| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:'''[[Characters/{{Arrowverse}} Arrowverse Character Index]]''' \ |
| 2 | [-'''[[Characters/{{Arrow}} Star City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrow Team Arrow]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseOliverQueen Oliver Queen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDinahLaurelLance Dinah Laurel Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamArrowFamilyMembers Family Members]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseMalcolmMerlyn Malcolm Merlyn]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSladeWilson Slade Wilson]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSimonMorrison Prometheus]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseStarCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 3 | '''[[Characters/TheFlash2014 Central City]]:''' '''West-Allen Family''' ([[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen Iris West-Allen]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash Team Flash]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow & (Killer) Frost]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheRogues Rogues]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseCliffordDeVoe Clifford DeVoe]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\ |
| 4 | '''[[Characters/Supergirl2015 National City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCitizens Citizens]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseKaraZorEl Kara Zor-El]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLuthorFamilyAndAssociates Luthor Family & Associates]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLenaLuthor Lena Luthor]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseNationalCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 5 | '''[[Characters/BlackLightning2018 Freeland]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowversePierceFamily Pierce Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFreelandCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFreelandCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 6 | '''[[Characters/Batwoman2019 Gotham City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseBatFamily Bat-Family]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseGothamCityCriminals Criminals]]\ |
| 7 | '''[[Characters/SupermanAndLois Smallville & Metropolis]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseSmallvilleCitizens Smallville Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCitizens Metropolis Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetropolisCriminals Metropolis Criminals]]\ |
| 8 | '''[[Characters/LegendsOfTomorrow The Legends]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegends The Team]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsCurrentMembers Current Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSaraLance Sara Lance]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseLegendsFormerMembers Former Members]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseLeonardSnart Leonard Snart]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseMickRory Mick Rory]])\ |
| 9 | '''Organizations:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseUSGovernment U.S. Government]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseUSMilitary U.S. Military]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseARGUSAndTaskForceX A.R.G.U.S.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseTheDEO The D.E.O.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseJusticeSocietyOfAmerica The J.S.A.]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseLeagueOfAssassins The League of Assassins]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCriminalGroupsAndOrganizations Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheHIVE H.I.V.E.]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseVandalSavageAndFollowers Savage & His Followers]])\ |
| 10 | '''Time Travel:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseTimeTravelers Time Travelers]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheLegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseDamienDarhk Damien Darhk]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseSavitar Savitar]]) | [[Characters/ArrowversePastCharacters The Past]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters The Future]]\ |
| 11 | '''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales Other Locales]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetahumans Metahumans]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHawks The Hawks]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseAliens Aliens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMystics Mystics]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEntities Other Entities]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature The Speed Force & Forces of Nature]])\ |
| 12 | '''The Multiverse:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths Other Earths]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth90 Earth-90]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseBizarroWorld Bizarro World]]]]-]]] |
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| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | '''Warning: All spoilers before Season 8 will be unmarked!''' |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ! Allen Family |
| 20 | [[folder:Barry Allen / The Flash]] |
| 21 | -> See Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen |
| 22 | [[/folder]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Henry Allen]] |
| 25 | !! Dr. Henry Allen |
| 26 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/henry_allen.png]] |
| 27 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 28 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JohnWesleyShipp |
| 29 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E1Pilot Pilot]]" (''The Flash'' 1x1) |
| 30 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ->''"When you need me, I will be here. But right now, Central City doesn't need you to be Henry Allen's son. It needs you to be The Flash."'' |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Barry Allen's father, a physician who is doing a life sentence in Iron Heights Prison for the murder of Barry's mother Nora. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 page for his pre-Crisis Earth-2 counterpart |
| 37 | -> see the Characters/Stargirl2020 page for Jay Garrick, the post-Crisis Earth-2 character who bears his physical likeness. |
| 38 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash page for Jay Garrick, the Earth-3 character who bears his physical likeness |
| 39 | -> see the Characters/TheFlash1990 page for more info on two Earth-90 characters; one who has his name, the other who bears his physical likeness |
| 40 | -> see the Characters/DCEUOtherAmericans page for the character in an undesignated Earth who bears his name and background |
| 41 | ---- |
| 42 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: In the comics, he died due to heart illness while still in prison. Here he died (murdered) with good health. |
| 43 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Like his son and wife, he's originally blonde in the comics. Here he is TallDarkAndHandsome in his youth. |
| 44 | * AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: In three realities there is a superhero who looks just like him: on Earth-3 and the post-Crisis Earth-2 it's Jay Garrick, on Earth-90 it's his own son. |
| 45 | * AndStarring: While not given a "SpecialGuest Star" citation, he gets the "And" billing in the regular guest stars lineup. |
| 46 | * BackFromTheDead: Subverted; despite Barry going back in time in the Season 2 finale it seems a butterfly effect happened and Henry was still killed by Hunter Zolomon. |
| 47 | * ButNowIMustGo: When he's finally released from Iron Heights in the first episode of season 2, he decides not to stay in Central City for fear that he'll interfere with Team Flash's work. |
| 48 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 49 | ** A Season 3 episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has his Earth-3 counterpart briefly taking Barry to [[TheNineties 1998]] to [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy give him a pep talk]]. The place where they go to has ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' currently airing on the TV. His actor is a main character there, specifically the father of the eponymous main character. |
| 50 | ** Felicity mockingly calls Lian Yu "Series/FantasyIsland" during the second part of Barry's EarlyBirdCameo on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 2. Henry's actor guest-starred on that show. |
| 51 | * ClearMyName: Barry is determined to do this for Henry, though Henry would rather he not and just live his own life. |
| 52 | * CompositeCharacter: His AlternateSelf is Jay Garrick. In the comics, they are completely separate characters. |
| 53 | * CoolOldGuy: Barry's father and is one of the most well-meaning and positive characters in the series, if not ''the most''. |
| 54 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: For (the real) Jay Garrick. Learning about him and his family's DarkAndTroubledPast is what pushes Jay to be closer to Barry. He is also this to his as of yet unseen Earth-2 counterpart, as well as Earth-90 Barry. |
| 55 | * DeadpanSnarker: Has an amusingly droll sense of humor, being content with his current situation. |
| 56 | * ADeathInTheLimelight: He gets a significant amount of screentime and focus in a number of episodes before his death. |
| 57 | * DefiantToTheEnd: It is still unclear if he was doing it intentionally or not, but his final words to Barry before being KilledMidSentence are having a psychological effect on Zoom, implying a last ditched psychological spiting/torturing on Henry's part. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Being a health professional, Henry has definitely studied Psychology and human behavior, and thus, can carefully use words that will likely affect a person with traumatic experiences (in Hunter's case, having an AbusiveParent), something Team Flash likely told him beforehand. He even emphasizes how much of a loving father he is to Barry, and how they had a loving family, unlike Zoom.[[/labelnote]] |
| 58 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the comics, he died due to illness while still in prison. Here he was murdered by Zoom long after he was released. |
| 59 | * DiesWideOpen: Given the literally fast-paced circumstances surrounding his death, he goes out with both a shocked and surprised stare. |
| 60 | * DisappearedDad: In prison since Barry's childhood. Disappears again in Season 2 as soon as he is let out of prison, believing that he'll get in the way of his son's role as the Flash. |
| 61 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: Doesn't panic or let Barry take his place when Zoom kidnaps him, he just tells Barry he's proud of him and that he and his mother loves him before getting killed. |
| 62 | * GoodParents: Even though he's not in Barry's life for obvious reasons, it's quite clear he's a loving and caring father. To the point he doesn't want his son to sacrifice his own life and opportunities in trying to clear his name; he even (initially) told Joe [[ParentsAsPeople to prevent Barry seeing him]] for his son's sake, a questionable action but done out of love. |
| 63 | * IconicSequelCharacter: While he was introduced at the series premiere of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', he was technically only introduced during the third year of the Series/{{Arrowverse}}. |
| 64 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Zoom kills him via a vibrating hand through the chest. |
| 65 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An obviously non-romantic example. As noted below, he encourages all of Barry's relationships, wanting his son to find someone. |
| 66 | * KilledMidSentence: "Your mother and I love y-" are his last words before Zoom kills him. |
| 67 | * KillTheCutie: Zoom kills him in the penultimate episode of Season 2. |
| 68 | * TheMedic: Formerly worked as a doctor, though his (former) specialty isn't specified. He healed Big Sir in prison and after being released, he substitutes Caitlin as the team medic after she got kidnapped. |
| 69 | * MistakenForMurderer: The very reason why he is locked up, as well as his son's motivation/drive to clear his name. |
| 70 | * NiceGuy: One of the most genuinely good person in the show. And come on, where do you think Barry got his good heart? |
| 71 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His attempt to save his wife was rewarded with more than a decade in prison. |
| 72 | * NotHelpingYourCase: He picked up the knife that was used to kill Nora, so he could try to stabilize her heart. Unfortunately, leaving his fingerprints on the murder weapon (and the fact that there was no one else around) gave the cops other ideas. |
| 73 | * OneTrueLove: Nora. If one looks at his five [[AlternateSelf alternate selves]] above, they’re all married to their version of Nora. |
| 74 | * ThePollyanna: He still retains his positive outlook in life despite being fully aware of how serious and unjust his situation is. |
| 75 | * RemakeCameo: John Wesley Shipp played Barry Allen in the previous ''[[Series/TheFlash1990 Flash]]'' TV series. |
| 76 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's related to the Garricks through his mother which also results in Jay Garrick being his AlternateUniverse counterpart. |
| 77 | * SacrificialLion: Like his late wife, he was murdered by a speedster, but in the penultimate episode of a season instead of the start of one. |
| 78 | * TheScapegoat: He was essentially framed by the Reverse-Flash for the murder of his wife. |
| 79 | * SecretKeeper: He figured out Barry was the Flash after seeing him save Joe and after he broke out a mob henchman (who stabbed him) to be interrogated, but doesn't state it directly. In the Tricksters, he learns for real. |
| 80 | * ShipperOnDeck: He's primarily to Barry/Iris, though he was open to Barry's relationships with Linda and Patty. |
| 81 | * SixthRanger: Serving as Team Flash's back-up doctor while Caitlin is Zoom's captive. Had it not been for Zoom, he might have remained this. |
| 82 | * SoProudOfYou: In ''Crazy For You'' Henry hints that he knows Barry is the Flash, and he's damn proud of the hero his son has become. He repeats this statement before being killed by Zoom. |
| 83 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, he died in prison a year or two before his son became the Flash. Here, he lived to be cleared of murder. Though in pre-''Flash: Rebirth'', he lived a long life as well, until he and his wife passed away soon after the Crisis. Sadly, he winds up getting Zoom's hand through his chest at the end of the penultimate episode of Season 2 while Barry was ForcedToWatch. |
| 84 | * TeamDad: For as brief as it was, he shared this role with Joe in regards to Team Flash. |
