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* MamaBear

* FakeDefector

* MagicMusic

[[quoteright:201:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LindaParkFlash-v2-183.png]]

Wally's reporter girlfriend and eventual wife, who is the world's leading scientist on velocibiology. Used to be a reporter, similar to Iris.

Iris West is the wife of Barry Allen, aunt to Wally West and grandmother of Bart Allen, related to multiple generations of The Flash legacy. Her children are the Tornado Twins, Don and Dawn Allen. She is a reporter working in Central City, although she was originally born in the 30th Century. In The New 52, Iris is not married to Barry, but they still know each other because of their respective occupations (Joe West) and she is in love with him.

[[quoteright:201:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/IrisWestWednesdayComics9.png]]

Barry Allen's wife and an IntrepidReporter who frequently reports on the Flash's adventures.

* MoralityPet: Once she's introduced, Zoom starts showing his softer side more and he goes as far as [[VillanousRescue saving her from Rogues]] and entrusting her safety to Linda & Piper.

* MoralityPet: Once she's introduced, Zoom starts showing his softer side more

[[folder:Ashley Zolomon]]

[[folder:Pied Piper]]
[[quoteright:265:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pied_piper_0001.jpg]]
->'''AKA:''' Hartley Rathaway

The son of rich parents, Hartley Rathaway was born deaf. His parents spent millions on cybernetic implants that granted him incredible hearing, but to their dismay, he was entranced by all forms of music and forsook their expectations for him. Bored with this life, Hartley delved into sonic technology to create a flute with mind-control properties and used it to commit petty crimes and fight the Flash as the Pied Piper, one of the Rogues. Hartley never really liked crime, however, and after Barry Allen's death he reformed, becoming a superhero and one of Wally West's best friends. He also came out of the closet as one of the first gay superheroes.

Years later, Piper was framed for the murder of his parents by the second Mirror Master. This sent him unwillingly back into the criminal underworld as he tried to escape both the Rogues and the authorities. He appeared to join up with the Rogues again, but was working undercover to infiltrate them. Nonetheless, he was present when against his protests, they killed Bart Allen. He has been on the run ever since[[note]][[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis and kinda blew up a planet along the way]][[/note]].

* BadassGay: Several times. ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis just cements him as a bona fide badass.
* BreakTheCutie:
** ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis
** And before that getting framed for his parents' murder and having his head screwed with, being sent to Iron Heights, and oodles of other unpleasantness.
* ChainedHeat: With Trickster in ''Countdown''. They find themselves handcuffed together for a good amount of the plot.
* ComingOutStory: There's something {{WAFF}} about how Pied Piper [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16vaepAqX-c/THbSIcElCfI/AAAAAAAACBU/ussJ0h6jCz0/s1600/Zone003.jpg came out]] to Wally. Especially when Wally [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16vaepAqX-c/THbSdw1lTgI/AAAAAAAACBc/zC_iFBGwFZI/s1600/Zone004.jpg tried to play it cool]] and act like he knew the whole time.
* DisabilitySuperpower: He was born deaf and got implants that gave him enhanced hearing.
* FakeDefector
* GadgeteerGenius: While some writers have him using apparently normal instruments, others have him inventing weapons and force-field gadgets- anything that can be handwaved as "sonics".
* HeelFaceTurn: After Allen's death during the first ''Crisis'', Hartley retired from crime to become a socialist champion of the poor and underprivileged. And becomes a good friend of the Flash, Wally West, and his wife Linda, whom he helps with scientific problems.
* HeroicBSOD: When Mirror Master II tricked him into believing that he killed his own parents.
* LonelyRichKid
* MagicMusic
* MakeMeWannaShout: Rathaway employs a number of devices that can generate or amplify sound for destructive purposes.
* MeaningfulName: His surname is Rathaway, and, in the classic story, what does ThePiedPiperOfHamelin do? Yep; sends the 'rats-away'.
* MindControlMusic: He can control people with his music from his sophisticated flute capable of hypnotizing anyone within range of its sound. His ability to control others through sound might be due to his ability to manipulate the Anti-Life Equation. Though seen as a rudimentary control by the likes of Libra, the power is remarkably effective as he finds new and innovative ways to manipulate people and things using sound.
* ParentalAbandonment: They didn't even notice that he was deaf until he was two or so. [[spoiler: And now they're dead.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: In ''Countdown'' when he uses The Power of Queen to drive away Brother Eye/OMAC, the giant space entity.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To the Rogues. Even before his HeelFaceTurn he gave away a large percentage of his loot to the poor.
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Pied Piper goes through a ''lot'', highlighted by the deaths of Impulse, Kid Zoom and Trickster. Borders on BuryYourGays.
* StraightGay: Pied Piper was this way when he first came out, completely shocking Flash with the revelation of his sexuality. Later writers have mostly stayed true to this portrayal and for a prominent gay character he shows few to no stereotypical gay traits depending on who is writing him.
** Mildly subverted in that he's a grown man whose original costume consisted of a poofy, polka-dotted, belted tunic, often open to the waist, with tights, a floppy cap, cape, and boots (often Peter Pan-style). Plus, long hair and a proficiency with the flute. Stand him next to butcher villains like Mirror Master and Heatwave, and he might set off one's gaydar.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: In one story he says he'll never forgive his father for the name "Hartley Rathaway", which may explain why he usually just goes by "Piper".
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* DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Happens the first time she meets [[PsychoExGirlfriend Magenta]], who at the time is staying at Wally's house. She confronts Frances about whether she still has feelings for Wally (who meanwhile is reacting with alarm at what might happen if the two women should meet, given his ex's AxCrazy tendencies), and Frances' magnetic abilities appear to start activating in response...but when the panicked Wally rushes through the front door, he's dumbfounded to find the two in the kitchen, laughing and joking together about some of his weirder personality quirks.

