List of The Flash characters. Main cast members (L–R) Valdes, Panabaker, Cavanagh, Gustin, Martin, Patton, and Cosnett at Paley. Watch Westminster Bridge HDQ. Fest 2. 01. 5The Flash is an American television series developed by writer- producers Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, and is based on the DC Comics character, the Flash. The series premiered on The CW television network in the United States on October 7, 2. The series is a spin- off from Arrow, a show in the same universe.

The first season follows police forensic investigator Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), who develops super- speed after he is struck by lightning. In his attempt to learn about his powers and how to use them for good, he is assisted by S. T. A. R. Labs' Dr. Watch Killer Wave Megavideo on this page.

Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), and Dr. Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh). Barry tries to solve the murder of his mother (Michelle Harrison) by a superhuman attacker (Matt Letscher).

The murder investigation unjustly imprisoned his father (John Wesley Shipp), leaving detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), father of his best friend, Iris (Candice Patton), to take in the young Barry. The memory of his mother's murder and his father's framing later motivates Barry to put his personal needs aside and use his powers to fight against those who hurt the innocent, thus, shaping him into the Flash. The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the television series.

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Many are named after (or based on) DC Comics characters. Overview[edit]Main characters[edit] Barry Allen / Flash[edit]Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen (portrayed by Grant Gustin[1]) is an awkward assistant crime- scene investigator for the Central City Police Department, who moonlights as the Flash. As a child, Barry (Logan Williams) is traumatized when his mother, Nora, is murdered by the Reverse- Flash.

His father, Henry, is framed for the crime. Watch Back To The Future Hindi Full Movie. Joe West becomes Barry's legal guardian, and Barry spends his life trying to discover what happened that night. He first appears in the second season of Arrow, personally investigating a superhuman- related crime in Starling City, and learns of Oliver Queen's identity as the Arrow. They become good friends. Sometime after Barry returns to Central City, he is struck in his laboratory by lightning which was affected by dark matter from the explosion of the S. T. A. R. Lab's particle accelerator.

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In season one, Barry awakens from a nine- month coma and finds himself with superhuman speed. He uses his new powers to fight crime and hunt other metahumans in Central City as the masked superhero, Flash, while he tries to identify his mother's murderer. Although Barry has loved Iris West since childhood, he has kept his feelings to himself. He reveals his feelings, complicating Iris' relationship with Eddie. Barry learns from a 2.

Time Vault at S. T. A. R. Labs that he may eventually marry Iris. He becomes good friends with Cisco, Caitlin, and Dr. Wells, his idol and mentor on missions. Although Dr. Wells advises Barry about how to adapt and increase his powers, Barry becomes suspicious and learns that he is Eobard Thawne (Reverse- Flash) in disguise. After Eobard is unmasked, he tells Barry about his plan to use the Flash's speed and the particle accelerator to generate a portal to his own time (allowing Barry to return to the night of his mother's murder and prevent it).

Barry travels back in time, but is warned by his older self not to interfere. He returns to the present and fights with Eobard, stopping him from returning to the future. Although Barry is almost killed, Eddie sacrifices himself to destroy Eobard. This creates a miniature black hole, which Ronnie stops with his own life. In season two, Barry becomes reclusive after Eddie and Ronnie's deaths, until a near- death experience convinces him to work with his friends again. He discovers a recording of Eobard's confession to Nora's murder that clear his father of all charges, with Barry inheriting Harrison Wells' fortune and resources from Eobard. Though rich, Barry chooses to remain working for CCPD while using Wells' money to fund his and his allies' activities.

Barry and his team soon learn of the multiverse when metahumans from Earth- 2 target him under orders from Zoom, receiving aid from the Earth- 2's Dr. Harrison "Harry" Wells. Barry struggles with his choice to not save his mother and his hatred of Eobard, gradually accepting Harry as a friend upon learning that he trying to save his daughter Jesse. The group are aided by Earth- 2's Flash Jay Garrick before they learn that he is actually a time remnant clone of Hunter Zolomon, who is Zoom, and he steals Barry's Speed Force to cure his terminal illness. After sacrificing his powers to save Wally from Zoom, Harry helps Barry recreate the events which gave him his speed, but Barry disappears into the Speed Force as it helps him move on from his mother's death.

After returning and defeating Zoom's army, Barry is forced to watch his father's death in his childhood home. He avenges his father by luring the Time Wraiths to Zoom, who is dragged into the Speed Force while being transformed into the Black Flash. After freeing the real Jay Garrick, Henry's Earth- 3 counterpart, Barry goes back in time to avert his mother's death without considering the consequences. In season three, Barry saves his mother from Reverse- Flash and creates a new timeline (called "Flashpoint" by Eobard) in which he is no longer the Flash.

In the new timeline, Barry is a CSI without any connection to Iris' family. Barry's memories of the new timeline overwrites his memories of the original timeline, forcing Barry to release Eobard in order to restore the timeline.

Barry learns his actions made vast differences to the restored timeline and goes back in time again in an attempt to restore the original timeline. Garrick stops Barry and convinces him to live with his mistakes from creating the "Flashpoint" timeline. As Barry accepts Wally's transition into Kid Flash and trains him, Barry struggles with the temptation to use his powers for personal gain. His struggles worsen upon learning the identity of Savitar, a clone of a future version of himself. After the rogue time remnant is killed, Barry takes Savitar's place in the Speed Force prison to atone for causing the events of third season to occur.

He appoints Wally as the new Flash before taking his leave. In season four, after being stranded in the Speed Force for six months, Barry is freed after Cisco builds a device mimicking his essence so that it can take his place there. Initially, he apparently lost his sanity due to his time spent in the Speed Force, where time runs more quickly. However, after Iris is kidnapped by a Samuroid sent by a mysterious party, Barry rescues her and his health is restored. He claims that has no memories of his initial madness. Barry and the team later realize that the party who sent the Samuroid is stalking them and had strategically manipulated events surrounding Barry's return, creating twelve new metahumans as a result in order to challenge them for a yet- to- be- known purpose. Barry suspects the culprit's name is De.

Voe, a future enemy who was subsequently forewarned by Abra Kadabra and Savitar last year. Gustin also portrays Savitar (voiced by Tobin Bell in his exosuit and Andre Tricoteux behind the initial portrayal), who is a temporal duplicate of a future version Barry as a bootstrap paradox against Savitar's future self. The time remnant, shunned by Team Flash, would name himself after the Hindu god of motion while establishing himself as the first metahuman in recorded history by using a powered exoskeleton and the Philosopher's Stone to enhance his abilities.[citation needed] As Savitar is a clone of Barry's possible future self, he is essentially what Barry would become if he gave into his dark impulses. Following his imprisonment in the Speed Force after a battle with the Flash in 2.