| 85 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: One of the most genuinely good-hearted and moral people in the show, only to be brutally killed-off by the Season 2 BigBad. |
| 86 | * TwoFirstNames: Being a Creator/DCComics based character, he has a last name that is traditionally used as a first name. |
| 87 | * YankTheDogsChain: Just barely a year of being free after serving nearly two decades in prison for a crime he didn't even commit, he gets brutally killed-off. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Nora Allen]] |
| 91 | !! Nora Allen (née Thompson) |
| 92 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_allen.png]] |
| 93 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 94 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/MichelleHarrison |
| 95 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E1Pilot Pilot]]" (''The Flash'' 1x1) |
| 96 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 97 | |
| 98 | Barry Allen's mother and Henry Allen's wife. Her death at the hands of the Reverse-Flash continues to haunt Barry as an adult. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 page for her Earth-2 counterpart |
| 101 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths page for Joan Williams, the Earth-3 character who bears her physical likeness |
| 102 | -> see the Characters/TheFlash1990 page for more info on the Earth-90 character who bears her name and background |
| 103 | -> see the Characters/DCEUOtherAmericans page for the character in an undesignated Earth who bears her name and background |
| 104 | ---- |
| 105 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Like Barry, she's blonde in the comics and most adaptations. Here, she's a redhead. |
| 106 | * AffectionateNickname: To Barry, "My Beautiful Boy," even the Speed Force knew to use this as a reassurance to him. |
| 107 | * AllLovingHero: She introduces this sentiment to Barry. |
| 108 | * BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Barry going back in time in the Season 2 finale, Nora is saved from being killed by Eobard Thawne... until Barry realizes it's not meant to be. |
| 109 | * ButterflyOfDoom: It matters a great deal if this one woman lives or dies. |
| 110 | * DeadAlternateCounterpart: The Nora Allen from pre-Crisis Earth-2 lived until 2019, while her Earth-3 counterpart Joan Williams is still alive. |
| 111 | * DeathByOriginStory: She was killed by a mysterious man in a blur of light when Barry was eleven. |
| 112 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: When Barry was finally able to time-travel, he opted not to save her (following the advice of his 2024 self) so he wouldn't mess with the timeline. Still, he was able to say goodbye to her unlike before and stayed with her until she dies, and doing so finally gave him some closure in his life. |
| 113 | * DiesWideOpen: Barry finds her corpse with a shocked look on her face. |
| 114 | * GodInHumanForm: The Speed Force uses her the most often as its [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Avatar]] when speaking with Barry. |
| 115 | * GoOutWithASmile: In the Season 1 finale. Barry ultimately didn't save her, but he gladly revealed to her who he is and that he and his dad would be OK. Hearing this, she leaves the world more peacefully and with pride on what her son will become. This contradicts the usual flashbacks Barry had of her where she had a shocked look on her face. She still DiesWideOpen, however. |
| 116 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Instills this belief in Barry, pointing out that Barry's kindness and compassion for others is much more important than being strong physically. Years later when he becomes "The Flash," Nora's teachings still remain true. |
| 117 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: She died from a knife to the heart. |
| 118 | * KilledOffscreen: Everyone knows her cause of death, but the stabbing happened offscreen. It was shown in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot during the first season finale. |
| 119 | * MissingMom: To Barry. |
| 120 | * MythologyGag: Her overall appearance is very similar to Iris's in the source material. Incidentally (or not), her husband's actor [[Series/TheFlash1990 played the previous live-action incarnation of Barry Allen]]. |
| 121 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Her maiden name is never revealed in the comics or any adaptations. Here, it was Thompson. |
| 122 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: While not the absolute key to everything, her murder ''is'' what drove Barry into a job in police forensics and into using his newly-gained powers to help people. |
| 123 | * PosthumousCharacter: Killed 14 years prior to the events of the pilot. |
| 124 | * RevengeByProxy: It is later revealed that the Reverse-Flash killed her as a consolation prize because he wasn't able to kill young Barry. Eobard Thawne figured that if he couldn't erase the Flash from existence, then he would force his younger self to suffer a life-defining tragedy that would hopefully prevent him from becoming the Flash in the first place (which Thawne quickly regretted since it meant he lost his connection to the Speed Force, just as he was traveling in time to go home). |
| 125 | * SacrificialLamb: She was fated to die so her son would become a hero, something which causes Barry no end of grief and resentment; that fact there was a timeline where she lived and Barry still became the Flash only makes it worse, especially since that was the ''original'' timeline. |
| 126 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: {{Averted}}. Despite there being a timeline where she lived and Barry still became the Flash that timeline is never coming back because of how time travel works: time is malleable to an extent, but after a while it'll harden like concrete. She's been dead too long to make any change. When Barry does save her he creates a whole new timeline -- Flashpoint. |
| 127 | * ShipperOnDeck: In the flashpoint timeline she gleefully supports Barry's relationship with Iris. |
| 128 | * SilverVixen: While no doubt lovely in all the flashbacks and times we see her, in the Flashpoint timeline, in which she was allowed to age past the time of her initial death, we find she would have aged gracefully into a comely matron. |
| 129 | * SoProudOfYou: Before dying in his arms, Nora shares her joy that Barry has grown into a fine young man. The Speed Force, speaking on her behalf, assures Barry that even from the other side, his mother delights in his bravery and valiant nature as a hero. |
| 130 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Like her husband, the brief glimpses we get of her, she demonstrates her [[AllLovingHero loving nature]], always reminding Barry that a persons virtues and the strength of the heart are what make a true hero, not the physical strength of one's body. |
| 131 | * TwoFirstNames: Being a Creator/DCComics based character, she has a last name that is traditionally used as a first name. |
| 132 | * WhiteShirtOfDeath: Was wearing an ivory colored blouse the night the Reverse-Flash killed her. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Iris West-Allen]] |
| 136 | -> See Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | ! West Family |
| 140 | [[folder:Joe West]] |
| 141 | !! Detective/Captain Joseph "Joe" West |
| 142 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joe_west.png]] |
| 143 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Our greatest weapon against darkness isn't our superpowers. It's our humanity and our love for each other."'']] |
| 144 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 145 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JesseLMartin |
| 146 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E1Pilot Pilot]]" (''The Flash'' 1x1) |
| 147 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/FlashVsArrow!''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/HeroesJoinForces''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}!''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' [[note]](''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'')[[/note]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ->''"You always want to be the person who sees the best in people. I've been a cop for 25 years. All I can see is the flaws, the lies, the dark thoughts that people think I don't see. I wish I could be you. As fast as you are, that is your real power."'' |
| 150 | |
| 151 | A detective in the Central City PD, Iris and Wally's father and Barry's foster father. Joe was a realist, often trying to get Barry to see the world same way, hoping one day that Barry would accept that Henry did kill Nora and abandon his pursuit of "The Impossible," for his own good. After the particle accelerators exploded however, Joe is now often a front and center spectator of "The Impossible," finally opening up to the possibility that the Henry Allen case may not have been as black-and-white as he initially believed. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters page for his possible future versions |
| 154 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 page for his Earth-2 counterpart |
| 155 | ---- |
| 156 | * ActionDad: Father of three, adoptive father of a fourth, and the show's resident BadassNormal. |
| 157 | * AdaptationalBadass: This version of the West father is a BadassNormal capable of gunning and killing Metahumans. He actively participates in fights and has even saved Team Flash's ass a few times. |
| 158 | * AdaptationalHeroism: |
| 159 | ** The New 52 version of the West patriarch was an AbusiveParent, enough that his own son Daniel crippled him in an attempt to ''[[SelfMadeOrphan end his life]]''. Joe West however is a good man and a great father (and father-figure) to both his daughter and his foster son... His pre-Flashpoint self wasn't as bad it seems, but Iris and Wally make it clear that ''all'' the other Wests were assholes. |
| 160 | ** [[CompositeCharacter Wally's father Rudy]] was an abusive bastard who [[TheQuisling sold out the entire Earth to the Manhunters]], tried to murder his ex-wife as part of a ploy to recruit Wally to their cause, and after they were defeated became a con man who faked his death multiple times to avoid the consequences for his actions, which involved stoking paranoia of shapeshifting Durlan invaders and literal child slavery. Needless to say, Joe hasn't done anything ''close'' to what Rudy did. |
| 161 | * AdaptationalDumbass: He didn't actually became dumb in this version per se. However, most versions of him are scientists similar to the likes of the S.T.A.R. Labs crew in this show. His main role on Team Flash aside from skills as a cop or being the TeamDad is to play TheWatson and ask questions to the scientists. |
| 162 | * AdaptationNameChange: Was named Ira (New Earth) or William (Prime Earth) in the comics. |
| 163 | * AesopAmnesia: In Season 2, he seems to have forgotten why keeping secrets sucks since he refuses to let Patty know Barry's the Flash. |
| 164 | * AgentScully: Doesn't take much stock in Barry's more "creative" theories. Until he sees Barry and Mardon fight, that is. Even after that he's still skeptical about the Man In Yellow until he actually sees him. |
| 165 | * AintTooProudToBeg: He resorts to pleading for Iris's life and apologizing for his future self's actions when Savitar corners them in pre-Crisis Earth-2. |
| 166 | * AndStarring: In the series OBB. |
| 167 | * ArchEnemy: He's been chasing the Mardon brothers for a long time, and it just got [[ItsPersonal personal]] when his partner was killed. |
| 168 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He mostly fights while wearing suits. |
| 169 | * BadassInDistress: Weather Wizard, Grodd, Zoom and Ragdoll have all taken him hostage. |
| 170 | * BadassNormal: A veteran detective, he is still skilled enough to go against metahuman threats like if they were normal everyday crooks. Armed with a custom rifle he joins Team Flash in taking down troublesome metas. In "Lose Yourself" he takes on a Samuroid [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome off-screen]] by himself and wins. |
| 171 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Things you do not fuck with include Iris, Barry and Wally (and later Cecile and, presumably, Nora); the man is ''trained to use a gun!'' He '''''will''''' shoot you if necessary. |
| 172 | * BreakTheBadass: Joe has been pretty brave with other super criminals but Grodd is the first one to reduce him to a weeping wreck. |
| 173 | * TheBusCameBack: After being in Tibet to visit Wally for the first half of Season 5, he comes back to Central City in "King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd". |
| 174 | * TheCassandra: He's the very first member of Team Flash to be suspicious of Eobard Thawne. It took about a quarter of the season before anyone of them started to consider his suspicions. |
| 175 | * CelebrityParadox: A VillainOfTheWeek in Season 2 mentions the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. His actor was one of the longest-serving cast members of [[Series/LawAndOrder the parent series]], which also happens to be his StarMakingRole as a screen actor. |
| 176 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 177 | ** Right from the outset, he's a combination of Joe Jackham, who was the partner of Fred Chyre, and Eric Russell father of Iris West. |
| 178 | ** He is actually much more similar to the New 52 version of Darryl Frye (introduced after this Joe's debut) than to any version of the West father (who originally was a scientist who designed his special suit, much like the S.T.A.R. Labs crew in the show). |
| 179 | ** His adopting of Barry after his mother's murder and father's arrest is taken from New Earth's Ira West, who is the ''adoptive'' father of Iris (who in that version of the story was born in the 30th century). |
| 180 | ** As the father of Wally, he takes after Rudy West, though he ([[AbusiveParents thankfully]]) has little else in common with him. |
| 181 | * CulturedBadass: He was able to recite quotes from classic literature, something that impresses the Clock King as he was also a fan of it. |
| 182 | * TheCynic: He is mostly civil, but having been a cop for almost 30 years, he's more suspicious and distrusting of people than most of the other main characters. This actually serves the team well, as he's the first to (correctly) suspect that something is off with "Harrison Wells". |
| 183 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 184 | ** As evidenced by his ShutUpHannibal moment with Clyde Mardon. |
| 185 | --->'''Mardon''': [[EvilIsHammy DO YOU THINK YOUR GUNS CAN STOP GOD?]] \ |
| 186 | '''Joe''': Why in the hell would God need to rob banks?! |
| 187 | ** [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Which unfortunately blows back on him when Mardon decides he's right and tries to destroy Central City instead.]] |
| 188 | * DeadSidekick: Two of his four partners have bit the dust. His second was KIA in pursuit of the Mardon brothers, while the third and previous one made a HeroicSuicide to beat the Season 1 BigBad. The fourth resigns to be a CSI. |
