The Flash
Warning : SPOILERS forHeroes In Crisis # 9andDoomsday Clock # 10 .
CouldWally Westbe clean-handed of the kill for which he was jailed in the finale ofHeroes in Crisis ? Not only does it seem like the youngerFlashwas framed for the multiple execution that shocked the DC Comics universe , but the conspiracy that put him behind bars may connect into the story ofDoomsday Clock .
Heroes In Crisisdetailed the universe of Sanctuary - a secret clinic which offers the specialised mental wellness care that superheroes sometimes postulate . After several patient role were killed despite Sanctuary ’s top - notch surety , both Harley Quinn and Booster Gold were incriminate of the crime . However , it was ultimately revealed thatWally West was the killer , with the murders because of an uncontrolled burst of Speed Force free energy . But for the fan who long to trust Wally West is somehow ingenuous - or are upset to see The Flash be made a Orcinus orca - there may be grounds he ’s been lay up all along .
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Heroes In Crisis # 9ends with a team of wedge unraveling just how Wally West make the deaths and fake his own demise . At the remainder of the issue , Wally surrenders himself into the custody of his fellow heroes . The subject ends with the vernal Flash imprisoned and an uneven image of theThe Flashsymbol enwrap in aristocratical lightning .
While Wally West ’s current costume features smooth-spoken - white kindling bolts alternatively of the usual golden ones , his lightning has maintain the usual golden - bloodless hue we see when The Flash and other Speed Force user run … except during the Speed Force explosion inHeroes In Crisis # 8and Wally ’s subsequent attempt to frame Harley Quinn and Booster Gold for his law-breaking . This suggest that someone was responsible for triggering the sudden release of Speed Force muscularity . But what being could maybe be hefty enough to put such a matter and have a motive for doing so ?
The answer lies inDoomsday Clock # 10 , which bring out how Dr. Manhattan hasmanipulated the reality of DC Comics . The large Apocalypse to come out of this military issue is that Dr. Manhattan had not been manipulating one aspect of DC Comics ' Multiverse , but a Metaverse - a reality come away from the multiverse that determines the status quo of world and sure key constant . For example , while the year in which Superman is first reveal to the earth and the precise engagement when his foster parents perish may change , Superman will essentially remain the same person because the Metaverse dictates that Superman act as a sure fashion .
By altering the Metaverse so that The Kents pall while Clark Kent was still a teen , and stopping the Legion of Superheroes from ever survive , Dr. Manhattan eliminate every measure that humanized Superman as a young grownup . This create a new Superman ( i.e. The New 52 Superman ) whom Dr. Manhattan interrelate to salutary .
Doomsday Clock # 10also revealed that the Metaverse was not a peaceful reality and that it had begun to press back against Dr. Manhattan ’s alterations . One way it did this was by bring Wally West - the most herculean version of The Flash to have ever existed and one of the few heroes with the business leader to potentially match Dr. Manhattan in a straight - up competitiveness - back into the Metaverse , after Dr. Manhattan had removed him along with most of the classic Teen Titans .
While Wally West did not remember his first showdown with Dr. Manhattan once he resettle into reality , it was clear that Dr. Manhattan did not bury him . create a power surge that get Wally to lose restraint of his powers would be well within Dr. Manhattan ’s capability , as would using his power to see the hereafter to find the best point at which to round Wally West and make the surge tone like a issue of Wally ’s losing control in a moment of failing . This would further service to undermine Wally ’s confidence in himself and his condition as an avatar of Hope - a force Dr. Manhattan seems to hold in both fearfulness and disdain .
It is also worth noting that Dr. Manhattan ’s push is juicy - the same color as Wally West ’s lightning inHeroes in Crisis . This hypothesis provides a motive , a way and an opportunity for Dr. Manhattan to have cast Wally West for slaying , but this theory will stay on just that until the next issue ofDoomsday Clockis released .
Doomsday Clock # 10andHeroes in Crisis # 9are available now at your local comic book store .
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