The Flash Season 3: 10 Things You Need To Know About Kid Flash

6. Founded The Teen Titans

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Many often associate Dick Grayson’s Robin as being the one to start up the Teen Titans, but, despite Robin often being depicted as the leader of the group, there were actually three heroes who started the team in 1964: Robin, Aqualad… and Kid Flash.

Along with his two pals, young Wally West founded the Titans by bringing Donna Troy into the fold. Shortly after that, fellow heroes Roy Harper, Aquagirl, Bubmblebee, and Hawk and Dove would join the team.

The Teen Titans were created to give a younger spin on the world of superheroes, with these youngsters having to juggle the usual growing pains with the fact that they’ve got superpowers (well, apart from Dick) and have to fight bad guys.

It was a refreshing take on the DC comic book world for many fans, and key to this was Wally West. Once the Teen Titans really found their feet as a group and with their own title, readers saw how each character was depictured differently to their other Titans, giving some long-stagnant sidekicks a much needed refresh.

Where Wally was concerned though, he was often the annoying A-hole of the group. We’d soon come to realise, however, that there was a reason for Kid Flash’s behaviour.

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