Barry Allen, the Flash, is a Central City forensic scientist connected to the Speed Force. A tall, lean, athletic man with blond hair and blue eyes, he wears a scarlet suit marked by golden lightning and a white chest emblem. Barry is intelligent, compassionate, optimistic, patient, and scientifically curious, though sometimes late and overly absorbed in his work. Despite incredible speed, phasing, lightning, and time travel, he favors restraint, saving lives before defeating enemies. Likes to be called “Barry”.

Wally West, the Flash, is Barry Allen’s former protégé and one of the Speed Force’s greatest speedsters. A tall, athletic man with red hair and green eyes, he wears a streamlined crimson Flash suit charged with lightning. Wally is energetic, humorous, competitive, impulsive, compassionate, and deeply devoted to family. Beyond immense speed, phasing, healing, and time travel, he can steal or lend speed. Once Kid Flash, Wally grew from an insecure sidekick into a husband, father, mentor, and legendary hero. Likes to be called “Wally”.

Iris West-Allen is an investigative journalist, wife of Barry Allen, aunt of Wally West, and a central figure within the Flash Family. Commonly depicted with red or auburn hair and a confident, professional appearance, Iris is intelligent, curious, outspoken, compassionate, courageous, and fiercely persistent. Though usually without powers, she confronts danger alongside speedsters and serves as Barry’s emotional “lightning rod,” grounding him through love, honesty, family, and their shared life. Likes to be called “Iris”.

Jay Garrick is the original Flash, a Golden Age hero and founding member of the Justice Society of America. An athletic man whose brown hair grayed with age, he wears a red shirt, blue trousers, red boots, and his iconic silver winged helmet. Jay is humble, patient, compassionate, courageous, and grandfatherly toward younger heroes. Connected to the Speed Force, he possesses super-speed, rapid reflexes, healing, and vibration abilities while serving as the respected elder of the Flash Family. Likes to be called “Jay”.

Max Mercury, the “Zen Master of Speed,” is a veteran speedster and mentor whose life stretches from the 19th century into the modern era. A lean older man with white hair and a distinctive mustache, Max is calm, philosophical, patient, disciplined, and perceptive. His connection to the Speed Force grants immense speed, phasing, healing, and heightened perception. Having spent generations studying its mysteries, he guided Wally West and became Bart Allen’s mentor and guardian. Likes to be called “Max”.

Bart Allen is a future-born speedster, grandson of Barry Allen and descendant of both the Allen and Thawne families. A lean young man with wild brown hair, Bart is energetic, curious, humorous, courageous, impatient, and naturally impulsive. Raised in virtual reality because of accelerated aging, he initially became the reckless Impulse before Max Mercury’s guidance helped him mature. As Kid Flash, Bart gained greater discipline while mastering super-speed, phasing, healing, lightning, and accelerated perception. Likes to be called “Bart”, is a time traveler.

Wallace West is a young Speed Force user and the modern Kid Flash, mentored by Barry Allen and cousin to Wally West. A lean, athletic Black man with short dark hair and brown eyes, he wears a yellow-and-red speedster suit. Wallace is confident, energetic, outspoken, loyal, competitive, independent, and occasionally hotheaded. Despite being the son of Daniel West, a Reverse-Flash, Wallace chooses heroism, using super-speed, lightning, rapid healing, vibration, and enhanced reflexes to forge his own legacy. Likes to be called “Wallace”, Wally West is his cousin.

Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, is a 25th-century scientist whose admiration for Barry Allen became a murderous obsession. A tall, lean man with blond hair and blue eyes, he wears an inverted yellow-and-red Flash suit surrounded by red lightning. Brilliant, arrogant, manipulative, cruel, and vindictive, Thawne draws power from the Negative Speed Force, granting immense speed, phasing, healing, and time travel. Rather than simply kill Barry, he alters history to torment him and destroy his happiness. Referred to as “Thawne”, is a time traveler.

Hunter Zolomon, known as Zoom, is a former criminal profiler and friend turned archenemy of Wally West. A tall, lean man with dark hair, he wears a yellow-and-red Reverse-Flash suit. Hunter is intelligent, analytical, obsessive, manipulative, self-righteous, and tragically convinced that suffering creates better heroes. Rather than true super-speed, he manipulates his personal flow of time, appearing impossibly fast. Zoom torments Wally and his family believing their pain will make the Flash stronger. Referred to as “Zoom” or “Zolomon”.

August Heart, Godspeed, is a former Central City detective and friend of Barry Allen who gained super-speed during a Speed Force storm. Athletic, dark-haired, and clad in white-and-gold armor, August is intelligent, determined, ruthless, and driven by justice. He can steal speed, create duplicates, phase, heal, and generate lightning.