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The main cast of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Beware that all spoilers for season one and season two are '''UNMARKED!'''
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[[folder: Team Flash in General]]

!!Team Flash

->'''Current Members''': [[TheHero Barry Allen / The Flash]], [[GadgeteerGenius Cisco Ramon]] / [[{{Seer}} Vibe]], [[TheMedic Dr. Caitlin Snow]], [[FriendOnTheForce Det. Joe West]], [[TheFace Iris West]], [[BadassDriver Wally West]]
->'''Former Members''': [[TeamDad Eobard]] [[DeadPersonImpersonation Thawne]] [[EvilAllAlong /]] [[BigBad The Reverse Flash]], [[FriendOnTheForce Det. Eddie Thawne]], [[SternTeacher Dr. Harrison ''Harry'' Wells]], [[TheProfessor Prof. Martin Stein]] [[FusionDance and]] [[TheEngineer Ronnie Raymond]] / [[PlayingWithFire Firestorm]], [[BigBrotherMentor Hunter]] [[SerialKiller Zolomon]] / [[BigBad Zoom]], [[TeenGenius Jesse Wells]], [[TheMedic Henry Allen]]

A group of people helping Barry in his work as The Flash.
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* {{Action Survivor}}s: They are not really highly-skilled combatants like most of Team Series/{{Arrow}}, though that is due to not having the experience and training they have.
* {{Adorkable}}: They are all lovable nerds.
--> '''Cisco:''' He shoots, he scores!
--> '''Barry:''' Not bad for a guy who got a C in gym.
--> '''Caitlin:''' :D+!
--> '''Cisco:''' Straight up F right here.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: They study the MonsterOfTheWeek thoroughly so Barry can fight them effectively.
* BadassAdorable: They're a very {{Adorkable}} BadassCrew.
* BadassFamily: Half of the members are from the West family. Most of them sans the HappilyAdopted [[SuperSpeed hero]] are also {{Badass Normal}}s, one is even a BadassDriver (Wally).
* BadassNormal: The entire [[BadassFamily West family]] sans Barry ([[TheUnreveal and maybe Wally]]), Eddie Thawne and Harry Wells.
* TheBeautifulPeople: The members are the NerdsAreSexy variant.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: They are all, with a few notable exceptions[[note]][[BigBad Eobard Thawne]], [[BigBad Hunter Zolomon]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Harry Wells]][[/note]], generally kind and considerate people. That doesn't mean they can't and won't kick ass if you threaten them, an innocent civilian, someone they care about or ''especially'' another member of TheTeam.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Team Series/{{Arrow}}'s Brawn. They are {{Adorkable}} {{Science Hero}}es contrasting the other, more action-packed team.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: TheTeam is about helping people.
* {{Gadgeteer Genius}}es: They are the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'s main source of awesome gadgets, apps and power-up medicines.
* GoodFeelsGood: Let's just say that they're happy with having ChronicHeroSyndrome.
* LoveHurts: Their love lives do not really go smoothly. [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Two of them actually being in love with each other,]] even, yet neither being brave enough to make the first move, or really know how to act upon it for that matter.
* TheMedic: Mainly Caitlin, but Henry also filled the job if he's present. Barry is also capable of filling the role.
* MissionControl: Everyone's main purpose is to be Barry's support while he's out on the field.
* NerdsAreSexy: For starters, TheHero is a TallDarkAndHandsome forensic scientist. There's also the TallDarkAndSnarky {{Jerkass}}, the [[HotScoop pretty and perky journalist]], the [[HospitalHottie cute doctor]] and the [[{{Keet}} cheerful]] engineer .
* {{Science Hero}}es: Most of them are scientists, Barry is a Forensic Investigator, Harry is an Astrophysicist, Cisco's a Mechanical Engineer, Caitlin is a doctor and medical researcher, even Iris has a degree as a criminal psychology major before falling into journalism. Seems the only member of the team who doesn't have some experience in scientific studies is their FriendOnTheForce Joe.
* ThePollyanna: TheTeam always finds a way to pick themselves up and retain their positive outlooks in spite of a major loss or/and defeat.
* SecretKeeper: Them and Team Arrow are mutually this for each other.
* SixthRanger: Team Arrow, Ronnie Raymond, Prof. Stein, Ray Palmer and Eddie Thawne all fill the role in Season 1, with Iris being the EleventhHourRanger. Jay Garrick, Jefferson Jackson, Earth-2 Harrison Wells, Linda Park, Henry Allen, Kendra Saunders, Carter Hall and Jesse Wells fill the role in Season 2, with Wally being the EleventhHourRanger. Barry's CosmicRetcon of the second half of Season 1 causes Hartley Rathaway to pull a HeelFaceTurn, making him another ally of TheTeam.
* {{Socially Awkward Hero}}es: Most if not all of them are this to some extent. Probably comes with the territory considering most of them are {{Adorkable}} [[ScienceHero science]] [[NerdsAreSexy nerds]].
* {{Squishy Wizard}}s: See ActionSurvivor above. Barry, due to inexperience, is practically useless in a fight without his SuperSpeed, while the rest rely mostly on high-tech weapons and gadgets, though Cisco shows some combat skills when he goes up against Hartley.
* TheTeam: Obviously. They have a ''much'' healthier relationship with each other than Team Arrow, though.
* TeamDad: Eobard Thawne, Harrison Wells, Joe West, and Prof. Martin Stein filled the role at one point or another.
* TrueCompanions: They gradually become close throughout Season 1. By Season 2, they're basically family.
-->'''Barry''': We're more than just friends... We're family!
* TwoGirlsToAteam: Caitlin was initially TheSmurfettePrinciple, but Felicity's occasional SixthRanger stints did this. Iris becomes a late addition near the end of Season 1, thus playing this trope straight starting Season 2. At least until Jesse Wells joins after she and her father takes refuge on Earth-1, though at the end of ''Trajectory'' she is temporarily PutOnABus and leaves Central City, leaving Caitlin and Iris as the only girls on the team once again.
* UnskilledButStrong: Barry mostly relies on his SuperSpeed (but is slowly changing that), while the rest rely mostly on high-tech weapons and gadgets in case they want to help in the action.
* {{Unwitting Pawn}}s: They spent the entire first season unknowingly helping the evil Eobard Thawne who is actually the season's BigBad posing as their EvilMentor. Unfortunately, Season 2 is no different, as Jay Garrick is also that season's BigBad, [[TheDreaded Zoom]].
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: They are the White to Team Arrow's Grey, with them being led by the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'s resident AllLovingHero to boot.
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[[folder: Barry Allen]]
!! [[Franchise/TheFlash Bartholomew "Barry" Allen / The Flash]]
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->'''Known Aliases:''' Franchise/TheFlash, The "Red Streak", The Fastest Man Alive, The Scarlet Speedster, The Man Who Saved Central City, [[Series/{{Supergirl 2015}} The "Blur"]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/GrantGustin

