The Flash

Barry Allen was a forensic scientist with an unsolved tragedy and a habit of running late, until a bolt of lightning threw him into a shelf of chemicals and connected him to the Speed Force, the current that runs beneath reality itself. Now he is the fastest man alive: fast enough to outrun bullets, then sound, then light, then, on the worst day of his life, time. That last one is the lesson every speedster learns the hard way. Change one moment and the whole river reroutes; Flashpoint is the scar the timeline carries to prove it. So he protects Central City at a merciful fraction of what he could do, because the hardest thing about being the fastest man alive is knowing when to slow down.