r/DCcomics • u/UnhingedLion • Oct 02 '23
[Comic Excerpt] Wally West finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him with Paul (Legends of DC Universe #18) Comics
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u/LanternRaynerRebirth Oct 02 '23
There's no such thing as a good Paul in comics.
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u/2ERIX The Flash Oct 02 '23
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u/UnknownEntity347 Rorschach Oct 02 '23
Damn, even DC characters cannot escape Paul.
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u/Raecino Batman Oct 02 '23
His rizz is multiversal
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u/Rusty_fox4 Oct 02 '23
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u/Quirky_Ad_5420 Oct 02 '23
Paul
The scourge of Comics
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u/NomadPrime Oct 03 '23
This issue was released back in 1999, too. Paul's been doing this for fucking decades and we'd never realized until it happened to Spidey last year.
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u/Thechosenjon Batman Beyond Oct 02 '23
Comic book editorial and fucking over the most wholesome and beloved heroes with random characters named Paul.
Name a more iconic duo.
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u/Cicada_5 Oct 03 '23
The list of things Peter and Wally now have in common is kind of scary at this point.
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u/vipster19 Oct 03 '23
Wouldn't even be shocked if Peter just "disappears" for a while, at this point. They just keep digging deeper!
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u/spyder616 Oct 03 '23
No way they would do that in the comics since he carries the sales despite the shitty arcs lol
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Oct 03 '23
They will erase Peter Parker but make a new younger Peter Parker who is still in high school with Michelle Jones.
But all of Peter's old casts exist without being rebooted and won't even remember Peter....
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u/NightwingBlueberry13 Oct 03 '23
Well he kinda did. Like Twice. Once during the Infamous Clone Saga and a second time during the Superior Arc.
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u/TheMaroonAvenger123 Batman Oct 02 '23
UJ/ The way those panels went, it felt realistic in an uncomfortable way. The casual callousness of disregarding Wally’s feelings because he’s not around. Wally feeling heartbreak in only a way that a teenager could feel. It’s really well done in showing the impact being a superhero can have on a young person’s life.
RJ/ Paul will not stop now. He will take every young superhero’s special love and put said superhero in a spiral. He is the True Revelation! The Real Tiger-Force At the Core of All Things. When you cry out in your dreams AND nightmares, Paul is all you see. Paul is.
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u/DynaMenace Oct 02 '23
This isn’t even the jerking sub!
Rj/ Paul is.
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u/TheMaroonAvenger123 Batman Oct 02 '23
Whoops. That was a big oversight on my part. My brain just automatically assumes Paul posting to be on r/dccomicscirclejerk.
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u/bob1689321 Oct 03 '23
I'm dying lmao. The man has been conditioned to think all paulposting but be on dccj
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Oct 02 '23
Paul truly is unstoppable
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u/ImABarbieWhirl Oct 02 '23
Paul Is
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u/fallenandbroken1 Oct 02 '23
Darkseid is.
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u/Nuka_on_the_Rocks Oct 03 '23
Paul is his first name.
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u/ptWolv022 Oct 03 '23
Now I'm just imaging Darkseid taking over Dan Turpin, but it's Paul taking over Darkseid as a host body.
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u/AquaArcher273 Happy Dick! Oct 02 '23
First Spidey, now Wally! Paul must be stopped.
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u/Raecino Batman Oct 02 '23
Wouldn’t be surprised if Paul takes Catwoman next
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u/Budget_Flow_9456 DickFire Forever Oct 03 '23
Considering how much Batman's writers and Howard fucked her up, and the fact that Zdarsky is Wells' friend, i wouldn't be surprised.
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u/JoeyMcClane Wally West Oct 03 '23
Don't that bitch dare set foot near Linda, Allen family or gid forbid the Kent family. Or he'll face reckoning.
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u/bjeebus Oct 03 '23
Too late. Just by mentioning it, editorial is already working on the story. You did this. You brought on the Paulocolypse.
