The Flash Season 1: When Does Barry Learn How to Phase?

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[@Daboss-kq3jm]

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[@bertaboy9078]

Calculate how fast Fry is going when he drinks 100 coffees

[@ambrusraul2297]

Good, good a Flash video . Over the years , our favorite love speedster was haunted sometimes by nightmares ,started more seriously right after Zoom Broke Back Mountain him but at the time he was still learning to be a speedster, but Psych ? In the episode where he lost his memories , Julian and Csisky talked about how they didnt count for Barry s speed , Barry is way faster in his mind , Caitlin also confirmed this many times . Barry is fast enough that no nightmare should be possible to catch him . With Bloodwork it was a total plot thing ,they didnt have the time to do this big fight scene so they locked Barry and Bloodwork in a nightmare and that was it , but Barry should not be possible having nightmares at his current speed

[@bloodydragon9379]

Why was iris able to use Barry's powers so easily in the episode where they were swapped to her even though it took Barry so long to learn them

[@Minelaughter]

Barry just took out the forces of nature with the power of friendship. literally.

[@wolfkniteX]

I'm gonna defeat you with the power of friendship!.... And this gun I found.

[@i_chosen_one_ips432]

So he basically used talk no jutsu like Naruto

[@U-A-V]

We need a mk vs DC 2 with flash having a friendship for pep talks

[@ETn4606]

Yeh and It was bullshit

[@lukadj5911]

Thats why CW should never make DC's superhero shows ever again

[@shuriken5017]

Barry teaching Wally to phase: Just do it! Barry teaching Nora to phase: He says a whole huge motivational speech that takes 2 whole minutes. 😂😂

[@thenoirknight5729]

Reminds me of the changing of Reverse Flash's origin in DC Rebirth. He basically got salty that Barry told Wally the exact inspirational thing that Barry told Eobard in the future

[@oswaldtime]

Phase

[@janethsabroso9415]

Phase*

[@dexus_1722]

*phase*

[@silly7eraph]

cmon man, it has the proper spelling of phase right in the title

[@jackysbin3860]

Please do this for the rest of the episodes of the flash, such as: Why doesn’t Barry just use his speed to slap villains

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

That would have been hilarious

[@NonStopJayy]

Because Some villains are as fast or faster than him

[@KW-wr3xv]

Overtime, you are going to have to become familiar with the words "plot armour."

[@Scout.]

Because then there wouldn’t be a show

[@step2807]

@@NonStopJayy Well nowadays he is faster than them or even as fast so it should be easy for him now but with the way the speed force can now boost his speed with all the forces together who knows. I just hope they don't pull a tachyon (by that I mean they had tachyons in season 2 and never used it on speedster villains like savitar or the race with zoom in the season finale of season 2)

[@doofward]

i feel like there’s so much more behind season 1 that we’ll figure out in the years to come

[@ultimatecloth4993]

Can we expect a season one-inator

[@clutchxhavier2372]

@@ultimatecloth4993 how are u gonna ask him that

[@sinnergamez-_-]

I feel this comment is sadly, going to age badly

[@thebreadfetish2370]

@@sinnergamez-_- yeah the writing really isn’t that deep

[@detoxify299]

plotholes != plotpoints

[@MyVin1234]

I think he was just extremely angry, and when you're angry you usually don't think. You just react. So he somehow did w/e. Perhaps moving fast causing heat to burn through the dose

[@RaspyCh]

That’s exactly what I think

[@axyspianostudio]

Yup

[@tetsudikawakami7787]

basically he was "twitching in anger"?

[@U-A-V]

I think in 1x08 it was phasing and more for shock value and probably just because his rage just made him do it without him realizing, it could be valid because of how hyper he was during the fight.

[@Johan590]

Just bad writing.

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

Yeah plus he was high af

[@Johan590]

@Michael kiely you're delusional mate bad writing.

[@U-A-V]

@@Johan590 because he preformed an ability it's bad writing? That's like saying when a character first discovers their powers and uses them with no prior experience is bad writing, he simply did it because of the rush he had during that point.

[@Johan590]

@@U-A-V keep being mad bad writing.

[@tylerjames646]

But was the 2,000 mg of horse tranquilizer courtesy of Ray Palmer?

