History Characters / TheFlashOtherSpeedsters

* FutureBadass: The mainstream Irey didn't have superspeed for a long time, and when she ''did'' get it she was slower than the rest of the Flash family. However, every future we see her in, she is Kid Flash or ''the'' Flash and can keep up with Wally.

The daughter of GoldenAge super-heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, Jesse Chambers inherited both her parents' powers--flight, super-speed, and super-strength. All her life Jesse has felt pressure to live up to her parents' legacy. She was pressured into the role of superhero by her father, but soon proved her worth as Jesse Quick, balancing her costumed escapades with running her corporation, Quickstart Enterprises. She has been a member of the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], and [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]; she is now married to Hourman of the JSA. She briefly operated under her mother's codename before returning to her original moniker.

* BattleCouple: With Hourman.

* HappilyMarried: To Hourman.

* LegacyCharacter: To both parents. Her Liberty Belle costume had her namesake on the front, with the crack shaped like the Flash-based lightning bolt.

* {{Workaholic}}: Wally complained that she usually never had time for a social life.

The founder of a minor speedster legacy, Johnny Quick was a contemporary of Jay Garrick during WorldWarTwo and one of the core members of the All-Star Squadron. His learned a strange mathematical equation--"3X2(9YZ)4A"--from his mentor, a professor who translated it from a pharoah's tomb in Egypt. When recited aloud, this equation granted Johnny super-speed and flight. (He later learned that reciting the equation allowed him to tap into the Speed Force by way of his latent metagene.) Johnny married fellow superhero Liberty Belle and had a daughter, Jesse, who followed in their footsteps.

* AgentScully: Johnny is grudgingly forced to accept the Speed Force's existence.
* BattleCouple: With Liberty Belle that he married.

* {{Mentor}}: To the speedsters of this time, ''especially'' Bart. You really have to admire him; it takes guts and unending patience (and I mean ''unending'') to raise a hyperactive speedster who literally has no concept of that word.

* StarCrossedLovers: Don and Meloni

[[folder:Impulse II]]
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->'''AKA:''' Iris "Irey" West II
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 2 #225 (October 2005)

->'''Eye color:''' Green

Wally and Linda's daughter. Iris and her twin brother Jai were miscarried when Zoom attacked Linda, but a time-travel incident resulted in their sudden "spontaneous re-conception" and birth; shortly afterwards, they and their parents were caught up in the Speed Force during the Flashes' assault on Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', causing them to rapidly age ten years. Both twins inherited a connection to the Speed Force; in Iris's case, it manifested as the ability to vibrate through solid matter like her father. When Professor Zoom attacked the Flash family, Iris's powers stabilized and she gained super-speed just like her father. She is now the new Impulse (much to Bart's annoyance).

In [[ComicBook/KingdomCome another universe]], Iris grew up to become the new Kid Flash. This version of Iris encountered "our" Wally once or twice.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: She took over as the new Impulse before ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}. In the alternate-reality series Kingdom Come, she'd also become the new Kid Flash (though was not at that time identified as Asian).
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: She's a fangirl of Bart and has taken over his old mantle as Impulse.
* BigWhat: A subdued version of this trope is Bart's immediate reaction to "the new Impulse", complete with what looks like a dismayed expression on his face. Most fans went straight for the FlatWhat instead.
* CanonImmigrant: Originally appeared in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' and a few stories set in the future.
* FutureBadass: The mainstream Irey didn't have superspeed for a long time, and when she ''did'' get it she was slower than the rest of the Flash family. However, every future we see her in, she is Kid Flash or ''the'' Flash and can keep up with Wally.
* GirlishPigtails
* InSeriesNickname: "Irey", in order to distinguish her from her great-aunt.
* IntangibleMan: Initially, her only power is the ability to vibrate through objects before her super-speed powers stabilized.
* KidHero: The youngest speedstar of all the Flash franchise.
* LegacyCharacter: Iris take up the mantle of Impulse, which Bart used before he joined the Teen Titans as Kid Flash.
* RapidAging: In ''Flash #240-241'' Iris appears to grow into a teenager wearing a costume similar to her future counterpart and displays superspeed, but her joy is short-lived, as she ages into adulthood after defeating Gorilla Grodd. The twins' rapid aging was cured when Wally discovered that their genetics were not the cause, but rather the death aspect of the Speed Force. He brought them both into the Force. While there, Wally drew the blackness out of her, turning her back into a girl.
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[[folder:Jay Garrick - Earth 2 (New 52)]]
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->'''First appearance:''' ''Earth 2'' #1 (May, 2012)
->'''Hair color:''' Red
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

