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Jason Peter " Jay " Garrick is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first character known as the Flash. [1] . The character first appeared in Flash Comics #1 (January 1940), created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert.
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"We're not gods, we're men, who, for whatever reason, have been given extraordinary abilities. The question you need to ask yourself is, what kind of hero are you gonna be?"
—Jay Garrick to Barry Allen
Dr. Jason "Jay" Garrick is a veteran speedster from Earth-3 and a vigilante known as the Flash, stylized as the Crimson Comet. Jay was found by Hunter Zolomon/Zoom, an evil meta-human speedster from Earth-2, and held as a prisoner in Hunter's lair on Earth-2, forced to wear an iron mask that dampened his powers. His name and mantle as the Flash were taken by Hunter to carry out facades as part of a plan to inspire false hope in Central City. After being rescued by Team Flash, Jay found his way back to Earth-3 with the help of Harry and Jesse Wells.
Jay Garrick would work with Barry Allen, the Flash of Earth-1, in his fight against the speedster known as Savitar. He subsequently sacrificed himself and took Wally West's place in the Speed Force prison after Wally was tricked into freeing Savitar, thereby taking his place in said prison. Thanks to Cisco Ramon, he was later freed from the Speed Force, returning and aiding Team Flash in Savitar's final defeat. Barry later voluntarily took his place in the Speed Force, as the Speed Force prison had become unstable without an occupant.
Jay would go on to remain as the Flash for another year until 2018 when a mission to help save Barry's Central City made him realize that it was time for him to retire and train a new Flash on his Earth to take over for him.
At some point, Jay met and married Joan Williams after feeling a special connection with her. After the events of the Anti-Monitor Crisis, Jay and Joan were restored on Earth-Prime and they began living in Keystone City.
Original multiverse New multiverse
After they were restored on Earth-Prime, Jay and Joan Williams began living in Keystone City. Jay's body began getting older and at points he needed to use a cane in order to walk. When Jay first started to time travel, he ended up fighting Nazis in World War II before living on and off in the past for 16 years. Jay also acquired knowledge of how to temporarily siphon speed, from Earth-90's Barry Allen, one of his doppelgangers. It is unclear if he met that Barry in the past in the old multiverse. Alternatively, similar to the situations with Nash Wells and Timeless Wells, it's possible that the universe reset caused some of Barry's knowledge to flow into Jay.
Possible futures
"Bart, sometimes you have to take a risk. Sometimes you have to go with your gut... and is it impulsive? Maybe. But sometimes it's right." —Bart West-Allen quoting Jay Garrick In a possible future, Jay was one of Bart West-Allen's speedster mentors along with his father Barry Allen and his uncle Wally West. According to Bart, Jay was the only one who saw his impulsiveness as strength and not as a weakness, claiming that sometimes you have to take risks. Jay and Bart also formed a close relationship to the point where Bart called him "Uncle Jay". In another possible future, in 2049, Jay was among the heroes summoned; by the Spectre to help Bart and Nora defeat Magog and his allies. During the fight with Magog and his allies, Jay, Supergirl, Wally West, and Martian Manhunter teamed up to take down Kal-El until Bart and Nora defeated Magog. After the battle, Jay met with Barry and Wally in the Hall of Justice to discuss his pride in Bart and Nora before the Spectre interrupted him to warn of an upcoming threat.
Erased futures
In an erased future, by the year of 2049, Jay became a well-known figure and superhero on Earth-1. In another erased future, by the year of 2049, Jay was killed by Godspeed in front of Bart West-Allen, which traumatized Bart and made him see Godspeed just as his father saw Eobard Thawne, as an arch-nemesis. In another erased future, by the year of 2049, Jay had married Rose instead of Joan Williams after Nora West-Allen and Bart accidently caused "temporal fissures" when they chased Godspeed through time.
"It's just that all feels so hopeless."
"It never is, I promise you that."
—Nora West-Allen and Jay Garrick
Jay has is a good-natured and kind man. He shares many traits with his late Earth-1 counterpart, Henry Allen, including his compassionate nature, intelligence, admiration for Barry Allen, and the ability to control his temper even when having undergone a terrible ordeal. Jay showed himself to be a humble man as well, respectfully calling Barry by their shared mantle, "Flash", displaying his deference to the Earth-1 speedster who saved his life and acknowledging him as an equal and hero.
