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Just because you or I do not have ideas, is not reason to fear - we aren't writing the Flash.
We do not have foresight of the future. People said that there were no new Batman stories to tell. People said that in the 1960s. And 1970s. Then new writers came along and re-energized Batman - Denny O'Neil. Steve Englehart. Frank Miller.
Unless we can predict the future, we really don't know what great stories will come with Barry and Wally.
Is it that they are out of Flash stories for Barry? Or that they are out of writers who can tell new Flash stories regardless of whether the character is Jay, Wally, John Fox, or Barry?
When most of the stories revolve around either other people gaining speed or the nature of the Speed Force, I don't think the problems stem from your main character.
Bad analogy, unlike Wally and Kyle, Dick Grayson was never intended to permantly replace Bruce Wayne as Batman. He was a gimmick that everyone knew was going to last for a finite amount of time. However, his tenure as Batman was well liked and that era of Batman is fondly remembered by fans.
Donna Troy as Wonder Woman can't be considered a legitimate example of a legacy character because she hardly appeared as Wonder Woman. It was inferred that she took on the guise of Wonder Woman during 52, but she was only seen carrying the mantle in the first issue of Alan Heinberg's reboot of Wonder Woman and the World War lll tie in to 52.
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It should pass to Eobard Thawne. Because it makes as much sense to make the villain a hero as it does to endlessly pass the torch.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
Let Wally have his wife and kids and let him retire until someone actually has a good idea for what to do with him. I’m cool with that. For Barry, it’s time to do something other than the endless Speed Force and Reverse Flash crap. You can keep Barry as the lead but it’s well past time to start doing new stuff with him.
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Definitely. Barry-as-Flash is in an interesting space as a CSI, in that he can get involved in crimes through that avenue, hit up some cold cases using superhero resources, but also has to make sure that his superhero antics don't spoil his police work and make a case unworkable and end up setting apprehended crooks free! There's a fun juggling act there. (With the same ethical squiffiness as Clark-reporting-on-Superman has.)
There wouldn't be umpteen CSI/NCIS shows out there if there weren't a ton of stories to mine from that format, and tapping into *some* of that to find fun stories to tell with Barry should be a no-brainer (just adapting them to have a bit more of 'surprise, this cold case somehow ties into a fight with the new Mirror Master, who thought she got away with this five-year-old crime!').
As others have said, leaning into the crime scene investigator angle, but with a sci-fi twist, would really open up the story potential and make it different from every other super-hero comic on the shelves.
Replacing the lead is never something that should be done casually, especially when that character has a TV series and (supposedly) a movie in the works.
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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!
Legacy is probably one of the worst thing to happen to DC and it's the reason why its universe is such a mess nowdays.
I would say NO to a replacement. If a new/legacy character can't find a success these days without latching on another character's mantle, they simply don't deserve to be around.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
– Dale Carnegie
If we are going by that,the the original character's and their stories should have ended a long time ago. Now batman, superman.. Etc aren't even characters anymore. Ending a story or even a franchise takes guts, especially a profitable one. These guys don't. They simply don't believe they can produce something new of equivalent value. Even if they did, "fan" culture is the only thing that sustains the industry because market has shrunken that hard . "fans" can be myopic. They would buy something of the ip they are interested in. Otherwise, they require content quality that's moore level or word of mouth on that level as well.Legacy is one of the reason the dc seems to have been able to sustain itself.