Flash Bart Allen?

Question

I read on another question that Wally West is no longer Falsh and Bart Allen is? Who is Bart Allen where did he get powers? What relation to Barry is he and how? Most detailed reply gets Best answer

Answer 1

Barry Allen is Bart Allens Grandfather. In Infinite crisis all the flashs tryed to destroy Superboy Prime by using the speed force, during this feat of heroism every flash disappeared aside from Bart Allen (kid flash) who aged ten years,and Jay Garrick. Jay Garrick starts operating as the flash using the original golden age suite because, even though the speed force is gone he is still the fastest man alive without it. Bart returned with Barry's suit and, finally addimiting that part of the speed force had clinged to him. Bart took the mantle as the fasted man alive. Both still operate as the flash but, like the Allan Scott Green Lantern, Jay operates through the Justice Society of America. The flash's that dissapeared are pressumed dead.

Answer 2

Bart Allen( Impulse/Kid flash, is the Grandson ofBarry Allen and the son of Dawn Allen Thawne ( of the reverse flash thawnes) He inherited his speed from HIs Parents who inherited theirs from Barry. Is the second person to ever enter and leave the speed force, entered to stop Superboy prime,returned to the present aged 6 years. Currently the vessel containing the speed force although reluctantly. It should be further noted that Bart was trained in the use of his powers by Wally, Max Mercury, and Jay Garrick.

Answer 3

The above answer looks pretty complete to me! As a side note, Bart Allen made an appearance on the TV series Smallville in the episode "Run" in 2004 - bringing notable DC guest appearances up to 3 (We've seen versions of Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash)

Answer 4

Barry Allen

Answer 5

Bart is Impulse, he got his powers inherited from his grandfather.

His parents died, and Iris brought him back to the past to be mentored. Wally pushed him through a barrier at a critical age, otherwise he would have had physical problems.

He is being trained by Max Mercury.

Answer 6

his power are inherited from his grandfather barry allen from the future.

Answer 7

Here is quite a bit of information about the character formerly known as Impulse. Gotta love that Wiki...when it has more than a stump of an entry.

Bartholemew "Bart" Allen II is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. He originally went by the code name Impulse and later became the second Kid Flash, before becoming the fourth Flash. He first appeared in The Flash (2nd series) #91 in a cameo appearance. His first full appearance was in issue #92.

Character history

Bart "Impulse" Allen, on the cover to Impulse #2. Art by Humberto Ramos.Bart is the son of Don Allen, one of the Tornado Twins, and Meloni Thawne, a descendant of Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash. Bart is also XS' cousin, the half-brother of Owen Mercer (the second Captain Boomerang) and Thaddeus Thawne (aka Inertia) is his clone brother.


Impulse
Suffering from greatly accelerated aging, Bart appeared to be 12 when he was actually two years old. He was raised in a virtual reality machine, leaving him ill-equipped to deal with reality until he was rescued by his grandmother, Iris Allen. Eventually, Iris took him back in time to the present, where the current Flash Wally West tracked him down in a race across the world. Wally finally caught Impulse and helped him to control his "hyper-metabolism". However, while the two had to work together during the Terminal Velocity arc, it was apparent that Bart rubbed Wally the wrong way. The impulsiveness of youth that even Wally himself had displayed was too much to handle, and Bart was pawned off onto retired superhero Max Mercury, also a speedster.

Bart was one of the founding members of the superhero team Young Justice, and as revealed in Impulse #50, Batman named him "Impulse" as a warning, not as a compliment. Following Max's disappearance, Bart was taken in by Jay Garrick, the first Flash, and his wife Joan.


Kid Flash

Bart becomes Kid Flash. Art by Mike McKone.Following the breakup of Young Justice, Bart joined the new Teen Titans. He soon had his kneecap blown out by Deathstroke (who was at the time possessed by Jericho) and replaced with an artificial one. While recovering, Bart read every single book in the San Francisco Public Library and reinvented himself as the new Kid Flash. Even with the artificial kneecap, he can still run close to light speed.

In the "Titans Tomorrow" storyline, Bart assumed the mantle of the Flash after the current Flash died in a "Crisis". In this alternate future, he was able to steal the speed of others, a power he used on his past self. At first, he appeared to be working with the Titans of Tomorrow, but was secretly spying on those Titans on the behalf of the resistance group formed by the Cyborg of this alternate future, Titans East. In this future, Bart had a romantic relationship with Rose Wilson, The Ravager .


Infinite Crisis
Main article: Infinite Crisis

Bart Allen attacks Superboy-Prime wearing Barry Allen's suit, art from Infinite Crisis #7 by Phil Jimenez.After Superboy-Prime attacked Conner Kent (Superboy) in Smallville and injured or killed many Teen Titans, Bart joined with Flashes Wally West and Jay Garrick to stop the rampage of Superboy-Prime by running him at top speed into the Speed Force. Jay reached his limit before entering the Speed Force and Wally turned into energy and vanished, leaving Bart alone with Superboy-Prime. Barry Allen, Johnny Quick and Max Mercury, all of whom had previously been absorbed into the Speed Force, appeared and aided Bart. After taking Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force, Barry told Bart that "Wally is waiting for you". After they disappeared, Jay claimed that the Speed Force was gone.

