Flash #790

[lordultimus]

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[vspope]

Ain't it the truth? Sometimes that was by design, though.

The fate of the Flash was known well in advance by Cary Bates, longtime Flash writer. Essentially, he was told, "Don't do anything complicated with Barry Allen because he's a goner in CoIE, and we'll need to kidnap him for that." Great... except he still had a year-plus left of Flash comics to write, and in a comic-book universe, that kind of involves complications!

So the Trial went on and on and on and on and on and on, with the League coming down hard on him, his would-be lawyer sending assassins to attack other lawyers, jury hypnosis via Abra Kadabra, plastic surgery via gorillas, the gooniest-looking villain ever in Big Sir, a time-traveling Iris, a reprint issue out of nowhere, and FINALLY, a month of reunited domestic bliss a thousand years in the future.

And they lived happily ever after... for a while.

[scorntx]

So what happened to Fiona in all this?

[vspope]

She went cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs from the strain of it all, and was institutionalized. She recovered just enough to attempt to testify at the Flash's trial, went back into shock from remembering Barry and the events of the day, and went back into straitjacket-land.

At least there were no refrigerators in her padded cell.

[scorntx]

Well... that certainly is a thing to do with a character.

(but thanks for the info.)