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''The Return of Barry Allen'' is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #72 setting it up. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen...after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had been the new Flash for ''years''.years. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: This is ultimately "Barry's" endgame, to eliminate all the other Flashes so that he will be the last one standing.
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** At the end of the ChristmasEpisode, when Barry comes knocking at the Garricks' door, to the surprise of everyone present.
** Wally confronts "Barry" in the Flash Museum and tosses him a Flash ring because he discovered the latter's true identity. Barry proceeds to quick-change into the costume inside the ring. Wally calls him by his real name: Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Professor Zoom, just as the change is complete.
** One that doubles as a SequelHook: "The Life Story of the Flash" is authored by Iris West-Allen, yet the date of publication is a few years from the present. Someday, Iris ''will'' return.
** At the end of the ChristmasEpisode, when Barry comes knocking at the Garricks' door, to the surprise of everyone present.
** Wally confronts "Barry" in the Flash Museum and tosses him a Flash ring because he discovered the latter's true identity. Barry proceeds to quick-change into the costume inside the ring. Wally calls him by his real name: Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Professor Zoom, just as the change is complete.
** One that doubles as a SequelHook: "The Life Story of the Flash" is authored by Iris West-Allen, yet the date of publication is a few years from the present. Someday, Iris ''will'' return.
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* NeverTrustATitle: Barry doesn't actually return... [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis yet]]. Instead, it's Wally dealing with an Eobard Thawne from before his enmity with Barry and thinking he's Barry.
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* NeverTrustATitle: Barry doesn't actually return... [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis yet]]. Instead, it's Wally dealing with an Eobard Thawne from before his enmity with Barry and thinking he's Barry.
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** Thawne also gave one to Jay Garrick, Max Mercury and Johnny Quick, and it's his beatdown of Jay that pisses Wally off the most.
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** Thawne also gave one to Jay Garrick, Max Mercury and Johnny Quick, and it's his beatdown of Jay that pisses pissed Wally off the most.
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** When Wally and Linda are both brainstorming new superhero names, the latter suggests "Quicksilver." [[{{ComicBook/Quicksilver}} Wally notes that it's taken]].
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** When Wally and Linda are both brainstorming new superhero names, the latter suggests "Quicksilver." [[{{ComicBook/Quicksilver}} "ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}". Wally notes that it's taken]].taken.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Due to losing his memories, Thawne genuinely thought he was Barry Allen, and it also explains how he passed a test via a [[LivingLieDetector green lantern ring]].
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* CardCarryingVillain: By the end of this storyline, Thawne has embraced the monicker given to him, the "Renegade" Flash, and even fashions himself as a "champion of injustice".
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** The young couple Jay and Wally help out in the ChristmasEpisode just happen to be named [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Joseph and Mary]]. The girl was even going into labor on Christmas Eve, to complete the symbolism.
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** The young couple Jay and Wally help out in the ChristmasEpisode BreatherEpisode just happen to be named [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Joseph and Mary]]. The girl was even going went into labor inside a church on Christmas Eve, to complete the symbolism.
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** The young couple Jay and Wally help out in the ChristmasEpisode just happen to be named [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Joseph and Mary]]. The girl was even going into labor on Christmas Eve, to complete the symbolism.
** When Wally and Linda are both brainstorming new superhero names, the latter suggests "Quicksilver." [[{{ComicBook/Quicksilver}} Wally notes that it's taken]].
** Wally calling Max [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
** When Wally and Linda are both brainstorming new superhero names, the latter suggests "Quicksilver." [[{{ComicBook/Quicksilver}} Wally notes that it's taken]].
** Wally calling Max [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
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** When Wally and Linda are both brainstorming new superhero names, the latter suggests "Quicksilver." [[{{ComicBook/Quicksilver}} Wally notes that it's taken]].
** Wally calling Max [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
** Wally calling Max [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
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* NeverTrustATitle: Barry doesn't actually return... [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis yet]]. Instead, it's Wally dealing with an Eobard Thawne from before his enmity with Barry and thinking he's Barry.
