Wally West was shunted off to limbo at the start of the New 52, in-story victim of his mentor Flash Barry Allen’s bad choices. When it was finally decided that legacy was a feature and not a liability, Wally returned as a symbol of hope and avatar of all the connective thread the DC Universe had been lacking — at least from Barry’s perspective. From Wally’s perspective, his wife didn’t know him and his children never existed, and the trauma was such to result in a dissociative episode that culminated in the ignominious deaths of some half dozen other heroes before, a miniseries or two later, Wally finally got his family back.