Ok Cinemaphile I gotta ask, and I mean this genuinely.
What’s the appeal of Barry Allen? I’m probably biased because I grew up with the Justice League cartoon, but Wally seems infinitely more interesting.
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Ok Cinemaphile I gotta ask, and I mean this genuinely.
What’s the appeal of Barry Allen? I’m probably biased because I grew up with the Justice League cartoon, but Wally seems infinitely more interesting.
I don’t see the appeal of Flash at all.
This.
>he can run super fast, faster than light even, but he doesn't hurt himself or his surroundings so he can do basically anything, but a guy with an ice gun or some dude with a knife can easily frick his shit up
He was the main one when the people in charge of DC were kids.
Thought he was supposed to be the everyman? Speedster that's always late? Like a Spider-man for kids whose parents thought he was a bad influence with his temper
Barry is boring.
Barry was Flash during DC's boring 60s and 70s era. Cliche, campy, cardboard.
Then they killed him off in the early 80s and a whole generation grew up on Wally West who had more character in his thumb then Barry had in his whole body.
But after 23 years of no Barry and Wally being awesome; comics being comics could not let people stay dead and we have been suffering Barry forever now
Never forget what they took from us
Both suck
> Saturday morning
> This episode airs for the first time on WB
> Never was a big Flash guy but he was cool, but was Batman all the way
> Speed Force
> The hair on my body goes on end
> Holy Shit
Was a Wally West guy ever since
>Cartoon gay
Shit take. The Bates/Infantino run is better than most of the Flash books of the last 40 years.
Nostalgia
ITT: Eobard Thawne posting from multiple IPs
Nah, Thawne would be the first one to defend Barry.
As another JL toon kid, let me just tell you Wally is well worth following from his post Crisis run through the 2000's. Wally is a character that really grows and develops, progression done right.
The appeal of Barry in the silver age was that he was basically a reader self insert. It's the story of a comic book nerd getting to become a superhero. Wally is more interesting because he's much more of an everyman within the DC universe.
He debuted in the past so people feel like they have an obligation to include him in things. He's as whitebread as any other superhero who debuted around that time (Hal, Katar).
He's a NERD.
Return of Barry Allen is peak. Still hate Barry Allen, and hate that he got revived.
He's a police scientist with super speed. His personality is basically Mr. Rogers but with time management problems. Honestly I don't get why Wally has so many fans. Waid's run was just that crybaby self inserting and Wally's JL cartoon personality was a holdover from when they were going to have a mixed age cast and Kid Flash was going to be the "dumb kid" to Robin's "smart kid".
>I don't get why Wally has so many fans
He doesn’t.