The Flash is Insufferably Inconsistent - Season 2

A big middle finger to Warner Bros. for copyright claiming this five times, even with edits on the footage to bypass detection, and making me postpone it a day late. So, if the visuals look a little crazy, that's why.
I repeat, how is there a seventh season of this?
0:00 - Introduction
2:09 - Episode 1 | The Man Who Saved Central City
5:13 - Episode 2 | Flash of Two Worlds
6:45 - Episode 3 | Family of Rogues
8:52 - Episode 4 | The Fury of Firestorm
11:30 - Episode 5 | The Darkness and the Light
16:36 - Episode 6 | Enter Zoom
17:05 - Episode 8 | Legends of Today
22:05 - Episode 9 | Running to Stand Still
26:10 - Episode 10 | Potential Energy
28:10 - Episode 12 | Fast Lane
30:26 - Episode 13 | Welcome to Earth-2
32:12 - Episode 15 | King Shark
32:55 - Episode 17 | Flash Back
35:04 - Episode 18 | Versus Zoom
36:53 - Episode 19 | Back to Normal
38:00 - Episode 22 | Invincible
39:45 - Conclusion
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Music used (in order of appearance):
► The Flash Theme
► Chug Jug With You - Leviathan
► The Miracle of the Ark - John Williams
► Lizard Tension Part 1 - Spider-Man 3 Game Ost
► Super Smash Bros Brawl Main Theme
► Faidherbe Square - ProleteR
► Jeopardy Theme
► Map Muzak - Postal 2 OST
► Circus Theme
► Your Woman - White Town - Karaoke Vic
► Only Time - Enya
► Deflector - Ghostrifter
► Sweet Sun Instrumental
► Hungry Kitchen - Black Cat OST
► My Name Is (Instrumental) - Eminem

[@badassproductions4734]

Maybe he's so fast he can outrun common sense and logic all together

[@Ramsey276one]

LOVE THIS XD

[@simplicity9653]

take my like and leave

[@badassproductions4734]

@@simplicity9653 lmao

[@l.raphaelnery7299]

Nice one

[@sanityslayer5291]

LOL

[@MegaMisch]

I just realized, Barry's biggest weakness is that he lacks object permanence. If a villain manages to step outside his field of view there is nothing more Barry can do.

[@damiendiederich1525]

I'm not trying to excuse the bad writing of the show, just wanna say in the comics he's got ADHD, so there goes the object permanence, theoretically.

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@zechariahellis No

[@billmilligan7272]

Well, it worked for Sergio Leone.

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@damiendiederich1525 I heard synder barry has that

[@WingerWind]

Hey I have that too!

[@skythesinger8708]

This show isn't inconsistent at all! It shows consistency. Like how Barry is consistently stupid

[@samposa5947]

Yep , it's consistently bad

[@Robo311Star]

Worst show on television

[@AngryBird___]

​@@Robo311Star lol facts

[@evanderpierznik]

​@@Robo311Star I mean the premise was good, it was just the execution that could've been better

[@SavionPavion]

@@Robo311Star wednesday exists

[@egg7540]

I don't actually have an issue with the Flash stopping to talk to normal-speed villains, because he's so unbelievably fast that nothing should catch him off guard, and it fits with his personality in the comics + DCAU. The issue is that even when he's done talking he STILL somehow can't beat the bad guy.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

"So unbelievably fast that nothing can catch him off guard" tell that to the batstans.

[@user-ij7um1ev9w]

​@@Jane-oz7pp everyone can be caught off-guard

[@devidszabo6680]

It fits his character after he knocked them out. Just like in the comics. What they did to him is just braindead incapability.

[@xcaliber4141]

​@@user-ij7um1ev9wno

[@egg0534]

Dear god, I legit thought this was my comment, because I wanted to say the same thing. Lmao It's so uncanny, I still can't believe it.

[@Tony-ee3nm]

Barry: "There's no where to run" Villain: *literally just walks away from Barry's field of view* Barry: "Must have been the wind"

[@aurelian2668]

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA😂

[@Luigi-hn1hu]

Just like guards on videogames

[@johnnymanning2952]

🤣😂

[@JustSomeAsianFries]

The villians: *SNEAK 100*

[@joshuabutra9266]

I can hear Rowan's Voice

[@joelhaggis5054]

Eobard: It was ME Barry! I snuck into the writer's room and edited the script to make YOU look like an idiot!

[@thomasraines1396]

Thawne is that much of a petty bitch I have no doubt he would actually do something like that.

[@Kali-bs7oj]

This is canon

[@slevinchannel7589]

What did we learn today? Consistency matters cause OF COURSE IT DOES. It's just like 'Chkeovs Gun' and 'Setup and Payoff' a FUNDAMENTAL thing in Writing.

[@Salone_FD]

@@thomasraines1396 I am the Reverse Flash; the pettiest man alive. I wear that title with pride.

[@thomasraines1396]

@@Salone_FD yeah. This is the same guy who went back in time and pushed a young Barry down a flight of stairs just to screw with him.

[@The_Lego_Anakin_Skywalker]

16:23 Also, Dr. Light used her invisibility powers INSIDE a prison cell in the Star Labs prison. Isn’t the cell supposed to disable all superpowers?

[@peepoodave_qwerty]

Ikr

[@_Omni]

No

[@multiversegaming1824]

@@_Omni Yeah it does cause if it doesn't a lot of other metahumans would've escaped.

[@09Max09]

No, they can still use their powers in a cell, but to a unbelievably constrained, and small level to where it doesnt do anything, also because the way invisibility works, theres is no in between so invisibility still works

[@peepoodave_qwerty]

@@09Max09 🤓

[@keina123]

At 24:45, Barry says, "You see this wand here?" This means that he deadass was gonna tell this guy his plan before defeating him. This is the exact template every villain uses before ultimately losing to a hero. You'd think by the second season, Barry, or literally anyone else, would understand this. Only Wells knew what was up.

[@slevinchannel7589]

No need to stop here, ya know? Others did what Madvocate did here. LIke Jay Exci and hbomberguy.

[@christopherbravo1813]

@@slevinchannel7589 how thorough were they?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@christopherbravo1813 MUCH! Maulers video abotu Doctor-Strangr-2, Hbomberguys videos about RWBY but also Sherlock-Holmes, as well as Jay Excis big Doctor-Who Video-Essay: Its all very good and i recommend.

[@twinodoom]

They keep catching Barry monologue

[@anrew9368]

Barry: “You can’t run!” Crook: runs Barry: Stares Barry: “I couldn’t catch him…” Joe: Prepares pep talk

[@tobsonasanya4765]

What pep talk?? To catch a normal guy

[@thephoenix4093]

@@tobsonasanya4765 *snart joins the chat*

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@thephoenix4093 Lol that was season 1 barry now would smoke the metas in thios season

[@JosephThemasterassassin]

@@tobsonasanya4765 he would if he doesn’t decide to just talk to them and not punch them like he’s always doing

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@thephoenix4093 Except snart is good already anyways. Besides just cuz they redeemed a few villains in the show doesn't mean all villains would be like that lol. It ain't like they forgave mass murderers or genocidial dictataors

[@RamseyDewey]

This series is so much better than the Flash TV show.