* TheMissusAndTheEx: She's the Missus in the DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu situation above.

* AmicablyDivorced: Not at first, [[DarkAndTroubledPast due to the circumstances]], but they do still have some lingering feelings for each other.

Jay Garrick's steady girlfriend all through the 40s, who was a fellow college student and in on his secret identity right from the beginning. The two of them got married when Jay retired from super-heroics in the early 50s, and had a long happy life together. Sixty years and counting before the New 52 put an end to that.

* {{Expy}}: Of Iris West, who is already a Lois Lane expy herself.

* StarCrossedLovers

* WhiteSheep: Yeah, the rest of her family is...quite psychotic.

* LoveWillLeadYouBack: She wants to invoke this for Hunter. And it ''works''.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Despite what the plot wants you to believe at first, he's not Reverse-Flash.]]
* TheSociopath: He turned popular opinion against the Flash just to see what it would take, and gave the Rogues super-powers just to see what would happen.

The draconian warden of Iron Heights Penitentiary. Wolfe turned the prison into a true dungeon where inmates are stripped of their rights, their dignity, and any hope of escape. Although he keeps the Twin Cities safe by keeping dangerous super-criminals locked up in "the Pipeline", his zeal for brutal justice often leads him to bend the very laws he has sworn to uphold, and has made him a thorn in Wally's side. He has the metahuman ability to induce violent muscle spasms, which helps him keep prisoners under control. [[spoiler:He also once used them on Wally to stop him from asking uncomfortable questions about what he was doing to Fallout]].

* KilledOffForReal

[[folder:Joan Williams Garrick]]
Jay Garrick's steady girlfriend all through the 40s, who was a fellow college student and in on his secret identity right from the beginning. The two of them got married when Jay retired from super-heroics in the early 50s, and had a long happy life together. Sixty years and counting before the New 52 put an end to that.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: In the modern day, both she and Jay look like they're in their 50s, even though both were pushing 100 by 2011. At first, it was because of energy absorbed from villain Ian Karkull that kept them younger, and later due to the Speed Force and its effects on Jay, which Joan benefitted from.
* SecretKeeper: Joan knew about Jay's secret identity as the Flash from day one, and sometimes accompanied him on his adventures.
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* MindControlMusic: He can control people with his music. His ability to control others through sound might be due to his ability to manipulate the Anti-Life Equation. Though seen as a rudimentary control by the likes of Libra, the power is remarkably effective as he finds new and innovative ways to manipulate people and things using sound.

* BreakTheCutie: ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis

* ChainedHeat: With Trickster.
* ComingOutStory: Considered one of the best outings in comics.

