3) Wally West
The third version of The Flash actually started out as Kid Flash AKA Wally West. He’s the nephew of Iris West, Barry Allen’s girlfriend and then later, wife, and gets his speedster powers during a visit to Allen’s police laboratory where he gets bathed in chemicals much the same way Barry Allen did from a freak accident involving lightning. He then decides to don a smaller version of Allen’s red costume and fight crime as “Kid Flash.”
West has a strained relationship with his parents, so he often looks to his aunt and uncle for guidance. In later versions of the comic books, to distinguish the Wally West version from the Barry Allen version, his costume gets changed up and is turned yellow with red leggings and gloves and sometimes red goggles and ear pieces. After the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, where Barry Allen gives his life to save Earth, Wally West takes over his fallen mentor’s costume and identity and fights crime as The Flash, which also leads to Bart Allen becoming the second Kid Flash…more on that in a moment.
Published: Sep 14, 2015 10:43 pm