Black Flash
The Black Flash is a comic entity that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
It's existence was known to the Native Americans who called it "slow lightning''. (Flash v2 #139)
Both Jay Garrick and Max Mercury had encountered this entity over the years where they called it the Black Flash. (Flash v2 #139)
The fourth Flash Bart Allen saw the entity just prior to his death at the hands of the Rogues in the Getty Center. (Flash: The Fastest Man Alive v1 #12) Afterwards, an entity that was seemingly the Black Flash was discovered dead by two boys in Iowa who had found its charred corpse. (The Flash: Rebirth v1 #1) A resurrected Barry Allen later discovered the body where he was transformed into the newest incarnation of the Black Flash but in a reverse state. (The Flash: Rebirth v1 #2) It was later discovered that this was the result of the machinations of Professor Zoom who had altered the Speed Force to transform Barry Allen into a new version of the entity. (The Flash: Rebirth v1 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
It was referred to as being one of the many faces of Death and that this was the shape it took when it came for speedsters. (Flash v2 #139)
Powers and abilities
Notes
- The Black Flash was created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Ron Wagner where it made a cameo appearance in The Flash v2 #138 (June 1998) but made a full appearance in The Flash v2 #141 (September 1998).
Alternate Versions
- In Smallville Season 11, the Black Flash appeared in the Haunted story arc where it was portrayed as a dark entity with oil skin and demonic features. Its existence was known to Jay Garrick who had seen it numerous times when he used his super-speed until the government disbanded the Justice Society of America and he stopped using his powers. Bart Allen kept on seeing the entity every time he used his super-speed but believed the creature to be a dark figment of his imagination. To prove its existence, he asked Clark Kent to run with him into the Speed Force when he saw the creature that told him that his speed was not pure but that it would consume him as well. The pair fought but the Black Flash gained the upper hand until Bart Allen arrived to aid his friend with Impulse sacrificing his life to defeat the entity in order to save Clark Kent who mourned the passing of his friend.
In other media
Videogames
- In the Game Boy Advance Justice League Heroes: The Flash, the Black Flash made an appearance in the video game. Whenever the played as the Flash died, he was chased by the Black Flash but if the player managed to avoid being caught than they were rewarded with a chance of continuing the game. This allowed them to return with low health and not lose their current life but each death made escaping the Black Flash increasingly difficult.
Appearances
- Flash v2:
- Flash: The Fastest Man Alive v1:
- The Flash: Rebirth v1: (2009)
External Links
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