List of DC Comics characters: F

Fallout appears in the fourth season of The Flash, portrayed by Ryan Alexander McDonald. This version gained his powers after the Thinker tricked the Flash into exposing the former to dark matter. Due to his uncontrollable powers, Team Flash bring Borman to A.R.G.U.S. custody, but Clifford DeVoe kidnaps and turns him into a sacrificial power source for the "Enlightenment" satellite.

The first False-Face seen was among the five small-time criminals hired by organizer Black Star. Along with his colleagues Captain Bigg, Hopper, Brain and Rattler, he staged a robbery at a city bank by disguising himself as a construction worker. False-Face drilled through a water main and used the pressurised escaping water to blast a hole into the bank. After he and his friends robbed the bank, they used a paddy wagon as their getaway vehicle while disguised as police officers. Under the orders of Black Star, False-Face was sent to New Orleans to rob riches from those sponsoring the Mardi Gras event. He and his henchmen disguised themselves as a Clown Krewe and insinuated themselves onto a parade float. This managed to attract the attention of Shining Knight who was in the area at the time. False-Face escaped, but his henchmen were apprehended. He then attempted to steal the Star Sapphire Gem from Mardi Gras organizer J.J. Ennis. To do this, False-Face disguised himself as a police detective and infiltrated Ennis' house. He once again fought against the Shining Knight, and briefly subdued him, but the Shining Knight escaped from False-Face's trap and defeated him. False-Face was then arrested by the police. At this point, it was discovered that the unpleasant face he usually presented was not false at all.[Comics 1] Much later, he confronts the Star-Spangled Kid.[Comics 2]

A different False Face dies in a confrontation with Captain Marvel, Jr.[Comics 3] While not the same character as created for DC, the publisher would later license and eventually purchase the characters and stories that Fawcett published. The material would be assigned to "Earth-S" within the continuity of the DC Universe.

The late 1950s version of the character, created by an uncredited writer and Sheldon Moldoff, appeared once in Batman #113.[3]

Little is known of the Caped Crusaders' first meeting with the villain, but on their second chance encounter they found that he had impersonated a wealthy uranium tycoon named P.S. Smithington. As Smithington, False-Face robbed a Gotham City jewelry store, framing the true Smithington for the crime. Batman managed to rescue the actual Smithington, but was unable to recover the stolen jewels. At police headquarters, Commissioner James Gordon supplied Batman and Robin with information about the case and the two gave chase. This time, False-Face kidnapped rock star Wally Weskit during a charity benefit concert and concealed him in an elevator shaft. As False-Face assumed the form of Wally Weskit, his henchman Pebbles attempted to make off with the charity proceeds. Batman and Robin managed to prevent this, but False-Face and his gang escaped. The third time that False-Face struck, he impersonated a safari hunter named Arthur Crandall to get into the Gotham City's Explorer Club. While attempting to steal the club's Golden Tiger Trophy, Batman and Robin arrived and were on his heels again. He lured Batman towards a large water tank and managed to temporarily trap him, but the Dark Knight detective succeeded in outsmarting False Face and his men, apprehending the entire group in the process. False Face was taken to prison whereupon he soon retired from his life of crime.[Batman 1]

The late 2000s version of the character, created by Tony Bedard and David Cole, first appeared in Birds of Prey #112 (January 2008).[4]

She and White Star targeted Lady Blackhawk so that False-Face can take her place in Barbara Gordon's organization. Zinda managed to elude them with the help of her taxi driver Mahoud.[Batman 2]

• False Face appears in Batman (1966), portrayed by Malachi Throne.
  • False Face appears in Batman '66 #23, in which his real name is revealed to be Basil Karlo before he obtains a special formula that transforms him into Clayface.[5]
• False-Face appears in the Batman Beyond episode "Plague", voiced by Townsend Coleman. This version has the ability to assume anyone's identity by altering his face, which he achieved through years of genetic manipulation and surgery. Kobra hires him to smuggle a deadly virus into Gotham City to infect its citizens and ransom the city, turning him into a carrier as backup. After running afoul of Batman and Stalker, False-Face attempts to evade them, only to succumb to and die from the virus.
• False-Face appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Corey Burton. This version resembles the Batman (1966) incarnation.

Meena Dhawan / Fast Track appears in the eighth season of The Flash, portrayed by Kausar Mohammed.[10] This version is the CEO of Fast Track Laboratories who is in love with Eobard Thawne's amnesiac time remnant. The two create the Biometric Lightning Oscillation Chamber (BLOC) to grant her super-speed, though the device unintentionally connects her to the Negative Speed Force before Thawne and Barry Allen save her. Dhawan later helps Allen and Team Flash fight the Negative Forces.

Carl Ferris appears in Green Lantern, portrayed by Jay O. Sanders.

Shyleen Lao appears in the Titans episode "Doom Patrol", portrayed by Hina Abdullah. This version is an activist who was exposed to liquid nitrogen amidst an explosion and gained thermokinesis, which she can use to alter the temperature of her immediate surroundings. The Chief takes her in to help her control her powers.

