit is specifically designed to protect him from the flames. Killed his would-be replacement in Rogues Revenge when his suit failed.
 * Even then, he's clearly sweating in some scenes where he's especially close to intense heat.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door
 * Kill It With Fire
 * Pyromaniac: See Self Made Orphan.
 * Self Made Orphan: Burned down his childhood home while his family was still inside. Not of malicious intent; he just couldn't help it.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Captain Cold rub each other the wrong way. They also work well together on missions, and while Cold isn't above taking advantage of Heat Wave, is also protective and concerned over Rory's mental health.
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: Is afraid of coldness, from an incident where he was Locked in A Freezer as a child.

Magenta
"AKA: Frances Kane"


 * Can't Stay Normal
 * Chronic Villainy
 * The Dragon: To Cicada in "Blood Will Run".
 * Extra Ore Dinary
 * Freudian Threat: She continually tells Girder that if he keeps hitting on her, she'll tear him in two. When she does, it's a messy enough vertical tear that he's unlikely to have genitals after.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Love Makes You Evil: Initially, Wally's pressuring her to become a superhero pushed her to use powers she associated with her father's death, making her lash out violently. Later, she worships Wally, and kills in his name.
 * Manchurian Agent
 * The Missus and The Ex: She's the Ex in the Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu situation in Linda Park's entry.
 * Psycho Ex Girlfriend: It helps her case that she actually has a mental illness to back this up.
 * Self Made Orphan: She claimed this once, but no details have been given.
 * She did kill her father by accident when her powers manifested. She later claims to have killed her mother intentionally.
 * Super Powered Evil Side
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Mirror Master I
"AKA: Sam Scudder"


 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Magic Mirror

Mirror Master II
"AKA: Evan McCulloch"


 * Creator Provincialism: A Scottish rogue created by Grant Morrison.
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Played with. When Lex cut McCulloch a check to join the Injustice Gang,
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Originally. Not so much anymore.
 * Specifically, McCulloch draws the line at going after a target's family, and has a soft spot in his heart for orphans.
 * And he quits the Injustice Gang partly because Batman pays him more than Lex, but when Lex offers to double it the Mirror Master says that it's not really about money, and is visibly disgusted by the Joker
 * Green Lantern Ring: The things he can do with his "magic mirrors" seem almost unlimited, up to creating entire mirror universes.
 * Legacy Character
 * Magic Mirror
 * Palantir Ploy: Every reflective surface in existence is his spy camera.
 * Self Made Orphan
 * Violent Glaswegian
 * Yandere: In one issue of the Waid run, he stalks an ex-girlfriend who went into the witness protection program and is eventually dragged away by the police while screaming that he loved her.

Replicant
"AKA: Tony Gambi"


 * All Your Powers Combined: He has the ability to replicate the powers of any weapon he comes across. He has the abilities of most of the Rogues (specifically Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, the Weather Wizard, Heat Wave and Dr. Alchemy).
 * The Dragon: To Abra Kadabra, during the Dark Flash storyline.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: As a kid, when he looked up to the Rogues as role models.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Metamorphosis: After he receives his powers, he's told that the process can't be reversed and he'll never go back to looking like a normal human. However, since he's got the powers of his role models, he takes it in stride.
 * It helps that among these powers, he does have Kadabra's wand, so some level of shapeshifting would be possible with practice.

The Top
"AKA: Roscoe Dillon"


 * Back From the Dead
 * The Chessmaster:
 * Possibly averted -- Top's arrogant enough that he takes credit for all these examples, but  While the other Rogues had their moments, they were so brief as to be unimportant, making the Top more a Smug Snake.
 * Everythings Better With Spinning
 * Evil Plan: In one Silver Age story, he set up one that took effect after his death: he hid five discs throughout Central City and then tasked five of his fellow Rogues to find the discs before Flash did, lest the discs explode and destroy the city; once found, the discs were then to be stacked on top of each other in a specific order to deactivate them.
 * For the Evulz: "Do you want to know why I do this? ... It's for the thrill. The thrill of spinning your world upside down. Dragging your psyche through the mud and dirt that ours has gone through. We'll see what kind of hero you are then, Flash. We'll see..."
 * Freudian Excuse: His parents pushed him to be the best at everything, and when he couldn't, he lashed out to tear down those he thought were better than him, hence his arrogant demeanor.
 * Glass of Chianti: Was a wine connoisseur, which made him an outcast among the blue collar Rogues.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes glow green.
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Not So Harmless
 * Outlaw Couple: With Golden Glider.
 * President Evil: Top died and possessed the body of a senator, carrying his powers with him back from the grave. He attempted to run for office but quickly reverted to type.
 * Pungeon Master: When he went mad, he made constant top-related puns. "Oh, tip-top!" "I'm on top of the world!" "Top of the morning to you, Flash!"
 * Psychic Powers: The source of his spinning power, a weird form of self-telekinesis. He could also induce vertigo in those around him, and his telepathic "essence" has possessed people after his death.

The Trickster I
"AKA: Giovanni "James Jesse" Giuseppe"

"(while helping clean up rampaging musical notes) You mean your own notes got away from you? Tsk tsk, you should know better than that, Pipes... that's last-ditch-beat-the-villain-gambit number seven: "Give him more power than he can handle!"
 * Ax Crazy: Depicted as a clinically insane serial killer in the Darker and Edgier TV series, played by Mark Hamill.
 * The Barnum: Some depictions.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: On occasion.
 * Chained Heat: With Piper in Countdown to Final Crisis.
 * Chronic Villainy
 * Circus Brat
 * Con Man
 * Did You Just Scam Cthulhu -- twice!
 * Disguised in Drag: For a con, and flirted with Captain Cold while he did it.
 * Fake Defector
 * Friendly Enemy
 * Gadgeteer Genius: He developed miniaturized antigravity as a teenager with pretty minimal resources.
 * Genre Savvy

(after punching out Grodd) Gee, maybe that new high-energy refined sugar diet is really working! Or maybe I've developed real super-powers and this is my origin!"


 * Improbable Weapon User: When he starts pulling toys out of his pockets, you'll want to duck.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Ho Yay: with Piper
 * Killer Yoyo
 * In Harms Way
 * Just Friends: With Catwoman. He considers her the "Most fascinating woman that he ever met."
 * Luke You Are My Father
 * Man of Wealth and Taste: His persona when he joined the FBI had him cool, calm, and professional in contrast to his circus persona.
 * No Medication for Me: The DCAU Trickster
 * Not Quite Flight: His Airwalker Shoes.
 * Quick Change
 * Repetitive Name
 * Say My Name: Usually right after someone has discovered that he just pulled a con on them; needless to say, it happens a lot.
 * Screwy Squirrel: He goes between this and Bugs Bunny depending on the writer.
 * We Would Have Told You But

The Trickster II
"AKA: Axel Walker"


 * Disappeared Dad: Implied; his parents are divorced and it's later suggested that his father was the one to leave after giving him some words to live by (see There Are Two Kinds of People in The World). Lampshaded in an issue of Teen Titans when Bart asks if he turned to crime because he lacked a father figure and he snaps that the Rogues are the only father figures he needs.
 * Drives Like Crazy: One of his favorite activities is stealing cars and joyriding around Keystone.
 * For the Evulz: Unlike most of the Rogues, he has no Freudian Excuse. He just causes trouble for shits and giggles.
 * Jerkass
 * Legacy Character
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * Screwy Squirrel
 * There Are Two Kinds of People in The World: "Either you're the trickster, or you're the one gettin' tricked!"
 * Totally Radical

Weather Wizard
"AKA: Mark Mardon"


 * Cain and Abel
 * Evil Gloating: Mardon has an urge to make himself look smarter than the rest of the Rogues, and to that end researches new uses for his weather abilities, and is fond of throwing out Mark Twain references.
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Magic Feather
 * Shock and Awe
 * The Unfavourite: Apparently, once his mother realized that Mark had a "better" name than his brother Clyde she almost made them switch.
 * Weather Control Machine

Blacksmith
"AKA: Amunet Black"


 * Bald of Evil: Becomes this as a result of her Extra Ore Dinary abilities.
 * Big Bad: Of the Crossfire story arc.
 * The Blacksmith: Well, aside from it being her super-villain name, the trope is played with in that she (covertly) outfits the criminals of Keystone City with their weapons and gadgets, and also because of her own Extra Ore Dinary powers.
 * The Chessmaster: During the aforementioned Crossfire arc.
 * Diabolical Mastermind
 * Extra Ore Dinary: She has the ability to bond flesh with metal. She uses this to turn her own skin into an ebony metal compound, and to kill the Rainbow Raider by shoving one of his own paintings through his chest.
 * Femme Fatale
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: She was running her organization behind the scenes for at least 15 years before it was first brought to light.
 * Comic Book Time in effect, of course, since this would mean she's been running it since before any of the current superheroes showed up -- including Green Lantern, who inspired Goldface's tech, which Blacksmith used to start the Network in the first place.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: Consisting of Weather Wizard, the second Mirror Master, Girder, Magenta, Murmur, Plunder, and the second Trickster.
 * The Syndicate: Hers is called The Network. It's an underground black market for super-villains.
 * Villain Decay: Introduced as the Flash's newest Big Bad in "Crossfire," she has made only one brief appearance since in which she ties to rally some escaping rogues only to be swatted aside by Grodd and left in the rubble.

