Respect the Flash (New 52)

These feats are New 52 only (2011-). For Pre-52 Flash, [check out u/Wallzo's Wally West Respect thread.](http://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/1m2ykw/wally_west/)

Barry Allen AKA the Flash is the fastest man alive.

Barry Allen gained his powers after being struck by lightning and doused in chemicals at once.

This event connected him to the Speed Force, a dimension composed of kinetic and time/space energy.

By tapping into the Speed Force energy, the Flash gains the abilities to move and think at incredible speeds and achieve several other effects.

His connection to the Speed Force allows him to sense others who are also connected to it

When Barry Allen is not the Flash, he's an adept forensic scientist. He has a knack for finding, collecting, and connecting clues in a crime and knows his way around a lab.

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Abilities:

• Super Speed & Stamina
• Speed mind
• Speed Force Dumping
• High speed regeneration/healing
• Intangibility/Phasing
• Vortex creation
• Heightened strength and durability

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Flash's suit

• The Flash's suit is composed of metal. He keeps the suit inside his ring.
• The suit ejects into small pieces and attracts itself to his body.
• It can do this even while in mid air and does it at a fair speed.
• The Flash's ear pieces allow him to hear sound when running faster than sound.

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Speed

• Flash suggests he can clear out the people in Tokyo in 30 seconds, before the city is submerged in water.

• Disarms some soldiers before they're aware they've been disarmed.

• Flash claims he's faster than Superman on foot

• He's fast enough to run on clouds by attracting the ice crystal in the clouds to use as a foothold.

• Fast enough to runs on a helicopter blade

• Runs up an ocean wave to get into the air

• Searches Manhattan and finds Madam Xandu before Frankenstein is aware the Flash has even left

• Searches Manhattan and finds the target before Deadman could finish speaking his thoughts.

• Runs around Manhattan saving civilians from monsters

• Searches an area for DNA and other evidence while having a casual conversation

• Flash is able to outpace Darkseid's Omega Beams. He's able to eventually escape them by phasing through a Parademon, causing the beams to collide with the Parademon, detonating.

• He repairs the city all while having a conversation with his therapist, without the therapist even knowing he left the couch.

Speed During Combat

• Fighting dozens of enemies, easily blocking their attacks. When he feels he's being overwhelmed he blitzes though them.

• Again taking on multiple enemies, easily blitzing through them.

• Taking out Parademons

• Throwing multiple punches

• Takes out several monsters that were surrounding the JLD

• Blitzes several live grenades off a man and races them to a near by lake. Flash tanks the shock wave of the explosion

• The Flash and Hal Jordan take out multiple aliens

• Flash reduces a shotgun into scrap metal after beating an enemy with it

• Dodges Gorilla Grodd's headbutt and hits him with multiple punches

Speed Mind and Reflexes

The Flash is able to greatly speed up his brain's processing speed and reaction speed.

• His speed mind allows him to process information around him all at once to the point where he can almost predict the future. He can determine every possible outcome and act to make the correct choices.

• His instincts and reflexes allow him to react and move the femtosecond he feels even the slightest changes in air pressure. According to wikipedia, in 1 femtosecond, a ray of light travels only 0.3 micrometre, which is the unit of length used to measure cells and bacteria.

• Flash calls the Watch Tower's computers slow, despite the fact that they can preform over 100 quadrillion calculations per second.

• He's able to instantly learn how to use Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Ring.

• He quickly learns how to use alien technology

• Reads through a libraries-worth of books in seconds

• His reactions allow him to easily dodge lightning

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Slipstream

The Flash is able to pull things behind him in his slipstream

• Pulls two 600-ton barges in his slipstream.

• Pulls a tank in his slipstream.

• Pulls a torrent of water created by Weather Wizard behind him, through a village, and guides it into a lake.

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Vibrating/Phasing

The Flash can vibrate his molecules to slip through objects.

• He can vibrate through Green Lantern constructs

• He can hurt living things by vibrating through them. Here he is able to force Martian Manhunter off Superman by vibrating his hand through MMH's chest.

• He can force spiritual/incorporeal things out of his body by vibrating

• He can use his vibrating to disintegrate objects

• Destroys a monster made of some strange magical energy by vibrating through it

• Does it again by disrupting the energy source

• He has such fine control over the vibratory frequency of his body that he can align it to slip through the millions of small crystal-like structures that form the Fortress of Solitude's walls

• He can expand the range of his vibrations to larger objects, in this case a jetliner, as he phases it through a bridge. This tires him out. It should be noted that this was a Flash well early into his career as the Flash.

• He can cause damage to surrounding structures if he vibrates at a certain frequency.

