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How Barry Allen protected his secret identity.

In Flash #110...


And later, in Flash #174... on their one-year wedding anniversary, Barry tells Iris he's the Flash.

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From:[info]sherkahn
Date:June 22nd, 2009 08:33 am (UTC)
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Hold on, I am looking for an appropriate head-desk icon for this.

Still lots of love for the old stories, but damn Barry. Did the also forget to remove the batteries from the nuclear holocaust trigger device you left for the authorities to collect?
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From:[info]sir_razorback
Date:June 22nd, 2009 01:01 pm (UTC)
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Have a Prime Facepalm. =p
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From:[info]jcbaggee
Date:June 22nd, 2009 05:02 pm (UTC)
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A Bruce Wayne head desk icon, because if Bruce Wayne knew this happened he would lose all respect for Barry.
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From:[info]freezer818
Date:June 22nd, 2009 08:48 am (UTC)
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In that first scan, Iris' expression says "He's so cute when he's being an idiot."
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From:[info]retro_nouveau
Date:June 22nd, 2009 09:39 am (UTC)
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Heh - I see "The dork doesn't give me much credit, we're both professional investigators... Should I let him off the hook or watch him squirm for a while?" XD
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From:[info]harpiesiren
Date:June 22nd, 2009 09:14 am (UTC)
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Uh huh

He would forget his head if it wasn't attached. XD
From:(Anonymous)
Date:June 22nd, 2009 09:29 am (UTC)
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From the very first day of our marriage? You talk in your sleep?

Read between the lines people. Flash sez "Save it for marriage!"
From:[info]mari_redstar
Date:June 22nd, 2009 07:53 pm (UTC)
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Well, obviously a respectable unmarried woman like Iris can't go around inviting her gentlemen callers up to her room- it's much more proper to just discreetly pick Barry up for a drive through the park and get to know him a little better in the backseat of her parked roadster, and it's not like anyone's going to be sleeping in that situation.
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From:[info]sistermagpie
Date:June 22nd, 2009 09:53 am (UTC)
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Seems like Barry's comics need to be accompanied by that "wha wha whaaaaaa" sound effect.
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From:[info]rabican
Date:June 22nd, 2009 10:18 am (UTC)
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From:[info]darklorelei
Date:June 22nd, 2009 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Excellent! Surely that will be as useful as Instant Rimshot.
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From:[info]zegim
Date:June 22nd, 2009 05:48 pm (UTC)
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And the drama button to complete the team.
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From:[info]seriousfic
Date:June 22nd, 2009 05:57 pm (UTC)
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Iris: Barry, I don't know how to tell you this, but... I'm expecting.

Barry: You're expecting? I ordered my coffee twenty minutes ago!

Iris: I won't ask you to raise him. After all, he's not your son. He's... the Flash's!

Barry: Oh darn, I must've forgotten to take off my costume. Looks like being the Flash has caught up to me again!


From:[info]ninjapeps
Date:June 22nd, 2009 06:54 pm (UTC)
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is there any room for an instant Horatio?
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From:[info]ian_karkull
Date:June 22nd, 2009 10:37 am (UTC)
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Ha ha. /nelson
This is the same guy who kept handing out little science "facts". From now on I'm going to pretend he had no idea what he was talking about (with Silver Age Science being what it is, that's not too unlikely) and everybody just kept humoring him.

"Our Barry, he's... special."
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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:June 22nd, 2009 05:33 pm (UTC)
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Actually, Barry's Flash Facts were generally useful and interesting (not always--this was the Silver Age). He was more an Absent Minded Professor type, to be honest.
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From:[info]ian_karkull
Date:June 22nd, 2009 06:15 pm (UTC)
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I know, that's why I said I'll pretend.
Not that it manners anyway, but imagining Barry as some sort of high-speed moron not only amuses me greatly, it makes the entire tedious Rebirth thing just much, much more bearible.
From:[info]purplemaster.livejournal.com
Date:June 22nd, 2009 08:58 pm (UTC)
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Actually, "Flash Facts" was the name of the occasional filler-page in THE FLASH that featured speed-related scientific trivia. Dork that Barry is, he still didn't go around actually calling things "Flash facts."
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:June 22nd, 2009 05:39 pm (UTC)
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Oh, Barry...

He should be glad he forgot to change, given that he showed up at super speed, and Barry Allen doing that would be kind of a giveaway.
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From:[info]magus_69
Date:June 22nd, 2009 06:18 pm (UTC)
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Let me guess: Barry's Too Dumb To Live character trait will be completely ignored now that he's back, right?
From:[info]bj_l
Date:June 23rd, 2009 08:32 pm (UTC)
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Oh absolutely, because he can't be the god the writers remember from their childhood if he acts like he did during their childhood.

Wait a minute...
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From:[info]entropic_theory
Date:June 22nd, 2009 07:04 pm (UTC)
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Seriously, how did he not notice he was wearing a full-body skin-tight costume?
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From:[info]pyrotwilight
Date:June 22nd, 2009 09:26 pm (UTC)
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Bart didn't get to be Bart from just his mom. It came from SOMEWHERE.
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From:[info]starwolf_oakley
Date:June 22nd, 2009 11:58 pm (UTC)
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IIRC, Mark Waid played around with this a little bit when he brought Iris into Wally's series. Iris said to Linda, "I figured out Barry was the Flash six months before he worked up the nerve to tell me himself." I could be remembering the line incorrectly, or in post-Crisis history, Barry decided to tell Iris *before* they got married.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:June 23rd, 2009 12:21 am (UTC)
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Well, THAT was a screwup. I wonder how he got out of that one?

"I, uh, wasn't talking to YOU, Iris, I was talking to, uh... myself! Yes, you see, I'm here to see 'The Iris and the Rose', playing, as you can plainly see, at the El Grande theater across the street from you. Been looking forward to it for weeks. So I was just, y'know - 'yay! I'm on time! I'll see the play!' Didn't see you until after I'd said that; sorry for the confusion. My next line was going to be 'I'll be seeing you, Rose, in about five minutes once I've gotten myself some popcorn!' So, uh, yes, I'd better get going, 'cause I reserved a seat. Oh, and as for Barry Allen, I just saw him - he's about five blocks away, the slowpoke, should be here any minute. Bye! *zips off*"

Seriously, though, you just know that, had the writer bothered to wrap up the story properly, we would've gotten something like that.
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From:[info]lady_mondegreen
Date:June 23rd, 2009 01:28 am (UTC)
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With his freakishly large head in the first scan, you'd think he'd have a brain of equal proportion to prevent such blunders. Also, Iris seems to be jumping to conclusions with Barry's sleep-talking. Normal people can't dream that they're superheroes?
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From:[info]kagome654
Date:June 23rd, 2009 09:20 am (UTC)
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He's too cute.
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From:[info]salamangkiero
Date:June 25th, 2009 02:23 am (UTC)
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He's a perfect Absent-minded professor, that's what he is...
From:[info]lurkslikefox
Date:June 25th, 2009 05:55 am (UTC)
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Wait, what? Leaving aside the fact that she guessed the truth, Barry waited a year AFTER they got married to tell her the secret? Cos that's more than a little dickish.
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