History Characters / TheFlashSupportingCharacters

* {{Irony}}: They were founded on the apparent purpose of fighting the Reverse-Flash. [[spoiler:As it turns out, their commanding officer, the Judge, ''is'' a Reverse-Flash, specifically Hunter Zolomon.]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Rathaway employs a number of devices that can generate or amplify sound for destructive purposes.

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* BusCrash

* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:Morillo's counterpart from a mirror universe is the villain Plunder. Plunder even killed Morillo (although he survives thanks to a HealingFactor) in order to impersonate him]].

* SaltAndPepper: Morillo's full ethnicity isn't known but he's presumed to be at least half-Hispanic.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''Flash'' vol. 6 issue 69, [[spoiler:thanks to the Trickster, his misdeeds are broadcast to Central City, proving enough to build a case against him and get him arrested. While he doesn't get sent to Iron Heights (Trickster blew it up), he does get put right next to Captain Cold's cell in Belle Reve]].

* BlackSheep: Out of all [[DysfunctionalFamily the Wests]] she's the only one to be a decent person alongside her nephews.

* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:They are part of TheCavalry that hekped the Flash family against the Legion of Zoom]] in "Finish Line". The epilogue to that storyline shows them back in their proper time period, including Commander Cold.

* PutOnABus:
** After the New 52 reboot she disappeared.
*** Since Hunter's past has been re-established as canon in ''Rebirth'', whether she's still working with Keystone PD or not remains to be seen.

* AloofBigSister: Her later success in life distances her from her younger brother Rudy, who still hasn't moved past their abusive childhood.

* CharacterRerailment: Odd case of it, but in Jeremy Adams' run, it's revealed that much of Wolfe's Flanderization was due to being chosen as the avatar for the Lords of Order, who connect to his draconian view of order and take it UpToTheElevent. Some of his previous continuity snarl is excused as him losing much of his memory while their thrall, while he nce more demonstrates his long-forgotten metahuman powers in order to keep Blacksmith in check.

* HiddenDepths: Despite arguing with Wally and Hunter bitterly, he admits to Hunter he admires and respects him greatly, as he believes Hunter's job, getting into the head of criminals, to be a far more difficult and traumatic task than merely keeping them in check.

* OffModel: Meloni had a cameo in ''Legion Of 3 Worlds'' showing when she was brought to Earth-247 with the Tornado Twins. Yet the woman who's ''supposed'' to be Meloni looks absolutely nothing like her.

* 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.

* CoolAunt: She's Wally West I's aunt and his first best friend. She also wishes to be the fun aunt to Wallace West.

** Played with with her own kids. In ComicBook/DCRebirth, Don and Dawn apparently didn't spend a lot of time with their parents and are shown to be quite troubled (In Pre-Flashpoint, when Iris adopts a child upon returning to the present, she admits she doesn't really know as much about parenting as she should given she's a ''grandmother'' by this point), though she all-but adopted Wally (or actually adopted him DependingOnTheWriter), and he loves her more than he does his own parents. Wallace similarly went from a troubled kid to a ''very'' upstanding young man under her parenting. In addition, she adopted Wally II who went from a juvenile delinquent and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold to an AllLovingHero under her care, and though Max and the Garricks took care of parenting Bart, Iris proved to be a Good ''Grand''Parent at least.

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 and she is in love with him.

* AloofBigSister: Her later success in life distances her from Daniel.

* BlackSheep: Out of all [[DysfunctionalFamily the Wests]] she's the only one to be a decent person alongside her nephews. May have something to do with her being adopted...

* CainAndAbel: With Daniel West.

* MamaBear: She's very overprotective of her nephews, twins and her grandchildren, and she'll do anything to protect them.

* ParentalFavoritism: She's the most beloved child of her family, much to the chagrin of her brothers Rudy and Daniel.

* RetCanon: When ''Series/TheFlash2014'' started airing and caused the comics to make Wally West biracial (before he was made into his own character, separate from the original Wally), it was also decided to have Iris get a permatan...yes, really. This disappeared eventually.

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* HotScientist: During Golden Age. She was going to the same college as Jay.

* 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.

* HotScientist: Blood analyst for the CCPD and Barry finds her quite attractive.

!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Showcase'' #4 (October, 1956)

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The entire team save Commander Cold are wiped out at the end of ''Flash War'' by Paradox escaping the 25th century Iron Heights. Cold lasts a little longer, until he's killed by Captain Cold.]]

* CosmicRetcon: Aside from Doctor Manhattan removing her relationship with Wally, he also randomly decided her parents needed to be in financial trouble, which is a huge contrast to how they originally were. Similarly, she's no longer an experienced career journalist, but is now an independent blogger struggling to make a name for herself.

* HappilyMarried: To Wally West before ''Flashpoint''.

* GriefInducedSplit: Hunter Zolomon and Ashley Zolomon were a happily married couple who had just graduated from college and joined the FBI under Ashley's father, Derek, who had a tremendous fatherly relationship with his son-in-law Hunter. However, things fell apart for a couple during a case. Hunter predicted the suspect wouldn't have a gun and thus urged his team to make the arrest without waiting for backup. He turned out to be wrong, and the killer shot him in the knee, crippling him, before gunning down his father-in-law; in response, Ashley filed for divorce, and he was let go by the FBI. Hunter was heartbroken by the death of his father-in-law and his divorce from Ashley, but I accepted it and tried to move on, getting a job at Keystone City as the local meta-human profiler even though he still missed her. Hunter suffered from more tragedy and was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd in Iron Heights. The injuries left Hunter paralyzed from the waist down. Hunter tried to use the time-traveling Cosmic Treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent his injuries from occurring, but an accident occurred that gave him time-traveling powers and made him insane, transforming him into super villain Zoom. When Ashley learns that Hunter transformed into Zoom, she doesn't hesitate to leave her entire career at the FBI behind to come to Keystone City to take over his former spot as the local metahuman profiler to help reform him. She makes it clear that she still loves Hunter, regrets leaving him, and swore that she'd help him and never leave him again.