Jay Garrick was a college graduate who didn't know what to do with his life. His scores were average and his longtime girlfriend Joan left him to pursue larger things. One night, while pondering his future, the god Mercury crashed nearby. Mercury gave Jay his speed before dying. Together with Alan Scott and Kendra Munoz-Saunders, they signified a new age of Wonders.
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* DecompositeCharacter: In ''New52'', he was initially rebooted to be YoungerAndHipper version of the Jay Garrick on Earth-2; however with ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' it's revealed that original version of character still exists on main Earth, and this version of him is a completely seperate character.

[[folder:Jesse Quick / Liberty Belle II]]
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->'''AKA:''' Jesse Chambers Tyler
->'''First appearance:''' ''Justice Society of America'' vol. 2 #1 (August 1992)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

The daughter of GoldenAge super-heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, Jesse Chambers inherited both her parents' powers--flight, super-speed, and super-strength. All her life Jesse has felt pressure to live up to her parents' legacy. She was pressured into the role of superhero by her father, but soon proved her worth as Jesse Quick, balancing her costumed escapades with running her corporation, Quickstart Enterprises. She has been a member of the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], and [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]; she is now married to Hourman of the JSA. She briefly operated under her mother's codename before returning to her original moniker.

* BattleCouple: With Hourman.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She used to have a big "Q" on her torso.
* CivvieSpandex: Wore a jacket in the '90s.
* HappilyMarried: To Hourman.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At first.
* LegacyCharacter: To both parents. Her Liberty Belle costume had her namesake on the front, with the crack shaped like the Flash-based lightning bolt.
* SickeninglySweethearts: With her husband, Hourman.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done, Daughter Girl]]: Toward both her parents.
* {{Workaholic}}: Wally complained that she usually never had time for a social life.
* ZettaiRyouki: During the 90s, after the leather jacket look, pre-Q boob.

[[folder:Johnny Quick]]
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->'''AKA:''' John Chambers
->'''First appearance:''' ''More Fun Comics'' # 71 (September 1941)
->'''Hair color:''' Blond

The founder of a minor speedster legacy, Johnny Quick was a contemporary of Jay Garrick during WorldWarTwo and one of the core members of the All-Star Squadron. His learned a strange mathematical equation--"3X2(9YZ)4A"--from his mentor, a professor who translated it from a pharoah's tomb in Egypt. When recited aloud, this equation granted Johnny super-speed and flight. (He later learned that reciting the equation allowed him to tap into the Speed Force by way of his latent metagene.) Johnny married fellow superhero Liberty Belle and had a daughter, Jesse, who followed in their footsteps.

During a battle with the evil speedster Savitar, Johnny sacrificed himself to save his daughter and became one with the Speed Force. He remained within it, and was later killed there by Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.

* AgentScully: Johnny is grudgingly forced to accept the Speed Force's existence.
* BattleCouple: With Liberty Belle that he married.
* CameBackWrong: When he was reanimated as a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]. After his daughter, Jesse Quick, realized that the man in front of her was just an evil mockery of his former self and that his resurrection was a false one, he was forcibly laid to rest again.
* {{Flight}}: Can sometimes use speed to engage in flight.
* FormulaicMagic: He invokes his power by reciting a mathematical formula ("3X2(9YZ)4A") taught to him by his childhood guardian, Professor Gill, who had in turn derived it from inscriptions found in a Pharaoh's tomb.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the final battle with Savitar, Johnny sacrifices himself to save his daughter's life and runs into the Speed Force, merging with it.