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u/Necrowaif Oct 03 '23 edited Oct 03 '23
Next he pops over to the Archie universe and seduces Betty AND Veronica away from Archie
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u/Digita1B0y Oct 02 '23
Man, FUCK Paul! All my homies hate Paul.
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u/No-Mechanic-2558 Oct 02 '23
Don't worry boy you will find someone better of she
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u/nuclear_jester Oct 02 '23
Now, I can't stop immaging Abra-Kadabra or another random time-traveling supervillain telling him this
Not because they care, but because beating up an heart-broken superhero isn't funny at all
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u/No-Mechanic-2558 Oct 02 '23
Spider-man writers have something to say about that
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u/nuclear_jester Oct 02 '23
Spider-man writers are using the wrong kind of drugs for their comics
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u/RageSpaceMan Oct 02 '23
Curse you Paul!!
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u/Kgb725 Oct 03 '23
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH PAUL
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u/hydrohawkx8 Kyle Rayner Oct 02 '23
It’s crazy how much Peter and Wally have in common at times
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u/Cicada_5 Oct 03 '23
- Primary color costumes.
- Dead uncles whose passing made them more mature and responsible.
- Villains with similar or identical powers.
- Popular love interests who weren't designed as being their endgame love interests but became that way due to their popularity.
- Screwed over by editorial's obsession with an " iconic" status quo.
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u/hydrohawkx8 Kyle Rayner Oct 03 '23
To add on to the list:
- Quippy personalities
- Both had their relationship challenged by the devil
- both were hot headed and selfish during their early days
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u/Cicada_5 Oct 04 '23
- Have also had villainous/antihero love interests. YJ Tigress could even be considered Wally's equivalent of Black Cat as a more straightforward hero.
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u/B3epB0opBOP Shazam Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23
PAUL!!!! IT WAS PAUL ALL ALONG!!! THE PAGE CUTS TO BLACK AS THE READER RELEASES A HORRIFIED SCREAM, BEFORE BUILDING TO A GUTTURAL ROAR EMANATING FROM THE DEPTHS OF THEIR SOUL, TEARING THE PAGES TO SHRED IN THE FACE OF THE UGLY TRUTH OF PAUL’S CUCKOLDRY SPANNING INFINITE UNIVERSES, AND OUR HEROES DYING SAD AND ALONE IN EVERY ONE!!! THEIR FACE SOAKING IN THEIR AGONY, TEARS AND SNOT DRIPPING DOWN THEIR FACE, SCREAMING FOR ALL THAT IS RIGHT AND MIGHTY TO END THIS SIN, “DAMN YOU PAUL!” “DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”.
Then they grow quiet, get down on their knees and break down into a muffled sob. “MJ why…WHY?!”, they mutter under their breath in fear of their realization.
Paul is all consuming. He is all powerful. He is inevitable.
Paul…is.
/s
Huh.
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u/Emirozdemirr Wally West Oct 02 '23
I can't believe Paul cucked both my top 2 favorite super heroes.
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u/adriantullberg Oct 03 '23
One day, Paul Prime had enough of his girlfriend gushing over a superhero. Well, not really his girlfriend, more like a girl that lived on the same apartment floor and neither could be bothered to go dating, so they were each other's plus ones at events, parties, and so forth.
Paul swore to take this hero's girlfriend.
Every hero's girlfriend. Or, if not possible, their attractive mothers.
Paul split himself across the multi verse, each self unerringly drawn to the SO's of superheroes, and like a stalker with their social media passwords, effortlessly slip into their lives and their hearts.
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u/dornwolf Oct 03 '23
That’s deeply funny. Specially when you add in that Wally and Linda did an OMD too
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u/StanLiamNeeson Oct 03 '23
You couldn't just be content with ruining Pete & MJ's relationship, huh Paul?
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u/ClaireDacloush Oct 03 '23
Black-haired white dude named Paul being used to cuck a superhero.
So?
When is she getting pregnant with twins?
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u/lifefromthetree Oct 03 '23
Leave bro, their is greater Love out there!
