My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
The show's handling of Wally now seems kind of weird to me, in hindsight.
I think his purpose was simply to assist other characters' stories rather than anything involving him actually being about his own character.
His actions and "story" essentially relied on what other characters needed. There's nothing inherently wrong with being a support character (they handled it incredibly badly though, imo), but they shouldn't have set things up like they did if they had no intentions of following through.
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The funny thing is when he was going on about how he didn't see the point of the Speed Force, he jokingly mentioned how there's no Strength Force and such. Little did he know.
Still, I did like the initial idea of the Speed Force tying the speedsters together despite their different origins. Now, how it's been overused since then is another matter.
It is really same like emotional spectrum for GLs. At first it looked cool and worked for a while, but eventually started suffocating entire franchise because everything had to be related to it in some way or another.
I actually like the fact that the speed force is vague and an otherworldly force that's a mystery.
The best portrayal of it was its intro in Terminal Velocity and Dead Heat. I always get super hyped about it when I read those stories.
Later they tried to push it into different directions and try some new things. Some worked some didnt and I agree it's used way too much.
But I do think it's a great idea and works best as a mysterious force that we will never be able to fully grasp.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
I also think it works fine on the TV show. Not every plot is "because Speed Force," if anything fans just use it as an excuse to justify all the logistics of Barry's inconsistent powers .
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
Happy thanksgiving Wally friends! May your food be better than Didios current slop of books!
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
Ha. I'm the same . Just check out the crossovers which dont really end up that good anyways. But I'm probably going to check out the Crisis crossover.
I try to check out the show every once in awhile but still cant get pass a full episode.
Happy Thanksgiving buddy and to all the Wally fans on here
I'm thankful for having a good Wally series, Flash Forward, even under the current circumstances and it being limited
Lol that's a low bar.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake