Top 10 Dark Alternate Versions Of The Flash

although the flash is often considered the fastest man alive it's quite clear given the countless speedsters in the dc multiverse that this is quite simply not the case with many of the heroes fellow speedsters villains and alternate universe counterparts frequently proving themselves superior what is going on all you nerdy folk out there my name is jack and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we are going to be taking a look at one of my favorite superheroes out there the flash and some of the dark alternate versions that have graced the pages over the years since the flash is a speedster i decided to open up the list to include some of the evil speeches as well just to keep it a little bit more interesting now if you like hearing us talk about dark alternate versions of your favorite characters why not check out our dark alternate versions playlist on our channel it is packed full of some great videos that amanda and i have worked very hard on and if that's your cup of tea then i'm sure you'll love it before we dive into our list today i want to send a huge shout out to epic games for sponsoring this video chapter 2 season 4 nexus war of fortnite was just released on august 27th and man oh man is it a good one been living under a rock and don't know what fortnite is well it is the world's most popular battle royale game where a hundred players jump out of the battle bus onto an island to collect weapons and materials to fight until the last player slash team stands to gain that sweet sweet victory royale nexus war gives us the chance to play some of our favorite comic book superheroes like iron man mystique and of course the almighty thor in a quest to team up and take down the devourer of worlds himself galactus use these superpowers that these lucky few have been given such as dr doom's arcane gauntlets she-hulk super strength iron man suit and more to take down your enemies and assure victory for your team now not only do you get to play as these famous 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merlin to bond with the demon known as etrigan and from there the entity known as speed demon was born granted the abilities of ghost rider including his fiery powers as well as super strength speed demon is not actually all that fast despite his name and lineage while the character is a formidable fighter and an all-around powerful being he falls very short in the speed department especially compared to all the other speedsters there have been other characters who have taken up this mantle including both jay garrick and wallace west however all of their abilities seem to be similar to the originals check out blaise allen for yourself starting with his first appearance in 1996's speed demon number one number nine deceased flash now a member of the anti-living barry allen formerly known as the hero of the flash is exactly what you think he is a zombified speedster when the anti-life equation begins spreading worldwide barry went into hiding alongside kid flash until they were found by superman and green lantern leaving wally in their more than capable hands the flash sped off to the daily planet where he encountered an ineffective giganta thankfully though she was taken down with a blast of the head from cyborg soon after we see the fortress of solitude turned into a shelter for the uninfected heroes however an infected martian manhunter was able to make it through and not only did he kill lex luthor by just ripping him in half he infected the flash with a scratch in the back as well barry immediately ran out of the fortress because he didn't want to hurt or infect anyone else and it didn't take long for him to become fully infected and he started attacking the remaining survivors all across the world he was finally stopped by superman after the two collided into each other at full force killing the speedster right then and there but not before he was able to infect the man of steel give the storyline a read for yourself starting with 2019's deceased number one number eight barry allen out of time hailing from a possible future this iteration of the flash is a much darker barry allen from 20 years of the future this future flash first appears in the flash annual volume 4 number 3 as a broken man reeling from the death of a close friend and fellow speedster wally west future flash travels backwards through time on a crusade to murder all the former enemies he deems responsible for west's death hoping to somehow change the future his actions only why do they tear in the speed force however and the once hero ultimately decides to use a present present-day barry allen's energy to seal the rift proving his superiority in a one-on-one battle against himself because apparently the flash is like a fine wine and only betters with age the pair are soon interrupted by the arrival of wally west able to take on both speeches at once future flash's actions caused the one thing he began his quest to stop the death of wally west give the storyline a read for yourself starting with the flash annual volume four number three and let me know what you think of it in the comments below number seven the rival real name edward claire the rival is the arch enemy of the golden age flash jay garrick and is one of the oldest speedsters around clarus was a professor at the university jay garrick went to and believed that he had the know-how and means to recreate the speed formula that gave jay garrick his powers in the first place he was able to develop a drug derivative of the same formula called velocity nine and after taking it himself he gained the powers of speedster would have however he found out that they were only temporary he became the criminal that he is because his findings were rejected by his fellow science peers and decided then to don a darker version of jaeger's costume and commit crimes under the name the rival after losing to the flag for the first time the rival resurfaced a couple months later and during his battle with the flash he was somehow able to reach light speed and just vanished and was stuck traveling through the speed force until he was pulled out by johnny sorrow check him out for yourself in his first appearance in 1949's flash comics number 104 number six dark flash walter west is essentially an identical version of wally west just from another timeline with their two histories mirroring each other's up until one certain point walter's version of linda park the girlfriend slash wife of wally is killed during a battle with cobra turning him into a very bitter speedster and eventually the dark flash walter develops an authoritarian zero tolerance policy for criminals going so far as to truly name them if they denied his actions and got in his way eventually walter learned that the love of his life was still alive and well in another timeline and he set out to defeat wally west and completely replace him able to easily take on his alternate timeline counterpart wally who is often considered the fastest