[[folder:Max Mercury / Quicksilver]]
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->'''AKA:''' Max Crandall
->'''First appearance:''' ''National Comics'' #5 (November 1940)
->'''Hair color:''' White

An aged speedster, former superhero, and guru of the Speed Force. He was originally a scout with the US Cavalry in the 1830s. A friend of the local Indian tribes, he was shocked and dismayed to find them massacred on the orders of his commanding officer. Enchanted by a dying Indian shaman, he gained super-speed. In the years that followed, he became known to the Indians as Ahwehota ("He Who Runs Beyond The Wind"), and to everyone else as Windrunner. Mercury has repeatedly traveled through time, seeking to enter the so-called Speed Force becomed active in the 1930s and 1940s as Quicksilver when he acted as a mentor to Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick.

He then reappeared in the early 1960s, where he battled Savitar and was bounced still further forward in time. He spent some years in hiding, but was persuaded by Garrick to return to action against Professor Zoom (who was posing as Barry Allen). In recent years, he has been the mentor of first Wally West (taught him about the Speed Force) and later Bart Allen (alias Impulse).

[[folder:Jesse Quick / Liberty Belle II]]
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->'''AKA:''' Jesse Chambers Tyler
->'''First appearance:''' ''Justice Society of America'' vol. 2 #1 (August 1992)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde

The daughter of GoldenAge super-heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, Jesse Chambers inherited both her parents' powers--flight, super-speed, and super-strength. All her life Jesse has felt pressure to live up to her parents' legacy. She was pressured into the role of superhero by her father, but soon proved her worth as Jesse Quick, balancing her costumed escapades with running her corporation, Quickstart Enterprises. She has been a member of the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]], [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], and [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]; she is now married to Hourman of the JSA. She briefly operated under her mother's codename before returning to her original moniker.

* BattleCouple: With Hourman.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: She used to have a big "Q" on her torso.
* CivvieSpandex: Wore a jacket in the '90s.
* HappilyMarried: To Hourman.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At first.
* LegacyCharacter: To both parents. Her Liberty Belle costume had her namesake on the front, with the crack shaped like the Flash-based lightning bolt.
* SickeninglySweethearts: With her husband, Hourman.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done, Daughter Girl]]: Toward both her parents.
* {{Workaholic}}: Wally complained that she usually never had time for a social life.
* ZettaiRyouki: During the 90s, after the leather jacket look, pre-Q boob.

[[folder:Johnny Quick]]
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->'''AKA:''' John Chambers
->'''First appearance:''' ''More Fun Comics'' # 71 (September 1941)
->'''Hair color:''' Blond

The founder of a minor speedster legacy, Johnny Quick was a contemporary of Jay Garrick during WorldWarTwo and one of the core members of the All-Star Squadron. His learned a strange mathematical equation--"3X2(9YZ)4A"--from his mentor, a professor who translated it from a pharoah's tomb in Egypt. When recited aloud, this equation granted Johnny super-speed and flight. (He later learned that reciting the equation allowed him to tap into the Speed Force by way of his latent metagene.) Johnny married fellow superhero Liberty Belle and had a daughter, Jesse, who followed in their footsteps.

During a battle with the evil speedster Savitar, Johnny sacrificed himself to save his daughter and became one with the Speed Force. He remained within it, and was later killed there by Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.

