History Characters / ArrowverseBarryAllen

** Then again, it may 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. However, he still occasionally suffers from moments of PlotInducedStupidity, such as somehow failing to stop Veronica Dale from detonating the bomb in "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E15EnterFlashtime Enter Flashtime]]."
** Also, Barry suffers a bit from WillfullyWeak because he's the AllLovingHero, HopeBringer, and NiceGuy so he doesn't want to kill or even hurt the criminals he's after all that much (unless you are [[ArchEnemy Thawne]] or [[ItsPersonal Zoom]]) so he has to figure out what the villains' powers are so he can subdue them without too much damage to them or anybody around them. This issue isn't that the villains are so strong or skilled but that Barry has admitted he's sometimes [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength afraid of his own power]].

* TheHero: Of the show, considering that the series revolves around Barry and his journey as a superhero.

!!! '''Voiced By:''' Arturo Castañeda (Latin-American Spanish dub, Seasons 1-2), Luis Navarro (Latin-American Spanish dub, Season 2-present), Creator/JunFukuyama (Japanese dub), Scott Whyte (''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'')

--->'''Eobard:''' And I hate you. And I sometimes wonder which of us is right.

'''Eobard:''' And I hate you. And I sometimes wonder which of us is right.

** In ''Rogue Air'' 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.

* ArchEnemy: Has several villains who hurt Barry on an extremely personal level that drove him past the DesapirEventHorizon and made Barry develop an unparalleled level of hatred for.

* ArchEnemy: Has several, one as a speedster (above others who came later) and others as non-speedsters.
** Season 1: The Reverse-Flash, aka Eobard Thawne, who murdered his mom, framed his dad for it, and then manipulated Barry's life all while the under the guise of TeamDad Dr. Wells. He is Barry's most personal enemy, but not necessarily his most hated one. Make no mistake, though, they do hate each other -- a ''lot''; their destinies are so intertwined that they will never be fully rid of one another -- they both tried and realized it wasn't possible, something that only makes them hate each other even more. When Barry needs Thawne to help reset the timeline by murdering his mother (again), Thawne decides to twist the knife a little bit further by demanding that Barry tell him ''exactly'' what he needs him to do.

** Captain Cold was this, before he and Barry became FriendlyEnemies. The Speed Force even outright states that Snart's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of ''Legends of Tomorrow'' Season One was inspired by Barry and his belief that there was good in Snart.
** Grodd has taken Cold's place as Barry's top non-Speedster enemy. By the time "Attack on Gorilla City" happens, Grodd has forgone all former attachments and his sole concern is getting revenge on Barry for exiling him to Earth-2 by any means necessary.

* ArchEnemy: Poor Barry seems to pick up at least one new ArchEnemy OnceASeason. The first two in particular were so bad that moving on from the damage they've ravaged on his life was his main arc for Season Three.

** Season 2: Zoom, aka Earth-2's Hunter Zolomon, who pulled the same trick as Thawne did by impersonating Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-3, and presenting himself as an ally all so he could steal Barry's speed to cure himself. Zoom would then beat the crap out of Barry several times, with their first confrontation ending with Zoom breaking his back and humiliating him in front of all of Central City. Combined with kidnapping Caitlin, Wally and Jesse, holding the latter hostage to force Harry to do his bidding, and holding the real Jay Garrick in a carbine cell as a trophy (with plans to do the same with Barry), topped off with him murdering Barry's father right in front of him, ''in the very same spot where the Reverse-Flash murdered his mother no less'', Zoom is the top contender for Barry's worst enemy by far -- he inspired a deep hatred in Barry that not even Thawne was capable of. Barry was very close to outright killing him, and absolutely ''no one'' would've blamed him -- ultimately, he allowed the Time Wraiths to do the job for him.
** Season 3: Savitar, who believes he is Barry's worst enemy. He traps Wally into the Speed Force and, in the future, kills Iris. Then it's revealed that Savitar is actually a time remnant, post-FaceHeelTurn, who is trying to ensure a StableTimeLoop by killing Iris so Present Barry becomes him. That means Barry is HisOwnWorstEnemy -- ''literally''.

