20 fastest speedsters in the Flash family

In the world of superheroes, The bottle is the undisputed fastest man alive. But there is more than one ‘Scarlet Speedster’ running around the DC Universe. With multiple allies from the past and future all expanding the Flash family over the years, who is truly the fastest of the crew?

It is a difficult thing to rank each DC speedster’s strength with the mystical Speed ​​Force, but by looking at their age, experience, training and power origins, it is possible to make a rough ranking of the speedsters. Read on to discover the fastest heroes in DC’s iconic Flash family.

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Trajectory

Lex Luthor’s customized speedster

Trajectory is one of the sadder stories in speedster history. Eliza Harmon was once a powerless young woman who wanted nothing more than to be a speedster, and she finally got her chance when Lex Luthor launched his most ambitious, and equally dangerous, public effort of all time: The Everman Project. Despite the project being led by Superman’s archenemy, Eliza tried for it and accomplished it, Gain the Flash-like powers she’d always dreamed of.

Eliza became Trajectory, the resident speedster of the new and improved Infinity Inc. and she was quite fast. Unfortunately, her powers are practically out of control, and she needs to medicate herself to slow down. But all the speed at her disposal meant nothing when she and her allies fought Blockbuster and Lex turned on Eliza’s powers in the middle of the battle, killing her and erasing the potential she had.

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Jai West (AKA Surge)

The biological son of Wally West and Linda Park-West

As the son of Wally West’s Flash, one might expect Jay to be the spitting image of his father, powers-wise. However, Jai and his twin sister Irey shared a connection to the Speed ​​Force and unfortunately, he was forced to give up his powers as the split was causing them both pain.

Jai was powerless for years, but a trip to Gemworld resulted in Wally passed on his new ‘Sorge’ ability to JayGive him a boost in his natural strength. He may be the slowest in the Flash family, but his new abilities finally let him find a place in it.

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Irey West (AKA Thunderheart)

The biological daughter of Wally West and Linda Park-West

Irey had to hang on to the Speed ​​Force connection while Jai was forced to give it up, and as a result she became pretty adept at using her powers. Irey loves her abilities and is willing to dive into any situation where she can use them.

However, she is still very young, inexperienced and tends to get in over her head. While Irey is destined to take on the Flash mantle for herself one dayShe has a lot to learn about the ins and outs of her powers (not to mention knowing how to think ahead).

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Max Mercury (aka “The Zen Guru of Speed”)

A speedster from the 19th century, leaping through time to save the day across centuries

When it comes to learning the ropes about speed, it is No better super-speed teacher than Max Mercury. Max was given powers through a magical enchantment rather than a direct connection to the Speed ​​Force. However, Max gains a mastery of his skills over the years and has even taken several other speedsters under his wing to help them reach even greater heights than him.

Wally West and Bart Allen would never have hit the speeds they achieved without Max Mercury guiding them and helping them understand the true nature of their powers. He may not be the fastest, but his place in the family is invaluable.

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Don Allen (aka Tornado Twins)

Barry Allen’s biological son

The somewhat strange decision for Barry and Iris Allen to travel a millennium into the future to have children is rarely revisited in modern comics, but the legacy remains in the form of their children. Known along with his sister as the ‘Tornado Twins,’ Barry Allen’s son Don is given the powers that any Flash fan would expect.

Don, brother of Don, would indeed take their heroic inspirations from Wally West, when a trip through time brings them face-to-face with their father’s Flash successor. While Don’s speed powers pale compared to his father’s, it is his marriage to Meloni Thawne that cements his place in history, along with their son (and future Flash) Bart Allen.

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Don Allen (AKA Tornado Twins)

Barry Allen’s biological daughter

The other half of the iconic and day-saving Tornado Twins, Dawn Allen is also blessed with some of her father’s connection to the Speed ​​Force. While the twins’ powers are unleashed for evil as part of an alternate reality gauntlet, Barry faces his Year one Storyline, Don and Don would eventually both use their powers, like their father, in an effort to save others at the cost of their own lives.

Keeping the Allen family tradition alive, Don would marry the noble Jeven Ognats in the 30th century, giving birth to one daughter, named Jenny. Also blessed with a genetic link to the Speed ​​Force thanks to her grandfather Barry, Jenny would take the name ‘CSS’ as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Jonathan Chambers (aka Johnny Quick)

The Golden Age Speedster Who Unlocked the Speed ​​Force (With a Formula)

The mythology and lore of DC Speedsters walks the line between science fiction and mysticism, and the origins of ‘Johnny Quick’ are no exception. Unlike other iconic members of the Flash family, Johnny’s connection to the Speed ​​Force came not from Flash, but from Lightning. A mathematical ‘speed formula’: “3X2(9YZ)4A”.