[@devantecrouch]

Too bad he's not making anymore

[@dudster_]

yeah fr

[@tobsonasanya4765]

Lol currentl maybe

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@devantecrouch Why

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@dudster_ It ain't aeven a series

[@reddyNB5131]

The worst part is Barry shouldn't even outrun a bullet. If you search up "how fast does a bullet travel mph" it will say 1,800 mph, but Cisco is saying Barry's average is 1,500 mph

[@jmarch_503]

Guy moved faster than lighting so Cisco saying that doesn't make sense

[@HarrHarrHarrify]

@@jmarch_503 I assume average means they have included times when he is not using his powers and just moves normally :)

[@MrHenhen5]

​@@HarrHarrHarrifybut why would they calculate that? What use is that to Barry?

[@HarrHarrHarrify]

@@MrHenhen5 idk, I've only watched half of season 1. Perhaps they were tracking that for achievements :)

[@jackforest8084]

​@HarrHarrHarrify these are handguns. They fire at about 1/10th the speed of that. Barry is significantly faster than a handgun bullet, and quite likely faster than most rifles. The show made many mistakes, but the flash being faster than bullets is not one of them

[@roberthill198]

The dumbest part of all of this is that the Flash has an actual reason to slow down as part of a weakness, every part of him is accelerated including his digestion. He has to slow down or he will literally starve to death, but they omitted this very understandable and plot relevant weakness and note. He can't do grid searches without literally dying until he has better control over the speed force. Every part of the show is missing the part where the Flash has to catch his breath and eat near constantly, but no they forgot this incredibly important detail.

[@alastorrajin8565]

I mean they do mention Barry needs insane to eat insane amount of calories to not die in season 1 but they definitely just kinda forget about that way to quick and never mention it again

[@CAPTAINGATSBY]

@@alastorrajin8565 They actually dealt with it in the same season when Cisco creates these calorie dense bars ( a way to NEVER bring this issue up again.) personally wish they did use it as a plot device more often.

[@alastorrajin8565]

@@CAPTAINGATSBY yeah I know they had the calorie bar made specifically to deal with and never bring it up again, but I feel like there was still a way to make it happen again. Like when Barry gets faster maybe he starts to need even more calories. The whole episode of flash time when the nuke went off he should been like constantly eating to maintain that level of insane speed

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Which is amusing to me since Barry would have to stop for toilet breaks all the time

[@metal42]

​​@@vanillabatcave5677the Visual Handbook Limited Edition says his suit can serve as a toilet whenever he poops in between his missions.

[@ShivamGupta-wc1pm]

Barry: there's nowhere to run. Enemy: *Simply walks* Barry: I'm not fast enough

[@vaishnav_mallya]

Joe : *Gives a pep talk* Barry : Motivated

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

Literally crying

[@tobsonasanya4765]

Never happened

[@grimpubgmobile3635]

@@tobsonasanya4765 ok boomer

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@theencryptedpartition4633 Honestly this meme mostly applies to the early seasons

[@Subxenox15]

I love when TV shows or Movies "save" a patients life by removing the bullet. Like the bullet itself is the problem, and not all of the damage it did going in.

[@whymustyoulookhere7112]

"Well his spleen is still destroyed but we moved the bullet that caused the impact out of him, now thats gonna be 50,000 dollars"

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

Yeah. Esspecially since, most of the time. They leave the bullet in. Since they'd have to make a bigger hole to get the bullet out. So its easier just to leave it in unless its lodged inside something important

[@andrewjones9547]

well bullets are made out of lead which toxic and could cause the wound to be infected. but yeah you would still be badly injured

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

@@andrewjones9547 Legit, Doctor's normally leave them in, because the small amount of lead isn't enough to actually do damage. Your body will just deal with it and degrade it away over time. Unless its lodged inside something important, there's no point to causing more damage to go in and get it out

[@mayteexxis]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 wait, what? the body can do that?

[@AaravUTY]

"there's nowhere to run" always gets me

[@PainKillerDS]

Same I can never get enough hearing that lol

[@parrsnipps]

All Barry had to do to defeat an invisible Starlight (or whatever her name is) is do a massive serpentine path towards her. She's not immaterialized, so he should be able to run into her if he just runs around the room like mowing a lawn. Or just knock her out before she turns invisible.

[@7MinutozRapsLetras]

starlight lmao

[@justineshy]

I’m imagining Barry just completely passing the villains who ran away 10 seconds earlier as he super speeds to the lab

[@kv5763]

hahahaha

[@arthurgamlaschaskos4214]

"Hey wasn't that the speedster?" "Yeah, but our contracts go for 3 more episodes" "Oh, that's right"

[@saj-manthesonicfan1893]

That is a distinct possibility every time it happens XD

[@Aurama35]

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh😂

[@Xehanort10]

Barry: Was that the criminal who just got away from me? No it can't be. I, a man with superspeed am clearly incapable of catching up to people walking normally.

[@tuakrayee6657]

Flash's biggest enemies: any human with a gun

[@carlweeper7436]

Flash’s ultimate enemy: kindergarten math test

[@tuakrayee6657]

@@carlweeper7436 or physics

[@nierriver]

Nah, his worst enemy is himself.

[@levi7492]

@@tuakrayee6657 you know, im convinced that the arrowverse just doesnt have physics to begin with. That guy who "invented" gravity never did in this world

[@Chicky-yy7nk]

Exept of army men tho

[@TheFirstCurse1]

I love this series so much. My jaw is sore from smiling. Every damn time the "There's no where to run!" plays I laugh my ass off.

[@PainKillerDS]

Same it's the best part of these videos!

[@a5c0]

Ugh..

[@PainKillerDS]

@@a5c0 There's nowhere to run!

[@TheFirstCurse1]

@@a5c0 There's no where to run!

[@a5c0]

🙄

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

I feel like a lot of the Flash's problems would have been averted if they didn't make him so fast right at the beginning of the series. Give him super speed, but not to the level that he can run across half a city in seconds. He should have only reached that point several seasons in, and they should have given him some godlike enemies to fight at that point.

[@godusopp2752]

they did make him kinda slow in the beginning seasons, like claiming he can only run 700 mph, any slower and it wouldn't be the flash anymore, the problem is they gave him feats of a man who could run faster than light, Also they tried to give him strong overarching villains in the first 3 seasons that's why they are regarded as the best, because the main villains were actually threatening because us as fans couldn't say "well barry you move at speeds that make everyone stand still why are you struggling with a super smart guy whos just a normal human other than his brain", but people got tired of the speedster villains

[@christopherbravo1813]

@@godusopp2752 on top of that, Season 2 has more villains that the Flash couldn't easily beat than every other season put together.

[@sloideh]

instead of "run, barry...run" the cast should have said "THINK BARRY! THINK!!"

[@anomaly395]

Except they’re just as much morons as him lmao (except maybe Wells)

[@TrashPanda90914]

More like off, Barry, fuc off!

[@georgem9981]

The line that you came up with, is more of a quality writing than all "The Flash" seasons!

[@gitgud9704]

Shouldve made Omni Man canon in the Arrowverse

[@jobowisheshewasnomo4171]

omni man would have taught this mother fucker to end a fight

[@brandob9858]

this poor man is gonna have a heart attack if he watches the later seasons. If you think seasons 1 and 2 are bad, just wait for the bs that happens in seasons 4,5, and 6

[@Madvocate]

Oh yes I've seen 4 and 5, I know it's not getting any better. If you don't hear from me again after I start those seasons, it's because I'm on life support.

