The Flash just revealed that Godspeed isn’t Barry Allen's villain – he’s Bart Allen's. Godspeed’s primary target in both seasons 6 and 7 has been the Scarlet Speedster, but now it’s known that the character August Heart (Karan Oberoi) shares a personal history with in the future is actually Barry’s son. In Bart’s eyes, Godspeed is his version of Reverse-Flash, meaning that the two are arch-enemies.
Played by Jordan Fisher, Bart Allen aka Impulse has finally arrived on The Flash. In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths timeline, Barry and Iris (Candace Patton) only had one child in the future, but now they have two, both of which being crime fighters and speedsters who protect Central City in 2049. In The Flash’s long-awaited 150th episode and the first hour of its two-part season 7 finale, titled “Heart of the Matter, Part 1”, Barry, Iris, and Team Flash all had an opportunity to reacquaint themselves with Nora West-Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and get to know Bart. During their time with him, they found out that the character is masking a deep pain caused directly by his rivalry with Godspeed, who refers to Bart as “the adversary”.
Through Bart’s story about the murder of Jay Garrick (John Wesley Shipp), The Flash didn’t leave any questions about why Impulse considers Godspeed to be his Thawne, but what it doesn’t explain is why August Heart hates Bart so much. If Bart’s relationship with Heart is anything like the one Barry has with Reverse-Flash, it could be that the reasons for their constant fighting are similar to a certain degree. Godspeed could see Bart, with all his speed, as his true rival in 2049. It’s possible that if future Barry is retired or busy fighting other villains, it was Bart Allen who opposed most of Heart’s schemes.
Heart, whose goal was confirmed in The Flash season 6 to be the acquisition of “infinite velocity”, could have been stopped from attaining that level of speed by Impulse, rather than the other speedsters. In the original pre-Crisis timeline, it was XS who fought him, but his life could have taken a different turn since the post-Crisis timeline includes Bart. His frequent battles (and presumably, defeats) may have motivated him to seek revenge. That could be why he chose to kill Jay Garrick. If he faced a great deal of suffering from the losses he’s sustained fighting Bart, his aim may have been to bring pain and hardship to Bart’s own life.
In The Flash’s 150th episode, Barry voiced his concerns that his speedster family may have a “curse” on them that causes suffering to follow them everywhere they go, as this cycle continues to repeat itself. In a way, he may not be wrong. Unfortunately, though his rivalry with Thawne didn’t extend to his children, it looks like at least one of his kids developed their own sinister speedster villain, who may be just as ruthless as Reverse-Flash, which has troubling implications for Bart’s Arrowverse future.
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