In “The Flash” season 3 finale, Barry Allen sacrificed himself to the Speed Force, and many fans have been wondering if Wally West will take up the mantle of The Flash and lead the team in Barry’s absence.
The first trailer for the new season was recently released, and it shows Wally West in his Kid Flash costume, and it also shows Iris West stepping up in a big way. Keiynan Lonsdale recently spoke to Comicbook.com and he noted that Kid Flash won’t be leading the team, he’ll just be part of the team.
“I think even when we kick off, he’s not in a leading role. I think what they’ve sort of established is that, ‘This is a team and we work together; you have this strength and you have this strength, and we’ll navigate this terrible situation by working together equally.’ He does feel like he found his place. He’s stepped up, but he hasn’t stepped forward. It’ll still be interesting once Barry does finally return, what that dynamic will be like. And Wally has so much growing up to do, it’ll be interesting to see how he takes that and does that make him feel insecure about his place or does it just work out perfectly? That something that will be fascinating to figure out.”
Grant Gustin has already confirmed that we’ll be seeing a “different” Barry Allen once he returns from the Speed Force, so it looks like we could see a new take on the Barry/Wally dynamic in season 4.
“The Flash” will return for season 4 in October.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs ParticleAccelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother’s life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.
With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.
Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Supergirl”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Sarah Schechter (“Arrow,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Todd Helbing (“Black Sails”).