[@christopherarteaga1269]

This made me laugh

[@reyesjohannchrissebastianc651]

If it was it would've been more effective

[@numairsabir4977]

Sadly not but imagine if there were nanites as well inside it

[@obi501]

Nah just the local drug dealer

[@maschiefondasoda333]

NANITES, COURTESY OF RAY PALMER

[@Daboss-kq3jm]

They use a power when the plot needs it then forgets it Happens a lot

[@theaveragedude3670]

Unfortunately 😞

[@VSNMiniME]

Unfortunately Jason

[@dramonmaster222]

Very True.

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

True but then again with how long the show has been here for it makes sense they will forget some things

[@ukuviispert9599]

In one episode he can move faster than a nuke and in another episode he cant reach a guy in a weelchair

[@AmzAkhtar]

I hate how the Flash is more emotional now it’s just too weird

[@vanillathunder1]

You’d think that fool would be more mature SEVEN SEASONS IN!

[@drlemon4806]

It just sucks now

[@lankytwt]

@@vanillathunder1 I mean, showing emotions means you have matured..

[@jimmynuttron883]

@@lankytwt Yeah but who wants to see someones emotion in a action series. The characters actions and emotions make the show but it doesnt have to be like that. Especially if your running 7 seasons. Gotta Balance it out

[@lankytwt]

@@jimmynuttron883 it was never an action series, its a soap opera with superheroes

[@ICubicI]

my favourite thing in the flash is when barry gets knocked down and slowly staggers back up, when he could just go fast

[@AndreAsunte]

This is how I interpreted it. I guess I can see how people may have conflated it with phasing though. Nice catch.

[@kagenoo1084]

I always thought that they said that this is what he was doing in the show

[@antihero627]

I always assumed that he just used his speed or higher metabolism to burn the tranquilizer out of his system. Hence the green mist and why Oliver was surprised that he could do that. I never thought he was phasing in that episode. So I agree with your theory, it makes more sense.

[@TheOneWhoDings]

Never been angered at a show like the flash, at this point I think the writers are just doing it on purpose

[@Dub4Fun]

See how long they can keep getting away with it

[@introvert9490]

@@Dub4Fun i mean they already have 7 seasons lol, and I think they get season 8. That might be the last though.

[@LJC6037]

Stopped watching since season 5. Can't take the cringe anymore.

[@jjonahjameson8934]

@@LJC6037 smart move. Hartley, Tom, and Carlos have either left or been fired and they were the only actors that made the show watchable

[@LJC6037]

@@jjonahjameson8934 I almost rewatched it because of crisis on infinite earths. I just want to see brandon routh & tom welling's superman comeback but i resisted the urge because of bad cgi, continuous plot holes, and cringe action scenes. _The flash is dead, bury it. Consider this mercy._

[@mid_professor]

I think Barry just moved fast enough to evaporate the tranquilizer using body heat because if Barry phased it would just be a liquid.

[@legodcbricks3306]

He said that

[@maksillorenzo9480]

I never thought he phased... always thought he just sweated it off

[@kupidzheart]

same here , like over working his muscles and that was more for a visual effect

[@SparkerZed]

It's obvious by now that season 1 writers just didn't have a good sense of development for Barry's abilities (having him move faster than lightning while he's still green etc), but I appreciate how you try to explain everything in-universe. It sucks when a good show is plagued by this issue. That's what happens when every episode is written and directed by a different person.

[@Handsome_Black]

Comics, I just want you to know that your recent use of DK64 music has not gone unnoticed. As somebody who spent countless hours collecting all of the Golden bananas, this music makes me happy.

[@redact2186]

I think it’s phasing, it’s just that it’s such a low level of phasing that Barry doesn’t even consider it new. A gas’s atoms are farther apart than a solid’s, so it’s probably a lot easier for Barry to phase a gas than a solid. He doesn’t consider it phasing then, just vibrating like how he vibrates his face and vocal cords.

[@meowthtroplaysvideogames]

I think that he just destabilized himself to let the horse tranquilizer pass through since for him to phase (through solid matter) he has to vibrate at the natural frequency of air, maybe he wasnt moving fast enough for it to actually phase through solid matter? I havent finished the vid yet so im just gonna wait

[@lunarSmite]

Yeah destabilizing like that is how you phase. It's just another way to say vibrating

[@meowthtroplaysvideogames]

@@lunarSmite to phase you have to vibrate at the frequency of air. What im saying is that he destabilized but couldnt match the frequency of air, yet the heat from the vibrations vaporized the tranquilizer hence why it was a mist that dissipated into nothingness. He wasnt fast enough was my point.