An assistant crime scene investigator in Central City with a habit of being late. After the murder of his mother by a "man in yellow", he develops an interest (some say obsession) in "impossible" crimes and events. He first appears in-universe in the mid-season 2 two-parter in ''Arrow'' investigating a break-in by a thief who apparently has SuperStrength. After being struck by lightning, he falls into a coma and awakens as a "[[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahuman]]" with SuperSpeed, which he eagerly uses to fight crime, find other meta-humans, and eventually find his mother's killer.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Very briefly quit being the Flash due to getting his ass kicked in his first fight with Multiplex ''and'' Joe chewing him out. Fortunately, he gets his motivation back quickly.
* HundredPercentHeroismRating: As of "The Man Who Saved Central City", evidenced by the massive cheering crowd that assembles at the rally in his honor.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Barry Allen has light blond hair in the comics, but dark brown hair on the show.
* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. In the comics, Barry has a straight-out HeroicBuild. [[note]] But not to the level of John Wesley-Shipp's [[Series/TheFlash1990 version]] [[/note]]. Here, he more or less has a "HollywoodNerd GeekPhysique".
* AdaptationalWimp:
** In this version, despite his power, he seems totally unable to beat an opponent without the support of his team (the majority of the time). Justified since not only is Barry still relatively inexperienced, he has a bad habit of rushing in without thinking as well as over relying on his SuperSpeed (something Oliver chastises him about InUniverse), otherwise he'd function as a StoryBreakerPower.
** This is somewhat rectified in Season Two, where he's fighting more battles and stopping more criminals while being guided through step by step less often, along with learning and using even the more difficult new powers like throw lightning and making Speed Mirages more effectively and in a short amount of time, along with honing his known moves thanks to about a year of experience. Hell, he's starting to take Oliver's advice about using precision, analyzing the situation and his surroundings to his advantage more to heart, as seen with Dr. Light and even Zoom. A true testament is his victory over the Reverse-Flash and Zoom, using both his speed and brains without any outside help.
* {{Adorkable}}: Portrayed this way ever since his first appearances on ''{{Series/Arrow}}''.
** During their double date, Iris even notes Barry is just like Felicity - a member of the rare breed of "adorable nerds".
* AesopAmnesia: A big part of Barry's CharacterDevelopment in Season Two is learning to accept Nora's death and being a hero doesn't make him immune to tragedy. Unfortunately, Zoom killing Henry (the second parent to be killed by an evil speedster) coupled with the real Jay Garrick being the doppelgänger of his father pushes Barry over the edge and he decides to abuse his time travel abilities to save Nora, consequences for the world be damned.
* AgeLift: A bit younger than Barry's usual depictions, which is actually turned into a plot point when it's revealed that the "Man in Yellow" turned him into the Flash seven years early (giving Barry his powers in 2013 instead of 2020).
* AgentMulder: Perfectly willing to accept that one guy with SuperStrength was behind the break-in at the Queen Consolidated warehouse, and actively seeks out weird cases.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Downplayed. Felicity Smoak is genuinely fond of him, but he's more interested in Iris West.
* AllLovingHero: Barry sees the best in everybody, while refusing to blur the line between black and white. In "Tricksters", Joe tells him that this specifically is his most valuable asset, more than his physical superpowers.
** Taken UpToEleven in ''Rogue Air'' when Thawne reactivates the Particle Accelerator and Barry tries to move the meta-humans to another location, since he refuses to let any of them die even though most of them tried to kill him.
** Despite their past animosity, Barry even sees some good in Captain Cold of all people. And the events of "Family of Rogues" prove Barry right.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Henry wanted him to change his surname so people would stop giving him grief about being related to a (albeit innocent) murderer.
* AtrociousAlias: His own thoughts on his first alias, "the Streak", as he explains in "Fast Enough".
* ArcSymbol: Different kinds of prisons are heavily associated with him, signifying how he can't move on from the fateful night his mother was murdered no matter how much he tries.
* ArmourIsUseless: Subverted, his suit was originally protective gear for firefighters. It doesn't work well in protecting against physical attacks such as Green Arrow's throwing knife or Zoom's claw to the gut, but it helps a bit against Captain Cold and company's weapons. It also completely protects Barry against the hand blasters that S.T.A.R gave Linda, when they disguised her as Dr Light.
* ArchEnemy: So far Barry has made two of these respectively for the first two seasons.
** Reverse-Flash for season 1.
** Zoom for season 2.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Displays this ability in the pilot, knowing a car's exact make and model based off of faint tire tracks left at a crime scene.
* BadassAdorable: Barry is nerdy, lovable and incredibly endearing but DO NOT underestimate him as he can kick ass like no other.
* BadassBookworm: Police forensic scientist gets superpowers and fights crime.
* BadLiar: Joe and Iris seem to think so.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: His face doesn't typically suffer anything severe, save for a few nicks and dings. Justified, as he heals at a much faster rate than your regular human.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Oliver thinks that the lighting bolt that struck Barry wasn't random:
--> '''Oliver:''' I don't think that bolt of lighting struck you, Barry; I think it ''chose'' you.
* BeingGoodSucks: Best exemplified in Season Two, where Barry manages to imprison a time traveling Eobard Thawne in the Pipeline before he has to chance to kill Nora or the the real Dr. Wells. Unfortunately this causes paradoxes so Barry has to let him go.
* BerserkButton: Mess with Iris as Girder learned, or either one of his Dads as Weather Wizard and the Trickster found out respectively, and you will be sorry.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Barry is generally a nice, sweet guy but if you cross him or hurt anyone that he cares about, he won't hesitate to kick your ass.
* BigDamnKiss: Finally kisses Iris before going to save Central City from a tsunami, but when he accidentally travels back in time this is erased.
* BigEater: It turns out that his SuperSpeed speeds up his metabolism too, [[BlessedWithSuck and if he doesn't eat heavily, he collapses from hypoglycemia.]] He also can't get buzzed by alcohol unless he drinks ultra-high concentrated alcohol, and even then, it only lasts briefly.
* BigGood: He has the potential to be the most powerful hero/being in the [[Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} Arrowverse]] due to his powers from the Speed Force. Oliver Queen even acknowledged this. Zoom also seems to be aware of this potential, which he hopes to steal when the time comes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Felicity Smoak. They're both {{Adorkable}}, super-excitable nerds who are ''awful'' at saying what they actually mean. He's also this with Patty Spivot for many of the same reason. And later with Kara Danvers.
* BlessedWithSuck: His speed power is a fantastic thing, except for one hitch. His metabolism is so high that even a heavy dosage of anaesthesia has no effect on him, when he has to go in for surgery (including removing hundreds of barbed needles out of his body) he's going to feel all of the pain for the whole time. Also, depending on whether or not he can shift his perception from normal to BulletTime at will, [[FridgeHorror the procedure would feel like it's taking years.]]
* BoyNextDoor: He is considerate and selfless. In the case of Iris, ''literally'' next door, as he lived with her growing up.
* BreakoutCharacter: He is the most popular hero of the [[Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} Arrowverse]] (in ''and'' out of universe) and is essentially its SeriesMascot.
* BreakTheCutie: While still trying to deal with everything that the Reverse Flash put him and those he's close to through during Season 1 and contending with all the crisis that Zoom and the Earth 2 Meta's are throwing at him currently, and that's without even touching upon the issues in his civilian life, makes Season 2 one long one for him, culminating in his DespairEventHorizon at the end of the season.
* BrokenPedestal: Barry idolized the Arrow but upon actually meeting him he is seriously off put by how much of a jerk Oliver can be. Similar things happen in subsequent crossovers with Barry's initial enthusiasm getting derailed by Oliver's more brutal methods. Ultimately subverted when Barry learns to see Oliver / The Arrow as an ally with his own strengths and flaws rather than an idol.
** The Flash becomes a Broken Pedestal to Iris when he brutally attacks Eddie while under a HatePlague. However she quickly changes her mind after he saves Eddie from Cold and Heatwave.
** As of "Rogue Time", "Wells" seems to have finally become this to Barry; Barry knew Mason Bridge was investigating, claiming to know some very dirty secrets about him and that he'd reveal it all soon -- and then Bridge [[RevealingCoverUp mysteriously disappears. Barry doesn't think it's a coincidence and finally starts to grow suspicious of "Wells".]]
* BroughtDownToNormal:
** Temporarily during ''Power Outage'' when Blackout drains the electricity from his body and depowers him. Fortunatley Barry is able to recover from it [[TookALevelInBadass and becomes even faster then before]].
** Happens again in ''Verses Zoom'' when the titular Zoom forces Barry to siphon of his speed and give it to him or risk having his friends and family murdered. Barry reluctantly agrees and has the speed force drained from his body.
* BullyHunter: He's aggressively anti-bully, especially since he had to deal with them a lot as a kid. Best shown in "The Flash Is Born" when he goes after one of his childhood bullies and now metallic metahuman, Tony Woodward.
* ButtMonkey: In the first episode alone he gets battered by a mugger, struck by lightning & goes into a coma for 9 months, all in the space of an evening, then wakes up to find that the woman he's in love with has begun a relationship with another man during said coma. [[ThrowTheDogABone But hey]], he gets SuperSpeed.
* CameBackStrong: Of the non-death version. After Barry had his powers stolen by zoom, he later enters the speed force and while inside learns to harness it's power effectively. The trip itself not only restores his connection to the speed force but increases it drastically as before Zoom was about four times faster than him and after he came back he was faster than Zoom [[UpToEleven who has his power plus what he stole from barry before]].
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: It drives Eobard crazy that he needs Barry's speed to get back home and that he can't kill him like he ''really'' wants to.
* TheCape: Barry is basically the counterpart to Oliver Queen's TheCowl. The two-part crossover of "Flash vs. Arrow" on ''The Flash'' and "The Brave and the Bold" on ''Arrow'' is an extended look at how Barry's city is clean and nice and had to be bombarded with metahumans before it needed a hero, one like Barry, who's sweet and kind, contrasting them with Oliver and his city. Once he's revealed to the public, he fully embraces being a symbol of hope for Central City. The one time he ''tries'' to be TheCowl it backfires in his face spectacularly.
* CassandraTruth: The only people who truly believed Barry's story about his mother's murder were... Barry & his father, who were the only people to witness it. Many flashbacks show a tearful ten year old Barry trying to convince people to let his dad go. Present-day Barry is still very bitter over this.
* CharacterDevelopment: Barry has become more confident, forceful and driven than he was during his first appearance on Arrow; stammering a lot less and interacting with more ease, which he might owe to his powers. According to the creators, it won't stop there...
--> '''Andy Kreisberg''': It's Barry Allen coming to terms both physically and emotionally with what's happened to him. He's not really The Flash yet because he's still in the early days. By the end of the year, he will come to resemble The Flash that we know from the comic books. That's really the arc for the first year.
* ChickMagnet: He's been involved, or at least had a ShipTease, with ''four'' women in the first season alone, namely; Iris, Felicity, Caitlin and Linda.
* TheChosenOne: In [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]]'s own words, the force behind the lightning that struck Barry chose him for a reason. Additionally, Eobard Thawne keeps implying that there is something special about his speed. "The Runaway Dinosaur" confirms this by having the Speed Force itself state that it specifically chose Barry.
* ClarkKenting: Cleverly averted, as most of the people who get a clear look at him in action already know about him. When he has to appear in front of people not in the know who might recognize him, he vibrates his face so it becomes a blur, and also his vocal chords.
* ClearTheirName: Knows his father is innocent and won't rest until everyone else knows it too.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Has a vested interest in weird crimes which can't be explained with pure fact and logic, due to his mother's death being such a case. Detective West repeatedly tells Barry to stop looking into such cases & accept that his father killed his mother, not a "ball of lightning with a man inside."
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Considering Barry himself becomes the fastest man alive and Clyde Mardon can control the weather, Detective West realises that Barry was right about everything upon seeing it for themselves.
* TheCoroner: He works for the CSI unit of the CCPD.
* CosmicPlaything:
** Much to his chagrin his life is so intertwined with Eobard Thawne's, that when he attempts to stop Thawne's villainy before it even begins it causes no end of temporal paradox because their two time lines are in reverse.
** He lost ''both'' of his parents to evil speedsters who killed them just to get back at Barry.
* CurbStompBattle: His battle with Oliver in "Flash vs. Arrow" is very nearly this. Oliver only manages to keep ahead with trick arrows and sneaky strategy, but when Barry actually decides to attack he brutally pummels Oliver with a [[RapidFireFisticuffs flurry of punches]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Barry can throw in a snide comment when the moment calls for it.
* DespairEventHorizon: He hits it at the end of Season 2 - not only does he lose his father, but when the real Jay Garrick turns out to be his dad's double you can practically ''see'' Barry die inside. At that point, he decides he just can't take any more punishment and goes back in time to save his mother, setting the Flashpoint story in motion.
* DeusExMachina: His time travel ability, which is why it's used sparingly.
* {{Determinator}}: He'll flip cars to catch local Central City baddies.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Iris West.
* DorkKnight: He's a bit awkward and is prone to geek-outs, but he's brave and has a big heart.
* TheDreaded: The Flash is this to many metahumans. Wells reveals a list of the metahumans on his world, and there are hundreds if not thousands. Earth 1 should have far more because the Earth 2 particle accelerator explosion was contained unlike Earth 1's. However, the vast majority of the metahumans are in hiding out of fear of the Flash.
** Also, even to Zoom at some extend, giving his BigNo upon seeing Barry attempting to regain his powers and his rush off to try top stop him.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Not as the Flash, but in his day job most of the CCPD (sans Joe and Eddie) seems to take him and his forensic work for granted.
* TheEveryman: Of a sort. Barry is a lot geekier than the average Everyman character, but that fits with the show's target audience of comic book/sci-fi fans.
* FailureHero: The first season is tough on Barry in this regard. By the end of it Captain Cold has released all the Metahumans that Team Flash had captured, Barry is unable to defeat Reverse Flash on his own and stop the singularity resulting in Eddie and Ronnie respectively having to perform {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s. This all takes a toll on Barry by the start of the second season.
** Gets even ''worse'' in Season 2, with Zoom kicking his ass throughout the Season, getting Earth-2 Joe killed, being tricked by "Jay", having his speed stolen by Zoom, him being unable to do anything when Zoom kidnaps Caitlin and kills a bunch of cops, and Zoom killing his father right in front of him.
* FatalFlaw:
** His ChronicHeroSyndrome when combined with his time travel abilities makes for a very bad combination. It's repeatedly stressed that he could really screw up the timeline if he wanted to, as the Season 2 finale demonstrated.
** He can also be a little too easy to emotionally provoke, especially when it comes to his loved ones or people being threatened, to the point that he ignores the potential consequences of his actions.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When he messes about with the chemicals in the lab, making comments about how it's dangerous to have them so close together, Felicity responds that maybe he shouldn't be touching them. Cue a lightning strike and Barry looking out at it for a few seconds. This is a nod to the most well-known of Barry's origin stories: getting doused in chemicals after a lightning bolt knocks him into it. At the end of "Three Ghosts" in ''Arrow'', this is indeed how Barry gets his powers, with the lightning bolt being generated by Star Labs' overloaded particle accelerator.
* FragileSpeedster: Comparatively—despite being more resistant to harm than the average person thanks to his super speed, Barry will still injure himself if he runs into something at said speed, as part of his inexperience.
** Finally averted, when he returns from the Speed Force.
* FreakLabAccident: See above: he [[LampshadeHanging warns Felicity]] about how to avoid them. Then, [[ForegoneConclusion as you may have guessed]], {{Irony}} kicks in and he is the victim of one.
* FreudianExcuse: He couldn't help his dad get acquitted of his mother's murder, so he when he gets his powers he ''jumps'' at the chance to help people over the city.
* FriendlyRivalry: With [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]].
* FutureBadass: If Thawne's 2024 news article is any indication.
* AGodIAmNot: Executed beautifully in one line.
-->'''Mardon''': I didn't think there was anyone else like me. \\
'''Barry''': I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
* GeekPhysique: In contrast to his muscular comic-book counterpart, Barry is a rangy fellow and shows a fair amount of self-consciousness whenever he gets compared to more heroically built heroes such as Oliver Queen ("His arms are like, twice as big as yours...")and Hunter Zolomon's time remnant ("Your shirt looks so small on him...").
* GoodFeelsGood: Barry ''loves'' helping people.
* GoodIsDumb:
** Not usually, but Barry has a blind spot when it comes to Eobard Thawne. Until he sees the headline that Mason Bridge, the reporter who's been going after Thawne is missing. Then he finally sees the painfully obvious.
** He once made a deal with Captain Cold thinking he could be trusted. It blew up in his face, big time!
** He did have his moments in his early days, like trying to punch a villain made of poisonous gas.
* HappilyAdopted: While adopted at an older age under distressing circumstances, Barry did end up being a true part of the West family. Reciprocated by Joe, who admits that Barry brought a lot of joy and warmth to the West household.
* HasAType: When looking at the likes of Iris, Linda, Felicity and Patty, [[note]] [[ShipTease and Caitlin]][[/note]] he seems to be attracted to smart, perky and tough girls.
* HealingFactor: A side-effect of Barry's power, which speeds up his healing process.
** Comes in incredible handy in "Revenge of the Rogues". In order to defeat the Rogues, he needs them to fire their guns at each other. Ultimately, the only way to do this is to briefly endure their fire and ice blasts coming at him from each side before running out of the way. Given that the guns were absolute zero and absolute heat, this would have easily killed any normal human.
* TheHeart: Barry is this for the entire ArrowVerse.
* TheHero: Of the show, considering that the series revolves around Barry and his journey as a superhero.
* HopeBringer: To the people of Central City. When he fully reveals his existence to the whole city, he embraces this. This can be especially shown in "The Man Who Saved Central City".
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One reason why Barry grabs the IdiotBall a lot, he has a tendency of seeing people in the best light. Besides Thawne, he also thought that Snart is a man of his word despite a huge criminal record and he didn't realize that the Arrow has no qualms about torturing people even though he's followed up on news about the Arrow and knows that Oliver has killed numerous times.
* HotScientist: Genius-level intellect and a day job as a forensic scientist? Check. Clear skin, styled hair, and abs? Double check.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: At 6'2", he towers over Iris, 5'4", his primary love interest.
* HurtingHero: Poor Barry has suffered quite a lot in order to become The Flash. First his mother was murdered and his father was wrongfully accused of her murder. Then he finds out that his mentor was in fact his Archenemy and the one responsible for his mothers murder. He is given a clear chance to save his mothers life but ultimately has to let her die in order to create a StableTimeLoop. At the start of Season 2 he begins working alone after his quilt over Ronnie and Eddie's deaths. Then he finds out that Zoom was in fact "Jay Garrick" in disguise who proceeds to steal Barry's speed and then later on murder his father. And at the end of the season he finds out that the Man in the Mask is in fact the real Jay Garrick, the Earth-3 Doppelganger of his father which finally breaks him completely. By the end of the season he's so completely broken that he decides to undo his mothers death just so he can have a modicum of peace.
* HyperAwareness: His brain can work at SuperSpeed, which allows him to perceive things more slowly than they really are. It automatically activates when he's running, though he can willingly use this ability outside of SuperSpeed if he needs to.
* IAmTheNoun: In the opening narration he refers himself as "The Impossible".
* ILetGwenStacyDie: A non-romantic variation, but the fact that he was unable to help either of his friends, Eddie or Ronnie, have him questioning whether or not he truly is TheHero Central City has made him out to be come the beginning of Season 2.
