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Wally West

Character » Wally West appears in 1896 issues.

Taking on the name Kid Flash in honor of his hero, The Flash/Barry Allen, Wally West would eventually become The Flash after the death of his mentor. Wally was an original member of the Teen Titans, a member of the JLA and the fastest man alive. He has yet to appear in the new 52.

Wally West's top speed (best feats)

#1 Posted by Devias (297 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Does anyone know this? Of course, we all know he can exceed the speed of light with relative ease, but how far has he gone beyond that? I know he outran the Black Racer and entropy (?) but those aren't feats that you measure with. My friend said that he once went about five hundred times the light of speed, and it was stated in a panel. Can anyone verify this? If not, I'm going to read every issue of Modern Age Flash until I get something.

#2 Posted by mgrman5 (520 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

Yeah I am interested in how much past the speed of light he can go I mean I know there has been threads of this very topic but nothing really substantial evidence to support it or any actual figures. Like he can run x times the speed of light, just that he has ran faster than light.

#3 Posted by Deranged Midget (12954 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

Barry can run fast enough to break the time barrier. No doubt that Wally could do the same.

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#4 Posted by mgrman5 (520 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@Deranged Midget:
Yeah that's great and all but how fast is that anyway in any number I doesn't matter if it is a really big number it can just be broken down to how many times the speed of light it is. Or just some sort of figure that indicates the feats they have performed, not just conceptual words actual figures.
#5 Posted by The WeatherMan (3214 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

While on Earth he usually keeps it down to like 700-800 mph at max, because of safety, but through the use of the speed force, he can achieve many times the speed of light. I've never read anything that specified how many times the speed of light.

#6 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

He's crossed the Universe in less than an instant (Flash: The Human Race).

#7 Posted by thegreatfour (12967 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt: ... Wow. I know it's a comic, but very very impressive. I mean he'd have to be able to fly or propel himself with enough force to do that
#8 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour said:
" @FadeToBlackBolt: ... Wow. I know it's a comic, but very very impressive. I mean he'd have to be able to fly or propel himself with enough force to do that "
It took place in a parallel dimension type thing. He was able to run the whole time.
#9 Posted by thegreatfour (12967 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt: Still the most impressive speedster feet I've heard
#10 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour: Oh yeah, Wally is easily the fastest character in comics. Barry possibly is too, now that Geoff came along and said that anything Wally can do or has done Barry can do too >_<
#11 Posted by thegreatfour (12967 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt: So no power or power level differences? Boo no fun. I mean They could have one with minor electrical powers with all the electricity I see flying out of their butt when they run :P
#12 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour: Barry has none of the feats Wally does, but Johns likes turning his favourites into God Mode Sues, so in future issues Barry will probably be said to be faster (rolls eyes).
#13 Posted by thegreatfour (12967 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt: I repeat, butt lightning powers XP I am so respectful to your beloved characters! I kid I kid. Anyways I don't understand why he needs to do that. They have a good continuity some times why not keep it that way?
#14 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour: Because he's gone insane lol 
#15 Posted by tensor (3314 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

barry an wally i like but john fox he is a beast i saw him ran backwards around the world an bart could not catch him an the guy not even turn around once plus he is the only flash to reach the 65 century

#16 Posted by thegreatfour (12967 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt: A lot of writers do! With power. Think about it. They have the ability to control an entire universe however they see fit! They are tyrants! Tyrants I tell you!
#17 Posted by InnerVenom123 (27539 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour said:
" @FadeToBlackBolt: A lot of writers do! With power. Think about it. They have the ability to control an entire universe however they see fit! They are tyrants! Tyrants I tell you! "
It's true. We are. :P
#18 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio
@thegreatfour: Yep, it's what happened to Bendis.
#19 Posted by mark5 (1213 posts) - 2 years, 3 days ago - Show Bio
Moving around the world in milliseconds. Testing Superman Blue's speed.

 
Saving people frm a nuke in 100 picoseconds.
 
Writers got the math wrong here.

Rebuilds a bridge in 30 seconds
 

 

 

Makes an attack moving at light speed to appear still. It's heading to WW about 20 feet away.
 

He scans half a million faces in 1 picosecond (1 thousandth of a nanosecond)
 

Carries those responsible in the path of the attack before it reaches halfway.  

