Wally West

Wally West is a fictional superhero featured in comic books published by DC Comics. He first appeared in The Flash, Volume 1 #110 in January, 1960. For many years, he was the teen sidekick to The Flash, operating under the name Kid Flash. Following the death of his mentor, he took up the mantle of the Flash and maintained it from that moment on. As Kid Flash, Wally West was a member of the original Teen Titans as well as the later iteration, the New Teen Titans. As the Flash, he has been a member of the Titans and the Justice League of America.

Variations of the Wally West character has appeared in different television projects. Tommy Cook provided the voice for Kid Flash in the original "Teen Titans" vignettes from the Superman-Aquaman Hour of Adventure in 1967. There were three of these cartoon shorts that he appeared in beginning with "The Monster Machine". On the 2001 series Justice League Unlimited, the character of Wally West was not Kid Flash, but rather was the Flash. He was voiced by actor Michael Rosenbaum and was a mainstay character on the series throughout its duration. Wally West also appeared as a series regular on the Young Justice animated series on Cartoon Network. He was voiced by Jason Spisak on the series. A live-action version of the character appeared in the DC Television Universe. Played by actor Keiynan Lonsdale, he was introduced in the ninth episode of season two of The Flash called "Running to Stand Still". Lonsdale continued as a supporting character on the show, but eventually became a member of the ensemble cast of the spin-off series Legends of Tomorrow in 2018.