"The Flash" on Smallville?

Question

I thought the real name of the Flash was Wally West? Where does a "Bart" charactor fit in?
If you saw this weekes episode titled Justice you will notice he was being called "Impulse" and not the Flash.
Anyone on here know what this is about, or know origins of the Flash?

Answer 1

Impulse is Bart Allen. In the comics he was from the future and came back in time.

Wally was actually the 3rd person to use the name flash.

The first was Jay Garrick from the Justice Society of America who gained his abilities from an accident with involving the water used in early atomic experiments.

The 2nd Flash was Barry Allen. He was a police scientist who was splashed with chemicals that had been struck by lightning. the Lightning charged the chemicals in such a way that the combination of them endowed him with his powers.

Wally West was the Nephew of Barry Allen's wife Iris West Allen. He gain his powers in an almost identical way ot His uncle, from lightning splasing chemicals on him.

Currently in the Comics both Jay Garrick and Bart Allen are carrying the mantel of the Flash as Barry is dead and Wally was absorbed into something called the speed force, the source of the powers of the various super-fast characters.

Personally I wish they would have used Barry Allen as the flash (although in the first appearance of Bart he did have several Id's including Jar Garrick, Barry Allen and Wally West, so there was at least SOME degree of continuity), but considering the OTHER liberties they have taken with the stroy and time lines...I can live with this one....

hope that explains it somewhat....

check out the individual entries for Jar Garrick, Barry Alen, Wally West, Bart Allen, and Flash for more indepth information onf the characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_garrick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Allen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_%28comics%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Allen

Answer 2

Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick The Original
Silver Age Flash Barry Allen
Modern Version Wally West
NOW Bart Allen

Answer 3

In Run we saw Bart had multiple ID's including one for Wally West.

The Film division is planning on making a Flash movie so, like Wonder Woman and Batman, the Flash is off limits in Smallville.

Depending on what you believe about Smallville they used Impulse, even though he is not the same generation because they have already "messed-up" the time line with Cyborg (Prequel believers) or if you believe that Smallville is its own timeline/interpretation of the mythos/Superman without the suit then it is on par with the story and there is no problem. (Most Chlois Theorists fall here)

Answer 4

Bart Allan was another speed freak, and was Wally West nephew. He was impulse in the teen titans and became kid flash later on. Gotta remember that Smallville doesn't follow the proper timeline.

Answer 5

He could definitely outrun Clark, that's for sure.

Answer 6

Bart Allen

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[Bart as the FLash - Flash v3 #6]
Real Name: Bartholomew “Bart” Allen II
Other Aliases Impulse, Kid Flash
Known Relatives: Barry Allen (grandfather), Iris West Allen (grandmother), Don Allen (father), Meloni Thawne (mother), President Thawne (grandfather), Dawn Allen (aunt), Jenni Ognats (cousin), Thaddeus Thawne (clone), Owen Mercer (half-brother), Max Crandall (guardian)
Base of Operations: Keystone City, Kansas (previously Manchester, Alabama, briefly Denver, Colorado)
Occupation: Factory worker
Past Group Affiliations: Young Justice, New Titans, Teen Titans
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Yellow
First Appearance: (as Impulse) Flash v.2 #91 (June 1994)* (as Kid Flash) Teen Titans v.3 #4 (December 2003)
Created by: Mark Waid & Mike Wieringo
Origin: 2980 (born 2980)
Identity: Secret
See Also: The Flash on Smallville
Flashes: Previous (Walter West) Next (Iris West II)
[Bart as an adult - Flash v3 #1]

Grandson of Barry Allen, the second Flash, Bart Allen has been forced to grow up fast—literally. He initially became the teen hero Impulse, mentored by Max Mercury. He was later taken in by the original Flash, Jay Garrick and his wife Joan. Not long after, Bart took on the costume of Kid Flash, spending time with the Teen Titans. Bart disappeared during Infinite Crisis and reappeared four years older—without his powers.

Now, at 21, Bart Allen is having the Flash legacy thrust upon him once again.
Detailed History
Impulse

[Impulse running - Impulse 2] Bart inherited super-speed from his grandfather, Barry Allen, but his hyperaccelerated metabolism resulted in an accelerated growth rate. To keep him from going insane, scientists placed him in a virtual reality that kept pace with his own scale of time. Eventually it became clear that their efforts were not helping, so Bart’s grandmother Iris took him to the 20th Century to consult her nephew, Wally West. Wally knew from experience the practicalities of super-speed in the field, unlike the scientists who had only observed it in the laboratory. Wally forced Bart into an extreme burst of speed that shocked his system into normalcy—he retained his speed, but his accelerated growth rate dropped to normal.