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** Additionally, Wally realizes that, while he may not be the perfect replacement, he's certainly better than Eobard Thawne. So there's a message of reassurance for the Barry fans in there.
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''The Return of Barry Allen'' is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #72 setting it up. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen...after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had already been the new Flash for ''years''. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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* BigNo: Thawne's reaction when Wally feigns using the treadmill to give him ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: "No. NO! [=NOOOOOOOoooooo=]..."
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* BigNo: Thawne's reaction when Wally feigns using the treadmill to give him ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: "No. NO! [=NOOOOOOOoooooo=]..."
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** Eobard has one when he visits the Flash Museum and finds out what he'll become.
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** Eobard has one when he visits the Flash Museum and finds out what he'll become.
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* EasterEgg: Thawne's ID number is IFTNO-139. This sequence is a reference to Carmine Infantino, co-creator of ''The Flash'', and Issue #139, the debut of Eobard Thawne.
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* EasterEgg: Thawne's ID number is IFTNO-139. This sequence is IFTNO-139, a reference to Carmine Infantino, co-creator of ''The Flash'', and Issue #139, the debut first appearance of Eobard Thawne.
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** Thawne delivers one to Combine for calling Wally The Flash when he is The Flash.
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** Thawne delivers one to Combine for calling Wally The the Flash when he is The the Flash.
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* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: This is ultimately "Barry's" endgame, to eliminate all the other Flashes so that he will be the last one standing.
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* IHaveYourWife: Thawne kidnaps Linda to lure Wally out.
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* IHaveYourWife: Thawne kidnaps takes Linda hostage to lure Wally out.
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* PretenderDiss: Thawn, as "Barry", starts to do this as he degenerates into villainy, attacking Wally and the other speedsters because he considers himself the one true Flash. Wally eventually gives it right back to him after his identity is revealed.
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* PretenderDiss: Thawn, as "Barry", Thawne starts to do this as he degenerates into villainy, attacking Wally and the other speedsters because he considers himself the one true Flash. Wally eventually gives it right back to him after his identity is revealed.
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Jay realizes that Barry is going out of control that he chooses to gather a couple of Golden Age veterans to rein him in, becoming the first true appearance of the Flash Family.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: For most of their time together, Jay refers to Wally most exclusively as Junior. When Jay calls him Flash for the first time (which actually Wally), it was when he believes Wally is finally getting out of Barry's shadow.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: For most of their time together, Jay refers to Wally most exclusively as Junior. When Jay calls him Flash for the first time (which actually surprises Wally), it was when he believes Wally is finally getting out of Barry's shadow.
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* TheMentor: Max Mercury briefly mentors Wally before Wally quits.
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* TheMentor: Max Mercury briefly mentors starts mentoring Wally before Wally quits.here.
** Wally calling Max [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Green Lantern's vulnerability to the color yellow is lampshaded by Professor Zoom during the fight immediately following the reveal of the latter's true identity. Hal forms an energy cage around Thawne, who snarks that Hal must have forgotten the power ring's weakness to yellow objects...and the Reverse-Flash costume just happens to be predominantly yellow. Cue Thawne easily chopping through the energy-cage's bars and laying a smack-down on Hal.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: Green Lantern's vulnerability to the color yellow is lampshaded by Professor Zoom during the fight immediately following the reveal of the latter's true identity. Hal forms an energy cage around Thawne, who snarks that Hal must have forgotten the power ring's weakness to yellow objects...and the Reverse-Flash costume just happens to be predominantly yellow. Cue Thawne easily chopping through the energy-cage's bars and laying a smack-down on Hal.Hal.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: For most of their time together, Jay refers to Wally most exclusively as Junior. When Jay calls him Flash for the first time (which actually Wally), it was when he believes Wally is finally getting out of Barry's shadow.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: For most of their time together, Jay refers to Wally most exclusively as Junior. When Jay calls him Flash for the first time (which actually Wally), it was when he believes Wally is finally getting out of Barry's shadow.
