In all the ways that count, Joe has technically already had a son for many years, so how do Wally and Barry react to each other? That theme of building a family with people who aren’t necessarily your blood is obviously a pivotal part of “The Flash,” since Barry is an adopted member of the West family. So I think that’s going to be a pretty difficult dynamic for them to all overcome, but eventually, that will bring everyone together. Just because Joe is his dad, just because Iris is his big sister, doesn’t mean that he feels like they can control him in any way. He’s quite defensive about who he is, what he does, and he doesn’t want a lot of those things to change, and doesn’t really believe that those things should be changed by newcomers in his life. It’s what you have to go through together.įor Wally, his walls are up pretty high. From all sides, I think the love is there, but it goes to show that a lot more goes into creating a family than blood and love. It shows that the love is there, from both sides.

So that’s going to cause some tension, and Iris, especially … she’s a fierce character so she’s pretty concerned over that, which kind of shows that she’s accepting him as a brother, really.

One thing I can say is Wally’s really into drag racing, which is not the ideal thing when your father is a detective and your sister’s a reporter. Iris has had a little time to come to terms with the idea of having a brother, since she found out about Wally before Joe did.

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