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Hero’s In Crisis and Young Justice? What Does This Mean?

One of the main selling points that this comic had was that it was going to deal with Wally West and what being dead and coming back, only to no longer have his wife or kids, really did to him.

A lot of people did not like the handling of Wally during this arc. This was because the writers made him a killer. The reason was because he wanted his life back, his wife, his kids, and his friends. This was also right after he got back from the dead in the first place. So people were pretty mad to say the least.

They also tried to tackle Roy’s addiction during this story line

And then they decided to have Wally West be the person who killed Roy and everyone else in the Sanctuary. Not only that, but then have Wally blame fake his death and blame it on Harlequin and Booster Gold

You can see why people were mad about it…

Later on it was retcon that Wally was under the control of the Reverse Flash and it wasn’t him who did it, but yea they still try to make it out like Wally would murder his best friend because he wanted his family back

(A vision Wally had of his happy family again)

So how much of this story will the Young Justice writers take and use?

Well I believe it is very dumb to pull from a Wally West centered story, and not use Wally. I think they will have Wally come back at some point before they do this arc next season and use some of the same stuff.

This could be using the story about how Wally is now back from the dead and dealing with the fact that people like Artemis and Dick have changed so much and he’s still the same.

I could see a scene like this happening.

Now the whole Wally being a murder and poor handling of mental health issues, I don’t this Young Justice will do. We saw this season how amazing YJ can handle mental health, so J know we’re in good hands. I don’t think they will make Wally the murder, but I do think one of his rouges will be the killer and blame it on Wally.

Now as for the death of Roy, sadly I do think it will happen because some how this season without anyone being permanently dead. I don’t know if they will kill off the real Roy or Will(High chances is that it’s Will), but we will see.

Sorry for a long rambly post, but I’m going to ride the Wally is alive theory till the day I die. If they do Hero’s in Crisis without Wally it would be very dumb because it literally centers around his trauma.

I guess we’ll see next season 🤷🏼‍♀️

why, you may ask, do i think wally needs to come back? am i that attached to him as a character?

the answer to the latter question is no. i am not that attached to him as a character; i think he adds a lot of value and humor to the show, but everyone's been fine without him. the answer to the first question, though...

wally has SO MUCH in the comics that i don't feel the writers can just. leave out of his story. my dude comes back from the speedforce as the FASTEST FLASH ever because he has complete mastery over it. there is more, but that's the biggest part for me. in yj, he never got over the mental block he had in comics that was making him slower than the flash and impulse. i want him to have that. i want people who love him to see that. i want him to be able to get to his full power, and i want to see it on-screen because goddamn it's a brilliant bit to his story that shapes him later. i need to see it.

From what I know, the official reason why Wally isn't as powerful as in other incarnations (mental block notwithstanding) is because the accident he went through was sort of a "cheap copy" of the one that gave Barry his powers.

I also believe, but this is just me talking mind you, that Wally's "lack of speed" is sort of an equivalent exchange situation. Really, this is just a theory I have that I use to cope; nothing's been confirmed at all, but allow me to elaborate, please:

By this I mean that in most works (if not all of them, sorry, my knowledge is limited) Wally's parents were abusive—in Young Justice they clearly aren't. So that's led me to think that happier home life = less power. As in, a "you can't have everything" kind of situation.

But I insist, that's just something I tell myself.

Then again, it does feel a bit cheap that, from what I've read over the years, one of the reasons Wally mastered the Speed Force was so he could go back to Linda but apparently he can't do the same for Artemis. Are you seriously telling me a 5-year-long happy, stable relationship ain't worth shit?

C'mon...

Then again, as much as I'd love to have Wally back, the development in the last two seasons makes me seriously wonder how'd they pull that off and have it be satisfactory.

After all, much of Artemis' arc last season was tied to her grieving Wally, with her current relationship with Jason as further proof that she's slowly but surely moving on. Even if the death of the most important person in your life is a wound that will never quite heal.

Even if there are many different ways a reunion between the two can play out, will they really risk undoing all that? And what if they don't plan on bringing Spitfire back from the dead and have a devastated but understanding Wally trying to move with his life as well?

That can make many fans feel uncomfortable pretty quick.

I mean, I'm not sure what the general consensus regarding Gardita is (or was), but it is undeniable that BBRAE is a fan favourite—I must admit I am too hoping Raven will eventually be introduced and maybe develop some sort of bond with Gar, but that's unimportant—, and at least back in season 3 fans were very disappointed, even irked, Bluepulse hadn't become canon and would likely never be.

I hardly doubt fans will like it if they officially sink Spitfire—you'd think it'd be impossible to sink it lower than literally killing it, but what do I know?

Anyway, the point of all this is to say that as wonderful as it'd be to have Wally back, I still wonder how they'd manage to fit that into the narrative in a way that feels natural after almost five years (in-universe) of mourning.

But yeah, if he does come back, Wally deserves the ultimate example of the Taken a Level in Badass trope.

Oh good! Not only is she alright, she’s fucking pissed

I love that M’gann managed to get her payback against Lor-Zod. Lesson learned. Do not Mess with Superboy otherwise you’ll have Miss Martian to deal with.

This was the biggest shock of the season for me! I was NOT expecting to see Supergirl at all! And now I need season 5 IMMEDIATELY!

Calling them the Redemption Arc Furies

Gotta love how Tinya grows increasingly more frustrated with J'emm for both interrupting her in such a crucial moment and putting the secret nature of her mission at risk, like, "Would you just shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch, and let me fucking talk???"

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm sort of hoping that at some point in the series (not Phantoms, of course) they introduce Raven as both her own character and Gar's next love interest (but with her actually being relevant to the plot; my girl is too great to be reduced to being a satellite love interest, thank you very much).

This is in no way Gar/Perdita criticism because, while they don't exactly pull at my heartstrings, I literally have nothing against the pairing or its shippers. Maybe Perdita doesn't have much characterisation aside from being Queen and Gar's (ex) girlfriend—that I have seen of, I must admit I don't watch the show as actively as others or even as I did back in the first two seasons—, but I in no way dislike her.

I just think it'd be interesting to see the two interact under the show's more serious circumstances where Gar is allowed to be goofy and chill but also has a lot of emotional baggage to deal with. Not to mention Raven's an empath with her own fair share of issues *cough, demonic daddy issues, cough, cough!*—I just think that'd make their interactions and way to relating to each deeper and more meaningful.

And, let's face it, Raven's character has enough lore to fit in about any Teen Titans/Sidekick/Young Heroes focused DC show. And it's about damn time these kids (yeah, I know they're in their late teens to early-mid adulthood now—I don't care; they'll always be our kids) faced their very first apocalypse in the classical sense of the word ;)

But seriously, this is pretty much wistful thinking. If the sneak peeks from Targets are anything to go by, Gar will be getting back together with Perdita at some point. And honestly, good for them.

But a girl can dream, right?

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