* AgentScully: Johnny is grudgingly forced to accept the Speed Force's existence.
* BattleCouple: With Liberty Belle that he married.
* CameBackWrong: When he was reanimated as a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]]. After his daughter, Jesse Quick, realized that the man in front of her was just an evil mockery of his former self and that his resurrection was a false one, he was forcibly laid to rest again.
* {{Flight}}: Can sometimes use speed to engage in flight.
* FormulaicMagic: He invokes his power by reciting a mathematical formula ("3X2(9YZ)4A") taught to him by his childhood guardian, Professor Gill, who had in turn derived it from inscriptions found in a Pharaoh's tomb.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the final battle with Savitar, Johnny sacrifices himself to save his daughter's life and runs into the Speed Force, merging with it.

[[folder:Max Mercury / Quicksilver]]
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->'''AKA:''' Max Crandall
->'''First appearance:''' ''National Comics'' #5 (November 1940)
->'''Hair color:''' White

An aged speedster, former superhero, and guru of the Speed Force. He was originally a scout with the US Cavalry in the 1830s. A friend of the local Indian tribes, he was shocked and dismayed to find them massacred on the orders of his commanding officer. Enchanted by a dying Indian shaman, he gained super-speed. In the years that followed, he became known to the Indians as Ahwehota ("He Who Runs Beyond The Wind"), and to everyone else as Windrunner. Mercury has repeatedly traveled through time, seeking to enter the so-called Speed Force becomed active in the 1930s and 1940s as Quicksilver when he acted as a mentor to Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick.

He then reappeared in the early 1960s, where he battled Savitar and was bounced still further forward in time. He spent some years in hiding, but was persuaded by Garrick to return to action against Professor Zoom (who was posing as Barry Allen). In recent years, he has been the mentor of first Wally West (taught him about the Speed Force) and later Bart Allen (alias Impulse).

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[[folder:Jay Garrick - Earth-2 (New 52)]]
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* AppropriatedAppellation: He didn't ''have'' any alias at first; however, when he saved a couple from Parademons and said he'd get everything fixed in a flash, they misheard it and thought he was giving them his name. When they appear on TV and tell their story about being saved by a hero who dubs himself "The Flash", Jay gladly adopts the codename.
* ButtMonkey
* CoolLoser
* DecompositeCharacter: In ''New52'', he was initially rebooted to be YoungerAndHipper version of the Jay Garrick on Earth-2; however with ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' it's revealed that original version of character still exists on main Earth, and this version of him is a completely seperate character.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: People outright tell him he has no talent or future -- worst part is, according to his mother, he started to believe it himself. A dying god crashing a few miles from where he was changes this.
* DoggedNiceGuy
* DorkKnight
* DrowningMySorrows: A mild version, after being unceremoniously dumped and stepped on by his college girlfriend [[MythologyGag Joan]].
* FemaleGaze: On top of the detailed SensualSpandex, the camera loves his [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbx187yBct1qzizmho1_1280.jpg well-formed hindquarters]].
* GoodFeelsGood: He's always making it clear how much he ''loves'' being a hero.
* HowDoIShotWeb: He has a problem with his... brakes.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mom]]: Jay's mother was taken hostage by villains more than once in order to coerce him.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Jay wastes no time becoming a hero once he gets his powers.
* LoveHurts
* MrFanservice: Being now portrayed as a handsome young man aside, see FemaleGaze above.
* [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary College Student]]: Before getting his powers.
* VaporWear: While his former version used CivvieSpandex, New 52 Jay gets full-fledged classic superhero tights.
* WideEyedIdealist: He's the one that's happiest about being a hero, and that right from the beginning talks about how the new heroes should [[TakingUpTheMantle take up]] from the deceased Wonders and fight to protect the world.
* YoungerAndHipper: Along with many of the other Golden Age JSA members. Jay is now in his early twenties.[[/folder]]

Barry Allen's children from the 30th century (long story) who gained superspeed from their father. They're inspired to become heroes of the 30th century by Wally during one of his trips into the future. Don would later marry Meloni Thawne and father Bart Allen (see above).

