Barry Allen (Earth-27A)

"I don't know what you're talking about, I watched Barry Allen die. Right in front of me. He took the brunt of the lightning bolt that night, and it fried him pretty damn good. How do you look just like him?"

- Johnny Quick to Barry Allen

Barry Allen was a corrupt forensic scientist and a colleague of Eddie Thawne.

Central City Police Department
At some point, Barry Allen became a forensic scientist at the Central City Police Department. In 2014, Allen and Detective Eddie Thawne were about to destroy some evidence in his laboratory when the particle accelerator exploded, and they were struck by lightning. This resulted in Allen dying and Thawne gaining superhuman powers.