Character Analysis: Wally West(Feat Lswan)

 

Background 

• Real Name: Wallace Rudolph “Wally” West II

• Age: 20s ~ early 30s

• Height: 6’0”

• Weight: 175 lbs.

• The third person to take up the mantle of the Flash

• Was the first Kid Flash prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths

Wally West was the president of the Flash fan club as a child, and his greatest wish would be granted the day he met his hero. Barry Allen entertained the young Wally until a mysterious lightning bolt struck a rack of Barry’s chemicals, dousing Wally, and giving him the same super powers as the Flash. That’s right, they have the exact same origin story! Barry decided to make Wally his new sidekick: Kid Flash, and fight crime together for years until the canon-redefining Crisis on Infinite Earths.  It was there that Barry would sacrifice his life (we thought!) to defeat the Anti-Monitor, leaving Wally to take up the red and gold costume to become the third Flash.

It wasn’t an easy transition, however. Wally struggled for years with an inferiority complex to Barry, and balanced a desire to be his own man with a fear of supplanting Barry’s legacy. These fears manifested as radically decreased speed (even compared to his Kid Flash days), leaving Wally faltering as a superhero. After meeting and defeating the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne (before he fought Barry ironically, due to time travel shenanigans), Wally grew into his own and discovered the Speed Force, the extra-dimensional energy source that gives all DC speedsters their powers. By consciously tapping into the Speed Force, Wally accomplished feats that Barry could only have dreamed of in his day. Wally joined the Justice League of America and became one of Earth’s premier superheroes, defined by his blue collar hometown of Keystone City and his bottomless compassion. Eventually Barry did return during Final Crisis (from within the depths of the Speed Force) and soon after became involved in the reality-altering Flashpoint. Just can’t seem to stay away from company-wide reboots, eh, Barry? For years, Wally disappeared from DC Comics.

That is until Rebirth when he returned! From the Speed Force too! After spending years away from reality, Wally lost his wife and children, and though dedicated to his return to superhero’ing, always viewed reuniting with them as his main priority. This conflict inside him manifested as a battle with his former mentor Barry Allen during the Flash War, with Wally proving himself once and for all as the fastest man alive. After an emotional breakdown and the accidental murder of several metahumans, Wally was whisked away by the cosmic god Tempus Fuginaut to fight in a battle against the encroaching Dark Multiverse. Wally would reunite with his children, but only briefly, before being chosen to sit on the Mobius Chair and become infused with the powers of Dr. Manhattan. What happens to Wally next is unknown, but it is surely to have mighty consequences for the sake of the Multiverse.

Experience

When Wally took over for Barry after the Crisis, he assumed the mantle of the Flash and all that came with it. He became your standard DC League-tier superhero, with a Rogues Gallery (literally called the Rogues), has battled both Reverse-Flashes, and saved the universe (and the Multiverse) many times. A list of villains he’s defeated/outraced includes:

• Reverse-Flash I (Professor Zoom)

• Reverse-Flash II (Zoom)

• Black Flash (the embodiment of Death/speedster Grim Reaper)

• Black Racer (the same, but for New Gods)

• Cobalt Blue

• Cosmic Gamblers (who travel instantaneously via the fourth-dimension)

• Captain Cold

• Mirror Master

• Heatwave

• Trickster

• Barry Allen (Flash) - not a villain, but he did ultimately surpass him!

Arsenal 

Speed Force Suit

While Wally used to use a cloth/spandex outfit like Barry did, he has since turned to generating his costume the Speed Force itself. By molding Speed Force energy into physical constructs, he can shape an outfit to wear that self-repairs. It can also physically hold him together in the case of injuries.

• (Flash #131, pg. 15) Forms living speed force energy around him to create armor that allows him to run even with broken legs. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #132, pg. 4) Wally states that his suit is made of “pure speed force condensed into three dimensional space.” Image 

• (Flash #143, pg. 7) Wally’s new suit is made of speed force energy. It is frictionless and self-repairing. Image 

Johnny Quick Speed Formula

By uttering Johnny Quick’s Speed Formula, which is 3X2(9YZ)4A, Wally can instantly boost his connection to the Speed Force (regardless of what level of connection he’s at) in order to briefly speed himself up and slow down time to a crawl relative to his current degree of perception.