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* BattleInTheRain: A storm is raging during Wally and Thawne's final face-off.
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* EasterEgg: Thawne's ID number is IFTNO-139. This sequence is a reference to Carmine Infantino, co-creator of ''The Flash'', and Issue #139, the debut of Eobard Thawne.
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* SequelHook:
** Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
** This was more in-story, as Iris being alive was well known to long term Flash fans.
** Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
** This was more in-story, as Iris being alive was well known to long term Flash fans.
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* SequelHook:
**SequelHook: Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
** This was more in-story, as Iris being alive was well knownaway, meaning she will someday return to long term Flash fans.Wally's time.
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** This was more in-story, as Iris being alive was well known
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* ChekhovsGun: When Wally finds Barry lost in thought in an alleyway, the two fail to notice a book in a pile of trash; most of the writing on the book's spine is faded and unreadable, except one: "Allen". That book is the key to ''everything'' in the story.
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* ChekhovsGun: When Wally finds and Jay find Barry lost in thought in an alleyway, the two they fail to notice a book in a pile of trash; most of the writing on the book's spine is faded and unreadable, except one: "Allen". That book is the key to ''everything'' in the story.
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* BreatherEpisode: Issue #73 is mostly a ChristmasEpisode until the cliffhanger that follows up on a small plot thread from #72 that sets up this storyline.
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* ChekhovsGun: When Wally finds Barry lost in thought in an alleyway, the two fail to notice a book in a pile of trash; most of the writing on the book's spine is faded and unreadable, except one: "Allen". That book is the key to ''everything'' in the story.
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* TakeThatAudience: Mark Waid wrote this story to shut up fans who wanted Barry back for good. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Sadly,]] [[Creator/DanDidio one remained]], but you can't get any clearer than making one of Flash's greatest villains into a delusional, obsessive Barry fanboy who refuses to accept the world has moved on, and that Wally has become the Flash. At the same time, though, Wally himself serves as an AudienceSurrogate for Barry fans, as he is subconsciously preventing himself from surpassing his uncle because he ''doesn't'' want to replace Barry in the minds of the public, but ultimately realizes that's what he must do. So it's not entirely an insult.
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* TakeThatAudience: Mark Waid wrote this story to shut up fans who wanted Barry back for good. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Sadly,]] [[Creator/DanDidio one remained]], but you You can't get any clearer than making one of Flash's greatest villains into a delusional, obsessive Barry fanboy who refuses to accept the world has moved on, and that Wally has become the Flash. At the same time, though, Wally himself serves as an AudienceSurrogate for Barry fans, as he is subconsciously preventing himself from surpassing his uncle because he ''doesn't'' want to replace Barry in the minds of the public, but ultimately realizes that's what he must do. So it's not entirely an insult.
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''The Return of Barry Allen'' is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #73 leading into it.#72 setting it up. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen...after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had already been the new Flash for ''years''. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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''The Return of Barry Allen'' is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #73 leading into it. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen... after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had already been the new Flash for ''years''. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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''The Return of Barry Allen'' is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #73 leading into it. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen... after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had already been the new Flash for ''years''. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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* GuileHero: By pretending to use the Cosmic Treadmill to kill Thawne in his infancy, Wally managed to trick and intimidate Thawne into going back to his own time.
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-->'''Wally:''' Max was right. He was right all along. I ''am'' afraid. I'm afraid of replacing ''Barry''. But I'm ''more'' afraid... of letting ''this'' bastard do it!
* IHaveYourWife: Well, girlfriend, but Thawne kidnaps Linda to lure Wally out.
* IHaveYourWife: Well, girlfriend, but Thawne kidnaps Linda to lure Wally out.
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-->'''Wally:''' Max was right. He was right all along. I ''am'' afraid. I'm afraid of replacing ''Barry''. But I'm ''more'' afraid... of letting ''this'' bastard do it!
