Harrison Wells (Earth-1) In
season one, Harrison Wells is introduced as the founder and director of
S.T.A.R. Labs, located in
Central City. After much press coverage in 2013, he activates a
particle accelerator that explodes, releasing
dark matter energy that transforms various people, including
Barry Allen, into
metahumans. In 2014, Wells is now a recluse and pariah of Central City while he and his assistants
Cisco Ramon and
Caitlin Snow help Barry as the Flash; Wells pushes Barry to run faster to increase abilities as a
speedster by taking down metahuman criminals. It is eventually revealed that "Wells" is actually the speedster
Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash in disguise. In 2000, the real Wells of
Earth-1 was married to
Tess Morgan, whom he met when they worked as research partners in Maryland, and was friends with
Tina McGee. A car crash in
Starling City that injured Wells and killed Tess was caused by the time-displaced Thawne who then stole his likeness using a futuristic device, killing Wells in the process. In the present,
Joe West's investigation into Tess's death eventually leads to Team Flash's discovery of Wells' corpse. In subsequent seasons, Thawne's various identity theft actions make it difficult for doppelgängers of Wells to be in the general public. In possession of his doppelgängers' memories and feelings towards their various friends, Wells returns to 2020 Central City to help Barry and
Iris West-Allen restore the natural
Speed Force and assist with the struggle against
Eva McCulloch. He later uses his new temporal manipulation abilities to live through any point in his own lifetime, which he intends to use to put himself in a
time loop of his marriage with Tess; his powers lead to him being nicknamed "Timeless Wells" by Cisco. Wells is briefly retrieved from Starling City in 2000 when Barry wants to travel back in time to remove
Fuerza,
Psych and
Deon Owens's connections to the Strength, Sage and Still Forces, in order to create a "time bubble" to protect the timeline. The two, over Team Flash's objections, travel to the proper point in time and are nearly successful before ultimately aborting the plan in that doing this amounts to "murdering" the Forces of Nature. Wells also has a heart-to-heart talk with Cisco before returning to the past. Wells appears in the series finale, advising
Khione of the necessity of ascending as the natural order's protector and attends a party celebrating
Nora West-Allen's birth.
Harry Wells Harrison Wells, the founder and director of the S.T.A.R Labs on
Earth-2, travels to Earth-1 in
season two. Nicknamed "Harry" by Cisco, he tells Team Flash he plans to help them stop
Hunter Zolomon / Zoom who has kidnapped his daughter
Jesse. In reality, Harry is being extorted by Zoom into developing a Speed Force transmitting device to steal Barry's speed in exchange for Jesse's life. Harry finds he ultimately cannot continue with the plan and confesses his collaboration with Zoom to Team Flash. He gains Barry and Cisco's help rescuing Jesse from Earth-2; Harry and Jesse then seek refuge on Earth-1. After Zoom's defeat, they return to Earth-2. In season three, Harry approaches Team Flash, asking their help in dissuading Jesse, now a speedster, from being a superhero, but eventually comes to accept his daughter's intentions. The two return to Earth-2 after helping the team recruit another doppelgänger as Harry's replacement. He later helps Team Flash fight Savitar. Following Savitar's defeat, Harry remains on Earth-1 as a favor when Barry enters the Speed Force in order to stabilize it. Harry returns after an argument with Jesse, and helps the team fight
Clifford DeVoe / Thinker. He builds a "thinking cap" to augment his intelligence with dark matter to outwit DeVoe, but the device is pushed past its safety limits and his brain is damaged; now the more he uses his intellect, the faster he loses it. Following DeVoe's defeat, with help from the latter's
wife, Team Flash tries to restore Harry's intelligence; Harry recovers his normal mental functions, but not his genius-level intellect. Undeterred, he is grateful for the insight into other aspects of his personality, and leaves for Earth-2 after bidding Team Flash a heartfelt farewell. Earth-2 was destroyed by the
Anti-Monitor months before the Crisis began with Harry among those who perished. Following the Crisis in which the multiverse is rebooted, Harry is still presumed dead as Team Flash mistakenly believe the multiverse is gone, though it is learned that his intellect was recovering prior. He trains
Wally West in the use of the youth's speedster powers and, after discovering how many criminals breached the facility, attempts to transform S.T.A.R. Labs into a museum to maintain Team Flash's cover.