#20 Edited by Devias (297 posts) - 2 years, 1 day ago - Show Bio
@FadeToBlackBolt said:

He's crossed the Universe in less than an instant (Flash: The Human Race).

I'm sorry for the slow response but I never thought this thread would get any replies (had zero when I checked back days after I created the thread).
Wow, really? That's impressive. Is it canon?
#21 Posted by FadeToBlackBolt (21886 posts) - 2 years, 1 day ago - Show Bio
@Devias said:
@FadeToBlackBolt said:
He's crossed the Universe in less than an instant (Flash: The Human Race).
I'm sorry for the slow response but I never thought this thread would get any replies (had zero when I checked back days after I created the thread).

Wow, really? That's impressive. Is it canon? How did he do it? Fly?
That's ok :)

It's canon, it occurred in Flash: the Human Race by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison. He didn't fly though, it was a challenge issued by two seemingly omnipotent beings, who created a Universe for the race. 
#22 Posted by Devias (297 posts) - 2 years, 1 day ago - Show Bio
@mark5 said:
Moving around the world in milliseconds. Testing Superman Blue's speed.

 
Saving people frm a nuke in 100 picoseconds.
 
Writers got the math wrong here.

Rebuilds a bridge in 30 seconds
 

 

 

Makes an attack moving at light speed to appear still. It's heading to WW about 20 feet away.
 

He scans half a million faces in 1 picosecond (1 thousandth of a nanosecond)
 

Carries those responsible in the path of the attack before it reaches halfway.  

You're awesome. Thanks.
#23 Posted by DEGRAAF (7250 posts) - 2 years, 1 day ago - Show Bio

I love Wally and stopped reading the Flash series until they bring him back. I hate Barry now that he's back

#24 Posted by batflasharrow96 (445 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago - Show Bio

Well, Barry has no limits to his speed, not sure about Wally

#25 Posted by majestic99 (8638 posts) - 11 months, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@Devias said:

@FadeToBlackBolt said:

He's crossed the Universe in less than an instant (Flash: The Human Race).

I'm sorry for the slow response but I never thought this thread would get any replies (had zero when I checked back days after I created the thread). Wow, really? That's impressive. Is it canon?

Scans for this?

#26 Posted by InnerAssassin (299 posts) - 4 months, 15 days ago - Show Bio

What is the fastest he went?

speed of Light, speed of Thought , Speed of Sound? Did he go faster than the ones listed? How fast is he then?

#27 Posted by TheHearltessDeviant (1 posts) - 3 months, 25 days ago - Show Bio

It's said that superman can travel 4.2 times the speed of light. Also, that his speed is one and a half times the speed of which he can run. Knowing that Flash runs 2 times as fast as Superman can run. The Flash must run around 5.6 times the speed of light, but keep in mind that even though that is his top speed, he chooses not to run at that speed due to keeping care of the risks of harming anyone and anything.

#28 Edited by Dredeuced (2822 posts) - 1 month, 4 days ago - Show Bio

@innerassassin said:

What is the fastest he went?

speed of Light, speed of Thought , Speed of Sound? Did he go faster than the ones listed? How fast is he then?

I know this is a few months late, but I didn't even see this board.

During the Human Race, Wally outraced instantaneous teleportation from the Cosmic Gamblers -- that could be seen as a pseuod time travel feat, though, as he raced across the fourth dimension to do it (The fourth dimension is time).

Directly after that, though, he was definitely not time traveling. Over the span of one Septosecond, which is 0.000000000000000000001 seconds, he tuned every radio on Earth.

There are 150,000,000 square kilometers of land on Earth. Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second. To cover 150,000,000 kilometers, it would take light 500 seconds. For simplicity's sake, if you assume there is 1 radio for every square kilometer on earth (that is lowballing it greatly), that means he was traveling 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than light, or 500 septillion.

Understand that I am greatly, greatly lowballing this feat as it doesn't take into account the time it takes him to tune every radio, the accurate density of radios per square kilometer (much higher than my guess, i just used mine to make the multiplication and division easier), radios that aren't on land (such as every boat on the planet that has a radio) or the time it takes him to search the square of every kilometer -- if he had to search every square inch then it'd be 500 septillion squared, or 250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 250 Quattuordecillion times the speed of light.

Here's the feat in action:

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