* IHaveYourWife:Well, girlfriend, but Thawne kidnaps Linda to lure Wally out.
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** Wally himself delivers one to Thawne once he gets his second wind. It's to the point that Wally bitchslaps him at one point!
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* OhCrap: This is ''all'' of the speedsters' response when they find out that the Reverse-Flash is back.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** This is ''all'' of the speedsters' response when they find out that the Reverse-Flash isback.back.
** Repaid in full in the finale when Thawne realizes that Wally's picking up speed, and is now an even match for him.
** This is ''all'' of the speedsters' response when they find out that the Reverse-Flash is
** Repaid in full in the finale when Thawne realizes that Wally's picking up speed, and is now an even match for him.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Issue #79 opens with a single large panel of Zoom and Wally's narration saying this.
* BigNo: Thawne's reaction when Wally feigns using the treadmill to give him ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: "No. NO! [=NOOOOOOOoooooo=]..."
* BigNo: Thawne's reaction when Wally feigns using the treadmill to give him ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: "No. NO! [=NOOOOOOOoooooo=]..."
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* {{Crossover}}: The events of the story spilled over into ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' #40, where Hal and "Barry" had a IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight ([[ItWasHisSled he wasn't]]). People who only read Green Lantern were probably very confused about [[SuperDickery Barry's sudden revival and turn to evil]].
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** Wally appropriates the famous "Senator, I you’re no Jack Kennedy" quote.
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** Wally appropriates the famous "Senator, I you’re no Jack Kennedy" quote.
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* StrawFan: Thawne was unable to face reality, so he rejected it and created a delusion for himself more amenable to his preferences. Waid couldn't have known just how accurate a caricature his version of Thawne would become, but he was so sick of fans refusing to accept Barry's passing that he turned Thawne into one of these.
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* TakeThatAudience: Mark Waid wrote this story to shut up fans who wanted Barry back for good. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Sadly,]] [[Creator/DanDidio one remained]], but you can't get any clearer than making one of Flash's greatest villains into a delusional, obsessive Barry fanboy who refuses to accept the world has moved on, and that Wally has become the Flash. At the same time, though, Wally himself serves as an AudienceSurrogate for Barry fans, as he is subconsciously preventing himself from surpassing his uncle because he ''doesn't'' want to replace Barry in the minds of the public, but ultimately realizes that's what he must do. So it's not entirely an insult.
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* HeroicSecondWind: After spending most of the last issue getting outpaced by Thawne, when Thawne rants about how he will ensure that nobody even remembers Barry Allen when he's finished destroying Central City, Wally finally overcomes the mental block he had imposed on his speed, expressing it with the following;
-->'''Wally:''' Max was right. He was right all along. I ''am'' afraid. I'm afraid of replacing ''Barry''. But I'm ''more'' afraid... of letting ''this'' bastard do it!
-->'''Wally:''' Max was right. He was right all along. I ''am'' afraid. I'm afraid of replacing ''Barry''. But I'm ''more'' afraid... of letting ''this'' bastard do it!
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--0>'''Wally''': Mister, I knew Barry Allen. And you’re no Barry Allen!
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* DespairEventHorizon: Eobard has one when he visits the Flash Museum and finds out what he'll become.
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** Eobard has one when he visits the Flash Museum and finds out what he'll become.
** Eobard has one when he visits the Flash Museum and finds out what he'll become.
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* PowerCreepPowerSeep: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] and [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; Wally notes that his speed has fluctuated over the years, and that he's currently nowhere near as fast as he used to be. Meanwhile, the veteran speedsters (Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, and Max Mercury) are all still fast, but have slowed down due to their ages. This is all why everyone is so terrified of the Reverse Flash returning: he retains his full speed and level of power, so none of them can truly match him.