It was the formula, discovered on a pharaoh’s tomb, that Jonathan Chambers recites to imbue his body with super-speed. When the stories of Johnny Quick were later incorporated into the DC Multiverse along with many other heroes of the Golden Age, the so-called ‘speed formula’ was understood to be an alternative means of accessing the Speed ​​Force power all other DC speedsters.

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Daniel West

The New 52 Reverse-Flash

Before his son became part of the Flash legacy, Daniel West gained speedster powers when he was injured in an accident with a monorail car that was powered by a Speed ​​Force battery. Daniel has become an amalgamation of metal and human, but he possesses powerful abilities, such as enhanced speed, reflexes and strength. and yes, Like most Reverse-Flashes, Daniel also became adept at traveling through timeWhich the new unbroken place used to try and fix his own life.

Daniel was later drafted into the Suicide Squad, where he was immediately confirmed to not be as fast as the Flash. However, he is still useful to the team and, in a shocking moment of redemption, Reverse-Flash uses his powers to create a vortex that prevents a bomb from destroying a village. This act cost Rivers-Flash his lifeBut in the end he kept his soul.

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Wallace West (AKA Kid Flash)

The biological son of Daniel West, the third Reverse-Bottle, and nephew to Iris West

It took the new Kid Flash some time to develop his own speed powers. But A future version of Wallace West sent his younger self powers back through timeGive the young man the powerful abilities of a highly-advanced speedster. Wallace was also struck by a bolt of lightning during a Speed ​​Force storm, making his powers even greater than they were before.

Although he is still learning how to properly hone his abilities, he is able to bring the most out of his speed thanks to studies. If his future self is any indication, Wallace may one day become one of the fastest Flashes ever.

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Avery Ho (aka The Flash from China)

Avery Ho may be one of the greener Flashes, but since Gaining powers through the Speed ​​Force storm in Central CityThe bottle of China has focused only on beautiful faster. Not only did she get a crash course from Barry Allen, but she had access to the best training technology the Ministry of Self-Reliance could get the Justice League of China.

Avery took her studies seriously and even found herself outpacing Superman before. And considering the powers of Kenan Kong are on par with Clark, there is little doubt that Avery is one of the closest to Barry in terms of power.

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John Fox

Bottle of the 27th century

Jonathan Fox is a bottle like no other, although he does not take the mantle for a few centuries. John was once a historian for the National Academy of Sciences until he was sent back in time to get help from the Bottle when a villain named Manfed Mata came to terrorize the city of Fox. While Fox didn’t get the help he was looking for, Fox gained powers thanks to temporary radiation, Turn him into his century’s bottle.

As a Flash, John has a fairly standard power set and while he isn’t as fast as Wally, he is still quite capable in his own right and has even helped Wally take down some major villains. As his career progressed, John finally wound up in the 853rd century, Where he became the flagship of the Justice LegionGive him telepathic abilities to keep in touch with his colleagues.

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Dr. Meena Dhawan (AKA Fast Track)

The STAR Labs scientist who was struck by Speed ​​Force lightning

For the Flash, the arrival of DC’s Rebirth Initiative meant a Speed ​​Force storm hit Central City, granting random civilians the same Speed ​​Force connection as the existing Flash family. It was the brilliant Dr. Meena Dhawan of STAR Labs who rose to the occasion, inviting all new speedsters to gather for proper training and learning.

Training a new generation of Flashes is no small feat, but thankfully, Meena has help, both from her own knowledge and Speed ​​Force abilities, but that of her boyfriend, Barry Allen. Eventually took the name ‘Fast Track’ and a black-and-yellow superhero suit On her own, the romance was not meant to be. While briefly becoming a new form of villain ‘Negative Flash’, brainwashing would vindicate Meena, allowing her to save the day more than once.

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Inertia

Impulse clone with Reverse-Flash’s DNA

Unfortunately, the Flask lineage was plagued by a bitter feud with the Tahn family, which ultimately ended with President Tawan creating a life solely to hate the Allens. Thawne stole Bart Allen’s genetic material and spliced ​​it with his own, creating Thaddeus Thawne, aka Inertia, Impulse’s ‘reverse-bottle’. Intertia was founded with one goal: To find Bart Allen and replace him in the timeline.

