You see, I just read Teen Titans #4 (I know, I'm a bit behind) and the team is starting to come together. Whilst in the A-Plot we have Cassie and Con flirting outrageously as they pound on one another over in the B-plot we have the team getting to know one another in Tim's apartment. The “getting to know you” bit for Bart piques my interest because he's lost his memory.
Six months previously he turns up at an orphanage, amnesiac. This interests me because of Bart's unique past in the old DCU: he was the only character aside from Barry Allen to go through Flashpoint unchanged. He's also a time traveller and we know (from Flashpoint and from the old Teen Titans ongoing) that time travel can alter memories to prevent the paradox of foreknowledge. He also spent Flashpoint not on wibbly Earth but in a wibbly future, possibly isolated from the moment of chance the Legion Of Super-Heroes now has down as "The Flashpoint Barrier".
So my theory: after Kid Flash Lost, Bart emerges into the world of the New 52 and the process of rewriting his memories to accommodate the new continuity overloads his unique mental processes. Bart's brain is fast, his speed force powers affect its processing speed, so perhaps complete burn out was the only solution?
It's a bit slim, I know, but I was right about Excoristos in Demon Knights being an Amazon and I'm feeling a bit punch drunk.
Six months previously he turns up at an orphanage, amnesiac. This interests me because of Bart's unique past in the old DCU: he was the only character aside from Barry Allen to go through Flashpoint unchanged. He's also a time traveller and we know (from Flashpoint and from the old Teen Titans ongoing) that time travel can alter memories to prevent the paradox of foreknowledge. He also spent Flashpoint not on wibbly Earth but in a wibbly future, possibly isolated from the moment of chance the Legion Of Super-Heroes now has down as "The Flashpoint Barrier".
So my theory: after Kid Flash Lost, Bart emerges into the world of the New 52 and the process of rewriting his memories to accommodate the new continuity overloads his unique mental processes. Bart's brain is fast, his speed force powers affect its processing speed, so perhaps complete burn out was the only solution?
It's a bit slim, I know, but I was right about Excoristos in Demon Knights being an Amazon and I'm feeling a bit punch drunk.
1 comments:
I really really hope you're right.
And that he gets his memories back and reminds people of their old better costumes and gets them to change back.
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