• (Flash #91, pg. 5) At a point when he’s still operating in the hypersonic range of speed, Wally instantly accelerates to near light speed, slowing the world down to a crawl. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #99, pg. 15) Does so again to slow down time and move faster than the energies of the Speed Force in order to give him more time with Linda before he’s absorbed into the Speed Force. At this point, he was moving as fast as he was before activating the formula as he was using it the first time, so it doesn’t make him a set level of fast, just enhances whatever level he’s currently at. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #200, pg. 16) Uses Jesse’s formula yet again. This time Wally’s moving so fast that time itself stops, and Wally is capable of interacting with Zoom, who possesses his own personal timeline. Image

Abilities

Speed Force

The Speed Force is an extra-dimensional energy field that acts as a separation from the multiverse proper and the Sphere of the Gods and acts as a sort of “valhalla” or “heaven” for speedsters. It supplies the kinetic energy for the entire multiverse, literally putting reality in motion pushing it forward. Wally has a connection to the Speed Force, likely the purest out of any other speedster (other than Barry, who generates it), and can mainline its infinite and endless energy. At one point, he even manages to control it. This is what gives him his and every other speedsters their super speed, as well as all his other abilities.

By running faster than light, Wally can enter the Speed Force and run through it, or bring others with him, as well as exit it at will. While Wally used to struggle with exiting the Speed Force (to the point where it was treated as speedster heaven) without a “lightning rod” to ground him and give himself a target in the real world to lock on to (at times Linda, Barry, or the Titans), Wally has shown the ability to exit it without that due to being “unmoored.” It will also refuse to consume him if he hasn’t made his peace with the mortal plane, described as “run your race.”

The Speed Force exists beyond the sound, time, and even light barriers. Side note: yes, in DC Comics, light is considered as being beyond even time, as in, it takes less speed to run back through time than it does to breach the light speed barrier that walls off the Speed Force. Between the infinite multiverse and the Speed Force are an infinite number of spatial dimensions that the Flash manages to cross every time he taps into it. Should he relent at the last second and merely “bounce” off the edge of the Speed Force, he’ll be sent into the Timestream and travel through time.

• (Flash #97, pg. 3) The Speed Force is the energy field all speedsters have tapped into to generate their powers. Image

• (Flash #91, pg. 16) Wally also mentions that he isn’t subject to the same stamina restrictions when he’s using the speed force that he does when he isn’t. Image

• (Flash #108, pg. 9) No longer needs to consume calories due to the Speed Force powering him. Image 

• (Flash #100, pg. 37) After entering and exiting the Speed Force for the first time, Wally states he has a direct line to channeling its power. Image 

• (Flash #109, pg. 21) Wally is tied too closely to the Speed Force to have his speed drained. Image

• (Flash #111, pg. 18) Savitar is consumed and becomes one with the Speed Force. Wally can weaponize the Speed Force by bringing people into it and leaving them there to be absorbed by it and prevent them from returning. Image 

• (Flash #141, pg. 4) Wally’s connection to the speed force (even though it’s currently been severed/inactive) prevents him from being affected by the time stop of the Black Flash’s presence. Image

•  It was unclear to me whether or not Wally resisting this time stop was due to his speed or a time-related power, however, while fighting Zoom, Wally confirmed that his powers are not temporal in nature, meaning this feat was due to his speed alone.

• (Flash #150, pg. 29) Can mainline the Speed Force so directly that he’s unaffected by Cobalt Blue absorbing his speed energy, despite that being precisely what CB’s power is, because he’s tapping into an infinite amount of it. Image 

• (Flash #160, pg. 17) Wally will never run out of energy due to his connection to the Speed Force. Image 

• (Flash #173, pg. 17) Reiterated again. Image

• (Flash Forward #4, pg. 14) Enters the Speed Force freely and w/o any fear of not getting out. He also exits it easily w/o using Linda as an anchor (an alt version of Linda was actually inside it with him, usually she needs to be outside of it so he can lock onto her presence). Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4

Speed Force Aura

Wally passively generates a Speed Force aura around himself at all times which allows him to run at super fast speeds without hurting himself (via friction, g-forces, oxygen deprivation, etc.) or the surrounding areas that would normally be ripped to shreds by an object moving as fast as he does. It also acts as a semi-force field that absorbs blows for Wally, allowing him to survive encounters with superhumans (specific durability feats will be covered below).

• (Flash #189, pg. 22) Wally and Barry’s speedster aura (which will later be retconned to being a speed force aura) protects them from heat generated by friction. Image 

• (Flash #240, pg. 9) Is unaffected by heat while vibrating. Image

• (Flash #16, pg. 6) His speed force aura prevented the explosion from occurring before he let go of it. Image

Super Speed

Of course, the Flash’s main power is super speed. The majority of super speed feats will be below, but he has used his super fast movement for more than getting from point A to point B quickly. Regardless, Wally has been called “the fastest being in the multiverse,” by Tempus Fuginaut.

