![]() ![]() We see a newspaper clipping for a black-haired, dark-skinned young man said to have been killed in a car accident. This went on for a few years until The Flash #30, where at the end of the issue, the Future Flash, existing twenty years from the present, vowed to avenge “Wally’s” death. Suddenly, Barry Allen was the only Scarlet Speedster in Central City, with no reference made to his former protégé, successor and nephew, Wally. ![]() ![]() In 2011, when DC launched the New 52, several legacy characters went missing as the DC Universe restarted it’s continuity, a fallout from the Flash miniseries, Flashpoint. West and how he relates to the original Wally West is a unique one, to be sure. After all, we’re talking about two characters with the same human name, not just the same heroic one. But Wally West is a different-and more complicated-case. Both Conner Kent and Jon Kent were Superboy at the same time, and the same can be said for Robin being both Tim Drake and Damian Wayne. Not only have there been inheritors of various costumed identities, but there have occasionally been more than one hero occupying the mantles at once. The history of the Flash is emblematic of the history of DC, which is a history of legacy heroes. From Jay Garrick in 1941 to the introduction of Barry Allen fifteen years later, signaling the birth of the Silver Age, to Kid Flash inheriting the mantle of his mentor in 1986 after Crisis on Infinite Earths, the role of the Flash has been passed down for generations, embodying a history of heroism featuring multiple characters as the Scarlet Speedster.īut currently there are two Wally Wests. The Flash is a legacy hero, going all the way back to the Golden Age of comic books and racing through significant points of history in the superhero genre. ![]()
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