Brother Grimm
The prince of the magical dimension of Eastwind, Brother Grimm was a boy when Barry Allen and Wally West helped him and his brother overthrow his evil father. Grimm asked Wally for advice, and Wally told him to make his own choices; he gave the crown to his brother, but soon his brother proved just as evil as their father. Grimm killed his brother in battle and became king of Eastwind, blaming Wally for this tragedy. Years later, he came back to ruin Wally's life the same way he believed Wally ruined his: by destroying his home and family.


 * Alien Blood: His is blue.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Dimension Lord
 * The Evil Prince
 * Evil Sorcerer
 * Freudian Excuse: Accuses Wally West of ruining his relationship with his father and brother.
 * I Have You Now My Pretty: Fell in love with Linda Park-West and abducted her to try to make her his queen.
 * Mage in Manhattan: Can conjure up dragons, trolls, giant beanstalks, and other fairy tale monsters and props.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Refugee From TV Land: The king of the fairy tale land of Eastwind.
 * Shoulders of Doom
 * Spider Sense: Can detect the Speed Force, allowing him to hit and dodge speedsters despite not having super speed himself.
 * Spikes of Villainy
 * Well Done Son Guy: Didn't get along with his father, the former king.

Cicada
"AKA: David Hersch"

A cult leader who gained immortality from a lightning strike, and who thus considers the Flash as a sort of "brother of the lightning" who his followers worship. They prey on the lives of people who Flash has saved throughout his career, justifying their actions by rationalizing that without the speedster's intervention, those persons would have died anyway, so the cult can kill them with a clear conscience. Cicada equips his followers with special daggers that absorb the life-force out of people stabbed by them, and he intends to use that stolen life-force to resurrect his wife, who he killed in his back-story.


 * Aborted Arc: One of the police gets a hit off of Cicada's immortality, and Cicada is shown to briefly entrance him. Nothing more is ever made of it.
 * Ax Crazy: But he's a bit more low-key about it, compared to some other villains.
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Beard of Evil
 * Contemplative Boss
 * Driven to Suicide: In his back-story, he attempted to do this after he murdered his wife. He wasn't successful; instead, a bolt of lightning that conveniently struck at that very moment gave him a sense of immortality.
 * Evil Old Folks
 * Knife Nut: His followers use special daggers that rob anyone stabbed with them of their life-force.
 * Mad Scientist: Cicada does what he does to resurrect his wife.
 * Religion of Evil: His cult dedicated to the Flash.

Cobalt Blue
"AKA: Malcolm Thawne"

Barry Allen's twin brother. The Allens and the Thawnes came to the same doctor for the same reason, because both wives were pregnant and about to deliver; however, the doctor accidentally killed the Thawnes' child, then out of guilt gave them one of the Allens' twins and told the Allens that that twin had died. When an adult Malcolm found out, he set out to destroy Barry for having everything he himself could have had but never did. He utilized a magical blue flame that could rob speed from anyone connected to the Flash legacy.


 * Abusive Parents: His adopted parents used him as a tool for their cons and treated him terribly; their knowledge that he wasn't their biological child only made it worse.
 * The Cain to Barry's Abel: Though Barry himself never knew it, as Malcolm never revealed himself to his brother.
 * Con Artist: Malcolm's adopted parents used a magical blue flame as a miracle healing agent (with temporary effects) to pull stunts like this. Of course, the flame itself was meant for greater purposes, which Malcolm learned and studied from his adopted grandmother.
 * Everythings Sparkly With Jewelry: He keeps the flame contained in a blue gem.
 * Evil Twin
 * Freudian Excuse: Being given away at birth to a bunch of abusive con artists, then later finding out you have a twin who got a relatively good upbringing by your real parents...can you really blame him for being angry?
 * In the Blood: He is the progenitor of the villainous Thawne family, whose bloodline includes Reverse-Flash/Professor Zoom I, Eobard.
 * Kill It With Fire: At least one of his descendants used the inherited Cobalt Blue flame to murder his Flash's wife this way.
 * Legacy Character: He's a distant ancestor of Professor Zoom, Impulse, Inertia, and Captain Boomerang II. As well, there are 1000 years' worth of Cobalt Blues that follow in his footsteps by fighting their respective Flashes (who are all of the Allen bloodline).
 * Mundane Utility: Malcolm's adopted father used the blue flame to pull cons. Malcolm's adopted grandmother was disgusted by this, and consequently was delighted to find an eager student in Malcolm, who would subvert the trope by using the flame to its maximum potential.
 * The Resenter: Toward Barry, for having the wonderful life that Malcolm got cheated out of.
 * The Resenter: Toward Barry, for having the wonderful life that Malcolm got cheated out of.

Fallout
"AKA: Neil Borman"

A former power plant worker who got exposed to nuclear radiation and essentially became a living radiation battery. He was introduced during the Iron Heights storyline, being kept in a containment cell that used him to power the entire prison. After the Flash found out and confronted Gregory Wolfe about it, Fallout was eventually given improved living conditions where he now continues to power the prison, but the power is siphoned from him in a more humane manner.


 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * I Love Nuclear Power: No. No, he doesn't.
 * Meaningful Name: He's named after Niels Bohr, one of the contributors to the Manhattan Project.
 * Power Glows
 * Power Incontinence
 * Unwitting Pawn: Of Blacksmith. She orchestrated his escape from Iron Heights knowing his path would take him by the Garricks' home, causing Joan to develop cancer, forcing her and Jay out of town for treatment, depriving Wally of Jay's help.

The Fiddler
"AKA: Isaac Bowin"


 * Aristocrats Are Evil
 * Deal With the Devil: In one version of his origin, this is how he learned to play his magical music.
 * Evil Twin: Of a successful violinist, Maestro Bowen.
 * Killed Off for Real: In his old age, the Fiddler tried out for the Secret Six. It didn't go well; he was executed for his failure.
 * Magic Music
 * Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Averted. Despite being a classically-trained musician and owning a Stradivarius, Bowin insists upon calling it a fiddle.

Girder
"AKA: Tony Woodward"


 * Blessed With Suck: His body oxidizes easily and painfully.
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Made of Iron: Literally, following his Start of Darkness.
 * Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Did this to a female co-worker in his back-story. His fellow workers' retaliation led to him getting superpowers.
 * Single Target Sexuality: Towards Magenta. She does not take kindly to it.
 * Super Strength
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Water, due to his body rusting away.

Gorilla Grodd
A renegade from the hidden Gorilla City, Grodd is a mad genius and warlord who wants to destroy humanity and make Earth the dominion of apes. He was endowed with sentience by a radioactive meteor along with the other apes of Gorilla City, but also gained vast telepathic powers. Grodd has a formidable intellect offset by an animal's fury. He originally clashed with Barry Allen and has gone on to menace the entire Flash family.


 * A God Am I: In JLApe: Gorilla Warfare. "I am the Lord thy Grodd! All shall bow before me!"
 * Big Bad: Of JLApe and the 1991 Angel and The Ape miniseries.
 * Evil Counterpart: Of King Solovar.
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Green Eyed Monster: According to JLApe, the reason he's evil is because he's insanely jealous of Solovar.
 * I'm a Humanitarian
 * Legacy Character: He has a son, Gorbul Mammit, who fought Impulse.
 * Mad Scientist
 * Maniac Monkeys
 * Mind Control Eyes: His eyes, and his victims' eyes, tend to glow magenta when he uses his telepathy.
 * One Ape Army: Despite talking and reasoning, Grodd is very much a wild animal, like a rabid gorilla with psionics. When a mishap leaves him free during a prisoner transport, the resulting rampage levels whole city blocks and leaves countless dead. It's implied that he does this in less than an hour.
 * Psychic Powers
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Mind Probe
 * People Puppets
 * Telepathy
 * Redeeming Replacement: His grandson, Sam Simeon of Angel and The Ape.
 * Touched By Vorlons
 * Well Intentioned Extremist: According to Phil Foglio's Angel and The Ape miniseries, Grodd's motive is that he believes Gorilla City will soon run out of resources, and that humans are in danger of destroying all of theirs. Hence the need to either "cull the herd" by killing most of the humans or turning them into apes. (Comics before and since have said that he's simply a madape who wants to Take Over the World.)