• (Flash #118, pg. 21) Moves fast enough to appear to be in multiple places at once. Image

• (Flash #135, pg. 14) Moves fast enough to create afterimages. Image

• (Flash #32, pg. 22) Another example of afterimage movement, in this case doing it so fast he just looks intangible. Image

• (Flash #22, pg. 20) Instantly accelerates to a speed so fast that he is invisible. Image

• This is different from the Invisibility section below. That involves him vibrating himself to turn invisible, and would work even if he’s standing still. This involves him moving so fast that he’s simply impossible to catch with the naked eye.

Speed Progression

It’s important to recognize for the contextualization of a lot of Wally’s speed feats down below that as time has progressed, Wally has gotten faster. Feats he accomplished with immense effort in the past, or were at the time presented as the peak of his ability, have been surpassed multiple times over, often casually on Wally’s part. Here’s a short list of some of those marked instances to get an idea for the scale of Wally’s speed independent of specific feats.

• (Flash #79, pg. 35) Up until this point Post-Crisis, Wally was running significantly slower than he was even as Kid Flash due to ingrained insecurities. Here, he finally overcomes his fears and inferiority complex in regards to Barry and blitzes Reverse-Flash. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #100, pg. 37) After entering and exiting the Speed Force for the first time, Wally states he has a direct line to channeling its power and is now moving faster than he ever did before. Image 

• (Flash #110, pg. 4) During this period, Wally was holding back from his full potential speed in order to keep from being absorbed back into the Speed Force. Image 

• (Flash #111, pg. 15) At the point where he fights Savitar, he can now enter the Speed Force as well as simultaneously lending his speed to another to help them enter it as well. So, entering the Speed Force is no longer something that requires his full effort. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #141, pg. 4) Wally was able to resist a time stop with a greatly weakened connection to the Speed Force (and Wally’s powers are kinetic in nature, not time-based). Effectively, Wally has begun to perform high-end speed feats without fully tapping into the Speed Force anymore. Image

• (Flash #150, pg. 30) Here, Wally channels the entirety of the Speed Force and obliterates Cobalt Blue. This is an important benchmark, since this is seemingly Wally’s max, yet he later goes much faster. Image 

• (Flash #225, pg. 9) While Wally needed Jesse Quick’s powers in order to outpace Zoom before, now he can keep up with him with effort. Image 

• (All Flash, pg. 23) Mainlining the Speed Force like never before, but without the downsides like in the past, like being in danger of getting sucked in. Image

• (Final Crisis #6, pg. 25) Runs faster than he ever has before to reach Darkseid within his multiversal singularity. Image 

• (Titans #5, pg. 12) Has felt more of the Speed Force since he’s been back from being stuck inside it for so long, like a new dimension of speed (as evidenced by his blue lightning as opposed to classic gold). Image 

• (Flash Forward #3, pg. 8) Has become “unmoored” and is faster now than he has ever been, as evidenced by his cosmic-colored lightning. Image 

• (Flash Forward #5, pg. 15) Runs faster than light, thought, and the Speed Force itself. This is officially the fastest Wally has ever gone. Image

Enhanced Perceptions

In order to run as fast as he can without smashing into things, Wally’s reactions are enhanced as well, a phenomenon he calls “speed mode,” and which he can turn on, off, or stretch to his desire.

• (Flash #22, pg. 21) His perception of time slows down the rest of the world to the point that he cannot effectively be snuck up on by someone slower. Regular people might as well be “warm statues.” Image

• (Flash #30, pg. 12) Instinctively turns on super speed the instant he feels a bullet touch the back of his neck, and continues to operate in slowed time (to the point where bullets are frozen in mid-air). Essentially, he can’t be sneak attacked. Image

• (Flash #108, pg. 11) Kicks into hyperspeed in order to see super fast moving ninjas that are otherwise invisible. Image

• (Flash #750, pg. 63) His speed powers allow him to think faster than the Mobius Chair’s previous users. Image 

Cyclone Creation

By spinning his arms extraordinarily fast (or running in a circle like a doofus), Wally can create whirlwinds or tornados and manipulate the air for a variety of effects.

• (Flash #116, pg. 22) Can create enough air pressure to lift a car and propel it. Image

• (Flash #138, pg. 25) Can suffocate others by “pulling” the air away from them. Image

• (Flash #52, pg. 15) Creates a tornado with his arms that snuffs out living hellfire. Image

• (All Flash, pg. 15) Creates a massive tornado just by running fast. Image 1 Image 2

Speed Force Lightning

Based on the reaction between Wally channeling the Speed Force and his own muscles as he moves, Wally generates lightning which he can weaponize as he likes. As Wally has gotten faster, the color of his lightning has changed, first from golden to white-blue to a cosmic, outer space soup when he became “unmoored.” During Flash Forward, Flash’s lightning was revealed to be his hope materialized, and was capable of eradicating the dark matter from the Dark Multiverse.

