The Flash’s Andrew Kreisberg: Wally West Wouldn’t Be Surprising

That’s according to various fans tweeting from the site, but also Flash TV News, who have a track record of getting these kinds of quotes right.

Asked back in March whether we might see Wally West or Bart Allen appear on the show, Kreisberg’s fellow producer Greg Berlanti said — as he did last year at Paley — that was the plan. 

“That’s our hope,” Berlanti said. “And we’ve already been picked up for a second season so I think if we were going to do something like that, we would do it next season.”

Back in September of last year, Berlanti also said that the show’s eventual goal was to introduce an African-American Flash, which most readers took to mean Wally West, since he is no longer white in the comics since the New 52 relaunch.

“We made the Wests African-American so that we could ultimately head in that direction, absolutely,” Berlanti told the fan. “That’s our hope.”

Kreisberg followed it up with a confirmation of what many comic book fans had already assumed: that Wally West was reinvented as an African-American character in part to accommodate the TV series, where the West family had been cast as people of color.

“What’s very cool is in the New 52 they hadn’t reintroduced Wally [yet],” Kreisberg said, adding that because they were working with DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns on the show, “when they reintroduced Wally, they made him African-American. So now and forever, Kid Flash will be African-American.”

The Flash returns Tuesday, April 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.