The Flash
Warning : The following contains SPOILERS for The Flash time of year 9 , episode 4 , " Mask of the Red Death , Part 1.“There are many differences between the timeline that spawn the Red Death and the Arrowverse Earth - Prime place setting ofThe Flashseason 9 . Most of these details were outlined in a candid conversation between Iris West - Allen and the Red Death , as she tried to gain the reporter over . While it is uncertain how much of this information is reliable , give the Red Death ’s willingness to try and deceive Iris West into believing she was the Ryan Wilder of her earth , most of it makes gumption given what we know of her character .
The Flash villain Red Deathwas first introduced into the DC Comics Universe in the 2017Dark Nights : Metalmini - serial , presented as the Batman of a corrupted alternate macrocosm where Bruce Wayne stole the power of Barry Allen so as to intimately protect his Earth . The Flashseason 9 changed this up , with the Arrowverse version of the Red Death being a twisted edition of Batwoman Ryan Wilder from another timeline . The Flashseason 9 episode " Mask of the Red Death , Part 1 " detailed the account of this interlingual rendition of Red Death , explaining her unexpected connections to both The Flash and Iris West - Allen of her world .
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Ryan Wilder and Iris West Were Best Friends
After her artifice to hazard to be the Ryan Wilder of Earth - Prime was exposed whenthe cagy Iris West - Allencaught her in a lie , Red Death let in her personal identity before claiming that , in her timeline , she and Iris West - Allen were good friends . Red Death believed that she knew Iris well enough to hump that no version of her would ever accept a story about someone being from another timeline at face economic value or give her a chance to explain herself if she came to her as Red Death . This lead her to pose as the Ryan Wilder on Earth - Prime , hoping to build a connectedness with Iris before break the truth .
While the fact that she was willing to lie to Iris does not speak well of Red Death , her story is plausible in one respect . While Ryan Wilder and Iris West - Allen are only casual acquaintances in the reality of Earth - Prime , they were shown to be quite faithful in the alternate timeline show inThe Flash Armageddon event . This fact suggests it is possible that , in another time and place , Ryan and Iris could be best booster forever , as Red Death claim .
There Was Never A Batman in Red Death’s Timeline
Red Death claimed that , in her reality , there was no Batman before her . presumptively this also means that there was no Kate Kane to be the first Batwoman either . This point is also plausible , because despite DC Comics cashing in on Batman ’s popularity with endless Elseworlds exploring the Batmen of other worlds , there have been some realities where there was no Bruce Wayne or a Batwoman uprise up in place of Batman , such as the realism ofElseworld ’s Finest .
Ryan Wilder Was Adopted By The Waynes As An Infant
The Red Death ’s screen background turn up radically different from that of the Earth - Prime Ryan Wilder , who spend her formative years reverberate from foster menage to foster household . Red Death claimed to have been adopted a few days after being born byThomas and Martha Wayne , who were gun down in front of her or else of Bruce Wayne . This pushed her to become the Dark Knight of her timeline , using the fortune she inherit to engage a one - woman war on crime . Red Death further claimed to have protected Gotham City as Batwoman for ten long time before deciding she needed to chance a good way to honor the memory of her adoptive parents .
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Red Death’s Earth Had An Active Justice League
One major way in which the Red Death ’s timeline dissent from that of Earth - Prime was that her earth had an active Justice League , which really called itself the Justice League . This stands in marked line to the Arrowverse Earth - Prime , where The Flash assay to unionize a team made up of the earthly concern ’s finest sub after the Crisis on Infinite Earths case , but theEarth - Prime Justice Leaguehas only met sporadically since then and has yet to dramatize the Justice League name officially . Red Death confirmed the Justice League be in her timeline , making mention to " the League " when hash out her friend with Iris West - Allen .
Red Death Created An Artificial Speed Force After Studying Flash’s Speed
One of the biggest questions behindThe Flashseason 9 was how the show could adapt the incredibly dark Red Death ancestry write up of the comics into the Arrowverse cosmology . The Red Death explain this when she give away to Iris West - Allen that her powers came from an Artificial Speed Force , which she had constructed after studying the power of her timeline ’s Barry Allen in a bid to get super stop number powers for herself . This also indirectly explained the Red Death ’s seeming madness , asmost Artifical Speed Forces(like the one created by Eobard Thawne ) draw in upon the minus emotions of the user for power , reinforcing their fear , anger and hatred .
The Flash Joined The Rogues To Fight Red Death
The Earth - Prime Barry Allen is an optimistic psyche , who loosely endeavor to see the best in everyone and give even the bad people a chance to redeem themselves . This has lead The Flash to join forces with his Rogues on more than one occasion , trust those criminal who may be thieves but are not killer to put up against those supervillains whose plan threatened Central City or the world . The Flash of Red Death ’s timeline reportedly went one step further , freeingevery member of the Rogues Galleryheld in Iron Heights Penitentiary and turn them into an army to take on Red Death and lie down military blockade to Gotham City .
Red Death Killed Her World’s Iris West-Allen
Red Death tried to sway the Earth - Prime Iris West - Allen to journey with her to her timeline , claim she could convert the alternate Flash to stand down . This was necessary because Red Death had accidentally killed her honest friend , who took a lightning deadbolt meant for Barry Allen when he and his ground forces of Rogues managed to corner Red Death . While Red Death ’s remorse over the other Iris ' death seemed genuine , Iris West - Allen was fast to pick apart the yap in her tale , fix that Red Death had gone delirious with power and really wanted her as bait to tempt outThe Flashof the alternate timeline .
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The Flashseason 9 continues on Wednesdays on The CW .