| 189 | * DistressedDude: He's been kidnapped in Season 1 twice. First by Mark Mardon which was negated by Barry's Time Travel, then by Grodd. |
| 190 | * FairCop: His looks have been complimented by Eliza Harmon and Cecile. |
| 191 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: He tries to get Barry to stop his extra-curricular heroics, but he eventually relents when he realizes how much the city needs Barry. |
| 192 | * {{Foil}}: Towards Quentin Lance, the other main cop dad in TheVerse. Both Joe and Quentin are easily some of the best examples of GoodParents in the whole Arrowverse and ''incredibly'' canny and intelligent investigators and cops in thier own right, but thier relationship with the strange happenings in thier series is the main difference: Quentin is a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of the CommissionerGordon, with all the [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist moral]] [[GoodIsNotNice hangups]] and [[InspectorJavert inflexibilities]] that makes him a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters grayer]] character than Joe. Joe, on the other hand, despite having his own elements to [[FantasyForbiddingFather overcome]], has a ''considerably'' healthier mindset about the happening in his city, grows to be lot more openly understanding about the role his children play in as heroes and is a integral member of the superhero team he works with. Not to mention that Joe is notably friendlier and more openly warmhearted to Barry's friends and allies (treating them as extended members of his own family, as especially seen with Cisco and Catlyn) than Quentin Lance's professionally polite and [[AloofAlly aloof]] relationship with most members of Team Arrow. |
| 193 | * FriendOnTheForce: To S.T.A.R. Labs, though he is a much more active member of Team Flash compared to most examples of the trope. |
| 194 | * GoodIsNotSoft: One of the most morally good characters in the show, don't underestimate Joe from harming or shooting a villain. |
| 195 | * GoodParents: Really, we shouldn't have to explain this one. Just look at [[Heartwarming/TheFlash2014 this page]] and check how many Joe moments are on there. |
| 196 | * HeroicWillPower: In "We Are The Flash", [=DeVoe=] tries to make him perform a PsychicAssistedSuicide, but Joe overcomes the mental control by [[ThePowerOfLove thinking about the love for his family]] and turns the gun back on [=DeVoe=]. Though [=DeVoe=] simply overpowers him with his [[GravityMaster gravity powers]] for his trouble. |
| 197 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 198 | ** He was able to name each of the people that coined the quotes Clock King was reciting. |
| 199 | ** Joe's often smarter than people think. There's a lot of UnderestimatingBadassery around him. |
| 200 | * HopeBringer: When Iris was about to abandon hers, after the return of mentally off Barry drove her even farther into her depression, Joe instills that she should never give up believing. His wise words not only inadvertently lead to both Barry and Iris saving each other, but also saving Central City. |
| 201 | -->'''Joe''': ''(to Iris)'' You've certainly got strength, baby girl. What you need is a little faith. |
| 202 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Notably one of the few characters to avert this as he is the first to suspect Thawne. It's due to him being an experienced detective able to notice small details and be ProperlyParanoid while the rest of the characters are {{Naive Newcomer}}s who trust a bit too easily. |
| 203 | * {{Hypocrite}} : Joe resigns because of the use of the Meta-Human "Cure" (Suppressant) being used by Central City Police with government authorization . But not once does he reprimand any of Team Flash for inventing the "cure" and using it on his enemies . |
| 204 | ** Joe [[WhatTheHellHero tears into Barry and Iris for considering allowing Thawne's latest RetGone to catch up to him and wipe himself out of existence, after Thawne comes to them, seeking aid, with Joe arguing that they are obligated to actively save him and not let him die]]. However, Joe, himself, previously shot at Harry Wells for simply sharing the same face that Thawne wore, and Harry was only saved, because Barry stopped the bullets from hitting him. |
| 205 | * IconicSequelCharacter: While he was introduced at the series premiere of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', he was technically only introduced during the third year of the Series/{{Arrowverse}}. |
| 206 | * IHaveNoDaughter: In the post-Flashpoint timeline, he disowns Iris after she takes her mother's side after discovering that she's still alive. They eventually got better. Before the CosmicRetcon, Iris has an UndyingLoyalty to him and didn't forgive her mother until the latter's last days. |
| 207 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He is friends with Cisco and Caitlin, who are young adults, and later with Ralph. |
| 208 | * TheLancer: His role in Team Flash. He possesses authority over the group second only to Wells (which may have something to do with them being the adult figures of the relatively young group) and most times acts as Wells' de-facto NumberTwo, especially concerning Barry. |
| 209 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: Not that dissimilar from ''Series/LawAndOrder'''s Ed Green, even down to the same actor. Which is interesting, since Green and his partner Joe Fontana had a cameo in a ''Batman'' comic. |
| 210 | * LikeASonToMe: He raised Barry like his own son, and he considers him as such, casually referring to him as "my kid" a couple of times. |
| 211 | * ManlyFacialHair: Sports a goatee and the show's resident ActionDad. His beard becomes fuller after Season 6. |
| 212 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he learns about Wally, he admits to Barry he lied about Francine not to protect Iris, but because he gave up on her and wanted her out of their lives. He regrets doing this because it meant his son grew up without a father. |
| 213 | * MyGreatestFailure: Aside from those mentioned under ThatOneCase, one example that doesn't involve his police work involves Barry's coma: he was so desperate to see his son awake again that he willingly surrenders Barry's body to Eobard Thawne (a man who Joe already had trust issues with) after the latter tells Joe that he's the only one who can help save Barry. |
| 214 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Iris is impersonated by a Mirror version of herself, Barry starts being feeling distrustful of the new Iris due to her aggressive demeanor and out of character moments. However, Joe makes Barry dispel these doubts and leads Barry to trust Mirror Iris, who is in a secret agenda to depower Barry. |
| 215 | * NoSympathy: Towards Francine, believing her genuine pleas to be an attempt at guilt trip, and trying to pay her off instead of letting her near Iris. |
| 216 | * NotSoAboveItAll: |
| 217 | ** He's usually stern and the OnlySaneMan, but when Barry shows him he can vibrate his vocal cords to throw his voice, he can't help but geek out. |
| 218 | ** When Cisco is in a state of a lucid dreaming and comments how he's wearing his favorite shirt that he thought the dryer ate, and Joe just giggles uncontrollably. |
| 219 | * OldCopYoungCop: Two of his most prominent partners (Eddie and Patty) are around the age range of his daughter. Both even dated his (surrogate, in Barry's case) children. |
| 220 | * OutOfFocus: In Season 5, his screen time is very reduced and almost all of it is at the West House with him never standing - this is a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot as Jesse suffered a back injury during the break and was eventually granted a medical leave of absence to deal with it.Even beforehand, while he remained an informant to Team Flash, after seeing that the younger members of Team Flash mature and find their sync with one another early season 4, his time at S.T.A.R. Labs began to dwindle and he focused more on his contribution to the team through his police work. |
| 221 | * PapaWolf: He is protective of his family and the Team Flash members. Despite being mostly nice, he is not afraid to become more aggressive if any of them is in danger. |
| 222 | * TheParagon: In season 7 he puts in a great deal of time and effort to try and make [[NobleBigotWithABadge Kristen Kramer]] into a genuinely good person who can discard her anti-metahuman prejudices, which seems to ultimately pay off. |
| 223 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: When Eddie gave him the courtesy of knowing first that he plans on proposing to his daughter, Joe bluntly shuts him down. He is unsupportive of this due to knowing that Iris's actual OneTrueLove is Barry. |
| 224 | * ParentalHypocrisy: He wanted to be a policeman since his childhood, but is unwilling to let his daughter involve in police work. |
| 225 | * ParentalSubstitute: |
| 226 | ** Took Barry in after his dad went to jail, and will occasionally refer to him as "son" or "my kid" without even thinking about it. |
| 227 | ** Joe also takes on a fatherly role for Joanie, the daughter of his girlfriend Cecile, whose biological father isn't in the picture. |
| 228 | * ParentsAsPeople: |
| 229 | ** Joe genuinely loves Iris and Barry and does his best to help them and keep them safe but this is offset by flaws in his own character such as being stubborn in the face of problems where he ''has'' to relent, BecauseISaidSo tendencies that are invalidated by his lack of ability to enforce his statements, and some InnocentlyInsensitive moments that show with Barry. |
| 230 | ** When Wally started developing superpowers, he initially tried to dissuade him from using them to help Barry. |
| 231 | * PoliceAreUseless: Joe utterly averts this, which is borderline unheard-of in superhero media. Even meta-human threats, which you could excuse normal police from being able to handle, are all but another day on the job for Joe West. |
| 232 | * PragmaticHero: In contrast to Barry's IdealHero and Harry's UnscrupulousHero. |
| 233 | * ProperlyParanoid: Can you blame him for not trusting Eobard Thawne when the two men's first encounter consisted of Thawne raising alarm bells in Joe's head with his every word while still posing a better chance to save Barry than the doctors at St. Andrews? |
| 234 | * PutOnABus: |
| 235 | ** In Season 5 due to his actor taking a medical leave of absence to deal with his back problems beginning with "All Doll'd Up"; early on their was a HandWave excuse for his absence, but eventually his absence was explained by going to Tibet to visit Wally. |
| 236 | ** In Season 6 he has to leave to witness protection [[spoiler:since he is being hunted down by Joseph Carver]]. |
| 237 | ** In Season 9 he and Jenna choose to move away from Central City for her protection, after an incident with the Red Death, with Cecile staying behind to continue her duties as both an Attorney for Metas and as a Super Hero part of Team Flash. |
| 238 | * RaceLift: He's white in the comics, but black in the show. In fact, the reason why the entire West family was adjusted like this was because the showrunners [[AbilityOverAppearance really wanted]] Jesse L. Martin for Joe. |
| 239 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: |
| 240 | ** In this version, he's Barry most influential father figure after becoming his legal guardian because of his father's imprisonment. |
| 241 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He becomes Wally's father instead of granduncle. |
| 242 | * ReligiousBruiser: After meeting Cecile, he became more religious. He is also a BadassNormal. |
| 243 | * SecretKeeper: The first person outside S.T.A.R. Labs and [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] who knows about Barry's powers. While initially wary of Oliver, he keeps his identity as Arrow/Green Arrow secret. |
| 244 | * ShipperOnDeck: For Barry and Iris, as revealed in ''Plastique''. It's why he can't give Eddie his blessing when the latter wishes to marry Iris, because he knows deep down she loves Barry and will realize she'll make a mistake marrying him. One can even infer that Barry is the only love interest of Iris that Joe has ever fully approved of, being already family in all but blood anyway. |
| 245 | * SkepticNoLonger: He doesn't believe Barry until he sees that Clyde Mardon is alive and can control the weather, and that Barry can run fast enough to unravel a potential F-5 class tornado. |
| 246 | * SilverFox: He is visibly older than the rest of Team Flash and he still has been regarded as attractive by Eliza Harmon and Cecile Horton. |
| 247 | * SupremeChef: Iris and Cecile mention that Joe is good at cooking when discussing about Cecile's relationship with Joe. |
| 248 | * TeamDad: Shared this role with Eobard Thawne for Team Flash, and unlike Thawne there can be no doubts that he ''genuinely'' cares for them all. When it looked liked Thawne would kill Cisco, Joe shot Thawne (actually a disguised Hannibal Bates) dead without hesitation. |
| 249 | * TheTeamNormal: By Season Four, Joe is the only core member of Team Flash who has never had superpowers (excluding one-season temporary members). Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, are all powerful metas, Thawne was secretly a depowered speedster, while Iris and Harry Wells [[SuperPowersForADay temporarily]] [[EmpoweredBadassNormal gained powers]]. This leaves Joe as the only BadassNormal veteran member. |
| 250 | * ThatOneCase: |
| 251 | ** Nora Allen's murder. A murder that ruined the lives of his friends, resulting in him effectively adopting their child? Yes. |
| 252 | ** The Mardon brothers' case since he'd been pursuing them for a long time and they killed his partner before Eddie. |
| 253 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: In terms of intelligence, anyway. Joe is surrounded by scientific geniuses it seems, yet he is knowledgeable enough to know every person Clock King quoted and makes up for it by way of being the savviest character in the show. |
| 254 | * WhatTheHellHero: Joe delivers these occasionally, when he believes a member of the team is misguided, but most prominently in "Armageddon," when he rips into Barry and Iris for considering to let [[MurderByInaction Thawne's mistakes catch up to him and wipe himself out of existence]]. Joe argues that Barry and Iris cannot possible let Thawne die and are obligated to actively save him. |
| 255 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He mentions when they discover Grodd's existence that he finds ordinary non-superpowered gorillas scary enough. Not long after, he meets Grodd himself, whom is murderous, gigantic, incredibly strong and ''[[MindRape telepathic]]''. Joe is so terrified by the ordeal that it brings him to tears. |
| 256 | * YouAreInCommandNow: Becomes Captain of the CCPD at the end of Season 5. |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Wally West / Kid Flash]] |
| 260 | !! [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wallace "Wally" West]] |
| 261 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wally_west.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kid_flash_2.png]] |
