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

 

** [[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.

 

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{{quote|''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.''

* [[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]]).

 

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{{quote|''Do what you have to... we must save the world. We must save the world...''

* [[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.

 

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{{quote|''Jay, I am no longer Kid Flash. From this day forth-- The Flash lives again!''

* [[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]].

 

{{quote|''Bite patience!''}}

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== Other Speedsters ==

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Walter West

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

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: He's what Wally might have been if Linda had been killed.

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Iris "Irey" West II

* [[Redheaded Hero]]

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Jesse Chambers Tyler

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well Done, Daughter Girl]]: Toward both her parents.

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' John Chambers

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Max Crandall

* [[Time Travel]]: He was actually born in the 1700s and did this multiple times to get where he is today.

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Don and Dawn Allen

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] (Grade B/Dawn)

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Jenni Ognats

 

== Supporting Characters ==

 

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 [[Evil Counterpart|Zoom]].

* {{spoiler|[[Secret Secret Keeper]]}}: {{spoiler|For Wally, at the end of the "Rogue War" storyline}}.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Chester Runk}}

 

* [[Power Incontinence]]: When he was shot by Plunder in the leadup to ''Crossfire'', his singularity almost consumed Central City.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Fred Chyre and Jared Morillo}}

 

* [[Those Two Guys]]

 

 

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. {{spoiler|He also once used them on Wally to stop him from asking uncomfortable questions about what he was doing to Fallout}}.

* [[Scary Black Man]]

 

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{{quote|'''First appearance:''' ''Showcase'' #4 (October 1956)

* [[Time Travel]]: Iris was born in the 30th century, and sent to our time to save her life.

 

{{quote|'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 2 #225 (October 2005)

'''Hair color:''' Black

* [[Super Strength]]

 

 

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{{quote|'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 2 #28 (July 1989)

* [[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". {{spoiler|She doesn't ''win''- and it's her peril that ultimately brings Wally back from the Speed Force- but she's the last one from her group left standing, despite the fact that several of them had superpowers and/or superhero experience and she didn't.}}

 

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{{quote|'''First appearance:''' ''Impulse'' #23 (March 1997)

* [[White Sheep]]: Yeah, the rest of her family is...quite psychotic.

 

 

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.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Hartley Rathaway}}

 

* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]

 

 

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.

* [[Touched by Vorlons]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan}}

 

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: They were [[Expy|Expies]] of [[The Three Stooges]].

 

 

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.

 

== Evil Speedsters ==

 

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]

* [[The Voiceless]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Edward Clariss}}

 

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Eobard Thawne

* [[Time Travel|Time Traveller]]

 

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{{quote|'''AKA:''' Hunter Zolomon}}

* [[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. {{spoiler|Now depowered, he has approached Professor Zoom for unknown reasons.}}

 

{{quote|''He will never have what Impulse has; will never know their approval, their pride... their love.''}}

 

* [[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

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Unknown}}

 

** Alternately, he was a counterpart to Wally and an [[Expy]] 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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Jerry "Speed" McGee}}

 

 

== The Rogues ==

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Abhararakadhararbarakh / Citizen Abra}}

 

* [[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]].

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' George "Digger" Harkness}}

 

* * [[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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Owen Mercer

'''First appearance:''' ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' #3 (October 2004)

* [[Super Speed]]: Earlier on they were [[Flash Step|Flash Steps]], but he later started to develop the full version.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Leonard "Len" Snart}}

 

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: To Wally.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Albert Desmond}}

 

* [[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 ([[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Jeremy Tell}}

 

* [[Pungeon Master]]: Card and gambling puns.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Lisa Snart}}

 

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Mick Rory}}

 

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Is afraid of coldness, from an incident where he was [[Locked in a Freezer]] as a child.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Frances Kane}}

 

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Sam Scudder}}

 

* [[Magic Mirror]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Evan McCulloch}}

 

* [[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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Tony Gambi}}

 

** It helps that among these powers, he does have Kadabra's wand, so some level of shapeshifting would be possible with practice.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Roscoe Dillon}}

 

* [[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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Giovanni "James Jesse" Giuseppe}}

 

* [[We Would Have Told You But]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Axel Walker}}

 

* [[Totally Radical]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Mark Mardon}}

 

 

== Other Villains ==

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Amunet Black}}

 

* [[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 [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|only to be swatted aside by Grodd and left in the rubble]].

 

 

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.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Didn't get along with his father, the former king.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' David Hersch}}

 

* [[Religion of Evil]]: His cult dedicated to the Flash.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Malcolm Thawne}}

 

* [[The Resenter]]: Toward Barry, for having the wonderful life that Malcolm got cheated out of.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Neil Borman}}

 

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Of [[The Chessmaster|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.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Isaac Bowin}}

 

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Averted. Despite being a classically-trained musician and owning a Stradivarius, Bowin insists upon calling it a fiddle.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Tony Woodward}}

 

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Water, due to his body rusting away.

 

 

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.

* [[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]].)

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Griff Grey}}

 

* [[Super Strength]]

 

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]

* {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Gun]]}}: {{spoiler|It implants a piece of itself into Wally during an early confrontation. That piece later repairs Wally's heart when he gets shot through it by Vandal Savage.}}

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Though at least one official guide claimed his name is pronounced "kil-GORE."

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Manfred Mota}}

 

* [[Powered Armor]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Dr. Michael Amar}}

 

* [[Tongue Trauma]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' (inapplicable)}}

 

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: In the ''Hell to Pay'' storyline. {{spoiler|He orchestrates a plot to steal the love Wally and Linda have for each other, thus giving him a chance to gain ultimate power from the Speed Force, by forcing Wally to bargain for the Rogues' souls in exchange for giving up said love, and also claiming Linda's soul in exchange for sparing Wally's. Unfortunately for him, the couples' love corrupts him and he begs them to take it all back--but [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|they refuse unless he undoes all the damage he's done to the city]]}}.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Lashawn Baez}}

 

* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: She lashes out at Wally, revealing that she intended to use her powers to become a hero until [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|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, [[Tear Jerker|having nothing left to live for after her father's death]].

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' {{spoiler|Jared Morillo}}}}

 

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

 

 

* [[The Chessmaster]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Roy G. Bivolo}}

 

* [[Super Zeroes]]: Not by design, but he ended up that way. This guy is such a loser even [[Geoff Johns]] refused to revamp him.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Unknown}}

 

* [[Super Strength]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Richard Swift}}

 

* [[Rogues Gallery Transplant]]: He turned... well, not good, but at least neutral, and became a supporting character in ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]''.

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Joey Monteleone}}

 

* [[Totally Radical]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Clifford De Voe}}

 

* [[Super Intelligence]]

 

{{quote|'''AKA:''' Unknown}}

 

* [[Man of Kryptonite]]: His power is tailored to weaken his chosen enemies.

 

{{quote|'''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 [[Vandal Savage|his own page]] for more.