Bart Allen
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| Bart Allen | |
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| Family | Unnamed parents (status unknown) |
| Occupation | Courier, Green Arrow's team |
| Powers and Abilities | Super speed, Super stamina |
| Played By | Kyle Gallner |
| Status | Alive |
| Appeared In | Run, Justice, Justice and Doom |
"(If) I say I'm gonna be somewhere, I'll be there like a flash!" – Bart Allen, Run
Bart Allen is a superhuman teen who has the power of rapid acceleration. He will one day grow up to be the superhero known as the Flash.
Years ago, Bart was in an accident with a bright flash of light, giving him the ability to move at super-speed. He can run at amazingly high speeds, evidently faster than Clark. He can even run across water, a feat which Clark was incapable at the time. Despite his unique physiology, he will run low on stamina, if he is forced to use his ability in an excessive manner (see Justice). Feeling like an outcast even at home, Bart runs away to live the life of a street urchin. With his newfound power, he becomes a petty thief around Suicide Slums. Impulsive, irreverent, and unconcerned with laws or property, whenever possible Bart finances an extravagant lifestyle with stolen goods and credit cards as he hates to sleep outside. "When I'm asleep, I'm just as slow as everyone else." (Run)
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[edit] Season Four
In 2004, Bart works with a fence named Hanison, although Hanison often cheats Bart out of stolen goods' true value. Bart happens to be in Metropolis when Jonathan Kent is about to get run over by a drunk driver. Before Clark Kent can rescue him, Bart rescues Jonathan at super-speed and also steals his wallet. Clark tracks his father's credit cards and locates the hotel room in which Bart is staying. Bart says to Clark, "I'll be a thousand miles away before you can even blink," and Clark replied, "I don't know, I blink pretty fast." They have a "race" in which they seem to be almost evenly matched in speed until Bart takes off over the water. Bart is amazed to find another person with super powers, just as Clark was to find someone with powers who was not from Smallville.
Bart and Clark bond. (Bart even takes to his friends, flirting with Chloe), but they argue because Clark tried to make Bart believe that stealing for any purpose was wrong.
Bart later returns to the mansion and steals the manuscript while Clark is reading it, and takes it to Hanison, where Lex tracks it down. Hanison is willing to kill Bart over the manuscript but Clark saves him. Bart wants to make a getaway with it, even after Clark asks him if he still thinks that his thefts hurt no one.but is reminded of Clark's warning that he should use his gift nobly. In the end, he returns the manuscript and leaves Smallville to find other special people like himself and Clark. At the very end of the episode, Bart demonstrates vast super speed, during which he outruns Clark.
[edit] Season Six
Two years later, Oliver Queen finds Bart stealing a meal in Star City. Oliver believes Bart is a good kid and offers him a job. Bart joins Oliver's group of heroes, and Oliver gives him the codename "Impulse" for his impulsive nature.
In 2007, Bart travels to Mexico to infiltrate a LuthorCorp facility for Oliver. He returns to Metropolis in time to save Chloe Sullivan from getting shot by Dr. Caselli. Bart then gets back in touch with Clark after a small race. He tells Clark that he has really learned what he tried to teach him, and declares that he has quit stealing. Clark soon learns that Bart had in fact stolen information from LuthorCorp, but Bart does not tell him that he is working for Oliver.
Bart leaves to do another job for Oliver, but falls into a trap set up by Lex Luthor. Lex puts him in a chamber and forces him to run at super-speed or risk being electrocuted until he agrees to talk. Clark goes to rescue Bart, but is incapacitated by refined Kryptonite. Oliver dons his Green Arrow garb and, along with his other team members Cyborg and Aquaman, infiltrate the lab, save Clark and Bart, and blow up the facility. Bart leaves with the "Justice League" and continues working to stop other 33.1 facilities around the world.
[edit] In the Comics
In the comic books, Bart is the fourth person to hold the mantle of The Flash. Preceding him were Jay Garrick, his grandfather Barry Allen, and his grandfather's nephew Wally West.
The version of Bart Allen that is portrayed in Smallville is noticeably different from the character in the comics. For Smallville, the character has an almost obnoxious sense of humor. This is a character trait of Bart during his time as Impulse, but is toned down considerably when he becomes Kid Flash, and later, The Flash, in other venues.
In the comics, Bart Allen is born in the future, the grandson of the time-travelling Iris West-Allen. Suffering from a hyper-accelerated metabolism, Bart ages so fast that he appears to be twelve when he is chronologically and psychologically only two years old. To keep him from going insane he is raised in a virtual reality machine that creates a simulated world which keops pace with Bart's scale of time. When it becomes clear that this method is not helping he is rescued by his grandmother, Iris Allen. Iris takes him back in time to the present, where Wally West, the Flash at the time, tracks him down in a race across the world. By forcing Bart into an extreme burst of speed, Wally manages to shock his hyper-metabolism back to normal.
Soon after, Bart joins Young Justice under the codename Impulse. After the disbanding of Young Justice, Bart joins the Teen Titans. After a debacle involving the assassin Deathstroke, Bart picks up the mantle of Kid Flash as a member of the Titans. He carries this mantle on up through DC's universe-spanning crossover event Infinite Crisis.
While attempting to stop the mad Superboy-Prime, Bart, along with Wally, Jay Garrick, and other speedsters of the DCU, their combined force and mass send all of the beings involved into an alternate reality. Superboy-Prime is imprisoned there for four years, with Bart, Wally, and Barry all guarding him. Prime eventually breaks out, and an older Bart follows him back into our reality. After a year without his powers, Bart returns and claims the mantle of the Flash, as Wally is absorbed into the Speed Force.
Recently however, even as a short stint as the main Speedster in the DCU, Bart Allen is killed by a team of Flash rogues in a final, successful attempt to save the city of Los Angeles. Not long afterwards, Wally West and family are retrieved from the Speed Force by the JLA and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and retakes his mantle as the Flash. In recognition for the second fallen Flash, a statue of him is constructed at the Flash Museum in Central City.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Quotes
- Bart: I say if there's one thing I never am, it's late. I say I’m gonna be somewhere, I’ll be there like a flash!
- Run, Season 4
- Clark: So, um, what are you gonna do now?
- Bart: I don't know. I mean, it's a big world. I figure I'd check it out, see if there's anyone else out there like us. Maybe start, like, a club or a league or something.
- Run, Season 4
[edit] Trivia
- There is a reference to Bart in Pilot. A caption talks about the "fastest man alive".
- Bart easily outruns Clark. In the comics, the Flash is consistently faster than Superman.
- Bart was also mentioned in the Vengeance Chronicles by informing Molly Griggs and Nick Yang that Lex Luthor was restarting the Level 33.1 program.
- Like his fellow Justice League members, when he first met Clark he attacked him. However, this was about a day after he really first met him, when Bart used kryptonite against him.
- Bart is the youngest member of the first Justice League, and so far the youngest superhero Clark Kent has met.
- While in Mexico, Bart learned a bit of Spanish.
- Bart has a crush on Chloe Sullivan.
- Bart has many aliases, including Wally West, Jay Garrick, and Barry Allen - the names of the the men to use the Flash moniker before Bart in the comics.
- In the comics, the Flash that is Clark's age is Barry Allen rather than Bart Allen.
- Despite using the codename "Impulse", Bart's costume is more of a real world version of the "Flash" costume than the costume Bart wore as Impulse.
- Bart was given the codename Impulse by Green Arrow, aka Oliver Queen, in Smallville but was given the same name by the Batman in the comics, saying that it was a warning instead of a compliment.
