DC HATES And Disrespects The Flash 

Flash: "I'm the Fastest Man Alive." Also Flash when he fails to catch/stop a random bad guy: "I'm just not fast enough."

“We are the Flash” is the reason why this show died. Barry wasn’t even The Flash half the time because they tried to juggle so many characters

This channel made me realize how a production company/Comics underutilize a lot of incredible characters

It's a literal crime that they had Jeffrey Dean Morgan casted as Thomas Wayne... And he never got to play Flashpoint Batman... WTF WB!?

Petition for your next DC Hates and Disrespects video to be on Martian Manhunter. Poor guy got kicked out of being a founding member of the League in favour of Cyborg, a literal Teen Titan.

Zoom gave Barry crippling backshots then dragged him on a walk of shame to his homies. Bro was moving straight DEVIOUS

I hate how the only story that's ever being told with the Flash is either something involving the multiverse or timetravel with him also being used as an easy universe reboot button. Seriously, I would kill for a Flash movie that would actually showcase Barry or Wally or whoever actually protecting Central City!

Nah Zoom was different levels of COLD. In early CW flash imagine getting your ass beat and then your OP parades your body around to the city you're supposed to protect as a "IS THIS YOUR KING" moment absolute savagery😂

I swear WB just hates DC characters, especially in the DCEU. Diana is a r@pist in WW84, Aquaman got drunk and fell into a dirty puddle in Flash, Batman was humiliated in JL, Superman is a violent and cold asshole in BvS.

You gotta do one for my boy Martian Manhunter. He's been sitting high and dry for the longest time. There's so much lore and so many villains with untapped potential that can/could be talked about.

Ok, let's just say it, DC hates everyone who isn't Batman, Harley and maybe John Constantine

It’s crazy to me how Flash’s main villains are a guy with a ice gun, and his buddy with a flamethrower yet every recent version only uses flash as the continuity maguffin

Hey a little known fact a RU-vidr named Godzilla Mendoza went on Twitter and asked a bunch of people if Captain boomerang would do anything like that and somebody showed a comic scene where flash had died and one of the other villains tried to take off his mask and boomerang yells at him to respect the dead

"Fastest man alive. What a fucking joke." Homelander

The Flash, Nightwing, Green Arrow and Aqua-man are always getting disrespect…

One of the problems I see with how dc use Barry Allen is that they seem to only use him/have a major or leading role whenever the story is about multiverse or rebooting the timeline. Outside of the CW show (for the most part) Barry seems to be the star whenever DC needs to reboot their universe. With flashpoint being the biggest example of this. And the funny thing about it is, Flashpoint was originally never meant to be the key for dc to reboot into the New52. It was supposed to be a simple Flash story, with having Barry coming to terms with the fact his origins and world around him have changed since he was dead, because those who made not know, up until Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry’s mom was still alive, the change with having Reverse Flash killing his mother wasn’t part of Barry’s origin until 2009 by Geoff Johns, when Barry was brought back. And thing is, if you ignore it for being a way to reboot the DC universe, Flashpoint is a good flash story, but the problem is that DC only sees it as an escape goat to reboot their universe.

Flash in the comics: can bend the laws of physics utilizing the speed force in almost every way, can create solid constructs with energy, leader of the flash family, very intelligent, can predict outcome in a matter of seconds. Flash in films: completely nerfed, not fast enough, makes stupid decisions, never uses his scientific knowledge, takes advice from non speedsters like cisco, iris, Caitlin joe etc and hardly has any team ups with the flash family. Warner bros definitely has something against the flash💯

Dc hates almost every character they have nowadays. Plz james gunn save DC

I completely understand your point. That whole being dependent on a team is the same thing as ruining Batman in the comics. Batman is a super genius polymathic intellectual first and legendary grandmaster-level one-man army warrior second. All he needs is Alfred and a Robin to humanize him. Anything else is unnecessary and unneeded as it nerfs him to validate their membership. With that being said what threat can you write for him that isn't a speedster? The only Flash villain to get consistent appearances is Captain Boomerang a regular Australian thief with a Boomerang. He needs a main villain like Obito from Naruto. He becomes intangible and Flash can't touch him as he can transport Flash into another dimension but also is a former MARSOC Raider who could defeat him in combat.

Ezra Miller Flash wasn't acting like Wally West at least as The Flash but Bart Allen.

It's funny, cause most of the issues for Flash can be solved by not having him faster than Time itself. I blame CW for constantly showing The Flash as some plot device to Time Travel, instead of treating him like an actual character. The Flash IS NOT even the only one to time travel, most DC characters you can think of can time travel, yet Flash is treated as if the only thing special about him is that.