Jay was not without his need to display his anger, using his vibrating hand to split the speed-dampening mask that Zoom had used on him in half. Jay was also capable of appreciating poetic justice and irony, taking up Hunter's helmet as it was originally a symbol of hope on Earth-2 as explained by Harrison Wells, and Jay smiled, taking it with him and adding it to his uniform, hoping to make a symbol for justice back home. He also did this partly out of revenge against Hunter for stealing his identity, and also as a memento of this adventure.
Jay has been shown to care for Barry after learning of his past and that he is his deceased father's doppelgänger and has kept an eye on him, fearing he may make a mistake out of grief. Rightly assumed Jay intercepted Barry when he attempted to alter time yet again and Jay had a heart-to-heart talk with him on the consequences of time travel, revealing he made the same mistake himself once. This allows Barry to realize the timeline will never be the same as it once was and allows Barry to move on with his life, his current life.
Powers
•Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Jay possesses a natural connection to the Speed Force, allowing him to perform physical feats well-beyond normal human capabilities. Despite his relatively advanced age, Jay's conditioning is similar to the much younger Barry's, able to continue battling for long durations. •Accelerated healing factor: As a speedster, Jay's cells are capable of regenerating at an accelerated rate, allowing him to heal rapidly from injuries and resist disease. •Bodily vibration: Jay has the ability to vibrate his cells and overall parts of his body on command for various effects, as shown when he vibrated his hand to split the iron mask that was put on him by Zoom, destroying it. He had enough control of this ability to break only a piece of a mug to demonstrate how time was changed it could not be truly turned back the way it was. •Electrokinesis: Jay produces orange electricity from his body when he taps into the Speed Force highlightning his natural, unaltered connection to it. •Superhuman agility: Jay possesses far greater balance and bodily coordination than a normal human, allowing him to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speeds. •Superhuman durability: Jay possesses far greater resilience and stamina than humanly possible (especially considering his older age), allowing him to easily withstand extreme exertion and impact forces, allowing him to easily survive with being savagely thrown around and beaten about by Savitar with only minor injuries. •Superhuman perception: Jay is easily capable of visually keeping up with and perceiving the movements and actions of other speedsters when they are moving at super-speed. •Superhuman reflexes: Jay's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans. •Superhuman speed: Jay is able to run at phenomenal superhuman speeds, as shown when he ran through a breach back to Earth-2 with Harry and Jesse. He was fast enough to intercept Barry in the Speed Force when he tried to change the timeline again. Despite his immense speed, Jay Garrick was swiftly defeated by Savitar. •Interdimensional travel: Through the opening of a dimensional breach, Jay is able to push through the fabric of reality with his super-speed, letting him travel to different dimensions. •Superhuman momentum: Jay is able to generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, notably allowing him to grab Barry while he was time traveling, and yank him out into 1998, causing Barry to be sent flying through the air and into a truck when he appeared. He was also able to send Savitar tumbling across the floor by striking him at super-speed, while the latter was freed from the Speed Force and was caught by surprise. •Time travel: Jay has proven to be adept regarding time travel, capable of intertwining between the past, present, and future at will. Jay has told Barry that he is able to travel through time as he has done it before, and has proven to be highly proficient in this ability, to where he can intercept other speedsters attempting to time travel through the Speed Force, and pull them from different points in time. He also seems to be aware what time he arrives at when time traveling, as he told Barry that they were in the 1990s, possibly from bringing themselves to that time on his own. In addition, Jay seems capable of locating where other speedsters are in time as he found Barry Allen, who was five months in the future, and pulled him back to the present after Barry had been there for only a few minutes. •Superhuman stamina: Jay is able to withstand the stress of moving at superhuman speeds, without showing signs of weakness or fatigue. However, due to Jay's old age, he does not have as much stamina as he used to.
Abilities
"In my experience, the answers usually tend to come in time." —Jay Garrick •Genius-level intellect/Physicist: Jay has shown to have knowledge of the 5 by 5 tap code as he used it to communicate with Barry Allen and Jesse Wells when the mask Zoom had locked onto Jay's head prevented him from talking. Jay is also an exceptional scientist and engineer, working in a personal lab. He was noted by Gideon to be the foremost expert on antimatter, a substance that no member of Team Flash had knowledge of, proven by how he effortlessly realized Barry's wound was hit by a pure dose of antimatter, which he noted would have killed him had it not been for his speed-healing. He was also able to analyze that antimatter signatures have been occurring over multiple Earths. Jay also developed a device called the neural hyper-collider and knew he could not use it but Barry could and that it would be able to project his consciousness past the antimatter wall of the speed force. Being a veteran speedster, Jay has extensive knowledge of the Speed Force and its capabilities, such as how to send objects into the dimension itself to keep them from being found by anyone. Jay also possesses a great deal of knowledge about the Speed Force's lore, legends, and the culture of Speedsters.
