Valerie Perez

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Valerie Perez is a fictional character, a DC Comics supporting character and love interest for Bart Allen when Bart was the Flash.

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The daughter of one of the enemies of the previous Flashes, Professor Manfred Mota, Valerie's life is saved from a riot at her high school by Bart Allen when he was Kid Flash. After being rescued, Valerie idolizes the young hero and, being a scientific genius, devotes her life to studying the Speed Force and, in particular, Bart. Valerie works for Tina McGee as a S.T.A.R. Labs intern at Keystone City, and is in charge of working with him in sorting out what has changed in the Speed Force, after Bart refuses to work with Tina. Managing to earn Bart's trust, the two kiss during a lab test.^[1].

Near that same time, Valerie's relationship to Mota is discovered by her employers, and despite Tina McGee's efforts, she is fired from her job at S.T.A.R. Labs. Mota calls Valerie at her office, wanting to meet her, though she refuses. Later, her father visiting Valerie at her home and somehow was transformed into an energy being, by reasons not yet explained. Leaving behind a fake Dear John letter for Bart Allen, that as expected prevented him from questioning Valerie's disappearance and search for her whereabouts, he took Valerie into an unknown location, hoping to use her DNA to restore his appearance, and use Valerie as a bait to take his vengeance on Bart, with Inertia's aid. Valerie survived the experimentation, and Inertia has begun to use her for a trap against Bart on Las Vegas after a phone call to him by disguising his voice with Valerie's.^[2]

Bart arrived to the penthouse of a Las Vegas hotel, only to find Inertia. Inertia then led Bart to Valerie, only to find her wired to a bomb. Faced with the classic choice of saving the girl he loves or Las Vegas, Bart deactivates the bomb and leads the bolt from the cannon around the world to destroy itself (arguably also a classic choice of a speedster). Inertia escapes and Bart, after aiding Las Vegas in recouping from the power loss of the canon firing, returns to the penthouse to find Valerie. They rekindle their relationship there until morning.

Valerie's father, Mota, arrives at the penthouse to convince Valerie of his love and desire to become human again, but is once again rebuffed by his daughter and thwarted by Bart Allen, being trapped in an electromagnet.

The closing scenes of Valerie have her planning to rejoin S.T.A.R. Labs hopefully with the help of Bart's new found fame as The Flash.^[3] However, apparently, they wouldn't take her back after they know that Bart and Valarie are having a relationship, and sees Bart as an attraction to dangers of their operations.

Valarie's relationship with Bart also become strained after she revealed his identity to one of her friends Brenda, which upsets him since he trying to keep his identity a secret. She later arrive to Los Angeles trying to reconcile with Bart, only to caught in the middle of Bart's battle with Inertia, along with the rest of the Flash's Rogues. Bart was beaten to near-death by his enemies, with her and his grandmother, Iris, who also at the scene, unable to save him. Bart's died in Valerie's arms as she painfully grieves of losing Bart.

She has not been seen in any DC publications since Wally West's re-emergence as The Flash.