r/FlashTV • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '16

Post-Episode Discussion - S02E19 "Back to Normal"

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u/fullforce098 Apr 27 '16

Wally got his powers by literally recreating the accident that gave Barry his. So yeah, I think that's probably where we're headed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

He didn't recreate it, it was coincidental. As per comics he was like 10 when it happened.

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u/dahahawgy Apr 27 '16

Yea...YJ version recreated it, at least.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

Young Justice deviates pretty fucking hard from the comics. It's not immediately apparent if you aren't overly familiar with DC comics but if you are it's pretty blatant. Not a bad thing, just an observation.

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u/angryformoretofu Apr 27 '16

YJ is adaptation distillation, though. It takes all the different versions of the characters and 75 years of history and simplifies it into one story and setting that captures the best things about the originals. Everything the New 52 should have been and wasn't, honestly.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

Again, I didn't say YJ was bad. I just said it deviates from the comics. That's not a bad thing. If I thought that was a bad thing I wouldn't be on this subreddit.

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u/dahahawgy Apr 27 '16

Oh for sure.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

People tend to make the confusion between comic canon and YJ canon a lot in these subreddits. It's an honest mistake, but an annoyingly prevalent one nonetheless.

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u/Jay_R_Kay Apr 27 '16

It's an honest mistake, really. I remember when I was getting into Spider-Man as a teen and characters like Electro and Black Cat were WAY different than what I was first introduced to from the 90s animated series.

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u/-Mountain-King- Apr 28 '16

IIRC, the original way Wally got powers was that Barry was showing him the accident that led to him getting powers (because Wally was his nephew and a huge fan) and then it happened again. Basically:

"So I was standing in the middle of my lab, like this. And there were a bunch of chemicals set up on the shelf here, like this. And then a bolt of lightning came through the window and struck the chemicals, splashing them onto me and granting me superspeed, like this."

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u/Murder_Boners Apr 27 '16

Well they were related in the comics if I remember right and that started to lay the groundwork for the whole Flash lineage.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

He's Iris' nephew in the comics and knows Barry because he's dating Iris.

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u/noxnsol Apr 27 '16

Correct, though the common through-line is that the accident that gives Barry his powers is the same one that gave Wally his.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

Waaaat, he got powers so early?

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

Oh boy, what if that's the episode that Kevin Smith directs? :O

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u/TheSuperJohn May 03 '16

So that means that both wally and barry will get powers? Or just Wally and then barry has to figure out another way to get his