| “ | Allen... you know, when I came to your stupid Earth... With its good burgers... I was a broken man. Lost, angry, blah, blah, blah, and you showed me how to be a better person. And I'll always be grateful for our friendship. Now. Run. Barry... run. [...] You got this. After I'm gone... look out for one another. | „ |
| ~ Harry's goodbye to Barry Allen |
Dr. Harrison "Harry" Wells is a major character in the CW series The Flash.
He is the Earth-2 doppelganger and counterpart of Harrison Wells and the director of Star Labs, the father of Jesse Chambers Wells, who later becomes the superheroine Jesse Quick and a former member of Team Flash.
He is portrayed by Tom Cavanagh, who portrays his other counterparts.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Harrison Wells came from Earth-2, a parallel universe to Earth 1 with significant differences such as advanced technology. He once solved Earth to Albert Einstein's riddle at the age of 10.
Sometime in his life, he met a woman, whom he later fell in love with and married. Initially not wanting children, Harrison's wife was able to make him change his mind. Later, they had their daughter, Jesse, who Harrison eventually grew protective of. He took her to the planetarium when she was four years old and had the entire planetarium shut down to find her. Realizing the rage he felt, Harrison swore he would go to great lengths to save his daughter.
In 1991, Harrison founded STAR Labs, hiring Henry Hewitt as his assistant. He later lost his wife due to unknown causes, and Harry never got over his wife's death, despite his daughter's best efforts.
Like Earth-1, in 2014, Harrison created a particle accelerator that later exploded. He piped the explosion in an effort to contain it and avoid exposure. However, this failed and the particle accelerator explosion created meta humans which also inadvertently created the supervillain Zoom. Unable to accept his failure, Harrison covered it up to ensure no one knew he was indirectly responsible
