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Barry Allen's grandson from the future is in the present to stay and he's sent to live with Max Mercury, formerly known as the speedster hero Quicksilver, in Alabama for guidance and guardianship. He enrolls in school where it quickly becomes apparent that being raised by virtual reality has not prepared him for interacting with real people, nor studying in such an environment. Bart manages to find some fast and loyal friends regardless of the inadvertent destruction he tends to leave in his wake and learns to get by in the modern age even if he never tries to fit in. He also ends up time traveling to other periods rather often during his adventures as Impulse.
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Spinning out of ''ComicBook/TheFlash1987'', Bart Allen, Barry Allen's grandson from the future future, is in the present to stay and he's sent to live with Max Mercury, formerly known as the speedster hero Quicksilver, in Alabama for guidance and guardianship. He Bart enrolls in school where it quickly becomes apparent that being raised by virtual reality has not prepared him for interacting with real people, nor studying in such an environment. Bart manages to find some fast and loyal friends regardless of the inadvertent destruction he tends to leave in his wake and learns to get by in the modern age even if he never tries to fit in. He Bart also ends up time traveling to other periods rather often during his adventures as Impulse.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]], Tempest, ComicBook/DoctorMidNite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]], Tempest, ComicBook/DoctorMidNite, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
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** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/{{Robin}} [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/{{Robin}} [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Bart's hyperactivity drives the Riddler absolutely batty because he isn't playing by his rules.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]], Tempest, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]], Tempest, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/DoctorMidNite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
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** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} but ends up coming across ComicBook/{{Batman}} fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
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** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} but ends up coming across ComicBook/{{Batman}} fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
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** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries ComicBook/{{Robin}} [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* {{Phonymon}}: Imp plays "Poxy Monsters" on what is obviously a UsefulNotes/GameBoy. The most prominent monster is a blue Pikachu look alike called "Peekaboo".
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* CoolBigSis: She appears only briefly, but Jesse Quick was this to Bart, [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling as often as he annoyed her]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: Johhny Quick sacrifices himself to save Jessie
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* HeroicSacrifice: Johhny Quick sacrifices himself to save Jessie Jesse.
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* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jessie Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
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* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jessie Jesse Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Max decided to move to Alabama after being asked to mentor Bart in order to keep an eye on his illegitimate daughter. He had Helen in an affair with a married woman shortly before he took a jump forward in time that's left him distressingly close in age to his own child.
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* LighterAndSofter: Despite the page image here, this series was more of a cartoon compared to the other comics at the same time.
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Impulse is the title of a DC book by Creator/MarkWaid, Ethan Van Sciver, Humberto Ramos and Wayne Faucher featuring the speedster Bart Allen that ran from 1995 until its cancellation in 2002.
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* BackwardsFiringGun: An issue guest-starring ComicBook/TheRiddler featured said Crown Prince of Conundrums with a revolver rigged to shoot backward.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: RoguesGalleryTransplant:
** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains.HilarityEnsues.HilarityEnsues.
** The Green Cigarette, believe it or not, was an incredibly minor character in Peter Milligan's ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' run. In a story that took place in an alternate universe. A villainous version of the character appears to bedevil Bart a couple of times.
** One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains.
** The Green Cigarette, believe it or not, was an incredibly minor character in Peter Milligan's ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' run. In a story that took place in an alternate universe. A villainous version of the character appears to bedevil Bart a couple of times.
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* RougesGallerysTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RougesGallerysTransplant: RoguesGalleryTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RougesGalleryTransplant: RougesGallerysTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RougeGalleryTransplant: RougesGalleryTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RougesGalleryTransplant: RougeGalleryTransplant: One issue had Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his encounter with the Flash and Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who Bart kept confusing for other villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* RougesGalleryTransplant: One issue had ComicBook/TheRiddler, following his and Captain Boomerang's encounter with the Flash and ComicBook/RobinSeries, try to seek RevengeByProxy on Impulse, who confuses him with various other villains.
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* RougesGalleryTransplant: One issue had ComicBook/TheRiddler, following Impulse having to deal with ComicBook/TheRiddler [[note]]seeking RevengeByProxy after his and Captain Boomerang's encounter with the Flash and ComicBook/RobinSeries, try to seek RevengeByProxy on Impulse, Tim Drake in ComicBook/RobinSeries [[/note]], who confuses him with various Bart kept confusing for other villains.villains. HilarityEnsues.
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* ChristmasEpisode: In which Bart irritates ComicBook/PlasticMan and accidentally helps the villain (Mxyzptlk, whose made a Santa Bot) before things are explained to him. He receives a puppy from Max and Helen.
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** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} but ends up coming across Batman fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
** Imp and Max visit ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE for issue 61, and Max chats with Wildcat at the JSA headquarters as well.
** Imp and Max visit ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE for issue 61, and Max chats with Wildcat at the JSA headquarters as well.
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** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} but ends up coming across Batman ComicBook/{{Batman}} fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
** Imp and Max visit ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE for issue 61, and Max chats with Wildcat at theJSA [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] headquarters as well.
** Imp and Max visit ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE for issue 61, and Max chats with Wildcat at the
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* SurpriseIncest: Helen is in for a shock when she learns to guy she's been flirting with is actually her time-traveling father.
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* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jenny Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
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* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jenny Jessie Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
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->''My name is Bart. I hope my spelling's okay. I just learned to write this morning ...''
-->'''Bart Allen''', ''Impulse'' #1
Impulse is the title of a DC book byMark Waid Creator/MarkWaid, Ethan Van Sciver, Humberto Ramos and Wayne Faucher featuring the speedster Bart Allen that ran from 1995 until its cancellation in 2002.
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Barry Allen's grandson from the future is in the present to stay and he's sent to live with Max Mercury, formerly known as the speedster hero Quicksilver, in Alabama for guidance and guardianship. He enrolls in school where it quickly becomes apparent that being raised by virtual reality has not prepared him for interacting with real people, nor studying in such an environment. Bart manages to find some fast and loyal friends regardless of the inadvertent destruction he tends to leave in his wake and learns to get by in the modern age even if he never tries to fit in. He also ends up time traveling to other periods rather often during his adventures as Impulse.
For the character see Characters/TheFlashTheFlashes. For the second Impulse see Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters.
->''My name is Bart. I hope my spelling's okay. I just learned to write this morning ...''
-->'''Bart Allen''', ''Impulse'' #1
Impulse is the title of a DC book by
Barry Allen's grandson from the future is in the present to stay and he's sent to live with Max Mercury, formerly known as the speedster hero Quicksilver, in Alabama for guidance and guardianship. He enrolls in school where it quickly becomes apparent that being raised by virtual reality has not prepared him for interacting with real people, nor studying in such an environment. Bart manages to find some fast and loyal friends regardless of the inadvertent destruction he tends to leave in his wake and learns to get by in the modern age even if he never tries to fit in. He also ends up time traveling to other periods rather often during his adventures as Impulse.
For the character see Characters/TheFlashTheFlashes. For the second Impulse see Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Imp decides to retire as Impulse in 78 after the trauma of having to fight on Apokolips and leave his girlfriend in the future sour the whole superhero concept for him, and is back in the suit by the end of 79.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Imp Bart decides to retire as Impulse in 78 after the trauma of having to fight on Apokolips and leave his girlfriend in the future sour the whole superhero concept for him, and is back in the suit by the end of 79.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, Stargirl, Tempest, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
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* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, Stargirl, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]], Tempest, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Issue 31 shows Bart eating popcorn while watching Max punch a transformed Dr. Molo while the blurb cheekily reads: "In this issue of '''''Impulse''''' absolutely ''nothing'' like this scene happens!"
** Bart tries to help out ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} with her magic show in issue 19, only to annoy her so much she accidentally sends him to another dimension trying to get him to just let her work.
** The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes shows up in #21 looking for their missing member XS (Bart's cousin who'd been staying with him) or how she got back to the future, only to find that she's gone and Bart doesn't know how to get them home.
** "Lessons in Fear" features Superman showing up and helping out, while he was in his "must use my powers at all times to their fullest extent phase". Max had to explain to Bart how unhealthy this could be when Bart considered taking a page out of Supe's book.
** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} but ends up coming across Batman fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
** The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes shows up in #21 looking for their missing member XS (Bart's cousin who'd been staying with him) or how she got back to the future, only to find that she's gone and Bart doesn't know how to get them home.
** "Lessons in Fear" features Superman showing up and helping out, while he was in his "must use my powers at all times to their fullest extent phase". Max had to explain to Bart how unhealthy this could be when Bart considered taking a page out of Supe's book.
