Post by Spider-Man on Apr 30, 2006 12:18:11 GMT -5
KID FLASH
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.
After Wally’s encounter with the speed force, Max Mercury became Bart’s guardian and trainer. Because of Bart’s childhood in VR, he has no concept of danger and rarely thinks ahead, acting completely on... impulse.
During a trip to the 31st Century , 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 and the psychic feedback sent him into shock, he has been extremely reluctant to use his new power. (It is also possible he no longer has it.)
Bart is also something of a time anomaly. Though his parents only met in post-Zero Hour continuity, he arrived in the 20th Century before the event hit. He has since displayed immunity to time alterations; he weathered Extant’s manipulations of the timeline and remembered Linda Park even after her disappearance . Even worse, the 31st century he knows no longer exists. (Teen Titans/Legion Special, 2004).
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.
Bart currently lives with Jay and Joan Garrick in Keystone City.
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.
After Wally’s encounter with the speed force, Max Mercury became Bart’s guardian and trainer. Because of Bart’s childhood in VR, he has no concept of danger and rarely thinks ahead, acting completely on... impulse.
During a trip to the 31st Century , 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 and the psychic feedback sent him into shock, he has been extremely reluctant to use his new power. (It is also possible he no longer has it.)
Bart is also something of a time anomaly. Though his parents only met in post-Zero Hour continuity, he arrived in the 20th Century before the event hit. He has since displayed immunity to time alterations; he weathered Extant’s manipulations of the timeline and remembered Linda Park even after her disappearance . Even worse, the 31st century he knows no longer exists. (Teen Titans/Legion Special, 2004).
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.
Bart currently lives with Jay and Joan Garrick in Keystone City.