* HeelFaceTurn

* MakeMeWannaShout

* MindControl: He can control people with his music.

* ThePowerOfRock

* StraightGay

* RapidAging: Like his siater. 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, Jai suddenly aged into an old man before his father drew the blackness out of him, turning him back into a boy

Wally and Linda's son, one of their twin children. While his sister Iris inherited their father's speed, Jai's connection to the Speed Force manifested as an ability to accelerate the growth of his muscle tissue, granting him temporary super-strength. He recently lost his powers, and Eobard Thwane has indicated that he has dire plans for the boy.

* SuperStrength

* TimeTravelRomance: Imagine a guy out of lightning pops up and tells you that you are in love with each other, but you have never seen this man before. Later you get kidnapped for your connection to this person, and learn that you are supposed to fall in love with him ''in future'' but due to CosmicRetcon this never happened. Now he remembers an entire life where you were married and ''barely even know the guy''...

* HappilyMarried

* IntrepidReporter

* WillTheyWontThey: Her current relationship with Barry, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt an exhausting one at that]].

* GenerationXerox: Zig zagged with together with Barry to Wally and Linda.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Usually played like this in Barry's origins when writers bother giving her a personality beyond Lois Lane {{Expy}}. Her plucky nature is what opens Barry to outside world, who is otherwise a very socially inept person.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Iris is a very popular woman with many high profile love conquests but it's Barry's genuine heart that makes her truly believe in love.

->'''Hair color:''' Brown

* IntrepidReporter

* PluckyGirl

[[folder:Ashley Zolomon]]

The estranged wife of Hunter Zolomon. They met in college and got married shortly before graduation, and both entered the FBI where Ashley's father was an instructor for new recruits. However, after a misjudgment on Hunter's part cost Ashley's father his life during a case, Ashley left Hunter (just one of the many unfortunate repercussions). She would later come to Keystone City and take over his former spot as the local meta-human profiler following his FaceHeelTurn and transformation into [[EvilCounterpart Zoom]].

* AmicablyDivorced: Not at first, [[DarkAndTroubledPast due to the circumstances]], but they do still have some lingering feelings for each other.
* FriendOnTheForce: Eventually becomes this for Wally, once they work past their differences.
* ItsAllMyFault: She believes that if she hadn't left Hunter, he would never have become Zoom.
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: She wants to invoke this for Hunter. And it ''works''.
* NewOldFlame: For Zoom.
* ThePowerOfLove: Her being in a car accident [[spoiler:caused by Wally's subconscious tampering due to his initial dislike of her for her association with Zoom]] is enough to snap Zoom out of his time-displaced coma that he was forced into at the climax of the "Blitz" storyline.
* TheProfiler: Takes over this role after her ex-husband's FaceHeelTurn.
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:For Wally, at the end of the "Rogue War" storyline]].

[[folder:Chunk]]
->'''AKA:''' Chester Runk

A metahuman and close friend of Wally's with the power to eat anything and place it in an alternate dimension. After an extremely brief career as a thief, Chunk quit the business and became a firm ally of the Flash, when not working with Wally's mother Mary West with community-work.

In the New 52, he was missing for a while, but eventually reappeared as a friend of Wally West II's.

* AgeLift: His New 52 counterpart is a young teenager, when his original version was close in age to the original Wally West.
* BlackAndNerdy
* BlackBestFriend: For Wally.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: He dwarfs his fiance.
* NerdGlasses
* NiceGuy
* NonActionGuy: Though his abilities are incredibly powerful.
* PowerIncontinence: When he was injured by Plunder in the leadup to ''Crossfire'', his singularity almost consumed Central City.

[[folder:Chyre and Morillo]]
->'''AKA:''' Fred Chyre and Jared Morillo

The founding (and only) members of Keystone City's Metahuman Hostilities Department, officers Chyre and Morillo quickly became vital allies and friends of Wally West. Chyre was an aging beat cop who lived in Keystone his whole life, while Morillo was a young hotshot who relocated from Los Angeles. Though hostile to each other at first, they quickly became good friends who always have each other's back.

