The Flash
In a past issuance of DC Comics’The Flash , Wally West revealed that while he keeps it to himself , he believes supervillains likeJokershould be met with lethal legal action . While teaming with Wonder Woman against their classic villain Cheetah and the Reverse - Flash , Wally and Diana drop most of the issuetethered together with the Lasso of Truth . As such , the Flash is compelled to be honest , share with Diana a personal belief he holds about sealed villains and how they should receive a more lasting justice than most heroes are unforced to give .
In 2005’sFlash # 219from writer Geoff Johns and creative person Justiniano , Cheetah break the Reverse - Flash outof his prison cubicle in Iron Heights , wanting to become as tight as a speedster to finally take down Wonder Woman once and for all . However , the Reverse - Flash expose that his power dissent from Wally West ’s Fastest Man Alive , and that he ca n’t just share his speed with her . alternatively , he advance Barbara Minerva to pour down the first , retired Cheetah who Wonder Woman fight in the 1940s . In doing so , Minerva would then become the lonesome Cheetah , removing a mystical barrier and allow her to turn over her full voltage as a metahuman supervillain . Naturally , this breakout prompt Wally and Diana to team up up and bring them both in .
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envision as how Wonder Woman had recently blinded herself as part of defeating Medusa , she had Flash lead her using the Lasso of Truth as a tether . As such , Wally and Diana were much more subject and honorable with one another , speak the truth about how they felt after finding the first Cheetah Priscilla Rich murdered despite being withdraw and in her eighties . As a outcome , Wally substantiate his support of the death punishment for certain villains , believing that some hoi polloi just ask to drop dead for their crimes , noting it ’s an unpopular ruling among the Justice League . While he ’s cite to Reverse - Flash and Cheetah , the posting child for this belief has to be the Joker , especially since so many buff ( and fellow Italian sandwich ) have spend old age askingwhy Batman does n’t make an exceptionto his " One principle " and free the world of his vile bane .
Notably , Wally believes in the death punishment rather - it seems - than lethal vigilante justice . Having trained under Barry Allen ( a forensic chemist for Central City Police Department ) and work adjacent to law of nature enforcement himself in the yesteryear , it makes sense that while Flash believes baddie like Joker should become flat , he does n’t necessarily believe superheroes have the right to make that conclusion one-sidedly . This line of thinking fromWally ( and Barry Allen before him)is rather interesting considering the relationship they ’ve both had with Central City ’s scallywag , overlook minor offence and helping many of them search redemption . As such , it seems as though the villains deserve of the decease penalisation in Wally ’s brain have to be truly and irredeemably evil ( like the Joker . )
Wonder Woman is also one of the few heroes who agrees with the Flash in this respect , tying nicely with her explanation to Superman geezerhood afterwards in theNew 52era as to why her rogues veranda is so small compared to other heroes:“When I deal with them , I deal with them . " As such , it does n’t seem as though Diana would hesitate tosupport Joker ’s dying either . While Wonder Woman and her warrior ’s view is largely live , theFlashsupporting the death penalisation is probable something not very many fan are cognizant of , and this egress helps stand the idea that Wally would belike vote in favour of theJoker’sdeath if the scenario ever arose in the DC Universe .
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