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* PowerCreepPowerSeep: PowerCreepPowerSeep:
** [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] and [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; Wally notes that his speed has fluctuated over the years, and that he's currently nowhere near as fast as he used to be. Meanwhile, the veteran speedsters (Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, and Max Mercury) are all still fast, but have slowed down due to their ages. This is all why everyone is so terrified of the Reverse Flash returning: he retains his full speed and level of power, so none of them can truly match him.
** [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] and [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]; Wally notes that his speed has fluctuated over the years, and that he's currently nowhere near as fast as he used to be. Meanwhile, the veteran speedsters (Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, and Max Mercury) are all still fast, but have slowed down due to their ages. This is all why everyone is so terrified of the Reverse Flash returning: he retains his full speed and level of power, so none of them can truly match him.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Turns out, Wally was absolutely right to be skeptical of Barry's return.
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* ProperlyParanoid: ProperlyParanoid:
** Turns out, Wally was absolutely right to be skeptical of Barry's return.
** Turns out, Wally was absolutely right to be skeptical of Barry's return.
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* SequelHook: Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
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** Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
** Barry's biography was written by Iris West, who everyone believed to be deceased at the time. Especially since the book's publishing date is still a few years away...
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* ShoutOut: Wally appropriates the famous "Senator, I you’re no Jack Kennedy" quote.
-->'''Wally''': Mister, I knew Barry Allen. And you’re no Barry Allen!
-->'''Wally''': Mister, I knew Barry Allen. And you’re no Barry Allen!
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Wally appropriates the famous "Senator, I you’re no Jack Kennedy" quote.
-->'''Wally''': --0>'''Wally''': Mister, I knew Barry Allen. And you’re no Barry Allen!
** Wally appropriates the famous "Senator, I you’re no Jack Kennedy" quote.
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* IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: One of the main differences between Wally's suit and the original. "Barry" comments on it, noting that he always felt people trusted him because they could see his eyes.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Late into the story, when Max Mercury suggests that Wally's speed has been inhibited all this time because of a mental block having to do with his being in Barry's shadow, Wally angrily declares that he's not going to hear another word of it, as he loves speed. Max coolly replies, "But you love your Uncle Barry even more," causing Wally to stop in his tracks.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Late into the story, when Max Mercury suggests that Wally's speed has been inhibited all this time because of a mental block having to do with his being in Barry's shadow, Wally angrily declares that he's not going to hear another word of it, as he loves speed. Max coolly replies, "But you love your Uncle Barry even more," more", causing Wally to stop in his tracks.
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* AscendedFanboy: Eobard Thawne, in the worst way imaginable. He was already unstable, given that he got surgery to look like Barry and murdered a man to steal the cosmic treadmill, and finding out that he traveled to the wrong era was bad enough, but finding out that he's destined to be his idol's worse enemy? Yeah…
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* AscendedFanboy: Eobard Thawne, in the worst way imaginable. He was already unstable, given that he got surgery to look like Barry and murdered a man to steal the cosmic treadmill, and finding out that he traveled to the wrong era was bad enough, but finding out that he's destined to be his idol's worse worst enemy? Yeah…Yeah...
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* BeardOfSorrow: After being betrayed and left for dead by "Barry" Wally is left broken, with some notable stubble showing up in the process. After discovering the truth and donning the costume again, he goes back to being clean-shaven.
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* BeardOfSorrow: After being betrayed and left for dead by "Barry" "Barry", Wally is left broken, with some notable stubble showing up in the process. After discovering the truth and donning the costume again, he goes back to being clean-shaven.
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* OhCrap: This is ''all'' of the speedsters' response when they find out that the Reverse Flash, Reverse-Flash is back.
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"The Return of Barry Allen" is a story arc from the second series of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', running from issues #74 to #79, with issue #73 leading into it. Written by Creator/MarkWaid, it concerns the return of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen... after his protégé, ComicBook/WallyWest, had already been the new Flash for ''years''. Initially, Barry’s return is the cause for much celebration, but something's just not quite right...
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