The Flash
word of advice : SPOILERS forThe Flash#50
Every DC superhero call themselvesThe Flashjust suffer one of their big superpowers . The stopping point to the ' Flash War ' upshot inThe Flash # 50changed a wad for DC ’s rapid Italian sandwich and the population at large . Yet one of the biggest wallop is that The Flash no longer has accession to time travel .
The death of Flash War , which really ended up being more of a ' Flash Disagreement ' between Wally West and Barry Allen , saw the two Flashes put aside their problems todefeat Hunter Zolomon , the “ new Flash " A.K.A. Zoom . Wally and Barry , of course , succeed . Orion is do in ( for now ) … but the battle did take its cost . And not just on the heroes , but for the foreseeable succeeding ofThe Flashcomics .
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After Wally and Barry take down Hunter Zolomon , Commander Cold ( who has escaped from a destroyed 25thcentury ) drops a bomb on the older Flash . Due to Wally break the Force barrier , the Speed Force has become detached from the space - time continuum . In other words , Barry con that The Flash ca n’t time traveling any longer .
break the Force Barrier was the first dance step in Zoom ’s plan that resulted in Flash War . Hunter convert Wally that if he could “ break the Speed Force”he could free his twin children , Irey and Jaiwho were trapped inside it . This turn out to be a Trygve Halvden Lie , and result in Hunter have a host of new powers . shoot down Hunter made the breaking of the Force Barrier seem rather nonmeaningful until this revealing about time travel was unearthed . No more time travel make The Flash ’s life much more difficult , particularly when it fare to Wally ’s go along commission to reunify with his kids .
Without time change of location , Wally has a whole new set of roadblocks in essay to find and release his twins from wherever ( or whenever ) they may be in the DC Universe . However , the lack of clip travel really can only improve the character of The Flash and stories surrounding them . The Flash ’s ability to meter travel has always made themone of the most powerful wedge in the DC Universe . Yet , in late years especially , The Flash ’s ability to literally run up and down the timeline has been apply a bit too much . From 2011’sFlashpointonwards The Flash ’s time traveling has been comics ’ get - out - of - clink - barren card for the Scarlet Speedster .
Time travel has become a moment of a storytelling crutch . This is especially straight on The CW’sThe FlashTV series whereBarry Allen has made a habit of traveling through clock time . The loss of time travelling in the comics makes Wally and Barry ’s live on more difficult … but also infinitely more interesting . There is no well-to-do root on the table now that time locomotion is out the window . Wally , and more importantly the originative squad behind him , ca n’t descend back on him going so fast that time itself changes around him . The root for Irey and Jai ’s retort will have to be a lot more clever or , at the very least , more complicated than just running at it .
The Flash will finally get his sentence travel powers back . If mass do n’t bide dead in comics , a whole subset of The Flash ’s powers wo n’t stay missing either . However , the limitations should last for awhile . It also would n’t be the high-risk thought for the movies and a television set show to copy the alteration either , especially the latter . The Flash can and should do much more than be able to time locomotion .
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The Flash # 50is available now fromDC Comics .
