Sunday, August 23, 2020

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.


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 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).


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.


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.




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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.



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.


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).


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).


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.


Cosmic Awareness

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



Feats 


Speed



 

  • (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 

  • (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.










30 comments:

  1. I never knew Wally was bringing so much to the fight.
    Im not seeing him winning (there are some things I must know about Archie Sonic, sure) but the fight will be interesting nonetheless.

    Thank for the blog.

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    1. You're not seeing Wally winning? How so? Please explain, because I'm a die-hard Sonic fan and this blog made me lose any hope of Sonic winning this fight.

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  2. Wally Should be able to beat archie sonic, considering that barry allen can beat archie sonic based on these votes : https://www.instagram.com/p/CERpusZheRY/?igshid=16fvbmph5fkws

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    1. Edit : https://mobile.twitter.com/deathbattle/status/1054428910790762498?lang=en

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    2. How does a fan vote even remotely affect who should actually win?

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  3. Wally Should be able to beat archie sonic, considering that barry allen can beat archie sonic based on these votes : https://mobile.twitter.com/deathbattle/status/1054428910790762498?lang=en

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  4. I have a question regarding Wally's speed stealing/lending.

    Does Flash require stealing the Speed Force from an individual in order to take their speed? He wasn't able to steal Zoom's speed because he was powered by a different property, the Negative Speed Force. So it seems clear that Wally isn't simply stealing kinetic energy but is able to take away or add Speed Force from/to others since that's what he's connected to and the Speed Force essentially looks to be what all living beings draw from to move around. My reason for asking is to find out whether Wally would be able to steal Sonic's speed given that he's an outside entity that's powered by different means.

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    1. No, Wally is stealing speed and he can steal Sonic’s speed regardless if it’s speed force. Wally is definitively stealing kinetic energy.

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    2. Ok, but in DC, kinetic energy only exists because of the speed force in the first place, and Wallyou gets his powers out of a strong connection to it, which makes it very likely that he is in fact stealing speed force from his opponents and that kin e-ticket energy only gets siphoned off as a result of this. Now, it'seems been stated multiple times that the speed force is the forcemail behind all kinetic energy in the DC mulitiverse, but if that on its own is not enough evidence to say that Flash can't steal the speed of someone who resides outside of it, then let'stand take a look at the canon Marvel VS DC cross-over. In it, Flash (in this case Barry Allen) couldn't steal Quicksilver's speed, and the explenation given is that his speed comes from him being a mutant, and not in any way being related to the speed force. It doesn't get much more blatant than that

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    3. Barry Allen was able to use the speed force when he was in the Power Rangers universe. If he was able to use his powers in a different universe, then what makes you think he can't steal speed if he can still use his powers in a different universe where the speed force doesn't exist.

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    4. Is the power rangers cross-over canon? Cause I know the Marvel cross-over is, and in it, Flash was getting blitzed by Quicksilver because his speed originates fromy him being a mutant rather than the speed force

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    5. The Marvel cross-over was canon. Currently it's not.

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  5. The issue with the anti montor feat for Wally West is that the anti monitor was already weakened and the armor was damaged before hand by others heroes so it was not that he was powerful enough to even do that alone in the first place so that feat isn't that impressive as other multiversal feats I've seen from other characters. Also if people use the faster than teleportation feat, he was literally speed stealing so that was not his normal speed.

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    1. Also the fact that he needed help in the first place doesn't make Wally multiversal.

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    2. The Dr.Manhattan feats shouldn't count for Wally either since that is not Wally himself, it is basically Wally and Dr.Manhattan. It should just remain 1v1, Dr. Manhattan is not an everyday thing Wally has just like what other Supermans have done in the past. Those are included as separate versions.

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    3. It is also just like when Marvel characters like Spider-Man get Cosmic powers. It wouldn't make sense to even include them in the analysis of just regular Wally.

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    4. Did you just gloss over the fact that the Anti-Monitor was also empowered due to Barry’s absence or no? Also, the Pre-Crisis heroes only were able to stand a chance because Wally specifically gave them his power, not due to themselves.

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    5. He still doesn't scale anyways. It took the combined powers of the heroes to be multiversal and not just flash himself. It would basically be A+B=possibly multiversal and not A=Multversal. It is like if it took two people to lift a heavy crate and not one. Dr.Light literally had to weaken Anti Monitor by draining his power so it proves even more he isn't multiversal. The armor was even being cracked beforehand so it proves he didn't do it alone. https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flash-1987/Issue-150?id=8926#11

      Even when Wally West took down his armor, the anti montor was still alive anyways so he wasn't even the level of a weakened anti monitor.

      https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flash-1987/Issue-150?id=8926#12
      https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flash-1987/Issue-150?id=8926#13

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB58qWAqMOg

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    6. He is still not multiversal no matter what. Other characters who are actually multiversal have done it alone literally and not done by defeating someone who was multiversal with teammates like Wally West. He can't scale cause it was the potency of his power that cause it, it was more of destroying him step by step and not in one swift especially since he did it with teamates. They literally even had to use hax like draining the anti monitors power too which further proves my point and that wasn't even done thanks to Wally but Dr.Light.

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    7. That’s false because he does still scale and he is multiversal. He did beat someone who was multiversal and the anti monitor wasn’t weakened during the fight. Dr Manhattan feats should count and no you’re wrong in those regards. It was done due to Wally and not Light. Nothing proves your point.

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    8. It does make him multiversal and he didn’t need help.

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  6. For fuck's sake. Sonic might be fucked and that pisses me off. How many more DC victories are we gonna need before Death Battle finally realizes that they're not suitable for Death Battle? I guess the low tier characters like Red Hood and Black Canary are fine, but how are you supposed to beat any of DC's top tiers when Wallly West is strong enough to tear off an outerversal being's armor despite not being a character focused on strenght? I had hope that the Sonic franchise's shitty win-loss ratio and DC's ridiculous streak and amazing track record would finally come to an end with this episode, but clearly I was wrong and we're about to have a shitload of salt on our hands even if the outcome will most likely be accurate. I'm sick of this. Maybe I wouldn't be so mad if Death Battle at least did justice to the game version of Sonic, but they didn't, and no matter how much they may give credit to Archie Sonic, I lost 99% of the hope I had that he would win this. The only chance Sonic still stands is if they downplay Flash like they did Wonder Woman

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  7. I'm noticing the word dimension poping up a lot in this page and not on Sonics (really makes me think)

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