12. Inertia

Hey! Lookatthat! A Bart Allen foe! Not too many of those! But this little bastard sure counts.

Inertia was a clone of Bart, who faced him during Bart’s time as Impulse, taking on a suitably inverted name as Inertia. Following Infinite Crisis, Inertia was disconnected from the speed force for a time, forcing him to use Velocity 9 to give himself artificial speed. Get it? A drug that is notable for “speed”. Anyway, around this time, Bart Allen became the Flash and Inertia started planning. Inertia tricked The Rogues into killing Bart, while attempting to steal his speed for himself.

Wally West froze the punk in a horribly frozen state for years, until he eventually broke himself out. When he did, he found Hunter Zolomon (Zoom) and manipulated him into restoring Inertia’s connection to natural super speed. Calling himself Kid Zoom, the punk kid was pretty immediately killed by the Rogues in revenge for tricking them.

A fitting end to a piece of garbage.