The Flash
Warning : control spoilers forInfinite Frontier # 6 !
Recently , Wally West became the officialFlashof the DC Universe . It was a surprising move , give that Wally had really been planning to retire as a superhero , but it was also firmly pull ahead , following Wally ’s seeking through time and space to mend the hurt Speed Force . One minute that give Wally the most faith in his decision was arriving in the future in June’sFlash # 771 , meeting hisgrown - up girl Irey Westand discovering the wonderful thing that would happen as a resolution of him embracing the Flash drapery . Now , it turns out that future may have been far dark than fans realized .
The revelation come fromInfinite Frontier # 6 , in which sports fan finally discover some detail about the force behind the scenes of DC ’s Modern geological era . AsDarkseid set about to harness the Great Darknessbeyond the multiverse , Barry Allen , the Flash prior to Wally , escapes the villain ’s clutch pedal and arrives in Multiverse-2 . There , he meet Pariah , a being who has expect viewer to the death of many realities , and who reveals he has a new ism even greater than Darkseid ’s ambitions - to"let the real multiverse truly live . "
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What incisively Pariah means by this still is n’t clear-cut , but it ’s nothing good , as he immediately transports Barry to a new reality where the former Flash is trapped in a heartwarming - but ultimately phony - version of family life-time on what the comic calls"Earth - Flash.1.“Pariah promises,“We’ll all be glad . No matter what,“even as fans see that his eyes have become black pits . But what ’s so significant about this moment forWallyis that when fans see ground - Flash.1 . from a aloofness , it has the same lighting - dash air that Irey show her father in the future .
While the result does n’t punctuate the connection , the suggestion is that - driven frantic by see so many worldly concern put down - Pariah has somehow spay or manipulated the multiverse to trap Barry Allen in a fake paradise , likely drawing on Barry ’s own Speed Force connection to mess with the borders of realism . Pariah ’s words suggest he project to do this again on a grand plate , give a very unlike context to the ostensibly ideal future Wally was prove by Irey . Now that devotee have it away the lightning - dash satellite nimbus is a house of Pariah ’s meddling , it ’s begin to seem like what Wally actually find was a hereafter in whichPariah is prideful .
While tragical , this explains why the future tense Wally witnessed was so optimistic and positivistic , offer him immediate assurance that his house can produce up to be dependable and happy . That ’s the exact kind of Trygve Lie Barry is presently ensnare in , with no desire to break devoid . It ’s possible that Wally was show a fake future on function , since he leaves with the intention of make trusted it comes to pass off , or that Pariah ’s vast Trygve Halvden Lie simply demonstrate whoever visits it what they want to see , but either way of life what seemed like one of thehappiest moments of Wally ’s lifenow seems like something a stack darker .
As ever , there ’s still hope . The hereafter Wally witness does n’t have to come to pass , and it ’s even possible that Pariah ’s ability can be turned to the genuinely positively charged , and the future is just as bright ( albeit a salutary deal more complicated ) as it seems . If not , Wally ’s decision to launch himself backinto a life that has been deep harrowing for him in the yesteryear was built on a lie , and the Flash is running towards a cosmic honey gob and postulate the rest of world with him . Infinite Frontier ’s startling twirl will pick back up in 2022 , so for now , Flashfans will just have to desire that Wally starts asking some hard questions about the real nature of the future he ’s trying to create .
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