Wally West

Kid Flash, the Team's quick-witted young speedster in Young Justice.

Wally West, known as Kid Flash, is a teenage speedster and a founding member of the Team in the animated series Young Justice, where he is voiced by Jason Spisak. He is the protégé of the Flash and the best friend of Dick Grayson, and he appears in the show's first two seasons.

Quick Facts

Publisher

DC Comics

Debut

As Kid Flash:
The Flash #110 (December 1959)
As Flash:
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986)

Creators

John Broome (writer); Carmine Infantino (artist)

Full name

Wallace Rudolph West

Species

Metahuman

Alliances

Teen Titans
Young Justice
Justice League

Partners

Raven
The Flash
Green Lantern
Nightwing
Troia

Also known as

Kid Flash; The Flash

Lore & Background

In Young Justice, Wally West is Kid Flash rather than the Flash. He gained his powers from an attempt to recreate the accident that gave Barry Allen his, and he can run at hypersonic speed. The series shows him as the Team's flirtatious jokester, always ready with a comeback, who gradually grows more mature and begins a romantic relationship with Artemis. He is the nephew by marriage of Barry Allen, the Flash, and works with a team of young heroes that operates covertly under the supervision of the Justice League.

Reader's Guide

Wally West appears as Kid Flash in the first two seasons of Young Justice. He is a founding member of the Team, whose core members also include Robin, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis, and a close friend of Dick Grayson. By the second season he has retired from heroics and attends college with Artemis; he returns to help stop an alien invasion and dies saving the world in the season finale. Afterwards Bart Allen takes up the Kid Flash mantle.

Did You Know?

Wally West first appeared in Flash #110 (1959) as Kid Flash, created by artist Carmine Infantino and writer John Broome.
He is the nephew of Iris West, and his powers came from a freak accident that bathed him in chemicals, replicating Barry Allen's origin.