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START A For other uses of "Speed Force", see Speed Force (disambiguation).
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"The Speed Force is

Speed Force
eternity itself, an
endless void of time
True form Physical form
and energy."
—Jay Garrick[src]
The Speed Force is an

extra-dimensional source
of dark matter energy that
provides a particular
variation of meta-humans Information
known as "speedsters" Location Outside of the multiverse

with their powers. It is also
Use(s) Extra-dimensional en-
an elemental part of the
ergy source
universe.[1] As a result of
events of the Anti-Monitor Source
Crisis, the Speed Force

suffered from a critical energy imbalance, eventually resulting in its
death, leaving all speedsters with limited speed and powers. Barry
Allen and Team Flash later discovered that the Speed Force still existed
within Iris West-Allen and the team was able to use that energy to
restore the Speed Force. However, when they restored the Speed
Force, Team Flash also unknowingly created three new forces.
Contents
1. Overview
2. History
2.1. Original multiverse
2.1.1. Early history
2.1.2. Helping The Flash Follow on IG TikTok Join Fan Lab Check out Fandom Quizzes and cha
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2.1.3. Infected
2.2. New multiverse
FANDOM 2.2.1. Death
2.2.2. Rebirth
2.2.3. Seeking Team Flash's help
2.2.4. Betrayal
GAMES 2.2.5. Reconciliation
2.2.6. Godspeed infestation
2.2.7. The Godspeed war

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3. Personality
4. Physical manifestations
MOVIES 4.1. Lightning coloration
4.2. Eye transformation
4.3. Disintegration
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5. Inside the Speed Force dimension
5.1. Regaining one's speed

VIDEO 5.2. Speed Force prison
6. Protecting the timeline
6.1. Time remnants

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6.2. Time Wraiths
7. Powers and abilities

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WIKI 7.1. Powers
7.1.1. Speedster powers
7.2. Weaknesses
7.2.1. Speedster weaknesses
7.2.2. Speed Force weaknesses
8. Known users
8.1. Original/New multiverses
8.1.1. Earth-1/Earth-Prime
8.1.2. Earth-2
8.1.3. Earth-3
8.1.4. Earth-19
8.1.5. Earth-90
8.1.6. Earth-D
8.1.7. Earth-N52
8.1.8. Earth-X
8.1.9. Earth-TUD13
8.1.10. Unknown Earths
8.2. Transmultiversal multiverse
8.2.1. Earth-∂
8.2.2. Earth-1A
8.2.3. Earth-27A
9. Appearances
9.1. The Flash
9.1.1. Season 1
9.1.2. Season 2
9.1.3. Season 3
9.1.4. Season 4
9.1.5. Season 5
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9.1.6. Season 6
9.1.7. Season 7
FANDOM 9.1.8. Season 8
9.2. DC's Legends of Tomorrow
9.2.1. Season 2
9.3. Arrow
GAMES 9.3.1. Season 7
9.3.2. Season 8
9.4. Novels
ANIME
9.5. The Chronicles of Cisco
10. Trivia
MOVIES 11. Behind the scenes
12. References
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Overview
VIDEO "When the first subatomic particle sprang forth from the Big Bang
to form reality as you know it, we were there. When the last proton
decays, stops vibrating, and plunges the universe into heat death,
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we'll be there too."
—A manifestation of the Speed Force describes itself to Barry
Allen[src]
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The Speed Force is comprised of positive tachyons particles that are

infused with dark matter, allowing speedsters access to their main
ability of super speed as well as their derived abilities such as time
travel and dimensional breaching.
The Speed Force itself is a vaguely explored concept and appears to

exhibit forms of consciousness and intelligence; able to manifest itself
to communicate with a speedster, using the visage of a person they
know. Fallen speedsters may find themselves trapped within the Speed
Force itself as a kind of purgatory.
The Speed Force also has enforcers called Time Wraiths to punish
those who abuse time travel in order to prevent any further disruption
of the timeline. Particularly dangerous time travelers or aberrations are
hunted down by the Black Flash.
During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, it was revealed that the Speed Force
exists even without the multiverse. However, traveling in it is very
unstable and without the Spectre's powers, any non-speedster
brought into it could have been spat out into the antimatter void.[2]
The Speed Force cannot handle certain extra-dimensional energies,

like the Spectre's powers; interference of such energies will ultimately
deteriorate the Speed Force, eventually "killing" it.[3] However, since the
Speed Force is an elemental part of the universe, it can never truly
disappear and can be restored if its energy exists somewhere.[1]
History
Original multiverse
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"Barry, what you're seeing is the Speed Force: your past, your
present, your future all at once. So you need to focus on where you
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want to go. So think about that night. Think about your mother."
—Eobard Thawne directing Barry Allen[src]
The Speed Force itself claims to have existed since the beginning of
time, and will exist until at least the end of the known universe.
GAMES Whether this is physically true or just a metaphysical aspect of reality
is unknown.[4]
ANIME While being imprisoned in the Speed Force, the legend of the time
remnant of Barry Allen from 2020/2021 known as "Savitar" was spread
throughout the multiverse and across time, with the lie of his power
MOVIES being the first speedster to ever be granted power from the Speed
Force, eventually becoming the fastest out of all of them who desired
to challenge other powerful speedsters who threatened Savitar's
TV power to battle before taking over their Earths.[5]
In an alternate future between 2180 and 2190, Eobard Thawne spent

VIDEO years unlocking the secrets of the Speed Force, partly because of his
obsession with the Flash and his desire to be the Flash himself.
Recreating the reaction that gave the Flash his speed resulted in
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Thawne becoming a meta-human speedster and gaining super speed
and the power of time travel through a Speed Force connection. Upon
discovering he'd never become a hero like his idol, Thawne became the
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WIKI Reverse-Flash and created his own Speed Force which made him
immune to timeline changes, as well as able to avoid detection by
other speedsters.[6]
Helping The Flash

After traveling back to the year 2000, Eobard Thawne lost his
connection to the Speed Force due to copious amounts of time travel.
Because of this, Thawne intended to regain usage of the Speed Force
through a plan, killing Harrison Wells and his soon-to-be wife Tess
Morgan in order to masquerade as Wells.[7] Fourteen years later, Barry
Allen gained a connection to the Speed Force by the particle
accelerator explosion from S.T.A.R. Labs created by "Harrison Wells",[8]
thereby creating "The Flash" and the key of gaining more knowledge
about the Speed Force.[9]
By this point in Thawne's plan, fifteen years have passed, during which
time Thawne was able to use a tachyon prototype to access the Speed
Force, absorbing some of it and allowing him to run at high speeds, and
vibrate his body and voice.[10] Sometime later, needing to remove The
Trickster's kinetic bomb from the Flash's wrist without it exploding,
Thawne motivated the Flash to become one with his speed, thus
becoming one with the Speed Force, allowing him to better hone his
ability to vibrate and phase through a tanker, leaving the bomb on the
other side.[7]
When trying to travel back in

time to prevent the murder
of his mother, Nora Allen,
Barry Allen was able to
physically see the Speed
Force after passing Mach 2,
The Flash runs so fast that he can viewing events from his past,
physically see the Speed Force.
present and future all at
once. To travel where he wanted to go, Barry had to think about a
specific time and place, before transporting into his childhood home
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stairs to see his mother trapped in the tornado of light, that was
actually Reverse-Flash and his future self as the Flash fighting over
the younger Barry's fate at super speed.[11]
GAMES In 2013, on Earth-2, a serial killer named Hunter Zolomon gained a

connection with the Speed Force because of the particle accelerator
explosion from S.T.A.R. Labs created by Harrison Wells. However, after
ANIME becoming a speed demon name "Zoom", Hunter was proven unworthy
due to abusing the Speed Force for his own benefit, such as killing
others. The speedster also time traveled recklessly throughout the
MOVIES timeline, forcing the Speed Force to clean up his mess. Hunter later
developed a drug to make him go faster, thus further abusing his
speed to terrorize more Earths throughout the multiverse. One day,
TV while on Earth-3, Hunter found out that the drug was killing him and
he attempted to manipulate the Speed Force. Because of all of his
selfish actions until now, the Speed Force responded by constantly
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sending Time Wraiths after Hunter, since he has been proven too much
of a threat to the timeline to remain alive. However, these efforts were
to no avail since the unworthy speedster went into hiding, occasionally
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pretending to be "Jay Garrick" on Earths 1 and 2.
A few months later, Barry traveled back in time to where his former
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WIKI teacher, Eobard Thawne, was alive since he was desperate to run
faster to beat Zoom. Because of such an invalid reason, the Speed
Force sent a Time Wraith after the rookie speedster. However, this
Wraith failed to do its mission, as it was obliterated by outside help
from Barry's friends.[12]
When Barry tried to regain

