Ever since the end of Absolute Power, the Flash has been utilizing his newest power, which allows him to create temporal duplicates and have him be in more than one place at once. It's come in handy quite a bit and Flash's latest development with it may be the only thing stopping the DC Universe from falling to a powerful villain.

The Flash Has Created an Army of Thousands of Duplicates

Wally's Sharding Power Puts Him in a League of His Own

In a preview for The Flash #20 by Simon Spurrier and Vasco Georgiev, the moon is engulfed in energy as one of Mister Terrific's T-Spheres arrives to analyze Flash's battle with Eclipso. The Flash makes with the T-Sphere and asks if the Justice League is on the way. Unfortunately, the T-Sphere is just a data collector and doesn’t have an answer for Wally. Wally also discovers that despite his war going on for several years on the moon, the time dilation means that Flash has only been at war with Eclipso for roughly fifteen hours.

One of the Flash duplicates meets with the T-Sphere, which begins to record data for the Justice League. The duplicate, which calls himself F8-3-1459, reveals that the army tops out at around 7,000 copies because any more copies, and they start to lose control of their powers and lose any advantage over Eclipso. A sudden attack kills several Flash duplicates and F8-3-1459 tells the T-Sphere to go talk to the ‘Splitter’ if it wants more answers about what’s been going on in the war.

F8-3-1459 takes the T-Sphere to one of the main areas in the Flash army’s base, where one Wally West, clad in a black suit with yellow trim, is splitting off new copies of himself. The T-Sphere speaks with this Flash, complimenting him on his ability to coordinate a large-scale military operation. Wally finishes creating the latest batch of copies and tells a nearby A.R. (or aura relative) to find General Garrick and inform him that the next wave of Flash copies will go out in five minutes.

Seriously, This Power Goes Beyond Justice League Level

The Flash is Literally a Force Unto Himself

Ever since he first stepped into the red costume, Wally has been pushing himself to learn as much about superspeed as he possibly could. In doing so, he opened up a new world for himself and the speedsters in his wake. But this power goes beyond the infinite mass punch or being able to create costumes out of pure Speed Force. The Flash is able to create a literal army of copies, each one just as fast and as powerful as the original one.

This power was just introduced last year and, so far, it’s mostly been used so that Wally can split his time between the Flash Family and the Justice League. But the arrival of Eclipso has forced the Flash’s hand and caused him to push himself far beyond what he thought his sharding power was capable of. Now Wally knows he can create up to 7,000 copies of himself at once, a development that honestly puts his hip in the Justice League in question.

Seriously, if the Flash can create thousands of copies of himself, what’s the point in belonging to a team like the Justice League? Yes, there’s something to be said for the camaraderie, but at the end of the day, Wally can do much better for the world utilizing this technique. One Wally is already enough to patrol the world. Just imagine what hundreds, if not thousands of Flash copies, could do for the DC Universe if Wally went all in on maintaining this army of Scarlet Speedsters.

The Flash Should Keep Embracing His New Power

Wally Could Literally Change the World for the Better

Nothing's more unfortunate than seeing a hero get a power that has an amazing application like this only to let it fall by the wayside. Wally's facing off with one of the most powerful magic villains with this new ability and if he continues working with it, he could face off against even more powerful villains. Of course, there has to be some kind of drawback to power like this (there always is). But until that day comes, the Flash should keep up working on this power and showing the Justice League how it's done.

The Flash #20 is available on April 23rd from DC Comics.

The Flash

Created By

Gardner Fox, Harry Lampert, Carmine Infantino

First Appearance

Flash Comics

Alias

Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, Bart Allen, Avery Ho

Alliance

Justice Society of America, Justice League, Teen Titans

Race

Human

Franchise

D.C.

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