Facial transmogrification device

Facial transmogrification device
Information
Creator(s)	Unknown
Owner(s)	H.R. Wells
User(s)	H.R. Wells Iris West Barry Allen Joe West Frost Lady Chronos
Function	Allows the user to take on another appearance

"Oh! I get it. You guys don't have facial transmogrification technology on this Earth."

"No. We certainly do not."

—H.R. Wells and Caitlin Snow^[src]

A facial transmogrification device is a device created on Earth-19 that allows people to take on the appearance of other people.

History

Earth-19

H.R. used one of these devices to disguise him as his partner Randolf Morgan as Harrison Wells was a known murderer on Earth-1.

To extract a source of energy from A.R.G.U.S., Barry used the device to impersonate Lyla Michaels, the organization's director, since the real Lyla denied him the source of energy. "Lyla" brought Leonard Snart and claimed to be taking him in to lock-up. When "Lyla" could not answer a security question, Barry knocked out the agents, and revealed his true likeness.

H.R. used the transmogrification device to save Iris West from Savitar by switching appearances with her and fooling Killer Frost (then-supporter of Savitar) to realize Iris as H.R.. When Savitar apparently killed Iris, the dying H.R. restored his and Iris' real appearances, thereby revealing to Barry and the rest of the team that he sacrificed his life.

Following the incident with Barry and Snart, A.R.G.U.S. took additional security measures to identify impostors using this sort of device by requiring DNA tests. When Clifford DeVoe used Ralph Dibny's powers to impersonate Diggle, he was required to give his DNA, although, by using Matthew Kim's powers, he was able to convince the machine that he was Diggle. DeVoe subsequently killed the agents with all the other powers he'd stolen from other bus metas.

Team Flash also has a few of these devices on hand, as they used them to get into a vault the Young Rogues tried breaking into, allowing them to get inside unnoticed and foil their plans.

Earth-Prime

At some point in the history of Earth-Prime, H.R. used this device.

Frost was offered a device to hide from the Meta-human Task Force and Kristen Kramer but Frost rejected it.

Frost later used a device to disguise herself as Caitlin Snow in order to draw out Deathstorm.

Lady Chronos used a device to disguise herself as an inspector named Tao.

Appearances

The Flash

Season 3 "Shade" "Infantino Street" (mentioned) "Finish Line" Season 4 "Think Fast" (mentioned) Season 5 "Gone Rogue" Season 7 "Growing Pains" (mentioned) Season 8 "Death Falls" Season 9 "Partners in Time" "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To"

Novels

• The Flash: The Tornado Twins

Trivia

• The facial transmogrification device for Earth-19 serves the same purpose as Earth-38's image inducers (and later those on Earth-Prime), though the purpose of the latter is more commonly to help mask an alien's true appearance to help them fit in with society, more broadly than simply disgusing one's identity.

References

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