Honestly I've grown tired of the overuse of the Flashpoint or just any time/alternate universe hopping from Flash media/entertainment. There's been enough of it and it's getting really old, it's not the only interesting Flash story in existence. How is it that Flash is the only hero that never has a movie where he's actually facing a villain from his rogues gallery except Reverse Flash? Spider-man, Batman, Superman, Hulk, Iron man, Thor, Captain America... all the names I've dropped had a movie with one of their villains whilst only really focusing on the hero vs villain. With the Reverse Flash he gets tied with the Flashpoint and taunts Barry.

9:41 WAIT WAIT WAIT ¡WAIT! *Flash can dodge Batman & move a bullet, yet batman can just grab him & punch him 2 seconds later?* This game is a TRAVESTI 🤢🤮

CW had done Godspeed dirty. Very dirty. Godspeed is a better character in the comics. That’s why I say before CW do more harm than help. Agree about Zack Snyder’s Flash. He does act more like a kid/teenager. I remember people compare Ben Atfleck and him with MCU Iron Man and Spider Man. 5:37 Do you mean Rick Famuyiwa the “former” director of Flash movie? He said he planned Eboard Thawne in the movie. But since Famuyiwa left during production, Thawne was replaced by Dark Flash aka Future Flashpoint Barry. So…. Both road would be terrible. Like why do flashpoint and introduce Thawne in first and only live action flash movie? We only got Captain boomerang but no other flash villains. Well you say Harley admires Wonder Woman. You already show Harley wants smash Wonder Woman. As you already show the clip in 10:38. Imagine if Captain Boomerang flirts with Wonder Woman. Yeah that won’t go well, if people saw that. 11:38 We should talk about Toy-man. This Toy-man is literally a kid. Who is a fan and admires the justice league. He thought he use his technology to help to un-brainwash the justice league. But no, he ended up helping suicide squad to kill the justice league. Even the post game, Toy-man was in fact sad and crying the fact he help suicide squad kill the justice league. I feel bad for this Toy-Man he not even a villain just kid who wants to save the justice league. I don’t how he with technology not know Amanda Waller is a bad guy. 16:35 Yeah Flash’s Death in the Injustice Movie is so dumb and it wouldn’t work. The Flash is immune to toxins because his *Super Speed Metabolism* 18:27 And Wally West and His Cousin Wallace(you know him as new 52 Wally) only got Cameos in DC animated movie universe. 20:26 Since The Chad, Jeremy Adams, wrote Flash comics i believe the best future movie adaptation is his *Flash: One Minute War.* It focus on the Flash Family fighting super speed Aliens. All the other DC Heroes are frozen in time. One Minute War can work.

I was introduced to flash thanks to superman TAS, he wore red (my favorite color) with the lightning bolt symbol on his chest and was as fast/faster than superman. I was hooked. mained him in justice league task force fighting game on the super nintendo, loved Wally as him in justice league tas, enjoyed him in mk vs dc, injustice 1 and 2, i was so disappointed when i heard that one flash game by bottle rocket got canceled, and i think it was all downhill for him from there....

The Flash can't have shit no more if it isn't some universe ending event or some alternate earth or timey wimey bullshit. I want a flash film where he's protecting Central City from his rogues gallery.

Speedsters without limitations are always getting hoe'd out because of how broken they are. If you're gonna make a speedster character that can do all kinda things, make it so he can only do it in short bursts or other limitations like he can't phase through matter or time travel.

4:58 Don't do Wally dirty like that.

It's been said before, but the amount of praise the writers gave to wonder woman while disrespecting the rest of the Justice league is so weird. This is our first time meeting this version of DIana and she gets more love than Batman, who we actually know. I completely get the love for the character because she's part of the trinity, but it felt like a fan that hates everything DC related but her wrote it

We need more captain atom, plastic man, meta metamorpho, creeper, fire, ice, vixen, the question, martian manhunter, mr terrific, booster gold, star girl, blue beetle and all the other underutilized characters that you have like mr majestic, the authority, icon, hardware and static. We need more of them. I can't be the only fan. Please DC hire me as your CEO I can make this right. It's not hard to be a business man.

