The Flash ring is a ring owned by Barry Allen that is used to store and summon his Flash suit. It bears a lightning bolt symbol similar to the one sported on the chest piece of the Flash suit.
History
Original multiverse
In a possible future timeline, Ryan Choi designed and created the sixteenth Flash suit. The suit was made to be stored inside the Flash ring. Both creations eventually ended up in the Flash Museum.[1]
Around 2049, the ring was taken by Nora West-Allen, who gave it to her father, Barry Allen, when she traveled back to 2018. Barry then began using the suit that was stored inside the ring when he operated in the field as the Flash.[2] Cisco Ramon initially had trouble figuring out how to get the suit to return into the ring,[3] but he eventually succeeded.[4]
New multiverse
Barry decided to disobey Amunet Black's order about following her in a "onesie" and pulled out his Flash ring; "Iris" saw the ring and reminded Barry of the order, to his dislike that the Flash suit was called that.[5]
Erased future
When Barry time traveled to 2031 to find out what causes Armageddon, he attempted to use the Flash ring to show that he was the Flash. However, the ring stored the Reverse-Flash suit instead.[6]
Capabilities
Functions
- Suit storage: The Flash ring acts as a storage unit for the sixteenth iteration of the Flash suit, instead of "having to carry around a bag all the time". It is unknown how the ring achieves this, though it's possible that it uses some form of nano/nanites/micro-technology as past conversations on the development of such a ring would likely use such. It was later used to store the fifth iteration of the suit.
Appearances
The Flash
Season 2
Season 5
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Trivia
- It is unknown why the Flash suit was constantly placed on the mannequin in the cortex even though Cisco figured out how to put the suit in the ring.
- Back in the Season 2 episode "Gorilla Warfare", Barry asked Harry Wells and Cisco Ramon to try and reverse engineer the Reverse-Flash ring to make a Flash ring for Barry to transport his suit more easily, which was never followed up on.
- In an alternate timeline where Flashpoint never happened on Earth-1A, Barry was given a Flash ring by Charles Taine and Dr. Giffitz in the year 2968 after time traveling to the wrong year.[7]
Behind the scenes
- In the DC comics, the Flash's costume ring allows a speedster to conceal their costume and quickly change in/out of their suit. It was used by Barry Allen and his grandson, Bart Allen.
- In the comics issue The Flash (Volume 1) #259, The Flash has shown the ability to vibrate and compress his molecules to actually hide himself inside of the ring when the situation calls for it.
- After filming for The Flash series wrapped, Grant Gustin (Barry Allen) decided that the one thing he wanted to keep from the show was the Flash ring.[8]