Gypsy, an enforcer from Earth-19, arrives to retrieve H. R. on charges of interdimensional travel as it is forbidden on Earth-19, but is defeated by Cisco. H. R. is spared but he is warned not to return to Earth-19. In the battle against Savitar, H. R. sacrifices himself by disguising himself as Iris and taking the latter's place to be killed by Savitar. His actions earn him Harry's respect, and his death is avenged when Iris kills Savitar. Iris later eulogizes H. R. as a hero. is hired in
season five by Team Flash to investigate the
metahuman serial killer
Cicada. He is forced to stay on Earth-1 after his initial deductions prove incorrect because this version of Cicada has a different secret identity than the 37 versions of David Hersh that Sherloque has previously identified. He also becomes suspicious of the future version of Nora West-Allen, Sherloque has married, and subsequently divorced various versions of
Renee Adler in the multiverse and eventually starts dating the Earth-1 version. He sends the Earth-1 Renee, who is a metahuman, to his Earth to keep her safe from
Cicada II. After Cicada II is defeated, Sherloque returns to his Earth, acknowledging
Ralph Dibny as an equal detective and reunites with the Earth-1 Renee. During the Crisis, Sherloque perished, After Team Flash offers to help, Nash reluctantly agrees and tells them he knows how to save Barry from the latter's prophesied death during the impending Crisis. He brings the team to a wall he claims protects a portal the Monitor uses to hide out, expressing his desire to expose the Monitor as a false god. Nash later destroys the wall, and finds a door etched with symbols, before a voice promises him a new life in exchange for bowing down before it. Nash initially refuses, but ultimately agrees after the voice seemingly saves him. Afterwards, a blinding light appears and teleports him inside. The Crisis revealed that Nash inadvertently freed the Anti-Monitor, tricking him into thinking he helped the Monitor and used him to escape imprisonment. As a result, Nash is the "
Pariah" cursed to bear witness as penance while the Anti-Monitor destroys the multiverse. As billions of Earths are wiped out, Nash assists Team Flash in destroying the Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon, but the Anti-Monitor succeeds in destroying the multiverse anyway. Nash teleports the Paragons, the seven heroes capable of stopping the Anti-Monitor, to safety at the Vanishing Point before he is killed. After the Paragons and
Oliver Queen defeat the Anti-Monitor and reboot the multiverse, Nash is restored on the newly-formed Earth-Prime reality. He initially forgot what happened until
J'onn J'onzz restores his memories. Nash learns the Anti-Monitor is still alive and works with Barry,
Ray Palmer, and
Ryan Choi to develop a bomb capable of shrinking the Anti-Monitor for eternity. After Cisco takes a leave of absence from Team Flash, Nash joins the group as a substitute.
Allegra Garcia learns she had a doppelgänger who worked for Nash and starts to get wary around him. Nash tries to explain himself, but he hallucinates Sherloque warning him. Team Flash work to exorcise Thawne, and deduce that Nash is the only surviving version of Wells following the Crisis and was fused with all of his counterparts, explaining his hallucinations. Meanwhile, Thawne is composed of negative tachyons who possessed Nash following the Crisis. While in Nash's head, Team Flash learn that Thawne is using his negative memories against him to finalize the possession, particularly the death of his partner and adoptive daughter Maya (Allegra's doppelgänger) who had died while on an adventure with him on
Earth-13. With his friends' help, Nash comes to terms with what happened and accepts that it was his fault, expelling Thawne from his body. However, Team Flash cannot do anything about his other counterparts' consciousnesses. In season seven, Nash discovers from his various doppelgängers they can activate Barry's Artificial Speed Force (ASF) generator, but it would result in Nash's death as the multiverse particles in his body from his other doppelgängers being absorbed to act as a power source for the generator. As Nash searches for an alternative, he, Allegra and
Chester P. Runk try a new method which results in Barry absorbing his doppelgängers' minds, causing Barry to take on their personalities. Realizing that Barry will eventually be killed by their personalities in his brain, Chester, Allegra, and Nash are able to transfer his counterparts back into Nash, after which Nash sacrifices himself and his doppelgängers, including Harry, H. R. and Sherloque, to power the ASF generator, restoring Barry's speed. Wells of
Earth-17, a British-accented
steampunk scientist; and a French-speaking
mime artist from another unspecified Earth. Following Harry's expulsion from the Council because of his declining intelligence, Cisco introduces him to the "Council of Harrisons", based more on empathy than intelligence. Along with Harry, this group includes Lothario Wells (also expelled from the Council of Wells); the Italian Sonny Wells of
Earth-24; and H. P. Wells, a French poet from
Earth-25. • Season seven briefly features Harrison Orson Wells, an actor from an unidentified Earth. During the Crisis, all existing versions of Wells perished, but after the multiverse's rebooting, their consciousnesses were fused into Nash's mind. == Reception ==