** Adding to his hurt is that both men were the Fiancée and Husband of two of his best friends, Iris and Caitlin respectively, though neither of them blame him for what happened.
** Later applies during the weeks following his trip to Earth 2, where he was unable to save Earth 2's Joe, Jay and pretty much all of Earth 2 from Zoom and his minions after closing the breaches for good.
** Also applies to his mother and later on father the former of whom he had to allow die in order to create a StableTimeLoop and the latter who was murdered right in front of him without him able to do anything do stop it. At the end of Season 2 he decides to undo Nora's murder after getting thoroughly [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by the TraumaCongaLine he experienced.
* InASingleBound: By building up enough momentum, Barry can leap really high. He utilizes this in the first episode to save Joe and Eddie from falling debris.
* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Fast as he is, he's not fast enough to save everyone so when somebody dies on his watch, he takes it hard.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Confesses to Iris, but is acting like this for the time being.
** Also his reasoning for letting Patty Spivot leave Central City to achieve her dream of being a CSI rather than revealing his secret to convince her to stay.
* {{Intangibility}}: Learns how to do this in "Tricksters".
* IdiotBall: Grabs it occasionally when things are at their worst and can't see any better options
** In "Rogue Air" he made a deal with Captain Cold to transfer metahumans from the Pipeline to Oliver's prison on Lian Yu, naturally Cold double crosses him in the end.
** In "Flash Black", he outdoes himself by time traveling back to Season One to get Eobard Thawne help get faster. It actually works, but only after Barry majorly screws up and Thawne gives him what he wants just to get rid of him.
* JackOfAllStats: His superpowers aside, he can function as TheMedic like Caitlin or a GadgeteerGenius like Cisco, but still isn't as strong as either of them in their respective fields.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Very eager to use his powers to help people.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Even after he develops his powers, he still thinks [[BadassNormal Oliver Queen]]'s grappling arrow is cool and relies on him for support.
* TheLabRat: His day job at the Central City PD.
* LateForSchool: Or perhaps Late For Absolutely Everything. At first, though he likely won't have to deal with that for too long.
** Even with super speed he's still late to crime scenes, mainly because of other heroics.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: In ''Arrow vs Flash'', Barry has been hit with the HatePlague and they get into a fight. Ends in a draw, as the fight is interrupted before either can secure victory.
* LightningBruiser: When returning home from the Speed Force, he has become this almost literally, able take Girder's hits and recover quickly.
* LoveHurts: He's flat-out told by Oliver that it won't end well with Iris and at the end of ''Flash vs Arrow'' she never wants to see The Flash again, but she changes her mind after the BigDamnHero moment he pulls against Captain Cold and Heatwave.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: His feelings for Iris cause him to make some really stupid decisions that often come back to bite him in the bud.
** Best example of this is in "Rogue Time," when Barry tries to flirt with Iris (even though he should have known better than to do something like that in different circumstances and in a different time line) and she says he is "too late," and then later Eddie punches him for trying to steal Iris from him.
** He seems to have gotten better about it in "The Trap," when he learns that he and Iris get married in the future and he doesn't try to steal Iris from Eddie. In fact it's Iris who brings it up in conversation, and they both muse what their lives would be like if Thawne hadn't screwed with them.
* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: He seems to be the ''only'' forensic scientist the CCPD have.
* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: He's learning this the hard way during his dates with Linda. Oliver Queen warns him as such in the first crossover.
--> '''Oliver''': Guys like us don't get the girl.
* MaybeEverAfter: With Iris, according to Gideon, and the article from the future, and her doppelganger on Earth-2, she at one time may change her surname to West-Allen. In the episode ''Trajectory'' Iris even makes a casual mention of a possible wedding between her and Barry, showing he's not the only one open to the idea.
** As of the end of ''The Runaway Dinosaur'' the two have become the OfficialCouple.
* MessianicArchetype: The Chosen One of the Speed Force, a tragic past filled with doubters, gaining true friends, family and loved ones, was believed to be dead in a attempt to regain his powers, but came back to save the worlds.
* MoralityPet: To Oliver Queen. One of many Oliver has.
* MotorMouth: It's hard to get him to stop once he starts talking.
* MrFanservice:
** He doesn't have a shirt on much of the time whenever Star Labs is running tests on him. Lightning gave him abs!
** In "Plastique" he ''strips naked'' in an alley. Yeah, "[[DoubleMeaning The Flash]]" indeed.
* MyGreatestFailure:
** Trailers for Season 2 indicate that he regrets not saving his mom back when he had the chance. He rectifies it at the end of the season.
** His trusting of Eobard Thawne, may also be a huge one, since he believed it is what lead to the deaths of Eddie, Ronnie and a lot of other people in Central City.
** In the same vein, his trusting of Hunter Zolomon, as this lead to the death of his father.
* NerdActionHero: He'll geek out about science and zombie movies and then save your life with his powers.
* NerdsAreSexy: Considering that he is a scientist who is a combination of {{Adorkable}} and MrFanservice, Barry definitely qualifies as a very attractive nerd.
* NiceGuy: Goes along with his being so {{Adorkable}}; he's very friendly and empathetic, and he'll put his life on the line for strangers and friends alike. But, as always, BewareTheNiceOnes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Has a terrible habit of being emotionally provoked, intentionally or otherwise, into causing potential [[ApocalypseHow extinction level events]].
** In the season 1 finale, Eobard Thawne proposes a plan — using Cisco's Rip Hunter-esque time machine, Barry goes back in time and saves his mom and in turn Eobard returns to his own time, the entire story between them retconned from time. Barry agrees, travels back to the past, then backs out of saving Nora at the last minute when another future Barry warns him off, returns to the present and stops Thawne from going home. This leads to a fight in which Eobard has Barry on the ropes until Eddie shoots himself to retcon Eobard's "current" existence. Thawne then disappears…and [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 6}} a black hole forms over the city]]. Barry tries to stop it with his speed but can only slow it down at best, so Ronnie has to sacrifice himself to stop it by defusing Firestorm within the hole's center. As Nice Jobs go, this is a particular crown jewel, and let's not get into how it lead to opening Earth-1 to an even more dangerous speedster and his minions, making the events of Season 2.
** When Zoom murders Henry before his eyes right before the season 2 finale, Barry is angered into agreeing to a race with Zoom… which will generate enough energy into a stolen pulsar device [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 to destroy every other universe]]. It takes the rest of the team figuring this out, holding him back, going through a failed alternate plan, and voicing their concerns for him to regain sound enough mind to figure out how to actually beat Zoom and avert the disaster.
** Right after the above situation was cleared up, Barry is so thoroughly broken at this point that he goes back in time and follows through on saving his mom from Thawne. This AFTER it's been explained dozens of times (and demonstrated a few, for those who watch Series/LegendsOfTomorrow) how messing too far with time is a terrible idea, and AFTER the Speed Force outright told Barry that his mother's death and his becoming the Flash led to his saving countless innocents. Even those who don't know [[{{ComicBook/Flashpoint}} the comic book version of what happens when he does this]] can figure out this won't end well.
* NiceShoes: Barry seems to have a thing for Converse All-Stars.
* NoodleIncident: There was one time as a kid where he tried out for his school's football team. He and Joe have agreed [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never to speak of it]].
* OddFriendship: With Oliver Queen, AKA ''The Series/{{Arrow}}''. They're not far apart in age (Oliver is about 4 years older), but Oliver's age and experiences make him the older, gruff, almost unwilling mentor to Barry's eager kid. In their first crossover (not the backdoor pilot), they both feel out of place in one another's series, as Oliver is the brutal cowl and Barry the idealistic cape. They're the DC Television Universe equivalent of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent.
* OhCrap: When he travels back in time to the previous night in "Out of Time", he is visually perplexed and frightened.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Earning him the nickname "Babyface". He's 25 at the start of the series.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Barry seems to be the only crime scene/forensics tech CCPD has. In "The Man in the Yellow Suit" he mentions that he had a double major in physics and chemistry in college.
* OneManArmy: In ''My Name is Oliver Queen'' he's able to take out the '''League of Assassins''' like they were nothing.
* ParentalAbandonment: Barry's mom was murdered when he was eleven, and his father was convicted for the murder.
* PopCulturedBadass: The fastest man alive likes "Pokerface" by Lady Gaga. He's got a blog according to Eddie and a Facebook account according to Cisco.
** He also has a zombie movie scale and even rates one film at a 4.
--->'''Iris:''' There's a zombie movie scale?
* PowerIncontinence: He has great deal of control over his abilities....except his ability to travel through time. While his future self is implied to be able to time travel at will, present day!Barry can't. It takes a disaster like Weather Wizard's tidal wave to push into a state of emotional distress so he can go fast enough to do it, and even then he really has no control when he'll go back and it's less like he's going back in time and more like he's rewinding time. The only time he exhibits more precise control when he went back to save his mom was due to the controlled environment of the the Particle Accelerator and Thawne's coaching.
* PowerPerversionPotential: The fact that he can vibrate an isolated part of his body such as his face has some rather exciting implications for any significant other he may have.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The STAR Labs gang realizes that his devotion to his loved ones are what give him greater strength.
* ProperlyParanoid: His gut instinct on meeting Hunter Zolomon's time remnant was to throw him in the Pipeline. Turns out he was right.
* RedBaron: Appropriately, the Scarlet Speedster/Knight. Also, the Fastest Man Alive. The Man Who Saved Central City is also frequently used in Season 2.
* RedIsHeroic: Barry's entire Flash costume is red.
* RedOnesGoFaster: If the color of his costume is not obvious enough.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Thawne's Blue. Or should we say yellow?
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** In this version, he was adopted into the West family after his mom's death and his dad's falsely-charged imprisonment.
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Eobard Thawne's ancestor as he has no relation to Eddie, whereas Malcolm Thawne was Barry's identical EvilTwin.
* RippleProofMemory: He's able to remember how time was before he changed it.
* TheRunaway: After his dad was convicted, and he was given to Joe he would runaway a lot trying to see his dad.
* SadClown: According to a comment from executive producer Greg Berlanti.
-->'''Berlanti''': Barry lost his mother at a very young age, his father was sent to prison for murdering his mom, he went through a lot of stuff - on the surface he's [[StepfordSmiler bubbly]] and [[PluckyComicRelief upbeat]] and seems like an [[NiceGuy optimist]], but deep down maybe there's no hope left.
* ScienceHero: Barry works in a science lab and he saves innocent people on the side.
* SecretIdentity: According to Grant Gustin, Barry will try to keep his activities as the Flash secret from certain people but most of the people in his social circle will know the truth.
** By the end of the 1st season his identity barely qualifies as "secret", as literally every main character on the show, several villains, and at least four characters from ''Arrow'' all know who he is.
** Gets even worse in Season 2 with Wally, Jax, a few ex-girlfriends (one of whom Barry revealed his identity to just to give her a morale boost), the BigBad (who discovered his identity before they even met), the head of a rival science lab (who thought his secret identity was so obvious she didn't bother explaining how she knew), a former villain who got retconned into an ally due to time-travel, and who knows how many people from Earth-2 all knowing who Barry is. It's starting to border on EverybodyKnewAlready.
* SecretKeeper: Mutually with Oliver Queen[=/=]The Arrow.
* SeekerArchetype: Was this to some extent before he got his powers -- seeking answers about "the impossible" to prove his father was innocent of his mother's murder.
* SelfDeprecation: Mocks the name "Leonard", saying it's nearly as bad as "Bartholomew", which is his given name.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: His future incarnation went back in time to save his mother's life from the Reverse-Flash, yet this action created the skirmish that ended with Reverse-Flash killing her. Even so, this is probably a good thing—the one Reverse-Flash was trying to kill was ''Barry himself as a little boy''.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Every time he and Oliver are together, he's usually depicted as the sensitive one.
* SherlockScan: Barry is able to discern exactly what type of car the Mardon brothers used in their getaway from a robbery from analyzing a tire track, and figure out a vague location from a piece of excrement mixed with the track; all within a minute and without the use of any equipment.
* ShipperOnDeck: He notices the budding interest between his father and Dr. McGee. Unfortunately, Zoom put a stop to it from becoming anything more.
* ShipTease: With Felicity Smoak in ''Arrow''. Also a few times with Caitlin. Both ships are sunk once Caitlin gets married and Felicity ends up with Oliver. More recently a brief one with [[Series/{{Supergirl}} Kara Danvers]], though it goes nowhere due to her being on another Earth.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Subverted - although he's been in love with Iris since they were children (a possible case of LoveAtFirstSight, even), he did show a genuine attraction to Linda Park and seems to acknowledge his chemistry with Felicity Smoak; he also mentions a girlfriend he had back in high school. It's just that his love for Iris is too great to get over her, and thus his relationships with other women don't last.
-->'''Barry''': I really do feel a lot for you Linda. It's just.....
-->'''Linda''': .....Just not as much as you feel for someone else (both look at Iris).
** Averted to some degree with Patty Spivot. While he does admit that he is still in love with Iris, and never explicitly says that he loves Patty before she leaves, it's implied that he's open to the possibility of falling in love with her, and seems genuinely sad that it didn't work out. Sadly, after she's gone he finally realizes that he was indeed in love with her.
* SmugSuper: Occasionally displays traces of it.
-->(Regarding the [[{{Series/Arrow}} salmon ladder]]) Honestly, I don't know what's so hard about this.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: He has trouble relating to other people.
* SpearCounterpart: To [[Series/{{Arrow}} Felicity Smoak]]. Both are {{Adorkable}}, have a tendency to babble, and are brilliant in their respective scientific fields.
* SpikyHair: It's like it's always in clay dough.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Barry has shown incredible feats in speed. Including being so fast that he was able to punch a hole in time. He was even so fast as to take Weather Wizard from his hideout all the way to STAR Labs before the latter even knew what happened. Yet he will still somehow not be fast enough to take out the any other VillainOfTheWeek in a similar manner, even when they have far less dangerous abilities, if for no other reason than that it would be very boring to the viewers.
** Then, again it my be to show his inexperience that he is slowly growing out of, and Barry taking Oliver's advice about not rushing into every situation without a plan, or risk doing more harm than good.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: His adult self is stated to look almost exactly like his grandfather did as described by Nora Allen when Barry time travels into the past.
* SuperheroOrigin: His is told in the ''Arrow'' episodes "The Scientist" and "Three Ghosts", and is expanded upon in the pilot episode.
* SuperpowerLottery: Easily the Arrowverse's most powerful superhero and, short of Zoom, most powerful character overall.
* SuperSpeed: His primary ability.
* SuperSpeedReading: Uses it to help Caitlin look for clues on the "F. I. R. E. S. T. O. R. M." project.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: [[DefiedTrope Denied.]] He frequently takes the time to talk to his opponents when he has them down but not beaten…and almost just as frequently [[RealityEnsues gets made to pay for it]].
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He stands 6'2.
* ThouShaltNotKill:
** He prefers saving lives to taking them. It doesn't matter if a person is some innocent bystander or the VillainOfTheWeek; he'll try to save them.
** However this is averted in Season Two with the Earth-2 Metahumans. However this is a special case: because a) they're far more dangerous than Earth-1 metahumans and b) they each have an Earth-1 doppleganger so they can't send them to Iron Heights without raising awkward questions, nor can they send them back to Earth-2.
* TokenWhite: He is HappilyAdopted to the African-American West family.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Does this during his fight with Clyde Mardon.
** Goes even further after losing his powers to Blackout and regaining them to new heights. Before then, he had to make a massive running start to break the sound barrier. Afterwards, he is able to FlashStep to avoid ''lightning''. Even Caitlin notes that his cells are generating more energy than they were before.
** In "Out Of Time", he needs to protect the city from a tidal wave headed its way. The solution, according to Caitlin? Run back and forth on the beach to generate a second tidal wave in the opposite direction to cancel the first one out. However, this requires going faster than he's ever had to before, to the point where he unintentionally goes back in time. ''Barry can now travel back in time.''
** In "Tricksters" Thawne vocally instructs him how to vibrate his body in order to phase through solid matter, a technique that Thawne himself had already demonstrated in the previous two episodes. Then at the end of the episode his AwesomenessByAnalysis kicks in and he remembers the aforementioned detail.
** Runs across the surface of the bay in order to carry Plastique far enough away from Central City so she doesn't destroy the city when she explodes.
-->'''Caitlin''': "You just walked on water. Puts you in some [[JesusChrist pretty interesting company]]!"
** His fight and victory against Eobard/Reverse-Flash in "Reverse-Flash Returns" is definitely one, after spending pretty much all of Season 1 being pummeled by him.
*** Though this is somewhat justified since not only is Barry more experienced than he was in season 1, but Eobard Thawne is ''less'' experienced, due to this version being from an earlier point in Eobard's life. From ''Eobard's'' perspective, he's actually the one who [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and defeats The Flash.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Briefly in Season Two, as he's still dealing with the fallout of Season One. He goes back to cheery self soon enough though...mostly, since some damange is still there.
* TwinkleInTheEye: It is quickly becoming a trademark that whenever the Flash is about to do something utterly ridiculous with his speed, lightning bolts are seen sparking in his eyes.
* TwoFirstNames: Being a Creator/DCComics based character, he has a last name that is traditionally used as a first name.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Other than his father being framedp, being this is his personal dilemma. He seems to be working this out as of episode 12.
** Averted by ''The Good Dinosaur'' as he and Iris finally decide to get together.
* UnskilledButStrong: Barry has his superspeed, but he doesn't have a lot tactical or martial arts training. This tends to let him get hit by surprise attacks a lot. [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman This may be averted over time]], given that Oliver has been training him.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Well, not so much a "magnet" since he readily goes ''looking'' for the weirdness. To be fair, he never thought he'd actually become the [[SuperSpeed weirdness]] in the process.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Given that he has three father figures (in the first season, Joe West, Henry Allen, Eobard Thawne), he gets a lot of this. However, it's also frequently inverted, with Barry telling Joe and Henry how much they mean to him, especially Joe.
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivers this to Thawne, calling him out on his ManipulativeBastard tendencies and general selfishness.
* WildCardExcuse: Caitlin Snow comes up with "Lightning Psychosis" as a way of explaining all his strange behavior.
* WillfullyWeak: It's indicated several times that he holds himself back due to combination of self-doubt and the bad memories of his mother's death.
* WindmillCrusader: How Joe and perhaps the entire CCPD thinks of him before he got his powers.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Even after he gets his powers, he still has doubts as to his capabilities in part because of Joe's disapproval of his heroics.
** In a conversation with Caitlin he admits that he thinks that best part of him is the Flash, and not his civilian identity.
--> '''Caitlin:''' With or without your speed, you're still you Barry.
--> '''Barry:''' No I'm not. I'm not the best version of me.
** Gives one of these to Oliver when he feels that what he does as the Arrow is consuming him. Barry assures Oliver that he can inspire people not as the Arrow, but as Oliver Queen.
* YouAreInCommandNow: It's revealed in Season 2 that Eobard Thawne left S.T.A.R. Labs to Barry in his will.
* YoureNotMyFather: After Joe comes down hard on Barry for risking his life by fighting other metahumans and engaging in dangerous heroics, Barry fires back by saying he is not Joe's kid and that his father is still sitting in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
** Later in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, Barry lists all the things Joe ''has'' done for him and says that while Joe's not his father, he is a "Dad".
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[[folder: Iris West]]
!! Iris West
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iriswest_theflash.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: ''"Think about your best friend. [...] Now imagine you discover your best friend has a secret - no, not a secret, a universe of secrets - would you confront him? Would you stay silent? Either way you know nothing will ever be the same again."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Candice Patton

