| Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West | |
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| Series | DC Comics |
| Age | Mid-Twenties (Current Comics) Mid to Late Teens (most other versions; as Kid Flash) Early to Mid Twenties (most other versions; as The Flash) |
| Birthday | Unknown |
| Sex | Male |
| Species | Metahuman |
| Height | 6'0" |
| Weight | 175 lbs |
| Alignment | Neutral Good |
| “ | Keystone is under the protection of a man who can throw haymakers like machine-gun fire... who can create cyclones with a wave of his arm... who can outrun gravity. Keystone is my city. | „ |
| ~ Wally West |
Wallace Rudolph West, more commonly known as The Flash, is a quick-footed superhero from DC Comics. He was once the sidekick of another Flash where he was known as Kid Flash, but he has since grown up as his own hero.
Background[]
Within the vastness of the DC Universe, there are many heroes that have chosen to take up a legacy once set by a previous hero. Kyle Rayner to Hal Jordan. Jaime Reyes to Ted Kord. Steel to Superman. Batman’s many, many, Robins. But among the scores of DC’s most famed legacies is that of the Scarlet Speedster, the Flash. First starting off with the hero Jay Garrick, he soon passed his mantle down to the brilliant scientist, Barry Allen. Barry Allen eventually chose a successor of his own and the man who would prove to the world that he was the fastest of the Fastest Men Alive. Wally West.
Wally was the president of the Flash Fan Club and coincidentally the nephew of Iris West, the wife of Barry Allen. When he went to Central City to visit his aunt Iris, he had the opportunity to meet his idol The Flash. Wally and The Flash were talking at Barry Allen's lab on a rainy night where lightning struck the cabinet, bathing Wally in the exact same electrified chemicals that created the Flash. After that, Barry revealed his identity to Wally and told him that he couldn't tell anyone about it, Since that day Wally West became the first ever Kid Flash.
As Kid Flash, Wally served as the sidekick to his hero and mentor Barry, helping him save the day time and again, and even helping out as a member of the Justice League. However, these days of superheroics and a father-son relationship would soon end with one fateful moment. The death of Barry Allen.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Speed Force: After he was struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Wally gained a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up and needs to be released. Wally, along with all speedsters connected, acts as a release valve for the Speed Force. When Wally uses his powers, he taps into that built up energy and expends it. Being a Speed Force Conduit radically accelerates all aspects of Wally's being. Due to his time trapped in the Speed Force, Wally has since gained a much stronger connection to it, and can tap into it much more than before, due to being adrift within its cosmic energies for so long. Wally has a deep, spiritual understanding of the Speed Force. Wally's connection to the Speed Force grew even stronger after he was hyper-energized with a incredibly powerful surge of energy from the Speed Force itself. This granted Wally a raw connection to the Speed Force, meaning he cannot be cut off from its energy, due to his mainline-connection to it.
- Godly Speed: Wally is capable of moving at incredible superhuman speeds. He was able to cover 7,000 miles in 6.25 seconds, and even accelerate far beyond light-speed to the point of entering the Speed Force dimension. He is faster than both Superman and Barry Allen, having beaten both in separate races. Wally is so fast that he had no problem moving at super-speed, even when time was frozen. He was even able to hit Ultraman hundreds of thousands of times before he could react. After pushing himself, Wally was able to accelerate faster than thought, time, and even the Speed Force itself. His unrivaled connection to the Speed Force makes Wally the fastest being in existence. According to Tempus Fuginaut, Wally is the fastest being in the multiverse, and his speed is essentially infinite. By reciting the Speed Force Formula, Wally can tap into the Speed Force in a different way to boost his speed even more. This allows him to move at beyond light speeds with no effort, making it appear as if time was frozen. He has only used the formula twice, as a last resort.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Wally possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion.
- Superhuman Stamina: Wally's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for extended periods of time without getting tired or weak. He ran for days on end, non-stop, while trying to look for his kids.
- Superhuman Agility: Wally's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
- Superhuman Strength: The Flash can use his speed to boast his natural strength, allowing him to easily carry multiple people while running at super speed. Wally's strength combined with his speed allowed him to hit Ultraman with the force of one hundred thousand punches, with one punch. He was also able to plow through an army of Dark Flashes, sending them flying through the air upon contact.
- Speed Force Aura: Wally's body is surrounded by a "friction cushion", a field of kinetic absorbent energy that protects him and anyone who is running with or carried by him from the rigorous effects of using his speed, including friction, airborne particulate matter, kinetic impacts, G-Force and the like. It also allows speedsters like Wally to run at speeds faster than light, without causing damage to the environment.
- Superhuman Durability: Thanks to his protective Speed Force aura, Wally is capable of resisting tremendous kinetic impact forces that could easily crush or kill a human, without suffering any serious external or internal injuries.
