Russell Glosson

Russell Glosson
Biological Information
Status	Deceased
General Information
Occupation	Thief
Family	Rosalyn Glosson (ex-wife; deceased)
Alter ego	The Turtle
Actor	Aaron Douglas

Russell Glosson, nicknamed "The Turtle" by Cisco Ramon, was a meta-human thief.

Biography

After the particle accelerator explosion

Russell Glosson had been upset when his ex-wife Rosalyn Glosson tried to leave him. He was affected by the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator and used his power to make her stay, while also using the place she worked at, the Naydel Library, which shut down shortly after the explosion, as a place to store the valuables he stole from people. He had been on the Central City Police Department's radar but they were unable to capture him for a long time.

Team Flash's active pursue

Russell Glosson's CCPD record.

In a discussion about how to fight Zoom, Cisco Ramon proposed that perhaps they were looking at the situation the wrong way, and that instead of trying to make The Flash faster, maybe they could try to slow Zoom down, which was where Russell Glosson, known as The Turtle, was brought into the picture. It was revealed that apparently everyone on Team Flash sans Barry Allen knew of this person's existence and how the CCPD failed at arresting him. Although the first target, the Vandervoort diamonds, was correctly predicted and that The Flash did show up at CCPD to stop The Turtle, Glosson got away. The same went for the second target, The Crystal Ball, a painting recovered from Markovia, exhibiting at Central City Museum. Glosson not only successfully stole the painting, he had managed to both figure out the most precious thing to The Flash, while injuring him by landing a chandelier on top of him. Glosson then kidnapped Patty Spivot, intending to make her another one of his collection, like what he did to his ex-wife. The kidnap prompt The Flash to seek out Glosson once more. After being defeated by the Flash and put into the S.T.A.R. Labs pipeline, Glosson was injected by Harrison Wells with a drill-like syringe into his nose to get a sample of his brain tissue, killing him.

Powers and abilities

Powers

• Kinetic energy transferal: Russell is capable of unleashing a pulse wave that absorbs all of the kinetic energy around him into himself, leaving everyone and everything around him in a temporary state of potential energy. Due to this, all those affected by this event will perceive everything moving as super fast until the effects wear off.

Weaknesses

• Super speed: Russell's pulse wave is not continuous. At the same time, he requires about 2.7 seconds between each usage of it. Because of which, should an individual possess enough super-accelerated motion, like the Flash, that person can potentially generate enough kinetic energy within themselves to bypass Russell's energy siphoning.

Appearances

The Flash

Season 2

• "Potential Energy"

Behind the scenes

• The character's name, Russell Glosson, is a nod to Starkville Labs podcast hosts Steve Glosson and Derek Russell.^{[citation needed]}