his powers through a second
particle accelerator
explosion, instead of him
simply regaining his powers,
the will of the Speed Force
pulled Barry into itself. It was Barry Allen and the Speed Force read The
Runaway Dinosaur.
inside of the Speed Force
that Barry discovered that
the Speed Force had a personality and could be spoken to. Before the
Speed Force allowed Barry to regain his powers, he had to prove
himself worthy of retrieving his powers again. In order for Barry to
regain his powers, the Speed Force gave him a trial, to catch a dark
speeding shadow. The shadow at every stop led Barry to places of
great personal importance where the Speed Force manifested itself as
an important person in his life to speak to him. During the trial, Cisco
created a breach to the Speed Force dimension and a vortex of energy
appeared to Barry. The Speed Force told Barry that if he did not
complete the trial before leaving, he would be returning to Earth
without his powers. By accepting tragedy and moving on instead of
letting it define him, the Speed Force allowed him to become a
speedster again with the shadow appearing before Barry so that he
could catch it. The shadow was revealed to be a manifestation of Barry
as the Flash before Barry transformed into the figure. Barry then left
the Speed Force with the help of Iris calling out to him through the
vortex after hugging the Speed Force's manifestation of his mother.
After defeating Girder, Barry visited Jesse Wells in her coma where he
touched her hand and a spark of energy woke her from the coma.[4]
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The Speed Force later sent two Time Wraiths after Barry when he
created a time remnant during his fight with Hunter. Upon arriving,
however, they discovered Hunter and realizing that Barry used the
time remnant to clue them into Hunter's location, the Wraiths spared
GAMES Barry and attacked Hunter instead. Badly beaten and weakened from
the race, Hunter could only scream in terror as the Time Wraiths
surrounded him and began forcibly transforming him into a demonic-
ANIME looking skeletal being, changing the lightning-bolt emblem of his
costume red as well as its outline and the earpieces as well as turning
the emblem circle white and turning his speed lightning red. The Time
MOVIES Wraiths then reopened their portal and dragged the decaying form of
Zoom into the Speed Force. This made him lose his remaining sanity,
his humanity, his free will and decayed his body to an undead state
TV similar to that of the Wraiths.[13] Months later it was revealed that he
was transformed into the worst and most powerful version of time
specters.[14]
VIDEO
Later, Barry Allen and Jay Garrick attempted to trap Savitar in the
Speed Force forever by throwing the Philosopher's Stone into the
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Speed Force via a wormhole that Barry and Jay had created. However,
Barry was accidentally thrown five months into the future, where he
sees a possible future where Iris West is murdered by Savitar,
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WIKI explaining that either Savitar was freed after being thrown in the
Speed Force, or that the Philosopher's Stone would reappear in the
future.[5] This later became known as the Speed Force Prison, where
one with a connection to the Speed Force must remain.
It was later revealed that the Speed Force was where the future Barry
had managed to trap Savitar. Team Flash unintentionally gave him the
Philosopher's Stone, except a small piece that had broken off of the
whole stone, which Savitar needed to free himself from the Speed
Force. Hoping to use it to get rid of her powers, Caitlin kept this piece
for herself. She later confessed this to the rest of the team, and when
Wally West threw the last bit of the Stone into the Speed Force, he was
dragged into the prison, freeing Savitar.[15]
When rescuing Wally, Barry

entered the Speed Force and
the Speed Force shows up in
the form of people from his
past, such as Ronnie
Raymond, Eddie Thawne, and
Barry enters the Speed Force to save Wally. Leonard Snart, while
lecturing Barry specifically
for his creation of Flashpoint and messing with the timeline. With help
from Jay, Barry found Wally, who was trapped in his own personal hell:
witnessing his mother's death, over and over in an endless loop.
Savitar faced his own personal hell when he was in the Speed Force,
and Jay also faced this after Barry and Wally left, as the Speed Force
needed an occupant in place of Wally and Jay took that place.[16]
In the final battle with Savitar, Savitar created a portal to the Speed
Force and was using an inter-dimensional splicer to splice himself
throughout every moment of time as part of his endgame[17] and
contingency plan in order to escape the paradox that would soon erase
him since he failed to kill Iris
West. In an attempt to stop
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dispatched Hunter to erase
him from existence. However,
Killer Frost, who was beside
Savitar the whole time, Barry Allen leaves for the Speed Force
prison with a manifestation of the Speed
GAMES defeated Hunter with a cold Force.
blast. When Savitar used the
splicer, however, Jay was finally freed and assisted Team Flash in
ANIME defeating the former. This, however, had very destructive
consequences as the Speed Force had become unstable due to the
vacancy of the Speed Force Prison, which in effect caused a Speed
MOVIES Force Storm which devastated Central City. Realizing that the only way
to stop the storm was to go into the Speed Force Prison, Barry
voluntarily went with the Speed Force for his past crimes of creating
TV Flashpoint and his use of time travel. However, taking the form of his
mother, the Speed Force promised Barry he wouldn't experience the
hell that Savitar, Wally, and Jay had.[18]
VIDEO
In 2018, when Barry and Nora West-Allen traveled throughout the

Speed Force in order to build a weapon against Cicada, the Speed
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Force sent a Time Wraith on two occasions: one due to the many
possible aberrations that could occur because of future Barry and
Nora's presence in 2017 and the other to take care of a time-traveling
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WIKI Zoom in order to prevent changes to his involvement in the timeline.[19]
Infected
In 2019, after Barry was
infected by Ramsey Rosso
when he saved Ralph Dibny,
the Speed Force appeared to
Barry as Nora Allen and
explained that Ramsey's
The Speed Force tries to save Barry from infection was gradually
Ramsey Rosso.
taking control of Barry, and
because the infection was
sentient, it allowed for Ramsey to be planted in Barry's mind. After
warning Barry of Ramsey's true intent to bend him to his will, the
Speed Force disappeared, leaving Barry to fight the infection. Later,
after Ramsey informed Barry that there was a way to avoid his
impending death in the Crisis if he followed him, the Speed Force
reappeared and took Barry back to the manifestation of his childhood
home. After Barry confided his feelings about his fate and desperation
to survive, the Speed Force revealed that Ramsey was telling the truth,
although that wasn't the path for Barry, prompting Barry to angrily
accuse the Speed Force of wanting him to leave his family behind and
being the main reason for his suffering in the first place.
After the Speed Force tried

desperately in vain to explain
that it was on Barry's side,
Barry gave in to Ramsey's
influence and phased
through the Speed Force's
manifestation of Nora, just The Speed Force, manifesting itself as Nora
Allen, emitting yellow and white lightning.
before Ramsey appeared and
attempted to fully take
control of Barry, leading to a battle between both sides for Barry's
mind. Just then, however, Team Flash managed to recover Barry from
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his hallucinations, although they soon realized that Barry wasn't acting
like himself. Barry revealed his infected body and raced out of S.T.A.R.
Labs to submit to Ramsey, indicating that Ramsey was able to best the
Speed Force despite its power, and fully infect Barry.[20] However, it
was soon revealed that Barry willingly submitted to Ramsey so he
GAMES could defeat him from inside.[21]
New multiverse
ANIME
Death
"A few months ago, a substance entered the Speed Force...

MOVIES something that we'd never encountered before. We tried to contain
it, but it contaminated us. It upset the balance of our energies."
"The green and white lightning."
TV "It is infernal power... beyond the laws of our nature."
[...]
"During Crisis, I made the Spectre give me his energy so I could

VIDEO enter the Speed Force again. I am responsible. I did this. I killed the
Speed Force."
—A manifestation of the Speed Force and Barry Allen realize the
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truth of its impending death[src]
During the Anti-Monitor

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WIKI Crisis, the Spectre used his
cosmic energy to give Barry
a boost, so Barry could get
into the Speed Force.[2]
However, his energy
Barry and Wally talk to the dying Speed contaminated the balance of
Force.
the Speed Force causing its
condition to deteriorate.
After the Crisis, Barry began to suffer from occasional "hiccups" while
he ran. When Wally West returned to Central City, they discovered the
truth of the Speed Force being poisoned. However, they were too late
to save it.[3]
After its death, the Speed

