Bart Allen

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Impulse

Family	Unnamed parents
Occupation	Courier, Green Arrow's team
Powers and Abilities	Super speed, Super stamina
Played By	Kyle Gallner
Status	Missing (Doomsday)
Appeared In	Run, Justice, Justice and Doom, Doomsday (episode)

"(If) I say I'm gonna be somewhere, I'll be there like a flash!" – Bart Allen, Run

Bart Allen is a superhuman teen with the power of super speed. He is a member of Oliver Queen's team of pro-active heroes.

[edit] Personality

When I'm asleep, I'm just as slow as everyone else. (Run)

At first, Bart was impulsive, irreverent, and unconcerned with laws or property. Whenever possible, Bart financed an extravagant lifestyle with stolen goods and credit cards as he hates to sleep outside.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

When Bart was young, he was in an accident involving a bright flash of light. In turn, he realized he could move at incredible speeds having improved super fast reflexes. He has since been able to move incredibly fast, and is able to run fast enough so that he cannot be seen by the naked eye. He is also notably faster than Clark. Bart also possesses super stamina in tandem with his super speed which enables him to run for long periods of time at super speed without tiring. However, this endurance is not unlimited and he eventually overtaxes his body if he runs too long.

[edit] Vulnerabilities

Although Bart is a metahuman and can run at incredible speeds, he isn't invincible as he doesn't possess any invulnerability and can be hurt by humans, tasers, and electrocution. This is evident when he tried to steal LuthorCorp information regarding 33.1 and was tricked and knocked unconscious by an electric charge. Also, when he uses his ability too long, his nose begins to bleed and he is severely depleted of energy and is unable to use his super speed. (Justice)

He is also shown to have a supercharged metabolism that requires an abnormally high caloric intake.

[edit] Early Life

Bart found it difficult to cope with his new found powers, feeling like an outsider even at home and so ran away. He began life as a petty thief to get by and soon began working for people who buy goods off of him leading him to live a extravagant lifestyle, often using false names along the way.

[edit] Season Four

Clark stops Bart from stealing a cookie.

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.

Bart Allen escapes from Clark

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, while Clarks hesitantly stops at the water's edge. 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 believes that he only steals to buy food and shelter, and that he isn't harming anybody because the company cancels the illegitimate charges. Later, he follows Clark to the Luthor Mansion where Lex Luthor shows Clark a valuable Russian manuscript.

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

Bart reunites with Clark Kent after 2 years.

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] Season Eight

Bart and Dinah try to put down Davis.

When Clark and Lex disappeared from the arctic in the Fortress of Solitude, Bart and Victor Stone searched the entire southern hemisphere for them and found nothing. Later, Oliver mentioned that Clark went on a JL mission with Bart in Keystone City and he is seen along with AC, Victor, and Dinah on Chloe's computer screens in the Isis Foundation.

Bart and Dinah were summoned to the Kent Barn to help Clark and Oliver battle Doomsday, Bart brought schematics of the Geothermal LuthorCorp facility for Clark to help him with his plan to defeat Doomsday. Clark explains that they have a tunnel that is a mile deep under earth and he plans to bury Doomsday there before the tunnel is destroyed. He then gives Bart the Black Kryptonite and explains that it will separate Davis Bloome from Doomsday. Even though the two learned that Oliver killed Lex Luthor, Bart still sided with Oliver to take Doomsday down for good. Clark is at his desk when Black Canary tells him via audio message that they have located Chloe and Davis and he uses his super-hearing to find them. He super-speeds off and finds their car and Black Canary and Impulse waiting for him. They tell him that they're doing it for him when Green Arrow shoots him with a Kryptonite dart. Clark collapses and tells them they're making a mistake. When Chloe awakes at the Geothermal facility to find Green Arrow, Impulse and Black Canary standing over an unconscious Davis. Bart tells her he knocked them both out at super-speed and they brought them here. She realizes they want to kill Davis and she notices the Black kryptonite in Bart's bag. And when the league tries to get rid of Davis, Bart was punched out by Davis in mid transformation. Chloe used the black kryptonite on Davis, splitting him from Doomsday. A fight presumably took place, when Clark arrived they were all down and when he was going after Doomsday he asked the league if he could still trust them. After Clark trapped Doomsday under Earth's surface, Bart attended the funeral of Jimmy Olsen to pay his respects. Following the funeral, Chloe tells Clark at the new Watchtower base, that Bart, Dinah and Oliver are all missing.

[edit] In the Comics

Bart as the Flash

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-traveling 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 keeps 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.

Back from the dead and feeling Prime!!!

Even as a short stint as the main Speedster in the DCU, Bart Allen was killed by a team of Flash rogues in a final, successful attempt to save the city of Los Angeles. At around the same time, Wally West and family are retrieved from the Speed Force by the JLA and the Legion of Super-Heroes, as news of Bart's death begins to spread throughout the superhero community. Subsequently, Wally retook 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.

Around the time of Bart's death, curious things involving the Legion of Super-Heroes (who had traveled back in time) occurred. In The Lightning Saga, at nearly the exact moment of Bart's death, the Legion used a device known as a "lightning rod" to trap what they call "living lightning" in the event that they need it to defend the Legion. In Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds, Superboy-Prime (Bart's one-time nemesis and seemingly the only one who fears Bart) unleashed the Legion of Super-Villains from the prison planet Takron-Galtos. In response to this, Brainiac 5 deemed it necessary to extract the living lightning from the rod and use it against Prime and his followers. Upon hearing of the Legion's plans, Prime rushes to the Legion HQ where the future speedster XS fuels the legendary cosmic treadmill and extracts the lightning from the rod. To Superboy-Prime's fearful chagrin, the lightning was Bart: alive, back in his younger body,he received his Kid Flash costume ring from Brainiac 5. Upon seeing Prime's shocked and frightened form, Bart says only one thing as he speeds toward him: "Boo!"

In the recent comic The Flash: Rebirth Which features the return of Barry Allen the original Scarlet Speedster and Bart's Grandfather. At the Teen Titans Tower West, a newly returned Bart Allen views his grandfather's return with skepticism, admitting a desire for things to "go back to the way it used to be" with Wally as the primary Flash (Bart believes that Wally has proven himself more than worthy of being The Fastest Man Alive. Keeping the Legacy Of The Flash alive long after Barry's death) and himself as Kid Flash, as well as feeling angry that Barry is the only one to escape the Speed Force and not Max Mercury.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Quotes

Bart: If there's one thing I am, it's never late. If 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.