The daughter of Joe West and Barry's best friend, and the unknowing object of his affections, Iris is a graduate student studying criminal psychology, but once she started an online metahuman database, she was offered a job as a reporter at Central City Picture News. Now she has been tasked with uncovering the secret of S.T.A.R. Labs, though Iris has no idea that Barry her best friend is at the heart of it.

In Season 2, fully in the know of Barry's secrets, and his love for her, and a member of his team, Iris uses her assets at Picture News to help the team as best she can, as well as navigate her own newly forming feelings towards Barry. She also discovers the existence of her long-lost brother Wally.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her comic counterpart is a classic example of HeroesWantRedheads. Became a brunette for the show to accommodate her RaceLift.
* ActionGirl:
** In ''The Flash is Born'', she's the one that lays out the VillainOfTheWeek when he tries to get up after the Flash hits him with a Supersonic Punch. In ''Power Outage'', she rescues herself after being taken hostage by Clock King by ''surprise-shooting him'' with Eddie's gun.
** Demonstrated again in "Rogue Air," when she knocks out Peek-A-Boo when she is about to murder Caitlin.
** And a third time in "The Darkness and the Light", where she pulled off a (nonlethal) headshot on Dr. Light.
* {{Adorkable}}: She has her moment's, especially when hanging with Barry and/or the other members of Team Flash.
* BadassAdorable: Iris is adorable, sweet, and one of the nicest characters on the show. She has also knocked out Girder and Peek-A-Boo, plus Joe taught her how to use a gun, which she used to shoot the Clock King and Dr Light, and even holstered one on Zoom.
--> '''Iris''': A girl's gotta be her own hero now and again.
* BadassBookworm: Not a science nerd like Barry, Cisco or Caitlin, but not only is she a graduate in criminal psychology, but she started the metahuman blog that everyone in the Arrowverse uses, got herself a job at Central City Picture News, and managed to figure out the connection between Thawne's accelerator and metahumans despite being LockedOutOfTheLoop for most of the season.
* BigDamnKiss: Finally kisses Barry when they try to rescue Joe, but Barry's discovery of time travel at the end of the episode erases this.
* BrainyBrunette: She's a graduate student studying criminal psychology.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When she finally discovers everything, start to finish—Barry being the Flash, Joe and Eddie knowing, the Man in Yellow—Joe finally hears it for every overreach of restriction and/or secrecy he's made in his attempts to keep her safe from the villains' reach.
** And again with Francine West. She tears her apart for leaving, for not contacting Joe for twenty years, and most especially for hiding the fact she was pregnant when she left.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Barry. They have been friends since they were kids.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Barry has been in love with Iris since "before he knew what the word 'love' meant." We don't know exactly how old they were when they became friends, but he had a crush on her since before his mother died when he was 11.
* CoolBigSis: Is becoming one for Wally, and acts this way for pretty much the entire team.
* CuddleBug: Iris literally cannot stop touching Barry any chance she gets, no matter who's around to witness it. Thankfully, Barry's into it. Their respective significant others, however? Not so much.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Twice now, a bad guy tried to take her hostage. Twice now, [[ActionGirl it didn't turn out quite as they expected]].
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Initially she wanted to be a cop; her cop father said no, on the grounds that a life in the police force would be too dangerous. During Season 1 she dated Detective Thawne; and initially they kept it a secret from Joe.
* TheFace: Her main role on the team, as a journalist, is to raise and maintain the public's support for The Flash. This is seen most prominently when she convinces Hunter Zolomon's time remnant to briefly take the mantle while Barry is on Earth 2, to keep her new boss from slamming the Flash, for not taking on the current Meta-Human.
* FunPersonified: Iris is very upbeat and affirming of others, she doesn't like journalism until she finds a story she cares about, at which point she dives in headfirst.
* GenkiGirl: Iris comes off as a bit on the bubbly, enthusiastic and hyper side.
* HotScoop: She is a journalist student and blogger. She also has near super-model good looks.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She chewed out Barry and Joe for not telling her Barry was the Flash. While she did have a right to be upset, she never shared the revelation that he has a brother for weeks, and when she shares her secret it leaves Joe hurt she kept it from him. She does acknowledge the hypocrisy of this to Barry in "Running To Stand Still."
* InnocentBystander: Subverted. This is what Joe and Barry see her as and the reason they refuse to let her in on the secret, but Iris has shown herself quite capable of handling several dire situations, and is more than willing to dive into the thick of things in order to get a story or find out what's really going on.
* IntrepidReporter: When she gets a job at Picture News, she agrees to look into the going-ons of her friends at STAR Labs. When she becomes a member of Team Flash, she uses this role to help out occasionally as an informant to Barry on the recent Meta-Human influenced happenings.
* IWillWaitForYou: Makes this promise to Barry, when he tells her he has to go away to try and fix himself so that he could be worthy of being in a relationship with her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Joe made Barry promise that he wouldn't tell Iris about his powers, something he's not very happy about. She finally finds out in the episode, "The Trap."
** In the episode "Grodd Lives," virtually everything she says to both Barry and her father revolves around [[DeconstructedTrope everything wrong with this trope]].
* MaybeEverAfter: With Barry, according to Gideon, and the article from the future, and her doppelganger on Earth-2, she at one time may change her Surname to West-Allen. In the episode ''Trajectory'' Iris even makes a casual mention of a possible wedding between her and Barry, showing he's not the only one open to the idea.
** As of the end of ''The Runaway Dinosaur'' the two have become the OfficialCouple
* MissingMom: Her mother is not a part of her life at all, which is significant because her father is a major character. Flashbacks show that this was the case back when she was eleven. It's implied in "The Man In The Yellow Suit" that Iris' mother is dead when Barry gives Iris replicas of her mother's wedding bands that Iris lost as a child. In Season 2, however, we learn that Mom was a drug addict who left her family, and Joe had lied and claimed she died to keep Iris from developing abandonment issues.
* MotorMouth: Has her moments.
--> '''Thawne:''' She ''[Iris]'' came to see you ''[Barry]'' quite often.
--> '''Caitlin:''' She talks ''a '''lot'''''.
* NiceGirl: For the most part, she's pretty sweet.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With Barry. This is often a [[{{Understatement}} problem]] for their love interests.
* ObliviousToLove: Because Iris has never known a version of Barry that wasn't in love with her, she doesn't realize that's what is going on until he tells her. It's also interesting that she keeps talking about how no other woman seems to be able to see how amazing he is, which means she might be oblivious to her own feelings.
* OddFriendship: The pretty and outgoing reporter spends most of her time hanging out with the somewhat awkward members of STAR Labs, and later becomes a full member of the Team.
** Not to mention that she was implied to be one of the popular girls in school, and yet her best friend was one of the nerds.
* OutOfFocus: In Season Two, apart from her subplot with Francine. However now that Wally West is in town this might change.
** During the latter half of season 2 she also becomes a lot more involved in the fight against Zoom, especially after Caitlin's abduction.
* PluckyGirl: She continued to keep up her blog and investigate STAR Labs, even though the men in her life have gaslighted and lied to her for months.
* RaceLift: She's Caucasian in the comics, but African-American in the show.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Her father Joe is Barry's most prominent father-figure, even though they aren't blood related. Also, her ties with Wally West was remixed as she is now her long lost sister instead of aunt.
* SecretKeeper: After an entire season of being LockedOutOfTheLoop, she is now a part of The Flash's inner circle, as well as Barry's most trusted confidante.
* SixthRanger: She seems to be on her way to becoming this, now that she knows Barry's The Flash and is starting to get inducted into the team.
** Totally cemented in Season 2 as she has now become a full-fledged member of the Team.
* ScrewDestiny: "Rogue Air," shows that she strongly believes this when Eddie tells her the reason he is breaking up with her is because he was told by Eobard Thawne that Barry gets married to Iris and [[YouCantFightFate there is nothing he can do to stop this from happening.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: For Barry and Felicity. Which is amusing, because Felicity is this for Iris and Barry.
* TheSmartGirl: Iris is a BrainyBrunette who has shown that she has brains and intelligence. Despite being LockedOutOfTheLoop, she's still able to piece together that the particle accelerator was responsible for creating all the metahumans in Central City.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Spends the majority of Season 1 being this to Barry.
* WeirdnessMagnet: She attracts a lot of the super villains in the show for some reason.
* WrongGuyFirst: Joe believes Eddie isn't the right guy for her, and is afraid both of them will end up hurt when they realize it. Eddie himself after learning the future from Eobard, comes to realize this as well, and admits to Iris while he's breaking up with her, that he always suspected that she was actually in love with Barry all along, even if she didn't know it herself
** She in turn responds to him, with a ScrewDestiny, that even if she may unwittingly love Barry, she wants to be with Eddie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cisco Ramon]]
!! [[ComicBook/{{Vibe}} Francisco "Cisco" Ramon / Vibe]]
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ciscoramon_theflash_9.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''"This just keeps getting cooler!"'']]
->'''Known Aliases:''' ComicBook/{{Vibe}}
->'''Played By:''' Carlos Valdes

