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    Bart Allen

    Character » Bart Allen appears in 1153 issues.

    Hailing from the 30th century, Bart Allen is the grandson of the Flash, Barry Allen and Iris Allen. Originally using the name Impulse and trained by Max Mercury, Bart utilizes the same powers of super-speed possessed by his grandfather and fights crime alongside the Teen Titans, known as Kid Flash and Wally West's sidekick.

    How old is Bart Allen?

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    does anyone know how old he is?

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    #1  Edited By danhimself

    he's a little younger than Conner, Cassie, and Tim....I'd say he's probably around 15 or 16

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    thanks :) 

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    #3  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator
    @danhimself said:
    " he's a little younger than Conner, Cassie, and Tim....I'd say he's probably around 15 or 16 "
    Sounds about right.
     
    But wasn't he around 18-19 when he took over as Flash during Wally's absence, and then reverted back to 15-16 when he was reborn?
     
    .... what I just said is a great argument against time travel...
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    #4  Edited By Son_of_Magnus

    Actually Bart is around 5 or 7 he had accelerated aging due to an accelerated Metabolism 

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    #5  Edited By danhimself
    @JediXMan said:
    " @danhimself said:
    " he's a little younger than Conner, Cassie, and Tim....I'd say he's probably around 15 or 16 "
    Sounds about right.  But wasn't he around 18-19 when he took over as Flash during Wally's absence, and then reverted back to 15-16 when he was reborn?  .... what I just said is a great argument against time travel... "
    I think the way they explained it was...his youth was left in the speed force when he escaped after taking Superboy Prime there and the Bart that took over for Wally was only half of Bart and would have died anyway without the Rogues
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    #6  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator
    @Son_of_Magnus said:
    " Actually Bart is around 5 or 7 he had accelerated aging due to an accelerated Metabolism  "
    Really? 
     
    @danhimself said:
    " @JediXMan said:
    " @danhimself said:
    " he's a little younger than Conner, Cassie, and Tim....I'd say he's probably around 15 or 16 "
    Sounds about right.  But wasn't he around 18-19 when he took over as Flash during Wally's absence, and then reverted back to 15-16 when he was reborn?  .... what I just said is a great argument against time travel... "
    I think the way they explained it was...his youth was left in the speed force when he escaped after taking Superboy Prime there and the Bart that took over for Wally was only half of Bart and would have died anyway without the Rogues "
    So let me get this straight: He was older due to the Speed Force? So how come he's back to being younger?
     
    Also, was he 13 when he first joined the Teen Titans? He looked like he was around 13.
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    #7  Edited By Son_of_Magnus
    @JediXMan: Ya the whole reason he came to the past was he was aging so fast he would be dead of old age by like his first birthday or something so he came back in time so that he could seek help from Max Mercury and Wally West on controlling his powers. He spent all his time in his rapid aging process in a virtual reality helmet the was hyper accelerated so he learned and it was treated like he aged at a normal  rate. So basically he learned to control everything started aging normally and became Impulse.
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    #8  Edited By Lustwish

     http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bart.html
     
     
    this might help.

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    #9  Edited By danhimself
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    #10  Edited By JediXMan  Moderator
    @danhimself: 
     
    Interesting. Where is that picture from?
     
    @Son_of_Magnus:
     
    When was this? It intrigues me.
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    #11  Edited By danhimself
    @JediXMan: Legion of Three Worlds
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    #12  Edited By RedK

    i know he's younger then Tim and Connor i'd say he's about 16-17

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    #13  Edited By Son_of_Magnus
    @JediXMan said:
    " @danhimself: 
     
    Interesting. Where is that picture from?
     
    @Son_of_Magnus:  When was this? It intrigues me. "
    It is explained in his Impulse run the best in the first 7 issues of his Impulse run and issue 92 and 93 of Flash
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    @Lustwish said:
    " http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bart.html   this might help. "

    It says that as Impulse he was physically twelve, so if we apply how fast characters age, plus one year later, wouldn't he be around 13 - 14?
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    I just reread Blackest Night: Teen Titans, he looked to be about the same age as Wonder Girl.

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    #16  Edited By Treyvoni

    At the start of young justice, in an origins' issue, Bart himself says he's 3 or 15 depending on how you look at it. He was two when he arrived in the past at age two or twelve, but he hyperaged up to 14 within a half hour of his arrival. Since then he's been aging normally (excluding his return from the speedforce in Infinite Crisis - which was explained away by Crisis of 3 Worlds). Assume he came back in Crisis of 3 Worlds issue 3 at the same age that he departed at. He enters school in Manchester at age 2 or 14, joins YJ when 3 or 15, and Teen Titans at the end of YJ (however long that took). so he is at lest 3 and 15 years old.
     
    I prefer to think that Bart's age is completely relative. Biologically he's 17ish, but mentally? Chronologically? Emotionally? He's much younger than that.


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    #17  Edited By batflasharrow96

    I don't think he looks it but it would logically make sense if he was 17-19 to the public (i don't like this either) because in one of the early issues of impulse max mercury said something about bart being very careful with his secret identity and to act like an average 14 year old. about 4 or 5 years has past since then so that would make him the ages above

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    #18  Edited By htb106

    I'm saying 14-15.

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