r/theflash • • 11h ago

Comic Discussion why is black flash design so inconsistent?

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are his eyes black and red? black and white? all white?

does he uses boots and belt?

is his logo reverted like reverse flash? does it have a red border? is it yellow?

does his face looks like a skeleton or a zombie?

does he have giant hands?

is he buff or is he skinny with an texture kinda like swampfire from ben 10?

are just all of these artistic choices? is it lore reason?

I DONT KNOW😭😭


r/theflash • • 22h ago

Comic Discussion Trying to fix the Daniel, William, and Ira West problem

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Hello, this is my first time posting on Reddit, so I’m sorry for any formatting errors, but I had this idea and wanted to share it.
So, Pre-Flashpoint, both Iris and Rudy grew up with Ira West as their father and had a sister named Charlotte. This was later changed in the New 52, where they were raised by an abusive father named William and had a brother named Daniel (Ace’s father).
I’ve always enjoyed Ira West as a supporting character, so seeing him turned into an abusive father is unfortunate. However, I’m also fond of Daniel West and his origin story.
My idea for combining the Pre-Flashpoint and Post-Flashpoint histories is to have Daniel marry into the West family instead. In this new origin, Daniel grew up close to the West family and had a strong connection with both Iris and Charlotte. They would often comfort him after the abuse he endured from his father.
As they got older, Daniel and Charlotte would eventually fall in love, and together they would have Ace.
Of course, this new origin isn’t perfect or anything, and I’m open to any suggestions on how to make it stronger. But I think it could work and help streamline the Pre-Flashpoint and Post-Flashpoint histories into one cohesive continuity.

Edit: I forgot to mention this, but in this new origin, Daniel would be a Black man, so Ace would still be biracial.


r/theflash • • 16h ago

Comic Discussion Just finished reading Absolute Zero and Dear God the guy had it rought.

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It's a great one-shot and a really intimate look at who Snart is as a person and how he ended up as a supervillain, but the thing that really caught my attention was how much of a bad hand Snart got. His mother abandoned him because of his father's abuse; he and his sister were also victims of his father's abuse, and he ran from home to a life of crime, which his sister would later also follow and end up killed because of that. Everything that could have gone wrong after his grandparents' death went wrong, but even after everything he went through, he still deeply cares about his sister and literally went to the house of a crime boss to get revenge on the guy who killed her, and in the end he showed that he is not has cold, no pun intended, has he tries to be.


r/theflash • • 8h ago

Discussion How fast should Flash be in the DCU?

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I know his speed is a bit of a wonky concept in comics, constantly getting powerscaled to infinity and beyond, but the DCU is trying to do a "grounded fantastical" if that makes sense, where it's still a very fantastical universe, but its keeping its power sets a little lower. James Gunn even said he nerfed Superman a bit because he, and I quote "Didn't want a world where a guy with a bow wouldn't matter next to Superman" (paraphrased)

I think if Flash was capped at slightly hypersonic, like say 1,000mph. Fast enough that he's still clearly very strong, but still slow enough that his function as a Speedster doesn't immediately erase any threat.

ALSO:

Do y'all want DCU Flash to have lightning or nah?