Weaknesses
•Power-dampening tech: When Jay was held captive by Zoom, he had a mask locked onto his face, equipped with a dampener that kept Jay from using his powers.
Original multiverse
"Well, maybe I can continue that sentiment, take something from him, for a change, make it my own." —Jay Garrick on his helmet •The Flash suit: Jay wears a protective suit as his superhero alter-ego, The Flash. It is similar to Hunter Zolomon's Flash suit but when he stole his identity, Hunter switched up the colors and designs of the suit when he stole Jay's identity. •Helmet: The helmet, originally from Hunter Zolomon, now belongs to Jay Garrick. After the defeat of Zoom, Jay got his suit back and decided to wear Hunter's helmet as it originally symbolized hope to the people of Earth-2 and as a bit of revenge for stealing his identity. •Interdimensional extrapolator: Jay has one of these devices, presumably given to him by Cisco Ramon.
New multiverse
•The Flash suit: Jay wears a protective suit as his superhero alter-ego, The Flash. •Helmet: Jay wears a protective helmet as his superhero alter-ego, The Flash. He can also use the helmet in battle, such as when he used it to knock out a group of Godspeed clones.
The FlashDC's Legends of TomorrowArrowComicsNovels•The Flash: Johnny Quick (vision)•Eobard Thawne implies that he met either Jay or Hunter Zolomon, given that he seemed to recognize Jay's helmet.
•Unlike most other vigilantes, Jay does not wear a mask or a cowl while operating as the Flash.
•In the DC Comics, Jay Garrick was the first person to take up the superhero mantle of the Flash. He was also a member of the Justice Society of America.
•Season 2 of The Flash featured a different backstory for Jay than the comics. Jay Garrick was originally introduced as the Flash of Earth-2 until it was later revealed to be a charade as Jay's name and mantle was taken by Hunter Zolomon, who was holding the real Garrick prisoner. After being rescued by Team Flash, Jay Garrick revealed that he was from Earth-3. In addition, Garrick revealed that Zolomon's metallic helmet was not part of his superhero guise until Harry Wells convinced Garrick to have it because of the helmet's reputation as a symbol of hope.
•This version of Jay Garrick has elements of another Golden Age DC Comics speedster: Max Mercury. Like Jay, Mercury is one of the most knowledgeable characters regarding the nature of the Speed Force, earning him the title "Zen Master of Speed." Both characters have also trained younger speedsters.
•Ironically, Jay Garrick admired Max Mercury, once declaring the man was "his hero."
•This is John Wesley Shipp's second time portraying The Flash. The first was that of Barry Allen from the 1990s CBS The Flash television series.
•Shipp has said that he feels that Jay is basically an older version of the version of Barry Allen that he played in the 90s. He even watched episodes of the old series to help him match the attitude he had when he played Barry there.
Jay Garrick is a veteran speedster from Earth-3 and a vigilante known as the Flash, stylized as the Crimson Comet. He was captured by Zoom, an evil speedster from Earth-2, and later helped Barry Allen, the Flash of Earth-1, in his fight against Savitar and other threats.
Jay Garrick is a speedster and the original super-hero known as The Flash. He was a Golden Age character who first appeared during World War II as a member of the Justice Society of America and the All-Star Squadron.
The Flash, circa 1940. During the year 1940, Jay operated as the Flash in Keystone City. As a result of the altered timeline, Wonder Woman became the world's first superhero and inspired Garrick, who was amidst an existential crisis, to do more to help people by fighting the Nazis in Europe.
Mar 7, 2018 · The Flash: Who is Jay Garrick? DC's original speedster is one of the most important superheroes in comic book history. Here's a flash course in Jay Garrick.
The first in a long line of super-speedsters, Jay Garrick is capable of running at velocities near the speed of light as the Flash. A kind and dedicated scientist, Garrick has also served as mentor to other speedsters, and to many heroes over several generations.
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In the 1940s, college student Jay Garrick acquired his super-speed abilities in a random lab accident and became the first DC Super Hero to go by the name the Flash. Years later, Jay was succeeded by police scientist Barry Allen, until Barry’s former kid partner Wally West took up the mantle at a time when Barry was considered dead.
