What Is The Flash Fake
The Flash: Fastest Man Alive Barry Allen is the secret identity to the second man to take the name of the fictional DC (Detective Comics) superhero, The Flash (The Flash). He has been shown various ways since his creation, whether in television or on the pages of a comic book, but one thing has always been portrayed the same, his origin. In every comic series, Allen Is struck by a bolt of lightning from a freak thunderstorm and doused with chemicals from his laboratory, and from this disaster, a hero was born (The Flash). I have always been interested in learning the origins and back stories to the characters that everyone knows and loves, and one that has always interested me was this particular origin, and more specifically, the enigma
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al. p. 123). Reverse-Flash, or Eobard Thawne, didn’t start out as an adversary to The Flash, in fact, he was a fan, born decades after Allen had passed away (Necessary). Born in the 25th century, Thawne grew up as a huge fan of Barry Allen, so much so that he eventually recreated Barry’s accident to give himself the same powers, even altering his face with plastic surgery to look more like Allen (Necessary). He used his speed powers to run along the cosmic treadmill (the force they used to time travel) to go back and meet his idol, only to arrive several years after Barry’s death to discover that he would himself later become Reverse-Flash and be killed by Flash (Necessary). This drove him mad, the thought that his idol would bring about his death is what sent him down his path to eventually travel in time to replace Barry as The Flash and as the husband of Iris, who he later kills (Necessary). Reverse Flash shows up off and on throughout the story of Barry’s life, situating himself into his role as his hero’s worst adversary and Barry’s polar opposite, even donning a costume the complete opposite of The Flash’s red, as Reverse-Flash’s costume is yellow, with red lightning bolts (Beatty et. al. p. 123). One of the most important of these is when comes to pass that Thawne, using time travel, went back and became the man in the yellow suit that …show more content…
54-55). While running, trying in vain to catch this one super-charged particle of destruction, this one small sub-atomic tachyon, Allen's body is ripped apart with the force of the speed acting on him (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). Through this, he knows that there is no hope for his survival, but like a true hero, he continues past the point of bodily harm, as his flesh and muscle melt away, leaving only the energy trapped inside him known as the speed force (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). While he is running, he becomes aware that he had inadvertently slipped onto the cosmic treadmill whilst trying in vain to follow the particle headed for his home planet, Earth (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). He begins to see bits and pieces of his life, the people he know, the friends he had fought alongside, the enemies he had defeated,and even the woman he loved, until this trip brought him back to where this had all started; that day in the lab (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). He is able to catch the tachyon moments before it is able to make impact with one of his own chemical racks, causing him to instead strike the rack in his pure-energy form, splashing chemicals onto his past self, and surging all the energy that was left of him, into his past self, imbuing that body with the power of The Flash (Messner-Loebs p.
al. p. 123). Reverse-Flash, or Eobard Thawne, didn’t start out as an adversary to The Flash, in fact, he was a fan, born decades after Allen had passed away (Necessary). Born in the 25th century, Thawne grew up as a huge fan of Barry Allen, so much so that he eventually recreated Barry’s accident to give himself the same powers, even altering his face with plastic surgery to look more like Allen (Necessary). He used his speed powers to run along the cosmic treadmill (the force they used to time travel) to go back and meet his idol, only to arrive several years after Barry’s death to discover that he would himself later become Reverse-Flash and be killed by Flash (Necessary). This drove him mad, the thought that his idol would bring about his death is what sent him down his path to eventually travel in time to replace Barry as The Flash and as the husband of Iris, who he later kills (Necessary). Reverse Flash shows up off and on throughout the story of Barry’s life, situating himself into his role as his hero’s worst adversary and Barry’s polar opposite, even donning a costume the complete opposite of The Flash’s red, as Reverse-Flash’s costume is yellow, with red lightning bolts (Beatty et. al. p. 123). One of the most important of these is when comes to pass that Thawne, using time travel, went back and became the man in the yellow suit that …show more content…
54-55). While running, trying in vain to catch this one super-charged particle of destruction, this one small sub-atomic tachyon, Allen's body is ripped apart with the force of the speed acting on him (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). Through this, he knows that there is no hope for his survival, but like a true hero, he continues past the point of bodily harm, as his flesh and muscle melt away, leaving only the energy trapped inside him known as the speed force (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). While he is running, he becomes aware that he had inadvertently slipped onto the cosmic treadmill whilst trying in vain to follow the particle headed for his home planet, Earth (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). He begins to see bits and pieces of his life, the people he know, the friends he had fought alongside, the enemies he had defeated,and even the woman he loved, until this trip brought him back to where this had all started; that day in the lab (Messner-Loebs p. 54-55). He is able to catch the tachyon moments before it is able to make impact with one of his own chemical racks, causing him to instead strike the rack in his pure-energy form, splashing chemicals onto his past self, and surging all the energy that was left of him, into his past self, imbuing that body with the power of The Flash (Messner-Loebs p.