| Comics | Post-Crisis • Rebirth |
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| Shows | DCAU • Teen Titans • Young Justice |
| “ | 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 |
Summary
Wally West, better known as The Flash is a member of the Justice League and the former sidekick and successor of Barry Allen. As the "Fastest Man Alive", he is constantly caught in various world-shattering conflicts while trying to balance his heroics with his home life.
Powers and Stats
Tier: Varies with Speed, up to 2-C, higher with Speed Steal. High 1-A with the Entire Speed Force
Name: Wally West (formerly known as Kid Flash)
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: 30s
Classification: Human, Speedster, Superhero
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Superhuman Speed, Afterimage Creation, Intangibility, Durability Negation, Kinetic Energy Manipulation (Speed stealing and lending), Regeneration (High-Low, Can regenerate broken bones quickly, but it can be set wrong[1]), Limited Air Manipulation (Stops a tornado by heating up the air at the base of it and creates a cushion of air afterwards[2]), Can travel through time and across timelines,[3] Conceptual Manipulation (Type 2, Saved his children by taking the Death Aspect of the speed force from them[4]), Matter Manipulation (His aura can control the speed of chemical reactions, and was able to "turn off" a black hole by manipulating its epicenter[5]), Statistics Amplification (Can speed up his Cerebral cortex to work at a hundred thousand times its normal speed[6]), Limited Immortality (Type 2, Can keep himself alive through sheer speed[7]), Damage Reduction (Flash's suit is designed to withstand the incredible accelerations he often undergoes,[8] and absorbs the energy of incoming blows[9]), Energy Manipulation (Can create a suit of Speed Force energy), Extrasensory Perception (Can see cloaked objects[10]), Power Bestowal (Can give Speed Force energy to others[11]), Biological Manipulation (Wally can speed up biological processes[12] and accelerate others' metabolism and healing rate through this[9]), Absorption (Can steal kinetic energy[13]), Paralysis Inducement (Immobilized Inertia[14]), Explosion Manipulation (Anything he phases through explodes), Vibration Manipulation, BFR (Can send something to its home dimension with vibrations), Non-Physical Interaction (Can vibrate in a way that allows him and things which pass through him to harm normally intangible objects[15]), Data Manipulation (Unravelled The Thinker into data), Acausality (Type 1; Was unaffected by the first Crisis playing out differently), Instinctive Action
Existence Erasure and Death Manipulation (The Black Flash couldn't kill him with a single touch. Tanked the concept of death from the Speed Force. Ran to the end of time, where even death ceases to exist on a conceptual level), Antimatter Manipulation (Was the sole piece of positive matter in all of existence), Black Hole Creation (Survived in the epicenter of a black hole), Power Absorption (His speed was incapable of being stolen.), Mind Manipulation (Thinks on a different frequency), Spatial Manipulation and Time Manipulation (Broke out of ambient matter, which functions as a 4-D barrier in space and time Was unaffected by Black Flash's time corruption), Illusion Creation and Perception Manipulation (Can break out of and see through illusions), Life Manipulation (Easily blocked beams that would have stolen the life of everyone throughout a small portion of time and space), Intangibility (Can vibrate Martian Manhunter back to a Solid), Energy Manipulation and Electricity Manipulation (Flash's brain was unaffected by a neural chaff that interfered with Green Lantern's brain electricity[9]), Limited Body Puppetry, and Dimensional Travel
Attack Potency: Varies with Speed (A Speedster's power varies depending on how[16] fast[17] they're[18] moving.[19] Flashes often hold back their full speed, otherwise they may kill someone while going too fast[20]), up to Low Multiverse level (Consistently stated to have surpassed Barry Allen. Superior to Jay Garrick, who can briefly fight Black Adam.[21] While weaker, can contend with a held back Zoom,[22] though he was eventually overwhelmed. In his early years, Wally could contend against a very early Professor Zoom, though is still overall weaker, and when Wally unblocked his mental barriers, Wally was capable of matching and eventually overwhelmed Thawne.[23] Later on, Wally was capable of fighting against a much more experienced Professor Zoom,[22] who is consistently an equal to Pre-Crisis Flash. Easily toyed with and defeated Mongul.[24] Knocked out Flashpoint Wonder Woman[25][Note 1]), higher with Speed Steal (Flash becomes stronger with Speed Steal. At the peak of his Speed Steal, it allowed him to match an out of control Zoom[26]). High Outerverse level with the Entire Speed Force (The Speed Force is one of the main multiversal forces, on a similar level to the Sphere of the Gods[27]. Completely overwhelmed Cobalt Blue's absorption abilities.[28] Should be comparable to Barry Allen who assisted Pandora in merging the New Earth, Wildstorm, and Vertigo universes.[29] Also, the Speed Force[30] is said to be the Deep Change that all of Creation is emanated as a dream[30] from that same force that transcends all levels of emanations[30] of reality)