[@nkuniverse7856]

@@Madvocate in season 4 he frogets he has super speed and when a villain walks and he just stands there when he can still cath him and he has super speed

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@nkuniverse7856 Which episode though

[@anaccount4539]

Ikr

[@nkuniverse7856]

@@tobsonasanya4765 epsiode 6 when the viilan walked away he just stood there

[@keyproblems7590]

You forgot that when Zoom kidnaps Henry, Barry runs to stat labs first so he can change into his suit. That’s right, his dad gets captured and he makes a pit stop to put his costume on.

[@metal42]

Priorities

[@red._.thunderyt5472]

You forgot that Barry can phase . That would make the show even more inconsistent because when he gets caught by for example big shark dude he could’ve phase through his hand

[@ArcTrooperRod-269]

Shhh, CW didn't knew that XD It was just a 1 time used ability XD

[@commanderfox3870]

If he would have started phasing while in contact with king shark he would have caused him to phase as well and they would have gone through the floor and died

[@AlphaNinjaFTW1]

​@@commanderfox3870 no thats not how phasing works cuase if it was he wouldn't be able to phase in contact with anything including the ground.

[@BigZ-19]

@@commanderfox3870stop lying he did it before

[@metal42]

​@@commanderfox3870He removed the bullet from Harrison wells by phasing, so no.

[@EpicElf42]

No one's mentioning how, when *Zoom* escapes, Barry actually searches several blocks to look for him before concluding that he's long gone (or at least, I assume that's what the stream of lightning in the streets was supposed to mean, before he yells "NO!" in a completely different location). But when literally anybody else walks out of frame, he just calls it a day.

[@ohreally4752]

facts. also, when bloodwork escaped in season 6, he actually caught him

[@wicketwarrior8650]

Ur right, that's y in that scene I don't blame Barry

[@Aden_III]

@DA BEAST what are you talking about?

[@weird_0]

@@Aden_III i think he thought that this comment was trying make barry seem like less of a dumbass

[@bearwitty9690]

@DA BEAST says the one who can't even pay attention to a comment section.

[@KageVII]

"Take a shot every t..." No, oh God no. You're gonna kill someone.

[@ichigoglazer24]

Already half way there bud

[@clintonanderson7436]

He did say he was going to kill someone

[@joy4themightydonutchainsaw620]

Take a shot every time Barry calls Star Labs wondering what to do

[@nightmarekiller3699]

4themighty Donut & Chainsaw dead by the end of season 1

[@amneenja5720]

"take a shot when they do something that makes sense" you could get through most of the show without even opening the bottle

[@TheGospelGuy]

Its supremely ironic how he says "There's nowhere to run" but allows them to run away even though they're all regular dudes.🤣

[@swampson5287]

If anyone wanted to know, I did a calculation on how fast the *Flash* can run in this season judging by how fast he was compared to a bullet (3,600 mph at least) and I remembered that *Zoom* took 2% of the *Flash’s* speed, (at least 3,312 mph now). When the glass is flying at Iris in the car crash scene, debris (including glass) coming off of a car wreck can fly at a velocity of around 55 mph but can also reach as high as a couple hundred mph. So let’s just say that the glass was moving at around 300 mph, the *Flash* is moving approximately 11.04 times the speed of the shard of glass in that scene, so it is so stupid that he struggles and then fails to catch it. But Cisco said he usually runs at 1,500 mph, so that goes to show you that the show ignores its own rules and ignores what it has already shown so far, Barry should be running more than double what Cisco says he does usually.

[@HadesHatredEdge]

The Flash is too OP for the CW. They should have mad him slower and then gradually built his speed up. They set themselves up for failure. Because given his speed and his reaction time, he's unstoppable.

[@Madvocate]

My thoughts as well, or a show like One Punch Man.

[@soilderzero2982]

they did do that, just not very well

[@johnnymanning2952]

@@Madvocate exactly!!! Please make a season 3 I already subbed and it's funny watching you destroy this show with no mercy and hella accurate 🤣💀

[@chars_78]

That is exactly what they did, but the only thing they did with that is made every other ability except his speed, strong

[@lifeofentropy]

Nah, they should have made the seasons much shorter. Focus on a handful of well written episodes that make sense. Villain of the week style show doesnt work with someone with superspeed

[@rampagingibex3181]

The worst part is that all of his "stop to chat" shenanigans are a realistic thing that a super speeder might do. Because they'd still have plenty of time to deal with the threat after their nice discussion.

[@kidkatanatv]

I hate how Snyder did this correctly: One line, get the job done, victory...

[@kidkatanatv]

@@cactusmalone I hate that someone who doesn't understand the characters did something better. Smart guy.

[@someotherworldlybeing3167]

@@cactusmalone he’s saying Snyder is smart, whoever wrote the Flash is not

[@just_chris2798]

@@someotherworldlybeing3167 No he is saying that even though snyder has no understanding for the character of flash and or his capabilities/limitations he did the speedster thing better than a show dedicated to the flash. And that is truly sad.

[@narhwallord6985]

@@just_chris2798 So in simple terms. He's saying Snyder is smart, the people who wrote this show aren't. :)

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

I'd love an exact remake of the flash series, but Barry doesnt take anything seriously because he solves every issue in the last second of the episode.

[@japascho]

The guy with the zeptar is actually a genius, cays he enters the room already talking. Thereby starting a conversation. Fully aware that fashes powers can't interrupt conversation, he's save to set up his own attack with plenty of time.

[@a-dank-llama]

"There's nowhere to run" is a trigger phrase for me now

[@rapala1014]

There's nowhere to run

[@bonk1850]

you're going to have a fucking winter solider event when you hear the words "There's nowhere to run"

[@superwetboy4261]

There's nowhere to run

[@viktorvaughn8192]

Flash: there's no where to run Nart: look a plane! *loudly huffing and panting running away with 15 pound worth of equipment Flash: ah man. Hes gone

[@XxShadow101xX]

He's giving us some Pavlovian conditioning to get mad whenever he says thay

[@matthijs6166]

The flash made me realize that no matter how bad I am at storytelling, I could probably make like a 10 season superhero show 👍🏻

[@animatoraoi3672]

And still be better than the flash

[@FaithLuvUnbroken]

truth bomb

[@ReasonablySkeptic]

On CW you could make hundreds of 10 season superhero shows. And if you just said "wait let's think this though" *ONCE* in a pitch meeting your shows would be a million times better than any show they've crapped out in the last 15 years.

[@ToomanyFrancis]

Anybody could make a 10 season superhero show. Just find a superhero that's been running monthly issues for the past 8 decades and adapt every issue into an episode. It'll be riddled with inconsistency, but the comics were too. You might even be able to get away with doing a complete reset every once in a while like DC does.

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@animatoraoi3672 Flash was good before lol

[@BoyKagome]

The show runners do address this. Snart - His gun slows things down the closer they get to him, emitting a cold aura. You would only notice if you were moving at insane speeds though. 2. Speedsters in this show have a weakness based on their intention to act. Their mind decides it, their speed makes it happen. If anything happens between those two points, the speedster still has the continue with this course of action and cannot start a new one until achieving it. This is why Savitar got shot by Iris, he had no way of knowing she had a gun so his speed did not account for the possibility. His course of action was to attack Barry from behind. This is also why Zoom overshoots people while chasing them like Wells Earth 2. This is why Barry waits for oppertunities of distraction to put power dampening cuffs on bad guys with super powers, he doesn't want to be another Savitar. That's how they explained it, and it makes no sense.