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Vortexes

The Flash can produce vortexes by spinning his limbs at high speeds or by running in a circular motion.

• Runs around Captain Cold and Heat Wave to deprive them of oxygen.

• Blows away Parademons with his vortexes.

• Keeps a crashing airplane in the air with vortexes.

• Contains and redirects an explosion into the atmosphere.

• Directs an explosion upwards to prevent collateral damage and snuff out the flames.

• He can use vortexes to soften his landings if falling from great heights.

• Prevents a train from crashing by using vortexes to direct its path and then slows it down.

• Uses a vortex to smash an enemy through a wall

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Weaknesses

• Barry can sometimes be quick to rush into things, which doesn't always go his way.
• It's possible to cut him off from the Speed Force. Though he can recover quickly from this if not kept cut off.

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High speed Recovery/Regeneration

• The Flash is the first of the Justice League to recover from Darkseid's attack

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Heightened Strength/Durability

• The Flash busts through the steel of a train car, causing significant damage to it.

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Stamina

• After being pricked by one of Poison Ivy's toxic thorns, the Flash runs in order keep the toxin from metabolizing into his bloodstream. The Flash circles the planet 6 times and maintains supersonic speeds for over a day

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Miscellaneous

• The Flash has a good degree of manueverability even while in mid air

Flash conversing with Captain Atom

• The Flash has a fairly lengthy conversation with Captain Atom in the span between microseconds.
• Throughout the conversation time seems almost frozen.
• The Flash is seen easily plucking bullets and RPG rockets out of the air
• He strips a tank into its basic components.
• When a nuke goes off, the Flash is able to rescue the soldiers and form a perimeter from the blast.

Flash and Kid Flash

• Flash chases after Kid Flash all around the world
• Kid Flash reaches escape velocity and begins lifting off into the air
• Flash rescues him, telling him he learned how to control his mass and speed to avoid being lifted into the air when running

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Fights

Flash vs Superman

• Flash makes Superman spin like a top
• Flash's strike is powerful enough to send Superman crashing into a wall
• Flash easily dodges around Superman's swings
• Flash gets cocky and Superman tags him
• Flash tanks getting sent crashing into a hotdog stand

Flash vs Supergirl

• Flash tanks a tackle by Supergirl
• Dodges her heatvision
• His vortexes are powerful enough to blow her away and disorient her
• Kara states she'd never had to move so fast before, in a fight that happens in less than one second
• Flash is able to phase both himself and Kara through a wall

Flash vs Rogues, he easily takes them down

Flash vs Rogues in Mirror World

• He has a bit more difficulty here but still manages
• Blitzes Heat Wave and a Mirror Master clone
• Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, and Mirror Master all manage to hit him
• Flash creates a shock wave, forcing Mirror Master's mirrors off his body
• Steals Mirror Master's gun, and makes his way outside

Flash vs some equipped thieves

• Thieves attack Flash with weapons that throw his vibrations off
• Flash still manages to create a vortex that blows them away
• He easily dodges lightning
• Easily takes down the thieves

Flash vs Ulysses Sutter/an evil spirit

• Flash maintains control over his body when the incorporeal/spiritual being tries to posses him, by vibrating
• Forces the spirit out/dumps it away

Flash vs Reverse-Flash (Daniel West)

• The Reverse-Flash uses his speed force energy to gain super speed and to go back in time
• RF stabs Flash with metal constructs
• Flash and RF fight across the city into a desert
• RF drains Flash of his speed force energy, causing time to reverse and Flash to grow old instantly
• Flash absorbs RF's speed force energy right back, growing young again and returning to the normal time stream
• RF is reverted back into Daniel West
• All of Flash's wounds are healed

Flash vs Grodd's soldiers

• Flash takes down Grodd's foot-soldiers with the help of the Rogues

Flash vs Grodd - Round 1

• Gorilla Grodd has the Speed Force
• Flash phases through a car dropped on him
• Flash punches Grodd, but the punch is ineffective and only damages Flash's armor
• Flash ties him up with barbed wire
• Grodd easily breaks out and nearly kills Barry

Flash vs Grodd - Round 2 - In the Speed Force

• After about what was a few hours of recovery, the Flash returns to face Grodd.
• The Flash is put in chains and Grodd launches a spear at him
• Flash begins to Speed Force dump
• The chains, spear, and the area around him begins to disintegrate
• He takes Grodd into the Speed Force
• Flash claims he is king in the Speed Force
• He easily blocks Grodd's punch with no bodily damage besides damage to his armor that regenerates anyway
• Flash beats down on Grodd and Grodd is taken away into the Speed Force