Yeah...if Speedsters were constantly at a risk of blowing up, I think it would come up more.
Yeah...if Speedsters were constantly at a risk of blowing up, I think it would come up more.
Where does it say that? Show me a panel.he says "it is a burden".How does that equate to blowing up? Powers being burden is a classic troupe. Jon didn't know he could blow up either. Only that his powers were hard to handle even for a kryptonIan. Wally and jon are both weapons.
you are just moving goal post. First, you said wally is a mass murderer. Now, you are listing his acts, that i never said weren't terrible. In fact, i did the opposite . None of the above would cause a death sentence considering wally's mental condition and depression . You can't give a person death sentence for "mutilation of bodies" or "frame job". As for releasing data without permission. Wally is not alone guilty of that. Wally only gave it to lois. It was her judgment to release it. Clark and lois both decided to do it.as for hacking a "private" system, the sanctuary itself needs to stand the test of scrutiny. Wether it was legal or not. As for sick the superheroes on harley and booster, superhero community is not a bunch of jason todds. they would have taken booster and harley alive.
The point of the story was to show that people who go through stuff like this aren't alone. It had to be done. The world needed to know heroes are humans. They have problems. That doesn't mean they should be afraid. And the others needed to know that they are not going through this alone. Batman has done worse things. He never went to jail for it. atleast wally went to jail for the crimes you listed.harley quinn has never answered for her crimes. And she was a mass murderer and serial killer. She was a willing accomplice of a bigger monster named joker. So part of the conspiracy. She should get the same punishment as the joker, Which is death.
The quality of tom king's story wasn't my point of contention either. The point was, whether wally west is a murderer or not? . Does he deserve death sentence? .the answer is, he isn't and he doesn't .And you haven't shown me anything to make me believe otherwise. At no point, did wally had any idea he would go boom.And i will absolve people of what they didn't do.
Last edited by manwhohaseverything; 09-21-2019 at 11:01 PM.
I still think the best way to handle it is Priest's idea for doing away with the New 52 by having Batman break the fourth wall, admit this was a giant screw up and ask everyone to pretend it never happened so they could move on to better comics.
However, since DC ain't doing that, I'm curious to see how they figure their way out of the hole they've dug.
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I never called Wally a murderer. I called Wally incredibly, imorally negligent. I specifically gave you the page that he says it in. It is clear as day that, from King's writing, this is how it works. Wally talks about how all speedsters are constantly trying to hold this power back for fear of hurting everyone and how they have to always be in control. And that this "one second" he lost control he ends up killing everyone. I'm not moving any goal post. And I'm not sure why you're so doggedly defending King's garbage writing and ruining of the character.
If the point of the story is that people who have mental struggles are an enormous danger to kill everyone around them then it's a pretty freaking shitty take on mental health. Those suffering like Wally are almost always the victims, not the perpetrators.
I, personally, don't believe anyone "deserves" a death sentence. I'm morally opposed to the state killing people in the first place. And, once again, I said multiple times that Wally certainly is technically not a murderer. But he's still a horrible, dangerous monster when written by King. Abusing time travel for personal gain, something Wally was staunchly opposed to for his entire career until now, is also a terrible thing that Tom King made Wally do. Which has worse potential consequences than even murder.
Wally very, very, very much knew he could go boom by Tom King's pen. Please reread the scene. He wouldn't be begging for all those people to get away from him in his inner monologue if he didn't know he could go boom.
It is a fundamentally terribly written story that screwed up on so many fronts that it's hard to even give a concise explanation about how bad it was. These factors are never going to come up again. It was a one of butchering of Wally's character and history to serve the purpose of creating a poorly written ode against suicide.
It's some bullshit that Tom King made up to make Wally kill a bunch of people unintentionally. Which, considering the tenor the story, was probably a late rewrite. His early interviews implied the story would be about why someone killed all these people and that was very much not the case here. Especially with how flat the "puddlers" angle fell.
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This was your quote. @bold you saying wally's actions falling into negligent mass murder.
I have reread the scenes. I didn't interpret it like you did. There was nothing to suggest that he knew before hand he could blow. And enough evidence to back that when he came to know he was losing control he came outside. That is the moment he knew he was having a surge and was going to blow. I have provided panels for logic. It is based entirely on what's on page. As for tom king's intention i don't know what he wanted.And i don't care.i never defended anything, except for wally being murderer charge and chances of him being given death penalty .Falsely labeling is what i am against.there were people other than you saying he will get death sentence and that he was a murderer.