** In issue 50 Imp goes to Gotham to play an April Fool's joke on ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} but ends up coming across Batman fighting the Joker and stops to help instead.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Bart and his cousin Jenni Ognats/XS, who stops by for about four issues, are speedsters from the future who don't understand modern society very well, and even have to learn English to communicate.
* FirstKiss: Carol gives Bart his first kiss when he hits the game winning run for their baseball team.
* FirstKiss: Carol gives Bart his first kiss when he hits the game winning run for their baseball team.
* HeroicSacrifice: Johhny Quick sacrifices himself to save Jessie
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* InSeriesNickname: Meloni calls Bart Sunshine for his yellow eyes and sunny, bright personality.
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* InSeriesNickname: Bart's mother Meloni calls Bart him Sunshine for his yellow eyes and sunny, bright personality.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Carol is very fond of baseball, and is even on the school team despite the rest of the players being boys.
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* SpeedEchoes: The images of Bart left in his wake as he travels faster than light eventually develop into Speed Clones, who can act on their own for a bit before merging back with the original who then gains their memories.
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** ''" Wow. They're gone. Just like 'Seinfeld.'"''
** Preston and Wade talk about the new "Christian Tarenturro" movie "''Pulp Dogs''".
* SpeedEchoes: The images of Bart left in his wake as he travels faster than lighteventually develop into Speed Clones, Clones who can act on their own for a bit before merging back with the original who then gains their memories. memories after he's hit by a ray that's meant to (fatally) connect the victim to the Speed Force, but hadn't been used on anyone who already had a connection to it.
* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jenny Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
** Preston and Wade talk about the new "Christian Tarenturro" movie "''Pulp Dogs''".
* SpeedEchoes: The images of Bart left in his wake as he travels faster than light
* SurpriseParty: Max decides to throw Bart a surprise birthday party and has to get Jenny Quick to help keep Bart from finding out what's going on due to Bart's nosiness.
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-->''"This is '''so''' going to work! I just want to make one little change … not, 'What would Superman do.' I'm going to ask myself … 'What would the Flash do?' I feel gooder already."''"''
* WilliamTelling: The cover of issue 28 shows Arrowette shooting at a watermelon on Impulse's head, with her arrows implanted all around him and stuck everywhere but the melon.
* YourCheatingHeart: Max decided to move to Alabama after being asked to mentor Bart in order to keep an eye on his illegitimate daughter. He had Helen in an affair with a married woman shortly before he took a jump forward in time that's left him distressingly close in age to his own child.
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* WilliamTelling: The cover of issue 28 shows Arrowette shooting at a watermelon on Impulse's head, with her arrows implanted all around him and stuck everywhere but the melon.
* YourCheatingHeart: Max decided to move to Alabama after being asked to mentor Bart in order to keep an eye on his illegitimate daughter. He had Helen in an affair with a married woman shortly before he took a jump forward in time that's left him distressingly close in age to his own child.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Imp decides to retire as Impulse in 78 after the trauma of having to fight on Apokolips and leave his girlfriend in the future sour the whole superhero concept for him, and is back in the suit by the end of 79.
* AllianceOfAlternates: Bart teams up with his future self to fight President Thawne.
* TheCameo: Issue 78 has cameos from ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Big Barda, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/WonderWoman, Hawkgirl, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, Stargirl, Tempest, Doctor Mid-Nite, ComicBook/GreenLantern, ComicBook/PlasticMan, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, Joan Garrick, [[ComicBook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Captain Marvel Jr.
* ChainedToARailway: The cover of issue 70, in which Bart's friends make a fan-video about Impulse, features Carol tied to some railway tracks with an approaching train being raced by Bart and Mike who are both dressed as Impulse.
* CharacterTitle: Impulse is Bart's costumed name as well as the title of the work.
* CharmPerson: The villain White Lightning can charm people, mostly men, to do her bidding.
* ChristmasEpisode: In which Bart irritates ComicBook/PlasticMan and accidentally helps the villain (Mxyzptlk, whose made a Santa Bot) before things are explained to him. He receives a puppy from Max and Helen.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Sadly the Impulse supporting cast soon vanished after his book ended, most notably Bart Allen's best friend Preston and love interest Carol. Much to fans' displeasure, one line in Geoff Johns' ComicBook/TeenTitans had Bart suggest it was ComicBook/WonderGirl who got him to like girls, rather than mentioning Carol or even Arrowette (another crush of his). Bart's dog Dox was also never seen again or mentioned by any later writers.