• (Flash #107, pg. 9) Wally manifests lightning energy strong enough to dispel a Shadow Beast. Image

• (Flash Forward #2, pg. 13) Can absorb lightning and redirect it. Image

• (Heroes in Crisis #8, pg. 15) Kills a bunch of superheroes with a lightning discharge. Image  

Healing

Wally’s super speed also applies to his metabolism, which is fast enough to heal him from grievous wounds almost instantly. 

• (Flash #28, pg. 15) Wally’s increased metabolism allowed him to heal from removing dozens of cactus spines embedded in his skin as soon as they were pulled out. Image

• (Flash #32, pg. 15) His metabolism even heals him from blows mid-fight, allowing him short term resistance to damage, sort of amplifying his durability and stamina. Image

• (Titans #15, pg. 21) Heals Nightwing from being impaled with his lightning. This likely applies to himself as well. Image 

• (Wonder Woman #214, pg. 9) Has his throat sliced open and his spinal cord severed, and manages to instantly heal once he steals a bit of Cheetah’s speed. Image

Vibrating

Easily Wally’s most versatile power, and the one he breaks out the most for offense and defense, vibrating can be used for a variety of effects. What’s also amazing is how well he’s learned to attune himself to an endless number of frequencies that he can discern and replicate at any moment.

• (Flash #28, pg. 4) Can melt ice by vibrating his arms to create heat friction. Image

• (Flash #105, pg. 19) Vibrates and destroys a potentially infinite number of mirrors (Mirror Master describes it as every reflective surface on Earth). Image

• (Flash #125, pg. 19) Creates a counter-vibration to resist sonic vibrations that are messing with his head. Image 

• If he hits it perfectly, no vibrations can get through him. This includes sound, which would make him deaf.

• (Flash #169, pg. 19) Resets the vibrational phase of Keystone City. Image 

• (Flash #177, pg. 12) Vibrating makes him immune to a black hole’s gravitational pull. Image

• (Flash #194, pg. 3) Shifting his vibrational frequency allows him to see through cloaking devices. Image  

• (JLA #7, pg. 13) Vibrates through ambient matter, which exists in neither one place or the other, effectively vibrating through the fourth dimension. Image 

• The fourth dimension explained here.

• Walter West, an alternate universe version of Wally, was able to phase through a 4-D attack

• (Flash #164, pg. 27) Can “shake off” another’s vibrations and return them to normal by vibrating himself. Image 

• (JLA: Heaven’s Ladder, pg. 50) Wally states he can vibrate fast enough to be an “energy prism” and convert any kind of energy that enters him, which includes the energy of Quantum Zealots. Wally absorbs heat vision and converts it to that energy, but his definition of his ability means he should be able to do the reverse. Image 1 Image 2

Infinite Mass Punch

Following the laws of relativity, the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more its mass increases. Infinitely closer means infinitely more mass. Wally applies this concept to his punches, vibrating them to just under the speed of light to hit with a tremendous force.

• (Flash #148, pg. 3) Hits Zoom with the force of a white dwarf star (Infinite Mass Punch). Image

• (JLA #3, pg. 7) Vibrates his fist towards lightspeed, increasing its mass towards infinity, to punch a White Martian from Mt. Rushmore to Africa, knocking him out. Image 1 Image 2

• The Infinite Mass Punch is by no means limited by this force, however. The closer Flash gets to light speed, the more it increases. When Jenni Ognats attempted the same thing, she got close enough to lightspeed to potentially destroy the universe with her mass.

Dimensional Travel

By matching the frequency of another dimension (as in another alternate universe, not a mathematical dimension of space), Wally can vibrate into it, effectively teleporting.

• (Flash #135, pg. 12) Vibrates fast enough to enter a separate dimension. Image

• (Flash #149, pg. 13) Vibrates into other dimensions by vibrating at a specific frequency. Image

Invisibility

By vibrating fast enough, Wally can turn himself invisible to the naked eye. This applies even to superhumans like Superman if done fast enough.

• (Flash #138, pg. 22) Wally vibrates himself to turn invisible. Image

• (Flash #135, pg. 14) Vibrates fast enough to become invisible to the naked eye. Image

Intangibility

In order to avoid damage or pass through barriers, Wally can vibrate himself to turn intangible. As Kid Flash he would turn intangible with no issue, but as an adult, phasing through objects would cause them to explode. Those feats are in the section directly below. Wally did eventually rediscover the ability to phase harmlessly.

