Flash's Mystic Powers Made Him the DC Universe's Most Powerful Hero
The Speed Force champion known as Impulse is a character that eventually holds the iconic mantle of the Flash, and in a story from Impulse’s solo series, this speedster receives a magical upgrade that turns him into the most powerful hero in DC Comics. Impulse may be just as fast as the Flash, but the Flash has got nothing on Impulse’s control over the mystical arts.
Happening in 2002’s Impulse #86 and continued in Impulse #87, by Todd Dezago and Carlo Barberi, Bart Allen aka Impulse, hits the ground running as he does his best to protect the Justice League from some cosmic mischief cooked up by the Superman villain, Mr. Mxyzptlk. Helping Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, and the rest of the League send Mxyzptlk safely back to his dimension, readers are given a surprising reason for how Impulse could possibly carry out these feats with ease: he’s magical!
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Soon revealed that Impulse sent speed copies of himself back in time to thwart a Young Justice villain named Bedlam via intercepting his mystical powers before he even acquires them, Bart Allen returns to a new world where everything he can think of instantly becomes reality. Realizing that he has the potential to fix far more problems around the world than he ever could as a regular speedster, Impulse begins to adjust reality as he sees fit, turning him into DC’s most powerful hero, but at an unintentional and unacceptable cost.
Declared to be “The Most Powerful Hero In The Universe” right on the cover of Impulse #86, the story inside goes on to show that the more Impulse changes reality, the more the unintended consequences of his actions push his vision of a perfect world toward ruin.
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