* BashBrothers
* BrainsAndBrawn: Morillo is the brains, Chyre is the brawn.
* TheGhost: Morillo's wife is constantly referenced and even has a conversation with him on-panel, but we've never seen her.
* HealingFactor: Morillo, due to a close encounter with Cicada's energy dagger.
* OldFashionedCopper: Chyre isn't British, but he's still close to this trope.
* SaltAndPepper
* ThoseTwoGuys

[[folder:Dr. Elias]]

A scientist who appears in the New 52 ''Flash'' Series. He secretly helps the Flash, and isn't really an important character. It turns out he's a complete and utter asshole who claims the Speed Force energy he siphoned off Barry as a renewable energy source without giving credit to the Flash at all, and pits the public against the Flash as a social experiment.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Initially he act like a scientist that want help Flash in use the Speed Force. But turns out he's a complete asshole that want gain control of the Speed Force.
* {{Jerkass}}: Suggested that he siphon The Flash's excess speed force and store it into battery cells. When he did so, the Flash disappeared into another wormhole and was sent into the Speed Force. With the battery cells filled with speed force, Doctor Elias took advantage of his supply by claiming to have found a way to use renewable energy. Claiming the credit and fame for its discovery, Doctor Elias was viewed as the "hero" and savior of Central City in the months of the Flash's absence.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Despite what the plot wants you to believe at first, he's not Reverse-Flash.]]
* TheSociopath: He turned popular opinion against the Flash just to see what it would take, and gave the Rogues super-powers just to see what would happen.
** It is revealed that he also views the use of his powers in saving lives as irresponsible, thinking it will do more good if used to advance the world towards the future.
* UngratefulBastard: He is after targeted by the super-powered Rogues, seeking revenge for their ruin. While he is saved by Barry, he does not rise back as a powerful figure in the city as the Flash has returned, becoming the city's hero once again.

[[folder:Gregory Wolfe]]

The draconian warden of Iron Heights Penitentiary. Wolfe turned the prison into a true dungeon where inmates are stripped of their rights, their dignity, and any hope of escape. Although he keeps the Twin Cities safe by keeping dangerous super-criminals locked up in "the Pipeline", his zeal for brutal justice often leads him to bend the very laws he has sworn to uphold, and has made him a thorn in Wally's side. He has the metahuman ability to induce violent muscle spasms, which helps him keep prisoners under control. [[spoiler:He also once used them on Wally to stop him from asking uncomfortable questions about what he was doing to Fallout]].

* AmoralAttorney: Prior to becoming Iron Heights' warden.
* BerserkButton: When a bunch of Joker crazed super-villains attack the prison, one of them, Deadline, flies up and holds a gun to Wolfe's head saying that they're taking over. Wolfe's response?
-->'''Wolfe''': This is ''MY'' Prison!
** At which point he makes Deadline's arm spasm, dropping the gun and Wolfe shoots him in the head with it.
* HellishPupils: His eyes often glow red and/or yellow.
* KnightTemplar
* ScaryBlackMan
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[[folder:Iris West Allen]]
[[quoteright:201:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/IrisWestWednesdayComics9.png]]
->'''First appearance:''' ''Showcase'' #4 (October 1956)

->'''Eye color:''' Brown

Barry Allen's wife and an IntrepidReporter who frequently reports on the Flash's adventures.

* BackFromTheDead: She predeceased Barry by about six years... but she got better!
* IntrepidReporter
* MustHaveCaffeine: ''The Flash Secret Files and Origins 2010'' says she is "seemingly immune to the effects of caffeine".
* PluckyGirl
* TimeTravel: Iris was born in the 30th century, and sent to our time to save her life.

[[folder:Jai West]]
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 2 #225 (October 2005)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

Wally and Linda's son, one of their twin children. While his sister Iris inherited their father's speed, Jai's connection to the Speed Force manifested as an ability to accelerate the growth of his muscle tissue, granting him temporary super-strength. He recently lost his powers, and Eobard Thwane has indicated that he has dire plans for the boy.

