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- we've talked before, how the silver age of comic books, is largelyagreed to have started with showcase number four and the introduction ofbarry allen as the flash. but what are the oddsthat someone can be struck by lightning and then doused in the exact chemical composition needed to give them super speed? well what if it wasn't an accident?
what if the whole thinghappened on purpose? [music] welcome to comic misconceptions. the show that takes you into detail about the things, thinkyou know about comics. i'm your host, scottniswander, and the flash tv show pilot aired yesterday. so of course we're goingto talk about that. you guys really seemedto enjoy the video i did
on the real origin of the fantastic four a couple weeks ago. so with that in mind, i bring you the real origin of the flash, with an issue that iassume dc has been trying to sweep under the rugsince it was released. an issue entitled, "thereal origin of the flash". which is a bit on the nose, but, you know. but first, a quickrefresher on the original
origin of the flash inshowcase number four from 1956. barry allen was a police scientist who was notorious for beinglate and working at a slow pace. one night at the lab barry isreading a flash comic book, featuring the original flash jay garrick, wishing he could be just likethe fastest man on earth. he approaches a shelf full of, every chemical known to science, and a lightning bolt suddenly strikes him
and bathes him in acertain few key chemicals. as he leaves he discoversthat he's traveling at incredibly high speeds and can seemingly see thingshappen in slow motion. inspired by the comicbook hero, barry dons on some tights, that hedesigned to fit inside his ring for easy access and becomes the flash. of course different variationsof this origin have appeared in comic books throughout theyears, but you get the gist.
but in 1967 a decade had passed since barry's firstappearance, and dc wanted to retell his origin for newer flash fans who were jumping on board tocomics for the first time. but the origin they decided to tell was so radically different and bizarre that it's no surprise thatit was almost immediately and purposefully forgotten. the flash number 167opens innocently enough
with the flash beatingup some jewel smugglers with some kind of cooland inventive action, but then flash catches on fire as his protective body aurais no longer shielding him from the immense friction that he endures from moving so fast. he jumps into the nearbyharbor to put out the flames, and he emerges with a ratherodd man waiting for him. the man introduces himself as mopee,
an initiate tenth class ofthe heavenly help-mates, whatever that means. he explains to flashthat he was responsible for turning off his protective aura as he was the one whogave flash his powers in the first place. flash argues that it was thelightning and the chemicals that gave him his powers,but mopee says that the odds of that happening are 10quadrillion billion to one,
and a scientist like barryshould know better than to believe that something likethat would happen by chance. the real story goes thatmopee's superiors assign him to the task of giving onehuman the gift of super speed for a reason that was never explained. mopee followed around barryand found that he was worthy of the gift since he washonest brave and sincere. it was mopee that then guidedthe lightning bolt down into the lab barry wasworking in that had him crash
into those chemicals andturn him into the flash. years later mopee's superiorsdiscovered he made a mistake. here we discover thefirst of many weird rules of the heavenly help-mates. the initiate can only useobjects that are owned by the giftee to bestow the gifts. in other words mopeeused the lightning bolt and the chemicals to give barry his powers but barry didn't own those chemicals,
the police department did. so now mopee has to takeaway flash's abilities because that's what the rules say to do. barry actually contemplates the idea of not being the flash anymore, but he decides it's betterto not stop saving lives. so he has mopee look intothe laws a little bit, see if there's a loophole inthere that will allow flash to keep his powers.
they find out in the case of a mistake, the initiate can recreate the experiment that gave the giftee theirpowers under certain conditions. in this case barry hasto buy the chemicals that turned him into the flash and then they can remake the accident. then we encounter anotherone of the weird rules. he can't buy the chemicals as barry allen, but has to earn the moneyto buy them as the flash,
for again a reason thatwas never explained. and he has to do it in exactly 24 hours. this whole thing hinges on the idea that the giftee wouldcreate a dual identity with the powers that mopee gave them. which is kind of, i guess ahole that i have in that logic. i guess an easy way toremedy that would be, you, as barry allen givingyour friend that money and then your friendwould give you as flash
that money back for doing something, because you have to earn it, so just do dishes really fast, or organize a dvd collection really fast, or open a door at regular speed. you have to earn the money. instead flash puts outan ad in the newspaper that goes public the next day, and he is flooded with letters
from people asking for his help. letters that arrived that day since he still only has 24hours to complete this task, and that is some fantastic delivery time. he really only has to do one job, so mopee selects it forhim because that's a rule that again the reasoning forwas never really explained. long story short, the flashdoes the job, buys the chemicals and they reenact the experimentthat gave him his powers.
just as mopee is leaving,he wonders about kid flash, aka wally west who got his powers in a very similar way to barry. the flash realizes that maybe wally was the one in quadrillionbillion who defied all odds and received his powers naturally. the story ends there andit's seldom referenced again. now there are so manyproblems with this issue, but the biggest one that i have,
is that it completelyredefines the character from being science-basedto being magic-based. we talked before thata lot of the silver age heavily focused on science for its heroes and their origins. even if it was wildly inaccurate science. flash was designed tobe a science-based hero. he, himself, is a scientist. heck, they even have a standalonepage in showcase number 4
dedicated to the science of speed. it just feels weird takingthat aspect of the character and replacing it with magic. which is likely one of the biggest reasons why this whole mopeebusiness is largely ignored. mopee was even broughtback to poke fun at himself in ambush bug number three from 1985, when he starts listing off characters that he takes credit for creating.
he helped guide superman'srocket to earth. he threw a bat througha window of wayne manor. he even went over to marveland created hulk, spiderman, and the fantastic four,amongst many others. so just ignore thatwhole video i did before about the real origins of fantastic four, because this is it apparently, mopee. over the years however, mopeehas been very sternly said to have never existed in the first place.
like in "who's who" thedefinitive directory of the dc universe, number eight, on the page about flashwhere it explicitly states and i quote, "an accountalleging that the accident "that gave allen hispowers was actually staged "by a being named mopeeis entirely incorrect." they do try to slide mopee into continuity in the life story of the flash from 1997, but in a different way.
the night barry got hispowers, he was investigating a new drug on the streets thatthe kids are calling "mopee". this flash origin withmopee is a little bit weird, but it does raise an interesting question. should heroes be chosen by random chance or by intentional and deliberate decision? let me know what youthink in the comments, and let me know whichflash origin you prefer. if you want to listen to ourreview of the flash pilot
with ross from comic cinema, (body thumping) that will be availableon monday right here on youtube or on itunes and stitcher if you want to go check that out. thank you so much to thenerdsync patrons over on our patreon page. you guys helped us get pastour first big milestone. thank you very much youare amazing individuals,
and i look forward to talking more about the flash with you, over there. and if this is your firsttime hanging out with us here at nerdsync, please do subscribe. we do weekly comic bookvideos just like this one, every wednesday, and we don't want you to miss out on any of it. i'm scott, you can find me on twitter and instagram, and we'll be off next week.
we'll be back the followingweek with more things that you thought you knewabout comics, see ya!
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