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Iris leaned back against a pillar, watching as Barry collected his tools from the latest theft to plague Central City.
Looky there! I see you’ve started Netflixing The Flash.
LOIS: What’s this with another female investigative reporter and another STAR Labs. Something’s fishy!

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“I’m tired, Barry,” she said before heaving a heavy sigh. “Don’t you get tired of running all the time?”

“Um…” he stumbled to find an answer. “No?”
Where are you in the season?

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“Iris, you know that Superman’s dead.”
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I wonder how Lex Luthor would’ve faired flying thousands of miles in space to tackle a meteor the size of Metropolis.”


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“It’s only a coincidence,” she went on, drawing his full attention again. “That some eight months after Superman never returned from saving us from Nightfall that suddenly the Flash appears in town.”

“Iris,” he said sternly. “The Flash…” He paused before amending his statement. “Superman isn’t the Flash.”
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“Batman wasn’t Superman either, I suppose?” Iris retorted.
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She waved her hand as if the Prometheus Space Station’s name hardly mattered.
She’s a reporter and those are just facts, not pictures?

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“Batman didn’t disappear,” Barry corrected. “He blew up while saving Gotham from a nuclear explosion.”
Wait, what’s the name of that super hero who got his powers from an atomic blast. Aside from that, we have Batman and Vicki Vale, Superman and Lois Lane, and The Flash and Iris West. It sure is a pattern of trying to score with the hot reporter in town. Must be the same dude!

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Iris pointed at him. “Yet, nobody found his body!”
Yes. Not even a shadow of a body!

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I’ve heard reports of Batman sightings in what’s left of Gotham lately.”
A giant bat flying around between the twisted towers of a radioactive wasteland?

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Hadn’t she heard of the Justice League? How could there be a league with only a handful of members?
If he’s superfast? Plus, it helps with keeping a honey in every city. Imagine if they found out they’re all dating the same guy!

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“I did meet him, this second Batman. Well, not me per se, but I threw on a long blonde wig and went undercover. My alias met him.
rotflol So, you’re not going with the dark-skinned Wests?
IRIS: No, I went by Ororo Munroe.

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There was no way he could’ve been Batman for ten years already.
Good skin care? Regular exercise?

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“I heard rumors that Batman had survived the blast and ended up running away to Paris… or was it Italy… with some cat burglar,” Barry said casually.
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My Batman had more sense than to run around with a skank like that.
Rrrrrrrright.

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“No, I was an idiot because I told him how much I respected him being a man of the people, not some rich guy throwing his money around. How was I supposed to know that he really was a rich guy literally throwing his money around in the form of Bat-er-rangs? I made it sound like a deal breaker, but it wasn’t.”
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By making the two personas polar opposites, he knew nobody would tie the two men together as being the same man.”
You mean, like Harvey Dent and Two Face?

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“It was!” Iris enthusiastically agreed. “Dick is no more Superman than he is Batman.
No, sounds to me like he’s a bit of a…well…if the name fits laugh

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I mean, I had never seen my Batman without his mask, so how in the world was I supposed to recognize him.
By his smile….Oh, right. Duh!

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Iris placed a hand to her chest. “Not this me, mind you, but the me I was before I reinvented myself and moved to Central City.”
Well…duh! But she does sound like maybe she needs a date with Maxwell.

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The only reason I dated Lex Luthor is because I thought he was Dick.”
But Lex is *ooooold*!

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“He was a dick,” Barry mumbled under his breath.
See! /points to above note/

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Iris frowned. “Well, how was I supposed to know shape shifting wasn’t one of Superman’s abilities? It’s not something he was likely to advertise!”
He can adapt his body, make bits and pieces grow larger and smaller as need be?

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“Yeah, well, I know that now! Nobody knew it back then. He was a philanthropist, just like Wayne.
But Bruce Wayne could also be a crime boss. Just like Bill Church!

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“Wait, Iris,” Barry said, leaning up against a wall as his knees gave out on him. “Are you saying that you’re really Lois Lane?”
Yep. She’s totally cuckoo.

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“If you like.” She shrugged. “A name is merely a label that can be peeled away. What matters is the person underneath.”
CANON LOIS: See! What I’m saying all the time!
CANON CLARK: help

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About three years later, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne after Jason Trask and Bureau 39 killed the ‘Flying Graysons’ family thinking the whole bunch of them were aliens.
TRASK: In my defense, they were *flying*!

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So, he created a new super identity and a fresh start in Central City as the Flash.”

“Why are you telling me all this?” he asked.
Wait. What? No way! help

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Iris looked up into the starry night again. “Aren’t you tired of running, Barry?” she asked, taking his tool kit out of his hand and setting it on the ground. “I am.”
See! No way!
BARRY: Good thing is, I can run away very fast!

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“The costumes keep getting in the way.”

“Uniforms,” he corrected as she pressed her lips to his, taking away his breath.
No way! shock

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“Finally,” she murmured, running her fingers through a passing cloud.
thud I think you just re-invented Soul Mates!
HGWells: I claim copyright infringement!

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“What took you so long to find me, Lois?” Clark asked.

“I had a few hiccups along the way,” Lois murmured, kissing down his cheek to his lips again. “I should have realized sooner that you’d never have chosen the color green. Oh, and if you bump into Green Arrow, Green Lantern, or Martian Manhunter, apologize again for me.”
shock rotflol But I bet her martial arts and her vocal skills came in handy as Black Canary. But let’s see, that’s six different superheroes, at least. She sure is the ultimate Super Groupie!

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Originally Posted by Terry Leatherwood
My head hurts.
It just seems as if Lois/Iris/Vicki has crammed a whole lot of living into her less-than-thirty-closer-to-twenty-five years. She was twenty-six when L&C started. And what about Lucy? Was one of them adopted? Maybe that's part of the reason Lois/Iris/Vicki was always so mature.
I wonder if maybe they both also did some time travel?

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