* HourOfPower: He could only use super-strength in limited bursts and required rest and food to avoid passing out.
* KidHero
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* SuperStrength

[[folder:Joan Williams Garrick]]
Jay Garrick's steady girlfriend all through the 40s, who was a fellow college student and in on his secret identity right from the beginning. The two of them got married when Jay retired from super-heroics in the early 50s, and had a long happy life together. Sixty years and counting before the New 52 put an end to that.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: In the modern day, both she and Jay look like they're in their 50s, even though both were pushing 100 by 2011. At first, it was because of energy absorbed from villain Ian Karkull that kept them younger, and later due to the Speed Force and its effects on Jay, which Joan benefitted from.
* SecretKeeper: Joan knew about Jay's secret identity as the Flash from day one, and sometimes accompanied him on his adventures.

[[folder:Linda Park-West]]
[[quoteright:201:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LindaParkFlash-v2-183.png]]
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 2 #28 (July 1989)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

Wally's reporter girlfriend and eventual wife, who is the world's leading scientist on velocibiology. Used to be a reporter, similar to Iris.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Wally before they hooked up.
* CloserToEarth: She's generally played as more responsible and pragmatic than Wally... unless there's a story at stake.
* DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Happens the first time she meets [[PsychoExGirlfriend Magenta]], who at the time is staying at Wally's house. She confronts Frances about whether she still has feelings for Wally (who meanwhile is reacting with alarm at what might happen if the two women should meet, given his ex's AxCrazy tendencies), and Frances' magnetic abilities appear to start activating in response...but when the panicked Wally rushes through the front door, he's dumbfounded to find the two in the kitchen, laughing and joking together about some of his weirder personality quirks.
* ExpressDelivery: How she gave birth to the twins. Thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall and Barry undoing the beating-induced miscarriage she suffered in the past at Zolomon's hands, she basically went from "not pregnant" to "fully gestated and going into labor" within the span of a few minutes, with the actual "flat belly to bulging belly" taking place in a single panel span.
* HappilyMarried
* HotScientist: After the twins were born, she became "by default, the world's leading authority on velocibiology", the science of how super-speed affects the human body.
* HotScoop: Her first profession was a reporter.
* IntrepidReporter
* TheMissusAndTheEx: She's the Missus in the DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu situation above.
* ThePowerOfLove: Her and Wally's love is what allowed Wally to be the first ever person to return from the Speed Force. Even when his memories of her were wiped and he disappeared into the Speed Force fighting Cobalt Blue, he ''still'' finds her.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In ''Terminal Velocity'', there's a point when Wally is apparently killed right in front of her by Kobra. Linda- who had no superpowers whatsoever- immediately told Piper to start making weapons, saying that the last thing Kobra was going to see before he died was "the look in my eyes when I send him straight to hell". [[spoiler: She doesn't ''win''- and it's her peril that ultimately brings Wally back from the Speed Force- but she's the last one from her group left standing, despite the fact that several of them had superpowers and/or superhero experience and she didn't.]]

[[folder:Meloni Thawne]]
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->'''First appearance:''' ''Impulse'' #23 (March 1997)
->'''Hair color:''' Brown
->'''Eye color:''' Amber

Bart's energetic and protective mother, and the wife of Don Allen. One of the only Thawne family members to reject a life of crime, Meloni readily encourages her son's superheroics.

She also had a relationship with the first Captain Boomerang when he ended up in the future. Their son Owen Mercer was somehow sent back in time.

* MamaBear
* StarCrossedLovers
* StrongFamilyResemblance: If you wanted to know where Bart got his mannerisms and crazy hairstyle from, now you do... basically, she's best described as "female Impulse without superspeed".
* WhiteSheep: Yeah, the rest of her family is...quite psychotic.

* LoveWillLeadYouBack: She wants to invoke this for Hunter.

* ThePowerOfLove

A scientist who appears in the New 52 ''Flash'' Series. He secretly helps the Flash, and isn't really an important character. [[spoiler:It turns out he's a complete and utter asshole who claims the Speed Force energy he siphoned off Barry as a renewable energy source without giving credit to the Flash at all, and pits the public against the Flash as a social experiment.]]

* AssholeVictim
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Despite what the plot wants you to believe at first, he's not Reverse-Flash.]]
* TheSociopath
* WalkingSpoiler

* BadassGay: Several times. ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis just cements him as a bona fide {{Badass}}

* MeaningfulName : His surname is Rathaway, and, in the classic story, what does ThePiedPiperOfHamelin do? Yep; sends the 'rats-away'.