Clark fell into the floor and saw Black Flash coming towards him.īlack Flash decided not to drain Clark's speed since he didn't consider it to be pure and Clark vowed to help Bart stop him. Bart tapped into the Speed Force and ran so fast that he caused the treadmill and the monitoring equipment to explode. The goal of this experiment was so that Clark can see the creature once he becomes fast enough. Professor Hamilton designed the treadmills to allow Bart to run as fast as he can while Clark's treadmill can accelerate him toward Bart's speed. Years later,īart told Clark about what happened and Clark decided to go to S.T.A.R Labs to seek Emil Hamilton's help.
As he runs, the Black Flash appears again, telling Bart "It is time" as it bolts toward him and tries to grab him. Trapped in a circular glass cage, Lex forced Bart to run at super speed to avoid the charged floor that would electrocute him to death.īart discovered he could tap into the Speed Force just like that and immediately saw the dark creature waiting for him outside the glass.īlack Flash tried to grab Bart after he passed out, however Bart was saved by Clark Kent. The Black Flash first appeared to Bart Allen while he was being tortured by Lex Luthor for swiping corporate data from him in the Season 6 episode "Justice" of Smallville. Black Flash was killed off a long time until he made his return in DC rebirth.īlack Flash in the Smallville Season 11 comic "Haunted".
Though unlike most versions of Death the Black Flash is capable of being defeated or at least stalled so not all encounters with the entity need be fatal to a speedster, though a victory against a being like Black Flash is likely in vain as he will keep coming back until his job is done. It should come as no surprise that the Black Flash was an enemy of the Flash (both past and future-versions) but his appearances are fairly rare - as is the case for most personifications of death, after all the arrival of the Black Flash usually suggests that Flash is about to die or in serious danger of doing so. It is unclear why Death takes on the form of Black Flash to track down speedsters - though some theories are made that either top-rate speedsters (such as the Flash) are too fast for traditional Death to catch up with or that Black Flash is a result of some kind of anomaly caused by the Speed Force itself, whatever the cause Black Flash exists for one purpose: to end the lives of speedy heroes and villains in the DC universe. who is actually one of the many embodiments of Death itself - though Black Flash only goes after the souls of people who possess superhuman speed connected to a special power known as the Speed Force. The Black Flash is a supervillain in the DC comics. The Black Flash appears whenever it's a speedster's time to become one with the Speed Force. But the Black Flash indeed is one of the most powerful entities of the DC comics.But where the Black Flash appears. Some people believe that the Black Flash exists because the traditional “Death” is not fast enough to capture speedsters. The Black Flash can do time travel, and he can travel at any dimension. He also has the ability to kill a person with just one touch. The Black Flash can vibrate its body at a certain frequency by which anything can pass through his body. His Speed, durability, stamina, agility- all are at the superhuman level. He draws energy from the negative speed force.
The Black Flash has almost the same powers like speedsters. In the final crisis, it was revealed that the black Flash is possible an aspect of the Black racer, the death of New Gods. Then he came to Wally West, but Wally was able to beat him.
He appeared before the end of the great Flash Barry Allen. And also it isn’t always the cause of death. It doesn’t represent the physical incarnation. It works when the life of a speedster is going to end. Max Mercury first discovered the Black Flash.īlack Flash is not death itself, but it acts as an agent of death to the speedsters. Those who are blessed with this speed power or connected with the speed force, the back Flash comes to him before his death. The Black Flash is a representation of death for the speedsters.