The Griffin
"AKA: Griff Grey"

Bart Allen's roommate after Bart had been aged by the Speed Force, Griff was doused with chemicals and gained super-powers in a terrorist attack. At first he wanted to be a hero just for money and fame, but his resentment toward the Flash family and his out-of-control powers quickly turned into a true villain. While trying to boost his popularity, Griffin died in an accident he himself orchestrated.


 * Bald of Evil
 * Glory Hound
 * Jerkass
 * Power Incontinence: His powers made him age rapidly.
 * Psycho Electro
 * Super Strength

Kilg%re

 * AI Is a Crapshoot
 * : After a fashion.
 * The Unpronounceable: Though at least one official guide claimed his name is pronounced "kil-GORE."
 * The Unpronounceable: Though at least one official guide claimed his name is pronounced "kil-GORE."

Mota / Atom Smasher / Professor Fallout / Fusionn
"AKA: Manfred Mota"

A rogue physicist who stole research from Jay Garrick to create a battlesuit, Mota clashed with every Flash under a variety of aliases, upgrading his atomic-powered arsenal each time and eventually mutating into a being of pure energy. His estranged daughter, Valerie Perez, briefly dated Bart Allen when he became the Flash.


 * Continuity Cavalcade: The point of the anthology that introduced him.
 * Energy Beings
 * I Have Many Names
 * Mad Scientist
 * Powered Armor

Murmur
"AKA: Dr. Michael Amar"

A surgeon turned serial killer obsessed with silencing the voices of everyone around him, Michael Amar was incriminated by his inability to keep from talking. While in Iron Heights Penitentiary, he took the name Murmur, cut out his own tongue, and sewed his mouth shut so he'd never incriminate himself again. Years later, he hatched a plot to escape from prison by using a deadly engineered disease to kill the guards and the Flash, but Wally, Jay, and the Pied Piper put an end to it. He has since become a persistent and deadly thorn in Wally's side.


 * Ax Crazy
 * Calling Card: His is to cut out his victims' tongues and sew their mouths shut. Including his own.
 * Civvie Spandex: He wears a black leather outfit.
 * Deadly Doctor
 * Knife Nut
 * Lean and Mean
 * Perfect Poison: Aside from his knives, he uses a type of anthrax-like poison made from his own unusual blood chemistry to kill his victims. This poison turns the victims' lungs to mud unless the antidote can be administered in time, and it is HIGHLY contagious.
 * Serial Killer: Of the Visionary type; he hears voices and kills to silence them.
 * Tongue Trauma

Neron
"AKA: (inapplicable)"

A demon who is essentially the DC Universe's Expy of Satan. He has had interactions with most characters across the DCU due to his modus operandi, but he holds some particular ire toward Wally West for beating his hidden plan in the Hell to Pay storyline.


 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Deal With the Devil: His preferred method of operating. Whether you're a hero or a villain, he'll offer you anything you want, in exchange for either your soul or whatever other price he asks.
 * Chronic Villain Syndrome: He apparently cannot refuse the offer of a soul in trade if he truly wants it, even if it costs him more than he can afford to give up.
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
 * Hoist By His Own Petard: In the Hell to Pay storyline..

Peek-a-Boo
"AKA: Lashawn Baez"


 * Action Bomb: A side effect of her teleporting is a massive explosion. Every time.
 * Anti Villain: She just wants to help her dying father.
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Then Let Me Be Evil: She lashes out at Wally, revealing that she intended to use her powers to become a hero until he and the rest of the city labeled her a Rogue and treated her accordingly. Subverted eventually, though, when she allows the police to take her in, having nothing left to live for after her father's death.

Plunder
"AKA:"

A gun-toting villain from a mirror universe created by the Mirror Master, Plunder followed Wally back the real world when Wally made his escape. He joined up with Blacksmith's "New Rogues" and used the fact that he was mirror counterpart to keep the police out of the picture while her evil plan went into action. Much later, he was killed by Zoom during the "Rogue War" story arc.