A mechanical engineering genius who helps the Flash. In-universe, he first appears in an episode of ''Arrow'' set before Barry wakes up from his coma. By Season 2, he has developed metahuman powers and adopted the nickname Vibe.
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* ActionSurvivor: Even before the show started, he and Caitlin encountered ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} on ''Arrow'' and survived.
* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. The comic Vibe is depicted having a toned body and has a [[SleevesAreForWimps sleeveless attire to show it]]. Here, he is depicted having a more average built.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: This version depicts him as a top-notch engineer and GadgeteerGenius, in addition to being a TVGenius and TheMovieBuff. He is also depicted as the show's resident [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] despite most of Team Flash sans Joe being established as [[ScienceHero highly intellectual people]].
* AdaptationalWimp: Ultimately subverted. At first he is presented as the show's PluckyComicRelief despite being a superhero in the comics. It is later revealed that he has combat training as shown in his fight with Hartley. He also simply didn't ''realize'' he had superpowers at first and gradually gets better at controlling them.
* {{Adorkable}}: He's not unlike Barry in this aspect.
* AmazonChaser: He becomes smitten with Laurel when he finds out she's the Black Canary. He displays much the same earlier with Plastique (such that his behavior is actually creepy).
* AmbiguouslyBi: could be. Cisco has official tumblr blog where he called Leonard Snart cute and Ray Palmer beautiful. Also it has this gem: "Don’t go after the bad girl (''or boy.'') It ain’t worth it."
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Stated by Thawne in the Season 1 finale that his RippleProofMemory is a result of him being a metahuman. In this case it isn't his metahumanity that is ambiguous, but rather the exact nature of his powers, which seem to allow him to glimpse into alternate realities.
* AppropriatedAppellation:
** During Season 1, some of the super-villains Team Flash encounters begin [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope with Cisco, knowing of [[TheNickNamer his habit]] of coming up with catchy nicknames.
** Ironically, he didn't come up with his own moniker. Caitlin and Barry suggested "Vibe" and he took it.
* AscendedFanboy: Cisco is the resident fanboy of superheroes for Team Flash, and it is eventually revealed to have latent Metahuman powers himself.
* AudienceSurrogate: For the fans in the audience, certainly. He is the one who's the most excited by Barry's powers, and came up with the idea of Barry wearing a special suit. The lightning bolt logo was also his idea. He also gives the metahuman criminals their super-villain names.
* BerserkButton: Destroying his tech. He was downright furious when he heard Bette had blown up (accidentally) Barry's suit, or at least until he saw how attractive Bette was.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Ray Palmer.
* BlessedWithSuck: His metahuman power. It can provide useful information, but he can barely control it and he sees things he wished he hadn't.
** Also, it's triggered by dopamine release, meaning the best way to get his powers to manifest is to scare the crap out of him. [[{{Jerkass}} Earth-2 Wells]] is fully willing to take advantage of this.
** Ultimately subverted, as he gets better at controlling it during season 2.
* BreakTheCutie: Besides his [[DeathIsCheap death at the hands of Thawne]] he is captured by the Rogues and forced to build weapons for them or else Captain Cold would kill his brother.
* BrokenPedestal: He was Eobard Thawne's WellDoneSonGuy, viewing him more like a father than a mere boss especially given his rocky ties to his own family. Until he discovered that the man he believed to be the good doctor was actually the Reverse-Flash all along.
* CrazyPrepared: After the explosion at STAR Labs, he's become this by nature and necessity. Once he developed a perfect suit to handle Barry's capabilities, he made three. Regardless of how much sense his over-preparedness makes sense, it's gotten him in trouble with Thawne, who is angered that Cisco created a weapon to counter Barry's capabilities[[note]] and thus those of Thawne, though Cisco didn't know it at the time[[/note]] out of worry that Barry may turn against them one day.
** Zigzagged all around. Cisco is great about building things he needs - a Flash suit, an anti-Flash gun (that they actually could have used when Barry got hit with a HatePlague), a sonic device to control Hartley, putting a defibrillator in the Flash suit, he even came up with the idea to hold metahumans in the reactor. But he's extremely careless with his tech meaning that it often gets used against him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being mostly the PluckyComicRelief, he shows some really flashy moves when he fights Hartley Rathaway in Season 1.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Although he's initially enraged by Plastique destroying Barry's suit he drops it immediately when he gets a look at her.
* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: A deleted scene from the season one finale reveals that he didn't have a fun time in high school as he was such a nerd that even the other nerds hated him.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Draws the line at Caitlin's suggestion of [[MythologyGag "Rainbow Raider"]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He manages to stand his ground calmly as Thawne prepares to punch a hole through him, despite still reeling from learning the truth.
* GadgeteerGenius:
** Designs the Flash's suit, and outright admits his job at STAR Labs is to "make the toys", which includes anti-Flash weaponry as "Going Rogue" shows.
** At Laurel Lance's request he also modified Sara's sonic device and then dubbed it the "Canary Cry".
* FoeRomanticSubtext: He and Lisa Snart have a mutual attraction to one another.
* FunTShirt: He wears a lot of these.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: He created goggles that would help him use his then unknown Metahuman powers to help Barry confirm that Thawne is the Reverse-Flash. Earth-2!Wells upgraded them in Season 2.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why Thawne kills him in a now alternate timeline.
* HowDoIShootWeb: Takes some time to actually figure out how to use his powers. Even after discovering from Reverb he has the ability to use his powers offensively, he only manages a brief blast against Black Siren on impulse but can't repeat it.
* IdiotBall: He built a freeze ray to counter Barry's speed if he ever went rogue, which is not an unreasonable suspicion considering what the other meta-humans are like. The only problem is he didn't tell anyone else about it, and carelessly put it in a cheap locker, which was easy to break in to. It then gets stolen by Captain Cold's paid-off janitor at S.T.A.R. Labs.
** Cisco gets handed the ball a lot. He also let Hartley out of his cell, letting him escape.
* JumpedAtTheCall: The first of the S.T.A.R. Labs team to help Barry with his heroics, including the ones not involving meta-humans.
* {{Keet}}: Even Barry is calm and collected by comparison.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Poor Cisco gets Thawne's hand through his chest after he discovers the [[SarcasmMode good doctor]]'s true identity. Fortunately, Barry inadvertently travelling back though time [[DeathIsCheap keeps it from sticking]].
* TheLancer: He gradually becomes Barry's most trusted friend and {{Foil}} as the show progresses. He even becomes a Metahuman like him.
* MeaningfulName: Possibly unintentional, but it's quite fitting that a GadgeteerGenius has the same name as that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems one of the real world's most prominent tech companies]].
* MinoredInAsskicking: Mostly works as the team's GadgeteerGenius but, as his fight with Hartley Rathaway shows, he can put up a fight if he needs to.
* MoralityPet: For Lisa Snart. Captain Cold's sister and a criminal she might be, but she's genuinely fond of him, especially after he saved her life in Season 2.
* MotorMouth: When he is talking about something he likes, he tends to go into vivid and extensive detail.
* TheMovieBuff: If a ShoutOut to a movie is going to be made, it's usually him who does it.
* MythologyGag: Cisco Ramon is the name of the superhero [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Francisco_Ramon_%28Prime_Earth%29 Vibe]]. He later tells Hartley "You're not the only one who understands vibrations", while using a sound-based weapon against him.
** In his first appearance on Arrow, he says, "You getting bad vibes off this guy?"
* NiceGuy:
** Out of all the S.T.A.R. Lab team, he's the one who was most interested in helping Barry adjust to his new life intially instead of treating him as walking lab experiment when he awoke from his coma.
** He also unknowingly gives Laurel a much needed morale boost, with his fanboying over her being the Black Canary (since Team Arrow isn't exactly thrilled with the idea of her taking Sara's place).
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He was the one who designed Leonard Snart's cold gun, and kept it in a rinkydink little locker where it inevitably got stolen.
* TheNicknamer: He comes up with the names for the metahumans Flash fights, and is very territorial about it (although he is willing to share that honor with Ray Palmer, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike since they have an uncanny ability to think up the same names at the same time]]).
-->'''Hartley:''' I was thinking of calling myself Pied Piper.
-->'''Cisco:''' Hey, '''''I''''' assign the nicknames around here! ...Although that one's not bad.
** By the end of season 1, his habit of doing this makes some of the super-villains they encounter ask him for a nickname ''[[AppropriatedAppellation and they stick with it]]'', such as the Golden Glider [[UpToEleven even the Big Bad himself,]] [[BigBad Reverse-Flash]].
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Shows this attitude, and was very reluctant to leave Ronnie behind in the particle accelerator as well as leaving Wells to deal with Farooq.
* NoOntologicalInertia: His existence is heavily tied to Eobard Thawne as well. If Thawne gets prematurely defeated, Cisco might be {{Ret Gone}}d.
* OhCrap: When he remembers when Thawne killed him.
** Also when he Vibes the destruction of Earth-2.
* OneOfUs: Cisco might just be the geekiest character in the Arrowverse, becoming excited by seeing new metahumans, taking fun in nicknaming them, and the one most into the whole "being a superhero" ideology.
* ParentalSubstitute: Has this in Thawne, due to his estrangement from his family. Then he investigates too deeply into the containment field's failure to stop the Reverse-Flash, and it all goes downhill from there.
* PersonAsVerb: A specially modified treadmill is "Ciscoed", coined by himself.
* PluckyComicRelief: He is the show's main source of comedy.
* PrecisionFStrike: Not literally, but his tendency to frequently call Hartley Rathaway "a dick" is still the saltiest language the show uses. He also uses the phrase "I shit you not" on [[http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.com/ his official Tumblr]].
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Caitlin. When Ronnie first appears to her he is the first person she tells about it. He is immediately supportive despite not being completely sure she actually saw him.
* PluckyComicRelief: The resident clown of the series.
* PragmaticHero: He salvaged all of Thawne's survillance cameras, refusing to wast perfectly good tech.
* RedOniBlueOni: With his cheery and enthusiastic demeanor, he's red to Caitlin's blue.
* RippleProofMemory: Somehow Cisco is able to remember that he found out Wells is the Reverse-Flash and then Wells killed him for it, despite Barry's Cosmic Retcon of the timeline, which should make it impossible for him to remember those events. It comes to him in his dreams, and if someone uses the right Trigger Phrase when he's awake. This turns out to be a metahuman ability he got from the explosion.
* SecretKeeper:
** As one of the Flash's inner circle. However, he tells Captain Cold when presented with a SadisticChoice.
** Even though he had a falling out with Joe since the latter accused Dr. Wells of having been involved in Nora Allen's murder, Cisco still runs the blood tests and calls Joe about the results, making sure Wells is out of earshot first.
** After he risked his life to save Ray from a surprise bee-bot attack, he and Caitlin were let in on the others' suspicions about the Reverse-Flash. Thanks to his alternate-timeline memory nightmares of back when Thawne killed him he partially believes it.
* {{Seer}}: His main power.
* ShipTease: With Caitlin and Lisa.
* SlobsVsSnobs: His conflict with Hartley. Hartley couldn't believe someone like Cisco could be a mechanical genius.
* TheSmartGuy: His role in Team Flash, being the resident GadgeteerGenius. It's worth mentioning that the entire team sans Joe (who isn't stupid or dumb, he's just not in their intellectual "league") is this, with them being {{Science Hero}}es and all.
* StepfordSmiler: Despite his cheerful and goofy demeanor Cisco does have his scars:
** He harbors deep feelings of guilt for locking Ronnie in the particle accelerator (at Ronnie's own insistence, to channel the impending explosion and protect as many people as possible).
** He's also estranged from his family, which is why he relies on the rest of Team Flash for emotional support and ''[[BrokenPedestal craved]]'' Thawne's approval like a son would his father's.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Dude has some serious issues and insecurities left from locking Ronnie in the particle accelerator. Which is why, when Ronnie comes back, Cisco is so adamant on finding him.
* SweetTooth: He's constantly snacking on candy and other sugary foods.
* TakingTheBullet: He takes one of the Bug-Eyed Bandits bees to save Ray, of which he was deathly afraid of.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: He has been killed twice already (the first by Eobard Thawne, the second by ComicBook/VandalSavage), both times negated by Barry's unintentional TimeTravel.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Much to his horror, he was turned into a metahuman by the Particle Accelerator.
* TotallyRadical: Likes to talk jive. Caitlin lampshades this in Arrow.
-->'''Cisco''': I hereby christen this building '''the bomb'''. \\
'''Caitlin''': Nobody says that anymore.
* {{Troll}}: when Barry travels back in time, he rickrolls Hartley after they capture him.
* TVGenius: If a ShoutOut to a TV show is going to be made, it's usually him who does it.
* TwoFirstNames: Being a Creator/DCComics based character, he has a last name that is traditionally used as a first name.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's still working for STAR Labs after the explosion. He even originally built what became the Flash suit for firefighters, in the hopes the city would stop hating Thawne. That is until he learns about the Reverse-Flash.
* TheUnfavorite: Despite his mechanical genius, his parents treat his older brother (a concert pianist) with more love and attention.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Less of a father-son way and more of a hero-employee way. Cisco craves Thawne's approval, as pointed out by Pied Piper. Ironically enough Thawne says he considers Cisco to be the son he never had... [[KickTheDog before killing him.]]
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: For Team Arrow, they get their body armour from him. The Rogues get their ray guns from him. Even CCPD gets a weapon, "The Boot" from him. He does mention he recycles electronics they capture from enemies, but the real question is where he gets the raw material when it looks like S.T.A.R labs hasn't been operating as a business in over almost two years.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: As revealed in episode 18, Cisco can''not'' stand bees.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Caitlin Snow]]
!! Dr. Caitlin Snow
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caitlinsnow_theflash.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350:''I have everything and everyone that I could ever need right here.'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DaniellePanabaker


A bioengineering expert at STAR Labs, Caitlin Snow is a hardworking, passionate young woman who always looks out for the people she cares for. After losing her fiancé in the STAR Labs particle accelerator explosion, Caitlin learns to come out of her depression when taking up the task of aiding the Flash.