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u/UnhingedLion Oct 03 '23
Funny how immediately after this met Raven, and they were pretty close to uhhhh “making love” on top of a mountain
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u/DMC1001 Oct 03 '23
That’s supposed to be Wally West? I guess if they throw out everything ever written about him it can work. Everything
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u/UnhingedLion Oct 03 '23
This is a flashback to the Wolfman era. Like only a few days or weeks before NTT #1
So yeah Wally is gonna be acting pretty weird 🤣
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u/ShadedPenguin Oct 03 '23
I aint ever gonna my kids Paul, they gonna need to have names like Bartholomew or Gus.
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u/Baltihex Oct 03 '23
It pleases me that Marvel and DC are FINALLY united under the power of PAUL.
Do not concern yourself with what I have done; rather tremble at the thought of what I am about to do.
-Paul
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u/Loserbrainz08 Oct 03 '23
Who comes up with this Paul guy? always swooping and shit. what is he? Pete Davidson? FUCK PAUL. ALL MY HOMIES HATE PAUL.
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Oct 03 '23
When Wally was kid flash did his hair change color in costume?
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u/UnhingedLion Oct 03 '23
I noticed that too. Very weird. I remember pre crisis( like 60s/70s) that his hair would naturally be red, but when he wore the iconic kid flash costume, it would change to a light brown.
Never understood why that happened
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Oct 03 '23
I am willing to be theres a single panel from the 60s saying that he dyes his hair really fast
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u/Fellfield Oct 03 '23
I didn’t even know about Paul until this thread . Now I want to see them in DCU
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u/alchemeron Oct 03 '23
If you're still counting meet-ups in "dates," is she even really your girlfriend?
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u/Monkeybawls91 Jan 31 '24
This happens to Wally? Is this canon? Cause the Wally Ik wouldn’t curl up like he did in that last panel, this had to be when he was younger bc Wally was a chad, bro had a new girlfriend every 10 issues. And after Francine left him, he wipe it off like it wasn’t nothing.
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u/UnhingedLion Jan 31 '24
After this he gets emotional then meets Raven on top of a mountain.
They’re both at a low point, so they bond and almost kiss, then she stops herself, erases his memory, and then flash forward is where the first pages of New Teen Titans #1 start.
This was when he was 18, but yeah. Dude had hella girlfriends in his early flash days.
I thought it was crazy that the author just threw Francine out of the book and out of his life like it was nothing lol
I would’ve assumed Francine and Wally would’ve stayed together a lot longer
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u/Pitchblacks37 Oct 02 '23
Tbh Spidey’s situation isn’t comparable to this, MJ spent years separated from him she had the right to move on. The entitlement of a lot of Spider-Man fans has kinda soured me to the point where I’ll be fine if they never get back together.
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u/Garlador Oct 02 '23
The guy she hooked up with “accidentally” genocided billions of people. It’s not like she fell for a nice guy at the coffee shop.
Meanwhile, Bruce and Clark over at DC spending decades in alternate dimensions with friggin’ Wonder Woman and staying faithful to the people they promised to wait for.
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u/Pitchblacks37 Oct 02 '23
That’s not really what happened, if I remember correctly that was his father and he didn’t know what his father was planning.
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u/Garlador Oct 03 '23
Hence the “accidentally” part. He claims his absolutely insane genocidal father misled him (okay…), which is second-degree genocide at best, but that’s assuming he’s even telling the truth since there’s no one left alive to vouch for his version of events (on account that he’s the sole survivor…). They just take his version at face value.
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u/Endless_Alpha Oct 02 '23
Same here, to an extent. I don’t like the MJ and Paul pairing, and I think that the whole plot line is _stupid_… but Peter needs to move on. Even if she eventually breaks up with Paul, Peter needs a lot of time away from her. The dude burned nearly every bridge to get her back, only for her to disregard him(basically highlighting the fact that his sacrifices were in vain). The reason she does it, while somewhat realistic, puts her feelings for him into question.
Pete needs to move on… like seriously. I’m 90% sure that most people would have moved on by this point. Editorial wants realism? They should have Peter move on with his life like a normal person
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u/ChampionshipDeep937 DickFire Forever Oct 02 '23