[@bigjoeylyqnuts]

this is the kind of show where a villain is on top of a building, and instead of running up the side barry climbs it using plungers

[@LivingEncyclopedia]

Dang. Most of this could’ve been avoided/improved if they added a scene in season 1 where Barry ran in and punched someone at super speed, only to accidentally kill them. Then his whole “stopping right before and punching them at normal speed” could be a character moment where he’s actively making the decision to spare their life.

[@Aredel]

Or if he wasn't so absurdly fast to begin with. They should've gradually built up his speed over time, culminating in what we have now.

[@iconicweirdguy8678]

Or they could have just introduced the fact that his fist would shatter into thousands of little pieces if he punched someone at 500mph

[@racheldekker7590]

That's true

[@caiocaguiar9310]

@@iconicweirdguy8678 Sadly that's not consistent with the rules of the speed force, as you know it already allows his feet to keep steps at the afore mentioned 500mph. Actually every character that has superspeed or super strength must have some level of invulnerability/super resistant body tissues or his power is not really useful.

[@Tuzszo]

@@caiocaguiar9310 A speedster without super-human durability is just a person who can explode their own bones on command

[@littlen8279]

Gotta admire the writers for making later seasons so shit that it makes already-shit early seasons look like masterpieces. How do you even achieve that?

[@tobsonasanya4765]

Many liked those early season lol

[@caldarinavyfleet]

It's like they are doing their best to get fired, yet CW just won't fire them, so they're testing CW's lower limit for how much stupidity is allowed in the script.

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@caldarinavyfleet Except the 1st season was good

[@cryamistellimek9184]

Disney did it with star wars too

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@cryamistellimek9184 Except flash was god in the early seasosn

[@skyslasher2297]

6:25 Its a WWI helmet from his father (mind you Jay is supposed to be a lot older than he is when he first appears in the show) that Jay modified after the greek god Hermes who was often depicted with a similar helmet design and it was appropriate since Hermes as a messenger was incredibly fast. As for why it stays on in the comics this kind of this is explained by the speed force creating a shield around the user to protect them from the negatives of a human body moving so fast. Its the same reason why Barrys flash suit doesn't burn off his Cowl doesn't fly off how he can breath moving that fast etc.

[@ExpertCobra-tn1vt]

An easy way to make this show make sense is to make the enemies as over powered. Some examples are -weaker super speed but still speed enough -ability to telekinetically control people -some kind of plot armor that would result in Barry having grandiose amounts of consequences if that person dies or gets caught The list just goes on…

[@DarkVileScream]

Flash: THERES NO WHERE TO RUN! Villain: takes ten steps Flash: Aw they are gone( super speeds back to Star Labs)

[@nierriver]

Speakin facts.

[@jackthebo7640]

This is too funny and true

[@KageVII]

"There's no where to run!" Villain: "You didn't say anything about walking/light jog offscreen!"

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@nierriver Eh

[@jerminho1070]

@@tobsonasanya4765 are you actually thinking that this comment is wrong ????

[@SamuelBrown92]

That clip of "There's nowhere to run" is fucking hilarious...never gets old

[@Eric-py8yy]

Soo hilarious, this will become my cellphone music

[@cecilarthur3579]

I can't like your comment enough bro!!!

[@The_Biologist27]

"There's nowhere to run" **villain proceeds to walk the other direction and escape** "Joe I'm sorry"

[@zwabbah4841]

Agreed

[@Jimmy_Jones]

Yes it does. I could only stand it for 4 repeats

[@serenity1378]

Tearing apart the complete misuse of speedster powers is very enjoyable to me. The intelligent application of them - and intelligent ways to limit them - are some of my favourite Superhero stuff. Like when The Flash beats Brainiac Luthor, and the writers make it clear that if he does it again he'll disappear into the SpeedForce forever. Using his powers extremely powerfully to solve the biggest threat yet, with a decent reason for why he can't just do it all the time. Compared to... Whatever the writers of this show decided was better than Logic and Consistency.

[@ThePhantomiteZ]

I *can* explain Jay Garrick (old Flash)'s helmet. And doing so is going to make about a billion things in this show worse, but you saw that in season 4. The Speed Force canonically creates a general physics-negating aura around a person utilizing it for Speedster powers, meaning anything they grab, wear, or even stand extremely close to is exempt from things like frictive forces, air resistance, *electron loss*, and usually momentum-based damage. For instance, a Speedster running at... oh, I dunno, the incomprehensible "speed of time" could stop on a dime and not have their internal organs instantly leave their body.

[@Multi1]

Jesus Chris you're small, and this video is such high quality.

[@TyBiNZ]

Seriously man, he's such a great yt and should make more vids he hasn't posted in a while

[@G-LukeJA]

Dude inspires me to stop putting off my vids

[@jonathondiaz-gudiel2792]

Hopefully it has its moment and is recommended to all

[@ericjones9668]

BIG FACTS!!

[@julianmartinez988]

Well said, this channel needs to get more attention. He’s bearing all our frustrations for our entertainment!!! You just earned a sub good sir

[@Fl3XeR4]

I know how all the villain's could escape so fast, because they never left. Drax taught all of them in the art of standing perfectly still.

[@JayRedGear]

Flash: "Guys, I looked everywhere and can't find Drax." Drax: *Standing right beside Flash* "I am the master of stealth."

[@pbh7235]

They all mastered the batman and are just hidding behind the next light pole

[@xhifang]

@@lucaswarnke3668 no

[@backinflash402]

​@@lucaswarnke3668 no this is definitely canon to the arrowverse

[@glenisterm]

I fully agree that Tom Cavanagh is easily the best actor on the show. I plan to tell him that if I ever meet him. I stopped watching the Flash after I got too tired of Barry not using his speed so that the villain could turn the tables on him.

[@PrinceYasuke]

this show is the equivalent of one punch man getting beaten up and having no idea how to beat basic burglars

[@EpicUltraKingSmizzy]

I love the scene in one punch man where he is trying to kill a mosquito but it keeps not dying. So he is swatting it with more and more strength. I believe he uses more strength in that scene than he does against some major villains. And the mosquito doesnt die XD.

[@tmarcz9800]

Did not expect to see you love the for honor content

[@elvis4868]

@@EpicUltraKingSmizzy yeah it was funny because it kinda makes fun of inconsistencies in series just like this.

[@vaishnav_mallya]

The one punch man is a show where enemies have plot armour from one punch man (unless the plot actually wants saitama and the enemy at the same place). Most of the time the show is about what happens if saitama is not at the right place and at the right time. If it were, the show would be boring.

[@samueljones3668]

@@vaishnav_mallya I mean it would be much more interesting, like with the current arc (In the Manga, the Web Comic is so much to beat with ONE's crap art) Imagine Saitama just showing up at the perceived strong villians and kills them in one blow easy that would just be funny.

[@OxiigenV2]

the funniest part is, this whole thing only takes as long as one episode of the flash

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@Salone_FD]

Personally, I’d argue that “tHeRe’S nOwHeRe tO rUn!” was funnier, but that’s still funny.

[@AliothAncalagon]

It becomes more and more ridiculous the longer you think about it. For us it looks like the Flash is just stupid for a second, when he doesn't react properly. But with his super thinking speed he is actually stupid for an entire hour when he does stupid shit.

