Jay Garrick


 * For his Earth One counterpart, see Henry Allen. For the meta-human who impersonated him, see Hunter Zolomon.

Jay Garrick is a speedster from Earth Three known as The Flash. At one point, Jay was found by Zoom, a meta-human speedster from Earth Two. Jay was defeated by Zoom and held prisoner on Earth Two, until being rescued by Team Flash.

Helping the Flash
After continually knocking on the glass of his cell, Barry realized he was trying to tell them something. While Jesse told him to let it go, Barry wanted to figure out his pattern as it may help them escape.

Barry and Jesse eventually realized he was not using Morse code, but a 5x5 tap code commonly used by POW's. The two began to work together and started to decipher his message. Barry and Jesse discovered the first part of his message spells J-A-Y as in Jay Garrick, when Barry says that "Jay" is alive, but not with them, the man becomes distressed. Just as Barry gets the man to calm down enough to try to explain what he means, Zoom runs in and warn the man not to talk to them again. The man watched in distress as Zoom pummeled Barry.

Eventually Barry and Jesse were rescued by their friends, but before they could help the man, Zoom arrived and endangered them all. While Killer Frost pinned down Zoom to allow Barry and the others to escape, Barry promised the man that he would return to rescue him. When Zoom returned to his lair with his deceased time remnant, the prisoner was suddenly horrified by his return.

New Inmates
The masked prisoner encountered a new temporary inmate, Wally West, asking where he was. The prisoner attempted to use the same tap code, but Wally didn't understand it. Zoom then spoke to the new prisoner, before speeding off, taking Wally with him, leaving him alone once more.

Caitlin had an encounter with the masked man while he was tapping the glass, but was cut off by her doppelgänger noticing her. Killer Frost said if she could get her powers to work through the wall the first thing she would do would be shutting him up. Caitlin then asked who he was but Killer Frost said she didn't know. She added if he was there Zoom must need something from him.

Finally escaping Zoom
After Team Flash failed to stop Zoom without Barry's help and Joe was taken to Earth Two, Zoom told Joe his entire backstory from when he first got his speed to when he created Velocity 9 and the side effects that occurred, as well as how he was able speed to different earths in the Multiverse looking for a cure. Through his travels, Zoom came across the man and saw that he was another speedster, and he tried to take his speed, but it wouldn't take, so he locked him up and with a special helmet, was able to dampen his speed so he could not escape. Zoom then decided that he was going to be a "hero", so he took the mans' name, Jay Garrick.

Powers and abilities

 * Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Considering that Jay is a speedster it is possible that his powers derive from the Speed Force, and therefore is capable of performing feats similar to other speedsters.
 * Superhuman speed: Jay is able to run at superhuman speeds, as shown when he went back to Earth Two with Harry and Jesse.
 * 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.

Equipment

 * The Flash suit: Jay wears a protective suit as his superhero alter-ego. It is similar to Hunter Zolomon's Flash suit but he switched up the colors of Jay's.

Trivia

 * Barry Allen refers to him as the "man in the iron mask". His title is a reference to the Man in the Iron Mask, a prisoner in a French jail. The writer Voltaire theorized that the Man in the Iron Mask was the illegitimate older brother of Louis XIV; Alexandre Dumas, a later author, claimed that he was Louis XIV's identical twin.
 * In the DC multiverse Jay Garrick is the first person to take up the superhero mantle of "The Flash".