[@flashgod2k]

This show is just getting super hard to watch it’s so sad it really was my favorite show of all time and I think it forever will be but these recent seasons are so hard to watch

[@sonario6489]

Season 7 and the back-half of season 6 were definitely hard. The beginning half of season 6 was so good, so what the hell happened???

[@kidkatanatv]

@@sonario6489 Ramsey Rosso was fire. But then we got Eva than Ralph dipped....it was going to crash

[@blitzfan9841]

I have two theories 1. He was under control of the rage that bivolo put on him therefore he wasn’t in control so maybe he just phased but then he forgot it because he wasn’t himself when he did it. 2. He just speed himself up to remove the toxins

[@DemigodShmurda]

I've never thought that this was phasing. He's just vibrating his body so fast that he literally burns off the tranquilizer.

[@Some_might_say_im_the_reverse]

same lol

[@Virulent9125]

The first time is wrong, the first time was in episode one, when he phased through Mardon's car in 25;36, though the door was locked.

[@SebasTian58323]

I always thought he was just vibrating his entire body as fast a possible, we know he can do it to hide his face and voice, so with him being so angry, he just did something smart in the fight for once and vibrated so fast he evaporated it out of his body.

[@davidmeyer8459]

One thing I never understood about The Flash phasing: if he is phasing his entire body to go through objects, how come he doesn’t go through the ground when running. When he runs through a building, he has to phase his feet as well. I never understood how he could still run while phasing through something.

[@SAR-1346]

The speed force works in mysterious ways 😂

[@YeetoTheYeetafic]

Imagine if Flash just farted out the horse tranquiliser 💀

[@Bob-nt9vc]

Can u do "how fast is metroman" plz

[@Minelaughter]

You seem like the fakest person I've seen on KZbin. Bob.

[@Minelaughter]

I'm sorry for being mean

[@ryanlangley6804]

@@Minelaughter that's right don't disrespect Bob

[@Arkid77777]

Oliver did in seconds what took Barry a whole episode to learn

[@thesekidsarealrightgamers4261]

4:13 Exactly Halfway through the video. randomly thought of it when I was watching

[@SellavinAtoms]

I love season 1 so much because this Barry as a rookie hero as you start to discover his powers flash season one was so much fun and It always will be.

[@aaaidennn]

Damn, I really just realized that he phased through that tranquilizer.

[@DemonFox369]

To do it consistently and at will, you need to learn. But since he CAN do it, it COULD happen accidentally. Maybe? Clark Kent, Superman shot heat visions before learning to control it.

[@BaconBurp-wl2uk]

I thought that this is what this was since it happened, people do this in real life like shake or run to burn things off so he’s just moving fast in place but glad you could explain it to people that were confused

[@CallMeGoon]

Yessss been waiting

[@zyandiorcruztaruc7284]

Barry actually forgot everything he did when he was hypnotized

[@swiftxxw0lf]

1:34 I think also first he had to phase his vocal chords to trick Iris and also that’s different then phasing through a brick wall

[@Maybe_Victor]

I just thought of something and immediately thought to come here. When Barry’s in prison he obviously didn’t have dapeners in the beginning and he used his speed. How did he not almost pass out because I know they ain’t giving him the 10,000 calories he needs a day

[@SivaSuravarapu]

Best KZbinr on the platform I hope u get to 1 mill someday bro

[@mobtotheeast2540]

I immediately got the memory of Barry learning how to phase when I saw the title of this video

[@Dyhrrr]

Oliver looks so happy at 4:12

[@TheZeroAssassin]

For years I grew up reading how the Flash was vibrating his molecules to slip between the molecules of whatever object he wanted to pass thru, and now when it's introduced, it's called "phasing" (which makes me think of Kitty Pryde). The word really doesn't do it justice. :)

[@arushashwingo]

Happy 1st Birthday to your Son Charlie Comics hope he grows up to be smart and Nerdy like his dad

[@superiorgamer9176]

You should do a video on the flash explaining how much speed he pulls from the speed force when he summons it with his eyes

[@mclr9941]

This show was so much fun when I was a kid man almost a decade later and I realize how many holes it’s got

[@senjustyle]

Can’t wait for that damn savitar to speed video

[@TheZeroAssassin]

Your thoughts were basically mine when i watched this episode originally. "Barry must be accelerating his metabolism to burn it off"

[@juleskammeron]

its always a joy seeing ur analysis of the flash pop up in my subbox, keep up the good work! Also, i love banjo kazooie too! Still need to get that 90th jiggy tho...