[@slevinchannel7589]

No need to stop here, ya know? Others did what Madvocate did here. LIke Jay Exci and hbomberguy.

[@declanziolkowski]

27:28 the chandelier is a speedster

[@beaudean51]

Season One: starts to lose his speed Season Two: gives his speed to the enemy Season Three: makes bad decisions which causes him to lose his speed more Season Four: becomes too slow Season Five: becomes slower Season Six: loses it completely Season Seven: Speed runs away from him Seven Eight: the slowest person in the world Season Nine: can't run at all

[@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966]

Season ten:johnny flashstar

[@First-to-last]

Season 11 : flash the legless

[@sourceow8795]

Season 12: in a wheel chair for life

[@freehoya4276]

This is hilarious

[@maou7222]

@@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966 Is that a JoJo reference?

[@whocaresguy]

We know that Barry used to be a smart scientist before he became The Flash, yet now he's dumb and seems to be getting dumber. There's only one explanation. As The Flash, his neurons are so fast they travelled back in time in young Barry, making him smart, but leaving The Flash with less neurons in his brain, making him dumb. It's a time loop.

[@sirsneakybeaky]

Smart enough to feed himself, dumb enough to get hundreds killed.

[@Iknowsomeshiz]

That's actually a nice explanation but the things is.... ALL of the characters in the show are stupid, not only Barry. So this theory doesn't hold up

[@sirsneakybeaky]

@@Iknowsomeshiz moved so fast he warped every good guys iq to 30?

[@Isellsimpsandsimpaccessories]

I think they went the route of Whiz in Heroes Reborn where he needs constant stimulation to the point he could operate dozens of pieces of technology at the same time and still be bored. It's not that he's dumb, it's that he has ADHD.

[@omen4304]

It’s dumb how they keep nerfing him and now he’s faster than thawne when he’s been struggling to keep up with him since season 1 and now he’s faster but he’s of course gonna get nerfed again.

[@ErrorEditzIraq]

Normal guy with gun is basically the definition of plot armour

[@horizon_nate1526]

5:05 also at this point barry already learned how to phase. he could've just phased out of his hands

[@NoobMaster-lq9yb]

probably wouldn't be able to move his neck

[@Aussie26846]

They should give Flash a reason that he stops to talk. Like he hates fighting or something. It would be then dumb in a Batman not killing the joker way, not a dumbass way

[@amneenja5720]

this is actually a fair move tbh there's memes about batman not finishing the job but it doesn't bother anybody, so clearly it would have worked

[@TheSonicShoe]

I mean, that kind of is implied in the show. In all these clips, Barry is usually trying to talk the criminal down, or understand their motives rather than just giving them an immediate concussion. Admittedly, that's no excuse for letting know murderer metas walk free without tossing them in a STAR containment cell like the dude in the video mentioned, but it is the reason why Barry doesn't just "knock them out" every time. He *is* trying to be a pacifist, he's just real bad at it lol What's more egregious than him stopping to talk is non-speedster metas, and basic bitch humans some how repeatedly getting the drop on him when his reflexes are so fast he can literally dodge lightning. If that were more consistent, his constant talking wouldn't seem like an issue, since he'd be getting away with it without there being a downside.

[@weatoria]

That's just the kind of guy he is. He doesn't always need to fight kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp2cYqlogtupb5Y

[@sptflcrw8583]

@@TheSonicShoe exactly. Him talking isn’t the issue. It’s the fact that he gets punished for it over and over and over again and never learns

[@noahjones9833]

The best way i could think of making the cw's action scenes make any amount of logical sense would be adding things like "this flash has very new and unstable powers compared to his older and more experienced versions and has weaknesses like he has to willfully activate super speed instead of it being on all the time (to explain why he doesnt dodge everything every time), its stressful on his body so he has to do it in short bursts or else risk exhaustion and injury (to explain why he likes to stop all the time, to take a breather), and he cant control it super well so hes always terrified of accidentally brutally murdering his allies and enemies so he stops or goes slow around other humans (to explain why he stops in front of people and why he doesnt just do everything at full speed)", but no, its just the flash but dumb

[@zalamael]

That clip of Barry saying "There's nowhere to run!" gets funnier and funnier the more you pick apart his stupidity/bad writing.

[@haku8135]

"Oh no Flash? What if I were to go, AROUND THIS CORNER?" "Damn you! My one weakness" *Nyahaa laugh heard from immediately around the corner*

[@wicketwarrior8650]

It gets repetitive tho so therefore gets annoying

[@zalamael]

@@wicketwarrior8650 You are not wrong, but it was hilarious the first time. All good jokes get boring the more you hear them, some just last longer than others.

[@zalamael]

@@wicketwarrior8650 Saying that, it is like watching Cartman doing that fart thing against Kyle, when he has a huge alien satellite up his arse. He keeps farting, and it stops being funny. And then it gets funny again. I will never not laugh at this (or any form of farting/queefing).

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@haku8135 What did we learn today? Consistency matters cause OF COURSE IT DOES. It's just like 'Chkeovs Gun' and 'Setup and Payoff' a FUNDAMENTAL thing in Writing.

[@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337]

Honestly there are quite a few villains in the series without super speed who absolutely have potential and reasonable explanations as to why they’re a problem but one way or another their potential is thrown out the window Hunka Hunka is basically Not-Angry Hulk but less OP, but his default state has a normal Human weight so even if fighting doesn’t work Barry could easily Relocate him That Poison Gas guy from the very first season could’ve just been like Sandman and technically ALWAYS be gas but able to look kinda Human sometimes. But we see occasions where he’s punched and doesn’t turn into Gas so we know that’s not how his powers work and he does indeed have a default flesh-based form so Relocation can still work on him Explosion Lady explodes people who touch them so logically neither fighting or relocation should work, but we see people touch her and not explode so times so the power isn’t ALWAYS active meaning fighting and relocation can work Hell even CAPTAIN FUCKING COLD has potential. If he were to say freeze the ground behind him whenever he starts a robbery as preparation for the Flash, this would give the unique setback of Barry slipping and sliding across the icy floor and thus being unable to use his super speed because it’s ineffective. Even Captain Heat or whatever his name is could just set fire to stuff around him if he thinks the Flash is near, creating a literal wall of fire out of burning buildings he’s within, Barry would be unable to fight him because fire fucking hurts and there’s fire between him and Captain Heat Peek-A-Boo or Doctor Light or whoever it was can apparently turn invisible which means Flash has a viable explanation on why he can’t find or catch her but it’s extremely inconsistent on whether or not she needs to take off her clothes to do so Slow-Mo over there, aka Hobo Oswald, can make anything around him super slow, so even if the Flash is around him using super speed he’d only be able to be like at normal person speed so they’re on an even playing field. However the reasons as to why Flash doesn’t immediately Relocate him before the power activated are Stop To Talk and Lack of Object Permanence as always The CW has had SO FUCKING MANY potential instances where many of their non-speedster villains can logistically pose a threat to Barry and they somehow fuck that potential up every single time without fail The only exceptions so far as Sandman and Tar Boy, and like maybe King Shark

[@tumblingartist]

Well said!

[@dissraps]

Yea, I mean, it's not like a guy with super speed and super thought could possibly see ice on the ground. And turning invisible is completely irrelevant. He could headlock them before they even finish turning invisible. And if not, he could get to where they were standing in less than a fraction of a second before they could even move a toe making invisibility completely worthless. Even if he didn't see them turn invisible and they walked into a bank already invisible.....he could run the entire area with a blanket in again a second.