character to take up the flash mantle which further extends the parallel between the two check them out for yourself starting with his first appearance in 1999's chain lightning finale finish line number 5 johnny quick a member of the crime syndicate of america an evil version of the justice league healing from earth 3 jonathan allen is johnny quick the flash of this universe after conquering the entirety of earth 3 the crime syndicate of america decided to abandon their earth to terrorize and take over earth 1 and 2. it took the combined efforts of the justice league and the justice society of america to stop them although unfortunately for everyone that wasn't the end of the reign of terror now johnny was initially depicted as being slower than the flash however he figured out a way to make up for his shortcomings by developing a helmet that vastly increases top speed while also deepening his relationship with the speed force making johnny quick more than a match for the flash since then johnny has shown tremendous command over the speed force defeating countless superheroes in a matter of microseconds in the forever evil storyline it was only after alexander luther aka mazza stole his power that he met his end check him out for yourself starting with his first appearance in 1964's justice league of america number 29 or feel free to skip ahead to his newer iteration starting with 2013's justice league volume 2 number 23 number 4 the red death once the hero of gotham bruce wayne from earth negative 52 was forced to seek more extreme approaches to prevent crime after losing all of his robins coming to the conclusion that he wasn't quite fast enough to fight crime bruce set his eyes on the flash deeming himself more worthy of the speed force than barry allen which is pretty presumptuous but ok whatever floats your boat after defeating barry bruce strapped him to the front of the batmobile and drove them both into the speed force using the power of the batmobile combined with the cosmic treadmill the two merged together and batman became the red death using his new powers to kill instead of just stopping crime much to barry's dismay as his consciousness was still very much alive in bruce's head like all of the dark knights of the multiverse the red death represents one of batman's fears this one being losing members of the bat family and his love for them and regret for those he failed his dialogue and his speed force infection also imply he might represent batman's fear of old age slowing him down as well check him out in his first appearance in 2017's dark days the casting number one number three reverse flash no we're not talking about eobard thawne we're gonna be looking at the second reverse flash daniel west daniel ran away from home at an early age because of his abusive and drunk father and by the time he was 18 he had fallen into the wrong crowd and was a small time thug all he wanted more than anything was to mend his relationship with his sister iris but after his first attempt he was supported by the flash and sent to jail for five years when he got out he wanted nothing more than to kill his abusive father because he felt that was the only way he could make amends with his sister and gained his speed force powers that allowed him to travel back in time after a monorail crashed and from then on he called himself the reverse flash and killed anyone who had connected to the speed force so that he could drain their power it got to the point where the only two left of the connection to the speed force were the flash and iris west and daniel was able to go back in time to attempt to kill his father however it didn't really work out because his younger self and iris caught him in the ass he then realized the error of his ways and turned his powers over to the flash who set everything right once again check out this reverse flash for yourself starting with his first appearance in 2012 the flash volume four number zero number two black flash they say death eventually catches us all but what happens when you're too fast even for death itself well that's where the black flash comes in easily one of the most mysterious entities in the dc universe black flash is a symbol of death for speeches across the multiverse appearing just before the death of every significant speedster able to easily keep pace with the fastest beings in existence it seems depth really is impossible to outrun even for speedsters the black flash first made an appearance when wally west seemingly cheated death by using his speedster powers to escape the inevitable when the black black realized he needed a human host to properly function he chose linda park as his host after flash rebirth brought back barry allen from the dead he also noticed the speed force was changing him and it was revealed that the reverse flash's actions had mutilated the speed force and was turning barry allen its avatar into the black flash itself the entity that could turn any speedster to dust just by touching him the current host of the black flash mantle is eobard thon aka the reverse flash check out this horseman of death for yourself starting with 1998's the flash volume 2 number 138 number one god speed august heart was the former detective partner of barry allen august is the only witness to barry's accident that turned him into the flash so while going after a criminal organization called the black hole august was struck by lightning during a speed force storm in central city he became the flash's quote-unquote partner but in secret august became the ruthless vigilante known as godspeed and god of revenge on who he suspected to be his brother's killer godspeed is basically what the flash would be if barry allen had one bad day the flash refrains from using his lethal force but godspeed doesn't at all godspeed's argument is that central city would have been a much safer place heavy flash shown some bloodlust he proves this point when he kills evarthon aka the reverse flash who didn't have any speaks for powers at the time thon did get his revenge eventually though because after barry brings back thon via time travel that thong kills august man keeping up with that whole time travel and speed their thing is so tough either way godspeed is one of the most deadly and dangerous enemies the flash has ever had to race against check them out for yourself starting with 2016's the flash rebirth volume 2 number one that'll be it for this video everyone if we miss one or more of your favorite dark speedsters out there let us know in the comments below and maybe we'll throw together a part two covering them all now if you haven't already subscribe to top 10 nerd stay up to date on all things nerdy and while you're at it why not ring that notification bell so you know whenever we upload a video once again thank you so much to epic games for sponsoring this video follow that link in the description below 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Length: 12min 26sec (746 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 28 2020