| 262 | [[caption-width-right:350:''" Last time I checked, I have a whole lot to make up for, and that's what I intend to do!"'']] |
| 263 | !!! '''Species:''' Metahuman[[note]]Briefly empowered via Water Totem[[/note]] |
| 264 | !!! '''Known Aliases:''' Kid Flash, Taillights, Franchise/TheFlash (Flashpoint timeline) |
| 265 | !!! '''Affiliations:''' Team Flash, The Legends |
| 266 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KeiynanLonsdale |
| 267 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill Running to Stand Still]]" (''The Flash'' 2x9) |
| 268 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}!''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' [[note]](''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' |
| 269 | |
| 270 | Wally is Iris's long-lost brother, whom Francine was pregnant with shortly before leaving her and Joe. Wally winds up getting introduced to them after Francine discovers that she's terminally ill and while after a rocky start, becomes fully integrated into the West family. An adrenaline junkie, with a love for automobiles, after being saved by the Flash's sacrifice, Wally earned a longing to become a hero just like him, unaware at the time that the Flash was Barry Allen, a man he wasn't entirely fond of. |
| 271 | |
| 272 | After Barry caused the [[AlternateTimeline Flashpoint timeline]] Wally's wish came true when he became a speedster himself because of Alchemy's actions, in the reset timeline regaining the powers he held in Flashpoint. Now taking the moniker Kid Flash, he is a protege of Barry's, whom Barry believes has the possibility of becoming an even greater hero than himself. |
| 273 | |
| 274 | However, Wally would eventually leave Central City as he was tired of being stuck in Barry's shadow. He traveled the world saving people (and fought a starfish from space). While taking some time to meditate in China, Rip Hunter found and recruited him in his fight against Mallus, which led to Wally joining the Legends. After his stint there, Wally went back to traveling the world. |
| 275 | |
| 276 | -> see the Characters/ArrowverseFutureCharacters page for his possible future versions |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * AbortedArc: His joining of the Legends becomes this due to Keiynan Lonsdale leaving the role. |
| 279 | * TheAce: Implied in season 3, as Wally develops at a much faster rate than Barry. He surpasses Barry's years of development in a few months. Subverted in S4 where a returned Barry has been significantly sped up by his time in the Speed Force. |
| 280 | * AdaptationDyeJob: While Wally is traditionally known as a Caucasian redhead, the show is using his half African-American cousin, also called Wally, who was introduced in the New 52.[[note]]Originally, New 52 Wally was presented as being the new timeline's version of original Wally, until [[ComicBook/DCRebirth DC Universe: Rebirth]] #1 {{retcon}}ned them into being cousins.[[/note]] The TV series takes it one step farther, making both of his parents African-American. |
| 281 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, he got his powers from a freak accident identical to the one that gave Barry his powers. Here his powers come from the Philosopher's Stone via Savitar. |
| 282 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: |
| 283 | ** Linda Park, Hartley Rathaway, and Roy Harper are among Wally's closest associates in the comics- Linda being his wife and Hartley and Roy being two of his best friends. In the Arrowverse, Wally has yet to interact with any of them. |
| 284 | ** In the comics, Magenta/Frankie Kane is Wally's PsychoExGirlfriend. Here, that's not the case, likely due to her AgeLift. |
| 285 | ** Comics Zoom is Wally’s EvilFormerFriend, with Wally seeing his fall from grace as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]. Here, Wally and Zoom never were friends to begin with. |
| 286 | ** Fred Chyre in the comics was a major part of Wally's supporting cast. Here, Chyre dies a full season before Wally is introduced and they never meet as a result. |
| 287 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Originally came of this way due to his uneasy relationship with Barry and Iris who his comic counterpart considered ParentalSubstitute's, he grew out of it shortly after Barry gave up his powers for him. |
| 288 | * AdvertisedExtra: He was made a member of ''The Flash'' main cast an episode after his first appearance. Outside of his relations with Joe and Iris, [[OutOfFocus he hasn't been a part of Season Two's overarching plot]] of "Team Flash vs Zoom". Considering that he is still LockedOutOfTheLoop when it comes to the Flash, and that 80-90% of the scenes deal with this, especially in later episodes of Season Two, he ''usually'' appears shortly in the opening few scenes then disappears for the rest of the episode. Finally averted in Season 3 once he becomes Kid Flash. |
| 289 | * AgeLift: He's only a few years younger than Barry and Iris in the show, giving him a much smaller age gap from them as opposed to the original comics, where they were in their late 20's/early 30's and he was originally a preteen. |
| 290 | * AlliterativeName: '''W'''ally '''W'''est. |
| 291 | * AscendedFanboy: He is a fan of speed and The Flash. He becomes a speedster and one of Team Flash's member and ally. |
| 292 | * TheAtoner: Feels that he needs to make up for his past mistakes and develops ChronicHeroSyndrome as a result. Joe isn't too pleased. |
| 293 | * AtrociousAlias: In the Season 3 trailer, Barry recommends Wally calls himself Kid Flash. |
| 294 | -->'''Barry:''' How about Kid Flash? |
| 295 | -->'''Wally:''' Don't call me that. |
| 296 | ** Once he actually becomes Kid Flash he embraces the name. |
| 297 | * BadassDriver: He's a drag racer, and a very good one at that. He's even willing to use CarFu if necessary. |
| 298 | * BadassNormal: His main skill is being a BadassDriver. Later subverted when he becomes The Flash in the Flashpoint timeline. |
| 299 | * BashBrothers: He becomes quite chummy with Nate. Even before he joined the Legends, the two of them were forming a Dynamic Duo of sorts on the streets while Barry was locked in the Speed Force and the Legends took a break. |
| 300 | * BattleCouple: He and Jesse everytime they fight together. At least before Jesse breaks up with him in favor of her missions on Earth-2. |
| 301 | * TheBigGuy: Serves as this for the Legends, being the resident speedster and the powerhouse of the team. |
| 302 | * BigLittleBrother: He's 6'0, while Iris is only 5'4. He was born after Iris was; Francine was pregnant before abandoning Joe and Iris. |
| 303 | * {{Bromance}}: Apparently developed one [[NoodleIncident offscreen]] with Nate, even serving as his "wingman," as Wally puts it, after the latter was left by Amaya. |
| 304 | * ButNowIMustGo: He leaves Team Flash early in Season 4, so he can finally stop being in Barry's shadow. |
| 305 | * CharacterDeath: In the tie-in comic to ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', he was killed during the battle against the Anti-Monitor. The CosmicRetcon brought him back. |
| 306 | * CarFu: Wally shows himself to be a BadassDriver by using his car to ram Black Siren over with the side of his car, while she was beating down the Flash. |
| 307 | * CharacterDevelopment: When we first meet him, Wally is more heavily based off the New 52 version, being an angsty, rebellious young man who doesn't gel with his family and is generally rubbed the wrong way by Barry. As the series progresses, he becomes more and more like the original Wally. He becomes closer to his dad and sister, he gets on much better with Barry, and he's not only begun idolizing the Flash, but also developed a strong desire to help people. |
| 308 | * ChildrenRaiseYou: It is implied that raising him is what really reformed Francine. |
| 309 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: After The Flash/Barry Allen sacrifices his speed to save Wally's life, he wants to atone for his jerkishness and show gratefulness for being saved by being a hero. |
| 310 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 311 | ** Since in this version, he's Iris's little brother instead of nephew, this makes him one with Daniel West, Iris's brother of the New 52. |
| 312 | ** He has elements of both the original Wally West, who the actor did research on for the role, as well as the current Kid Flash, Wally West III. Most notably, TV Wally also got trapped in the Speed Force follwing a Flashpoint event, which was what happened with ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Wally, who had disappeared during ''ComicBook/New52'' and was replaced by Wally West II (the one [[CanonImmigrant based on the TV version]]). |
| 313 | ** After his time on ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', this Wally has even taken on traits from the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' version, with his habit of collecting souvenirs. |
| 314 | ** After leaving the show and briefly returning, Wally's "zen master of speed" characterisation seems to be taken from Max Mercury, though it could just be flanderising his own comic self's spiritual understanding of the Speed Force. |
| 315 | * CommutingOnABus: Since Barry returned stronger from the Speed Force and Jesse broke up with Wally, Wally decided to leave the team to find himself. He returned for a while to attend Barry and Iris's wedding and then leaves. Wally was recruited by Rip Hunter and joined the Legends until Mallus was defeated. He goes to Central City to meet his new sister Jenna and departs again. He helps during the Crisis on Infinite Earths [[BackForTheDead only to die]], and after being BackFromTheDead due to the timeline changes, he returns to speak with Barry about something wrong with the Speed Force and then goes again. |
| 316 | * ConvenientReplacementCharacter: When he joins the Legends he largely fills Firestorm's role as the metahuman [[TheBigGuy big guy]] with a StoryBreakerPower. |
| 317 | * CoolUncle: His niece certainly seems to think so, given how much pride she has in relaying stories to her grandfather about some of Wally's exploits with The Legends. It's clear Nora really looks up to her Uncle. |
| 318 | * DanceBattler: Has elements of breakdance with his BulletCatch maneuver in ''Crisis On Earth-X.'' |
| 319 | * DeathIsCheap: He get's killed by Outkast, Nash Wells' antimatter doppelganger, in the official tie-in comic ''Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant #1''. However, he is already slated to return after the recreation of the multiverse. |
| 320 | * DemotedToExtra: In Season 4 he no longer feels at home with Team Flash, so he leaves Central City to find his own path. |
| 321 | ** Even before this, Wally West played a ''much'' smaller role in the show than his comic self did. Many of the storylines from seasons 2, 3, 4, and 5 are directly taken from the time when Wally was the ''lead character'' of the comics. Suffice to say he plays a ''much'' smaller role in the show's version. |
| 322 | * DisappearedDad: Grew up without his father, although it was actually a case of Disappeared Son since Joe was around when Wally wasn't. |
| 323 | * DoppelgangerAttack: He can create speed force duplicates without relying on the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique ethically questionable and problematic technique of creating time remnants]]. |
| 324 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Due to being the baby of the family he's very insecure about his place in the West household. It gets worse when he gets speed powers and Joe and Iris are very reluctant for him to be a hero. They come around by Christmas though. |
| 325 | * EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Legends quite late in Season 3 (Episode 13 out of 18 in total). |
| 326 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: He's already a BadassDriver when introduced. Season 3 shows him gaining SuperSpeed. |
| 327 | * TheEngineer: He's something of a wizard with engines and anything to do with speed. Before deciding he needed to make a difference, he was training to be an engineer. |
| 328 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He's a street racer who risks getting arrested to win bets and pay for his mother's hospital bills. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make him want Joe's help. |
| 329 | * ForegoneConclusion: Why the reveal of his powers isn't being hidden with spoiler tags. |
| 330 | * FunPersonified: He still is a bit angsty but has become more cheerful with time. |
| 331 | * FutureBadass: Barry mentions to Joe that he has no doubt Wally is destined to become a hero. Turns out he was more right than he thought, when Wally gains speedster powers. |
| 332 | * GoodCounterpart: Both Wally and Eobard Thawne have SuperSpeed, wear yellow suits, and wanted to be heroes. But while Eobard devoted his life to ruining Barry's when he realized he could [[IJustWantToBeYou never be completely like him]], Wally has a genuine sense of justice and becomes Barry's friend. His work alongside the Legends contrasts him with Thawne in that Thawne was the sole speedster of a group that damaged the timeline. |
| 333 | * GreenEyedMonster: Initially treats Barry coldly for the seemingly perfect pedestal both Iris and Joe have placed him on. Additionally, he's not too thrilled that Jesse developed powers and he didn't. He's not a {{Jerkass}} about it though. |
| 334 | * HealingFactor: As with any other Speedster or meta. Sometimes it is shown to be unreliable, leading it to appear occasionally as if he lacks one. This is most likely due to gaining the powers from the Philosopher Stone and not the Speed Force, therefore having a weaker connection than either Barry or Jesse have to it. Another possibility was Joe's irresponsible breaking of his cocoon. |
| 335 | * HeroicWannabe: After Barry rescues him from Zoom, he develops a ChronicHeroSyndrome and charges in dangerous situations to help him, much to Joe's terror. |
| 336 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: He is the Flash in the ''Flashpoint'' timeline. In the meantime between his exit from Team Flash and his transference to "Legends", he has done offscreen heroics (fighting Starro, solving some situation in Cambodia). |
| 337 | * HiddenDepths: He can speak Japanese. |
| 338 | * IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the series until the mid-season finale of ''The Flash'' Season 2, which was during the fourth year of the Series/{{Arrowverse}}. |
| 339 | * IdiotBall: Like Barry, he tends to grab this on occasion. He's just as reckless as Barry was in his early days, unfortunately without Barry's genius level intellect to keep his ego in check, leading Wally to make some very poor decisions. |
| 340 | * IJustWantToBeBadass: His character arc in Season 3 is his desire to be a good speedster like Barry and Jesse. He ultimately gets his wish. |
| 341 | * IOweYouMyLife: The Flash saved his life twice now; first from Tar Pit, second from Zoom. Because of the latter, he begins idolizing the Flash. |