[@antimatter3084]

​@@dissrapsIn the comics, Captain Cold gun can actually generate a cold field of near absolute zero temperature but then I realize that this is the Flash writers, so why I even bother lmao.

[@Matchoob]

I lost track of the amount of times a man who can run so fast that he travels back in time couldn't catch a villain because they got in a regular car.

[@TEMBA__]

why are non speedsters able to outrun the fastest man alive, BARRY THEY ARE RUNNING ON FOOT, A COLLEGE ATHLETE COULD CATCH UP TO THEM.

[@VaporeonEnjoyer1]

They aren't even running most of the time, they are, at best, briskly jogging.

[@johnnymanning2952]

@@VaporeonEnjoyer1 just disappeared somehow 😂🤣

[@Monochrome2004]

i can catch up to at about half of them and i can only run for about 5 seconds before losing all of my stamina, so barry has no excuse

[@Salone_FD]

@@johnnymanning2952 They just went into the shadow realm

[@kirathekillernote2173]

Barry never had the makings of a varsity athlete

[@tomwills5231]

I personally think that you can only do flash as a movie character as he just seems overpowered to be a freak of the week style show and lots of the villains made for this show can’t much him in the slightest.

[@soundshock9357]

Honestly just have his supervillain either be speedsters or have a superpower or have something that relates to time

[@Halo-lg7rq]

Nah you could just just use hostages in more and more creative ways, like if I can't use my powers that kills a rando

[@doofer6863]

@@soundshock9357 or make the villains also op as heck like make captain colds gun WAY more powerful or something.

[@book5857]

@@doofer6863 but flash could still take his gun away there should be no humans with just a gun any kind pretty much

[@dadams106]

the only way the freak of the week could possibly work is if the Flash had to actually eat food all the time during a fight, has another speedster going for kill shots at all times of the day, or had "erectile dysfunction" style problems with his speed

[@FFF-dq3sg]

It's actually funnier to watch the series through your videos than directly watching it, thanks! I know it takes a lot of time and effort to create and edit these videos, so thanks again😃

[@DatBoiiMink]

The “don’t stop to talk” gets me every time 😂

[@transformers_quotes5738]

10:15 THERE IS A MISTAKE IN THIS VIDEO. King Shark managed to avoid civilian detection because he used a fake mustache as his disguise

[@bottheskitarii8881]

He even learned Spanish!

[@datdankdj8264]

@@bottheskitarii8881 si!

[@CopeGaming129]

INGENIOUS🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@dot6086]

Haha...had me at the first half not gonna lie

[@jasonchiu272]

As a civilian in this movie, I can confirm this normal-looking gray dude with a mustache is just harassing a person in a red suit that emits sparks like he is wearing a Tesla coil or something.

[@RushGarcia]

Man for real, was Flash's rogues gallery trained by the league of assassins'?

[@danielstevens7644]

I love your music

[@m1_1911]

It's so surreal to see people I'm subscribed to in the comments section.

[@TsunayoshiSawada469]

I cannntttt 😂😂😂

[@brunobrito9997]

not really, the thing is the flash from this series was trained by honey boo boo!

[@MillarVideoProductions]

More like the league of evil exes

[@vizthex]

i recently learned that there was a 90's flash series, and several actors from it made cameos in this one - the flash's actor plays barry's dad, for example - and mark hamil was the trickster in that series. kinda neat.

[@stefanogandino9192]

What's more probable, that the entire show is badly written or that barry is secretly a saiyan that enjoys fight and thus always give time the enemy to show their full power?

[@Itzwizb]

That scene when harry said “all this could have been avoided if you hadn’t stop to chat with her” was golden to me..makes me believe even the writers know they’re making dumbass decisions lmao

[@moe5177]

It actually makes it worse. It means they’re aware of the issue, but aren’t doing anything to improve upon it

[@I_am_a_cat_]

I think it was their response to criticism... but they literally didn't change anything, nor learn anything. It's probably because idiots still watch it.

[@retroshark8]

And that's why he's the main villain. Antagonists usually have the opposite values and character... So an incompetent hero vs a merciless villain.

[@violetlavi2207]

@@retroshark8 ...Harry wasn't the main villain, Zoom was

[@retroshark8]

@@violetlavi2207 ??

[@silverblade357]

Snart: "I've got a dead man's switch! If I release this sw-! Whoa! What?!" Barry: "Welcome to the Antarctic! I'll be back in six hours to see if you wanna surrender."

[@haku8135]

Even in that situation, it's only if he LETS GO. So his options were. 1-Get all the tape and rope in the house and tie it the fuck around his hand. Let go now bitch. 2-Take the gun and keep it held, then take the gun and Snart to Cisco who can easily disarm it, he did build the thing after all. Even if he hadn't, he's so smart it would take him 3 seconds to figure out. Even if he's like "This is impossible to disarm, it has to go off" Barry can run it to the middle of a desert. Snart even says himself Barry can probably outrun the blast. Then Snart is a regular human and Star Labs has holding cells. 3-Just zip Snart to ANY uninhabited area. He won't kill himself for no reason. That was only a viable threat because Barry wouldn't gamble someone's life, and Snart himself said Barry can outrun the blast. So if he sets it off, Snart is the only one who dies and he gets nothing out of this interaction. He'd never do that and they both know it. 4-Just run Iris away then come back. It's fine to hear him out, but take away his leverage first. Never give the villain leverage.

[@MotRekrab1347]

This. Just this. Don't get me wrong, I love Snart on LoT as much as the next guy. On the Flash? Pretty much the easiest fight Barry could have. Unless he has that thing from the comics where his gun emits an aura of cold (I think, going off other comments here), the only power he has is snark. Heh, 'snarky Snart' :)

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

@@haku8135 I want a show about a Speedster, who's like One Punch Man. Just eternally bored out of his mind because everything is so fucking slow. So a bad guy does this. The speedster just looks at him. Slow blink. Time drops to almost stationary, and we get a little montage of him picking the guy up and walking 4 miles out of the city before setting him down 'blow yourself up now dumb fuck' Person pulls out a flamethrower or cold gun 'Wow. Something that is SLOWER than a bullet... Do... Do people not know who i am, that's almost insulting *suddenly has a smoothie* you know, that really bothers me because, *bad guy shoots gun, speedster is now behind them* like, being fast, is my entire thing, and i like to think i do good work'

[@catharinakapp1442]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 That's realistically what would happen if you were a speedster

[@nahuel3433]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 Cold gun also slows down flash.. that is assuming you do a proper adaptation of Cold. Who has a field around him that slows flash down. "Cold" after all is the slow movement of atoms.

[@Natalia-jb7vv]

He can grab the bullet because the bullet is a different material and thus has a different resonant frequency. They use resonant frequency to explain why speedsters can phase to begin with.

[@Grim_Gamers]

Dude i love these videos 😂...i am/was actually a big fan of the flash....but i also got bored and was like wtf are the flash doing.....i am currently high and i am enjoying myself with your video 😂😂....keep it up

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Fun fact: he says "there's nowhere to run" because he truly believes that that is the case. He has no spacial awareness, so he can't figure out that he can actually move towards a villain.

[@kobemeriez7860]

Exactly Oliver told him the same thing when they had their 1st Crossover he doesnt check anywhere b4 fighting the villains that's why they could blindside him all the time

[@boredgamer7841]

@@kobemeriez7860 yeah "blindside" him right in front him, while he keeps his 3 remaining brain cells busy coming up with stupid banter.