Bart later reappeared, several years older, in Tokyo wearing his grandfather's costume. He later helped the heroes against the army of escaped supervillains in the Battle of Metropolis. Bart then explained to the nearby Wonder Girl that his grandfather's uniform was the only thing that could survive the trip back from where he had been, and that he was the only one there "who could still run". Bart then unleashed his anger against Superboy-Prime for killing Conner Kent, pummeling him at super-speed and forcing Superboy to retreat from the battle. When the crisis was over, Bart explained to Jay that he spent years in an unknown dimension where he grew older. Bart confirmed that the Speed Force was destroyed and that he used up the residual speed locked in his body fighting in Metropolis. He gave Barry's costume to Jay and said that Jay was once again the fastest man alive.


The Flash
Main article: One Year Later
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
In Teen Titans (3rd series) #34, Bart is referred to by Robin as "kind of retired." He is living with a roommate, Griffin Grey, and assembling cars on a scab basis for a newly automated, high-tech plant in Keystone City[1]. Bart has nightmares about the Speed Force, such as when he and Jay Garrick were separated during Infinite Crisis, and glimpses of Barry's death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Lying to everyone that the Speed Force is gone, Bart is still able to tap into it, though the effects are far more difficult to control, and Bart suspects them to be lethal. Despite the risk, Bart attempts to use his powers to save Griffin when a bomb is set off at the plant but is unable to control them. Jay Garrick rescues Griffin and sees Bart use the Speed Force.

Bart confesses to the Garricks the Speed Force's existence and his fears; despite Jay's assertion that being the Flash is Bart's "path", Bart wishes to live a normal life. Griffin, on the other hand, gains superhero abilites from the explosion and is drawn to the fame of being a superhero. After previously brushing off S.T.A.R. Labs scientists who wish to investigate the supposed disappearance of the Speed Force, Bart offers to work with them to separate him from the Speed Force. S.T.A.R. presents him with a new Flash uniform, recreated by duplicating the molecular structure of the remains of Barry Allen's costume. Bart claims it, still adamant about not taking up the mantle but unable to leave the uniform behind. However, when S.T.A.R.'s Keystone location is blown up, Bart puts on the uniform and speeds off to help.

After running to the S.T.A.R. Labs, he finds intern Valerie Perez unconcious, and takes her out of harm's way before the place explodes. Meanwhile, Griffin takes on the vigilante identity called The Griffin and plans to get rid of the Flash. Bart, on the other hand, begins working with Perez over his control of the new incarnation of the Speed Force, which is a painful experience for Bart. When Bart asks Perez why she's so interested in helping him, she reveals that Bart (as Kid Flash) saved her life in a riot at her high school. After her confession, Bart and Perez kiss.

Spoilers end here.

Powers and abilities
As with most speedsters, Bart's primary power is speed, however he possesses some abilities other speedsters do not. He has the ability to produce "scouts", Speed Force avatars he could send through the timestream, but has infrequently used it since the death of one put him in a coma during the Our Worlds at War storyline that crossed over between the Impulse, Superboy and Young Justice titles.

Bart is resistant to alterations in the time stream, possibly due to an oddity of his origin; his parents met only in post-Zero Hour continuity, but he actually arrived before the event. Bart's photographic memory allows him to recall everything from his speed-reading (which includes every book in the San Francisco Public Library), allowing him to spout encyclopedic information concerning the situation at hand as well as quotes from Mark Twain, whom he likes.

Since Infinite Crisis, Bart's connection to the Speed Force has been more difficult to control. When he taps into the Speed Force, Bart appears to have electricity crackling around him, and has become so lethal, that he needs to wear the Flash suit while running in order to prevent it from killing him.[2]

Flash Legacy
Since his first appearance in The Flash (vol.2) #91 Bart has been trained by several speed-endowed heroes such as Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick and Max Mercury. Prior to his current reluctance to don the red and gold, Bart has shown a lot of enthusiasm towards his role as the future Flash. This is despite Wally West's apprehensions toward Bart, illustrated by his naming Jesse Quick as his successor and his refusal to deliver Bart his invitation from Cyborg to join the latest incarnation of the Teen Titans. Bart takes these insults in stride though, and even says to Robin after Robin claims that he will always live in the Flash's shadow, that "the Flash will live in mine[3]."


Appearances in other media

Kyle Gallner as Bart Allen.An episode of Smallville entitled "Run" featured a speedster played by Kyle Gallner named Bart Allen. He is portrayed as a self-centered teenager who uses his powers for personal gain, although by the end of the episode, he was showing signs of changing his ways. Bart also carries around identification of Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West, three Flashes in the main DC Universe.

In the original Kids WB! pitch for the Justice League animated series Robin, Impulse and a teenage female version of Cyborg were to be seen as junior members of the League. It was later decided to avoid their introduction, so as to avoid making Justice League seem like the old Super Friends series. The corresponding short animation is available as a bonus on the season one DVD of Justice League. [1]