Tina McGee
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| Supporting character of | Flash |
Tina McGee is a fictional character appearing in
Tina McGee made her live action debut in the 1990 television series The Flash as part of the main cast portrayed by Amanda Pays. Pays later reprised the role as a recurring character in The CW television series The Flash set in a different continuity.
Fictional character biography
She originally received a grant from Harvard to study Wally West's metabolism.[1] Her husband Jerry McGee did his own speed experiments and turned into the homicidal "Speed Demon". This resulted in a coma. Tina and Flash grew into a romantic relationship despite their age differences and Tina was legally still married at the time; she moves in with him. Various stresses, including Wally's domineering mother, break apart their bond.
The Flash loses his speed due to alien influence. Tina leads a research project, based at the Pacific Institute, into restoring it. This causes Wally's speed to drastically increase, leaving a trail of destruction across the country.[2] Tina teams up with her now recovered ex and Flash's older detective friend Mason. While the trio quest to find the addled Wally, Tina and Jerry get back together.[3]
Later, Tina and Jerry unwittingly unleash the robotic intelligence
Jerry and Tina become employees at
Tina later becomes head of the facility. She heads a project to discover what had happened to the speedster-empowering 'Speed Force' with Bart Allen, who was seemingly the only surviving speedster at the time.[7]
Other versions
In a possible future timeline observed by the
In other media
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- Tina McGee appears in The Flash (1990), portrayed by Amanda Pays. This version helps Barry Allen control his powers and aids him in his crime-fighting as the Flash. Throughout the show, Barry and Tina appear attracted to each other, but always claim to be "just" friends and partners.
- This series is retroactively established as a parallel universe designated Earth-1 counterpart that he and Tina had gotten married sometime after the series ended and she had died before the events of the crossover. He later thinks of her as he sacrifices himself to destroy the Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon.
- This series is retroactively established as a parallel universe designated
- Tina McGee appears in the Arrowverse series S.T.A.R. Labs, a friend of Harrison Wells, and later retroactively established as the Earth-1 counterpart to the Earth-90 version. She and Barry Allen’s father Henry Allen (also played by John Wesley Shipp) were attracted to each other (mirroring the relationship of their Earth-90 doppelgängers), but Henry is killed by Earth-2's rogue speedster Zoom before they can act on it.
References
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #3–4 (August–September 1987)
- ^ Invasion! #1–3 (January–March 1989)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #24–28 (March–July 1989)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #36–43 (March–October 1990)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #50 (May 1991)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) #183–188 (April–September 2002)
- ^ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #1–6 (August 2006 – January 2007)
- ^ The Flash (vol. 2) Annual #4 (1991)
- ^ Friedlander, Whitney (September 15, 2014). "CW's 'The Flash' Casts Original Show's Heroine". Variety. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
