He will return in the 2022 film The Flash. Allen is currently portrayed by Grant Gustin in the Arrowverse shows in a main capacity, especially the 2014 television series The Flash, while Ezra Miller portrays the character in the DC Extended Universe films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Justice League, the director's cut Zack Snyder's Justice League and the HBO Max series Peacemaker. Actor John Wesley Shipp portrayed the character in the live-action 1990s television show The Flash and the Arrowverse. Since then he has appeared in several DC Universe Animated Original Movies. He has since played a pivotal role in the crossover stories Blackest Night (2009), Flashpoint (2011), Convergence (2015), and DC Rebirth (2016).īarry Allen has been featured in several media, first appearing in animated form in the 1967 The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure and then in the related Super Friends program. His return to regular comics is foreshadowed during the narrative (and a single image of a blur) in Grant Morrison's crossover story Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge #3 (November 2008), fully actualized in Geoff Johns' accompanying The Flash: Rebirth #1 (June 2009), kicking off a six-issue limited series. The Flash has traditionally always had a significant role in DC's major company-wide reboot stories, and in the crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (November 1985), Barry Allen died saving the Multiverse, removing the character from the regular DC lineup for 23 years. The Flash wears a distinct red and gold costume treated to resist friction and wind resistance, traditionally storing the costume compressed inside a ring.īarry Allen's classic stories introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics, and this concept played a large part in DC's various continuity reboots over the years. Various other effects are also attributed to his ability to control the slowness of molecular vibrations, including his ability to vibrate at speed to pass through objects.

Barry Allen is a reinvention of the original Flash, Jay Garrick.īecause he is a speedster, his power consists mainly of superhuman speed. The character first appeared in Showcase #4 (October 1956), created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino. The Flash ( Bartholomew Henry ' Barry' Allen) is a superhero appearing in a series of American comic books published by DC Comics. Time travel and dimension travel by running faster than the speed of light.Intangibility and invisibilty via molecular vibration at high velocity.Speed force absorption, negation, and empathy.Art by Paolo Pantalena.įlash, Black Racer, Negative Flash, Trans-visible Man Barry Allen, the second Flash, on the cover of The Flash (vol.

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