| 342 | * ItsAllAboutMe: His hostility toward the Wests is revealed to be a case of this in "Potential Energy", as he is angry with them and his terminally ill mother because the latter didn't tell him about his father or the fact that he had a sister until near his mother's death. As Iris points out to him, ''they'' didn't know about ''him'' either. |
| 343 | * ItsPersonal: Savitar is his most personal enemy in Season Three, both for killing Iris in the future and sentencing him to a MindRape both in and outside of the Speed Force. He spends his spare time training in order to fight him. |
| 344 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He starts out this way; he's got some anger issues and isn't always the most reliable, but he's not a bad person at heart. He grows out of this by the end of the season. |
| 345 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Because Wally is not aware of Barry being the Flash, his first impression of him is as someone who is aloof and unreliable. He finds out that Barry is the Flash in the penultimate episode of Season 2. |
| 346 | * LongLostRelative: Never mentioned in Season One because Iris's mother left before Joe knew she was pregnant. |
| 347 | * LovesMyAlterEgo: He has a tense relationship with Barry but greatly idolizes The Flash, not knowing they're the same person. They eventually got better, though. By the time he finally finds out about Barry's SecretIdentity, he already considers him his brother. |
| 348 | * MythologyGag: Wally getting trapped in the Speed Force following a Flashpoint event is exactly what happened in ''ComicBook/New52'', before it was revealed in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''. |
| 349 | * NoodleIncident: Fought a [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica giant starfish alien]] during his self-discovery trip in Blue Valley. |
| 350 | * OddFriendship: With H.R. who agrees to train him after TheTeam refuses to. Both connect due to the rejection they got from Team Flash. |
| 351 | ** Played even straighter with Rip Hunter. Rip originally intended to simply manipulate him into getting what he wanted, but after a night of drinking and some karaoke in Tokyo, the two seem to have genuinely become good friends. |
| 352 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Why he eventually leaves Team Flash, feeling like an outsider on a team of geniuses and a very upgraded Barry, since his vehicle engineering and his super speed are of no use there. He gets better after joining the Legends, [[SmallNameBigEgo perhaps a little too well.]] |
| 353 | --->'''Wally''': (''to Kuasa'') What I am is the fastest man alive. |
| 354 | --->'''Nate''': [[AlwaysSecondBest Second fastest.]] |
| 355 | --->'''Wally''': (''meekly'') She didn't need to know that. |
| 356 | * PassingTheTorch: Barry names him his successor when he leaves to go into the Speed Force. However out of respect towards Barry he refuses the moniker "The Flash," opting to remain Kid Flash. |
| 357 | * PutOnABus: After the Season 5 premiere of ''The Flash'' Wally decides to leave Central City again to complete his journey of self-discovery that was interrupted when Rip asked him to join the Legends, because his actor wanted to take a sabbatical for personal reasons. |
| 358 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: He's immediately added to the OBB in the episode after his introduction. |
| 359 | * RaceLift: The original Wally is Caucasian, while his New 52 cousin is half-Caucasian half-African-American; however, like the rest of the West family, this version is fully African-American. |
| 360 | * RedBaron: His drag racing monicker is "Taillights". |
| 361 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He was already related to Iris in the comics, but in the show he's now her brother rather than her nephew. This, in-turn, makes him, Barry's brother-in-law. |
| 362 | * RetCanon: Wally West already existed in the comics, but after this version was given a RaceLift, an African-American version of Wally West got brought into New 52 because of the show. Later it's revealed that this version of Wally West is [[CanonImmigrant different to the original one, and is the original's cousin]]. |
| 363 | * RetiredBadass: He gives super-heroics after his stint with the Legends to spend his days relaxing and meditating in Tibet. |
| 364 | * ShipperOnDeck: He encourages Joe to go on his date with DA Cecile, even when Alchemy starts calling out to him. |
| 365 | * StoryBreakerPower: In the Flash, Wally is generally playing second fiddle to Barry. Once he joins the Legends, this changes as his powers far outstrip that of any individual legend. He's often able to solve an episode's worth of problems in a few seconds, by speeding in and snatching whatever the Legends are after. In the finale, he's the only one who's able to keep Mallus distracted while the other Legends escape. |
| 366 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He is very similar to Joe and Iris. |
| 367 | * SuperheroSpeciation: He was written off ''The Flash'' because the writers found it hard to write for two speedsters without [[TheWorfEffect nerfing]] one or both of them. |
| 368 | * SuperiorSuccessor: Has the potential for it anyway, becoming faster much quicker than Barry progressed in his early days, but he still lacks the training and discipline. In fact Barry's plan to prevent Savitar from killing Iris is to use Wally's superior speed. However, the Speed Force discourages Barry from using Wally to help him. And after Barry returns, it becomes very apparent that his time in the Speed Force has made the man in red "The Fastest Man Alive" once again. |
| 369 | * SuperSpeed: Has them starting ''The Flash'' Season 3. |
| 370 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: He has some issues with Joe, and possibly Iris, for not being there growing up and not helping his mom when she came back, so he's understandably not interested in bonding with anyone when Joe welcomes him with open arms and even offers money. It's also suggested he's slightly hurt that they took Barry in. Fortunately, he and Joe bond at the end of "Potential Energy", and he becomes quite close to Iris and gets along relatively well with Barry. |
| 371 | ** When he rushes to Barry and Oliver's rescue in "Invasion", he ends up getting his ass handed to him due to not having anywhere near the level of experience the other Arrow-Verse heroes have. |
| 372 | * TookALevelInBadass: He is a much more powerful speedster as of "Death of the Speed Force", since he can enter in the Speed Force and has tricks with the Speed Force that Barry cannot do. |
| 373 | * TookALevelInKindness: After his initial hostility towards The Wests and Barry in particular, he begins to finally open up to all of them after realizing they all care about him very much. |
| 374 | * TooDumbToLive: Fortunately a non-lethal example. In "Magenta," Wally has hope that he may be a speedster too, so he tests his theory by secretly having superpowers by jumping in front of a speeding car in the hope that something supernatural would happen. When Barry calls him out on this display of blatant stupidity, Wally admits that he had no idea what would happen by doing this plan. |
| 375 | * TheUnchosenOne: In a sense; Wally wants to be a hero more than anything, but despite being caught in the same Dark Matter wave as Jesse, he didn't get powers from the Speed Force. He did however get them artificially from the Philosopher's Stone, which had its drawbacks. |
| 376 | * TheUnfavourite: How he views himself; Joe and Iris's refusal to let train him as a hero, and Barry's reluctance to allow him in the field, also fuels that belief. He grows out of it after his brief tenure with the Legends. |
| 377 | * {{Transplant}}: Joins ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' as a series regular in the latter half of the third season, after disappearing early in ''The Flash'' Season 4. |
| 378 | * UnskilledButStrong: Surpassed even a rookie Barry in a speed test, but has no proper training with it. |
| 379 | ** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Comes to be a true hurdle]] that when the two are preparing for the night that Iris dies, Barry realizes he's allowed Wally to coast by on his natural talents, instead of challenging and improving his skills. |
| 380 | * UnwittingPawn: Turns out that, after observing the events of Flashpoint through the Speed Force, Savitar came up with the idea to turn Wally into Kid Flash counting on his youth and inexperience to be the factors needed in order to eventually escape his prison and place Wally in there instead. |
| 381 | * WalkingSpoiler: If you weren't on track with Season Two, chances are you had no idea that he existed. |
| 382 | * WalkingTheEarth: After Barry returns from the Speed Force, Wally decides to embark on a JourneyToFindOneself by performing superheroics globally. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Francine West]] |
| 386 | !! Francine West |
| 387 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/francine_west.png]] |
| 388 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 389 | !!! '''Played By:''' Vanessa A. Williams |
| 390 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E2FlashOfTwoWorlds Flash of Two Worlds]]" (''The Flash'' 2x2) |
| 391 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 392 | |
| 393 | Iris West's mother and Joe's estranged wife. She has a son that is also Joe's. |
| 394 | ---- |
| 395 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The drug-addict and estranged LongLostRelative storyline is native in the show, though it's justified since she's [[SparedByTheAdaptation mostly]] a PosthumousCharacter in the comics anyway. |
| 396 | * AdaptationNameChange: Iris's mother is named Fran or Nadine (New Earth) in DC Comics. |
| 397 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Averted, Joe views her appearing out of nowhere and attempts at reconnecting with Iris a ploy for money, and given her history, it is hard not to believe him. Then she reveals she's dying... |
| 398 | * ChildrenRaiseYou: It is implied that raising Wally is what really reformed her. |
| 399 | * CompositeCharacter: Most likely a combination of '''Fran''' Russel (Iris's biological mother) and Nad'''ine''' West (Ira's wife) from DC Comics. She is also a combination of Mary West, Wally's mother in the comics, as Wally in this series is Iris's brother rather than nephew. |
| 400 | * EasilyForgiven: DoubleSubverted. She ''really'' had to work hard to eventually earn Joe and Iris's forgiveness. Wally also did not take kindly that she hid him from his father and sister all his life. Thanks to Barry's CosmicRetcon, however, her daughter forgives her on the spot and her son either forgave her much quickly than he originally did or did not held any resentment against her at all. |
| 401 | * IHaveNoSon: Both Joe and Iris disowned her and want her out of their lives. In the post-Flashpoint timeline, she's EasilyForgiven by the latter. |
| 402 | * KilledOffScreen: Succumbs to her disease in between episodes 11 and 12 after having made peace with both Iris and Wally. |
| 403 | * LongLostRelative: She disappeared from Joe and Iris's lives for more than twenty years. |
| 404 | * MetaphoricallyTrue: Joe tells Iris that she's dead. Given that Francine was systematically destroying her own life before her disappearance, Joe was somehow right. |
| 405 | * MissingMom: She left when Iris was a little kid. Joe had to tell her she died, out of fear that Francine would never beat her addiction, sparing Iris what he believed, future heartbreak. |
| 406 | * MoralityPet: She's the only person that Wally so far cares for. He gets into illegal street races to pay for her hospital bills. |
| 407 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Subverted. Originally Wally was absent during her final hours out of anger over Francine hiding him from his father and sister, which he later regrets. However, Barry's CosmicRetcon changed that. |
| 408 | * OneTrueLove: Never moved on from Joe, and openly admits to him, he is the love of her life. |
| 409 | * ParentsAsPeople: She has a great capacity of love for her children, Wally turning out to be a fine, if rebellious, young man is proof of that, but her early dalliances with addiction made her less than a suitable mother. |
| 410 | * RaceLift: She's Caucasian in the comics like the rest of her family. |
| 411 | * RecoveredAddict: The reason she disappeared from her family's life. |
| 412 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: She's trying to make amends to both Joe and Iris, and ultimately succeeds, before finally succumbing to her illness. |
| 413 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Makes her debut at the second episode of Season 2. |
| 414 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Was only in a few episodes in ''The Flash'' Season 2, but those appearances directly lead to Wally's introduction. |
| 415 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: She's almost always a PosthumousCharacter in the comics. Subverted when she later succumbs to her disease. |
| 416 | * WhiteShirtOfDeath: Heavily invoked. Last time she was shown alive, she's wearing a white hospital gown. Other characters then state that she died on the hospital, meaning she's probably wearing a similar if not the same gown. |
| 417 | * YouSeeImDying: From a disease, as a result of her life as a negligent drug addict. This is the reason she came back to her family's life, to get closure. Unfortunately for her, this doesn't change how Iris initially feels about her. While she's sorry she's dying, Iris tells her to never come back. Later on, Iris becomes more sympathetic and makes peace with her. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Jenna West]] |
| 421 | !! Jenna Marie West |
| 422 | !!! '''Species:''' Human(?) |
| 423 | !!! '''Played By:''' N/A |
| 424 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E23WeAreTheFlash We Are The Flash]]" (''The Flash'' 4x23) |
| 425 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 426 | |
| 427 | Joe West and Cecile Horton's daughter and half-sister to both Iris, Wally (both paternal), and Joanie (maternal). |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * CanonForeigner: She has no corresponding counterpart among the canonical Franchise/TheFlash family from the comicbooks, though whether or not she's a CanonCharacterAllAlong remains to be seen. |
| 430 | * ExpansionPack: Being pregnant with her gave her mother {{Telepathy}}. |
| 431 | * HeroicBastard: Joe and Cecile are not married when she was born. |
| 432 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: She's born during the Season 4 finale of ''The Flash''. |
| 433 | * MythologyGag: Her name is very similar to ''Jenni'' Ognats aka XS, the daughter of Dawn Allen (whose counterpart, ironically, is officially introduced shortly after Jenna's birth). |
| 434 | * PutOnABus: After an incident with the Red Death, both Joe and Cecile agree for her safety that Jenna and Joe move away from Central City's craziness and Metahumans. |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | [[folder:Grandma Esther]] |
| 438 | !! Esther |
| 439 | !!! '''Species:''' Human |
| 440 | !!! '''Played By:''' N/A |
