KID FLASH (Earth-7)

Biography 

Origin

Eobard Thawne had long manipulated time itself, using the Speed Force to alter events and ensure Barry Allen would never permanently defeat him. His machinations caused chaos in the timeline, including the orchestrated death of Wally West, who became an unforgettable martyr to the Flash legacy. Yet despite his apparent victories, Thawne failed to prevent the mantle of the Flash from continuing through Barry’s descendants.

As Impulse

Seeking to preserve his immortality after exhausting the Speed Force and losing his powers, Thawne kidnapped newborn Bart. Exploiting Bart’s genetic predisposition as a speedster, Thawne trapped him in a virtual reality machine, where Bart unknowingly lived as the hero Impulse for 13 years, while the machine drained his energy and kept his body in stasis. To the outside world, however, only about an hour had passed.

Sent to the Past

The Legion of Super-Heroes eventually freed Bart from this imprisonment, but his body—unused to the real world—was too unstable to survive long outside the machine. His grandmother Iris West proposed a desperate solution: sending Bart back in time to live under the guidance of the greatest experts on Speed Force ever —Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West. They accepted the child into their care, promising to keep him safe in the past until a cure could be found.

Bart’s arrival gave him the opportunity to truly grow into his legacy. He trained under the mentorship of the legendary Flashes, adapting his unstable metabolism and immense speed potential into a heroic identity of his own. In time, he took on the mantle of Kid Flash, carrying forward the Flash family’s ideals of hope, courage, and justice.