Patty Spivot


 * For the character from Vixen, see Patty.

Detective Patty Spivot is a police detective of the Central City Police Department, formerly an officer, and a member of Joe West's anti-meta-human task force. She is also the love-interest of Barry Allen.

Early life
Early in Patty's life, she hit her head and fell into a swimming pool, fortunately, her father got to her in time and stopped her from dying, though she was technically dead for 2 minutes.

Patty graduated from Hudson University with a triple major in biology, chemistry and physics. Years later, after Mark Mardon shot Patty's father in the face in cold blood for a few hundred dollars, she sought just revenge on the Mardon brothers.

Working as part of the anti-meta-human task force
Discovering that Detective Joe West has an anti-meta-human task force, Captain Singh suggested she inquire about a position on it. However, he refused her a position. Patty later showed up at the site of an arson at the waterfront, where she introduced herself to Barry Allen, as well as gave him evidence she'd found. Despite her help, Joe still refused her being on the task force. She again tried to help him, by stopping Eddie Slick, who he'd been chasing after. They took him to the precinct, where Patty and Barry talked, the latter promising to put in a good word for the former. They were forced to let Slick go, however, and she attempted to interrogate Joe, before they were interrupted by Earth-2 Slick, who had returned and used his meta-human powers to take Patty. He took her to an abandoned Woodrue warehouse, where he tied her to a chair and placed a concussive bomb under her seat. Eventually The Flash of Earth-2 arrived and distracted Slick long enough for the The Flash of Earth-1 to arrive and save Patty, but she was knocked unconscious by the shockwave. Once she'd come to, she called for The Flash, with both coming to her aid. She returned to work not long after being saved and approached Joe once more. She finally confessed the story of her father's murder, explaining that she saw murderers getting powers as unfair, and thus wanted to join the task force. He promptly had her promoted to police detective, before allowing her to join.

Patty arrived early at the scene of a crime, taking a look before Barry or Joe arrived, of a murder victim without a head but was unable to determine cause of death as the method for decapitation didn't match up with any weapon she knew of. The victim was identified as an associate of career criminal Lewis Snart and Patty quickly pointed out his relation to Leonard Snart/Captain Cold, though Joe told her not to call him "Captain Cold". After Leonard was arrested for murdering Lewis, Joe had Patty arrange for him to be moved to the metahuman wing of Iron Heights. Patty ran into Barry later at CC Jitters and she gave him her number, which she claimed was so she could reach him faster for police work, though there was clear signs of a developing attraction between the two.

As Patty got used to her position in the task force and as a detective when she started looking into reports of a meta-human shark and ask Barry to look at a sample. Patty and Joe investigated the break in as Mercury large and discovered that it was Harrison Wells that broke in. Patty later saw the results of Barry's tests and discovered the teeth she gave him were human. These were false as later Barry was attacked by the shark and Patty tried to fight it but was shot by Earth 2 Harrison Wells.

Barry asked Patty out on a date but she was skeptical as she had been stood up by past boyfriends. Later on their date Barry had lost his sight after an encounter with meta-human Dr Light and tried to cover it up. After a few hours Patty told Barry that she could tell he was blind. After dinner the two kissed, but got called away on a case and helped the team investigate Dr Light.

Some time later, Patty was out getting coffee when she saw Earth 2 Harrison Wells loading materials into his car. She followed Wells back to Star Labs and confronted him, placing him under arrest. Thinking his injector was a gun, she shot him, alerting Caitlin Snow, who told her to call Joe, which she did. When he arrived, he ordered her to go, not giving her any explanation.

Personality
Patty is kind, caring, selfless, highly intelligent, compassionate, she is very passionate about her work as a police detective, and is very stubborn to the point of not taking no for an answer, she is also brave even when facing meta-humans, despite knowing the fact that they have superpowers, she has a hatred for Mark Mardon who murdered her father in cold blood, despite this she does not hate metahumans, as she knows full well that Mark was an ordinary human before he was infected by the particle accelerator.

Patty is a big fan of Barry Allen, as she has read all of his reports all the time, like latter she is socially awkward, as she sometimes gets nervous and babbles, and is a comic geek, Patty is also very observant, she was able to tell that Barry was temporarily blind based on the sunglasses he was wearing.

Abilities

 * High-level intellect/Expert detective: Patty is highly intelligent, as she graduated from Hudson University with a triple major in biology, chemistry and physics. Despite the fact that she has only been a member of Central City Police Department, for 7 months, Patty has proven herself to be an excellent detective.
 * Police training: Patty has received training as all Central City Police Department members do.
 * Expert markswoman/Firearms: As a police detective, Patty is skilled in the use of firearms.

Equipment

 * Guns: Patty is very proficient in using guns.
 * Handcuffs: Patty carries handcuffs, whenever she is out on patrol.

List of individuals she nicknamed

 * 1) King Shark (first try: Man-shark)
 * 2) Swarmasite