• (Flash #232, pg. 9) Vibrates through a wall as Kid Flash. Image

• (Flash #76, pg. 20) Vibrates through an energy field that was designed to respond to his vibrational frequency and block him. Image 

• (Flash #126, pg. 4) Catches the force of his own vibrational explosions, allowing him to turn entirely intangible and pass through the ground without blowing it up, though less elegantly than Barry could have. This is during a period of time where any attempt at intangibility would also blow whatever he was phasing through up. Image

• (Flash #127, pg. 15) Turns intangible to avoid hail while running. Image  

• (Flash #106, pg. 11) Can vibrate through electromagnetic force fields. Image

• (Flash Forward #3, pg. 17) Can once again vibrate through things without exploding them, just acting as normal intangibility again. Image 

• (JLA: Classified #46, pg. 4) Can prevent others, like Martian Manhunter, from turning intangible by vibrating J’onn’s molecules back into a solid form. Image 

• (JLA: Heaven’s Ladder, pg. 50) Wally says that when he’s vibrating he can’t be hurt by anything Image 

Phasing

Uniquely, when Wally phases through objects, he overloads the molecular structure of whatever he’s phasing through with kinetic energy and causes them to explode from the inside out. This is an easy way to bypass conventional durability and go for a quick kill.

• (Flash #101, pg. 14) By vibrating through objects, he can make them explode by exciting the molecules to critical mass. Image

• (Flash #110, pg. 9) Makes a wall explode via vibrations as a trap. Image

• (Flash #127, pg. 15) Phases a karate chop through the Wizard’s hand to blow it up. Image  

• (Flash #132, pg. 7) Specifies that he atomizes things that he vibrates through. Image 

• (Flash #169, pg. 4) Phases himself as a tomato passes by, causing it to explode, essentially he can weaponize projectiles used against him. Image 

Molecular Manipulation

Wally can alter and manipulate the molecules and himself and others. While he has not directly shown offensive molecular manipulation, it’s not out of this world to think that he could, judging by the freedom he has at controlling his own body. Barry in particular displayed a wide variety of molecular manipulation, and Wally should scale to his mentor.

• (Flash #138, pg. 22) Stated by the author to have “absolute control over all the atoms and molecules of his body,” like Barry. Image

• (Flash #104, pg. 19) Shares speed at the molecular level in order to hasten chemical reactions. Image 

• (Flash #118, pg. 21) Lends the frozen Linda his speed and thaws her by affecting her at the molecular level. Image 

• (Flash #130, pg. 18) Vibrated himself into a state of “molecular shock” in order to appear comatose, effectively playing dead. Image 

• (Flash #177, pg. 18) Shifting his molecules to give them “room to breathe” within the black hole. Image 

Time Travel

By running fast enough, Wally can shatter the “time barrier” and bounce off the edge of the Speed Force to enter the Timestream, which allows him to travel through time to his heart’s content, whether it be a few milliseconds, or the end of the universe, backwards or forwards.

• (Flash #0, pg. 4) Accelerated beyond the time barrier to enter the timestream. Image 

• Does so again in the same issue, this time on purpose and under his control.

• (Flash #113, pg. 18) Proves again that he can enter the timestream at will. Image

• (Flash #95, pg. 3) Can see his entire life’s history in the timestream, including his future (apparent) death. Image

• (Flash #224, pg. 10) Once again, the Timestream has images of history passing by like a movie, allowing Wally to tell when to stop moving if he wants to precisely time travel. Image 

• (Flash #137, pg. 10) Travelled billions of years back in time. Image 

• (Flash #141, pg. 16) Time travels to the end of time, where Death no longer exists at a conceptual level. Image 

• Of note, Wally is capable of keeping track of the years that pass while running through the timestream, as well as witness what’s happening in the universe.

• (Flash #146, pg. 9) Travels in time to the 853rd century. Image 

• (Flash #148, pg. 5) Sends Thawne back to his own time, indicating a precision to his time travel. Image 

• (Flash #150, pg. 9) Time travels backwards to earlier in the Crisis, during the final battle between Earth’s heroes and the Anti-Monitor. More precision time travel. Image 

• (Flash #163, pg. 20) Can control where other people will go when traveling through time by lending speed. Image 1 Image 2

Speed Lending

Wally can “gift” his speed to other people or objects to make them faster. This can be done to aid others or trip them up, making them move faster than they had anticipated and causing them to crash (speed sharing does not enhance their perceptions). The downside is that Wally draws from his own speed to do this, naturally, and is made slower by it (though depending on the degree of his connection to the Speed Force, this could be irrelevant).

• (Flash #101, pg. 21) Can extend his speed field and add his own kinetic energy to objects to boost their velocity, effectively sharing speed. Image

• (Flash #111, pg. 13) Shares his speed with Savitar in order for both of them to enter the Speed Force. Image

• (Flash #132, pg. 8) Will often use speed sharing to send people out of control. Image 

• (Flash #150, pg. 12) Shares speed with heroes in order to boost their strength to be powerful enough to injure the Anti-Monitor. Image 

Speed Stealing

The opposite of lending, Wally can also steal speed from other objects and people and add it to his own. He can do this so thoroughly, he can reduce another speedster such as himself to regular human speed, or turn them into a statue for eternity (though like with lending, their perceptions aren’t affected; time will still pass normally to them).