Force became a desolate
wasteland where an
abandoned replica of the
West house was the only
material place. After the
Speed Force was reborn and The Speed Force after its death.
the other forces of nature

were unleashed, Barry eventually traveled to this point in time with Iris
West-Allen, Alexa Rivera, and Bashir Malik in an effort to hide them
from the Speed Force.[22]
Rebirth
Team Flash attempted to use the knowledge contained in Nora West-
Allen's journal to create an artificial Speed Force, but was
unsuccessful.[23] After an encounter with a clone of Godspeed, Cisco
Ramon realized that the missing element that they needed in order to
create an artificial Speed Force was in Atlantis.[24]
Later, after successfully
creating the artificial Speed
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Force,[25] Barry suddenly
gained the power of speed
thinking. Barry planned to his
new-found power to get his
The Speed Force is reborn. friends out of the Mirrorverse
GAMES while Cisco tried to figure out
why Barry suddenly had this new power. Cisco eventually discovered
that because Team Flash didn't use emotions to stabilize the artificial
ANIME Speed Force, Barry began to lose his emotional response and to rely
only on logic when making decisions. After this loss of emotions
caused Barry to harm Iris when he retrieved her from the Mirrorverse,
MOVIES he damaged the artificial Speed Force machine and destroyed the
artificial Speed Force in the process.[26]
TV Later, Barry discovered that the Speed Force still existed within Iris
when he felt a "spark" when he was with her. Barry and Harrison Wells
then theorized that it was possible that the Speed Force never
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disappeared since it is an elemental part of the universe. Team Flash
then repurposed the artificial Speed Force machine and used the
energy within Iris to restore the Speed Force. However, when they
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restored the Speed Force, Team Flash also unknowingly created the
Still Force, the Strength Force, and the Sage Force.[1][27]
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WIKI Seeking Team Flash's help
As Team Flash was
discussing Caitlin Snow and
Frost's separation, the Speed
Force suddenly appeared in
the form of Nora Allen amid a
lightning storm within
S.T.A.R. Labs. Barry caught it Speed Force as Nora Allen.
while it was falling to the

floor and it pleaded for his help.
Team Flash managed to stabilize the Speed Force and they began
monitoring its condition with the help of Barry's Speed gauge. After
detecting residual geothermic isotopes all over the Speed Force, Team
Flash figured out that Fuerza must have been what attacked and
tormented the Speed Force.
After Barry put himself into a coma in order to heal, the Speed Force
awoke from its own. When the Speed Force asked Team Flash what
happened to Barry, they told it that he was attacked by a powerful
meta-psychic. The Speed Force then revealed that "Psych" was the
second thing that attacked it after Fuerza. When Team Flash asked the
Speed Force what they think Fuerza and "Psych" are, the Speed Force
said that they think those two things are similar to them, a physical
manifestation of some sort of force.[28]
The Speed Force told Team Flash what it remembered about its rebirth
and the Forces of Nature that attacked it. Team Flash then promised
The Speed Force that they would figure out a way to keep it safe. While
Barry was in a coma, Iris began to forge a connection with the Speed
Force and started to teach it what it was like to be human. While Iris
was talking with the Speed Force, it realized that it appeared as Nora
Allen without taking into consideration Barry's feelings. However, Iris
assured the Speed Force that its appearance was a gift.
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When Barry awoke from his
coma, Cisco informed Team
Flash and the Speed Force
about Deon Owens. When the
GAMES Speed Force asked Cisco
The Speed Force emitting red, yellow, and how he defeated Deon, Cisco
blue lightning.
told it that Chester P. Runk
ANIME was the one who defeated
Deon. As Team Flash began to leave S.T.A.R. Labs for the night, Iris told
the Speed Force that it could stay at her and Barry's apartment.[27]
MOVIES
The next day, the Speed Force made Barry and Iris breakfast to thank
them for allowing it to spend the night at their apartment. However,
TV before Barry could eat breakfast, his powers began glitching. The
Speed Force then revealed that it was increasing Barry's abilities, so
that he would be ready if the other forces of nature came back and
VIDEO
that is why his powers were glitching. The Speed Force then began
appearing wherever Barry was in an attempt to help him, much to his
annoyance.[29]
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Betrayal
The Speed Force and Barry tracked Fuerza's isotopic signature to a
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WIKI place where they found Alexa Rivera. At first, she didn't want to
cooperate, but Barry eventually convinced her to come to S.T.A.R. Labs
with him so that he could conduct a test on her. After Barry concluded
his test on Alexa and confirmed that she was, in fact, Fuerza, the
Speed Force suddenly attacked her. The Speed Force claimed that
Barry broke his promise to help it and that it had to kill Alexa now in
order to save itself. The Speed Force then threw lightning at Iris and
Barry attempted to save her by throwing lightning at the Speed Force's
lightning. The two bolts of lightning then combined into a ball of
energy which the Speed Force grabbed and threw at the newly
recovered Alexa.[30]
The Speed Force then

revealed that Barry and Iris
were the ones that created
the Strength Force, the Sage
Force, and the Still Force. It
then claimed that these new
Forces corrupted their The Speed Force threatens Deon.
"avatars" and justified killing

the "avatars" as a means of protecting Team Flash as well as helping
Barry clean up the mess that he created. The Speed Force then
disappeared and Barry later came up with a plan to wipe the new
forces out of existence in order to protect Psych and Deon from the
Speed Force. After Barry saw the "birth" of the new forces, he decided
to not go through with his plan and told Iris that they would have to
work together to figure out a way to help the forces. Later, the Speed
Force located Deon and when he asked it what it was, it told him that it
was "a reckoning".[31]
Instead of killing Deon, the Speed Force asked for his help telling him
that they had a common enemy in Barry. After convincing Bashir Malik
to join Team Flash, Barry, Iris, and Alexa were talking about how they
had to find Deon as soon as possible when Deon and the Speed Force
suddenly appeared in S.T.A.R. Labs. Without warning, Deon used his
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powers to freeze time while the Speed Force attacked Iris, Alexa, and
Bashir with lightning. The Speed Force then disappeared alongside
Deon, leaving Barry distraught.[32]
Reconciliation
GAMES Unbeknownst to the Speed Force, Iris, Alexa and Bashir were not
injured by its attack, due to Bashir's ability to create an illusion to save
everyone from it. Soon after, it brought Barry to his apartment,
ANIME threatening to destroy the city if he didn't bring it Alexa, Bashir, and
Deon.
MOVIES
Barry later confronted the Speed Force and it revealed to him that it
didn't create the storm that was surrounding Central City; the other
forces did. As it claimed that the other forces must die in order to stop
TV
the storm, Deon suddenly appeared and attempted to kill the Speed
Force, but failed. As soon as Deon recovered, Barry decided to bring
him, alongside Alexa and Bashir, to confront the Speed Force. However,
VIDEO
the Speed Force sensed that Barry was going to betray it, so it brought
him and the other forces into the Speed Force. Though the Speed
Force was able to hold off Fuerza, Psych, and Deon, Barry was able to
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hit it with lightning, causing all of them to return to Central City.
As the storm changed into a "collider reaction" and Barry raced to stop
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WIKI it from reaching optimal expansion, the Speed Force confronted the
other forces, only to notice Alexa was hiding something from it. Deon
then used his powers to send the Speed Force into a possible future
where it was the only force in existence. Finally seeing and feeling this
loneliness, the Speed Force begged the other forces to not let that
happen and asked for their forgiveness. All of the forces then noticed
that Barry wasn't fast enough to stop the "collider reaction" and each
of them helped him by giving him a boost of energy. Thanking Barry for
saving them all, the Speed Force finally reconciled with both Barry and
the other forces. All of the forces then decided to live in the Speed
Force's version of the West house.[22]
Godspeed infestation
"Man, those wannabes in white? Infesting the Speed Force like

damn roaches."
—Deon Owens to Barry Allen[src]
When Barry attempted to use the Speed Force to travel to 2049 so he

could check on Nora West-Allen, he was attacked by a group of
Godspeed clones. After being knocked out of the Speed Force, Barry
encountered Deon who told Barry that the Godspeed clones were
feeding on pure Speed Force energy, but they couldn't hold onto it for
long and kept coming back for more. Deon also told Barry that the
Speed Force knew what was happening and had its hands full trying to
exterminate the clones.[33]
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As an individual
ARROWVERSE CHARACTERS CROSSOVERS COMMUNITY
Even though the Speed

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Force is an extra-
dimensional source of
energy, it proved to have its
own personality. It took the
form of several deceased
GAMES
individuals that Barry Allen Speed Force in its extra-dimensional
energy form.
knew and was close with, but
it usually took the form of
ANIME
Nora Allen. It proved to be affectionate and concerned, but also
scolding and angry.[20]
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Physical manifestations
TV
Lightning coloration
Once a speedster makes a connection with the Speed Force, their
VIDEO speed is physically manifested through the lightning/electricity that

trails from their bodies as they run. The color is different with every
speedster, as it normally indicates the specific type of connection that
WIKIS they have achieved with the Speed Force.
Yellow: Yellow lightning represents a pure or natural connection