In-universe, she first appears in an episode of ''Arrow'' set before Barry wakes up from his coma.
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* AbusiveParents: She outright agrees that her mother is a bitch.
* ActionSurvivor: Even before the show started, she and Cisco encountered ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} on ''[[Series/{{Arrow}} Arrow]]'' and survived.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has brown hair in the series, whereas Caitlin Snow pre-becoming Killer Frost has platinum blonde as in the comics. A Speed Force-induced vision of the future indicates that she will gain platinum blonde hair as Killer Frost, which still counts - while other versions of Killer Frost are sometimes depicted as having white but otherwise normal hair (though usually whitish blue), comics Caitlin Snow's hair is literally made of icicles..
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Caitlin Snow is the supervillain Killer Frost. Her Earth-2 counterpart filled her Supervillain role.
* {{Adorkable}}: She complains that Operation is not anatomically correct, while playing with Barry, and then gets childishly frustrated when she touches the sides. Also, any time she talks about something scientific, she sounds like she's on a sugar high. This trope gets TurnedUpToEleven when she's drunk. She also seems to be the one to come up with the more cutesy nicknames for the metahumans they go up against (Rainbow Raider, Peekaboo).
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: She's a Metahuman in the comics. Here, she's not, and even tested negative on Earth-2!Wells' Metahuman detector.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the comics, she's the Supervillain Killer Frost. They have been confirmed as a DecompositeCharacter, with the latter taking the more physically active role.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Caitlin is easily [[{{DistractedByTheSexy}} drawn to the cuteness of other male characters]] on the show. It's stated that she checked out Barry while helping him recover from his coma, admired Eddie, and did a "thorough" full body search on [[{{MrFanservice}} Hunter Zolomon's time remnant]] under the guise of it being a basic procedure.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has a rigid demeanor since the aftermath of the Particle Accelerator accident, though it gradually disappeared since the second episode.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: She and Mrs. '''C'''larissa '''S'''tein are the {{Love Interest}}s of the two people that compose Firestorm.
* AngerBornOfWorry: She initially seemed constantly furious at Barry for putting himself at danger for what she saw as no good reason, but it's stated the only other person to have made her that angry was her late fiancee, suggesting she cares about him more than she lets on. As they grow closer, she starts displaying less anger and more genuine concern.
* BadassBookworm: In her very first appearance on Arrow, she and Cisco use their brains to outsmart ''Deathstroke'', who's been terrorising Team Arrow for weeks. She does so barely breaking a sweat. Plus, she's a bioengineer who Eobard Thawne speaks highly of.
* BrainyBrunette: She's a brilliant bioengineer who, [[AdaptationDyeJob unlike the comics]], has brown hair.
* BrutalHonesty: She doesn't bother lying to Barry about how the needle she's going to jam in his chest will hurt a lot.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: She's not the best at drinking and ends up throwing up, after an embarrassing karaoke number.
* CartwrightCurse: She lost Ronnie twice and her blossoming romance with Hunter Zolomon's time remnant was abruptly cut short when Zoom kills him and takes him back to Earth-2.
* CelebrityParadox: A VillainOfTheWeek in Season 2 mentions the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise. Her actress guest starred on ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' twice [[YouAllLookFamiliar as two different characters]].
* TheChick: Her role in Team Flash, being TheMedic and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the lone female member]] sans Felicity's and Iris's[[SixthRanger occasional stints]]. She eventually ceases to be the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the lone female member]] of the team Iris joins.
* CompositeCharacter: She's a S.T.A.R. Labs scientist like the third Killer Frost, from whom she also takes her name, but her romantic backstory with a character who becomes Firestorm is incorporated from Crystal Frost, the first Killer Frost.
* ConflictingLoyalty: She refuses to believe that Thawne really is the Reverse-Flash, which puts her in conflict with Barry and Cisco. That is until she sees the remains of the real Harrison Wells and Thawne's secret chamber.
* CosmicPlaything: Dear God, her love life is even worse than Barry's is. At least all of his love interest are still alive. Or actually be good since "Jay Garrick" turns out to be the [[EvilAllAlong evil Zoom, a really bad guy]].
* TheCutie: If her {{Adorkable}} nature gets used right, she can be quite adorable.
* DamselInDistress:
** Leonard Snart and Mick Rory kidnaps her in the Season 1 episode "Revenge of the Rogues".
** Grodd kidnaps her in the Season 2 episode "Gorilla Warfare".
** Zoom kidnaps her near the end of Season 2, and unlike the rest, it exceeds a single episode. This sets-up a RescueArc towards the end of season.
* DecompositeCharacter: Her traditional Supervillain role went into her Earth-2 counterpart.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Barry notes in the Pilot that she doesn't smile much. Justified, in that the particle accelerator accident killed her fiance and destroyed her career. However helping Barry with his heroics is bringing her out of her shell, she's actually enjoying herself by the end of the second episode.
** She briefly slips back into IceQueen territory after the death of Hunter Zolomon's time remnant.
* DespairEventHorizon: The Comic-Con trailers for Season 2 suggest that she passed this since she tells Cisco that she's leaving STAR Labs and Central City.
* DisappearedDad: Her dad died of a disease several years before.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She switches to a HimeCut in Season 2 after her husband's death and moving away from STAR Labs, but she keeps it when she returns. Her old hairstyle is seen again when Barry time-travels back to Season 1 in an episode.
* TheFace: She's quickly shaping up to be this in season 2, successfully managing to rally together a reluctant Hunter Zolomon's time remnant ''and'' Earth-2 Wells into staying with Team Flash to help out, although with the former it also helps that she has a crush on him (and the feeling is certainly mutual).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: She refers to Ronnie and herself as "like fire and ice." This is an allusion to Ronnie becoming the superhero Firestorm and Caitlin eventually becoming the supervillain Killer Frost.
* HappilyMarried: She and Ronnie finally get hitched in the season finale, but sadly, Ronnie sacrifices himself again to close the singularity.
* HospitalHottie: A very attractive young woman who acts as Barry's physician after the lightning bolt changes his physiology.
* HotScientist: As noted in the above trope, an attractive woman who's studying the explosion's effects on the metahumans, especially Barry.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: She tells Barry that "she won't patch him up every time he breaks something." Then she does.
* IdiotBall: She was planning to go to Thawne's house to demand info about him being the Reverse-Flash.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Barry creating a CosmicRetcon in the Season 2 finale, the Season 3 trailer shows that she's still a doctor.
* TheMedic: To the Flash.
* MarriedToTheJob: Everyone notices she has very little life outside of her job. It's partly because she's naturally a workaholic (her fiancee was the one who got her to relax) and partly because she's working to forget about Ronnie.
* MeaningfulName: The moniker "Snow" alludes to more than a chilly disposition.
* MoralityChain: For Ronnie when he was still unwillingly fused with Prof. Stein, much like how his wife Clarissa was for the latter during the ordeal. She later becomes one to [[BigBad Zoom]] of all people, due to her resemblance to his mother.
* MotherlyScientist: While she seems more interested in getting samples from her test subject at first, she soon begins to show concern for Barry's well being.
* MythologyGag: She mentions Ronnie used to say they were "fire and ice", a nod to her alter-ego in the comics, [[AnIcePerson ice-based villain]] Killer Frost. In "Flash vs Arrow" she also [[http://i.imgur.com/eMN9Jpd.jpg wears a necklace with the cold front weather symbol]].
* NiceGirl: Despite her, ahem, [[{{Pun}} frosty]] demeanour at times, Caitlin is generally sweet to everyone.
* NotHisSled: Despite various {{Mythology Gag}}s otherwise, she is not Killer Frost. That's her [[EvilTwin Earth Two counterpart]].
* NotSoStoic: When she sees what Barry can do, she just gapes in amazement. She's also worried about Barry during his first major fight as the Flash.
* NowLetMeCarryYou: She pretty much says this verbatim to Cisco in ''Rogue Time'' to convince him to let her lend support at the family gathering he must attend.
* OhCrap: When she realizes that Thawne is the Reverse-Flash. However, she forgets when Barry hits the ResetButton.
* OppositesAttract: Caitlin describes her and Ronnie this way.
* RedOniBlueOni: With her stern and introverted demeanor, she's blue to Cisco's red.
** Ronnie also described her as the ice (blue) to his fire (red).
* RefusalOfTheCall: At first, she doesn't approve of Barry using his powers to help ordinary citizens, instead thinking they should be used exclusively to contain rogue meta-humans. She changes her tune by the end of the second episode though.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} and Killer Frost are enemies. She and Ronnie got married in the Season 1 finale.
* SecretKeeper: Another one of the Flash's inner circle.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Barry was quite surprised that she showed up to their NotADate in a LittleBlackDress. Caitlyn mentions that she doesn't dress up like a school principal every day.
* ShipTease:
** With Cisco, there are several ship tease moments, like the time he was injured and woke up saying her name.
*** In ''Things You Can't Outrun'', a flashback to the explosion reveals that the only way Ronnie convinced Cisco to essentially let him die was that, if not, it would be Caitlin who died.
*** There are several flashbacks with them together, to the accident, and to when he starting working at Star Labs. He declares that "she seems nice" while gazing after her with a starstruck look.
*** In ''The Man In the Yellow Suit'', Cisco holds Caitlin and comforts her as she cries about Ronnie.
*** In ''Revenge of the Rogues'', Cisco is the one to rescue Caitlin. She hugs him because she thought she was going to die, but he says, "Not while I'm around."
*** Caitlin is Cisco's date to his brother's birthday party in ''Rogue Time'', and Dante flirting with her there parallels him stealing Cisco's crush in high school.
*** In ''Rogue Air'' after discovering that Cisco and Lisa Snart kissed, she immediately responds in disgust, shock and disappointment, and continues to sour up when Cisco makes a lighthearted gest on possibly wanting to kiss her again, even though she's a criminal and he's one of the good guys.
*** In ''King Shark'' Cisco is the one most worried that Caitlin's coldness both metaphorically, and ''literally'', after Jay's death, could be indicative of her turning into Earth-1's '''Killer Frost'''.
*** The two of them dancing together, rather sporadically, but having fun all the same, during Team Flash's night out in ''Trajectory''.
** Also with Barry.
*** Cisco comments that the only person who ever made her that [[AngerBornOfWorry upset]] was her late fiancé, Ronnie.
*** In ''Things You Can't Outrun'', they spend a good deal of time together, and he helps her with panic attacks provoked by the thought of the Particle Accelerator. The comic tie-in implies that she's attracted to him.
*** ''Crazy For You'' is pretty much an entire episode of Barry/Caitlin ShipTease.
*** When Everyman takes Barry's form and kisses her, she reciprocates.
** However, the ships end when she finally marries Ronnie. That is until Ronnie supposedly died...[[TheyKilledKennyAgain again.]]
** She also shows ''a lot '' of interest in Jay Garrick.
*** The first scenario the two spend time with one another, Caitlin does a [[CovertPervert "thorough" full-body search]] on Jay, with the implication she was admiring him after she and Iris call him "an interesting specimen."
*** When it looks like Jay might return to Earth-2, Caitlin gives him a laundry list of reasons to stay. Cisco is fully aware of why she's doing so.
*** They AlmostKiss in "The Darkness and the Light", before Dr. Light attacks.
* ShipperOnDeck: She is this for Barry and Iris.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female member of Team Flash. Felicity's and Iris' [[SixthRanger occasional stints]] avert this, however.
** It might be averted altogether now that Iris knows Barry's The Flash and is starting to get inducted into the team.
** It is fully averted as of Season 2, now that Iris is full-fledged member of the Team and Jesse was becoming one.
* TheStoic: Ever since the explosion killed her fiancé and ruined her career, she's been very detached.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even though the explosion ruined her career and killed her fiance, she's still working for Thawne and STAR Labs. That is until she learns about the Reverse-Flash.
* WhenSheSmiles: Despite her rigid demeanor, she smiles ear to ear when Barry defeats Clyde Mardon and comes out okay. By the time of Episode Two, she is smiling whenever she knows she's helping the Flash in general.
* WidowWoman: Ronnie sacrificed himself to close the wormhole just a few days after their wedding.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Joe West]]
!! Detective Joseph "Joe" West
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joewest.jpg]][[caption-width-right:339:''"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."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JesseLMartin

A detective in the Central City PD and Iris' father and Barry's Foster Father.
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* ActionDad: Father of three and the show's resident BadassNormal.
* AdaptationalBadass: This version of the West father is a BadassNormal capable of gunning and killing Metahumans.
* AdaptationalHeroism: 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... Of course, the pre-''Flashpoint'' version was also a likable person, so it's subverted on that count.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Inverted. 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.
* AdaptationNameChange: Was named Ira (New Earth) or William (Prime Earth) in the comics.
* AesopAmnesia: In Season 2, he seems to have forgotten why keeping secrets sucks since he refuses to let Patty know Barry's the Flash
* 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 sceptical about the Man In Yellow until he actually sees him.
* AndStarring: In the series OBB.
* ArchEnemy: He's been chasing the Mardon brothers for a long time, and it just got [[ItsPersonal personal]] when his partner was killed.
* BadassBaritone: Fitting for such an authoritative man.
* BadassBeard: Sports a goatee and the show's resident ActionDad.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He mostly fights while wearing suits.
* BadassNormal: A veteran detective, he is still skilled enough to go against metahuman threats like if they were normal everyday crooks. Notably he's the first one to guess that there's more to Dr. Wells than meets the eye.
* BreakTheBadass: Joe has been pretty brave with other supercriminals but Grodd is the first one to reduce him to a weeping wreck.
* TheCassandra: He's the very first member of Team Flash to be suspicious of Wells. It took about a quarter of the season before anyone of them started to consider his suspicions.
* 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. Speaking of which...
** Cisco mentioned Elsa from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' in Season 2. Said character is voiced by Creator/IdinaMenzel, who along with his actor, was one of the pioneer cast of the popular Broadway show, ''Theatre/{{RENT}}''.
* CompositeCharacter:
** He is actually much more similar to the New 52 version of Darryl Frye 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).
** 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).
* CulturedBadass: He was able to recite quotes from classic literature, something that impresses the Clock King as he was also a fan of it.
* TheCynic: Not in a {{Jerkass}} way, 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.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** As evidenced by his ShutUpHannibal moment with Clyde Mardon.
--->'''Mardon''': [[EvilIsHammy DO YOU THINK YOUR GUNS CAN STOP GOD?]] \\
'''Joe''': Why in the hell would God need to rob banks?!
** [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Which unfortunately blows back on him when Mardon decides he's right and tries to destroy Central City instead.]]
* 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.
* DistressedDude: He's been kidnapped in Season 1 twice. First by Mark Mardon which was negated by Barry's Time Travel, then by Grodd.
* 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.
* FriendOnTheForce: To S.T.A.R. Labs.
* 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.
* HiddenDepths:
** He was able to name each of the people that coined the quotes Clock King was reciting.
** Joe's often smarter and more GenreSavvy than people think. There's a lot of UnderestimatingBadassery around him.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Notably one of the few characters to avert this as he is the first to suspect Wells. 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.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Cisco.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** He's usually stern and the OnlySaneMan, but when Barry shows him he can vibrate his vocal chords to throw his voice, he can't help but geek out.
** 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 justs giggles uncontrollably.
* 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.
* OverprotectiveDad: He tends to treat Iris and Barry like the're still a couple of ten year olds, instead of young adults. He scolds Iris and Barry, after the two of them were nearly caught up in a robbery and refused to let Iris follow in his footstep as a cop.
-->'''Joe''': You're just a kid. You're my kid.
** He takes this too far when he lets Eddie in on Barry's secret and strictly forbids him from telling Iris. When Eddie points out that he's her boyfriend and he shouldn't have to be subservient to Joe, Joe replies he will be until he becomes Iris' husband. And with the trope below, that answer carries even sharper connotations… He eventually grows out of it after Iris does a spetacular CallingTheOldManOut.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: When Eddie gave him the courtesy of knowing first that he plans on proposing to his daughter, Joe bluntly shuts him down.
* ParentalSubstitute: 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.
* ParentsAsPeople: 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.
* PoliceAreUseless: Joe utterly subverts 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.
* PragmaticHero: In contrast to Barry's IdealHero and Harry's UnscrupulousHero.
* 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?
* RaceLift: He's white in the comics, but black in the show.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In this version, he's Barry most influential father figure after becoming his legal guardian because of his father's imprisonment. He also becomes Wally's father instead of granduncle.
* SecretKeeper: The first person outside STAR Labs and Team {{Series/Arrow}} who knows about Barry's powers.
* 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.
* 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.
* TeamDad: Shares 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.
* ThatOneCase:
** Nora Allen's murder. A murder that ruined the lives of his friends, resulting in him effectively adopting their child? Yes.
** The Mardon brothers' case since he'd been pursuing them for a long time and they killed his partner before Eddie.
* 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 most GenreSavvy character in the show.
* 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.
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[[folder: Eddie Thawne]]
!! Detective Edward "Eddie" Thawne
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eddiethawne_theflash.jpg]][[caption-width-right:339:''"He was wrong. Turns out I'm a hero after all. [...] That's all I've ever wanted to be, Iris. ''Your'' hero."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RickCosnett