• (Flash #114, pg. 18) Absorbs other speedsters’ kinetic energy. Image

• (Flash #138, pg. 10) Absorbs the kinetic energy of everyone on Earth from across the universe. Image  

• (Flash #160, pg. 22) Steals the speed from a speedster, rendering her normal. Image 

• (Flash #209, pg. 9) States that he could steal Superman’s speed. Image 

• (All Flash, pg. 31) Stole all of Inertia’s speed (Inertia is a speedster) to the point where he would be immobilized for eternity. Image

Resistance to Absolute Zero

Due to the Speed Force granting him an endless supply of kinetic energy naturally, he can resist the effects of absolute zero, which should be instant death for anyone affected. In one instance, he even survived “sub absolute zero” temperatures.

• (Flash #28, pg. 6) Survives being hit by Captain Cold’s Cold Gun, which freezes things at absolute zero. Image 

• Survives another absolute zero field in (Flash #1,000,000, pg. 11) and the only effect it has is that it drains him of energy. Image

• (Flash #173, pg. 19) He’s even vibrated fast enough to survive “sub absolute zero temperatures,” which I’m not sure exists, but there you go. Image 1 Image 2

Cosmic Awareness

By tapping into the Speed Force, Wally can sense things that are disrupting reality and seek them out.

• (Nightwing #21, pg. 11) Can sense things that are disrupting the space-time continuum. Image 

Feats 

Speed

• (Flash #138, pg. 13) Runs at trans-time velocity, essentially moving in a span of time so infinitesimal, no word exists to describe it, so less than Planck time. Image  

• (Flash #132, pg. 14) Shifts his perceptions up to “quantum stillness,” which is likely referring to Planck Time. Image

• (Flash #137, pg. 16) Raced against Zeta Beams, which can send Adam Strange across the universe instantly. Image 

• (Flash #138, pg. 18) Calculates down to the septo second (likely zeptosecond). Resets every radio in the world. Zig zagged around Jay and Supes over a million times. Image

• (Flash #50, pg. 15) Barry admits Wally is faster than he is. Image 

• (Flash #0, pg. 2) Ran beyond light and pushed the limits of speed. Image 

• (Flash #151, pg. 12) Wally can perceive time down to the attosecond. Image 

• (Flash #150, pg. 11) Moves so fast as to be invisible to Pre-Crisis heroes, including Pre-Crisis Superman. Image  

• (Flash #224, pg. 5) Blitzes Professor Zoom. Image

• (Flash #163, pg. 12) Blitzes Superman. Image

• (Flash #163, pg. 15) Blizes Kyle Rayner. Image  

• (Flash #130, pg. 19) Can move so fast that not even his past self can see him. Image 

• (Flash #148, pg. 4) Fights and defeats Professor Zoom in under a picosecond. Image 

• (Flash #79, pg. 35) Overcomes his fears and inferiority complex in regards to Barry and blitzes Reverse-Flash. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #102, pg. 7) Easily dodges an attack from Mongul, Image

• (JLA #89, pg. 2) Evacuates 500 thousand people from a city in 0.00001 microseconds. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #80, pg. 2) Wally can catch lightning in his hands and spend a month between the ticks of a second. Image 

• (Flash #189, pg. 29) He and Barry try every combination of button and switch on the spaceship in order to operate the ship. Image 

• (Flash #55, pg. 4) Catches up to Hermes, the Greek messenger God. Image 

• (Flash #156, pg. 28) He and Barry cover “every square inch” of the entire planet Earth in this fluid. Image 

• (Flash #126, pg. 17) Comes up with a million solutions in a nanosecond (that’d be essentially perceptions down to the femtosecond). Image 

• (Flash #266, pg. 31) Pushes a guy out of the way of a bolt of lightning and perceives time down to the nanosecond. Image 

• (Flash #92, pg. 19) Wally can run from Keystone City to Gibraltar in a nanosecond. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #163, pg. 7) Can be back home from the Nevada desert in “nanoseconds.” Image 

• (Flash #135, pg. 16) Moves fast enough that radiation appears slow. Radiation travels at the speed of light. Image  

• (Flash #216, pg. 29) Stated by narration to be able to move faster than light. Image 

• (Flash #136, pg. 4) Running at the speed of light while interacting with the photons that bounced off his childhood home decades earlier. Image 

• (Flash #111, pg. 16) Barry states Wally can reach the speed of light, even as a child who just got his powers. Image

• (Flash #150, pg. 30) Channels the entirety of the Speed Force, and obliterates Cobalt Blue. Image 1 Image 2

• This is reiterated in (Flash #155, pg. 11) which states that Wally Wally ran “half in half out” of the SF (allowing him to use it to its fullest without falling in until he was done) and overloaded Cobalt Blue with the energy he was channeling.

