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In 1957, Barry Allen was a crime forensic researcher at Central City Police Department. During a thunder storm, lightning struck the department's laboratory which Barry was in, causing a explosion among the chemicals that Barry was working. Barry emerge unhurt, but received the power of super-speed. Barry then simply decided to use his power to do good and becoming the Flash, which he named after the said hero of the defunct Justice Society.
As Flash, he made his thrilling debut in Las Vegas after hearing a call from his fiancee Iris West, who was doing a report in Sin City, about one of his rogue Captain Cold holding a heist. Barry ran to Las Vegas, but learns from Cold that he planted several cryo-bombs throughout the city, abandoning his chance to arrest Captain Cold and to gather the bombs. Fortunately, Flash gathered all the bomb and subdued Captain Cold in the process.
Despite being seen as a hero to the public, Flash is still consider to be a unregistered suoerhuman fugitive by the federal government. In 1958, Barry overheard of Gorilla Grodd threatening Central City, and came to capture the Gorilla. But this turns out to be trap, and he was subdue by government agents lead by King Faraday. Faraday confronted the Flash and tells him that he is "government property". Flash was shocked from hearing Faraday's words and quickly escape before being almost tranquilized by the agent. This event shook Flash as he became very disappointed of how people viewed him after all he did to help the people he saved and protect, and ultimately decided to abandon his heroic career, in which he interrupted Walter Cronkite's news show and announced his permanent retirement and reason for doing so.
However, after the appearance of the gigantic being known as The Centre appeared off of Florida's coast, Barry watched the events from his home beside Iris West. In the state of global disaster, Barry was about to reveal his heroic identity to Iris, but his fiancee reveals that she had all ready knew about it a longtime ago, and confess that she is happy for what he did and convinced him to become the Flash again to fight alongside with the heroes at Cape Canaveral against the Centre.
After Superman was believed to be dead, Flash proved crucial in destroying the Centre as his speed is fast enough to cover the creature with Raymond Palmer's smaller matter reduction ray to destabilize and implode the being. Flash succeeded in this and was rescued by Wonder Woman once he jumped off the Centre.
Following the defeat of the Centre, Flash became a member of the JLA.In the animated adaption Neil Patrick Harris voices Barry Allen/The Flash.
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