[@flashflare2833]

It’s kinda like him vibrating his vocal chords when talking to Iris but applying it to his whole body

[@sonario6489]

I was assuming Barry was too pissed off to remember phasing

[@thatoneguy779]

3:37 your welcome

[@eyallev]

in the original series, berry is hit with a new type of drug, which causes him to vibrate, he than phases (uncontrollably) out of the bad guy's lab, and comes out the other wall, where he's back to normal, nor sure what happened, he is than asked (by a kid?) what happened, he says "I was hit with that drug, it make me vibrate through the wall, and now it must have just gotten burnt up by my metabolism" (or something like that). so that kind a gives us "burning a drug" and "wall phasing" at the same time. later (in that series) he learns to phase normally.

[@craigraboteau7024]

The idea that he was phasing never even occurred to me. It was, to me, fairly obvious that he was just burning it off

[@isabellacoons7631]

Can you make a video on how fast Barry has to be to run up/on walls? I’ve been really curious about it and I feel like it would be a cool video.

[@everythingbobafett8781]

I have been waiting for this

[@samcochran8203]

I always thought he was just kinda going berserk in that moment and speeding up his metabolism so much it literally just burned through the tranq

[@parkersmith4006]

love your vids man keep up the good work

[@matthewjones5951]

I assumed in the arrow vs flash episode that he sped up his circulation and made the tranq go through his system super fast and the green steam was just a fun effect

[@giovanniambrosio6082]

I feel like he knew how to faze because of the anger he was going through

[@hellshing4866]

For the "Barry would have remembered phasing", maybe Barry did has at some point but since he had no idea what he did (or thought of it as something else), he didn't know he had phased before. An example of that would be, in a totally different universe, Luffy who displays signs of the Conqueror Haki while having 0 ideas about what he just pulled out.

[@Ironwarrior-jk3fh]

I think he used his speed, which is heat to evaporate the tranquilizer.

[@Nimren221]

so good video dude, well done.

[@savagesurvival8860]

He really was just using his powers to the full extent he was pissed so he wasn’t holding nothing back

[@CaptainLEVIasArkhamKnight]

So why tf didn't he just phased when Oliver holded him. Moreover what about liquid? Watch the video till the end

[@babyecho-_-3610]

I was literally looking this up a few weeks ago cause I remembered it. He def phased during the arrow episode

[@tuffdude7795]

I do love the Flash despite the problems that you mentioned in the video. I understand though if for some people those problems are too distracting to enjoy it.

[@shermanvannoy6446]

I think he was only able to phase during the Flash vs Arrow episode because through out season 1 and 2 he was always scared to try new things with his power. So maybe due to rainbow raider's ability Barry list that sense of fear to just go balls to the wall with his power just something I was thinking lol But your metabolism theory is really smart and didn't even think of it

[@DeeJaySmoke978]

See this is big brain thinking, it makes so much sense and i bet the writers didn’t even think about this

[@lerambothe1st]

1:55 when he vibrates it makes that sound when he phases it makes a different sound

[@KopeMusic079]

I always thought it’s the unhinged superhero problem, where they don’t hold back and do things that they usually can’t or won’t. Example: Clark flying in Smallville whenever he isn’t acting normal.

[@bannanamoodydodo7683]

He's not phaseing he's just vibrating.

[@adameldewy7380]

Thing is though barry did the exact same thing in episode 21 when he had to phase through meta human virus and iris calls it phasing,, it's a little weird but it's the exact same effect

[@ValuableConnections]

I can tell this video is going to be good.

[@GManJR75]

I literally wondered this too when it happened. I remember thinking, “How and when did Barry learn to do that? I know he’s able to do it. But, he hasn’t before this episode.” Maybe they filmed the Trickster episode first and had to rearrange the order of release for the episodes. It’s been a while since I’ve seen season 1. Someone correct me if my theory is wrong. I’m not being facetious, please correct me.

