Tina McGee

Tina McGee
Tina McGee from The Flash (vol. 2) #3, art by Jackson Guice
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Flash (vol. 2) #3 August (1987)
Created by	Mike Baron (writer) Jackson Guice (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Tina McGee
Team affiliations	S.T.A.R. Labs
Supporting character of	Flash

Tina McGee is a fictional character appearing in The Flash comic book series published by DC Comics. She first appeared in The Flash (vol. 2) #3. Tina McGee is a nutritionist and researcher for STAR Labs.

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

Tina McGee originally received a grant from Harvard to study Wally West's metabolism. Her husband Jerry McGee did speed experiments and turned into the homicidal Speed Demon which resulted in a coma. Tina and the Flash grew into a romantic relationship despite their age differences and Tina was legally still married at the time; she moves in with Wally. Various stresses, including Wally's domineering mother, break apart their bond.

Tina McGee and Wally West realize their feelings for each other in The Flash (vol. 2) #4. Artist: Jackson Guice

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. Tina teams up with her now recovered ex and the Flash's older detective friend Mason. While the trio quest to find the addled Wally, Tina and Jerry get back together.

Later, Tina and Jerry unwittingly unleash the robotic intelligence Kilg%re among their own university colleagues. At this point, the entity is non-violent; despite taking over many of the people at the facility, all it wanted was to deeply experience life.

Jerry and Tina become employees at Central City's S.T.A.R. Labs. They assist Flash multiple times, such as taking care of his injured ally, Cyborg.

Tina is later 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.

Other versions

In a possible future timeline observed by the time traveler Waverider, a super-powered crime lord threatens Tina McGee's life to force her husband Jerry to make anti-Flash weaponry in an attempt to draw a retired Wally West out of the Witness Protection Program. In this alternate future, Tina is still working at S.T.A.R. Labs; her colleague, Chunk, is murdered to force her cooperation.

In other media

Live action

Tina McGee as she appears in The Flash (1990).

• Tina McGee appears in The Flash (1990), portrayed by Amanda Pays. This version aids Barry Allen in maintaining powers and crime-fighting as the Flash. Barry and Tina appear attracted to each other, but always claim to be "just" friends and partners.
  • The Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths" revealed that Barry of Earth-90 and Tina had gotten married sometime after the series ended and she had died sometime prior. Barry later thinks of her while sacrificing himself to destroy the Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon.
• Tina McGee appears in The Flash (2014), portrayed again by Amanda Pays. This version is the director of Mercury Labs, a rival tech firm to S.T.A.R. Labs, a friend of Harrison Wells and Henry Allen, and later retroactively established as the Earth-1 counterpart to the Earth-90 version.

Animation

• Tina McGee appears in Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise.