Throughout history of many stories, whether a novel or comic book, every hero must walk through a journey to achieve success. This is known as the hero’s journey. The reason The Flash was so successful as a comic book and a modern day TV show is because of the time it was originally created, the 1940’s. Because it was written so long ago and it’s still successful today, what is to give credit for its success? The answer? It is because it followed the hero’s journey so strictly. The Flash follows the steps of the hero’s journey crediting the amount of success it had as comic books and still today as a modern TV show. Barry Allen was an ordinary guy, he lived a mundane life in a mundane world. He spent his days working as a forensic scientist …show more content…
Labs, he knew the first person he needed to see, Iris West. As he went to visit her at her job as a barista, he started to see some of the effects of his powers; everything seemed as if it was in slow motion. He ignored it and proceeded to talk to Iris, then leaving to see Joe. As he was catching up with Joe at the police station, two other officers were bringing a man in. Once again Barry saw the events around him in slow motion; one of the officer’s guns was not securely in the holster and the man prisoner saw this opportunity. He reached for the gun, but Barry quickly moved the gun so no one would get hurt. He was back to his original position not even a second later. The police then proceeded to lock up the man they brought in. Of course Barry realized something was different with himself so he started to make his way back to S.T.A.R. Labs, this is where he discovered his speedster power, being the fastest man alive. When he arrives, he meets Harrison Wells, his idol. He is the man who created the particle accelerator and one of the smartest men alive. Wells explains to Barry they had their suspicion of his incredible ability and that is why they asked to look after him at S.T.A.R. Labs, the doctors at the hospital didn’t know how to deal with or even what was wrong with Barry. As soon as Barry understood his powers, he refused to accept his new super speed abilities. As he tries to get his life back on track, he sees Iris with Eddie, Joe West’s …show more content…
By this time Barry and his team had discovered the true identity of the man in yellow was no other than Harrison Wells himself. The only reason Barry was struck by lightning in the first place was because Wells needed Barry to become the Flash. He trained Barry to get faster because Barry needed a certain amount of speed to run back into time. By both of them running back in time, this gave Wells the opportunity to kill Barry as a child, eliminating his enemy in the future. Of course Barry ran back with him preventing Wells from killing his younger self. This of course came with a cost, watching his mother die. After Wells realized he had lost he ran back to the present time line. Barry stayed behind and held his mother as she took her last breath. It was the goodbye he was never given the chance to give, but now he could finally have closure. As Barry returns back Reverse Flash is furious he had failed, before he can cause any damage Eddie (Joe’s partner) shot himself in order to eliminate Wells from the future. Because he dies, this eliminated the Reverse Flash from the future due to the fact Eddie was his great, great uncle. After the enemy was eliminated, the team had to mourn the loss of a friend, but also recognize his
A hero has to go in a journey. He has to struggle throughout the story to grow as a character. They generally triumph at the story´s conclusion. Humans tend to admire the ones that had to suffer to be in the top. We like to associate heroism with someone that surpass many
This is a crucial part because he finally committed to not letting alcohol control his life, something that has controlled him since his brother was killed. This was a huge step in Eddie’s character development.
In this world that we live on there are a plethora of cultures and people but one thing that brings all these cultures together is a certain story base, the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey has been around for the longest time and many commonly known stories that we know today are based off of the hero’s journey.
Eddie was average in school, but he loved to read. His schoolmates shunned Eddie because he was effeminate and shy. He had no friends. In 1944 Eddies brother Henry mysteriously died. ( In the Beginning)
always die in some way at the end. In this play Eddie dies by Marco
Everyone Eddie met in heaven taught him something about his life. They were all connected to him in different ways, whether it was someone close to him once, or a complete stranger. Somehow, all of their lives had crossed Eddie’s and helped make him the person that he had become. When you think about this lesson, you truly understand. One decision causes an effect, maybe on your life or maybe on someone else’s life. That effect will cause something else. It’s what I think of as a ripple effect. Everything happens for a reason, and all of the events that lead up to our “now” makes us who we are.
Eddie went into a depression stage in his life when his older brother returned home from
“Things aren't always what they seem. Our fears can play tricks on us, making us afraid to change course, afraid to move on, but usually, hidden behind our fears are second chances waiting to be seized, second chances at life, at glory, at family, at love. And these opportunities don't come around every day, so when they do, we have to be brave, take a chance, and grab them while we can” (Barry Allen). Barry Allen, a hero from the tv show “The Flash,” is the fastest man alive. Although his powers may not be possible, he still thrives and puts his life in danger for his city. He managed to inspire many people to do heroic deeds and to help the city instead of harming it. True heroism is not a brave act one commits, is it the act of being
broken(72). But before getting a hold of him, Equality managed to escape with his “Electricity
As with most vigilantes, Arrow is ultimately a criminal. Although he is saving innocent lives and tries to keep corruption at bay, by doing so, he is still killing people. A series of flashbacks help the audience understand his passion for repairing his wealthy families wrongs. He gets shipwrecked alone on an island after he watches his father kill himself to save his own life.
The word hero as defined as an “individual who has the courage of conviction to perform feats that benefit the general populace, acts as a soldier of virtue, and has an altruistic spirit that urges him or her to act against evil and defend the greater good at all costs, even sacrificing his own well-being or life.” (Harrison 2). Although heroes can come in any shape and size they are commonly found in stories we read, movies we watch, or people we look up to. We do not think about it much but even our own life is made up of many hero’s journeys. We never realize that our hardships and how we overcome them is exactly what a Hero’s Journey is about and why we relate to and enjoy these stories so much. I will be going into the depths of a Hero’s
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as a flash back scene later we will reveal his life story that how he
However, this popularity has fluctuated throughout history. In the past few decades, demand for comics in the print media had been falling, in part due to the successes of other children 's media, such as cartoons. “Our biggest fear was that that audience was going to get to a point where we weren 't able to build it up again,” says Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Comics, “and a lot of what we do would be branded lost because there was nobody out there reading it" (Martin 14). Luckily, comic creators realized that the stories were perfect for screen adaptations: "they 're full of spectacle [and] adventure with an emotional arc for the hero. That 's what movies have always been about” (Humphries). The promise of lucrative merchandise sales and cross-promotion undoubtedly encouraged production, as well. Comic books were first adapted for television in the 40s and 50s, and met with huge success. Thus, superhero television programs set the stage for the inevitable point when comics took to the big screen with the first Superman movie in 1978 (Humphries). This cinematic moment ushered in a tricking of other superhero feature films, which eventually became the flood of superhero films that is taking place in the 21st