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Real
Name: |
Walter
Rudolph (Wally) West |
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Status: |
Returned to his home dimension |
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Versions
of the JLA: |
The
JLA |
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Known
Aliases: |
formerly Kid Flash |
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Nicknames: |
"the
Fastest Man Alive", "the Scarlet Speedster", "the
Crimson Comet" |
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Occupation: |
Full-time
Superhero |
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Other Group
Affiliations: |
JJLA and Titans of Earth-Zero,
probably the JLA and Titans of his own Earth as well. |
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First
Appearance: |
(as
Kid Flash) Flash (first series) #110, December 1959-January 1960;
(as
Flash) Crisis on Infinite Earths #12, March 1986
THE FLASH IV (second series) #150-159 |
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Base
of Operations: |
Originally Central City, Ohio, now mobile in Hypertime |
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Age: |
Approximately
35 years old. |
| Height: |
6'
0" |
| Weight: |
175
lbs. |
| Eyes: |
Green |
| Hair: |
Red |
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Known
Relatives: |
Rudolf
West (father), Mary West (mother), Barry Allen (uncle, deceased), Iris
Allen (aunt), Bart Allen (cousin), and Ira West (adoptive grandfather),
Don and Dawn Allen (The Tornado Twins of the 30th Century, cousins,
deceased), Jenni Ognats (XS of the Legion of Super-Heroes, second
cousin), Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rhodes (uncle and aunt), Inez Rhodes
(cousin) |
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Known
Allies: |
Johnny
Quick (Deceased), Jay Garrick (The Flash I), Max Mercury, The Pied
Piper, Jesse Quick (Johnny Quick's daughter), John Fox (the Flash of the
25th & 853rd Centuries), Linda Park (fiancée, deceased), Green
Lantern V (Kyle Rayner), Green Arrow II (Connor Hawke), Flash II (Barry
Allen, deceased), Nightwing, Impulse (Bart Allen), Batman, Superman,
Wonder Woman I, Wonder Woman II, the Justice League of America and many
others |
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Known
Enemies: |
Kadabra,
Weather Wizard, Mirror Master, Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Heat
Wave, Black Flash, The Injustice Gang, Kobra, Neron, Savitar and many
others |
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Powers
and Abilities: |
Walter West has a direct-line to the Speed Force just
like Wally West, however he studied under the villain Savitar and is far
more skilled in the advanced use of his powers. He can steal speed
causing bullets to just stop in their tracks and fall to the ground, he
can hypermetabolise wounds instantly healing from injury and he has
complete control over his molecules. By holding the door of the Speed
Force open he can unleash a huge amount of power and use it to jump into
Hypertime, theoretically a Flash should be able to navigate by altering
his natural vibrations, but no known Flash has yet mastered this method. |
| Background: |
Shortly after the third Flash disappeared on a
time travel mission, a new Flash appeared in Keystone City. Collecting his
predecessors' personal effects, he began an investigation... into what, he
has not yet revealed. He kept his identity a secret, revealing it only to
original Flash Jay Garrick, so that
he could operate in Central City, to
Superman and Troia, so that he
could work with the Justice League and the Titans.
Older than Wally, faster than the others, able to vibrate through objects
and to steal speed, and uninterested in "playing games" with villains, he
divides his time between his secret investigations and his public
crimefighting. He has also become romantically linked to Central City
police scientist Angela Margolin.
He later revealed himself to his fellow speedsters as an older Wally, but
he declined to inform them that he actually hails from an alternate
timeline. In his timeline, his girlfriend Linda Park died in the battle
with Kobra. Driven by his grief to a rage against injustice, he studied
speed secrets from Savitar (before killing him) and began a crusade to not
just capture, but eliminate villains, making him a fugitive. Only in an
encounter with the Wally and Linda from our own timeline, during which the
two Wallys merged to battle Abra Kadabra, did he lose his rage.
Tragically, Kadabra apparently killed the couple shortly afterward,
leaving Walter "Wally" West to travel, disguised and artificially aged 10
years, to our own timeline to take the place of the hero who saved him...
and make Kadabra pay. |
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