- Accelerated Healing: Like all conduits of the Speed Force, Wally is capable of regenerating from injuries much faster than any normal human.
- Toxic Immunity: Wally's accelerated metabolism grants him significant resistance to drugs and other toxins. When exposed to a sleep gas, Wally was only slowed to normal human levels, rather than being instantly put to sleep by the gas.
- Aerokinesis: By rotating his arms at super speed or running in a circular motion, Wally can manipulate the airflow around him for various effects, such as creating strong vortexes of wind. By running fast enough, he can also pull the oxygen out of a fire in order to extinguish the flames. By running across water in circles, Wally was able to create a large vortex of water that he was able to pull behind him in his slipstream. Hawkman stated that when Wally and Barry ran around the world at immense speed, they created winds stronger than he had ever felt over all of his lives.
- Dimensional Travel: Wally is able to accelerate into the Speed Force by moving past light-speed. Entering the Speed Force is usually dangerous for speedsters since they need a "lightning rod" to ground them, or else they may become trapped.
- Electrokinesis: Wally can generate and manipulate the electrical energy that he draws from the Speed Force. This Speed Force lightning emanates off of him, especially when he moves at super-speed. When generated at high volumes, Wally's Speed Force energy is powerful enough to disrupt the Green, the Microverse, and even Magic, as well as easily destroy Green Lantern constructs on contact. Wally has stated that it takes great control to make sure the Speed Force in him stays put, describing the energy as the world's most dangerous weapon. Wally's lightning color has shifted based on various circumstances. After escaping the Speed Force, his energy shifted from yellow to white, due to his connection to the Speed Force growing stronger. Wally's lightning later evolved into an indigo-blue cosmic energy, however after being hyper-energized by a surge Speed Force energy, his lightning shifted back to yellow.
- Electro-Blast: Wally is capable of projecting powerful arcs and blasts of his Speed Force lightning.
- Energy Construct Creation: Wally discovered if he concentrated, he could use the Speed Force to create solid energy constructs, which he used to compose his costume. He used this ability to reweave the molecules of his Kid Flash costume and construct a new Flash suit out of pure Speed Force energy. In another instance he was able to recreate his Pre-Flashpoint suit.
- Energy Transformation: When moving faster than light speed, Wally generates so much energy that he essentially becomes pure Speed Force energy.
- Healing: Wally's lightning can heal the wounds of others, through contact. An arc of his lightning sealed a wound of Nightwing's, after he was impaled. Wally once used his Speed Force energy to bring a dead flower back to life, and by stimulating it with one more spark of energy, he was able to bring Poison Ivy back to life through the plant.
- Speed Force Absorption: By interlocking energy currents, Wally can drain away the Speed Force, or Negative Speed Force, from other energy sources such as a Speed Force storm.
- Speed Force Negation: By interlocking energy currents, Wally was able to disconnect Savitar from the Speed Force, completely removing his powers.
- Enhanced Mental Process: The Speed Force enhances Wally's mental capacity to levels greater than any normal human, allowing him to take in and process information at an accelerated rate. This allows Wally to read through large amounts of information at super-speed. He can think so fast that he is able to hold two separate thoughts at once. Wally can think quickly, mapping out the potential outcomes of a situation and reading books in an instant.
- Enhanced Senses: The Speed Force grants Wally enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned to his reaction speed, as well as grants him extra temporal senses.
- Cosmic Awareness: Wally's connection to the Speed Force also allows him to sense cosmic and temporal disturbances. He can sense when the flow of time has been manipulated, as well as channel the Speed Force and "listen to it", allowing him to sense things that are disrupting the space-time continuum. Wally was able to sense Doctor Manhattan watching over Prime Earth, as well as The Batman Who Laughs putting pressure on the Speed Force in an attempt to corrupt it. Wally has also broken the Fourth Wall, thanks to Doctor Fate, who opened his inner eye to see it, which allowed him to interact with the "reader".
- Molecular Acceleration: Wally can vibrate his own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes, by adjusting to different frequencies.
- Intangibility: Wally can vibrate his molecular structure to an intangible state, allowing objects to pass through him.
- Phasing: By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level, and by doing so at just the right frequency, Wally can phase through objects such as walls without damaging them. He can allow others to phase through an object with him by vibrating them through physical contact.
- Retrocognition: Due to his time trapped in the Speed Force, Wally regained his memories of the Pre-Flashpoint timeline, and remembers his past life, as well as the lives of others. Also, after Abra Kadabra erased everyone's memories of him, Wally could use his lightning to "shock" their forgotten memories back into them. Wally gained all of his forgotten memories over time through "temporal seizures".
- Temporal Energy Burst: Wally's temporal seizures caused him to release powerful bursts of temporal energy. This energy clashes with Speed Force energy, making it harmful to speedsters, including Wally himself. When Wally regained all of his memories, he released all the temporal energy in the Speed Force, which temporarily cut off time travel and dimensional travel for all speedsters.