Here i found what tom king had said,
What he said matches my interpretation, not yours.King addressed the book's take on Wally West/Flash, which was also controversial, saying, "Wally was my Flash growing up. He was the Peter Parker of the DCU. It was tough on him because it was like the symbol of Rebirth killing people. First of all, Wally doesn't murder anyone, that doesn't happen. There's heroism in being vulnerable. To always say I'm strong is not to be strong, it's to be arrogant."
Source:https://www.cbr.com/king-gerads-reac...isis-backlash/
I don't care about the book itself nor am i fan of king.
Last edited by manwhohaseverything; 09-22-2019 at 04:40 AM.
Wally sent the information to Lois with the full intent of her making it public.
How does that not make her part of the event? She could have refused sighting journalistic ethics. She, clark and wally all came to the conclusion that it was better to release the story. They finished what wally started. So, inshort if you are blaming wally for that you should blame the other two. If not, don't blame wally alone.
You know, I'll give you that one. I meant mass negligent homicide. I apologize for the poor communication.
He speaks about how every single speedster struggles with the same burden, man. If he didn't know he could blow up he wouldn't have tried to get away because he wouldn't be a danger to anyone else. You amusingly skipped the panels that have Wally's entire breakdown on what's going on. He literally calls it a weapon. A weapon he and every other speedster has to HOLD BACK for fear of it getting out. What else is a weapon besides something that causes harm? Something that will kill?
Murder isn't the only thing people get the death penalty for. The kind of things Wally did would make him, in one fell swoop, one of the most dangerous and insane criminals around. A step below the likes of Thawne for the same reason: Flagrant abuse of time travel to commit heinous, psychopathic crimes. Though he does fall short of murder. Hooray. We're at your goal post and that goal post is still utter, character ruining trash that makes Wally a no questions asked bad guy.
Lois didn't make everything public. She shared it with Clark and they released an incredibly annotated description of what happened and Superman gave a mediocre speech to explain it. Wally tried to. Which is just downright awful.
The only thing they revealed was that A: Sanctuary exists and B: A lot of heroes died there. Wally was the one who leaked the entire private traumatic lives of the majority of the people he knows and loves.
Honestly, I'm done talk about this. This isn't a Heroes in Crisis thread and I hate the comic so fucking much and I don't know why I even allowed myself to get dragged into talking about it by someone defending it tooth and nail for reasons I cannot comprehend. I'd like it if we all stopped talking about Heroes in Crisis and just talk about Flash Forward in this, the Flash Forward thread. Feel free to respond one last time but I am absolutely done.
Last edited by Dred; 09-22-2019 at 05:07 AM.
That's a faulty logic. Have you heard of the cardboard speech of superman in dcau?Could that superman explode? No. Is that clark a weapon? Hell yeah!.he knows it and controls it. So hence it's burden for him(like wally) and world feels like it is made of card board. He came outside because he was having panic attack and he knew he was losing control. He specifically put emphasis on that second in his monologue to let us know that wally didn't know prior.
A bomb isn't the only weapon. Guns are weapon as well. A sparkler can also be a weapon that can cause harm. I have put this analogy before. A person uses a sparkler which blows up. A sparkler is dangerous. But, it is never suppose to blow up. But, it did because of unforeseen mixup. Its not the welder's fault.
Sure, what else has wally done to deserve death penalty? You haven't listed any. Now, i feel you are being hyperbolic. Really,Thawne. wally had not done anything bad enough to warrant that.the most heinous act he did was mutilation of the bodies And the dead don't tell tales. I am still not condoning it. Its an awful act. I never said it wasn't trash. It is. I agree.
No, they also released why sanctuary exists and its purpose. This can cause panic and doubts in people. Think about it. These superpowered individuals and some are like gods. Them having mental issues can be deadly. Case it and point the deaths that happened at the hands of wally. They could point to that. The hero community would have hard time operating in the open because of the media and pr nightmare.clark mitigated that with his speech.
Who released it doesn't matter they all came to the same conclusion and released it. They became accomplices. And accomplices shoukd be treated the same.
Listen, i am pretty bone headed. I apologise if i wasted your time. I hate the book as well. But, i refuse to believe wally has become irredeemable.
Last edited by manwhohaseverything; 09-22-2019 at 06:11 AM.
While reading this, I was wondering why Justice Incarnate wasn't involved, but hopefully that is explained with President Superman at the end. I also want Wally to join Justice Incarnate and be the tether to the main universe so we can get a Justice Incarnate series.
While I did enjoy the first issue more than I thought that I would, the quicker we are far and away from Tom King's horrid story the better.
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The easiest answer doesnt even involve Wally
"Dr Manhatten possesed me"
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So i can't tell if the reception to this is good or bad, I wasn't gonna buy but I might, since it facilitated so much discussion
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