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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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I mean yeah, I don't either, but I've seen the argument come up.
For me, Nightgwing was just a fun side thing Clark did and wasn't the identity he was known for, so Dick made it his own to the point where it's original connection has been lost (which is very unfortunate IMO, I think it was most of the appeal for me as an identity for him to mix homages for his two heroes. Now it just comes across as a generic Gotham vigilante ID).
A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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It depends on the character and the story unfolds
Barry was dead for a while, but then he got better.
And DC has since been focusing more on Barry as The Flash (including a TV series), so it would be silly for them to try and change the focus on what they refer to Barry as.
Wally, on the other hand, would have been a perfect candidate for renaming to get him back into the spotlight prior to the recent changes as a result of Infinite Frontier, but DC came up with that different solution for now.
Yeah, Barry is going to be around a long, long time. He may not be as iconic as the Trinity (and almost certainly never will), but he's a lot closer to that than back in '85 when the name Barry Allen had no currency with the average American.
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Maybe but even in his tv show he’s had different names, as has Green Arrow. Any one of them could work nicely. From “The Streak” to “The Blur”.
I’m just more partial to The Scarlet Speedster tbh
At this point, those and other codenames may be options for other speedsters, but not Barry. For mainstream America, he's the numero uno Flash. I know that stinks if you're fans of another one, but I don't know what else to say. Maybe thirty years down the road, things might change.
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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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