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thelastspeecher · 4 months ago

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I just had my biannual "the Smallville version of Bart Allen is the only accurate representation of Bart Allen despite having severe limitations as to what aspects of his canonical backstory they could use" rant

and decided to look into whether he was on The Flash (2014) (which I stopped watching bc I went to grad school and Didn't Have Time and never got around to finishing but I really should at some point)

and he WAS

and just the short blurb on Wikipedia is making me dread that my "Smallville Bart is the only accurate Bart" opinion will remain unchanged when I finally get around to finishing The Flash (2014)

#tho apparently the Young Justice version of Bart is implied to be gay or bi #and I think that's the most accurate thing about that version of Bart jkankjfknljsdf #(I don't think Bart was ever canonically queer in the comics but come on. come on.)#anyways uhhhhhh your reminder that some of my strongest opinions relate to comic books #btw the thing that made me go ''oh no the showrunner of The Flash didn't understand Bart''#was reading that he described this version as ''having an edge''#Bart DOESN'T have an edge! that's the point!#Bart is at his core a sad traumatized and lonely child #and he is running from that fact and making jokes so he doesn't have to address it #he's sad and also genuinely funny and optimistic #Smallville couldn't do his comic book backstory but they got THAT right!#which is why Smallville Bart is the most accurate!#.......I'll stop ranting in the tags I have things to do #but maybe I'll hop back into The Flash (2014) sometime soon #and report back as to whether they fucked up my boy yet again #speecher speaks

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