A police officer in the Central City PD, recently transferred from Keystone City, who becomes Joe's partner and Iris's boyfriend.
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* TheAce: He's great at his job to the point of having started to keep scores of his arrests.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In most stories, the present-day "Thawne", Malcolm Thawne, is a straight-up supervillain who hates Barry with a passion so strong that he starts the Thawne-Flash family feud, which lasts until the ''30th century''. He's also Barry's long-lost brother, which so far at least, we've had no hint of Eddie being such.
* AdaptationalNameChange: It seems that way, as he seems to be the show's equivalent of Cobalt Blue/Malcolm Thawne, being the modern day Thawne and the ancestor of Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash. If so, this also makes him a case of AdaptationalHeroism, as Cobalt Blue is an evil speedster, not a BadassNormal NiceGuy.
* AdaptationalWimp: Played with. In most stories, the present day Thawne becomes the supervillain Cobalt Blue, who has the power to negate The Flash's SuperSpeed. Eddie never became a supervillain or gained any powers, but he was able to kill the one foe Barry couldn't even defeat on his own.
* {{Adorkable}}: Mostly when it comes to talking to his partner about the fact that he's dating his daughter.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Barry (whenever he's in civvies anyway). Most obvious when he catches a bag-snatcher that had, just a few moments ago, knocked Barry flat on his rear. [[LoveTriangle Then he starts dating Iris.]]
** Extends to all of the STAR Labs crew by the time the season finale comes around, due in large part to Eobard messing with his head. He admits to feeling as if he has nothing to contribute to the group, considering most of them are geniuses or superheroes of sort. He gets over this in the midst of his sacrifice, however.
* AndStarring: Is credited with "Special Guest Star" citation for his appearances starting Season 2.
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to Barry saving his mom in the Season 2 finale, events leading up to his HeroicSuicide to RetGone Eobard Thawne has been negated.
* BadassBaritone: He's pretty badass, as mentioned here, and his voice is probably the deepest in the main cast.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He mostly fights while wearing suits.
* BadassInDistress: Played with. After throwing away the masquerade, Eobard kidnaps him and keeps him locked away -- but he ''won't'' kill him, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou because Eddie is his ancestor.]]
* BadassNormal: Like Joe, he has no superpowers or special abilities, yet he willingly and regularly goes up against villains who do, and has no trouble against more standard criminals.
* BigDamnHeroes: He leaps into action to save the Flash in a crucial moment during his fight against Captain Cold and Heat Wave.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The only reason he was spared by the Reverse-Flash is because he is Thawne's distant relative.
* CharacterDevelopment: Of all the main characters aside from Barry, Eddie's has been the most drastic. Over the first season alone, he's developed quite a friendship with the STAR Labs crew, gone from wanting to lock up the Flash to becoming one of his strongest allies, revealed some things about his childhood to Barry, decided that he wants to marry Iris, and earlier on, he TookALevelInKindness (see below).
* CopBoyfriend: To Iris.
* DeadSidekick: He's Joe's second fallen partner.
* DeathByAdaptation: In most stories, the present day Thawne becomes the Supervillain "Cobalt Blue". Eddie was never able to don the identity after his HeroicSuicide in the Season 1 finale.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Being Iris' boyfriend, his death allows her to be with Barry.
* DistressedDude: Eobard kidnaps him and holds him for majority of the last quarter of Season 1.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Series/{{Arrow}} Tommy Merlyn]]. Friend to the hero? Check. Related to the main bad guy of Season 1? Check. RedHerring to said bad guy? Check. Romantic Rival to the hero? Check. Super-Nice guy? Check. Always getting the short end of the stick? Check. Fans of the show constantly predicting he will become a bad guy? Check. Breaks up with the hero's love interest, because he believes that the hero getting with said love interest is inevitable? Check. HeroicSacrifice at the end of Season 1? Check. Was wearing a WhiteShirtOfDeath and black pants? Check.
* EtTuBrute: Punches Barry for flirting with Iris, when Eddie thought he and Barry were supposed to be friends.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He gladly performs a HeroicSuicide just so a monster like Eobard Thawne won't ever exist.
* FairCop: We will be mentioning his nickname "Detective Pretty Boy" several times.
* FormerlyFat: He used to be a short, fat kid, who was teased a lot.
* FriendOnTheForce: Shares this role to the Flash with Joe. Becomes ''even more'' of this after Barry reveals his identity to him.
* FriendlessBackground: Though not directly stated, Eddie lets on that he doesn't have many friends, but values the one he does. When talking to Barry about the latter's friendship to Iris, Eddie wistfully says that he's learned from experience that friends are hard to find; and when he learns Barry hit on Iris, what he singles out as the worst part isn't that someone tried to steal his girlfriend -- it's that he thought he and Barry were friends. And, although it took some [[BlatantLies scientific explanation]] from Caitlin, Eddie forgives Barry pretty quickly afterwards.
* FutureLoser: According to [[UnreliableNarrator Eobard]] he's the biggest disappointment in their family and grows up accomplishing nothing. Fortunately, Eddie says ScrewDestiny.
* GoodAllAlong: For all the {{Red Herring}}s regarding him eventually pulling a FaceHeelTurn or being EvilAllAlong, he did a very noble HeroicSacrifice just to ensure that a monster like Eobard Thawne will be erased from existence.
* GreenEyedMonster: Admitted to Barry that he was a bit jealous of his relationship to Iris, but he gets over it and bonds with him over the Tony Woodward case. It does briefly pop up again when Barry gives Iris replicas of her mom's wedding rings.
** He initially did ''not'' like the Flash at all, and considered him a threat on little or no evidence mainly because Iris [[HeroWorship liked him]]. However, he got better after the Flash helped the police against Reverse-Flash, and is a full-on Flash supporter by ''Revenge of the Rogues''.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde and is a decent human being. Unlike his distant descendant, Eobard.
* HeroicSuicide: In the season 1 finale he shoots himself in the chest to stop the Reverse-Flash, who is his descendant from the future.
* InSeriesNickname: Detective Pretty Boy.
* InTheBlood: Completely averted. Unlike his monstrous descendant, Eddie is 100% heroic.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: Keeping Barry's secret from Iris hurts their relationship—especially given that he disagrees with the others' (mainly Joe's) assertion that keeping her LockedOutOfTheLoop is the best way to protect her.
* TheLostLenore: Iris is still hung up from his death almost a year after that. Barry later helps her move on when he travels back in time by making a video from Eddie.
* MysteriousPast: His past is described as a mystery and he harbors a dark secret according to WordOfGod.
** He's mentioned a little bit to Barry in "The Flash is Born". He said he was a short, fat kid whose dad was a local politician who shut down the factory in his school district, meaning he got his ass kicked. A ''lot.''
* MythologyGag: His name is a reference to the comics character Eobard Thawne, known to be [[ArchEnemy Professor Zoom]]/[[EvilCounterpart Reverse-Flash]] in the comics. However, he proves to be a RedHerring for "Harrison Wells", the true Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash. Thawne calls Eddie a "distant relative", which is later clarified to mean that Eddie is his direct ancestor and he needs Eddie to live long enough to produce a child so he can exist.
* NiceGuy: After the first few episodes especially, he is seen to be very affable and friendly to Joe and Barry, always showing concern and empathy for Barry.
* NotSoDifferent: As he points out to Barry, they're much more similar than he thinks: both had rough childhoods, were tormented by bullies, frequently got their asses handed to them, and eventually grew up to help people in the CCPD.
* OldCopYoungCop: His partner is old enough to be his father, to the point that he even dated his daughter much to the former's dismay,. They do still care respect each other, though.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: He's this around Joe on matters about him being Iris's boyfriend.
* OutOfFocus: In the middle of the season, until he learns the Flash's identity.
* PopCultureIsolation: An in-universe example. During a pub quiz, Eddie apparently didn't know [[Franchise/StarWars the name of Han Solo's ship]].
* PrettyBoy: To the point of being nicknamed Detective Pretty Boy in-universe. Even [[TheStoic Caitlin]] thinks he's hot.
* RedHerring: Despite sharing a surname with comics character Eobard Thawne and having being suspiciously spared by the Reverse-Flash, he is not Reverse-Flash; "Wells" is. However, it does amount to something: Eobard spared Eddie because Eddie's his ancestor and he needs him alive to preserve his own existence. Which he outright tells him in "The Trap". "Grodd Lives" strongly implies he tries to mold him into a villain by playing on his fears.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: {{Inverted|Trope}}, as he has no relation to Barry, whereas Malcolm Thawne was Barry's identical EvilTwin.
* TheRival: An unintentional variety, as while he is the PrettyBoy [[TheAce Ace]] Detective he views Barry as a friend and colleague, and had no idea that Barry's love for Iris was more than Platonic until Eobard showed him the future. The producers were aware that they were creating this dynamic and so had to struggle to make him a likable character without making him an unberable Mary Sue.
* ScrewDestiny: At first he broke up with Iris when Eobard showed up the paper, but then he decided it didn't matter and they got back together.
* SecretKeeper:
** Let in on the meta-human secret, though Joe still keeps Eddie in the dark in regards to Flash's secret identity.
** He's also the only one on the police force who knows that Joe is investigating his future ancestor.
** ''And'' then Barry willingly reveals his identity as the Flash to him in "Tricksters".
* StopOrIWillShoot: "You're not faster than a bullet." (Said to a crook, not the Flash.)
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Created a task force to catch Flash (who had [[NotHimself violently assaulted him earlier]]) before becoming his loyal supporter.
* TakingYouWithMe: Given his HeroicSacrifice to take advantage of the GrandfatherParadox.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the first few episodes, he seemed to be a little more of a cocky jerk (keeping count of his arrests, being overly proud of catching a mugger, etc.) However, that later phases out and he starts to become friendlier and nicer. Compare and contrast both times Barry compliments him for "saving the day" when the Flash was present -- the first time, in "Fastest Man Alive", he brushes it off with faux humbleness, but gives credit to no one else; the second time, in "Revenge of the Rogues", he gratefully thanks the Flash for everything.
* TooMuchInformation: Accidentally tells Joe that keeping a secret for him is hurting his sex life with Iris.
--> '''Eddie:''' (to Joe) ''[Iris and I]'' haven't had sex in two weeks... and you did not need to know that!
* WhatTheHellHero: Punches Barry for trying to steal his girlfriend. However, Eddie later apologizes when Caitlin explains that it was due to Barry's [[BlatantLies medical condition]].
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Was wearing a white suit when he performed his HeroicSuicide.
* WildCard: During his talk with Stein, the latter explains that his abduction by Eobard was not planned at all when he went back to the past and killed Barry's mom since he saw him as a coincidence, being that he was a distant ancestor of his. He decides to take advantage of it by shooting himself to prevent Eobard from existing.
* YouCantFightFate: This is why he breaks up with Iris in "Rogue Air," as Eobard Thawne shows him a newspaper from the future showing that Barry gets married to Iris. This makes him realize that [[OblivioustoLove Iris has feelings for Barry, whether she admits/realizes it or not, and even he knows that]] [[LoveTriangle Barry has been in their relationship as well]].
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[[folder: Eobard Thawne / The Reverse-Flash]]
!! Eobard Thawne / Dr. "Harrison Wells" / The Reverse-Flash
->See Characters/TheFlash2014Metahumans
->See Characters/TheFlash2014Others

A psychotic AscendedFanboy who himself became a speedster and killed Barry's mother. He is also Eddie's descendant from the distant future, impersonating "Harrison Wells", whom he killed and stole his identity. He became the founder of S.T.A.R. Labs who mentors the Flash, helping him understand his powers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Harry Wells]]
!! Dr. Harrison "Harry" Wells
[[quoteright:339:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/harrywells_theflash17.jpg]][[caption-width-right:339:''"[[IAmNotHim I'm not him!]]"'']]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/TomCavanagh

