Is Iris West Black?

The Flash Finally Realized Iris West Is Black, and Now the Show Is the Best It's Ever Been. Candice Patton knew from the start that her casting in The Flash was going to get people talking.
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What race is Iris West?

For the Arrowverse series, the show's creators wanted to diversify the cast of characters and chose to make the West family Black. The series has never put a focus on Iris's race, instead choosing to focus on the other aspects of the character.
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Is Iris black or white in the comics?

The phrase has now appeared more than 7,000 times. But how black is Iris? Although she is played by a black actress in the TV adaptation of the comic books, she was originally drawn in as a white character in print.
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Is Iris West a red head?

While Iris West is typically portrayed as a brunette, in her debut appearance in Showcase #4, her hair has an auburn appearance.
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Is Wally West Black?

The original Wally West Yes, Wally used to be white. In fact he used to be white and red-headed. We've written about the very interesting trend of changing a prominent number of red-headed characters into black characters before. But in this example, Wally's black casting is primarily about plain old consistency.
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Is there an African American Flash?

The Flash's Barry Allen is getting his iconic sidekick -- Kid Flash Wally West -- but with one big difference: He's African-American. Keiynan Lonsdale (Insurgent) has been cast as Wally West, known as Kid Flash, in the CW show.
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What color is Iris West hair?

"Iris West is white and has red hair in the comics, and I am neither of those things." Patton also recalled a warning she received right after she landed the career-changing role. "I remember our executive producer at the time saying, like, maybe sit offline for a couple of days, which I did," she recounted.
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What is Iris's Speedster name?

When Iris and Barry marry, Iris learns that, not only is Barry the city's heroic speedster, but her nephew, Wally West, is Kid Flash.
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What is wrong with Iris The Flash?

In Season 7, she got infected with a mysterious “time sickness.” She spent the early part of Season 8 worrying that hubby Barry was fated to facilitate, you know, Armageddon. And ever since then, her aforementioned time sickness has caused her to unwittingly make objects (and sometimes people, eep!) disappear.
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Is Iris Black Pokemon?

Preferred type. Iris, also known by her title as The Girl Who Knows the Hearts of Dragons, is the eighth and last Gym Leader of the Unova region in the Pokémon White Version only.
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Why is an Iris black?

The function of the iris is to limit the amount of light that passes through the lens to the retina. To make the iris opaque, it is coated with the pigment melanin, in varying degrees for each of us. Melanin makes the eyes dark brown and 10,000 years ago, everyone's eyes were this colour.
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Is Iris West Batgirl?

Iris went as Batgirl. Zoom asked for a dance, and Iris flatly responded that she would never marry him even if she didn't love Barry so much. Iris led Barry, who had been drugged by Zoom's henchmen, into another room and went to get him some water.
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Is Iris pregnant in The Flash?

Toward the end of The Flash Season 7, Barry and Iris decided to start a family. In episode 15, they believed that Iris was pregnant, but, unfortunately, it was a false alarm.
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Who is the fastest speedster?

1) Flash (Wally West)

The third superhero known by the name of Flash, Wally West is undoubtedly the fastest man alive, not just in the DC comics multiverse but in the entire history of comic book fiction. A fan of the scarlet speedster, Wally West gained his superpowers in a lab accident similar to Barry Allen.
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What's Iris West real name?

Candice Kristina Patton is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Iris West-Allen in the television series The Flash (2014–present), which earned her a Saturn Award from four nominations.
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Why is Iris's lightning purple?

The finale confirmed what fans had already guessed based on the clues: she was Barry and Iris's child from the future, Nora West-Allen. Iris's purple lightning in episode 16 was thus a way for the show's creative team to hint a connection between Iris and the mystery girl.
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How did Iris get speed?

Iris is given Barry's speed when the team fights a bus meta who has the ability to swap people's DNA. Iris is given Barry's speed when the team fights a bus meta who has the ability to swap people's DNA.
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Are Barry and Iris siblings?

They're not actual brother and sister of course, but their relationship is just close enough to that for this to feel a little weird when we think about it too hard.
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Does Iris wear a wig?

Since the 2014 premier of The Flash on The CW, actress Candice Patton has asked the show runner to let her rock her natural hair in her role of Iris West. Season after season she was told no, and Iris was always shown with straight “not a strand out of place” hair.
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Does Iris wear a wig in The Flash?

Iris' hair change is noteworthy because Candice Patton has never before been allowed to wear her natural hair on The Flash, though the actress has asked about it before and fans have been fighting for it for a long time. It's not only a big change, but it's so important for representation.
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Who is leaving The Flash?

More Stories By Nellie. Jesse L. Martin has been tapped as the lead of NBC's drama pilot The Irrational as he is leaving the CW's The Flash after eight seasons. While Martin no will longer be a series regular on the Berlanti Prods./Warner Bros.
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Are Wallace and Wally West the same person?

This is when the relationship between the two is made clear—both red-haired Wally and black-haired Wallace are nephews of Iris West. Wally is the son of her brother Rudolph, and Wallace is the son of her brother Daniel. Both were named after their great-grandfather, and so the two Wallys are indeed cousins.
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Why is Wally faster than Barry?

Wally was the protégé of his uncle Barry, who guided him towards becoming a master of the Speed Force. By studying this extra-dimension encompassing the multiverse, Wally attained the skills Barry had cultivated over his long career as the Scarlet Speedster.
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