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    Barry Allen

    Character » Barry Allen appears in 5048 issues.

    Having discovered his mother murdered and his father blamed for the act, forensic scientist Barry Allen sought to clear his father's name and find the real killer. After being doused in chemicals and struck by lightning, Barry was granted the gift of super-speed. Now he protects his hometown of Central City as The Flash, the fastest man alive and founding member of the Justice League.

    Flash and the Speed Force in the new 52

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    #1  Edited By Skunkstein

    I just reread Flash issue 7-9, and something confuses be a bit by his conversations in Gorilla City and with Turbine.

    It is said that the world needs a Flash, from what i understand thats because he is the ''release of pressure'' in the Speed Force, and all the bad things that happend in the first arc when he ran was in fact Turbine trying to escape the Speed Force when Flash opened the vault.

    So i guess my question is... what did the world do before Flash was there? It seems from the above said that there always need to be a person in contact with the Speed Force to make the world spin.

    Can someone clarify this for me?

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    #2  Edited By Skunkstein

    bump

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    #3  Edited By fodigg

    @Skunkstein said:

    Can someone clarify this for me?

    Barry Allen sucks. Bring back Wally.

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    #4  Edited By Skunkstein

    Nothing besides Barry Allen sucks? - Pretty sure thats blasphemy btw.

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    #5  Edited By Lamenoire

    maybe there were others speedsters (savitar... max mercury).

    after all grodd expected to be chosen, so it would be logical that a few people were chosen before

    or it is only recently that the speed force became that powerful (before, it wasn't a threat)

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    It has been said that when barry received his powers, it also created the speed force so there was nothing to release before that moment.

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    #7  Edited By PrinceIMC

    @therrieur said:

    It has been said that when barry received his powers, it also created the speed force so there was nothing to release before that moment.

    I think this is correct. And the Speed Force goes backwards and forwards in time. So it was created when Barry received his powers and echoed back and forth through time to Gorilla City, Turbine and others. That's how I understand it anyway until they explain it otherwise anyway.

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