What are the Flashes powers and weaknesses?

Question

I know he has superspeed.....but it there anything else?....does he have any weaknesses?

Answer 1

The Flashes are granted the power of super-speed by tapping into the Speed Force, a cosmic source that grants inhuman acceleration (usually capping out beyond light speed) and superhuman reflexes. With the super-speed, the bearer is capable of wielding other abilities:

Tornadoes- By running in circles, spinning in place, or twirling their arms at super-speed, The Flash can create a tornado effect to lift people or objects off the ground or to lessen the impact of a fall.

Vibrating through objects- With this ability, the Flash can change the vibrational frequencies of hie body on a molecular level to pass through solid objects. This usually causes the object in question to heat up and possibly explode.

By running at intense speed, the Flash is also capable of increasing the mass of his body in order to deliver a blow of the same extreme as Superman (the third Flash, Wally West, once hit a rival speedster from another planet with this attack and sent him flying for several miles), running across bodies of water without breaking the surface tension, and running along vertical surfaces.

Also each of the different Flashes, at least the second to the fourth, have an ability that is unique to them. The second Flash, Barry Allen had to ability to travel through time at will by running beyond the speed of light. Wally, the third Flash, had the ability to traverse dimensions as well as time by changing the vibrational frequencies of his body. He could also lend speed to and absorb speed from objects and people. The fourth Flash, Bart Allen, had the ability to create duplicates of himself made of solidified speed force energy to work as scouts (somewhat similar to the Shadow Clones used by Naruto, if you know the reference). Also Bart was capable of retaining information from something he read at super-speed, unlike Wally who could only retain the info temporarily,

As far as I know the only pure weakness of the Flash is to take away friction from his running surface, or zero gravity environments. Also, under certain circumstances, the Flash can be cut off from the Speed Force.

Answer 2

the flash has superspeed, he can also travel back and forth through time but depending on how far in time he goes takes a great toll on his life to the point wwhere he can die. he also has the ability to speed up the molecules in his body to generate enough heat to where he if he was frozen he could get out faster than superman... his weakness is his family...there was also this devise that batman created in case flash turned evil...if attached to flash he would be so slow a snail could beat him and if any other flash touched him they would run slow as well it has a chain reaction to it....

Answer 3

Not if you mean in the sense of a vulnerability or susceptibility, the way Kryptonite affects Superman. I suppose the closest thing that might come to that is altering the Speed Force. Let me start from the beginning.

I’m talking primarily about Wally West, the current Flash, though a lot of what I have to say also applies to Barry Allen the Silver Age flash, and to Bart Allen, Kid Flash, once known as Impulse.

In the first few issues when Wally dropped the Kid Flash name (he was the first Kid Flash) and took up the Flash name, to honor Barry, (who died during Crisis on Infinite Earths) he was only able to go supersonic, and had to eat a lot. Just to go a short distance at super speed, he had to eat a half dozen candy bars.

It seems that DC speedsters (and we have a LOT more than Marvel) have what is called a ‘metagene’, not a mutated gene, but one that is lying dormant and waiting to be activated. Some people, when their metagenes are activated, find that they have unusual abilities; so unusual in fact, that we call those abilities ‘powers’.

But there is also something called the Speed Force (analogous to the Force of Star Wars, in that a person can ‘tap into’ it without being resisted by any will of the Force itself, so it is not a god, big G or little g.)

Tapping into the Speed Force enables speedsters to go beyond what their normal (actually, abnormal, suuperhuman) metabolisms can do. It enables them to go at trans-light speeds, without relying on their own bodily reserves of energy, to communicate amongst themselves when travelling faster than sound or light, to breathe normally and to be able to recognize their surroundings.

I hypothesize that there may be a relativistic shift necessary for a person to be able to use the Speed Force. It may be that only one who is already in possession of a super speed metagene and is already using it to the maximum extent of their ability is able to shift beyond and switch over to the use of the Speed Force. For example, there was a DC character called Max Mercury who would sometimes uncontrollably time-jump when he was going at his top speed. He accidentally tapped into the Speed Force, without realizing what he was doing.

Barry Allen used to be able to control all the molecules of his body, to such an extent that he could accelerate through outer space by ejecting molecules from his feet! I don’t believe that Wally can do that, but I’m pretty sure he can vibrate his molecules so as to become sort of desolidified, and go through walls, etc. I think he can also vibrate things to pieces as he goes through.

Wally is now fully integrated with the Speed Force, and as such has no limits on the Flash-y kind of thing she can do. His main weaknesses seem to be character flaws. He’s just a bit gullible, and has a weakness for good-looking women. (I really wished that he was going to settle down with Francine, his girlfriend who had magnetic powers, long ago, but alas! Such ‘twas not to be. And there have been a string of others since then. I ever heard he got married, though I’m not sure about that; it might only have been a rumor.

There’s a site I’d like to recommend to you; hyperborea,org, and its link to Those who Ride the Lightning. It lists every speedster known to comics, including every single version of all the Flashes, and their descendants throughout history. Flash did more time travelling than any other hero, including Superman. Any questions you might have that I haven’t answered, that should cover in ample detail. Enjoy!

29 JAN 07, 0149 hrs, GMT.

Answer 4

I don't think so maybe he has electric powers. He could also travel back in time and to the future.