[@morning5tarr]

lmao, even I forgot barry has other powers than Talk~no~jutsu and listening to every word iris says

[@siyadai7592]

I think Phasing is the best ability of flash other than speed running and time travel

[@michaelrudden8215]

I literally never thought of that until now

[@siyadai7592]

Please make a video about all timeline changes in flash 😀

[@sparkalicous3151]

He forgets to have powers unless it’s the newest episode at the very end

[@parky7417]

I think it could be that when Barry is opening a locked door he vibrates his hands to break the lock, when Barry is talking w iris before she knew he was the flash he vibrates his body, I think he’s jsut vibrating really fast here to the point that the gas could leak out of his body, but phasing he can phase out of basically anything so maybe he just vibrates fast but not fast enough and didn’t know he could vibrate faster to phase

[@epicmonkey6663]

Personally I always took that scene as him moving super speed so his metabolism could burn off the effects quicker

[@b1gb1rd96]

I thought it was just him vibrating which he could do already and that phasing was just vibrating fast enough to go through the wall or whatever it was he tried to phase through

[@jacob9177]

I just rewatched this episode, and thought wait wasn't he phasing there

[@spider_fan_boi]

Good point, I never even thought about that Edit: I'm asking this before the vid is finished, but do you think that because of his heightened state (the combo of adrenaline from the fight and being angry from the meta's ability) that it completely slipper his mind and thought that the first time he did it was in the episode with Trickster

[@spider_fan_boi]

Oh nvm

[@arif8967]

Thats my all time favorite fight scene and scence from the show.

[@Someone-vp5kg]

A problem with the phase theory, is that if he phased the horse tranq out of his body his blood go with it, since the horse tranq would be in his bloodstream

[@aidenstewardson1278]

I get what you mean but, the molecular levels of gas and solids are different, and when he was mad i dont think he remembered as it might have been a mix of all the chemicals in the brain and the meta human powers and the brain sometimes blocks out certain moments to keep you “happy”? I dont really know why it blocks it out but yea.

[@eh7987]

I interpreted it as Barry just used it up really fast by staying in one position and going at super speed like super jogging on the spot I guess you could say

[@zackthezabarak739]

How strong/ powerful is Iron Man in the Mcu? ( specifically Infinity War/Endgame) the armors in the final two chapters of his life are truly sensational in their combative capabilities and increase his strength and durability to the level of Thor/ Hulk level threats without the need of hulk buster armor.

[@mrdoctorawesome9692]

In the arrow episode I always took as not vibrating but more moving back and forth really quickly (almost like he's shaking) bouncing around the toxin until it was gone

[@eagleattack5055]

Honestly the way i always saw it is that barry was trying to do what u say in the theory but instead he accidentally phased without knowing what it was, he just assumed he was pushing the drugs out by increasing his metabolism. Especially since in later seasons they mention that he has to "phase" the drugs out of his system. Dont remember which but im certain they did mention it and said phasing instead of like increasing his metabolism. Thats just my thought!

[@jasondiend4248]

Phasing is vibrating your body at the right energy wave to go through a wall. It is vibration of your body not some different ability that he has just developed. He's been using this ability since the first episode. The use is what is different. Vibrating a liquid and thus hitting it with enough energy to vaporize it into a gas form. That is easy. Vibrating enough to run through a wall to phase through it. That is a totally different use of the ability.

[@TheFunFlame]

He could have accidently phased due to shaking with anger having just been hit by an arrow from a friend and the anger enhancement causes that shaking to increase and go fast enough to phase

[@maskiiofficial3345]

We need to have a villain named "Plot Speed", which seems like they make him slower again but it's literally just this guy doing it so he can kill Barry

[@StupidWeb]

That's what I always thought it was, but then you brought up phasing and I was like "What!? Noooo!" Good to see I was right

[@preston_peace3303]

Could you do a video analyzing how fast Barry was moving when he saved 20,000 people in a stadium in 7x12?

[@Jcreek824]

Hey comics your a awesome and I love your theory videos I have a cool theory on Swanson four flash!⚡️⚡️

[@RADGAMEZ]

I always figured he moved fast enough to create an enormous amount of sweat, basically sweating all out at once 🤔. For example after body builders and soldiers do an extreme amount of exercise you can see their body temp clash with the cooler air, causing the steam effect. But I could be wrong

[@dino-man9574]

If I remember correctly he said it was all a blur of red later on meaning he might have forgotten

[@Chaos-yi4xt]

To be honest, I feel like he phased but it was like a uncontrollable thing, kinda like Jordan's heat vision (from S&L Episode 1), he always had that power inside of him since the moment he was struck by lightning but he couldn't do it on command.

[@omneco]

He just had to hear wells asmr