 * Cold Sniper
 * Good Scars Evil Scars: Played straight.
 * The Dragon: To the mirror-universe Thinker.
 * Evil Counterpart: He's a criminal mirror-universe version of
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mistaken Identity: Uses this to his advantage during the "Crossfire" story arc.
 * Psycho for Hire

President Thawne

 * The Chessmaster

Rainbow Raider
"AKA: Roy G. Bivolo"

Roy G. Bivolo believed he was destined to be a great artist, but his colorblindness made it impossible. His optometrist father created a pair of goggles that should have allowed him to see color, but instead gave him the power to shoot rainbow-colored beams of light, and presented them to Roy on his deathbed... which Roy then used to commit art theft as the Rainbow Raider. He was killed by Blacksmith for the offense of being obnoxious.


 * Butt Monkey
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check
 * Eye Beams
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: Blacksmith vivisects him with one of his own paintings.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Light Em Up / Light Is Not Good: His power is mostly manipulating light to create rainbows, which he uses to travel, attack and change people's emotions somehow.
 * Sorry Billy but You Just Don't Have Legs: Could have been a gifted painter...except for that colorblindness thing.
 * Stephen Ulysses Perhero: One of the worst cases on record.
 * Super Zeroes: Not by design, but he ended up that way. This guy is such a loser even Geoff Johns refused to revamp him.

Razer
"AKA: Unknown"

A mercenary who first appeared in Flash #84 as part of a real estate blackmail plot.


 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: His armor is covered in blades, and his gauntlets can fire razor-sharp discs.
 * Dumb Muscle
 * The Juggernaut
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Super Strength

The Shade
"AKA: Richard Swift"


 * Anti Hero / Anti Villain: As the mood strikes.
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Heel Face Turn: Kinda. Sorta.
 * Heroic Neutral
 * Friendly Enemy: To Jay Garrick, now that both of them are semi-retired.
 * Immortality
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: Twice over, in fact. He was an unremarkable one-shot villain in the 1940s who became recurring baddie in the Silver and Bronze Ages before falling into obscurity once more. Then came James Robinson in the 1990s...
 * Rogues Gallery Transplant: He turned... well, not good, but at least neutral, and became a supporting character in Starman.

Tar Pit
"AKA: Joey Monteleone"

The younger brother of a local crime boss, Joey Monteleone had the metahuman ability to project his consciousness outside of his own body. He then projected it into a vat of tar and was unable to return to his real body; however, he quickly took to his new form.


 * Blob Monster
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Kill It With Fire
 * Totally Radical

The Thinker
"AKA: Clifford De Voe"


 * AI Is a Crapshoot: His current virtual form.
 * Amoral Attorney: Well, he wasn't exactly amoral before he became a super-villain; rather, he underwent a Face Heel Turn when he realized that his efforts to curb crime were doomed to failure.
 * Badass in A Nice Suit: In his Golden Age incarnation, he wore a business suit as opposed to a gimmicky costume, since he believed wearing costumes was bad luck. However, his Silver Age incarnation and at least one alternate-reality version of him wore a stylized purple and black costume (which was worn by the character in the Justice League Unlimited series).
 * Bald of Evil
 * The Chessmaster: He specialized in this.
 * Foe Yay: With Jay Garrick.
 * Heel Face Turn: Pulled this after learning he was dying from cancer.
 * Face Heel Turn: After his code-form was imprisoned by Checkmate, he decided to help them.
 * Killed Off for Real: At least, his human body underwent this after battling with cancer; however, his mind lives on in computerized form.
 * Master of Illusion
 * Mind Control Device: His Thinking Cap.
 * Mind Manipulation: The main power of the Thinking Cap.
 * Mind Rape: Capable of this with his Thinking Cap.
 * Super Intelligence

The Turtle
"AKA: Unknown"

A criminal mastermind who, as his name suggests, talks and acts very slowly. Because of this, though, he's best known in stories where he's The Chessmaster.


 * Evil Genius
 * Legacy Character: There are two versions of the character, the second inspired by the first (and who briefly worked for the first as The Dragon).
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway: Originally, his "power" was that he was the world's slowest man.
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power: ...but he later gained the power to "steal" the speed of those around him, rendering them slower than he was. (Also, his body ages very slowly, befitting the lengthy life-span of actual turtles.)
 * Man of Kryptonite: His power is tailored to weaken his chosen enemies.

Vandal Savage
"AKA: Vandar Adg"

The immortal caveman-turned-conqueror who has plagued Earth's heroes for millennia, Vandal Savage was the first villain Wally West faced in his career as the Flash, and has gone on to menace Wally and his family numerous times afterwards. See his own page for more.