Kid Flash versus Dash!
Bart Allen of Flash family fame, and Dash Parr of the Incredibles.
Two speedsters from two different universes in a battle against one another.
Who will win?
Let us know your pick in those comments below with hashtag Dash or hashtag Kid Flash.
Hey everyone!
Welcome back to versus, our series on top 10 Nerd where we take your favorite comic
and pop culture characters and toss them into a hypothetical battle with one another.
Primarily superheroes and supervillains though.
Although we did do Elsa vs Harry Potter once, which I personally think was gold.
ANYWHO!
Today we’re looking at Kid Flash aka Bart Allen prior to the new 52 and Dash from the
Incredibles from the first film, the former being one of the most notable speedsters in
the DC Universe, and the latter being the most notable speedster from the world of the
Incredibles.
Let’s start off by looking at their Origins.
ORIGINS
Dash is up first.
He’s the son of two famous retired superheroes – Mr Incredible, who’s known for his immense
strength, and Elastigirl, who can stretch real good.
As he grew older, he discovered his powers, and since his family had to hide their superpowers
for their own safety, he wasn’t allowed to compete in sports in case it blew their
cover.
When his father ends up in trouble, Dash and his sibling Violet come to their father and,
inevitably, their mother’s aid, with the whole family working as a team to take down
the evil villain Syndrome.
Moving on to Bart Allen.
Bart has been known to take up two aliases – the first Impulse, and the second, Kid
Flash.
He was first introduced in The Flash #91 in 1994 as a cameo character and later returned
in the next issue as a full-blown one.
Those were during his days as Impulse though.
He would eventually join the Teen Titans and take up the mantle of Kid Flash in 2003 after
years of being a troublesome speedster and suffering from a hyper-accelerated metabolism,
which caused him to be raised in a virtual reality machine until it was maintained.
He was the sidekick to Wally West’s flash for a period of time, too.
He was also briefly the Flash after the Infinite Crisis event in 2006, but that didn’t last
overly long, and the character was killed off in issue 13 of his own solo series, The
Flash: Fastest Man Alive.
ABILITIES Let’s start off with Kid Flash.
Bart Allen has a genetic connection to the speed force, meaning he has immense superhuman
speed, agility and stamina, he can create speed force clones, or rather, scouts of himself,
has molecular control via the speed force, can time travel by moving faster than the
speed of light, and can create vortexes.
He also has an incredibly powerful memory that can retain everything he has ever read,
watched or heard, giving him encyclopedic knowledge.
Dash’s abilities consist of super speed, enhanced durability, superior reaction time,
and enhanced leaping.
Arguably he’s had some training since the first film, but Dash tends to lean on his
innate powers rather than any sort of developed skill in battle.
Also worth noting, that based off of The Incredibles video game, Dash’s maximum speed is over
190 mph – he can run across water and up vertical surfaces.
ON TO THE FIGHT!
This battle has two very obvious determining factors.
The first being speed, the second being durability.
Let’s start with the second.
If Dash and Kid Flash were locked in hand to hand combat, Kid Flash’s durability is
arguably tougher than Dash’s.
He can also create vortexes, and his memory would likely allow for him to track Dash’s
typical fighting patterns in order to outsmart him and get in the hits he’d need to knock
Dash out.
Secondly, we’ve got speed.
And this is where there is no contest – as we mentioned, Dash can move at speeds reaching
to 190 mph.
And Kid Flash can move at the speed of light.
What’s the speed of light in terms of miles per hour?
670, 616, 629 mph.
At the speed of light, he can travel around the Earth 7.5 times in one second.
So yeah.
He’s faster.
AND THE WINNER?
Kid flash.
He’s just faster.
Can’t really compete with that.
There we have it!
Do you agree with our pick?
Or do you think there’s some off chance that Dash may actually stand a chance against
Bart?
Let us know who you would pick with either hashtag Dash or hashtag Kid Flash.
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