 

• (Flash Forward #5, pg. 15) Runs faster than light, thought, and the Speed Force itself. Image

• (Flash Forward #3, pg. 8) Has become “unmoored” and is faster now than he has ever been. Can hold two separate thoughts at the same time and combine one hundred thousand individual punches into one, so essentially quantum superposition. Image 

• (Final Crisis #6, pg. 25) In order to reach Darkseid, Wally and Barry will have to run faster than they ever have before due to the Multiversal singularity Darkseid is at the center of, which is collapsing the Multiverse. Image 

• (Flash #1,000,000, pg. 7) Runs so fast that he sends himself back into the past by a millisecond, thus making it look like he’s chasing himself. Then he beats himself in that race. Image 1 Image 2 

• (Flash #200, pg. 16) Uses Jesse’s formula yet again. This time Wally’s moving so fast that time itself stops, and Wally is capable of interacting with Zoom, who possesses his own personal timeline. Image

• (Flash #209, pg. 8) Racing Superman. Wally states they used to be even, or Supes faster, but since getting over his inferiority complex with Barry and discovering the Speed Force, he’s become much faster. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #138, pg. 17) Racing against his own voice, which is currently travelling through the fourth dimension Image  

• (Flash #137, pg. 12) Outraced the Big Bang and the end of the universe. Image 

• (Flash #141, pg. 13) Outruns the Black Flash, described as death. Image 

• (Final Crisis #3, pg. 10) Outran the Black Racer, a manifestation of Death, backwards through time. Image 

• (Final Crisis #7, pg. 12) Outran Death again, earlier he states that not even Death can run faster than light. Image 

• (Flash #141, pg. 16) Runs to the end of time, where Death no longer exists at a conceptual level. Image 

Strength

• (Flash #49, pg. 7) He and Barry are generating so much energy while racing against each other that it’s disrupting magic, the Green, the Microverse, and could be felt all the way in New Genesis so strongly that Highfather thought it was coming from the Source. Image

• Cyborg reiterates on the next page “link.”

• He then annihilates Hal’s construct which was even vibrating at a frequency in order to slow them down and nearly breaks Hal’s ring. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #150, pg. 30) Channels the entirety of the Speed Force, and obliterates Cobalt Blue. Image 1 Image 2

• This is reiterated in (Flash #155, pg. 11) which states that Wally Wally ran “half in half out” of the SF (allowing him to use it to its fullest without falling in until he was done) and overloaded Cobalt Blue.

• (Flash #150, pg. 12) Shares speed with heroes in order to boost their strength to be powerful enough to injure the Anti-Monitor. When they fail, Wally then starts tearing apart the Anti-Monitor’s armor by himself. This is not his full strength, as demonstrated later in the issue with his fight against Cobalt Blue. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5

• (To clarify, the Anti-Monitor was having his power drained by Doctor Light, but he was also more powerful in this timeline due to Barry’s absence further unbalancing the AM’s power in favor of anti-matter.)

• Not even the Spectre, at the time, was capable of piercing the Anti-Monitor’s armor and defeating him. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Final Crisis #6, pg. 25) In order to reach Darkseid, Wally and Barry will have to run faster than they ever have before due to the Multiversal singularity Darkseid is at the center of, which is collapsing the Multiverse. Image

• (Flash #148, pg. 3) Hits Professor Zoom with the force of a white dwarf star. Image

• (Flash #105, pg. 19) Vibrates and destroys a potentially infinite number of mirrors (Mirror Master describes it as every reflective surface on Earth). Image

• (Flash Forward #3, pg. 8) Beats up a vampirized Ultraman Image

• (Flash #102, pg. 20) KOs Mongul Image

• (JLA #3, pg. 7) Vibrates his fist towards lightspeed, increasing its mass towards infinity, to punch a White Martian from Mt. Rushmore to Africa, knocking him out. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #155, pg. 8) Blows away an alternate universe version of himself with a whirlwind. Image 1

• (Flash #188, pg. 17) His whirlwind matches the Weather Wizard’s wind blast, who was currently operating a city-wide hurricane. Image 

• (Flash #211, pg. 9) Runs from the US-Mexico border all the way to Keystone City to punch Grodd at Mach 10 and send him flying all the way to Wyoming. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #85, pg. 17) Punches a guy and sends him flying at Mach 2. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #14, pg. 5) Every move he makes causes a sonic boom. He’s under the influence of a speed-enhancing drug at the time, but he’s also greatly weakened overall so this is a good demonstration of what a supersonic not holding back Wally is like. Image