[@noxa893]

Barry: “there’s nowhere to run!” Villain “okay then” **walks away** Barry: “I wAs tOo sLow”

[@isaiahkayode6526]

“Run Barry Run”

[@keller-pe8rd]

Villain one second left the building: The flash: ???

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@keller-pe8rd Still a good seasons and this happened to like a few of them

[@Stigma-ba115]

@@tobsonasanya4765 Good Lord, do you have no life that you have to react to every fucking comment just to make yourself feel better about this shitty show you like?

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@Stigma-ba115 Lol i ain't the one criticising the first season and saying it is terribe but ok

[@pedro472nome4]

If you think about it Barry would be way more effective as a shy person, there would be no reason for him to talk with people

[@matthew_373]

You forgot someone on the should have been saved list: earth 1 joe. Had barry caught zoom before, Joe would not have been kidnapped by zoom on earth 2 at the very end

[@bearwitty9690]

In all fairness, the flash always stops to talk to the villains, it's kinda his thing, but also in all fairness *he's also usually funny.*

[@choueriito2548]

That, and most Flash stories usually give him enough competence to not let his wisecracks be the sole reason his enemies escape. His portrayal in the DCAU Justice League cartoon and its sequel Justice League: Unlimited handled Flash's character and counters perfectly, for instance.

[@bearwitty9690]

@@choueriito2548 duuude, you just gave me an itch to go back and re-watch some DC animated movies/shows.

[@robknight666]

Plus he immediately goes for the attack after throwing a few words at the enemy

[@CriticsCupofficial]

This why grant Gustin is a terrible flash he ISNT FUNNY he just whines. Watch a DC cartoon his the funny guy

[@stelena1406]

@@bearwitty9690 Bro rewatch all the DCAMU movies you'll be in love with DC all over again I promise

[@carlketsup1028]

Now i watch this and it sinks in.. that he really does go up to villains and punch them at normal speed and consistently stops to talk.. like why, why are we here.. just to suffer..

[@tobsonasanya4765]

Eh some of thses villains are smart and this is season 2barry

[@danielalorbi]

@@tobsonasanya4765 Why stop to talk? Why not knock out first, relocate, before anyone knows what's going on. The message of these two videos is pretty clear. Barry never makes the intelligent move when it counts, because the writers don't know how to write plausible yet engaging conflicts for speedsters.

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@danielalorbi Irregardless season 2 was great. Besides some of the metas put civilains in danger

[@danielalorbi]

@@tobsonasanya4765 I think it would be silly for me to try and convince you to not enjoy something you enjoy.

[@OPUP]

@@danielalorbi I can’t imagine how boring the version of this is where he just takes out the villain in 5 minutes and we have to spend the rest of the time watching him have relationship issues.

[@arkhamknight7033]

Something else I feel like no one mentions is that Barry can phase. If he wasn't being an idiot he could phase out of someone's grasp. Phasing is so overpowered but the CW forgets it's an ability Barry has.

[@youtube-kit9450]

I seriously don't understand why they decided to make a show about a guy with two barely counterable, completely broken abilities and didn't even once think about giving him any weakness except plot.

[@gold264]

20:15 to phase trough a body you would have to use a different frequency than to phase trough a bullet. This is why speedsters doesn't fall to the center of the earth when they are resonating thier entire body. Also they could use this to resonate trough are so they could run even faster for the cost of some energy.

[@nuredingeziqi679]

30:23 putting that shard of glass in the "Should have been CAUGHT by now" would have been a great touch

[@geraldpheonix]

The fact he always starts a new critics plot with "there's no way to Run" kills me 🤣

[@buildawall5803]

They always run

[@liammoon9309]

There’s no where to run* How did you get that wrong when you must’ve heard it so many times during this video?

[@a5c0]

I found it incredibly annoying to have to hear every 20 seconds

[@PainKillerDS]

@@a5c0 There's nowhere to run!

[@someguy_namingly]

@@liammoon9309 *nowhere

[@noahhannon2305]

I’ve always had that question about the phasing your hand into someone and just phasing in general because if you stop to think about it for more than 5 seconds it makes no sense

[@parthavvari2384]

Bro when I was like 9 I used to like this show bc I could just play it and mindlessly waste 42 mins worth of my day. Now, after watching these videos compelled me to watch it again, it seems so much worse. Even season 1 I couldn't get through 5 episodes because it was the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN

[@jacobsparks8981]

The fact that he fights Dr. Light in this season is just hilarious due to the fact that he dodges a beam of light. This would mean Barry can move at light speed which is approximately Mach 874030. Anyone who isn't a speedster at this point has no purpose in the entire show.

[@christophersalinas2722]

Barry has moved at light speed so much. See his run at the start of 4, yet he still can’t move even a 10th of that in 95% of his runs after that. Also how he went to Asia in season 4 in like 5 seconds but he can’t dodge Ultraviolet’s attacks

[@MichelleJones-cp2tv]

And we'll give a pass on how ftl speed breaks physics since it's a super hero show

[@MrLethalShots]

I haven't seen the clip but you can avoid where the guy is going to shoot without being ftl.

[@lake4433]

Adding on to this, it's impossible for anything with mass travel at light speed, AND it's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light because the speed of light is the literal speed limit of the universe.

[@ericgonzalez2946]

@@lake4433 "it's the speed force"

[@PrinceVegeta2134567]

The main problem with the "Stopping and Talking" is the fact that Barry doesn't at least restrain them so they can't somehow one up him. If the writers have to include exposition dialogue, they should do it in a good way

[@maxhydekyle2425]

That's what he almost always does in the comics

[@justtrying1952]

Yeah, it’s like the person above me said he restrains them before he talks to them, like in the comics or other shows that portrayed him correctly, he always stopped to talk after he restrains the enemies. Also he’s actually funny when he does this.

[@bobjob140]

Well I guess they should have hired good writers , huh? Idk why anybody expects anything good to come from CW. Is always bottom of the barrel shit that isnt meant to be good but to get views from morons who consume all their media with their brain turned off (assuming they have a brain to begin with)

[@JustapErson]

Stopping and talking is completely fair, since with powers like his he should be able to talk to them to try to get a little bit of rehabilitation in and make them see the error of their ways. If he fails and they try to attack, he can always just speed attack the enemy. The issue is he doesn't do either of these things.

[@JayRedGear]

Most of this could've been avoided if Flash was simply faster than a bullet at top speed as well as needing to stop because he has a high metabolism (he could still try to talk down someone). Also, relocating people shouldn't be as easy as it is shown in the show where he can just pick up to 2 people and run without any signs of being slower than normal or (if we try to put realism in the show) risking turning these people into puddles of blood.

[@metal42]

Especially since Flash's suit is so strong that if it touches the person at super speed it would make them faint

[@davidonvcr671]

In case you’d ever want to have permanent brain hemorrhages, super girl is perfect for you

[@arthurswanson1755]

Watched 3 episodes already and I just forced myself to enjoy it but I couldnt

[@fuzzybuzzy3159]

JLongbone got Batwoman covered so he would be spared from leukemia.