START A to the Speed Force. At the same time, as speedsters continue to
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develop their powers, such as Jay Garrick and Barry Allen, they
eventually begin to exhibit a more orange coloring. Yellow is seen
from Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, Jesse Wells, Wally West, Blitzkrieg,
Barry Allen from Earth-90, and Bart West-Allen. Yellow lightning
was also formerly seen from Hunter Zolomon and Eliza Harmon.
Red: Red lightning is typically the result of a speedster having a
connection to an Artificial Speed Force, such as the Negative
Speed Force. Red lightning is seen from Eobard Thawne and
Edward Clariss. In addition, speedsters such as Hunter Zolomon
who are taken into the Speed Force by Time Wraiths also have
their lightning turned red.
Blue: Blue lightning is the result of an individual speedster who
artificially enhances an existing Speed Force connection or by
artificially gaining access to the Speed Force through a strong
enough dosage of the Velocity drug. While greatly increasing the
user's speed, it also comes with lethal/life-threatening side-
effects as seen with speedsters like Hunter Zolomon and Eliza
Harmon, causing cellular degeneration, as well as a split
personality in the case of the latter. Blue lightning could also be
seen coming off of Godspeed due to the Velocity-9 he used to
gain his speed.
White: White lightning is generated by the self-proclaimed "god
of speed" Savitar, who is actually a time remnant of Barry Allen. It
is a result of his lightning reflecting through his armor when he
runs while wearing it. It is also generated by August Heart after
using a combination of tachyons and Velocity-9.[34]
Purple: Purple lightning has been produced by "Accelerated
Man" and temporarily Iris West-Allen after Matthew Kim
transferred Barry's powers to her. However, the reason for this
lightning coloration is currently unknown. In the current timeline,
Nora West-Allen also produces purple lightning.[33]
Yellow and purple: In a previous timeline, natural-born
speedster Nora West-Allen emitted a combination of both yellowFollow on IG TikTok Join Fan Lab Check out Fandom Quizzes and cha
and purple lightning while running, though the reason for having
multi-colored lightning was unknown.[35]
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Red and purple: After Nora ran into the Negative Speed Force,
her yellow and purple lightning changed; her yellow lightning
turned red while her purple lightning remained the same.[6]
Yellow and white: The Speed Force is seen with yellow and
white lightning both in physical manifestations and in its purest
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Dark: After Barry Allen became infected with black blood from
Ramsey Rosso, his lightning turned ghostly white with a dark
ANIME aura.[20]
Green and white: After the Speed Force became infected by the
Spectre's energy boost, all of the lightning in the Speed Force
MOVIES was turned green and white.[3]
Yellow and blue: After Barry Allen took the Velocity X serum, his
lightning briefly turned blue and emitted the same sound Hunter
TV Zolomon produced when he is running.[37]
Red, yellow, and blue: After the Speed Force was reborn and
took on the form of Nora Allen, it gave off trails of red, yellow and
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blue lightning.[29]
Yellow and green: After Barry Allen was given a boost from Deon
Owens, the host of the Still Force, his lightning briefly turned
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yellow and green.[38]
Purple and green: After Barry Allen gave Nora West-Allen the
spark of the Still Force that he had inside of him, her lightning
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The Flash emitting yellow Reverse-Flash emitting red

lightning lightning
Zoom emitting blue lightning The Flash's time remnant,

Savitar, emitting white lightning
Accelerated Man emitting purple XS emitting yellow and purple

lightning lightning
XS emitting red and purple The Speed Force, manifesting

lightning itself as Nora Allen, emitting
yellow and white lightning
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Dark Flash emitting dark The Speed Force emitting green

lightning and white lightning after being
infected by the Spectre's energy
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ANIME
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The Flash emitting yellow and The Speed Force in its physical
blue lightning form emitting red, yellow, and
blue lightning
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The Flash and XS emitting green
lightning alongside their usual
yellow and purple
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Eye transformation
By tapping into the power of the Speed Force, speedsters can cause
their eyes to transform in some way, either by being filled with yellow
electricity, which can cause the surrounding skin to glow yellow,
shining blue light, shining dark red light or electricity that can even
cause the surrounding parts of the face to glow red, or the entire eye
becoming pitch black. The first occurrence is the sign of a natural
connection to the Speed Force and can even manifest for users of
Velocity before the serum begins to degenerate them. The second,
third and fifth occurrences are caused by a speedster tapping into the
Negative Speed Force. The fourth occurrence is caused after the
above-mentioned degeneration. The sixth occurrence is caused by a
speedster being infected by Ramsey Rosso.
Yellow lightning flickering in Red lightning flickering in Eobard

Barry Allen's eyes. Thawne's eyes.
Eobard Thawne's glowing red Hunter Zolomon's black eyes.

eyes while using the form of
Harrison Wells.
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Nora West-Allen's glowing red Barry Allen's black eyes after

eyes. being infected by Ramsey Rosso.
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Disintegration
ANIME When a speedster is forcibly transported into the Speed Force, their
body/clothing will fragment apart with orange energy.[15][40] Eobard
Thawne also fragmented apart and disintegrated with orange light
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when he was caught by the Black Flash, though the exact Speed Force
mechanism behind this is unknown.[41] A similar effect, but with the
color blue rather than orange, is seen when a speedster is erased from
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the timeline.[11][18][42] However, the same thing can also happen to non-
speedsters, in which case the fragmentation is more fine-
grained.[42][43]
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Running too fast can also cause a speedster to fragment apart in a

similar manner, as seen with Eliza Harmon, the time remnant Barry
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Allen created to defeat Zoom, and Barry Allen from Earth-90.[44][13][45]
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Eobard Thawne being erased Savitar being erased from

from existence existence
Nora West-Allen being erased Eobard Thawne being

from existence disintegrated by the Black Flash
Eliza Harmon disintegrating after Earth-90 Barry Allen sacrificing

overdosing on Velocity 9 himself to stop the antimatter
cannon
Inside the Speed Force dimension

When trapped inside of the Speed Force, the body of the speedster will
appear in a vortex of electrical energy, while the speedster will be
inside a dream world similar to where they are from on Earth, albeit
without people. The sentient will of the Speed Force can choose to
manifest itself to a speedster as someone in their life and speak to
them.[4][16]
Regaining one's speed
The Speed Force can put a speedster through a trial and choose to
give powers to a speedster should they not have them. In the dream
FANDOM world, the trial will manifest as the former speedster having to catch a
shadow-like, vibrating blur of motion that moves at super speed and
represents their powers. However, they must be able to remove mental
blocks from themselves in order to do so, such as guilt. They must
confront the source of their pain and overcome it, which will cause the
GAMES shadow to come to them and restore their powers. However, the only
known way to leave the realm is through a portal made from the
outside.[4] While it is unknown if the Speed Force can make a portal for
ANIME the speedster to travel through in this situation, it most likely can, as it
is seen doing so on another occasion.[18]
MOVIES Speed Force prison

In the possible future from which Savitar was created, the future Barry
Allen used a Speed Force bazooka to create a prison within the Speed
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Force, in which he trapped Savitar.[46] While the true nature of this
prison is unknown, it seemed to become permanently inside Speed
Force and still existed in a timeline in which the technology was not
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used on Savitar, even after he was erased from existence by his failure
to kill Iris West. As such, the Speed Force would destabilize if there was
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no speedster within the prison, which would result in an inter-
dimensional storm of energy that potentially threatened the entire
planet if it was not filled.[18] Aside from Savitar, the prison has been
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within it,[15] Jay Garrick, who willingly took Wally's place,[16] and Barry
Allen, who chose to enter it to keep it from destabilizing after Savitar
was erased from existence.[18] The prison has been described as "hell"
due to the prisoner being isolated and left unable to age or die, while it
also forces them through an endless temporal loop of their most
painful experience for eternity.[16] This is what drove Savitar mad with a
vengeance for Barry Allen[15] and what nearly traumatized Wally West
by having him witnessing his mother's death repeatedly.[18]
Despite this, Barry Allen was told by the Speed Force that he would not
experience the hell that Wally, Jay, and Savitar went through when it
brought him into it.[18]
Six months later, due to the efforts of Team Flash putting a quark
sphere in the Speed Force prison to stabilize it to get Barry out, the
Speed Force opened a giant portal in downtown Central City, releasing
Barry from it, while at the same time exposing twelve people on a
nearby city bus to dark matter, turning them into meta-humans.
Barry later entered the Speed Force and removed the quark sphere
Team Flash had put in the prison to maintain its balance, creating a
Speed Force lightning storm to create nuclear fusion to stop a nuclear
explosion on Earth-1. After the lightning storm fulfilled its purpose,
Barry threw the quark sphere back into the Speed Force, stabilizing it
once again.[36]
Protecting the timeline
Time remnants
The Speed Force is what protects time itself as well as giving
speedsters their powers. After Eddie Thawne killed himself in an
attempt to erase Eobard Thawne from existence, the Speed Force Follow on IG TikTok Join Fan Lab Check out Fandom Quizzes and cha
protected Thawne from complete erasure to prevent time paradoxes
by replacing him in several points in history with time remnants of
FANDOM himself. However, when Barry created Flashpoint, the Black Flash was
sent to hunt down all traces of Thawne in history in order to match the
current timeline. With Thawne on the run, he sought the Spear of
Destiny to protect him from being erased and keep the Black Flash off
his tail. It is unknown if this happens with anyone of importance that is
GAMES accidentally erased or just speedsters whose time travel led to their
erasure.
ANIME Time Wraiths

