Hehe in yj the heroes do like nothing at all to hide their secret identities XD its like, in season 1, robin is extra with his name not even letting his team know
But like
Connor is LITTERALLY just looking the exact same as superboy, the exact same shirt... for 8+ years, all the time every day both as a hero and as a civillian, how is anybody gonna think they are different people?
Megan (at least in s1) looks to same as miss m and as megan m'oors judt with green skin, but like, people know martians can shape shirt right? Is this common knowledge in this world or is it not known?
Artemis litterally did not even change her name to have a hero name lol and she also has a super distinct voice
Kaldur is fine cuz he isnt even really a civillian on the surface world and the atlantians know he is a hero
But like so many heroes later on just wear the same clothes both as a civillian and as a hero and some
Idk, ig its cuz in s1 and 2 the team is a secret team so the public don't kniw about them but still, im with Bart on this one, the secret identities dont feel important at least in yj universe lol
But the masks do help. When dick first took his mask off in s3 for the first time we saw his full face i was so thrown off, like they look similar but you just woul dnot be able to tell especially if nightwing swooshes past you (a civillian) with his mask on and you dont get to see his full face, the eye masks do really work
(And no, if superboy swooshes past you, a big shirt with a big red emblem simple to remember and the exact one as your classmate connor is more memorable, and because you can see superboy's full face, even when he swooshes by you, you are able to still compare it more than if say the eyes were covered)
Y’all know those stories where YJ!Wally is Justice League Unlimited!Flash that simply ended up there after the season 2 finale? And how it always involves Artemis or Dick coming to rescuse him/end up there accidentally and the whole thing is revealed to the League? Well, the Flash Family hardly gets into the spotlight other than mentioning that they are grateful that he is a life and sometimes are mentioned offhandedly, sooooo…
Give me a story about how Bart and/or Barry end up in the JLU universe and discover about Wally and (if Wally kepts their existence a secret) how they ended up being revealed, whether it was because the JLU went to Wally’s apartment or because they (Bart and/or Barry) went to help the JLU/Flash in a fight.
Bonus point if the JLU only discovers the truth about Wally, Barry and/or Bart AFTER they know them for a bit, like not immediatly.
I’m tired of Bart Allen getting mischaracterized in all of the fanics I’ve read. To disprove some popular things that I have seen, I am going to cite the Impulse comics. While I understand that his background dis a little different in Young Justice than it is than in the comics, he is still the same person. With that, lets go on to number one.
#1: “Oh Bart is so gay!.”
Oh, the boy who has canonically had a relationship with a girl, and was devastated when she had to leave for the sake of the world, is gay. I’m not saying that he doesn’t have a crush on Jaime, no. The boy is hopeless, no doubt. However, he is also not bisexual. If anything, Bart is demisexual, as early in the Impulse series he and Carol (His girlfriend) kissed when they were still just friends. However, there was no sexual tension or pining, just laughing and teasing each other. It’s only later, after they get to know each other that they begin to fall in love. And I highly doubt that Bart fell in instant love with the dictator of his world. It probably wasn’t for a while thta he began to have feelings for Jaime.
#2 “Oh, Bart looks up to and respects Wally so much!”
Yeah, no. In the very first Impulse comic, Bart says: “ ...now call him the Flash could show me how to control my speed. Some teacher.... But Wally played me like a, a- like whatever you play in this era.” He resents Wally, not just for their first meeting, but for, in his eyes, abandoning him. To him, it seems like Wally didn’t want him and just dumped him on Max. And Wally does little to fix that. In the comics, they are not mentor and pupil. That is Max’s spot in Bart’s life, and he would never take Wally trying to take that spot.
#3 “Everybody loves Bart!”
Ha! Don’t make me laugh. How about that time he pissed off almost every kid in his school so much that he had a fight scheduled with all of them at the end of the same day. Which leads me to my next point...
#4 “Bart is so dumb! He must be the comic relief!”
First of all, fuck that. In issue three (the one where he pisses everyone off) he leads everyone who wanted to fight him [Which was the entire school with the exception of like, six kids] to the football field. He then proceeds to trick them all into fighting each other, and does not throw a single punch. {Also, I would like to touch on the fact that earlier in the comic, someone throws a meatball at a kid named Lardo, and Bart uses Lardo’s tray to deflect it, but then gives him his own lunch. Look at him, standing for others!}
#5 “Bart’s horrible at undercover work!”
May I direct your attention to issue 5, where he successfully infiltrates White Lightning’s gang, actually being explicitly trusted by White Lightning herself. I would call that some good undercover work myself. [She calls him Spitfire, that is so cute]
#6 “Bart wouldn’t notice if his friends were hiding something.”
Bullshit. In issue 6, he finds out that his best friend, Preston, has a less than stellar home life. he tells Max, who tells him to hang low for now, and wait until he has proof to say anything. However, after his eyes are opened a bit, he goes to find and confront Preston’s dad, who he thinks is the abuser. However, it is then revealed it is Preston’s mother, and the school make ssure that Preston is safe with his father (which he is). And, at this point, they weren’t actually best friends yet. They had barely hung out before, yet Bart was almost willing to put his secret I.D. at risk, just t make sure that Preston was safe.
#7 “Bart can go with out his powers for weeks!”
Maybe in an inhibitor collar. But by scientific means? No. In issue 7, he has his powers taken for less than ten seconds, and yet he is choking, in pain, dying. He was just lucky the villain who did it wasn’t actually a murderer. He physically can’t survive without his powers.
#8 “Bart doesn’t care about his friend’s well beings!”
Oh? Well then, what about that time,that Carol was in a car with kids from school that were planning some... less than savory things, and while Bart didn’t want to face the villain, as soon as he heard that Carol was stuck with them as a result he said “Carol?! In a car? With those guys?! I don’t think so.” And then went and beat up the bad guy, got Carol out of that car and safe, before getting the car out of danger. And remember, this is before they loved each other.
#9 “Bart’s only family are Barry and Iris!”
Let me list you his extended family, as of issue 10: Max, Jay (and of course Joan), Linda Park, Wally, Iris, his cousin Jenni (another time traveler, and Johnny Quick (Who brings Jesse later).
9b. {I’m putting this here because it goes with family} And if you ever think that he is detached from his family, what about when, after Max is unconscious in the hospital, he is accused at school for not caring about what happened, and he attacks the kid who says it, before running oout of the school crying, wailing for Max?
That’s all I have for now, but I’m sure I’ll think of more eventually.
Honestly, I'm surprised that no one has done a story or fanart of (yj)Bart Allen/Impulse/Kid Flash II (because from what I understand in the comics he was actually sent to the past because he was aging too fast, like he is 3 but looks older(?)) and (Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow) Francis Barton meeting? Because they both grew up in a post-apocalyptic world and didn't have a change to grow up as kids and had to learn how to survive said world.
Like, I get it they have differences (i.e. Bart has powers, Francis doesn't; Bart didn't lead a survivor group, Francis did; etc.)(I'm not including the whole Clint thing bc I doubt that Bart didn't have any parental figure/Hero that took care of him while he grew up, even if it was when he was young and it was during a short time) but I feel they could relate to each other and maybe become friends.
Also, I am not including Torunn, James, Azari or Pym because they unless it was changed in the comics grew up in a safe place and only faced the post-apocalyptic world when they were older, as in, they-didn't-grow-up-with-that older, so they could probably relate but in a different way I guess.