- Speed Force Sharing: Wally is able to use the Speed Force to "lend" velocity to objects or people already in motion. When he used the Speed Force Formula to give himself a massive speed boost, he was able to share this speed with the rest of the Flash Family.
- Speed Steal: Wally can use the Speed Force to absorb the speed and/or momentum from anyone or anything. He demonstrated this by slowing down an explosion, and even taught Kid Flash to do this.
- Time Stopping: Wally developed the ability to stop the flow of time when he temporarily gained a heart condition. This power would kick in when his heart rate would rise too high from straining himself at super-speed. While stopping time, Wally has the same advantages of moving at super-speed, without needing to move fast at all.
- Time Travel: By running fast enough, Wally is able to jump into the timestream and travel throughout it, without the aid of a Cosmic Treadmill.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat: Wally is a highly skilled combatant, capable of utilizing his speed to his advantage in combat. Wally's fighting skills are so efficient, that he is able to single-handedly take on entire teams and armies. He was capable of defeating an entire army of vampires as well as best a Vampire Ultraman, single-handedly. He even managed to take down the Retaliators solo, as well as the entire Justice League Dark, while they were possessed by Eclipso. The Roy Harper of Earth 43 even complemented Wally's skill as a combatant.
- Genius Level Intellect: Mister Terrific acknowledges Wally's intellect and views him as a problem solver with mechanical expertise. He deems Wally useful and smart enough to work among his top scientists, in studying the temporal and the multiverse.
Alternate Forms[]
Mobius Chair Flash[]
Mobius Chair: In order to save the multiverse from the incoming Dark Matter emerging from the Dark Multiverse, Wally had to sit in the Mobius Chair, which had been previously been imbued with the power of Doctor Manhattan. Due to his Indomitable Will and the power of the Speed Force, Wally was not overtaken by the power of the chair.
- Nigh-Omniscience: The Mobius Chair grants Wally access to the infinite knowledge it possesses. Due to the chair being imbued with Doctor Manhattan's powers, Wally also shares Manhattan's atemporal vision, meaning he is simultaneously able to see the past, present and future from a third person perspective. Wally states he can see every multiversal crisis from first to last.
- Cosmic Awareness: Wally possesses an understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale, and has the ability to oversee other universes as he wishes. The chair had also allowed Wally to finally understand how the events of the Flashpoint had unmoored him from reality. Wally was also able to see that time and space had been broken and risking collapse.
- Precognition: Due to his ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Wally is able to look into the future of his own timeline, or any timeline he wishes.
- Retrocognition: Due to his ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Wally can see past timelines that were erased or altered.
- Energy Projection: After joining with the Mobius Chair, Wally's Speed Force energy merged with the Connective Energy of Doctor Manhattan. It is essentially a form of positive cosmic energy, opposite in nature to the negative Crisis energy wielded by beings like Perpetua. Wally was able to send a powerful lightning bolt to strike in Central City, as a signal to Barry Allen. Even when separated from the chair, Wally retains the Anti-Crisis energy within him.
- Interstellar Travel: Due to his powers with the Speed Force in conjunction with the powers of the Mobius Chair, Wally can travel throughout time and space at incredible speed.
- Reality Alteration: Wally was capable of erasing a Dark Matter infested universe and filled it with new planets and galaxies.
- Self-Sustenance: After joining with the Mobius chair, Wally no longer needs air, sleep, food or water, and can to survive unaided within the vacuum of space.
Feats[]
Strength[]
- Can tie down giants with cables.
- Can punch people through several buildings at mach 2 speeds.
- Can throw rocks at the speed of light.
- With the Infinite Mass Punch, hits with the mass of a dwarf star compacted into his fist.
- Can trade blows with Zoom, who is stronger than Superman.
Sent a White Martian flying from Mount Rushmore to South Africa with a single punch, knocking him out cold
A single punch nearing lightspeed hits with the force of a white dwarf star
Wally West can create sonic booms by clapping his hands together
His whirlwind matched the Weather Wizard’s wind blast (which was city wide)
Can be scaled to his predecessor, Barry Allen, due to having the exact same source of their powers, and even being superior. Barry has:
In a race between Barry Allen and Wally West, they were stated to be threatening the fabric of the multiverse, with their race causing energy that the Highfather mistakes as coming from the Source Wall
Speed[]
- Consistently outrun and dodge light beams with casual ease.
- Even as a kid, can easily break the time barrier and travelled the world in ten seconds.
- Able to outrun gravity with ease.
- Capable of racing through space & time.
- With his speed, is capable of being literally at two places at once.
- At full speed, can accelerate beyond the time barrier.
- Wally West ran so fast that he broke the Force Barrier
- Evacuated a city that was blown up by a nuclear warhead in 0.00001 microseconds.