[@daksharora928]

The whole arrowverse is so shit, probably the worst cinematic universe i have seen

[@samirmuradov9585]

@@daksharora928 the arrow before he started the whole no kill thing was fire

[@tatchumnonoyanrussel1801]

@@arthurswanson1755 you watched up to 3

[@zipzapper0]

Honestly, they kinda understood part of what makes the Flash so loved in the comics, that he treats his villains like human beings, and will do everything he can to reform them. They just executed it so poorly that it makes him seem like the dumbest man alive. More than once in the comics, stopping to talk to the villains (After disarming them like a sensible person) does actually get them to surrender. But this flash can only run so fast when his brain activity resembles the common broom.

[@Xehanort10]

The likes of Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Daredevil and the comic Flashes do trying to redeem some villains right by actually trying to get through to the ones who have remorse for their actions and get them to turn themselves in and make up for what they've done. CW Barry Allen on the other hand is a manchild who thinks basically saying "You're bad. This is wrong" will magically reform all criminals.

[@zipzapper0]

@@Xehanort10 yeah, pretty much my point. They understood why that was appealing, but couldn't figure out how to make it work. Which is by making it NOT the only thing he tries. Or by having him win really consistently unless his opponent outsmarts him by knowing him too well (Because he's so nice and doesn't shut up), something Captain Cold and the Rogues manage pretty often. Stakes aren't hard to make with Flash villains fighting Flash, CW just completely bombed the execution

[@mr.nobody2858]

I love the last bit you said about Barry's brain activity resembling the common broom. And I see what you mean. So does it work like this? Comic Flash: "Disarms/disables opponent's weapons/powers the way a smart person like Barry would, then tries to convince his opponents to make up for their mistakes" CW Flash: "Talks to opponents before even disarming or disabling their weapons or powers like a dumbass and gets his ass handed to him because he doesn't think before acting" That sum it up well or is there more I didn't mention?

[@zipzapper0]

@@mr.nobody2858 Kinda. In the comics, if he hasn't disarmed them, it's because they couldn't have been a threat to begin with.

[@mr.nobody2858]

@@zipzapper0 aight, cool.

[@IllustriousBagel]

My biggest thing about episode 17 is that barry should be multiple times faster than his past self and should be able to *knock him out immediately*

[@baileyrees3099]

While I do agree about the whole running in and talking. In some situations it could be to find out more information about either a group they are apart of or just more info in general. Then again he could definitely still just run them to star labs so I guess my point is void

[@ireije8132]

Barry: There's no where to run. Every villain that doesn't have super speed: Guess I'll hide.

[@TayTayMakesBeats]

I'm picturing that massive shark-man hiding behind a bush, snickering to himself.

[@The_Biologist27]

@@TayTayMakesBeats captain cold just hops in an ice cream truck

[@The_Biologist27]

@@TayTayMakesBeats sorry, I meant; guy with gun will hide in an ice cream truck

[@mogman5]

Hide? Walk away, marginally out of sight...

[@bobert6644]

I'm surprised Barry doesn't know all the elements considering he's a forensic scientist The element of surprise

[@nexus7667]

Nice one my G

[@JMeisterV]

Lmao

[@ajscott3122]

I know that could sound strange but there is something that normally is very used in this kind of series and movies that is called "narrative pact" where the narrator and the spectator make a "pact" using the suspension of disbelief(that is COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE, you could have it lower, another person could have it way higher) to make a dramatization and a story more interesting and entertaining. All this premise is not to give an excuse to the logical problems that you show us in these 3 videos, but just to explain why as you said for most of people the first 3 seasons were good. In these 3 videos you asked every time why people appreciated so much these 3 season. The reason(that you could've understand yet) is actually easy and is related to the premise i wrote before. In the first 3 seasons most of people accepted the narrative pact(and the logical issue of most of the action scenes) cause they felt(subjective) entertained, cause the plot was interesting and the characters were funny and relatable(again, all of this is subjective; gotta be specific). As a matter of fact, you actually never talked about the plot issues of the series or the bad characterization of the characters(both present), but just the action scene issues. Now being totally honest thought it's also true that we are trying to find logic(of action scene) in a story where the main character is "just" a speedster, but can relocate people( how actually can he relocate people when the weight is always the same, so if you had diffculties to take them with normal speed you'd still have the same issue...) I've seen all of yours videos about this series and even if I actually like the flash I've had a lot of laughter seeing all the logistics problem in these scene, but than i actually remembered that i didn't like the flash for these scenes but for the plot and characters that at least for me were actually relatable and it's not as easy as you could think... Again this is not a message that wanna try to make an excuse; just an explanation of the reason behind the love of the early seasons that(for most of people(in a subjective way)) were actually entertaining 😊⚡

[@ajscott3122]

I know I was kinda repetitive, but, as an excuse, where I live is actually 1 AM, so try to understand ahahaha

[@rbz1]

yes, the story lines were a bit better plus the newness factor of a "fringe" A-List (not a top dog but very well known name) hero show. This was before Justice League movie Flash was really a thing and the thrill of seeing a live action show using the powers was enticing and it had enough good moments to keep us invested. But after a few years the dumb and slow act gets annoying and staying immersed becomes impossible. I gave up somewhere in season 4

[@ajscott3122]

@@rbz1 agree 100%

[@gabrielvanbockstaele1229]

This is some of the most addicting editing ever. I was laughing and engaged the whole time, great video series!!!

[@snelldor1474]

The Flash: Capable of time travel, phasing through walls, shooting lightning, and so much more. Also The Flash: Oh no, I’m too slow to catch this regular guy with a gun. I’m useless.

[@iwiwwh2002]

Joe: prepares a pep talk

[@omen4304]

Iris: We’re the flash

[@pandorabrown1093]

Run Barry Run

[@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966]

@@omen4304 Im YoUr LiGhTnInG rOd

[@PseudoTrace]

too slow to catch a shard of glass

[@ryanyoung2115]

All valid criticisms, but you forgot to account for one thing: I have terrible taste.

[@-_-murilo2865]

Less gooooo

[@angelbbva3135]

Lmao 🤣

[@EverDee]

Understand, enjoy your show.

[@tacolord2561]

yeah, i feel this for the new star wars, god awfull writing imo, but at the end of the day if u enjoy it who cares if its bad, just dont try to say its good quality you can like things that are bad/have mistakes

[@LookingTheBest]

@@tacolord2561 Really your gonna compare it to Star Wars? Maybe Episodes 7-9 because Disney Wars is trash.

[@shuradurakura8310]

watching this gives me so much joy. back when this was still running I had the same issues but everyone liked it for some reason so I said nothing, but oh boy am I having the time of my life right now

[@gomersparhawk7620]

the show has 9 seasons now, i hope you cover them all, id love to see the later seasons viewed under this logical lense

[@overwatchafterhours3936]

Barry: “There’s nowhere to run” Every villain: **distracts barry** Oh look at that, I have somewhere to run

[@datpurp9564]

it pisses me off on how this channel doesnt have more subscribers with quality content like this, hopefully that doesnt demotivate you from continuing this great series

[@mememe4188]

He's starting to blow rn and I'm so glad. Quality content like this deserve the views

[@walmartpimp2]

He will give content creators an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind him, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join him in the sun. In time, he will help them accomplish wonders

[@catsharkorsharkcat7047]

@@walmartpimp2 thank you for this

[@tobsonasanya4765]

@@mememe4188 Lol I mean he ain't perfect in this videos

[@blueorange6221]

@@tobsonasanya4765 the flash is also not perfect but you still enjoy that shitshow