Lorraine Reilly is the daughter of United States Senator Walter Reilly. She is kidnapped by Multiplex on the orders of Henry Hewitt. Hewitt subjects her to experiments designed to recreate the accident that created Firestorm and Multiplex.[17] Dubbed Firehawk, she is used as a pawn against Firestorm. Over the course of The Fury of Firestorm, she becomes a supporting character and an intended romantic interest for Ronnie Raymond, one half of the composite hero.

Later stories have her retiring from superheroics,[18] then entering politics and becoming a U.S. Senator. The Raymonds and Firestorm re-enter her life when Ed Raymond asks her to investigate Jason Rusch, the new Firestorm. As a result of that investigation, for a short time she becomes Rusch's "partner" in the Firestorm Matrix.

A second version of Firehawk later appeared as the Firestorm of France.[19]

Kurt Hartmann is a fisherman-themed criminal and an enemy of Doctor Mid-Nite.[20]

The Fisherman's real identity has never been revealed. The character's modus operandi is mainly involved with stealing high tech equipment, then selling it on the black market.[21]

The concept and first character, created by Joe Greene and Stan Aschmeier, first appeared in All-American Comics #69 (November–December 1945) as a single-use thief in the Doctor Mid-Nite strip.[22] The name was reused for a single appearance character in Blackhawk #163 (August 1961),[23] and later for a character that became a recurring opponent of Aquaman.[24] Within the context of the stories, this latter Fisherman is originally presented as an international criminal specializing in the theft of rare objects and scientific inventions. He utilizes a high tech pressure suit, collapsible fishing rod, and gimmick "lures" in his crimes. While his identity is never revealed, enough is known about him for the Gotham City coroner to state that a man wearing a copy of his equipment that is killed in Gotham is not the same person who faced Aquaman.[25]

In his first encounter with Aquaman, the Fisherman uses an explosive lure on Aquaman, almost killing him, but Aquaman escapes on a blue whale.[26] The Fisherman returns many times to fight Aquaman, as well as Blue Devil.[27] The Fisherman confronts the canine Green Lantern G'nort.[28] He appears in "Roulette"'s gladiatorial gamehouse.[29]

The Fisherman is one of the many supervillains to take advantage of the "villain-friendly" atmosphere of the fictional country of Zandia. He becomes involved in a large confrontation when the team of Young Justice leads a superpowered army against the country for various reasons.[30]

In Infinite Crisis #1 (2005), the Fisherman, along with the Riddler, the Body Doubles, the Scavenger, Red Panzer and Murmur attack Gotham police officers in Cathedral Square.

The attack is elaborated upon in the series Gotham Central. After a magical accident devastates Gotham, the villain goes on a rampage. Over the prone forms of other officers, the Fisherman confronts Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen. While strangling Allen, the Fisherman is shot dead by Detectives Marcus Driver and Josie MacDonald; Allen and Montoya survive. During an autopsy it is revealed that the dead man is not the original villain of that name.[31]

A new, more deadly version of the villain appears in Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #48-49 (2007), written by Kurt Busiek. The Fisherman's helmet is revealed to be a xenoform parasite, a Lovecraftian alien that attaches itself to every incarnation of the Fisherman and uses telepathy to instill fear in its victims.[14]

• The Fisherman appears in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
• The Fisherman appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
• The Flashpoint incarnation of the Fisherman appears in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
• The Fisherman appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

• Arnold Flass appears in Batman Begins, portrayed by Mark Boone Junior. This version indirectly works with Dr. Jonathan Crane and the League of Shadows. When Ra's al Ghul unleashes fear gas in the city, Flass is infected with fear toxin and restrained by Gordon, leading to his arrest.
• Arnold Flass appears in the animated adaptation of Batman: Year One, voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
• Arnold Flass appears as a recurring character in Gotham, portrayed by Dash Mihok. This version is a narcotics detective who works with James Gordon and Harvey Bullock. In "Welcome Back, Jim Gordon", while investigating two murders, Bullock and Gordon suspect him as a corrupt cop involved in drug business. Gordon begs Oswald Cobblepot in helping the case, the latter agreeing by sending his henchman Gabe to find Flass's associate, the Narcotics Officer Derek Delaware. Gabe extorted him by threatening his wife to get information about Flass, eventually bringing Delaware's confession on tape and the murder weapon to Gordon, whom he arrests Arnold Flass for two murders. In "Everyone Has a Cobblepot", Flass is released from the murder accusations, revealed to be a work of police commissioner Gillian B. Loeb who blackmailed Bullock into exonerating Flass of the murder of Leon Winkler, which led to Flass being reinstated. Gordon and Bullock ask Oswald for help to enter Loeb's house to get his files. Gordon discovers Loeb's reason for releasing Flass: the connection with Carmine Falcone (which was claimed from Loeb's ex-partner Charlie Griggs) and the mental disease of his daughter Miriam, who killed own mother 20 years ago, in which Loeb fabricated the case, claiming that she died from falling the stairs in the house so that he could protect Miriam from being sent to Arkham. When Gordon confronts him in the office, Loeb wants to resign, but Gordon assures him to stay as a latter's leverage. In exchange for keeping Miriam's whereabouts as a secret, Gordon begs him to give a files of every cop being on Loeb's payroll for prosecutor Harvey Dent and that Loeb supports Gordon as a president of police union, but Loeb gives him Bullock's file. With enough evidence, Flass is presumably arrested and found guilty at trial.