• (Flash #28, pg. 9) Claps create sonic booms. Image

Durability

• (Flash #137, pg. 12) Ran to the end of the universe and fit himself through the “pinprick” that is the infinite singularity that is the Big Crunch, effectively withstanding the implosion of the universe. Image

• (Flash #141, pg. 16) Runs to the end of time, where Death no longer exists at a conceptual level. Wally, however, still does, and survives the entropy of the end of the universe and the Big Bang. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #149, pg. 21) Survives the world being retconned around him, as well as his own history being retconned. Image

• (Flash #150, pg. 7) Tries to vibrate back to a universe that doesn’t exist anymore and briefly survives the void of anti-matter. Image

• Likewise, on (pg. 23), he survives being briefly consumed by antimatter as well.

• (Flash #169, pg. 16) Survives having his molecules reverse their phase against one another, likely meaning that they’re doing the vibrational explosion thing to themselves. Image 

• (Flash #199, pg. 12) Takes a hit from Zoom, whose snaps are strong enough to shake the city with sonic booms. Image

• Wonder Woman states that Zoom hits harder than Superman. Image

• (Flash #102, pg. 14) Survives a punch from Mongul,. Image

• (Flash #79, pg. 32) Takes a beating from Thawne, whose punches are breaking the sound barrier. Image

• (JLA #75, pg. 41) Absorbs the kinetic energy of the stresses the other heroes were putting on the planet as they were pulling it. Image 

• (Flash #200, pg. 21) Tackled around the planet, from Ireland to China, by Zoom. Image

• (Flash #224, pg. 6) Gets punched so hard that every window within two miles shatters, and collapses a skyscraper. Image

• (Flash #137, pg. 2) Enters a black hole without being killed by its space warping effects. Image 1 Image 2 Image 3

• (Flash #177, pg. 18) Survived grabbing a hold of a singularity. Image 

• (Flash #1,000,000, pg. 16) Survives being spatially folded. Image

• (Flash #148, pg. 3) Withstands Zoom vibrating his hand through his abdomen, what should be a lethal blow. Image

• (Flash #220, pg. 6) Slams into Barry while both are running so fast they couldn’t see each other. Barry vibrated at the last second to cushion the blow, but this ended up merging their molecules and sharing the same physical space as one another. Image 1 Image 2

• (Flash #28, pg. 6) Survives being hit by Captain Cold’s Cold Gun, which freezes things at absolute zero. Image 

• Survives another absolute zero field in (Flash #1,000,000, pg. 11) and the only effect it has is that it drains him of energy.

• (Flash #85, pg. 6) Survives being shocked by fifty thousand volts of electricity despite already being heavily injured and bleeding. Image

Skill

• (Flash #124, pg. 19) Will utilize super speed in order to approach an opponent, study them, and think of a plan of action all while time is nearly stopped, then pretend to fight them for normal. Image

• (Flash #126, pg. 6) Creates counter vibrations over thousands of miles of land in order to stop a major earthquake. Image

• (Flash #1,000,000, pg. 12) Performs a sneak attack by energizing air molecules and sending them around the planet to attack his opponent from behind. Image 

• (Flash #188, pg. 21) Memorizes dozens of blueprints and reads over 215 books on engineering, then rebuilds a bridge in thirty seconds as its falling. Image

• (Flash #224, pg. 3) Fights two Reverse-Flashes at once: Hunter Zolomon (Zoom), and Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom). Image  

• (Flash #135, pg. 15) Applied the speed force to Doctor Polaris to create an electromagnetic effect. Shows more knowledge of physics, similar to Static. Image 

• (Flash #163, pg. 10) Modifies a computer so it can operate at “near light speed.” Image   

• (Flash #108, pg. 12) Although untrained in martial arts, is skilled enough to take on ninjas. Image 

Weaknesses 

Wally doesn’t have any direct, obvious weaknesses, at least not ones that he’s overcome with time. He used to require an inordinate caloric intake in order to remain fast, but since relying on the Speed Force that’s no longer an issue. He used to subconsciously limit his speed due to an inferiority complex with Barry, but he’s since moved past that and far exceeded Barry in speed. He used to have trouble returning from the Speed Force after getting trapped in it, but has since become “unmoored” and can do so at will.

Really the only big thing is his penchant for getting tripped up or tagged by characters far slower than he is, seemingly illogically. This is likely just writers not writing Wally to his full potential, since super speed solves most problems a writer can come up with, but in-universe this could be explained by Wally’s hot head and arrogance in regards to his speed.