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Warning : This article contain SPOILERS forHeroes in Crisis # 8
The DC Universe was rock whentheHeroes in Crisisevent start with a superhero mass execution . Now the hero responsible for the deaths has been let on … and the orca ’s identity element will tear fan apart all over again .
The first issue ofHeroes in Crisisended with Harley Quinn the only survivor of the killing fling at Sanctuary , DC ’s mysterious handling facility for struggling heroes . Well , the only subsister besidesBooster Gold , the seeming manslayer . But now that the truth is finally out , fans should n’t feel guilty about suspecting Harley or Booster did it – because that ’s exactly what the sea wolf desire them to think . uncalled-for to say , MASSIVE SPOILERSare coming below .
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SPOILERS AHEAD
Yes, Wally West is The Sanctuary Killer
The story structure and ending of the lastHeroes in Crisisdidn’t disclose the indistinguishability of the killer whale explicitly , but hinted it strongly enough to get Flash sports fan like it was all mismanagement . Sadly , it was n’t , asHeroes in Crisis # 8begins with Wally West ’s own confession . Not offer like the other patient , but give with blood swash across the walls , post - massacre . And over the class of the offspring Wally explains how his mental psychic trauma over losing his family line made him do the unthinkable . But calling what Wally did " murder " might not be fair , since the actual issue are … a bit more complicated .
The identity of the killer whale will guarantee an uproar , but author Tom King has framedHeroes in Crisisas an unapologetic , and unguarded expression into genial illness from the start . So for those who have struggled with PTSD , depression , or any of the other affliction that brought fighter to Sanctuary , Wally ’s nagging impression may take an good chord . As those managing his treatment reassured him that he was not alone in his pain in the neck , or his sorrow , and that what he was have was n’t unique to him at all … he could n’t believe them . Their comforting row might employ to everyone else , but not him . He was sick . He was too humbled . And he had to know the trueness for certain .
The Flash Killed Everyone With The Speed Force
The aforementioned confessions – videos immortalize by the bomber in which they verbalize ( ' confess ' ) the secrets they ca n’t or wo n’t live with – were designed to be instantly destroyed for security . But Wally was so desperate to have intercourse if he was truly alone in his pain , and if there really were other Italian sandwich shinny as he was in their own anon. versions of Sanctuary , he locomote at impossibly truehearted hurrying to observe all of the confessions faster than they could be break down and erased . In a single instant , he witnessed myriad other heroes ' fear , ruefulness , guiltiness , shame , hurting , desperation , and trauma . And even for the fastest man alive , the aroused toll was too much for Wally to process .
He fly Sanctuary in as exasperate and overcome a state as he had ever go through , dropping to his knees beneath the exercising weight of the DC heroes ' suffering . And for a split second , failed to hold back the Speed Force that he and other speedsters swear on for their power . The energy erupted into the world at full tycoon , and belt down the dozens of people who had issue forth to Wally ’s assistance .
Once Wally realized what he had done , he did n’t grieve … he bewilder to put to work . What he did next may answer the nagging questions in many readers ' minds , but it also begins the next , perhaps MAJOR closed book and twist thatHeroes in Crisisis building towards .
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The Mystery of Two Wally Wests Explained
It ’s after the death of the Sanctuary heroes that things get interesting . So far , it would make good sense for readers to see this let out and , fuck how distraught Wally West has been over the loss of his wife and children ( whom he recently call up ever survive ) , chalk all of the expiry up to an accident . A terrible , horribly tragical accident that may modify how the earth sees The Flash , trusted , but an accident nonetheless . But what Wally decided to do next is what is going to paint this disaster as ' nefarious ' or out of character for a hero like The Flash . But there ’s a catch fans should consider .
consequence after recognize that the Speed Force blasted all the Hero to demise , Wally clearly made up his head to do … something . We can think for now , but do n’t yet make love for sure . But for whatever reasonableness he may have , what he did is spelled out in his confession . First , he bought himself metre by stopping the only two Sanctuary patients who had n’t yet exited the facility : Booster Gold and Harley Quinn . They believe they were leaving their pretence therapy chambers and witnessing the other murder Wally along with everyone else … when in reality , Wally was giving himself time to do what he be intimate he must .
From there he used his intellect and forensic experience to represent the crime vista fuck just how Batman would render it to , once again , give himself time . Five days ' time , it seems , as the foreign detail see in the investigation was thatthe Wally dead beside Roy Harper ’s was five day olderthan everyone else ’s . And that , too , association into the last enigma that could make all of Wally ’s activity make sense .
What Did Wally West Need To Do?
After staging the offense panorama to give himself time to make out whatever mission he ready for himself , and committing to see it through , Wally traveled forwards in fourth dimension five days to fulfil his succeeding ego … and kill him . That was the body order among the all in , and that was the Wally who put those five days to use completing their mission of " truth . " By now theHeroes in Crisisseries has followed the intervening five days through to the bit Wally arrives .
Which will hopefully explicate the cliffhanger scene of the previous issue , with Wally apologizing to Poison Ivy for consume to see his expiry ( at the hand of the Wally who has just traveled forward from the Sanctuary bloodbath ) . It ’s as fuzzy as a typical time traveling tale get , and is intentionally sketchy in the overall picture . And as we refer before , Wally ’s ultimate goal following the Speed Force accident is the only affair that will discharge the story . Based on these few detail , it seems Wally spent the five days releasing the hero confessions to Lois Lane , exhort Superman to give a speech admitting that heroes have , struggle , and even break . And that if that is case for reverence to any citizen of the man , perhaps it will also be a sign to others that they are explicitly , visibly , publically not alone in their suffering .
If one thing has been observable about this tale from writer Tom King and artists Clay Mann And Mitch Gerads , it ’s that the ending require to come before it can genuinely be sympathize . Especially with one or two Sanctuary prospect that do n’t quite fit with Wally ’s business relationship , either . But until then , at least fans sleep together how the hero died . What they died for might end up being the dubiousness readers should have been asking all along .
Heroes in Crisis # 8is useable now from your local mirthful book store , or guide fromDC Comics .
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