Time Wraiths are
interdimensional, corpse-like
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enforcers with the purpose
of hunting down speedsters
who recklessly alter the
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timeline without forethought
Time Wraith. of the consequences, while
leaving the more careful
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ones alone. They are ruthless in searching for these speedsters and
can travel through time (and possibly to other dimensions as well) if
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needed, and will not stop until they do so.
They can quickly overpower most other speedsters by matching them

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to drain a target's life force through physical contact and age them to
death. They can also drag their targets through dimensions, which
typically results in them becoming physically degenerated and taking
on a Time Wraith's corpse-like appearance while turning their lightning
red, as well as some parts of their uniform should they have one on.
One of the most famous

speedsters to fall victim to
this is Hunter Zolomon, who
after his race with the Flash,
was taken by the Time
Wraiths and went insane,
losing his humanity and free Time Wraiths transforming Hunter into an
enforcer of the Speed Force.
will, and his body decayed.
Condemned to serve the will
of the Speed Force for eternity, he emerged as the "Black Flash", a
savage, zombie speedster dead set on hunting down Reverse-Flash
since the erasure of Flashpoint.
Powers and abilities
Powers
"You may be his lightning rod, but I'm the lightning."
—The Speed Force to Iris West-Allen[src]
Speedster powers
The Speed Force enhances all movement, momentum, and force
exerting capabilities of its user, down to a microscopic level, as well as
giving the user conscious control over it. This enhances overall
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to inhuman levels. In addition, the body becomes conditioned beyond
human potential, allowing them to handle extreme physical exertion
FANDOM and performance, which is also enhanced. The Speed Force is also able
to have a sentient will, allowing their energy and properties to be given
to a worthy user. As the Speed Force is connected to all of time and
space throughout the multiverse, and even the Vanishing Point which
is located outside of time and space,[47] it has influence over these
GAMES forces. Speedsters can move at inhuman speeds and perform acts that
the human body is too fragile for because using the Speed Force gives
those with a connection to it a degree of conscious and subconscious
ANIME control over forces like inertia, kinetic energy, space and time. When
speedsters use their powers, it is shown that they are enveloped in a
kind of aura or space that is partially separated from standard reality or
MOVIES space. Users of the Speed Force have demonstrated the following
abilities:
TV Accelerated healing factor: All chemical, cellular and neural

processes, as well as brain activity, are far faster than normal,
which enhances the speed and efficiency of physical healing and
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metabolism to superhuman levels. This causes users to be able to
be completely healed from non-lethal injuries as severe as
broken bones, burns and even paralysis, in a matter of hours or
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days without any linger effects, therapy, or treatment, unless the
injuries are immediately lethal. Users are also more resilient to
physical impacts and collisions, giving them immunity to being
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especially while moving at super speed.
Superhuman longevity: Due to a speedsters' accelerating
healing factors, they age much slower than normal humans. For
example, Barry Allen, a speedster who had to spend 6 months
inside the Speed Force, which possibly could have been 10,000
years, looked exactly the same as the day when he first became
the Flash. Also, in an erased future of the year 2024, Barry who
had been the Flash for 10 years, had not visibly aged.
Aerokinesis: A user using super-speed while moving their entire
body, or part of it in a repetitive motion, such as back and forth,
spinning, or otherwise circular motions, can manipulate air flows
and currents and therefore generate powerful winds and
manipulating them with there repeated motions. These motions
can also be achieved by the user moving or running back and
forth or in a circle. The user can, therefore, create intense
whirlwinds, cyclones, tornadoes, vortexes, and vacuums of air
with these motions, or propel themselves through the air. This
can allow the user to disperse the physical force from oncoming
targets or propel them away.
Bodily vibration/Intangibility: Since these enhanced
movements and acceleration capabilities affected the user
microscopically, it allowed the user to manipulate the movement
and acceleration of their cells, and even their molecules, allowing
them to shake and vibrate their bodies or parts of it by willing
their cells to do so. These vibrations can enhance physical force
produced by physical contact and distort the user's image to the
point where the user becomes a vibrating blur of motion, even
when they are not using their speed. A user can disguise their
appearance with this, as well as their voice by vibrating their
vocal cords, which can produce an electronic, distorted voice or a
garbled, deep growl. Vibrating also allows a user to cause tremors
and jolt through physical contact, enough to perform feats such
as breaking metal locks or part of a mug by touching the object
or generating enough friction to level a bridge by running on it
FANDOM repeatedly. By vibrating their hand, the user can generate the
force of a buzzsaw, enough to effortlessly punch and smash
through machinery and saw through metal chains. Some users
can even use their vibrations to punch through flesh and bone,
much like phasing through solid objects, though it is unknown
GAMES how they accomplish this without harming themselves. Also by
vibrating their bodies at different frequencies allows a user to
become intangible and pass through solid objects, even people.
ANIME Some users can even phase objects into people or infuse various
objects with intangible with physical contact, though this is
especially straining. through people can be lethal, as villainous
MOVIES speedsters will often vibrate their arms through a target and
cause them to drop dead. With this, they are able to phase into
people, while still being able to touch and grab tangible objects,
TV which allows them to damage the victim from the inside.
However, it is not always lethal, as a user could phase into
someone to pull objects, such as bullets, out of the person, to put
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something they are holding inside of a person without breaching
their skin, phase their momentum-enhanced punch into the
targets of greater resilience to incapacitate them, or even run
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right through others without harming them. The ability could
even cause an opponent's attacks to pass through the user, even
if the attacker is someone as powerful as Supergirl. Vibrating
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WIKI through something electrical, such as a computer, can cause it to
overload and fry. Alternatively, vibrational energy can be
channeled in order to generate a powerful sonic boom able to
repel or hold down people.[33]
Speed Force siphoning: Some users of the Speed Force

can reverse vibrational energy and use it to siphon speed
from other speedsters. A clone of Godspeed demonstrated
this when he used sonic booms to siphon speed from Barry
Allen as well as other Godspeed clones in order to bolster
his own speed.[24]
Electrokinesis: Connection to the Speed Force causes

speedsters' bodies to generate electricity, which they can learn
to manipulate. It generally acts as a bolster, amplifying their
running speed too much higher levels. By running within a
circular motion with enough intensity, they are able to envelop
their arms in electricity, that they can then throw at a target,
though other speedsters may be able to solidify it through touch,
and throw it back (however, Savitar does not always need to run
in circles as he can throw lightning while running normally, as
seen in "Finish Line"). Also, by focusing friction of a specific part
of their body, such as their hands, they can generate a strong
static shock that is powerful enough to restart a person's heart.
The great amounts of electricity generated from the body have
been demonstrated to be able to cause nearby electronics to
glitch and fluctuate. This Speed Force lightning has been shown
to vary in color between the differing speedsters seen so far.
Speedsters' electrical generation seems to have a connection to
how they can alter the color of their eyes.
Speed Force aura: Users of the Speed Force can build up a