** Season 4: [=DeVoe=]. While he starts out as the BigBad with the least personal connection to the Scarlet Speedster, he quickly cements himself as a ruthless son of a bitch when he frames Barry for his own murder. After that, it only gets worse, with him rapidly piling up a huge bodycount, culminating in him seemingly killing Ralph, taking over his body and further taunting Barry for his failure. While Barry firmly believes in ThePowerOfLove, [=DeVoe=] is convinced that LoveIsAWeakness and takes every opportunity to hurt Barry just to prove that point.
** Season 5: Subverted at first with Cicada/Orlin Dwyer. Initially both parties didn’t view one another as an obstacle in the way, with Cicada being viewed as a particularly persistent meta of the week. But it becomes very personal when Cicada injures Barry’s daughter, Nora, and puts her in hospital. From then onwards, Cicada becomes another nemesis to Barry.
** Season 6 subverts this, as he never develops this relationship with Bloodwork or Mirror Monarch, though the latter becomes one to Iris instead after what she does to her.
** Season 7 subverts this as well, as he never fully develops this kind of relationship with the Forces or with August Heart/Godpseed (who is instead Bart Allen/Impulse's Arch-Enemy, with him even saying Godspeed is essentially his Thawne).
** Season 8 has him dealing with Despero, who comes back in time to kill Barry due to the belief he will cause the end of the world (and remains enemies with him once he realizes Barry intends to find a way to save Thawne, the real cause of Armageddon, from vanishing), in addition to Deathstorm, who ends up accumulating a body count as he antagonizes Team Flash (specifically targeting and unintentionally causes the death of Frost). However, the Negative Forces and Thawne truly attain this status by manipulating events to kill the reformed Thawne from ''Legends of Tomorrow'' to give the main Thawne his powers back, while also nearly killing Iris to spite Barry.
** Season 9 starts with Barry gaining a new one in the form of Ryan Wayne/Red Death, an alternate Ryan Wilder who was adopted by the Waynes and became a KnightTemplar who seeks to kill criminals before they can even commit crimes, which brings her into conflict with the Flash who stands against her mad actions.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' | ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/FlashVsArrow!''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Arrow}}'')[[/note]] | ''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'' | ''Series/HeroesJoinForces''[[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Arrow}}'')[[/note]]| ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Invasion|2016}}!''[[note]](''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' | ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'')[[/note]] | ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' [[note]](''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' | ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'')[[/note]] | ''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'' | ''Series/{{Elseworlds|2018}}'' [[note]](''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' | ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' | ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'')[[/note]] | ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}''

* WouldHitAGirl: If there's a female criminal with evil intent, Barry doesn't discriminate by gender.

* WhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction, after seeing all of the ramifications he's caused to the timeline when he created Flashpoint.

* 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. However due to Flashpoint, the Speed Force effectively ''un-choses'' him by making him occupy the prison he built for Savitar; otherwise the Speed Force would collapse.

* HotScientist: Genius-level intellect and a day job as a forensic scientist? Check. Clear skin, styled hair, and abs? Double check.

-> see Characters/DCEUTheFlash page to see character on an undesignated Earth who bears his name and background
-> see Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths page to see Jay Garrick and Tanaka Rei, the Earths-3 and D characters who bear his codename

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Oddly, he plays this to his Earth-2 counterpart. The latter is a geeky, nonpowered CSI, while the former is an accomplished superhero.

* NiceShoes: Barry seems to have a thing for Converse All-Stars.

** 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.

* 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 fast enough to beat Zoom [[UpToEleven who has his power plus what he stole from Barry before]].