| 441 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 442 | |
| 443 | Joe West's grandmother and great-grandmother to Iris, Wally and Jenna West. |
| 444 | ---- |
| 445 | * TheAlcoholic: Implied as her eggnog recipe contains excessive amounts of alcohol. |
| 446 | * TheGhost: Mentioned a lot but has never appeared in person. |
| 447 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: Iris or/and Wally's great-grandparents are never mentioned in the comics. This one at least has a first name. |
| 448 | * SupremeChef: Joe West seems to think of her as one, taking great pride in her eggnog and meatloaf. Though everyone else has other ideas - well, everyone else except Barry, who makes an almost ''orgasmic'' noise when told by Joe that there's "grandma Esther's meatloaf" made for him after his release from prison. Both Barry and Joe ''glare'' at Cisco when he badmouths the meatloaf. |
| 449 | [[/folder]] |
| 450 | |
| 451 | ! Extended West-Allen Family |
| 452 | [[folder:Cecile Horton / Virtue]] |
| 453 | !!Cecile Horton / Virtue |
| 454 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cecile_horton.png]] |
| 455 | !!! '''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 456 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/DanielleNicolet |
| 457 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E19WhoIsHarrisonWells Who is Harrison Wells?]]" (''The Flash'' 1x19) |
| 458 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' [[note]]('' Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'')[[/note]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | The District Attorney of Central City, live-in girlfriend of Joe West and mother of Jenna West. She eventually quits her job and starts legally defending metahumans instead. |
| 461 | |
| 462 | Eventually she ended up becoming a meta-human herself, with her powers manifesting during her pregnancy. As her powers developed, Cecile eventually joined Team Flash herself. |
| 463 | ---- |
| 464 | * AdaptationalBadass: While the Virtue of the comics had similar empath powers, she did not possesses telekinesis and MentalTimeTravel. |
| 465 | * AlmightyMom: Or Almighty Step-Grandmother. After having had enough of Nora bashing her mother, Mama Cecile puts her foot down with Nora's bratty behavior and sets the record straight about Iris. |
| 466 | * AscendedExtra: Introduced as Team Flash's unknowing legal consultant (similar to Laurel Lance in the first two seasons of ''Arrow'' but a far less important character) who disappears for a whole season then comes back as Joe's SecondLove and an ally and member of Team Flash. |
| 467 | * AscendedFangirl: Unknowingly admitted to Barry she was a Flash fan in "Who Is Harrison Wells?" and even had a playful Team Flash vs. Team Kid Flash rivalry with her daughter. Eventually, she is allowed into the circle on [[SecretKeeper Barry's identity]], even gaining metahuman powers of her own, which she often uses to help him and the team out. |
| 468 | * BlackBossLady: She is the District Attorney of Central City, after all. |
| 469 | * BlessedWithSuck: While she usually loves being an empath, as it helps her and her clients out. [[spoiler:However, due to the death of Joe in Negative Flash-Point, she not only had to deal with her own grief over losing the love of her life, she had spent several months feeling Iris and Barry's grief over losing Joe too.]] |
| 470 | * TheBusCameBack: After being [[PutOnABus absent for the entire second season]], she comes back in the third and becomes increasingly prominent in the following seasons. |
| 471 | * ChekhovsSkill: Cecile's telepathy, while seemingly a casually thrown in joke, turns out to be crucial in the Season Four finale. |
| 472 | * TheConfidant: She's the first person outside of Team Flash that Joe tells about the Pipeline prison. |
| 473 | * CompositeCharacter: In the comics, Cecile Horton and the superhero Virtue are two completely separate, unrelated characters, with the comics Virtue being named Holly Ann Fields. |
| 474 | * CrusadingLawyer: She eventually quits her job as the District Attorney and becomes a lawyer defending metahumans instead. |
| 475 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She had a nervous breakdown after the stress from her job and dealing with her mother's death, and spent time in a psychiatric facility. |
| 476 | * TheEmpath: After giving birth, her telepathy becomes unreliable until it eventually fades. However, she soon discovers that she has retained some ability to sense and mirror the emotions of others. |
| 477 | * FirstNameBasis: Joe and other characters always refer to her given name, sometimes with her job title. Her last name is only revealed in Season 3. The one exception is Harry Wells, who calls her "DA Cecile Horton". |
| 478 | * GoodCounterpart: To [=DeVoe=], she fist develops powers in season four, during his stint as BigBad. He has [[SuperIntelligence mental powers]] that [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity cause him to become devoid of empathy]], while she has [[TheEmpath mental powers that run on empathy]] and her powers are ultimately responsible for his defeat, demonstrating the seasons CentralTheme that empathy and emotional intelligence are more important that [[StrawVulcan cold, emotionless logic]]. Later in the show she also uses his chair on numerous occasions and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands frequently gains new powers]], though hers are natural while his [[PowerParasite were stolen from others]]. |
| 479 | ** After [=DeVoe=] was defeated, Top and Rainbow Raider II were presented as her ShadowArchetype's with them being said to have similar power sets to her but use them violently and for selfish means. |
| 480 | * GoodStepmother: She gets along with Iris and treats her with the same love she treats her own daughters. |
| 481 | * HelloAttorney: She's definitely not bad looking. |
| 482 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: At only five feet, she is a full foot shorter than Joe (6' 1''). |
| 483 | * InformedAbility: We're constantly told what a great lawyer Cecile is but each time we see her in a courtroom it's a disaster for her client. Furthermore, she has no apparent problem violating her sworn oath as a [=DA=] or the canons of legal ethics to help Team Flash with an investigation. The show's heaping helpings of HollywoodLaw don't really help. |
| 484 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Is ''very'' excited about having gained powers. |
| 485 | * MindOverManners: Averted. One of the main struggles Cecile had with her telpathy was ivasion of privacy of other people's minds. |
| 486 | * MindOverMatter: In Season 9, she has gained the power to telekinetically move objects. |
| 487 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Cecile picks up new powers every season, with Season 9 having her develop new powers every few episodes. |
| 488 | * NiceGirl: Despite sometimes being a bit inconsiderate with her powers, Cecile is a pure and kind-hearted soul. |
| 489 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Telepathically, as she often uses her powers without any regards for people's privacy. |
| 490 | * OutOfFocus: She's absent for the entire second season. [[TheBusCameBack She comes back in the third]]. |
| 491 | * PowerIncontinence: She can't turn off her telepathy. [[DownplayedTrope She still functions reasonably well]], except when she's trying to sleep and gets blasted awake by Joe's dreams. |
| 492 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: Come Season 5. |
| 493 | * RaceLift: Like a majority of the cast. She is an Irish red-head in the comics named Cecile O'Malley, before marrying her ex-Garret Horton. Here she is played by African-American Danielle Nicolet. |
| 494 | * RelationshipUpgrade: She and Joe began as friends but began dating after she returns in ''The Flash'' Season 3. Come Season 4 she's on the cusp of moving in with him, and mother of his third child. Season 5 Nora affectionately recognizes her as "Mama Cecile". |
| 495 | * SecondLove: The first real relationship Joe has had since Francine. |
| 496 | * SecretKeeper: She knows about the Pipeline prison. She also learns the identities of the Flash and Kid Flash once she and Joe become an OfficialCouple. |
| 497 | * ShipTease: With Joe. He finally starts making a move in ''The Flash'' Season 3. |
| 498 | * SixthRanger: After Joe, she is the Team's closest companion in the government and city politics. |
| 499 | * StoryBreakerPower: After gaining powers, she is treated as a powerhouse and one of the most vital members of Team Flash. |
| 500 | * TeamMom: She is the only female member of Team Flash to have raised a child, and treats the younger members with the same tenderness and understanding she would show Jenna or Joanie. |
| 501 | * {{Telepathy}}: Gains the ability to read thoughts during her pregnancy. She loses those abilities after giving birth to Jenna. However she may have retained some of her abilities, as she is able to read Jenna's mind, to Joe's chagrin. Her abilities often come in handy when she is assisting the team, as being able to read minds helps often to point them in the right direction to solving their case. |
| 502 | * TookALevelInBadass: Her powers as an Empath have grown exponentially so, that when Psyche, the Sage Force with the powers to make peoples worst fears come to life, Cecile was able to project her empathy all across Central City as a shield, to prevent Psyche from doing so. Later on due to being able to seemingly tap into her empathy she can form physical shields and manipulate energy around her. |
| 503 | * WhatTheHellHero: Gives one to Joe after telling her about his involvement about keeping Metahuman prisoners in the Pipeline. |
| 504 | * WrongGenreSavvy: When the team needs to exorcise Thawne from Nash's mind, she shows up with holy water, a cross, and an Ouija board. |
| 505 | [[/folder]] |
| 506 | |
| 507 | [[folder:Nora West-Allen / XS]] |
| 508 | !!Nora West-Allen |
| 509 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_west_allen.png https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xs_9.png]] |
| 510 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm XS! How schway is that!?!"'']] |
| 511 | !!! '''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 512 | !!! '''Known Aliases:''' XS, "Dawn" |
| 513 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaParkerKennedy |
| 514 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S3E8CrisisOnEarthXPart1 Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1]]" (''Supergirl'' 3x8) |
| 515 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' [[note]](''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 516 | |
| 517 | In a possible future, the child of Barry and Iris, who first appeared as a mysterious young woman that not only follows the members of Team Flash. Like her father (and briefly for a short while, her mother) and maternal uncle, she is a speedster. Coming from a timeline where her father has disappeared, and sharing a somewhat fractured relationship with her mother, she comes back to the present to finally have a chance at getting to know Barry, as well as prevent the incident that caused him to go missing. |
| 518 | |
| 519 | Unfortunately, in attempting to prevent her father's disappearance, she struck an accord with the man who murdered her paternal grandmother, Eobard Thawne. In the course of these visits, Thawne taught Nora how to use her newly-discovered powers to travel back to see her dad as a young man, eventually helping him with stopping Clifford [=DeVoe=]'s Enlightenment. However, she inadvertently sets forth a chain of events that not only sped up the events of her father's disappearance, but also led to her own erasure from existence. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | However, the TimeyWimeyBall is a key element of ''The Flash'', and due to a combination of the ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}'', as well as certain changes caused by the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', a new, more well adjusted version of Nora arrived in the past to assist her father with defeating a speedster known as Godspeed, a villain her previous self dealt with in the course of gaining her powers. |
| 522 | |
| 523 | -> see the Characters/SmallvilleGovernment page for Bette Sans Souci, the Earth-167 character who bears her physical likeness |
| 524 | ---- |
| 525 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: She does not find out until later that her actions wiped the original Cicada, Future David Hirsch, from existence. |
| 526 | * AdaptationNameChange: Her name being changed from Dawn to Nora is partly this and partly from being a CompositeCharacter. Except in the Flash 100th episode, Eobard refers to her as Dawn. It seems [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she is Dawn Allen]], but her name changed when Eobard killed Barry's mother, making this an InUniverse version of the trope. |
| 527 | * AllForNothing: She never had a chance of stopping Barry's disappearance, which Thawne knew all along but kept secret from her. To make it worse not only do her attempts to stop it result in her being erased from existence but she moved the Crisis ''up'' five years! |
| 528 | * AlternateSelf: As mentioned, the Nora we see in Season 7 is much more well-adjusted than the Nora who ceased to exist at the end of Season 5. |
| 529 | * AffectionateNickname: |
| 530 | ** Thawne refers to her as "Little Runner". |
| 531 | ** Cisco often playfully calls her "Fan Girl" due to her giddy admiration of her dad and his accomplishments as The Flash. |
| 532 | ** Her codename was partially coined by her mother, as Iris would always say she did everything in "XS". |
| 533 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Subverted. While Iris makes an adorably embarrassing effort to appear cool to Nora and while both Barry and Iris's insistent gushing over the new XS drink at CC Jitters leads to Nora telling her parents that they're embarrassing her, Nora seems to find her parents' awkward parenting endearing. She also believes them to be super cool, in general, because of their heroic endeavors. |
| 534 | * BackFromTheDead: She returns from the future in season 7, with the implication that the events of Crisis reversed her erasure from existence. |
| 535 | * BadassAdorable: She is as cute as her parents and a powerful speedster. |
| 536 | * TheBeautifulElite: She is the offspring of verified hotties Barry Allen and Iris West, and quite easy on the eyes as well, with men and women alike commenting on her beauty. That's on top of inheriting her father's speed. |
| 537 | * BigDamnHeroes: Pulls one in the Season Four finale where she helps stop the satellite from crashing into the city. |
| 538 | * BreakTheCutie: Nora was already dealing with some deep-seated emotional issues when she travelled to the past. Barry banishing her back to the future without even giving her a chance to explain why she was working with Thawne leaves her hurt, infuriated, and vulnerable to being corrupted by the Negative Speed Force. |
| 539 | * BrokenPedestal: |