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Ran along with the Big Bang[31]), higher with kinetic energy transfer (Reset every radio on earth in a few zeptoseconds[32]), up to Infinite with Speed Steal (Using Jesse Quick's connection to the Speed Force, Wally became so fast that time did not move from his perspective, and he proceeded to fight Zoom in his locked time[33]); Immeasurable via running through time,[34] the Speed Force,[35] using the Fourth Dimension[36] and at his peak), higher with the Entire Speed Force (Should be comparable to Bart Allen who volunteered to absorb the entire Speed Force so that he would be fast enough to stop Superboy-Prime.[37])
Lifting Strength: At least Peak Human, possibly higher with the Speed Force
Striking Strength: Varies with Speed, up to Low Multiverse level, higher with Speed Steal. High Outerverse level with the Entire Speed Force
Durability: Varies with Speed, up to Low Multiverse level (Capable of tanking the recoil of his own attacks. Took a punch from Pre-Crisis Professor Zoom.[22] Took a hit from Mongul[24]), higher with Speed Steal. High Outerverse level with the Entire Speed Force
Stamina: Superhuman (Ran for two full days without stopping[38]), Near Infinite after returning from the Speed Force (According to Wally, he will never run out of energy due to his direct connection to the Speed Force[39])
Range: Standard Melee Range (Most of his powers are melee-based, but he can use ranged Speed Force effects a few away), Varies up to Kilometers with whirlwinds and such
Standard Equipment: His own Speedsuit
Intelligence: Genius (Wally West has a college education, mastery of the Speed Force, and has many years of experience fighting all kinds of enemies. He was said to have read the Internet in its entirety)
Weaknesses: Various types of energy can affect him even while moving or functioning at superhuman speeds, as well as effectively diminish/cut off his connection to the Speed Force. Using the Speed Force excessively and recklessly can result in him being permanently trapped in it. He cannot alter the kinetic energy of objects that gain their speed from time manipulation. He also needs a massive amount of food to compensate for his greatly accelerated metabolism.
- Wally escaped a black hole and outraced the explosion of Krypton and Zeta-Beams.[40]
- He reset every radio on earth in one sextillionth of a second.[32]
- He ran to the Heat Death of the Universe to defeat the Black Racer.[31]
- The Flash Feats Timeline Project
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Relativistic Mass Punch: By accelerating to near the speed of light, he uses the Speed Force to allow the effects of relativity to increase the mass of his body, thus allowing him to hit with an incredibly powerful punch (said to hit like a white dwarf).
- Speed Force Dump: After touching his opponent, he can send them into the Speed Force.
- Speed Steal: By touching (or just being near) an opponent, he can steal all of their kinetic energy and momentum, adding them to his own. In addition to slowing the targets down, it also immobilizes them indefinitely, making them frozen like statues.
Note:
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Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ The Flash 192
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #176
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #141
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #243
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #177
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #187
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #109
- ↑ Flash Vol 1 136
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 JLA Vol 1 17
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #194
- ↑ The Flash: Rebirth #5
- ↑ The Flash: Iron Heights #1
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #199
- ↑ All Flash #1
- ↑ JLA: Heaven's Ladder
- ↑ Dark Crisis: Big Bang, December 2022
- ↑ JLA Vol 1 #3
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #148 May 1999
- ↑ Convergence: Speed Force #2
- ↑ DC Rebirth, The Flash Vol 5 #7, November 2016
- ↑ JSA (1999) #6
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 The Flash Vol 2 #224
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #79
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 The Flash Vol 2 #102
- ↑ Convergence: Speed Force #2
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #200
- ↑ Justice League (2018) #37
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #150
- ↑ Flashpoint Vol 2 #5, October 2011
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 The Flash Vol 6 #11, September 2024
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 The Flash Vol 2 #141 September 1998
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 The Flash Vol 2 #138 June 1998
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #200, September 2003
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #141, September 1998
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #146, March 1999
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #138, June 1998
- ↑ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive Vol 1 #6, January 2007
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #137
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #160, May 2000
- ↑ The Flash Vol 2 #137 May 1998
Notes/Explanations
- ↑ 52 Universes
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