* CanonImmigrant: Originally was from the Post-Zero Hour Legion before a Retcon placed her into the history of the mainstream DCU.
* GenkiGirl
* LegacyCharacter: Barry's other grandchild, but since she spends her time with the Legion, she isn't seen nearly as often.
* MotorMouth

[[folder:Jay Garrick - New 52 Earth-2]]

'''Earth-2 version from New 52:'''

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Walter West is an alternate universe version of the Flash (Wally West). Walter West's life paralleled that of Wally West until the battle with Kobra which costs Linda Park's life. Walter was not able to save his Linda unlike Wally. Driven mad with grief at her loss, Walter embarked on a life of brutal enforcement against criminals crippling many until he encounters Wally and his Linda. Believing them dead, he traveled to their timeline to take Wally’s place.

* AntiHeroSubstitute: After Wally and Linda were apparently killed in a fight with Abra Kadabra after he tried to dispose of Linda by sending her into Walter's reality, Walter travel back to Wally's world to take his place in recognition of his other self's sacrifice. He wore a darker outfit and was a little more brutal.

* {{Expy}}: Of Creator/{{Frank Miller}}'s Batman.
* ForWantOfANail: He's what Wally might have been if Linda had been killed.

* AntiHero

* DarkerAndEdgier

* KidHero

* AlliterativeName: '''M''ax '''M'''ercury.

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An aged speedster, former superhero, and guru of the Speed Force who acts as Bart's mentor.

* OlderAndWiser {{Mentor}}: To the speedsters of this time, ''especially'' Bart. You really have to admire him; it takes guts and unending patience (and I mean ''unending'') to raise a hyperactive speedster who literally has no concept of that word.
* OlderThanTheyLook: although this is largely due to the vast amount of TimeTravel he's done.

* {{Expy}}: Of {{Creator/Frank Miller}}'s Batman.

* IntangibleMan: Before her super-speed powers stabilized.

* LegacyCharacter

* FieryRedhead: from the information given in ''The Life Story of the Flash'', we're meant to believe that Don was a subversion, and Dawn a straight example.

->'''Eye color:''' Blue (it's what tipped people off this wasn't "our" Wally).

* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: It's been implied that Max has access to the Speed Force because he WILLS himself to, he basically has a spiritual communion with it. While he might not be the fastest speedster, he's the one that most understands the nature of the Speed Force, and serves as a mentor to younger speedsters.

* RememberTheNewGuy: How he was introduced. Jay Garrick apparently knew him as a Golden Aged crimefighter but we don't meet him until the early nineties.

* BattleCouple: With Liberty Belle.
* CameBackWrong: When he was reanimated as a [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Black Lantern]].
* {{Flight}}
* FormulaicMagic
* HeroicSacrifice

* ZettaiRyouki: During the 90s ''Titans'' series, after the leather jacket look.

* {{Redheaded Hero}}es

* RedheadedHero

* KilledOffForReal

* KilledOffForReal

* TheObiWan

* Workaholic: Wally complained that she usually never had time for a social life.

The daughter of GoldenAge super-heroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle, Jesse Chambers inherited both her parents' powers--flight, super-speed, and super-strength. All her life Jesse has felt pressure to live up to her parents' legacy. She was pressured into the role of superhero by her father, but soon proved her worth as Jesse Quick, balancing her costumed escapades with running her corporation, Quickstart Enterprises. She has been a member of the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans]], [[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], and [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]; she is now married to Hourman of the JSA. She briefly operated under her mother's codename before returning to her original moniker.

* CameBackWrong: When he was reanimated as a [[BlackestNight Black Lantern]].

* OlderAndWiser {{Mentor}}: specifically to the speedsters this time, ''especially'' Bart. You really have to admire him; it takes guts and unending patience (and I mean ''unending'') to raise a hyperactive speedster who literally has no concept of that word.
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]]: although this is largely due to the vast amount of TimeTravel he's done.

** Something of an aversion, because he's actually a revision of a Golden Age character named Quicksilver who wasn't originally a DC character. His back story now has him skipping over decades at a time between the Golden and Modern Ages to explain why we've never seen him until now.