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| Seriously? Don't even want to try a different primary color. A blue Flash would look good. |
We come to the fourth and final
Flash, to date, Bart Allen. A quick background, he is Barry’s grandson and was
sent back in time to counteract an unfortunate side effect of his powers, accelerated
aging. At two, he was physically twelve. You can see the issue right? He’d been
kept in a Virtual Reality that kept pace with him to ensure his mental
development was relatively normal. His Grandmother, Iris, discovered this method
wasn’t helping much and then sent him to the present. Wally West, the Flash at
the time, convinced Bart to race around the world against him. Wally managed to
shock Bart's over stimulated metabolism back to a normal rate.
Bart went through two other hero
identities, Impulse then Kid Flash. Speedster's change quickly. He was literally forced to grow up when
battling an insane Superboy-Prime. (Superman from an evil parallel universe.) After spending four years of relative time in an
alternate reality trying to hold Superboy-Prime in check, the two returned to
their own reality finding only days had passed. (At this point he’s like five,
but physically in his twenties, damn time is screwy.) With the aid of other
heroes Bart stopped Superboy-Prime and attempted to retire.
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| The hoods a little much for me Surely that gets blown off. |
This did not last long. When his college
roommate became a supervillain, stuff like this seems to follow superheroes around,
he accepted his destiny and donned his Grandpa’s costume. He beat down his former friend, who'd taken on the name The Griffin, and did his best to live up to the Flash legacy. He seemed to try to
emulate Barry as much as possible, he even joined the LA Police Academy
focusing on forensics. That level of emulation is a little creepy, but hey, to each their own. Things went well for Bart, until his evil clone Inertia got a bunch of Flash villains together into what they called the
Rogues and beat to death. Dang. JOKER, you and the other DC villains need to
take a page from the Flash villains’ book. They can actually kill their hero.
I resent
that.
How many times have you killed
Batman? Oh, that’s right, ZERO. Two Flashes have bit the dust. Obviously you’re
doing something wrong.
You’ll
live to regret that remark.
I’m shaking in my boots. Bad guys can be real prima donnas. In case I
haven’t hammered this in yet, death is rarely permanent for superheroes or
villains. Basically everyone beside Uncle Ben, Gwen Stacey, Superman's folks, and the Waynes have a chance at coming back. SO yeah, Bart was gone for a while but eventually came back, as a
teen again, re-donned the Kid Flash gear, and got back to being a superhero in
training. Sometimes you gotta go slowly if you want to be the fastest. Or
something like that. I don’t know.
He has all of the same powers as the previous three Flashes, but his power fluctuated from time to time, depending on who was in charge of writing him. It could be said he has a greater control of his powers than his predecessors simply because he was born with his powers. Good genes make everything easier.
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| What about the Speed Force makes Lightning come out of the eyes? |
Of the Four Flashes, Bart appears
least often in the expanded DC-verse. Not that surprising really, since he’s
the youngest character to hold the title and he needs to fight three other guys
to use the title. To my knowledge, he really hasn’t appeared as the Flash at
all, just as his first persona Impulse. He was the one modern Flash in
Smallville’s universe, the other Flash’s names were dropped as aliases Bart
used as he raced around the world. His code name is Impulse, I believe it was
due to difficulties getting the rights to use the Flash’s name, but his costume
design is distinctly the Flash. Damn lawyers and their complex legal stuff. Except
my brother, love you Scott.
He was also heavily featured in the
Young Justice animated series, again as Impulse but we do see him take on the
Kid Flash costume during the series finale. His two main appearances and yet
not once was he the Flash, sorry Bart.
Bart is an interesting character.
From what I’ve seen of him, he has a lot of the other Flash’s quirks minus
their impulse control. Hence the original codename. This is due largely to his
rabid grown in that weird VR simulator. In the incarnation’s I’ve seen, he also
loves to go against the usual rules of time travel rules. He spills a lot of
secrets, and doesn’t seem to care. But, like Wally West before him, when he
gets serious its best to stay out of his way. He can throw a whole lot of
punches and kicks in those fifteen seconds it takes for the average person to
react to him. He is fiercely loyal to his friends. How loyal, as I mentioned
before he took on Superboy-Prime mostly alone when after the Kryptonian murdered
several of Bart’s friends. So Superspeed and a little lightning vs. a
Kryptonian, do I need to list the number of ways that will go wrong? I didn’t think
so. Next time, Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash. His timeline is even more
confusing, if that’s even possible.
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| All of the Flashes. From left to right, Barry Allen, Bart Allen, Jay Garrick, and Wally West. It's a good group. I still think the hat is stupid |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Allen
http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Bart_Allen
http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/who-stronger-faster-barry-allen-or-wally-west-or-b-657968/
http://thetvsisters.com/2012/06/review-young-justice-invasion-bloodlines/
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