* ColorCharacter: '''White''' Lightning. '''Green''' Cigarette, yes really.
* ConfrontingYourImposter: When Inertia takes Bart's place and tries to kill Max in the Speed Force Bart manages to catch up to them. He doesn't actually win the fight but Thad is disturbed by how he refuses to stay down and his angry realization that he doesn't have anyone who cares so deeply for him causes him to throw the fight and leave, after which Bart is able to restore Max's powers.
* CrossOver:
** Imp and Max visit ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE for issue 61, and Max chats with Wildcat at the JSA headquarters as well.
** The Justice Leauge and the JSA attend a party for Max in issue 67.
** ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner and ComicBook/AdamStrange feature in issues 68 and 69.
** With ComicBook/YoungJustice for the ''Our Worlds at War'' event which plays out across the DCU.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Bart's speed clones can attack and interact with things on their own before they merge back with the original.
* GhostStory: When Bart goes camping with Preston and Wade they sit around the campfire and tell ghost stories, though Bart's attempt is interrupted by actual ghosts.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Villain Pocket Pal's power is his pocket dimension which he grabs things out of.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Bart has a pet Jack Russell Terrier named Dox.
* HighSchoolDance: Bart takes Cissie (Arrowette) to a school dance to get her mind off the fact that she almost killed someone for revenge.
* InSeriesNickname: Meloni calls Bart Sunshine for his yellow eyes and sunny, bright personality.
* LotusEaterMachine: Inertia traps Bart back in the VR program he was raised in while Max is dying in order to carry out his plan to murder the older speedster, but Bart is able to remember his life outside virtual reality and break out to save his mentor.
* OfficialCouple: Bart and Carol.
* ParentalSubstitute: Max Mercury, Bart's mentor and guardian, comes to view Bart as a son and is uniquely qualified to take care of Bart as a fellow speedster.
* ParentsAsPeople: Preston's mother has mental issues which have turned Preston's home life downright abusive, but its clear she needs help and things take a turn for the better once she gets it.
* PopulationControl: Bart and Carol travel to the future to try to prevent President Thawne from using Carol's future invention to kill off most of the population of earth which he considers to be overpopulated.
* PowerIncontinence: When Max starts losing his connection to the Speed Force it makes him fatally ill.
* PromotionToParent: Carol is being raised by her older brother Bobby since their parents were killed in a car accident.
* PullTheThread: When Inertia impersonates Bart nearly everyone takes note of how different and more responsible (and less fun) he's behaving but puts it down to it being his reaction to his mentor's state as Max is dying at the time. Carol doesn't quite buy it and after playing along while doing her own research is able to discover Bart has been replaced.
* SecretKeeper: In addition to the rest of ComicBook/TheFlash family being aware of Bart's id his close school friends Preston Lindsay and Carol Bucklen also learn of it.
* SexSells: The concept is called out and lampshaded on the cover of issue 83 where Bart and some of his speed clones are standing around behind a woman with a bared midriff reading comics and saying ''"Nice cover! Pretty girl on the inside! Hey! It's this issue's villain!"''
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Bart protests that his feelings for Carol are just those of friendship, and by the next issue is willing to steal a time machine to save her because he loves her and has stopped trying to play it off.
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* SpeedEchoes: The images of Bart left in his wake as he travels faster than light eventually develop into Speed Clones, who can act on their own for a bit before merging back with the original who then gains their memories.
* SweetHomeAlabama: Bart was sent to live in Manchester, Alabama (which is real, despite what ''Impulse'' #1 claims) with his mentor Max Mercury (Max specifically chose it for reasons made clear in issue 16). This is deliberate; the series is based off Mark Waid's childhood in the South.
* {{Telepathy}}: Twin sisters Shantay and Shanela Williams who attend Bart's highschool have the ability to project thoughts into other people's minds, one of them takes to using this ability to torment those around her while her sister helps Bart put a stop to her cruelty.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Bart is going to school while he's not acting as Impulse, not that he pays much attention to anything the teachers there might be saying.
* WhatWouldXDo: Bart tries to improve his hero work by asking himself what Flash would do, he's not always excelent at coming up with an answer without being sidetracked though
-->''"This is '''so''' going to work! I just want to make one little change … not, 'What would Superman do.' I'm going to ask myself … 'What would the Flash do?' I feel gooder already."''
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