The Folded Man was once Edwin Gauss, a physics student at M.I.T. looking to definitively resolve Albert Einstein's Unified field theory. After feverish effort, which includes the theft of proprietary software from electronics billionaire Norman Bridges, Gauss ultimately invents a method of inter9dimensional travel. He subsequently develops an exoskeleton which allows his physical form to move across at least four dimensions.[35]

An irate Bridges, who considers the exoskeleton Gauss developed (using Bridges' software) to be his own property, pursues Gauss to claim the technology for himself. Gauss reinvents himself as a costumed criminal named "the Folded Man". His new criminal career brings him into conflict with Wally West, the third Flash, although he has so far escaped capture.[35]

During the "Infinite Crisis" storyline, Folded Man becomes a member of Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Secret Society of Super Villains.[36]

In 1883, a South African thief named Xolani became a conduit of the Speed Force where he gained the ability to contort his body into different shapes, flatten himself, phase through solid objects, and teleport by bending space-time for a certain period of time. It was through his space-time bending that he ended up in the present where he fought Flash.[37]

The Edwin Gauss version of Folded Man appears in The Flash episode "Lose Yourself", portrayed by Arturo Del Puerto. This version is a hippie who was one of the bus passengers who gained their powers when dark matter hit the bus they were on where he gained dimension travel abilities. He was soon targeted by Thinker. When Thinker raids S.T.A.R. Labs, he kills Folded Man, Melting Pot, and Null where he then takes their powers.

The Speed Force first appeared in The Flash (vol. 2) #91 (June 1994), and was created by Mark Waid. The Speed Force is an extradimensional energy source based around velocity and movement and is the (in-universe) representation of reality in motion as the very cosmic force that pushes space and time forward which is behind the abilities (superspeed, durability, etc.) for speedsters, such as Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, Wally West and other speedsters connected to the Flash, as well as utilizing the Black Flash as an enforcer to help keep the balance.[38]

The Negative Speed Force was created and utilized by Eobard Thawne to manipulate time drastically albeit with disastrous results which has been occasionally utilized by other speedsters as the Negative Flash.[39][40][41]

The Forever Force has the power to manipulate time which Hunter Zolomon used to control the flow of time while appearing as a speedster.[42]

The Still Force has the power to slow aging or absorb or drain life force as well as to accelerate entropy, which has been used by Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grodd and the Turtle.[43]

The Forces of Nature appear in The Flash (2014).

• The Speed Force is behind the abilities of speedsters as an interdimensional cosmic force of nature. It primarily utilizes the likeness of Nora Allen (portrayed by Michelle Harrison[44]) and briefly other individuals (such as Joe West (portrayed by Jesse L. Martin[45]) and Eddie Thawne (portrayed by Rick Cosnett[46]) while trying to maintain the cosmic balance, initially without emotional attachments during seasons two, three and six before realizing how important teamwork can be thanks to Deon Owens, Bashir Malik and Alexa Rivers as of seasons seven, eight and nine.
• The Negative Speed Force is a cosmic force of nature. It is introduced in season five where it was initially believed to be an alternate power source and possessed Nora West-Allen (portrayed by Jessica Parker Kennedy[47]) and later worked together with the Negative Forces in season eight before acting own its own in season nine with the Cobalt-27 crystal to possess several other individuals (such as Mark Blaine (portrayed by Jon Cor[48]) across time before settling with Cobalt Blue while deciding to disrupt the cosmic balance.
• A Negative version of the Still Force appears in season eight. After its time sickness disables the four Forces, it utilized the forms of Deon Owens (portrayed by Christian Magby), Psych (portrayed by Ennis Esmer) and Fuerza (portrayed by Sara Garcia) before settling for the Negative Flash-esque form via Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash (portrayed by Tom Cavanagh).[49]

A variation of Fuerza appears in The Flash, portrayed by Sara Garcia. This version is Alexa Rivers, a medical volunteer who can shapeshift into a hulking female humanoid form that possesses enhanced strength, speed, stamina, and durability and energy absorption. Introduced in season seven, she had a hard time controlling the Fuerza form until she received help with a special device Caitlin Snow / Killer Frost used where the former can speak to the latter which was useful in helping herself while subduing Psych. Afterwards, Rivers helps Bashir Malik and Deon Owens in humbling the Speed Force which resulted in the four learning to work to bring balance to existence. In season eight, Rivers gets sick with a time sickness along with the other Forces, but eventually recovers.