'''The Multiverse:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths Other Earths]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth90 Earth-90]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]]| [[Characters/ArrowverseBizarroWorld Bizarro World]]]]-]]]

'''[[Characters/TheFlash2014 Central City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseWestAllenFamily West-Allen Family]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen Barry Allen]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen Iris West-Allen]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash Team Flash]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow & (Killer) Frost]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheRogues Rogues]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseCliffordDeVoe Clifford DeVoe]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\\

'''[[Characters/TheFlash2014 Central City]]:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseWestAllenFamily West-Allen Family]] ('''Barry Allen''' / [[Characters/ArrowverseIrisWestAllen Iris West-Allen]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseTeamFlash Team Flash]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseCaitlinSnowAndKillerFrost Caitlin Snow & (Killer) Frost]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens Citizens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCriminalGroups Criminal Groups]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseTheRogues Rogues]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseCliffordDeVoe Clifford DeVoe]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityIndependentCriminals Independent Criminals]]\\

'''Miscellaneous:''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherLocales Other Locales]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMetahumans Metahumans]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseFirestorm Firestorm]] / [[Characters/ArrowverseTheHawks The Hawks]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseAliens Aliens]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseMystics Mystics]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEntities Other Entities]]\\
'''The Multiverse (Pre-Crisis):''' [[Characters/ArrowverseOtherEarths Other Earths]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth2 Earth-2]] ([[Characters/ArrowverseHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarth38 Earth-38]] | [[Characters/ArrowverseEarthX Earth-X]]]]-]]]

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** During "World's Finest," he and Winn bond over being {{Adorkable}} {{Science Hero}}es.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: On his own show, the first time we see him as an adult, working a crime scene, shows us his brains, {{Adorkable}} nature, and tendency to run late.

* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. In the comics, Barry has a straight-out HeroicBuild [[note]]But not to the level of Creator/JohnWesleyShipp's [[Series/TheFlash1990 version]][[/note]]. Here, he more or less has a "HollywoodNerd GeekPhysique".

** By Season 8, he's fast enough to rescue everyone from a derailing train in ''seconds,'' and be back to Central City before his coffee's even gotten cold.

* AdaptationalCurves: Inverted. In the comics, Barry has a straight-out HeroicBuild. [[note]]But not to the level of Creator/JohnWesleyShipp's [[Series/TheFlash1990 version]][[/note]]. Here, he more or less has a "HollywoodNerd GeekPhysique".

* AdaptationalWimp: In season one, Barry still has yet to develop more powers and is too reliant on his friends to defeat the villains. He shows his ScienceHero skills in the first crossover with ''Supergirl,'' and [[TookALevelInBadass takes several levels in badass]] over later seasons.

** The Flash and (Green) Arrow. In the comics, Barry and Oliver didn't even know each other until they were both established heroes and Justice League members. Due to their very different backgrounds, they were never that close with their friendship with Hal Jordan/Green Lantern serving as their main point of contact; in fact, DependingOnTheWriter the two actually had quite an antagonistic relationship born out of petty jealousy and contrasting political ideologies (Barry, being a cop, was fairly conservative in his views). Whereas in this continuity, they had a pre-existing relationship based on a past meeting prior to Barry gaining his powers. It is Oliver who most directly inspires Barry to become a masked superhero, and he even provides the inspiration for the name 'Flash'.
** Barry and Wally sometimes refer to one-another as brothers, owing to the fact Barry is both his brother-in-law and his foster brother. In the comics, Barry was explicitly Wally's uncle, and the two viewed one another as more akin to father-and-son. Even Wallace West -the DecompositeCharacter introduced in the wake of the show to adapt its version of Wally- is explicitly a surrogate-son to Barry.

** In "Godspeed," Barry makes the drastic decision to return Nora to the future with a half-hearted goodbye, after telling her that he doesn't trust her at all, after learning she was working with Thawne. He doesn't inform Iris about this decision, and she's understandably devastated and infuriated about this.

* TrueCompanions: He and Kara, when she needs help with Livewire and Banshee, he assists her, even though he has nothing to do with her Earth. Likewise when Barry breaches into her living room, and informs her he needs her help on Earth-1, [[AllLovingHero Kara]], without knowing any of the details, doesn't flinch in dropping everything and accompanying him back to his Earth.