protective aura over time. This ability allows speedsters to
withstand large amounts of gravimetric force and protects
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travel. Some users can even build up their aura to be a
billion times more powerful than the force of a black
FANDOM hole.[48] This aura also seems to affect kinetic energy and
inertia as Barry was able to throw off the Turtle's ability to
steal kinetic energy and increase inertia on his victims. This
would also explain why speedsters can grab people at high
speed without their momentum and kinetic energy ripping
GAMES people apart or being able to survive impacts with objects
moving so fast with only minor injuries.
Speed Force sharing: Certain users of the Speed Force
ANIME can share their powers with other people by physical
contact. In one instance, a speedster was able to share a
spark of the Speed Force to stabilize the condition of
MOVIES someone who was hit by a wave of energy from a controlled
particle accelerator explosion and suffering from the same
initial side effects that a speedster usually goes through
TV once went through when they first get their powers.
Extremely powerful and advanced users can also use this
ability to let non-speedsters converse with them in
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"Flashtime" and also temporarily give someone Speed Force
abilities, but not for long as non-speedsters can't survive
long at that speed.
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Electricity absorption: Speedsters can charge
themselves with electricity from nearby electrical sources,
essentially draining them giving them an extra boost when
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Teleportation: A Speedster with a powerful enough
connection to the Speed Force can disperse their being into
electricity and transport themselves to another location
where their body will reform.[49]
Energy constructs: A user of the Speed Force with control
over the lightning that they generate can produce
constructs such as such as shurikens, lassos, and
swords.[49]
Atmokinesis: A potent enough connection to the Speed
Force can allow a Speedster to summon/produce
cumulonimbus clouds which can produce electricity.[49]
Replication: By splitting enough Speed Force energy, a
Speedster can make tangible and self-aware clones of
themselves. However, this is a very delicate and risky skill as
it can cause temporal fracturing, leading to the Speedster
losing their memories and powers. The creator of the clones
is also able to reabsorb them, which temporarily increases
their speed.[49]
Accelerated perception: The increase in speed and activity

within bodily systems can enhance the user's physical
performance to a great extent, as well as increasing these
systems overall reaction speed, resulting in adrenaline,
dopamine, and other endorphins to be produced quicker and the
user being able to think, read, scan and comprehend concepts
and ideas, and retain all said information in seconds while their
powers are in use. Therefore, the user's mental speed and
efficiency, as well as physical, is also enhanced to inhuman levels.
They can see the world moving in slow motion, while others can
only see them as a vibrating blur of motion, usually accompanied
by an aura of differently colored electricity. This seems to be an
ability that the speedster can control as Barry can shift his
perceptions down to normal while interacting with regular people
but reflexively move to higher levels of perception. This is due to
the fact that a speedster's power is drawn from a connection to
FANDOM an external energy field (Speed Force) and can control how much
power they draw from that connection rather than being a
natural state.
Enhanced memorizing: It has been stated and

demonstrated multiple times that speedsters' accelerated
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perception highly enhances their ability to memorize, to the
point they can recall each of their memories, at exceptional
accuracy, without any difficulty.
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Superhuman senses: Connection to the Speed Force enhances

the user's senses, allowing them to see and hear perfectly normal
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of sound, where sound would normally not be heard.
Superhuman momentum: Users of the Speed Force have an
TV inhuman motion and momentum capabilities, allowing them to
generate and channel extreme amounts of kinetic energy,
friction, inertia, and other applied and contact forces. This
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enhanced movement and physical force allow a user to be able to
increase the power of physical impacts and collisions and
generate the force to simulate superhuman strength by charging
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their attacks with extreme amounts of physical force. While this
can usually be done only at super speed, most users can quickly
learn to charge their attacks with force while at normal speed, or
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WIKI by attacking using a brief burst of super speed. With this, users
not only can send people flying through the air but to smash
through, crush and dismantle machinery and circuitry with only
their fists or bare hands. Villainous speedsters have even shown
the capacity to use this to punch a gaping, bloody hole through
people, with some even tearing out the heart of their victim. In
fact, some speedsters have used their speed to kill opponents
though fatal high-speed collision. They can also cause tremors
and jolt through physical contact, usually while vibrating at the
same time, enough to level a bridge by running on it repeatedly.
Users of the Speed Force also have inhuman stopping power and
can usually come to a full stop despite the fact that they are
moving with extreme momentum.
Seismokinesis: Speedsters that exert great amounts of

force are able to induce extreme amounts of jolt and
friction, either by intensely running past the speed of sound
or touching an object while vibrating. Savitar possessed
intense enough speed and force to cause a small
earthquake near him and Trajectory was capable of causing
a bridge to fall apart by running back and forth on it
repeatedly with great intensity. Barry Allen managed to
shake S.T.A.R. Labs when he passed Mach 2 for the first
time.
Superhuman strength: Connection to the Speed Force

heightens the user's strength to various levels, enough to exert
superhuman force without using super speed. Some users
possess strength around peak human levels, while other users
possess strength at a near-superhuman level. Users with
advanced strength levels have been shown to easily pick up and
throw full-grown humans with one hand. Savitar's armor, due to
its size and mechanized parts, augmented Barry's evil time
remnant's base strength enough for him to effortlessly pick up,
drag, throw and send people flying with one hand.
FANDOM Superhuman durability: Connection to the Speed Force also

grants the user superhuman durability. This greatly increases
their bodily resilience to inhuman levels, allowing most
speedsters to develop inhuman resistance to lack of breathable
air, exposure to toxins or sedatives, and impact with physical
GAMES forces that would easily crush or kill normal humans. Users of the
Speed Force can withstand great amounts of physical damage
and sustain little, to no injury. Notably, many speedsters are
ANIME shown to survive being sent flying across city blocks, blasted
with energy, falls from buildings and other great heights, and
attacks from beings with enhanced strength with little need for
MOVIES recovery. This is an ability that's tied into their Speed Force aura,
a pocket of influence around a speedster that alters the inertia,
kinetic energy, time, and space to protect the speedster and
TV allow them to move at high speeds without being injured.
Superhuman agility: Connection to the Speed Force also grants
the user inhuman agility, coordination, balance, equilibrium, and
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dexterity, which allows the user to not be tripped by great forces,
especially as they move at super speed. Users can also use this
to perform feats such as run on vertical surfaces, as well as
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running and jumping along falling debris.
Superhuman reflexes: Users of the Speed Force possess
reflexes that are also enhanced to inhuman levels, whether they
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WIKI are moving at super speed or not. This allows them to react
instantly to almost anything, including fast moving projectiles
such as bullets.
Superhuman stamina: User's of the Speed Force possess
stamina that enhanced to inhuman levels. They are able to
withstand the stresses of moving at superhuman speeds,
without tiring or becoming weak.
Superhuman speed: Primarily, the Speed Force gives users the
ability to move at superhuman speeds. This ability allows the
user's overall speed to rival the fastest vehicles at low levels,
while advanced levels allow the user to break the sound barrier
and moving at supersonic speeds. The user's speed usually
causes them to appear as vibrating blurs or streaks of motion.
Users are fast enough to move on vertical surfaces and ceilings,
as well as on water, with ease. With enough speed, users can
enhance their ability to jump, allowing them to leap or spring
several feet through the air, to the point where they can jump
across the length of a freeway bridge. It was also recently
revealed that if a speedster runs fast enough, as demonstrated
by Barry in the Flashpoint timeline, they can even run inside
tornadoes. Recently it has been revealed that prolonged
exposure inside the Speed Force greatly amplifies the user's
speed growth due to access to its pure energies. This super
speed is a result of being connected to the Speed Force which
grants the user partial control over time and space and when a
speedster moves there are being accelerated through both time
and space to a degree which allows them to move at such
extreme speeds without causing devastation to their surrounding
(Barry wouldn't be able to quickly enter and leave a building the
way he does without his speed field partially displacing him from
local reality as moving so fast indoors wouldn't just create a gust
of wind but completely tear apart everyone and everything
inside). According to Eobard Thawne; most speedsters' speeds
are potentially unlimited.
FANDOM Speed mirage: Skilled users have been fast enough to

distort light and create a holographic, mirage-like projection
of themselves and appear to be in two or more places at
once by moving from one location to the other fast enough
and therefore create an after image of themselves.[9] These
GAMES projections become less realistic looking when the user is
creating more than one.[50]
Time travel: Advanced users can create a hole in the fabric
ANIME
of space-time and travel through time. They do with by
entering the Speed Force which is connected to all of time
and space through the multiverse. This allows them to
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safely navigate the time stream while being protected from
temporal alterations. Harry Wells referred to it as the Speed
Force protecting the user like a "bomb shelter" which is
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what allows Eobard Thawne to exist as a timeline remnant
even after his bloodline is erased from time. Upon doing so,
they can enter the timeline independent from themselves,
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or "merge" with their temporal counterpart to be reinserted
with that timeline. When performing the later, should any
changes happen to the timeline, the speedster will retain all
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memories of the previous timeline in addition to the new
one, even able to differentiate between the two. This ability
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past in the slightest could distort the user's present and
future, usually with devastating results. Adept users of the
Speed Force can also detect when a speedster is time-
traveling and can pull the speedster from the Speed Force.
This fact led Thawne into creating the Negative Speed
Force so he could time-travel undetected by his nemesis,
the Flash.[6]
Temporal dilution: By generating enough energy,

