The Flash Season 7 Teases Iris West Pregnancy Ahead Of Bart Allen’s Debut - Screen Rant

The Flash season 7 is already hinting at Iris West's pregnancy ahead of the coming arrival of Bart Allen, a.k.a. Impulse, later this year. A big Flash Family character that is set to make his Arrowverse debut this season is the futuristic hero Impulse. Jordan Fisher is bringing him to life as the second actor to portray Bart in live-action following Smallville's Kyle Gallner. The hero will be introduced in episode 17 which marks the 150th episode of The Flash. However, Arrowverse's Impulse is getting slightly reimagined for his debut. While Bart's traditionally the future grandchild of Iris and Barry Allen, Fisher's incarnation will be their son.

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Besides that departure from the source material, Bart will still come from the future when he first shows up in The Flash season 7. While it's a mystery, for now, what year or century Impulse comes from, it appears that the show is already teasing Iris getting pregnant. In The Flash season 7, episode 5 "Fear Me," the DC villain Psych arrives and causes the people of Central City to experience their deepest fears and also make them hallucinate, making it possible for them to get physically hurt. Barry also gets affected as he's forced to live his biggest fear of seeing the people he loves be killed because of his actions as the Scarlet Speedster.

But during Barry's final fear vision, a dead Iris rises up and says "When you let me die, you killed our children, too," foreshadowing Impulse's arrival. It's interesting The Flash season 7 had Iris (despite it being an illusion) make that comment as this happened right after Fisher's casting announcement as Bart that same day. Impulse's introductory episode won't air for at least another few months. Regardless of it happening in Barry's mind, it's not a coincidence that the writers had Iris bring up their children. This wouldn't be the first time The Flash foreshadowed Iris and Barry's future legacy as it also happened in the season 4 premiere "The Flash Reborn."

When Barry came out of the Speed Force, he was rambling what initially appeared to be nonsense, but certain sentences got a payoff later on in The Flash season 4. However, Barry also said "We're gonna need more diapers" as a nod to him and Iris having more than one child. It was originally teasing the idea that just like in the comics, Iris and Barry end up having twins as their daughter Nora West-Allen appeared later that season and was a big player in The Flash season 5. The fact that Iris even specifically said that Barry lets their children die, confirms that they do end up having more than one kid, including Bart.

Even though Nora hasn't reappeared since being erased out of existence in The Flash season 5 finale, the show did hint that a version of XS still lives in the future. When Wally West returned last season for the episode "Death of the Speed Force," he tells Barry that through the Speed Force, he had even seen her run in a future timeline, establishing that Nora is alive again post-Crisis on Infinite Earths. It's a mystery though if Nora and Bart Allen will be twins or if one is the older sibling of the other. What is definitely becoming clear, however, is that Impulse and XS will be Iris and Barry's future kids.

Because Bart comes later in The Flash season 7, it would make sense if Iris gets pregnant perhaps closer to Fisher's first episode or perhaps even during his arc. But since Barry had that illusion of Iris, it definitely seems like that at some point this year, they'll be expecting, if not next season. Whether or not that carries into The Flash season 8, potentially including Fisher's Impulse, remains to be seen. But Iris West and Barry Allen having kids together are definitely one of the final big steps for their Arrowverse story and if it happens this season as Bart Allen races into The Flash, this year would be the perfect timing to start setting up that chapter in their lives.

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Andy has covered the world of entertainment journalism since 2010, mostly superheroes and comic book media. In addition to his work as a reporter, Andy co-hosts The Flash Podcast, Titans Podcast while running the entire DC TV Podcasts network. He is also the founder/editor-in-chief of The Marvel Report since Fall 2015.