"Cocky" Barry Allen would be mischaracterized Barry Allen.
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"Cocky" Barry Allen would be mischaracterized Barry Allen.
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First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014
about those movies, has the kid flash that was in a flashback in, i think judas contract, ever seen or mentioned of again?
I dunno in SA comics he could seem pretty over arrogant at times. Then the villain would do some wacky thing to catch him off guard.
He wasn't really a hotshot/showoff but he was confident enough that some could consider him cocky whenever he had the spandex on. Less so in his civilian life, though. That's just the typical Clark Kent impression that was typical of the era.
All the heroes (of a certain age) that were created in the 1950s and 1960s were made of sterner stuff. They had all probably been in the war, they'd lived through hard times, travelled the world. They did not look at life with rose-coloured glasses. They were fighting the good fight against the forces of evil. This was the natural assumption because the men and women creating these comics had lived through that themselves, many of them had been in the armed forces, done their bit for Uncle Sam (or Mother England). And the children reading those comics, we all had family (mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts) that had been in that fight. These were heroes. If OG Barry Allen is "boring" it's a boring quality that comes out of tough experiences, where a man learned not to wear his emotions on his sleeve. I prefer to say stoic.
Just throwing this out there - Barry in JLofA #173 not long after Iris was killed:
Writer: Gerry Conway; artist: the great Dick Dillin
My favorite Flash is Barry because (1) he's a great character and (2) the most iconic villains come from his run.
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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
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First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
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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
Favorite Flash: it's tough to pick between Jay and Wally, but I'm going to go with Jay Garrick. I like his fun-loving, pranksterish Golden Age persona, and I love the "cool old man" persona from the 90s-2000 JSA. It's rare that you get to see one of these DC characters live a long life and change greatly over time, and that's another appeal of the character.