| 540 | ** Barry abandoning her in the future leaves her furious enough, that she ends up being consumed by her hatred. |
| 541 | ** Since she lost trust on her biological family, she relied on Thawne, who was fatherly to her. However, like Barry before her, she realizes that her mentor has been using her for his own agenda. |
| 542 | * ChekhovsGunman: She had a scattering of minor appearances before being revealed to be an extremely important character. |
| 543 | * ColorMotif: The fact that she emits both purple and yellow lightning essentially confirms that she is Barry and Iris's KidFromTheFuture, as her mother emitted purple lightning during her brief stint as a speedster. |
| 544 | * CompositeCharacter: She's a daughter of Barry and Iris like Dawn Allen, but her name being changed to Nora [[DeadGuyJunior to honor Barry's mother]] was taken from Barry and [[Franchise/GreenLantern Jessica Cruz]]'s daughter in a different continuity. Her superhero codename XS comes from Dawn's daughter Jenni Ognats. Furthermore her giddy personality and time-traveling escapades are taken from Dawn's nephew, Bart Allen/Impulse. Later it's revealed her name was Dawn in the original timeline that Eobard came from, and she got renamed only after Barry's mother was killed. In the later stage of Season 5, her storyline of being a loved one of the Flash who gets corrupted by the Negative Speed Force is taken from Meena Dhawan, the Negative Flash. |
| 545 | * TheCorruptible: Thanks to Thawne, Nora gets connected to the Negative Speed Force, with the result that it warps her personality whenever she taps into it. |
| 546 | * DaddysGirl: When she comes back in time, she's much closer to her father than her mother. A large part of this is because she's mad at Iris for a variety of reasons while having no such baggage with Barry, but the fact remains that she and Barry have nearly identical skills and interests. |
| 547 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Nora grew up without her father and she was hidden by his family about being a speedster. It gets worse when Godspeed indirectly shows Nora the truth about her powers and kills her friend Lia. |
| 548 | * DarkSecret: It's implied a few times that someone is pulling her strings; in particular, Sherloque notes how odd it is that she chose that particular moment to help the Flash and reveal who she is. She gets very worried when he suggests that someone else gave her the idea. In the 100th episode, that person is revealed to be Eobard Thawne in the future. |
| 549 | * DeadGuyJunior: She is named after Barry's late mother. She confirms it when presenting herself to Team Flash. Eobard makes it clear that her name was ''supposed'' to be Dawn, but when he killed Nora Allen that changed. |
| 550 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Subverted, in that Barry isn't dead (maybe...), but missing, and while she certainly doesn't hate Iris, she seems to have some deep seated issues with her mother, and seems to idolize her father. |
| 551 | * DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Unintentionally. By changing history on the night of the Enlightenment and removing him from existence, she was able to do the one thing no other hero in the verse could do; defeat the David Hersch version of Cicada. |
| 552 | * DespairEventHorizon: Being banished by Barry was the last straw for her. |
| 553 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Season 5's central plot thread seems to be building up around the mystery of her future, and her attempts at preventing Barry's disappearance in 2024. |
| 554 | * DominoMask: She has a domino mask as a part of her costume, much like her mother. |
| 555 | * DyingAsYourself: Even after Barry, Iris, even Thawne, tells her to hide in the Negative Speed Force, she refuses, and chooses to be erased as the kind, loving girl her parents raised her to be. |
| 556 | * EarlyBirdCameo: |
| 557 | ** She was technically first alluded to in the "The Flash Reborn", when Speed-Force-deluded Barry said, "Nora shouldn't be here". |
| 558 | ** Her appearance at Barry and Iris's wedding and the other four appearances she had are important to her role in Season 5. |
| 559 | * FaceHeelTurn: {{Subverted}}. Her time in the Negative Speed Force makes her more aggressive and she mimics Reverse-Flash's powers when angry, but not evil. Though her parents intervening before she could go too far off the deep end probably helped. But she's aware that another stint in the Negative Speed Force would turn her evil and she lets herself die rather than let that happen. |
| 560 | * FailureHero: Nora ''really'' wants to be a hero just like her dad. But unfortunately for her, powers alone do not a hero make. She has good intentions, but she's also too impulsive and too trusting of the wrong people because she wants to see good in everybody. Indeed these very traits are what Thawne exploited to manipulate her into getting erased from existence. |
| 561 | * FatalFlaw: Nora's impulsiveness (a flaw Dawn Allen is infamous for incidentally) causes catastrophes of varying degrees OncePerEpisode. |
| 562 | * FindingJudas: In a rare sympathetic example, she is working with Eobard Thawne in hopes of overturn Barry's disappearance in the Crisis and to stop Cicada, a villain Barry could never defeat. Problem is that Thawne is using her as a pawn to escape prison. |
| 563 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 564 | ** She was first alluded to when the Speed Force induced delusional Barry said "Nora shouldn't be here", which was well before her first appearance. |
| 565 | ** Her knowledge but initial inability about phasing hints that she was trained by a speedster. Thawne was revealed to be said speedster and he attempted to teach her to phase when she was fighting Godspeed. |
| 566 | * FutureSlang: She describes awesome things as being [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond "schway"]] and cusses by saying "shrap". |
| 567 | * GenkiGirl: Her default mood is bubbly and talkative. |
| 568 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Nora generally tries to see the good in people, and is even willing to believe the likes of Eobard Thawne might want to do some good. Thawne rewards her company and support by letting her suffer a RetGone twice over. |
| 569 | * GoodCounterpart: To Eobard Thawne. Both are time travelers from the future who meddled with history, especially in relation to Barry Allen's life. However Eobard did so for his own evil selfish means, while Nora aided Team Flash along the way and even saved her father's life. Furthermore, Eobard hated being stuck in the past while Nora meeting her parents' younger selves acts like an AscendedFangirl. Even at her worst, she remained interested on defeating the villain. |
| 570 | * GoodRunningEvil: Since she had a falling out with her parents, she decides to recruit a group of rogues to steal a gun to defeat Cicada. Too bad all of them betrayed her. |
| 571 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She is born to Barry Allen, a meta-human, and to Iris West-Allen, a human, and she inherits her father's super speed. She is the first child born to a meta-human, at least from what is known within the narrative, and thus is evidence that the meta-human gene is inheritable. |
| 572 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: |
| 573 | ** Nora does her best to give people the benefit of the doubt, even if she knows they did terrible things. This leaves her initially ignorant of Thawne's atrocities and blindsided when the Rogues backstab her when she briefly joins them. |
| 574 | ** Or it goes the other way- when Weather Witch genuinely wanted to repent, Nora was convinced it was a "show" and threw her in prison, which led to Joss becoming a full-time villain. |
| 575 | * IDieFree: Rather than risk the Negative Speed Force corrupting her, she chooses to die as herself and accept her erasure as a punishment. |
| 576 | * IdiotHero: If Nora would just stop and think for a minute, or at the very least [[AesopAmnesia learn from her mistakes instead of making the same one constantly,]] she wouldn’t screw up all the time and would actually benefit the team. |
| 577 | * ImportantHaircut: She gets one at some point between giving a gift at Joe and Cecile's baby shower and helping to save the city in the season 4 finale. She also appears to have dyed it a lighter shade of brown. |
| 578 | * KeepingSecretsSucks: Unknown to her parents and her friends she is working with Eobard Thawne which she hates keeping from them, but is too frightened of their reaction to reveal it. Unfortunately, before she had a chance to tell them on her own terms, Sherloque makes it his mission to discover her secret, and rather cruelly and coldly informs TheTeam of Nora's secret, leading to an enraged Barry to lock her in the Pipeline, to Iris's distress. |
| 579 | * KickTheDog: Nora might have been just trying to find a way to stop Cicada II and was corrupted by the Negative Speed Force, but threatening Cisco with a TeleFrag was still uncalled for. |
| 580 | * KillTheCutie: Gets erased from existence since stopping Cicada apparently keeps her from being born in the first place. |
| 581 | * KidFromTheFuture: Nora time travels from her present to before she was born in Season Four, meeting her parents and extended family. |
| 582 | * LamarckWasRight: It's implied her SuperSpeed was inherited from her father. She even has her father's yellow lightning and her mother's purple lightning, which Iris takes as proof of her identity. |
| 583 | * LikeParentLikeChild: |
| 584 | ** Not only is she a speedster like her dad, put she also seems to resemble him in terms of personality and tendency to accidentally mess up the timeline. She's also a CSI and enjoys the same flavor of ice cream Barry does. |
| 585 | ** She ended up being manipulated by Eobard Thawne in a similar way to her father. |
| 586 | * LipstickLesbian: Nora only shows attraction to women, almost botching an incredibly simple mission over being too transfixed by the female target's good looks. [[WordOfGay Later confirmed]] by Eric Wallace, Season 5's writer, [[https://twitter.com/westsiriss/status/1304853732912517120 explicitly referring to her as a lesbian]]. It's to the point that she puts on purple lipstick at super speed as part of her costume change. Overall she's feminine and girly. |
| 587 | * TheLoad: a common criticism of Nora is that she causes more problems than she solves, she even admits that Team Flash defeated Gridlock on their first try before she interfered. |
| 588 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: In the future, all Team Flash members agreed to be mum about her powers and Barry's life as the Flash at Iris's request. This comes back to haunt them when Nora discovers her powers and how she's been deceived her whole life; feeling betrayed she seeks a mentor in the only person in Central City who knows how to coach a speedster -- Eobard Thawne in death row in Iron Heights. All Nora knows is the man was the Flash's ArchEnemy, anything else has been redacted; Nora didn't even realize she was the Flash's daughter until she discovered Gideon. It isn't until Nora went back in time with Barry that she finds just ''how'' monstrous Thawne is / was. |
| 589 | * MoralityPet: Her relationship with Thawne was the closest he's come to genuinely caring about someone else in a way he couldn't muster, even for Cisco and Caitlin. Of course, Thawne being Thawne, even she isn't safe from his manipulations -- in fact he knew that if Cicada were stopped she'd be erased. That said before running off, he makes it clear he still wants her to survive, telling her to hide in the Negative Speed Force to avoid erasure, but she refuses to let herself feel that much hatred again. [[spoiler:Thawne later shows no compunction in wiping her from existence again when he creates the Reverse-Flashpoint]]. |
| 590 | * MostCommonSuperPower: Though it's not obvious from her costume, she's a well-stacked speedster. |
| 591 | * MysteriousPast: In her first few appearances, ''nothing'' is known about her. Just who is she? Why is she so interested in Barry and Team Flash? Where/when did she come from? How does she know so much about the Speed Force? By the end of Season Four all we know is that she's from the future and is Barry and Iris's daughter. |
| 592 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The look on her face says it all after her father banishes her to the future for keeping continued correspondence with Thawne, even after learning what he did to her Grandmother. |
| 593 | * NaiveNewcomer: She can be rather naive for a grown woman, for example being surprised to learn that [[CaptainObviousAesop being a superhero is dangerous]]. Possibly justified since it's implied that Future Iris sheltered her to a large extent. |
| 594 | * NiceGirl: While she is mysterious, she is very sweet and friendly in her interactions with Team Flash, even charming the likes of [[{{Jerkass}} Harry]] after their very brief encounter. |
| 595 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 596 | ** Her helping to destroy the Satellite created the current version of Cicada and also created the meta-tech that becomes a recurring problem in Season 5. Her plan to defeat Cicada was a setup from Thawne so her and Team Flash destroyed the PowerNullifier that allows his imprisonment. |
| 597 | ** Her refusal to give Weather Witch the benefit of the doubt about her attempt to reform just drives Weather Witch to join Silver Ghost's gang. She is still able to reach Weather Witch later, though. |
| 598 | * NoNameGiven: She never identifies herself until the season four finale, wherein she is revealed to be Nora Allen. |
| 599 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She drops her giddy disposition twice, first when Caitlin wishes her luck on her "meeting" and then when she sees Iris after delivering diapers to Cecile and Joe. |
| 600 | * ParentalAbandonment: Barry exiles her to the future, forbidding her from ever returning to the past. Given that she was already having abandonment issues over Barry's disappearance in the future, this understandably [[BrokenPedestal breaks her]]. |
| 601 | * ParentalFavoritism: Inverted. She is much closer to Barry than she is to Iris, likely because they both have super speed, but also possibly because Barry disappeared while she was younger, or maybe before she was even born. Turns out that Nora resents Iris for trying to hide her powers, seeing her as controlling and emotionally distant, and she projects that resentment onto Present!Iris. She's like that for about five episodes until Cecile manages to get her to see how unfair she's being. |
| 602 | * PowerOfHate: Barry's actions leave her so furious, she is corrupted by her anger. |
| 603 | * PromotionToOpeningTitles: Becomes a regular cast member for ''The Flash'' Season 5 after spending the entire fourth season as a RecurringCharacter. |
| 604 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Half of the lightning she emits is purple and she's wearing the same purple costume her mother wore when [[SuperpowersForADay she was a speedster for a day]]. |