Intertia does not have traditional speedster powers, but as Hunter Zolomon, Intertia can change the flow of time around himself so that he is running as fast as any Flash, including Wally West. However, his speed is hampered by his brash attitude and lack of foresight. Unable to overcome his hatred, Inertia never succeeded in his mission and Was known only as an ‘also ran’ compared to impulse.

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Jay Garrick (AKA The Flash)

The first Golden Age speedster to become The Flash

You can’t discuss speedsters without talking about the man who started it all. The Golden Age Flash was the first person to develop a connection to the Speed ​​Force In the DC Universe, and he has the most time to practice with it.

He pioneered some of the greatest tricks superspeed allows, such as vibrating his molecules to phase through walls or amplify his identity. He may not be a spring chicken anymore, but few people possess as much knowledge and wisdom as Jay Garrick does, making him one of the best authorities when it comes to the Speed ​​Force.

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Judy Garrick (aka The Boom)

The biological daughter of Jay Garrick and Joan Williams

In a major change to DC canon, the long-held assumption that Jay Garrick and his wife Joan never had any biological children was corrected with Stargirl: The Lost Children. With a handful of tweaks to comic history, the story reveals that Jay and Joan Garrick had a daughter before a villain took her out of existence. Thankfully, the story also saw Judy Garrick, better known as The Boom, restored to her rightful place.

With her story finally restored, fans now know that Judy assisted her father as the first Flash sidekick. Judy, who went back in time from her own era (1963) to assist her father in his early 40s adventures, and the same powers and heroic virtue. The couple’s story is finally allowed to continue in the pages of DC’s new Jay Garrick: The Flash series, with Judy’s true potential yet to be explored in the coming years.

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Jesse Chambers (aka Jesse Quick)

The biological daughter of Golden Age superheroes Johnny Quick and Liberty Bell

Jessie Quick is another interesting member of the Flash family where her connection to the Speed ​​Force comes from A speed formula, pioneered by her father, the speedster hero Johnny Quick. Jessie not only has access to the Speed ​​Force, she also has super strength passed down from her mother.

While Jessie has come right into her powers and knows how to use them, her lack of an organic connection holds her back from being as fast as those with direct connection. That being said, she is undoubtedly one of the fastest people who can use the Speed ​​Force.

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Godspeed

The strong competitor for theft of the bottle

August Heart was an ally of Barry Allen, who, like the Flash, was also corrupted by criminals. August gained powers thanks to a storm that allowed him to use the excess energy that the Speed ​​Force had built up. Not only that, but Heart can also borrow speed from other speedsters, Allowing him to do things the Flash never couldLike being in two places at once.

Unfortunately, this power went straight to the heart. He decides to use his newfound abilities to become judge, jury and executioner. Worse, Flash is almost powerless to stop him as Godspeed (as Hart took to calling his new alter ego), could rob Barry and Kid Flash of their powers. While Godspeed is defeated, his power means he is still the most dangerous active speedster and A dangerous threat to the entire Flash family.

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Bart Allen (AKA Impulse, The Flash)

The biological grandson of Barry Allen and Iris West

From the future, Barry Allen’s grandson Impulse made quick work of showing how fast he really was when he got back to the modern day. Training under Max Mercury and pushing himself to his limits, Bart Allen raised the bar on the speeds a young hero could achieve, more so when he adopted the Kid Flash identity.

Upon his return from being lost in the Speed ​​Force, Barry was amazed by Bart’s growth and admitted that the young hero had the potential to One day they become the fastest bottle ever.

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Barry Allen (aka The Flash)

The Flash knows the Speed ​​Force like the back of his hand. Ever since Barry Allen was struck by a bolt of lightning, Barry has studied his powers and applied every scientific principle he can to make the most of them.

He was The first Flash to discover that he can travel to other universes By accelerating its molecules. Not to mention, he pushed his body to a breaking point during Crisis on Infinite Earths In order to destroy the anti-monitors antimatter cannons. Barry’s achievements have more than earned him one of the top spots in the Flash family.

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Wally West (aka The Flash)

No one in the Flash family has trained harder or more in refining their speed as much as Wally West. In an attempt to live up to the legacy Barry left behind, Wally started working on his powers, and boy did they pay off.

with his Determination to become a better version of the FlashHe invented new attacks like the Infinite Mass Punch and performed feats like evacuating half a million people in a fraction of a second. Wally did everything he could to make sure he would honor the Flash legacy, and by the things he did, there’s no question he did.