extremely powerful and advanced users can slow
down time relative to them to a complete standstill
(dubbed "Flashtime"). However, doing this for
prolonged periods of time is very strenuous as the
longer they keep this up, the more time will gradually
return to its natural flow while the users will
simultaneously grow increasingly exhausted because
their bodies aren't used to such speeds. Users are also
able to bring non-speedesters into "Flashtime" for a
limited period of time.
Temporal regression: Both Barry Allen and his
daughter Nora West-Allen have the ability to rewind
time. While Barry has the ability to shift through time,
he can also reverse the flow of time while running at a
certain speed, while he remains completely
unaffected. Ultimately, he can even grant himself a
time do-over, wherein he enters the past and
"merges" with his temporal counterpart to be fully
immersed in the timeline. Nora is able to reverse time
around her while running, remaining completely
unaffected, such as when she stopped Barry from
destroying the falling S.T.A.R. Labs satellite alone.
Time remnant construct: The most skilled of users
could shift back in time momentarily to manifest a
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independently thinking as they are. They do not
always share the user's current personality as the
FANDOM further back they go, the less like their current self the
time remnant becomes, but only if their past self is
any different from their current self. If they shift
through years, their time remnant will not possess
their current memories and most likely not have their
GAMES current personality. However, the user can shift back
minutes and even seconds to create a duplicate that
is truly the same as them. It has been stated that one
ANIME needs to be willing to kill themselves in order to be
able to create them. This action changes the timeline
so it is possible traveling just a few seconds into the
MOVIES past pulls a version of the speedster from a different
timeline.
Time travel awareness: Some users of the Speed
TV Force are able to sense when other speedsters travel
through time. Jay Garrick displays this ability when he
senses that Barry was in May 2017. Later, Barry itself
VIDEO
claims to have this ability as he states that he will be
able to sense if Nora travels in time back to 2019.
Because of this, in an alternate future, Eobard Thawne
WIKIS
created the Negative Speed Force so Barry can't
sense him traveling through time.
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WIKI Interdimensional travel: Like time travel, advanced users
can create a hole in the fabric of space-time to create
portals between dimensions and travel to different
universes. Savitar has demonstrated a complete mastery of
this ability, to where he can instantly warp to anywhere in
Earth-1's Central City. However, it's possible that the reason
for this is because, at the time when he was shown to be
able to do this, he was trapped in the Speed Force, and
subsequently fast enough that he was completely invisible
to non-speedsters, even when standing still as the Speed
Force bends space and time allowing him to travel further in
less time. After tricking Wally into freeing him from the
Speed Force prison, he was slower, enough so that he was
visible to non-speedsters.
Weaknesses
Speedster weaknesses
Speedsters may show one or more weaknesses despite their
connection to the Speed Force. Whether this hints towards inherent
limitations of the Speed Force itself or just to limitations of its users'
control over their connection to it, is not known for certain, but the
latter seems more likely.
Antimatter: The formation of an antimatter wall can prevent the

Speed Force from extending beyond a specific point in time, or
allowing speedsters to physically travel beyond that point, as
seen when Barry Allen, in his attempt to travel to the future and
witness the Anti-Monitor Crisis, collided with such a wall and was
immediately ejected to his native time.[51] This likely occurred
since an antimatter wave was set to hit Earth-1 on that future
date, destroying its entire universe and rendering all future dates
beyond that point nonexistent and inaccessible.
Cold temperatures: Because speed is produced by a build-up of
heat in the target's atoms, speedsters are vulnerable to
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extremely cold temperatures. It will also temporarily stunt their
healing capacities.
Connection severance: The essence of a speedster's powers is
their connection to the Speed Force. Regardless of how strong
that connection is and how much power they can draw, so long
GAMES as they are connected to the Speed Force, they can utilize their
speedster abilities. If that connection is somehow cut off or
severed, either temporarily by the speedster being in a place that
ANIME dampens the connection to almost nothing, or permanently by
some external force (such as operating in "Flashtime" for too
long), they will cease to be speedsters and lose their powers.
MOVIES Electricity absorption: Speedsters' unique biology causes their
bodies to produce massive amounts of electricity, which charges
their molecular structure and allows them to accelerate their
TV movement. Should a speedster be drained of this electrical
energy, they will lose their power. However, the Speed Force is
genetically coded to their DNA, meaning they are incapable of
VIDEO
losing their potential for enhanced speed. If this electricity is
absorbed by another source, all of their powers will be
suppressed, including their superhuman healing and accelerated
WIKIS
perception. Much like an electrical device, which needs to
recharge, speedsters must electrify themselves to a great extent
in order to jump-start their powers once more.[52]
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WIKI Electrical overload: If a speedster is hit with enough continuous
voltage, their connection to the Speed Force will be severed,
causing them to permanently lose their powers.[38][53]
Gravity: While deprived of gravity, a speedster's lack of weight
prevents them from accessing their speed.[54]
Hyper-metabolism: While moving at accelerated speeds,
speedsters burn calories much faster than normal people. This
requires them to consume large amounts of nutrients (about
10,000 calories from a single day of exertion)[55] to maintain peak
physical performance. Continued usage of their speed while
deprived of a sufficient quantity of nutrience will render them
disoriented and weak before ultimately passing out as a result of
low blood glucose. Also, because of their accelerated healing,
they are unable to be given painkillers, sedatives, or anesthetics,
as their body's metabolism burns through them too quickly for
them to have any effect. Likewise, even a highly concentrated
drug or toxin will only affect them for a few seconds before
completely wearing off.
Kinetic energy absorption: Because their abilities are derived
from movement, the removal of the kinetic energy built up by
speedsters will leave them in a state of temporary paralysis.
However, if they can build back up enough kinetic energy within
themselves, the effect can be instantly negated.[56]
Nanites: Nanites entering the bloodstream of a speedster will
temporarily disable their powers, as shown when Eobard Thawne
was shot with a nanite arrow.
Negative tachyons: If a speedster has negative tachyons in
their system, it slows them down and they are unable to access
the Speed Force. Nora used a device pumping negative tachyons
into her system, which slowed her down and allowed her to
pretend like she is unable to travel back to her proper point in the
timeline.[35] However, Team Flash later learned that negative
tachyons don't just offset positive ones; they actually siphon
positive tachyons, allowing their user to parasitically steal speed
from the Speed Force, thereby allowing an individual to access
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the Negative Speed Force.[57]
Resonance field disruption: Speedsters create a resonance
field when moving at super-speed, which the Cisco Ramon of
2024 made a device capable of disrupting. The result of this
device made a speedster unable to move through time despite
GAMES moving fast enough to do so, though it is unknown if it is capable
of otherwise dampening their powers.[46] Harry Wells designed
similar technology capable of causing a decrease or even
ANIME drainage of a speedster's powers.
Speedster weapon: A special kind of rifle can fire an energy
pulse that could render a speedster stunned and cut off from the
MOVIES Speed Force. However, the effects are only temporary.[58]
Temporal alterations: While a speedster's speed allows him or
her to break through the temporal barrier, it is not without
TV drawbacks. In addition to potentially causing unforeseeable,
damaging changes to the timeline, reckless travels through time
can alert the Time Wraiths. These temporal guardians become
VIDEO
instinctively drawn to the careless speedster, driven to capture
the person who disturbed the timestream and draw the person
into the Speed Force with it, although they often prioritize repeat
WIKIS
offenders, as seen when the Time Wraiths captured Zoom for his
violations of the Speed Force despite intending to punish Barry
for creating a time remnant.[13] Also, as seen when Barry created
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WIKI "Flashpoint", reckless alterations any speedster makes to the
timeline can also affect the user's memory, gradually making
even them forget how events originally were before they'd
altered the timeline.[59]
Viber energies: The extra-dimensional energies used by Vibers
like Cisco, Cynthia and Josh can temporarily disrupt a
speedster's connection to the Speed Force. This can make them
considerably slower than they would usually be or outright
stopping them dead in their tracks, as was the case made against
Kid Flash with Gypsy as well as Flash with Breacher, with Barry
being weakened to the point he was unable to scale a sheer
building wall after getting hit by a vibe-blast.
Physical manifestations of other forces: The powers of
speedsters seem to have little to no effect on physical
manifestations of other forces of nature such as the Strength
Force and the Sage Force. This was shown when Barry threw
lightning at Fuerza and Psych and both were able to absorb
it.[60][28]
Speed Force weaknesses

