Dawn Allen
2969 - Dawn Allen & Don Allen, the twins of Iris Allen & her deceased husband Barry Allen, are born on the moon.
2985 - 16-year-old Dawn's brother Don Allen begins training as a science police office in the academy.
2987 - 18-year-old Dawn attends Metropolis University, studying tachyon theory. She first meets Jeven Ognats.
2989 - 20-year-old Dawn gives birth to her daughter, Jenni Ognats, who has no apparent connection to the speed force.
2991 - 22-year-old Dawn begins her post-grad work. She marries Jeven Ognats.
2993 - 24-year-old Dawn earns her doctorate in tachyon theory, specializing in understanding the speed force.
2995 - 26-year-old Dawn works with her nephew Bart Allen when he is born with hyper-accelerated metabolism, designing a virtual reality environment to keep up with his accelerated growth.
2997 - 28-year-old Dawn, unable to find a solution to Bart Allen's hyper-acceleration, brings him the Legion of Super Heroes, where Querl Dox is able to determine that he can be sent back in time to meet Wally West.
3003 - 34-year-old Dawn's family is taken captive by the Dominators as they take control of Earth. her daughter Jenni Ognats is the subject of their experiments, which trigger her latent speed-force powers.
3005 - 36-year-old Dawn, Jenni Ognats & Jeven Ognats are freed from Dominator captivity by Don Allen, Iris Allen & Meloni Thawne. Jenni then goes on to help the Legion of Super Heroes & the Green Lantern Corps free Earth.
3006 - 37-year-old Dawn's daughter Jenni Ognats joins the Legion of Super Heroes. She attends her induction ceremony.
The Tornado Twins, Dawn & Don Allen, are fairly minor characters overall, but they do touch the larger timeline in some fairly significant ways. We did float a number of ideas that simplified these two... maybe Bart Allen & Jenni Ognats are actually the children of Barry & Iris, rather than their grandkids. Maybe Barry & Iris only had ONE kid, rather than twins?
The reality though, is that in all these cases you're solving problems that don't exist. Dawn & Don are fun, and I like that they exist. Even if we're not going to make them superheroes in their own right, I think the world of DC is unquestionably more fun with both of these two in it.
The reality though, is that in all these cases you're solving problems that don't exist. Dawn & Don are fun, and I like that they exist. Even if we're not going to make them superheroes in their own right, I think the world of DC is unquestionably more fun with both of these two in it.
Dawn Allen's Comic HistoryThe Tornado Twins, Don & Dawn Allen, appeared in a really great single Legion of Superheroes story from Adventure Comic #373 in 1968. The twins started showing up to crimes and disasters and saving the day before the Legion ever arrived, all while displaying some truly impressive powers, showing up the Legion like they were so much cooler than them they couldn't be bothered. Don even gets into a fistfight with Karate Kid. It's great. Eventually they reveal that they are descendants of Barry Allen who were granted temporary access to his powers. The twins were referenced a few more times before we saw them dying during the Dominator Invasion in the five years later time jump Legion story in 1991.
Later on, when Mark Waid was working on Wally Wests story in the Flash, he introduces a new version of the twins; this time, they are the actual children of Barry Allen & Iris, born in the 30th century in the months after they both retired there, before Barry returned to our timeline and died during the first Crisis. These twins lived in a time when super heroics were outlawed, but once they met Wally during some time travel shenanigans, they decided to start secretly fighting crime anyway, serving as inspiration for what would one day become the Legion. These characters would each one day have children that would become heroes all their own, with Dawn's daughter Jenni becoming XS of the Legion, and Don's son Bart becoming Impulse. |
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Our Dawn Allen StoryEven after Mark Waid created new versions of the Tornado Twins, they were both still deceased by the time the Legion stories of that era rolled around; their deaths during the Dominator arc remained canon. This means that both XS and Impulse had lost a parent while they were still infants.
Between the two of them, Don is perhaps a little more fleshed out than Dawn, because in the pages of Impulse we met Meloni Thawne, Bart's mom, who told us about her deceased husband. Dawn, for her part, didn't really get the same amount of posthumous development. We don't even really know all that much about Jenni's father Jeven. It basically falls to us to decide what we'd like Dawn's life to be. We decided that what made the most sense was to make her one of the worlds leading tachyon theory researchers ; which basically makes her the future's greatest expert on the Speed Force. We don't ever want anyone to actually understand the Speed Force and how it works, but given all the work that needs to be done in the future to save her nephew Bart's life, this seemed like a role that would really benefit that story. Of course, once that story is resolved, we get to just see Dawn as the proud mom of one of the newest generation of Legion heroes. |