- Ran so fast that he accidently created an explosion that levelled city blocks and created a fire.
- Managed to escape a human blackhole.
- Can turn sand into lava with his speed.
- Battled Zoom which lasts for a single pinosecond.
- Outran the Big Bang.
- Races with Zoom so fast that Superman appeared to be a statue to them.
- Scans half a million people in a single pinosecond.
- Built 50,000 forcefield devices in 12 hours.
- Outran the Black Racer, the grim reaper of speedsters, to the Heat Death of the Universe
- Once won a race that stretched half way across the Universe back to Earth... against someone who could instantly teleport.
- Is the fastest of the Flashes, to the point where he is potentially omnipresent.
Literally outraced Death itself in the form of the Black Racer, the physical embodiment of death for speedsters
Runs to the end of time, where Death no longer exists at a conceptual level.
Overall considered to be the single fastest entity within the DC Universe
Is regularly shown to be the fastest of the Flashes, with even Barry Allen acknowledging that he’s slower
Even when he was younger, he can run across the world seven times in a second
Superman is a literal standstill in comparison to him when he’s moving
Tempus Fuginaut, an incredibly powerful cosmic entity, outright states that Wally is the single fastest entity in the multiverse to ever exist
Ran in a race against Wonder Woman and won. Considering Wonder Woman’s Shattered God feat which was here blocking trillions upon trillions of shardsfrom across the universe, moving at the very least quadrillions of times faster than light, this is most impressive
Evacuates 500 thousand people from a city in 0.00001 microseconds
Races Shazam around the world at speeds faster than Superman
Faster than 4th dimensional teleportation
Should be faster than Green Lantern, who can summon constructs fast enough to search the entire DC universe in the span of a heartbeat
In Post Flashpoint, outraced Superman who is a combination of his Post Crisis and Flashpoint selves
Stated to be faster than radio waves, radio waves travel at the Speed of Light
Outran the Black Racer, who is explicitly stated to be faster than Darkseid. Darkseid flewto the edge of the universe in moments and is as fast as Pre and Post-Crisis Superman.
Catches up to Hermes, the Greek God of Speed. Considering that Shazam draws his speed from Hermes - they should be scalable (Shazam once kept up with Superman who moves MFTL Speeds)
Ran faster then Superman’s Heat-Vision. Superman’s Heat-Vision can move faster than light
Wally and Barry ran so fast that Superman couldn’t catch up to them.
Wally and Barry were running so fast that a specifically designed Green Lantern construct made by Hal Jordan to slow them down by vibrating at a special frequency was instantly shattered with so much force that the ring itself could have broken.
Durability[]
- Was fine when he was in a tornado.
Regularly trades blows with characters like Professor Zoom, who can punch in the same weight class as people as strong as Superman
Withstood grabbing a singularity
Survives being shocked by fifty thousand volts of electricity
Survives being hit by Captain Cold’s Cold Gun, which freezes things at absolute zero.
Again, should scale to his mentor, Barry Allen, who has:
Skill[]
- Has been trained by and alongside some of the DC universes best fighters such as Batman and Wonder Woman.
- Was the first speedster to directly link with the speed force and survived.
- Defeated Zoom.
- Along with the Justice League, fought and defeated Anti-Moniter.
- In the Kingdom Comes universe, became the embodiment of the speed force.
- Generated so much energy he was mistaken for the Source
Is the third to hold the title of “The Flash”, and is widely considered to be the fastest of the ‘Fastest Man Alive’.
Fought against a much more powerful Eobard Thawne with the Strength Force and Sage Force and won
Fights two Reverse-Flashes at once: Hunter Zolomon (Zoom), and Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom)
Defeated an Evil Clone of Bart Allen - Inertia
Matched Barry Allen aka the Second Flash in combat
In the animated series, defeated Lex Luthor fused with Brainiac
Matched Savitar, the God of Speed, and arguably defeated him by tricking him
Destroyed the Anti-Monitor in his armour (not his core form)
Defeated Cobalt Blue by channeling the entirety of the Speed Force
Defeated Superman and Black Flash
Weaknesses[]
- Wally isn’t perfect, no matter how powerful he is. He’s rather famously cocky and arrogant, and can run into situations unprepared, leading him to getting into trouble.
- His power is also highly dependent on him being connected to the Speed Force, so if his foes can break that connection somehow, he’s going to be in a tight spot before he can reestablish it.
- Lastly, there are times when speedsters like Wally can lose control of the Speed Force as abusing too much of it can create serious consequences, like when he got trapped in the Speed Force.
- Weakened Heart: After his past self's heart was stopped by Robin, Wally developed a cardiovascular condition and required the support of a pacemaker. Because of this, Wally must be careful not to exert himself too much. After having a near-death experience, Wally was seemingly cured of his condition when Kid Flash jump-started his heart.