| 605 | * PyrrhicVictory: She achieves to get Cicada defeated and Barry did ultimately survive the Crisis, but it comes with the price of her own existence and of releasing Thawne. |
| 606 | * RaceLift: Barry and Iris's daughter in the comics is Caucasian. Here, she's mixed as a result of Iris's own Race Lift. Additionally, the Nora who is Barry's daughter in the comics is also mixed, but half Hispanic. |
| 607 | * RageBreakingPoint: With Iris comes to the future, she is upset then furious that Barry didn't come with her, finally allowing her to connect to the [[TheDarkSide Negative Speed Force]]. |
| 608 | * RealNameAsAnAlias: In her job as a CCPD forensic intern, she goes by "Nora West." We don't see how the cops initially reacted to that name, but "West" isn't particularly rare. |
| 609 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Sports the same sinister Red Eyes of the Reverse Flash, after giving in to her hatred. |
| 610 | * RetGone: |
| 611 | ** Thawne neglected to tell her that stopping Cicada would also mean she'd never exist. She could've survived by hiding in the Negative Speed Force but it would've corrupted her, so she opts to accept her fate as the consequences of the fallout of her working with Thawne. |
| 612 | ** During the eight season, [[spoiler:Thawne sets up the Reverse-Flashpoint, knowing full well that manipulating Iris into a relationship would make it impossible for Nora to be born]]. |
| 613 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: Thank to being a CompositeCharacter whose components include Dawn Allen and her daughter, Jenni Ognats/XS, this version of XS is Barry's daughter, not his ''grand''daughter. Likewise, with Bart being a composite of his namesake and his father, Don, this XS is Impulse's sister, not his niece (Don) or cousin (Impulse). |
| 614 | * RuleOfEmpathy: In "Godspeed," Team Flash learns about how Nora came to work with Eobard Thawne, including how she discovered her powers, when a lightning bolt from Godspeed fries the power-dampening chip, and how she subsequently lost her best friend, Lia, the one person she trusted fully, to Godspeed. Both the Team and the audience empathize with Nora's SympatheticPOV. Iris, in particular, firmly believes in giving Nora the chance to tell her story. |
| 615 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: Nora had a suspicious attitude in her earlier episodes and it is revealed she was working with Thawne, but her intentions to meet her father and to defeat Cicada are genuinely good. |
| 616 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 617 | ** For her parents. Justified, as she is Barry and Iris's KidFromTheFuture, and she never got to experience her parents' love, due to Barry's disappearance when she was a child. |
| 618 | ** In her first appearance, she tells Barry to make sure to accept his wedding vows to Iris and comments that that marriage would be important. |
| 619 | ** In "What's Past is Prologue," while in her father's past, Nora stumbles upon an intimate moment between her parents, prior to them having officially gotten together, where Iris is comforting Barry. Nora watches on with a soft smile on her face. |
| 620 | ** In "Time Bomb," Sherloque successfully translates Nora's journal entries from the time language into English, and her journal entries demonstrate how in awe she is of her parents' love. |
| 621 | ---> '''Nora's journal entry:''' Everything I'm seeing of my mom and dad... they're the perfect couple. I catch them sometimes just looking at one another across the room. Dad smiles and mom can't help but smile back. |
| 622 | ** She left a farewell message in which she commented on her admiration of her parents' love. |
| 623 | * ShipperWithAnAgenda: To get Sherloque of her trail, she tries to set him up with Renee Adler. When his attempts to flirt scare her off, she goes to his ex-wives for help, revealing all of them are Renee's doppelgangers. After this, [[BecomingTheMask she apologizes and decides to help him genuinely earn Earth-1 Renee's interest]]. |
| 624 | * StepfordSmiler: It was revealed that her initial light demeanor is not as light as she makes it appear to be. Season 5 revealed why. |
| 625 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks a ''lot'' like her mother, Iris, and her eyes have the same penetrating effect of Barry. |
| 626 | * SuperSpeed: It's revealed at the end of "Therefore She Is", she's a speedster. |
| 627 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In her memories she believes that Iris was a cruel and callous woman who suppressed all mention of her father and what he stood for. In reality, Iris was indeed a good and kind mother who loved Nora more than anything on earth and encouraged her fascination with The Flash, yet due to the disappearance of her husband, took great pains to ensure she wouldn't follow in Barry's footsteps too closely. In the end it's Nora's abandonment issues since Barry disappeared before she ever got a chance to know him, that projects the malicious and controlling image she had of her mother. |
| 628 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: At the wedding, Barry asks her if they knew each other. But she's insistent she is a complete stranger and they had never met before. |
| 629 | ** In "The Death of Vibe," Sherloque asks Nora if she had any help in coming the past to meet her parents. Her quick, "No," in response is highly suspicious. |
| 630 | * SympatheticPOV: Played with. Although Nora was never an antagonist, the fact that she was working with Eobard Thawne, the man who killed her grandmother, made it unclear whether her naïveté precluded her ability to be a hero. However, "Godspeed" provides a sympathetic perspective for Nora, as we see how things unfolded from her eyes. |
| 631 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: |
| 632 | ** When Nora discovers that Iris placed a power-dampening chip in her, she informs her mother that she lost her daughter for good. |
| 633 | ** After Barry runs Nora back to the future, alienating her from her mother who was empathetic towards her, despite Nora pleading with him, and leaves her there, Nora is devastated and turns back to Thawne, leading to that devastation slowly becoming fury, as she thinks her father doesn't love her anymore because of what he did to her. |
| 634 | * TimeRewindMechanic: A unique quality of her speed is that at a certain velocity time starts running backwards relative to her. Demonstrated first when she helped Barry destroy the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite. |
| 635 | * TimeyWimeyBall: The changes to the timeline caused by the ''Legends'', specifically the ones pertaining to the Tomaz/Tarazi family, also affected Nora; in the future the original Nora came from, ARGUS outlawed metahumans, forcing Iris, with a touch of bitternesss over Barry dying in ''Crisis'', to suppress Nora's powers. Now, the current Nora is from a future where metas are allowed to be metas, allowing her and Bart to be heroes in the open. |
| 636 | * TooDumbToLive: She never stopped to think that going back to a time before she was conceived and meeting her parents could wind up being her literal undoing. |
| 637 | * TrappedInThePast: She's revealed to be stuck in the past during Season Five; having been hit with Negative Tachyons which prevent her from running fast enough to breach the temporal barrier. The trailer for the first episode shows the others attempting to help her return to her time, but it's likely to fail since she was announced as a regular for that season. This is just her cover story, she's not actually trapped at all. She lies to Barry in order to stay in the present in order to know them and to prevent Barry from disappearing in the Crisis of 2024. |
| 638 | * TrickedToDeath: Thawne sends her to the past so she can change the timeline in a way that she would be RetGone. While Thawne grew to see Nora as a daughter, he was completely aware of what would happen. |
| 639 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Nora turns out to be the child of Barry (who's White) and Iris (Black) making her biracial, while she's also a lesbian. She's the only biracial person in the cast, and of course a woman, plus the only lesbian. |
| 640 | * UnreliableNarrator: |
| 641 | ** An unmalicious example, as Nora is largely misguided, which leads her to keeping massive secrets to protect those she loves, particularly her parents. |
| 642 | ** In her opening monologue in the season 5 premiere, "Nora", she claims that like Barry is, in his time, she is the guardian of Central City, in her time. It quickly becomes apparent that this is a lie, seeing as she does not know how to do basic things with her speed, such as phase or create wind funnels with her arms, the former which Barry eventually teaches her and the latter which Iris eventually guides her to do. Furthermore, she was actually unaware of her speed, due to the meta-human dampening chip Iris placed in her, until six months ago. |
| 643 | ** Nora appears to be, however, highly skilled in time-travel, to the point that time wraiths do not chase her, and she has demonstrated that she can vibrate her arm through someone's chest, which she does to Barry in "News Flash," when she is under the influence of Spin's meta technology. As revealed in "What's Past is Prologue," she is working with the Reverse Flash, and he has been training her. |
| 644 | ** In "News Flash" and "All Doll'd Up," Nora makes her mother out to be highly-controlling and cold in the future, to the point that she stifled Nora's independent growth. In "Memorabilia," it is revealed that Nora's memories of Iris were clouded by the anger and devastation she constantly felt from losing her father, and Iris is, in fact, a loving and kind mother who would do anything for Nora, and who took measures to ensure her daughter would not suffer the same fate as Barry did; although "Godspeed" reveals Nora's initial description wasn't entirely inaccurate as Iris gradually turned into a MyBelovedSmother as Nora grew older and she did indeed get more cynical and dismissive about Nora's obsession with the Flash Museum. |
| 645 | ---> '''Nora:''' It didn't matter what you said or did, Mom, I was always going to be angry with you, because you were there.\ |
| 646 | '''Iris:''' You were going through a lot, Nora.\ |
| 647 | '''Nora:''' But so were you. I mean, I thought you were trying to stop me from being me, but you were trying to stop me from being dad. I mean, ending up like him. You guys had a whole life together, and a child, and he vanished. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you. From that day, you were protecting me, and I get that now. I'm so sorry for the way that I treated you, both back then and when I got here. You didn't deserve that. |
| 648 | * UnskilledButStrong: She has a strong connection to the Speed Force, but is still a rookie in terms of mastering her powers. She's able to tap into the Negative Speed Force as well, but does not understand the full implications of using it. |
| 649 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her going back in time to stop Barry from disappearing not only fails and results in her erasing herself from that timeline's existence, but it moves the Crisis--the event that caused Barry's disappearance in the first place--up-time from 2024 to 2019, the current year. |
| 650 | * UnwittingPawn: The Eobard Thawne in her time is manipulating her for some unknown purpose. He apparently gave her the idea to help Barry punch the satellite, which changed who Cicada was. Furthermore, Nora never even knew that Eobard killed her grandmother. Thawne however denies having any malevolent intentions, claiming his motives basically come down to VillainsDyingGrace, and says he just didn't bring up killing her grandmother because he figured Iris already told her. It becomes more complicated when Barry and Iris agree that Thawne is manipulating her, but that he also actually cares about her too. It's revealed in "The Girl with the Red Lightning" that helping her stop Cicada is all part of an elaborate BatmanGambit to save himself from execution. |
| 651 | * WalkingSpoiler: Her real identity is kept in the dark for the majority of the season and TheReveal is one giant spoiler. |
| 652 | * WomanChild: Played for tragedy as her emotional development seems stunted for a number of reasons. Future Iris was controlling [[UnreliableNarrator (from her perspective)]] after Barry disappeared, and on top of that Nora took her anger of not having a dad out on her (something which is TruthInTelevision). Since Iris wouldn't talk about Barry, all Nora had to go on was the Flash Museum, which gave her the impression that her dad was an InvincibleHero who always saved the day, without any casualties or tragedy. The realities of super heroics are a big shock to her, and initially she's not able to handle it, but luckily she learns pretty quickly. |
| 653 | [[/folder]] |
| 654 | |
| 655 | [[folder:Bart Allen / Impulse]] |
| 656 | !!Bart Allen |
| 657 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bart_3.jpg https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imp_4.jpg]] |
| 658 | !!! '''Species:''' Metahuman |
| 659 | !!! '''Known Aliases:''' Impulse |
| 660 | !!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JordanFisher |
| 661 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S7E16POW P.O.W.]]" (''The Flash'' 7x16) |
| 662 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' |
| 663 | |
| 664 | Barry and Iris's son from a post-Crisis future. |
| 665 | |
| 666 | -> see the Characters/SmallvilleClarksAllies page for the Earth-167 character who bears his name and comic book connections |
| 667 | ---- |
| 668 | * TheBeautifulElite: Much like Nora, not only has he inherited his father's speed, but also Barry and Iris's good looks. |
| 669 | * BigLittleBrother: Doing the math of Nora's and Bart's ages, he is half a head taller than Nora despite being seven years younger. |
| 670 | * CompositeCharacter: This version of Bart Allen/Impulse is Barry's son rather than his grandson, taking the place of Don Allen. |
| 671 | * EndearinglyDorky: Take Barry's lovable awkwardness, then multiply it by about 100, add in a tendency to be TheKnightsWhoSaySquee, and you get Bart Allen. |
| 672 | * MythologyGag: Bart likes to describe good things with the phrase "Crash!" much like the version of him from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. |
| 673 | * RaceLift: As with Nora, Bart is Caucasian in the comics, but of mixed race here due to Iris having received a RaceLift of her own. |
| 674 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Thank to being a CompositeCharacter of his father, Don Allen, this version of Bart is Barry and Iris' son and not their grandson. Similarly, thanks to Nora West-Allen being a composite of (among others) Dawn Allen and her daughter Jenni Ognats/XS, this universe's XS is his sister rather than his aunt like Dawn or cousin like Jenni. |
| 675 | * SadClown: Bart often comes off as goofy and lighthearted, but on the inside he too is hurting and griefstricken. |
| 676 | [[/folder]] |
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