Charles Wright (Earth-90: Pre-Crisis)

"We don't hang around with the same crowd"

- Charlie to Barry

Charles "Charlie" Wright was a childhood schoolmate of Barry Allen.

Early Life
During his childhood, Charlie was in the same class as Barry Allen.

At some point in his life, Charlie lost his job resulting in not been able to pay the rent and ended up homeless.

The homeless disappearances
In 1990, Charlie and his friend Sam found another one of their homeless friend mutated before falling down dead. The time the police got there, the body was gone, and the officer assumed it was a prank. Two days later, Charlie and other homeless took part in a protest organized by Father Michael at the precinct in order to force the police to open an investigation. After a brief riot where a homeless managed to steal an officer's weapon, CSI Barry Allen took the witness report of Charlie and Sam about what they saw few nights ago. Before he left the precinct, Barry talked to him and asked if they have met before because he found Charlie's face familiar. Charlie then answered that "We don't hang around with the same crowd". Later, Charlie tried to ambush someone who followed him that he believed was the person responsible for making people disappear only to discover that it was Barry that came to give him some food. Barry asked more question about where he was from since he was certain that he knew him. Charlie and Barry both heard Sam screaming in pain and when Charlie turned around, Barry was gone. The next day, he came to the morgue to identify Sam's body, and he thanked Barry on the way since it was the first corpse they found and retrieved. Barry later paid a visit about a job offer at Star Labs as a night guard that he declines at the first believing that he won't be up to the task. He finally accepted the job offer and sometime later, at Star Labs, he tried his security guard outfit and thanked Barry once again. Hours later, he received a call by Barry checking on him until he noticed a security breach and went to investigate. While investigating the area, he was knocked out by a man and placed in a glass cell, the Flash eventually showed up but got trapped in the glass cell with him, the Flash used Charlie's metallic badge to open the glass and get out of there to get oxygen. Charlie would later be transported to the hospital.

Trivia

 * In the episode Sight Unseen, a security guard called Bernhardt appeared, it is unknown if he was his replacement after the incident or a second security guard.