Why is Wally West Black?

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 the West family black in the Flash?

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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Was 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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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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Is Wallace West Black?

This was an attempt to coalesce the comic book characters with the then-new live action CW series, which had cast Candace Patton as Iris West and Jessie L. Martin as her father, thus solidifying their version of the West family as African American.
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Is Barry Allen Black Flash?

During the Final Crisis, Wally theorizes that the Black Racer pursuing himself and Barry is in fact the Black Flash. A charred corpse, appearing to be the Black Flash, was found in Iowa by two boys in The Flash: Rebirth.
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What is Black Flash's top speed?

Dividing the speed of light by 80 reveals Barry Allen's top speed as The Flash to be roughly 8.3 million mph (13.5 million km/h ) or Mach 10,925. It's possible this is a measure of how fast Barry is without fully tapping the Speed Force, which he presumably did to protect Big Sir and himself in the aforementioned case.
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Why does Black Flash have red lightning?

This left Thawne only the speedforce which he had an extremely weak connection to. This then made his lightning red. Because the Black Flash is a slave to the speedforce, it can be taken and given to him at will.
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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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Who is faster Wally or Wallace?

Wallace West (half-Black) is the son of Daniel West. As the more experienced speedster, Wally is Moreno in tune with the Speed Force and has a higher mastery of the many sub-uses the force offers users besides speed. Wally was the fastest speedster pre-Flashpoint, even faster than Barry.
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Who is faster Flash or Kid Flash?

There's a great number of heroes that could lay claim to the Flash name in some way. But, the original Kid-Flash is actually the fastest of all of them. For years Wally West seemed like quite the threat for Barry Allen.
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Why didn't Barry tell Patty he's the Flash?

Because he wants to keep her safe? She's more capable of handling herself if supervillains come calling than either Iris or Barry's dad, and both of them know he's the Flash. It could also be that Barry doesn't want to tell the women he's dating because they'd retain that knowledge if and when they break up.
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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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Is Black Flash Zoom?

"Zoom has been transformed into Black Flash, who has quite a place in the mythology of The Flash. He's like the grim reaper for speedsters," he told TV Guide. "Andrew Kreisberg, the head writer and EP, has talked about their interest in having a Black Flash return at some point in the series."
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Is Godspeed faster than Black Flash?

1 Kept: Faster Than The Flash

In the comics, Godspeed is a few notches faster than Barry Allen as shown in the above photo where he struggled to keep up with him.
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Can speedsters outrun death?

The Flash may be the fastest character in the DC Universe, but the one thing that none of DC's speedsters can outrun is death itself.
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Who is faster Wally West or Black Flash?

Wally wasn't faster than Black Flash. He simply ran until Black Flash's purpose was no longer relevant.
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Is Black Flash a time Wraith?

Despite their corpse-like appearance and association with speedsters, Time Wraiths are not directly linked to the Black Flash (the Grim Reaper of the Speed Force), which does not actually punish or kill speedsters but rather comes for them when their time is up (i.e. the time of their death) to return them to the Speed ...
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Are Black Racer and Black Flash the same?

Last Seen. The Black Flash, also called the Speed Demon or the Black Racer, is a supernatural creature that represents death, manifested from the Speed Force itself. Its purpose is to collect the souls of individuals connected to the Speed Force, such as Jay Garrick and Bart Allen.
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Is Wally West Barry Allen's son?

Kid Flash (real name Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West, November 11, 1994—June 20, 2016) was a founding member of the Team. He was the nephew and former sidekick of Barry Allen.
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Is reverse Flash faster than Flash?

2 HE IS FASTER THAN THE FLASH

Flash can run fast, sure. He might even say that he is the “fastest man alive.” But that isn't true at all. The Reverse-Flash is ahead of Barry at every turn. In a good old-fashioned race, Flash can't beat his nemesis.
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Who is faster than Wally West?

With Barry, Wally is faster than him and for Wally, the only person who has ever been faster than him was Zoom but Wally was able to figure out how to overcome the villain's advantage.
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