The Speed Force itself, although a powerful, sentient interdimensional
force, still has some weaknesses.
Nuclear explosion: According to Jay Garrick, if a nuclear bomb

was allowed to detonate in the Speed Force, it could potentially
destroy that dimension completely. Should that happen, not only
would all speedsters throughout space, time and the multiverse
instantly lose their powers, but since the Speed Force is such a
vital part of the multiverse, the fallout of its destruction could be
disastrous.[36]
Dimensional energy imbalance: An overload of dimensional
energy in the Speed Force can cause it to break down and "die".
The energy infused into Barry Allen by the Spectre during the
Anti-Monitor Crisis was enough to overwhelm the Speed Force,
causing it to break down and slowly "die", affecting the powers of
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all speedsters.[3]
Other forces of nature: The Speed Force is vulnerable to
damage from other forces similar to itself, as it suffered
considerable damage when it was attacked by the Strength
Force (who was controlling its host, Alexa Rivera) and Bashir
GAMES Malik (the host of the Sage Force).[28]
Known users
ANIME
Original/New multiverses
MOVIES Earth-1/Earth-Prime
Barry Allen/The Flash
TV Barry Allen/Savitar (erased from existence)
Edward Clariss/The Rival (deceased)

VIDEO Grodd (briefly; while his mind was linked with Barry Allen's)
Eliza Harmon/Trajectory (artificially; temporarily using Velocity 9;
deceased)
WIKIS August Heart/Godspeed

Oliver Queen/The Flash (formerly; temporarily after swapping
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WIKI
Earth-2
Jesse Wells/Jesse Quick (status unknown)
Hunter Zolomon/The Flash/Zoom/Black Flash (deceased)
Earth-3
Jay Garrick/The Flash (relocated to Earth-Prime)
Unnamed female speedster (status unknown)[36]
Earth-19
"Accelerated Man" (status unknown)
Earth-90
Barry Allen/The Flash (deceased)
Vince Everett/Kid Flash (deceased)
Pollux (deceased)
Earth-D
Tanaki Rei/The Flash (deceased)
Earth-N52
"The Flash" (deceased)
Earth-X
"Blitzkrieg" (status unknown)
Earth-TUD13
Barry Allen (status unknown)
Unknown Earths
Libby Lawrence (status unknown)[19]
"Music Meister" (formerly; temporarily after absorbing Barry Allen's powers)
Danica Williams (status unknown)[19]
Transmultiversal multiverse
Earth-∂
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Dawn
Don
Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash (erased from existence)
Earth-1A
GAMES
Barry Allen/The Flash (status unknown)
Wally West/Kid Flash
ANIME
Earth-27A
James Jesse
MOVIES
Eddie Thawne/Johnny Quick
Appearances
TV
The Flash
VIDEO
Season 1
"The Sound and the Fury" (mentioned)
WIKIS "Tricksters" (mentioned)
"Fast Enough"
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Season 2
WIKI
"Flash of Two Worlds" (mentioned)
"Legends of Today" (mentioned)
"Running to Stand Still" (mentioned)
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Season 2
"Compromised"
"Outlaw Country" (mentioned)
"The Legion of Doom" (mentioned)
"Moonshot" (mentioned)
Arrow
Season 7
"Elseworlds, Part 2" (mentioned)
Season 8
"Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"
Novels
The Flash: Green Arrow's Perfect Shot (mentioned)
The Chronicles of Cisco

Post 39 (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.com/post/14467031646
0/for-a-second-there-i-thought-barry-was-like) (mentioned)
Post 48 "#AWholeLatteLove" (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.co
m/post/156638325320/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-try-ag
ain) (mentioned)
Post 57 (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.com/post/16035127477
0/if-you-were-hoping-for-a-super-positive-update-
in) (mentioned) Follow on IG TikTok Join Fan Lab Check out Fandom Quizzes and cha
Post 61 "Now Playing: Kid Flash & Vibe's Excellent Adventure Pt.
II" (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.com/post/166295993070/ligh
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ts-cameras-vibe-and-kid-flaction-weve) (mentioned)
Post 75 "#AttackOfTheCorn" (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.co
m/post/171641710225/what-is-up-party-people-we-just-had-a-
pretty) (mentioned)
Post 76 "#RunIrisRun" (http://chroniclesofcisco.tumblr.com/post/
GAMES 171878685110/guys-its-been-a-whirlwind-of-a-week-if-
this) (mentioned)
ANIME
Trivia
A slight difference found in the lightning generated by various
MOVIES speedsters in the Arrowverse is its shape:
The red lightning produced by Eobard Thawne is notably

more serrated, or unstable in form as it flows off of him.
TV
Barry Allen's yellow lightning is often smoother, with
rounder edges.
Savitar's white lightning was very blade-like, almost like a
VIDEO
scimitar in shape, and whenever Savitar opened breaches, a
lightning symbol was formed.
Zoom's blue lightning had a unique shape to it as it flowed
WIKIS
off of him, being very straight, with fewer arcs.
When speedsters run, they produce a sound-effect:

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WIKI When Barry runs, it sounds like electricity crackling, and the
same was true for Savitar.
When the Reverse-Flash runs, it sounds like a squeaky
helicopter.
When Zoom ran, it sounded like a high-pitched warp.
When Eobard Thawne showed a speed mirage to Cisco Ramon for

the first time, it is unknown why he did not emit red electricity.
However, when he killed Cisco, red lightning was shown near his
hand.[9]
Behind the scenes

In the DC comics, the Speed Force is an extra-dimensional
energy that allows the various Flashes, as well as most other
speedsters, to be able to move through time and reality, as well
as enhancing their speed and giving them other powers of
movement.
The Speed Force was given the name HyperHaven in The Flash:
Green Arrow's Perfect Shot.
The Speed Force served as the main antagonist of the "God
Complex" story arc of Season 7 of The Flash.
References
1. "Mother" 8. "Pilot"
2. "Crisis on Infinite Earths: 9. "Out of Time"
Part Four" 10. "The Sound and the Fury"

3. "Death of the Speed 11. "Fast Enough"
Force" 12. "Flash Back"
4. "The Runaway Dinosaur" 13. "The Race of His Life"
5. "The Present" 14. "The Legion of Doom"
6. "Snow Pack" 15. "The Wrath of Savitar"

16. "Into the Speed Force" Follow on IG TikTok Join Fan Lab Check out Fandom Quizzes and cha
7. "Tricksters"
FANDOM Known extra-dimensional planes [Collapse]

Afterlife • Dreaming • Fifth Dimension • Heaven • Hell • Jennifer
Pierce's safe place • Juru • Mallus's realm • Microverse • Nexus •
Music Meister's movie musical reality • Negative Sage Force •
Negative Speed Force • Negative Still Force • Negative Strength Force
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• Netherverse • Purgatory • Sage Force • Speed Force • Still Force •
Strength Force • Temporal zone • The Monitor's realm • Unnamed
pocket dimension • Vanishing Point • World between worlds
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Arrowverse Wiki EXPLORE ARROWVERSE CHARACTERS CROSSOVERS COMMUNITY

"The Speed Force is

The Speed Force is an

known as "speedsters" Location Outside of the multiverse

Crisis, the Speed Force

2.1. Original multiverse

2.1.1. Early history

2.2.3. Seeking Team Flash's help

GAMES 2.2.5. Reconciliation

2.2.6. Godspeed infestation

2.2.7. The Godspeed war

4.2. Eye transformation

5.1. Regaining one's speed

6. Protecting the timeline

6.1. Time remnants

7. Powers and abilities

7.1.1. Speedster powers

7.2.1. Speedster weaknesses

7.2.2. Speed Force weaknesses

8.1. Original/New multiverses

8.1.10. Unknown Earths

8.2. Transmultiversal multiverse

9.1. The Flash

9.2. DC's Legends of Tomorrow

GAMES 9.3.1. Season 7

The Speed Force is comprised of positive tachyons particles that are

The Speed Force itself is a vaguely explored concept and appears to

The Speed Force cannot handle certain extra-dimensional energies,

In an alternate future between 2180 and 2190, Eobard Thawne spent

Helping The Flash

When trying to travel back in

GAMES In 2013, on Earth-2, a serial killer named Hunter Zolomon gained a

When Barry tried to regain

When rescuing Wally, Barry

FANDOM him, the Speed Force

In 2018, when Barry and Nora West-Allen traveled throughout the

After the Speed Force tried

"A few months ago, a substance entered the Speed Force...

"The green and white lightning."

TV "It is infernal power... beyond the laws of our nature."

"During Crisis, I made the Spectre give me his energy so I could

During the Anti-Monitor

After its death, the Speed

the other forces of nature

while it was falling to the

The Speed Force then

"avatars" and justified killing

"Man, those wannabes in white? Infesting the Speed Force like

When Barry attempted to use the Speed Force to travel to 2049 so he

The Godspeed war

Even though the Speed

VIDEO speed is physically manifested through the lightning/electricity that

Yellow: Yellow lightning represents a pure or natural connection

The Flash emitting yellow Reverse-Flash emitting red

Zoom emitting blue lightning The Flash's time remnant,

Accelerated Man emitting purple XS emitting yellow and purple