The Harrison Wells from Zoom's Earth (dubbed "Earth-2"), who is still alive and founded S.T.A.R. Labs in 1991.
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* ActionDad: If the situation calls for it.
* AdaptationalBadass: This version of the S.T.A.R. Labs founder is not afraid to get physical.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the name of S.T.A.R. Labs' founder is either Dr. Robert Meersman (Silver Age) or Dr. Garrison Slate (New Earth).
* AmbiguousDisorder: Harry is blunt, rude, prone to angry outbursts, and tends to lose most of his social skills when stressed. He also fidgets a lot, and falls back on things like familiar foods and wearing the same clothes all the time as a way of dealing with uncertainty. Add to that his general lack of interest in things other than science and occasionally movies, and he gives the impression of perhaps being somewhere on the autism spectrum. Additionally, he admits to being largely unable to sleep and exhibits quite a few of the symptoms of PTSD.
* AndStarring: It ''is'' his actor's name in the OBB.
* AntiHero: He's a bit self-serving and is a smug {{Jerkass}} and he's definitely hiding something, but he's ultimately trying to help the Flashes defeat Zoom.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Cisco starts calling him "Harry" to distinguish him from "their" Harrison Wells. He goes along with it.
* AscendedExtra: As a result of his Earth-1 counterpart being a more important character here than in the comics, he was given an Earth-2 counterpart.
* BackupTwin: ZigZagged. He is introduced a season after his Earth-1 counterpart's [[DeadPersonImpersonation impostor]]. However, he ended up filling his role as the TeamDad of Team Flash anyway.
* BadassBookworm: A genius scientist who blasts shark-men with laser guns and is capable of holding his own in a fistfight against a powerless Hunter Zoloman.
* BadassNormal: He doesn't seem to have powers but he's not afraid to go out in the field against Metas.
* BerserkButton: Does not like people referring to Eobard Thawne as "Wells". Having to say "I'm not him" multiple times a day when first dealing with the team has that effect.
* {{BFG}}: Uses a pulse rifle to take out King Shark. It eventually becomes his WeaponOfChoice.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Barry from King Shark.
* BigNo: When Zoom escapes in "Enter Zoom", depriving Wells of a chance to rescue his daughter.
* BigGood: Apparently for the scientific community on Earth-2.
* BrainyBrunette: Much like his Earth-1 counterpart.
* BreakTheHaughty: He was more or less indifferent to the meta-humans' havoc until Zoom kidnapped Jesse.
* BrutalHonesty: He's not afraid to say his ''honest'' opinion regarding other people.
* ButNowIMustGo: Although tempted to stay, he decides to go home to Earth-2 with his daughter at the season's end.
* CharacterTics: He almost invariably stands with his hand on his hips or in the pockets of his trousers.
* CivvieSpandex: Wears something of a costume during his debut and action scenes, an all black outfit comprised of a hoodie and black coat. Accessorized with a {{BFG}}.
* CompositeCharacter: He's the Earth-2 version of the S.T.A.R. Labs founder. But the Earth-2 Wells has elements of [[{{Expy}} Earth-3 Lex Luthor]] as the only ScienceHero fighting his world's supervillains. And the actress playing Wells' daughter was announced to be Jesse Quick, making Wells a version of Johnny Quick.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Ultimately he can't go through with helping Zoom steal Barry's speed and ends up confessing out of guilt after only taking a small amount.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: ''He'' created Zoom and the other Metahumans in Earth-2 by accident.
* CrusadingWidower: Turns out his wife had passed away when Jesse was still young.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Like Eobard Thawne, this Wells wears all black. Unlike Thawne, Wells is a {{Jerkass}}, but he's more or less one of the good guys.
* DealWithTheDevil: Wells is working with Zoom to steal the Flash's speed in order to get the villain to give back his daughter.
* DefrostingIceKing: He finally warms up to Barry and co. after Grodd returns and starts a rampage.
* EasilyForgiven: After he reveals his alliance with Zoom, Barry forgives him at the end of that episode. Subverted in that this is mainly out of recognition that he did it in an attempt to save his completely innocent daughter, and actually getting everyone's trust back is a thing he ends up earning with time.
* EnemyMine: In a rather twisted form of this trope, Zoom is partnering up with Wells secretly against the Flash. In exchange, Zoom gets the hero's speed and Wells receives Jesse.
* EvilTwin: Downplayed. While not as dangerous as the other examples, his real Earth-1 counterpart is a NiceGuy while he is a {{Jerkass}}.
* {{Expy}}:
** His flashback relationship with "Jay Garrick", as a publicly beloved inventor at odds with an idealistic hero, makes him one for Lex Luthor. With the discovery that "Jay" is actually Hunter Zolomon's time remnant, this is turned on its head, into an expy of DC Comics Earth-3 Lex Luthor as the lone hero of Earth-2 surrounded by a bunch of villains.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Zoom uses Wells's daughter as leverage to force him to assist in taking Barry's speed. As opposed to Eobard who wouldn't even bat an eye at betraying Team Flash, this Wells clearly hates having to do it.
* GadgeteerGenius: Aside from creating the Particle Accelerator, he also created Metahuman detector devices and his powerful {{BFG}}. He also made the needle guns that were supposed to depower Zoom in the fight that got Barry's back broken. Later, he made a spare pulse rifle for Joe when they were planning on taking down Zoom with a tachyon-powered Barry.
* GeekPhysiques: He's a very slim guy, but a scene in which he's wearing a tank top shows that this trope is thoroughly averted and he's actually incredibly fit.
* GoodIsNotNice: In contrast to the FauxAffablyEvil Reverse Flash, he's on Barry's side but is extremely prickly and quick to go into DrillSergeantNasty mode when someone doesn't listen to him.
* HatesBeingTouched: Shows some signs of this in "Enter Zoom", although that may just be because he doesn't want Cisco to vibe him.
* HeroicBSOD: He spends pretty much his entire time on Earth-1 slowly breaking down because Zoom has his daughter, and he didn't even know if she was still alive until Cisco vibed him. After Zoom attacks him and offers him a deal—Jesse in exchange for stealing the Flash's speed—he is so obviously losing it that Team Flash start noticing how unhappy he is.
* IAmNotHim: Finds himself saying this ''a lot'' when he starts working with the S.T.A.R. Labs team.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the series until Season 2.
* InSeriesNickname: Cisco dubs him Harry to differentiate him from both his Earth-1 counterpart and his counterpart's [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonator]].
* InsufferableGenius: He's brilliant, and ''he knows it''.
* InTheHood: Part of his "costume," coupled with a black coat.
* {{Irony}}:
** Ever single Metahuman from his world who wanted to KillAndReplace their Earth-1 counterparts all failed, and only wanted to do it to escape a powerful speedster (Zoom). Wells's actual counterpart was successfully [[DeadPersonImpersonation impersonated]] by a Metahuman from another world (or time in this case) to create a powerful speedster (Barry/The Flash).
** Wells attempts to convince Grodd he's the Reverse-Flash, performing a DeadPersonImpersonation of the man who performed one of his own Earth-1 counterpart.
* {{Jerkass}}: In contrast with [[FauxAffablyEvil Eobard]], who was demanding but fatherly, Earth-2 Wells is extremely cold and distant. Cisco puts it best.
--> '''Cisco:''' Our Dr. Wells may have been evil, but you're just a diiiiiick.
* JerkassFacade: "Fast Lane" reveals that he intentionally alienates himself from Team Flash because he sees his betrayal of them as inevitable and wants to protect himself from that pain.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As much of a jerk as he is, Wells is the smartest member on Team Flash since he provides useful information on how to deal with the Earth-2 metahumans. He even calls out Jay for being too much of a coward to defeat Zoom when he had the chance.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The reveal in "Enter Zoom" that Zoom [[IHaveYourWife kidnapped Wells's daughter]], Jesse, may mitigate the Jerkassness somewhat. To all appearances, he was also a jerk back on Earth-2 who viewed himself as TheUnfettered, but let no-one say that he doesn't love his daughter, and he does warm up to Team Flash after helping them against Grodd.
* LastNameBasis: How he addresses Team Flash. He finally goes FirstNameBasis on them (or at least Cisco) in the Season 2 finale.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: He profited off the meta-humans' havoc by creating anti-metahuman technology to sell to ordinary scared humans, something which ''enraged'' "Jay Garrick". Though the moral outrage on "Jay's" part was probably just an act, it's clear Hunter was concerned enough about Wells' genius and at the same time saw Harry's profit motive as an opening to use his "heroic" persona against the man.
* LoveEpiphany: A non-romantic example. He developed genuine fondness for the members of Team Flash during his stay on Earth-1 but does not realize it until Jesse calls him out on it.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: If his daughter is in danger, Wells will do ''anything'', [[PapaWolf going far as treachery and murder]], to save her. One of his reminisces about getting separated in a planetarium when Jesse was eight implies that he has always been a WellIntentionedExtremist when it came to Jesse's safety.
* LoveRedeems: Eventually, both his [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship with Team Flash]] and his love for his daughter (after calling him out of her becoming the reason for him doing [[LoveMakesYouEvil the reverse trope]]) began making positive effects on his character. When he and Jesse say goodbye to Team Flash, he admits they made him a better man.
* MeanBoss: He's pretty demanding of his employees and expects all of them to be as smart as he is.
* MessyHair: It seems he left his comb behind on Earth-2. His general untidiness adds to the impression that his entire focus is his mission, to the detriment of everything else.
* MinoredInAsskicking: He's very competent both in hand-to-hand combat and with projectile weapons, in addition to his more scientific skill set.
* {{Misblamed}}: InUniverse. When he first joins Team Flash, the whole group initially distrusts him because of their previous conflict with the "other Wells." This is despite the fact that ''Eobard Thawne'' was the true villain they fought and the Earth-1 Wells was never their enemy.
* TheMole: For Zoom. He wants Wells to help him take Barry's speed from him in order for Jesse to be returned.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** His own culpability in the metahuman situation hits him like a ton of bricks when Zoom kidnaps Jesse.
** It's subtle, but he looks horrified after Barry is defeated by Zoom.
* NeverMyFault:
** He holds no responsibility for what he's done. Until now, when Zoom kidnapped his daughter to get to him and Hunter Zolomon's time remnant. He blames the remnant for not doing enough to stop Zoom and the other metahumans in their world.
** Subverted after Barry is defeated by Zoom. Wells is horrified, admitting that he made a mistake.
* NoSympathy: For anyone his counterpart has hurt. As far as this Wells is concerned, ''he'' didn't do it, so it doesn't really matter.
* NotSoDifferent: From ([[DeadPersonImpersonation Thawne]]), according to Hunter Zolomon's time remnant.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted. He may be a tech wizard, but he's subpar at biochemistry, which is why his attempts at creating the Velocity drug fizzled out until Caitlin gave him a helping hand.
* PapaWolf: Why he's now actively fighting Zoom.
* RaceLift: Dr. Wells was Caucasian, while of the two comics founders of S.T.A.R. Labs, Dr. Garrison Slate is either BlackAndNerdy or AmbiguouslyBrown, and nothing is known about Dr. Robert Meersman.
* RecognitionFailure: He failed to notice "Jay"'s resemblance to SerialKiller Hunter Zolomon, though justified in that he was assumed dead and had a beard.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: This version of the S.T.A.R. Labs' founder becomes the father of Jesse Quick.
* ScienceHero: He can throw down with Hunter Zolomon's time remnant and has an affinity for {{BFG}}s, but his main strength is his scientific acumen, and putting it to use.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Debuted at the second episode of Season 2.
* SelectiveObliviousness: The trip to Earth-2 reveals that he really knows who Cisco, Caitlin, and Ronnie are because they are the [[AlternateSelf alternate selves]] of three of Zoom's closest allies who are also notorious evil metahumans on his Earth. His AccidentalMisnaming of them early on was actually an effort so he will not be attached to them.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Showing up on Earth-1 to help Team Flash really put a wrench in Zoom's plans for Barry since Harry was the only man smart enough to figure out how to defeat him.
* SternTeacher: Roughly teaches Cisco on how to use his Metahuman powers.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Unlike [[KillAndReplace his fake Earth-1 counterpart]], he doesn't sit on a wheelchair which allows him to showcase his height (he stands 6 feet). Unlike his [[{{Adorkable}} real counterpart]], he is a huge {{Jerkass}}.
* TokenEvilTeammate: To Team Flash. He's revealed to be working with Zoom in a twisted DealWithTheDevil, though "evil" in this case would be an exaggeration, since he's doing it under duress. Zoom threatened to [[IHaveYourWife kill his daughter]] if he didn't agree to help, so he [[ForcedIntoEvil had little choice]]. He eventually doesn't go with the deal and chooses to side with them.
* TookALevelInKindness: After being mostly a {{Jerkass}} to them, he finally warms up to Barry and co. after Grodd returns and started a rampage and even risks his life to save Caitlin. At the Season 2 finale, he begins to openly show his affections to Team Flash and thanked each and every one of them for changing him before returning to Earth-2.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Just like the guy who stole the identity of his Earth-1 counterpart, the man ''loves'' Big Belly Burger.
* UnscrupulousHero: While he ultimately shares the same goal as Team Flash, he has no problem with using lethal force against villains, exposing his allies' secrets against their will, denigrating his world's Flash, and doing whatever else he feels is necessary to get the desired result.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The menacing nature of his scenes indicates that he may be one of the bad guys of his world, yet is revered as the man who saved them from the other side of the black hole that Barry opened. Subverted as he comes to Earth-1 chasing after King Shark from his Earth and prevents him from killing Barry. In truth he's closer to a HeroWithAnFInGood.
* WalkingSpoiler: His actions regarding Zoom.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Turns out that he and "Jay Garrick" intensely dislike each other, to the point where they start beating each other up in "The Darkness and the Light", with the speedster slamming Wells for creating the metahumans while Wells dismissed him as a coward. Subverted with the reveal that "Jay" is actually Hunter Zolomon's time remnant, as it becomes clear that Hunter was using that trick all along to ''pretend'' to be "struggling together" with Wells in order to build up his own image as well as discredit the only man smart enough to find a way to stop him.
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[[folder: Wally West]]
!! [[Franchise/TheFlash Wallace "Wally" West]]
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->'''Known Aliases:''' Taillights, Kid Flash
->'''Played By:''' Keiynan Lonsdale

Wally is Iris's long-lost brother, who 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. Towards the end of Season 2, he's hit with a dark matter blast similar to the one that gave Barry his powers; as such, Wally became a speedster himself in Season 3.
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* 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.
* AdvertisedExtra: He was made a member of the 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 overarcing 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.
** With the reveal that he has his own powers, we should see more of him in Season 3.
* 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.
* AlliterativeName: '''W'''ally '''W'''est.
* TheAtoner: Feels that he needs to make up for his past mistakes and develops ChronicHeroSyndrome as a result. Joe [[AdultFear isn't too pleased]] with this.
* BadassBaritone: He has a pretty low voice and, as mentioned below, he's plenty badass behind the wheel.
* BadassDriver: He's a drag racer, and a very good one at that. He's even willing to use CarFu if necessary.
* BadassNormal: His main skill is being a BadassDriver. Given that he was struck with the Particle Accelerator late into Season 2, he will eventually become an EmpoweredBadassNormal.
* BigLittleBrother: He's 5'8 compared to Iris' 5'4.
* 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.
* ChildrenRaiseYou: It is implied that raising him is what really reformed Francine.
* CompositeCharacter:
** 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.
** 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.
* DisappearedDad: Grew up without his father.
* 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.
* 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.
* ForegoneConclusion: Why the reveal of his powers isn't being hidden with spoiler tags.
* GreenEyedMonster: Initially treats Barry coldly for the seemingly perfect pedestal both Iris and Joe have placed him on.
* HeroicWannabe: After Barry rescues him from Zoom, he develops a ChronicHeroSyndrome and charges in dangerous situations to help him, much to [[AdultFear Joe's terror]].
* IconicSequelCharacter: Does not appear in the series until Season 2.
* IOweYouMyLife: The Flash saved his life twice now; first from Tar Pit, second from Zoom. Because of the latter, he begins idolizing the Flash.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* LongLostRelative: Never mentioned in Season One because Iris' mother left before Joe knew she was pregnant.
* 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.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: He's immediately added to the OBB in the episode after his introduction.
* 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.
* RealityEnsues: 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.
* RedBaron: His drag racing monicker is "Taillights".
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Variation, as he was already related to Iris in the comics, but in the show he's now her brother rather than her nephew.
* WalkingSpoiler: If you weren't on track with Season Two, chances are you had no idea that he existed.
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* LightningBrusier: When returning to from the Speed Force, he has become this able take Girder's hits and recover quickly.

* DespairEventHorizon: Hits it at the end of Season 2, as despite defeating Zoom, Barry is so broken over losing his father that he travels back to the night his mother was killed and saved her, erasing the first two seasons and in the process trapping him in the year 2000.
* DeusExMachina: His time travel ability which is why it's used sparingly.

* MessianicArchetype: The Chosen One of the Speed Force, a tragic past fill with doubters, gaining true friends, family and loved ones, was believed to be dead in a attempt to regain his powers, but came back to save the worlds.

** Gets even ''worse'' in Season 2, with Zoom kicking his ass throughout the Season, getting Earth-2 Joe killed, being tricked by "Jay", having his speed stolen by Zoom, him being unable to do anything when Zoom kidnaps Caitlin and kills a bunch of cops, and [[spoiler: Zoom killing his father right in front of him.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Given that he has three father figures (in the first season, Joe West, Henry Allen, Harrison Wells), he gets a lot of this. However, it's also frequently inverted, with Barry telling Joe and Henry how much they mean to him, especially Joe.

--> '''Wells:''' She ''[Iris]'' came to see you ''[Barry]'' quite often.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: He manages to stand his ground calmly as Thawne prepares to scramble his insides, despite still reeling from learning the truth.

* TeamDad: Shares this role with Dr Wells for Team Flash, and unlike Wells there can be no doubts that he ''genuinely'' cares for them all. When it looked liked Wells would kill Cisco, Joe shot Wells (actually a disguised Hannibal Bates) dead without hesitation.

* MythologyGag: His name is a reference to the comics character Eobard Thawne, known to be [[ArchEnemy Professor Zoom]]/[[EvilCounterpart Reverse-Flash]] in the comics. However, he proves to be a RedHerring for Harrison Wells, the true Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash. Wells, however, calls Eddie a "distant relative", which is later clarified to mean that Eddie is his direct ancestor and he needs Eddie to live long enough to produce a child so he can exist.

* RedHerring: Despite sharing a surname with comics character Eobard Thawne and having being suspiciously spared by the Reverse-Flash, he is not Reverse-Flash; Wells is. However, it does amount to something: Eobard spared Eddie because Eddie's his ancestor and he needs him alive to preserve his own existence. Which he outright tells him in "The Trap". "Grodd Lives" strongly implies he tries to mold him into a villain by playing on his fears.

The founder of S.T.A.R. Labs who mentors the Flash, helping him understand his powers. But he is himself a speedster and the killer of Barry's mother. He is also Eddie's descendant from the distant future, impersonating the real Harrison Wells.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: They are all, with a few notable exceptions[[note]][[BigBad Eobard Thawne]] and [[{{Jerkass}} Harry Wells]][[/note]], generally kind and considerate people. That doesn't mean they can't and won't kick ass if you threaten them, someone they care about or another member of TheTeam.

* BerserkButton: Mess with Iris, or either one of his Dads, and you will be sorry.

* BadassAdorable: Iris is adorable, sweet, and one of the nicest characters on the show. She has also knocked out Girder and Peek-A-Boo, and shot the Clock King and Dr Light.

* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: He profited off the meta-humans' havoc by creating anti-metahuman technology to sell to ordinary scared humans, something which ''enraged'' Hunter Zolomon's time remnant (though it was probably just an act).

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* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Debut at the second episode of Season 2.

** This is somewhat rectified in Season Two, where he's fighting more battles and stopping more criminals while being guided through step by step less often, along with learning and using even the more difficult new powers like throw lightning and making Speed Mirages more effectively and in a short amount of time, along with honing his known moves thanks to about a year of experience. Hell, he's starting to take Oliver's advice about using precision, analyzing the situation and his surroundings to his advantage more to heart, as seen with Dr. Light and even Zoom. A true testament is his victory over the Reverse-Flash, using both his speed and brains without any outside help.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The menacing nature of his scenes indicates that he may be one of the bad guys of his world, yet is revered as the man who saved them from the other side of the black hole that Barry opened. Subverted as he comes to Earth-1 chasing after King Shark from his Earth and prevents him from killing Barry.