Because of Bart’s childhood in VR, he had no concept of danger and rarely thought ahead, acting completely on impulse. This earned him his nickname (Batman called it a “warning”). Wally wasn’t suited to be a mentor, so Max Mercury became Bart’s guardian and trainer. They moved to Manchester, Alabama, where bart attended middle school, made friends, and (of course) fought super-criminals as Impulse.

Bart is also something of a time anomaly. Though his parents only met in post-Zero Hour continuity, he arrived in the present day before the event hit. He has since displayed immunity to time alterations; he weathered Extant’s manipulations of the timeline (Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe, 1999) and remembered Linda Park even after her disappearance (Impulse #1,000,000, 1998 & Flash #152, 1999). Even worse, the 31st century he knows no longer exists. (Teen Titans/Legion Special, 2004).
Time Scouts

During a trip to the 31st Century (Impulse #75, 2001; see Dark Tomorrow), Bart was blasted by an experimental hyper-ray intended to give ordinary people super-speed. Instead it gave him the ability to create “scouts,”** energy-like avatars of himself which he could then send through the timestream, then absorb their memories when they returned. After one of his scouts was killed on Apokolips (Impulse #77) and the psychic feedback sent him into shock, he has been extremely reluctant to use his new power.

Bart has used it only twice since then: once, unwillingly, when the genie Bedlam used his scouts to create a “World Without Young Justice” (Young Justice #44–45, Impulse #85, etc., 2002), and later to rescue his mother and his friend Carol from the 63rd Century. In light of later events, it is extremely likely that Bart no longer has this ability.
Kid Flash

[Bart as Kid Flash - Teen Titans 4] Max disappeared, and Bart moved to Keystone City to live with Jay and Joan Garrick. After a series of traumas—Carol’s and Max’s disappearances, Bart’s near-death experience on Apokolips, the deaths of Lilith and Troia and dissolution of the Titans and Young Justice, and finally a gunshot wound to the knee—Bart decided to reinvent himself. He read every book in the San Francisco public library, and wove together a new costume, calling himself not Impulse, but Kid Flash.
Crisis

When Bart, Wally and Jay attempted to trap the murderous Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force, Bart found himself facing a monster alone. Jay fell behind, and Wally was pulled out of this reality. Bart managed to force Superboy-Prime as far as the edge of the speed force, at which point the heroes trapped there—Barry, Max, and Johnny Quick—took over, pulling Superboy inside.

The Flashes held Superboy imprisoned in the speed force for years until he escaped. Bart followed, and spent four years in an alternate world. When Superboy escaped, Bart pursued, the time difference between dimensions bringing in back only hours or days after he left. To the rest of the world, he aged four years in an eyeblink (Infinite Crisis, 2006). After the battle, he claimed he had used up the last of his speed, leaving him powerless.
Flash: One Year Later

Suddenly older than his friends, unable to remember his missing years, and harboring a secret—that the speed force was still around, and threatened to overwhelm him—Bart set about creating a normal, mundane life for himself. He got a job as a factory worker at Keystone Motors and tried to leave super-heroics behind him...but it’s difficult to walk away from that kind of life, no matter how fast you run.

When his roommate gained super-powers and became the Griffin, Bart was forced to accept his legacy. He discovered that he had absorbed the speed force, and began learning how to control the power. Following in the footsteps of his cousin and grandfather, Bart Allen has become the Flash.
Relationships

Because of his accelerated growth and virtual-reality upbringing, Bart remained childlike when he first arrived in the present. While with the New Titans he briefly had a crush on Rose Wilson (Deathstroke’s daughter, who later became the Ravager), but it never went anywhere. During his time in Manchester he did eventually start a relationship with his best friend, Carol Bucklen, but forces beyond their control interrupted that before it really got started. Alternate futures have shown him romantically involved with both women: Carol in “Dark Tomorrow,” and Rose in “Titans Tomorrow.”

Now that Bart is an adult, he has developed an interest in STAR Labs scientist Valerie Perez.
Alternate Futures

It has long been clear that Bart would succeed Wally as the fourth Flash. Here are glimpses of some other possible futures he could have had.

http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bart.html