10 Best Superhero Successors
4. Wally West - The Flash
To some, calling Wally West a successor to Barry Allen and Jay Garrick would be blasphemy, with the character - for a good time at least - being considered the Flash of the DC Universe.
This level of support for West shows why he was such a good successor to Allen, with the character having won over both fans of the Scarlet Speedster and, most recently, the heroes of the new DC Rebirth timeline (in which the majority of his former allies had initially completely forgotten him).
Like all great super-characters, it's not just his personality that made him so loved, but the hero's actions too; Wally even surpassed his mentor/predecessor's speed - something that had never been done before in the comics.