Bartholomew Henry “Bart” Allen II is a superhero in the DC ComicsUniverse. A speedster, he first appeared under the alias Impulse and later became the second Kid Flash and the fourth Flash. Created by Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo, Bart first made a cameo in The Flash (vol. 2) #91 in 1994 before his full debut in issue #92.He has since been featured as the lead character inImpulse (1995–2002) and The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive (2006–2007). Bart also appears in the series Young Justice and Teen Titans as a member of both superhero teams.In addition to the Teen Titans and Young Justice, Bart was a core character in 10 issues ofJustice League of America under the mantle of the Flash.
As first conceived by writers, Bart was born in the 30th century to Meloni Thawne and Don Allen, and is part of a complex family tree of superheroes and supervillains. His father, Don, is one of the Tornado Twins and his paternal grandfather is The Flash, the second Flash. His paternal grandmother, Iris West Allen, is also the adoptive aunt of the third Flash, Wally West (Bart’s first cousin once removed). Additionally, Bart is the first cousin of XS, a Legionnaireand daughter of Dawn Allen. On his mother’s side, he is a descendant of supervillains Professor Zoom andCobalt Blue as well as the half-brother ofOwen Mercer, the second Captain Boomerang. In addition to these relatives, he had a supervillain clone known as Inertia. This is his origin story even though, he was The Flash son in the arrowverse justice league.
For most of his superhero career, Bart was the teenage sidekick to the Wally West version of the Flash. After West’s apparent death in the Infinite Crisiscrossover event in 2006, Allen grew up and became the Flash. His tenure as the Flash was brief and concluded with his death in issue 13 of The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive. Allen was subsequently absent for nearly two years after his apparent death, but resurfaced—young again—as Kid Flash, in 2009’s Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds. During DC’s The New 52 era, Bart Allen was reintroduced in Teen Titans as the alias of an amnesiac revolutionary from the future named Bar Torr; the character was later written out of comics, and his tenure erased from continuity by the subsequent DC Rebirth initiative. The original Bart Allen was brought back as part of DC Rebirth’s Wonder ComicsYoung Justice series.
Bart’s primary power is speed, along with abilities that are common to comics speedsters, such as creating whirlwinds, running on water, and vibrating through matter. The latter ability results in “molecular taffy” if Bart does not concentrate; he also possesses an aura, that prevents air friction while running. Bart does possess some abilities that other speedsters do not have. He has the ability to produce “scouts”, Speed Force avatars that he can send through the timestream, but has used it infrequently since the death of one avatar put him in a coma during the “Our Worlds at War” storyline that crossed over among theImpulse, Superboy, and Young Justicetitles. After being forced to use it during the “World Without Young Justice” crossover event, he was able and willing to use them with ease, up until he became Kid Flash. He has been shown to move faster than light as Impulse, while now he has an artificial knee which limits his speed as Kid Flash. He now can only travel close to the speed of light.
Bart is resistant to the alterations in the time stream. His parents met only in post-Zero Hour continuity, but he arrived before the event. Bart has the ability to recall everything he has ever read, heard or watched (which includes speed-reading every book in the San Francisco Public Library), allowing him to spout encyclopedic information concerning the situation at hand as well as quotations from Mark Twain, of whose work he is fond. He has also displayed the ability to create powerfulradio waves by rotating his arms at high speeds and using the resulting vibrations in conjunction with his teammate Static‘s electromagneticabilities.
After Infinite Crisis, Bart’s connection to the Speed Force is more difficult to control because he now contains the Speed Force and, in essence, is the Speed Force. When he taps into the Speed Force, Bart appears to have electricity crackling around him, and the Speed Force inside him becomes so lethal that he initially wears the Flash suit while running in order to prevent it from killing him. After remembering his experiences on an alternate Earth during a fight with Griffin, he began to gain a measure of control over the Speed Force before it was released from his body just prior to his death.
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