Warning: The following contains spoilers for “Flash Forward Epilogue” a story in The Flash #750 by Scott Lobdell, Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, Luis Guerrero and Troy Peteri, on sale now.
Outside of their shared affinity for red and yellow costumes, Iron Man and Wally West’s Flash don’t have too much in common. Where super-genius Tony Stark was a titan of industry before he suited up as one of Marvel’s founding Avengers, Wally West was merely a founding Teen Titans member and Barry Allen’s kid sidekick before he grew up alongside generations of readers.
While Wally’s evolution from Kid Flash to Flash was one of DC’s most beloved character arcs, that history was lost with the New 52 reboot, which wiped away years of continuity in 2011. Since Wally’s return kicked off DC Rebirth, parts of those lost years have been woven back into the fabric of the DC Universe in stories like Doomsday Clock and Flash Forward.
After Flash Forward ended with Wally gaining ultimate knowledge and the power of Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan by sitting in the Mobius Chair, The Flash #750 sees Wally confront the fractured, contradictory history of the DC Universe.
As he looks back over his own life, Wally sees his first meeting with Barry Allen happen in two completely different ways. While these contradictions may drive Wally West to make reality-shaking changes in Generation Zero: Gods Among Us, Tony Stark found a much quieter solution to a similar problem almost 20 years ago.
To put it mildly, the ‘90s were a rough time for Iron Man. In the infamous Avengers storyline, “The Crossing,” the Avengers learned that their time-traveling foe Kang the Conqueror had been quietly using Iron Man as a sleeper agent for years. When Iron Man seemingly breaks bad, the Avengers bring a 19-year-old Tony Stark to help them defeat his older self.
After the elder Iron Man perished, “Teen Tony” served as Marvel’s main Iron Man for a few months in 1996. However, this young Stark and the other Avengers sacrificed their lives, only to be reborn and rebooted in the Heroes Reborn universe, an alternate reality created by Franklin Richards.
When the Avengers finally returned to the main Marvel Universe as their usual selves, Iron Man had some serious questions. As Kurt Busiek and Ian Churchill revealed in Avengers Annual 2001, Iron Man remembered the details of all three of those lives, including three separate childhoods.
While these contradictory memories caused Tony an understandable amount of mental distress, he was most concerned about holding himself to account for the crimes he seemingly committed in “The Crossing.” Although the Avengers unanimously decided that Stark was ultimately blameless, he took responsibility be instating safeguards in his tech to keep anything like that from happening again. As the memories of his past lives and those stories faded into obscurity, Iron Man simply carried on as one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
Wally West’s current situation shares some striking similarities with Iron Man’s predicament, even beyond their confused memories. In Heroes in Crisis, a power surge and a fragile emotional state caused Wally to inadvertently kill several heroes at the superhero trauma center Sanctuary. Although Wally’s true level culpability in those deaths remains somewhat unclear, the Flash sat in the Mobius Chair as a kind of penance for his actions in that controversial storyline.
But where Iron Man seemed more or less fine to live with the contradictory memories of his life until they faded away, the Flash is ready to take a far more active role in rewriting his past. As the end of this story explicitly states, Wally intends to use his unimaginable power to rewrite DC history and firmly answer the questions those contradictions create.
By the time the Flash and Iron Man understood their respective conflicting histories, they both posed questions that fans had already asked in the real world. For Iron Man, the simplest answer to that question was to put the Gordian knot of contradictory history behind him and move on into the era that would make him a superstar.
By all accounts, DC seems set to spend the next several months answering the questions that Wally West posed about his own life and the rest of DC history. And now, only time will tell if the Flash can find a sublime solution that clarifies what came before or if Wally West will simply try to outrun his past at top speed.
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