It would definitely be nice to get some better portrayals of the Flash, and some more original uses beyond time/multiverse shenanigans; but I do have to say, as far as inconsistent power-scaling goes, that's not a problem that originated in the adaptations (or recently), he's a superhero, that's just part of the source material. I don't think that across the entirety of DC and Marvel comics that there's been a single super hero or villain appearing for more than a handful of issues that has EVER had even the SLIGHTEST bit of consistency in their power levels; superhero comics just flat out don't care about that, and never have (and likely never will). That's not to say that writers can't do a better job than they are; adaptations do have the opportunity to condense and refine the chaos of the originals into something a little more streamlined, and if they aren't going to make the details consistent, they could at least learn to make it not as obvious.

At least the good news Wally west my boy is back to being the main flash In the comics which that makes me so happy.

Yo this character is like 60 yo, does he have any story? Nah, he has flashpoint. From 2015.

You should do marvel hates and disrespects spider-man

I would've rather had a good Flash movie, then 9 crappy seasons of a Flash show

I grew up on the Justice League Animated show and Flash was literally the first superhero I was exposed to and there was shockingly low amount of Flash in media ever since the show turned into JLU. There's just something profoundly cool about a person that is fast enough to catch bullets and practically stop time. I really wish there's more Flash and its a shame that DC just defaults to the Trinity whenever they hit a rut

People who don't see the massive disrespect toward Wonder Woman, Cleary only have surface familiarity with the Amazon. Meaning they probably only saw the DCEU version and that was it. WW and Superman are literally the two most powerful DC characters.She doesn't need K to deal with him. And worst of all, they picked the generic DCEU version rather than her 85 year old classic self. She has not even been given her iconic suit here. She came off marginally better but that bar is effin low af.

*_"THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN!!!!!!!!!"_* *(Smash Bros Theme)*

I really wish S Squad would’ve taken the “halo reach” approach to the story. The squad desperately trying to finish their mission while getting effortlessly picked off, narrowly accomplishing the job with the help of the last non-corrupted members of the league would’ve been so damn fire. And would’ve been some interesting character growth for traditional villains realizing they may have wasted their lives hurting people, or maybe just doubling down showing they truly are irredeemable would’ve been cool too. Just wasted potential 😞

I think you Should definitely Make one about Deathstroke *Like, he is probably one of the most disrespected charactacters by DC, & I'm talking REALLY DISRESPECTED, Black Canary, War Machine & Ben Reily Levels of Disrespected & Under-utilized*

Quicksilver running faster than bullets and redirecting them. Also quicksilver: Gets gunned down by regular bullets with no caveat.

Batman's explosives only damaged the suit not Doomsday himself

To me, the flash never being able to have a stand alone story that doesn’t involve time travel, is the equivalence of how every major event involving Spider-Man, must include the multiverse. Like I swear, we will never get a comic run, game, or movie about Spider-Man that’s more smaller scale and personal. And we will never get a flash story that’s just about him saving the day from like, mirror master or something. And of course, without a dumb team helping him every step of the way.

Yea, I kinda gave up on Flash during the second half of Season 4. OH BOY that was utter trash and I was like "... I miss Season 3 now" and thank god I haven't return. When I saw that clip with the lightsaber battle, I was more convinced watching KAMEN RIDER than that.

You pretty much explained my issue with speedsters within 50 seconds. Super speed is such a broken ability it's not funny. There were many times where villains (who can run at normal speed may i remind you) runs around the corner and when flash goes around the corner to catch them they disappear all of a sudden. There was a point where flash said he checked all over the city which is cap AF.

I’ve always hated how the Flash was fast enough to dodge or catch bullets but if he tripped for 2 secs a random ass person would always get away.

I how you weren't implying that quicksilver was an example of this, they established that his speed is equal to that of a bullets, not faster

The Flash death in the Injustice movie REALLY pissed me off, but what made it worse is that his death didn't affect the film at all. No one even mentioned him after he died. You could've cut out his death and the film would've been practically the same. WTF, writers?

When it comes to power scaling, I feel like you could do both. All you’d have to do is place consequences for the flash doing the insane speed feats and that force him to return to “base” speed.

CW flash losing to any villain that isn't a speedster is just wrong, someone calc'ed that he was 400,000x the speed of light, (based on the fact he made a nuclear explosion last hours) how is this man losing to normal thugs 😭

its not JUST flash, his villain's get this same treatment. "the rouges" [ie captain boomerangs crew] in the comics ARE WAY different from what you see in games like ssktjl and the flash cw series, they don't even kill people in the comics not even cops and DEFINTLY NOT A speedster, because it just draws attention, from people like supes.

5:40 tbf flashpoint do be kind of ass though. Especially with the fact that new 52 happen with just hard reboot everything for no real justification other than a dumb business decision. The 2 best elements was flashpoint batman, superman, cyborg and the last fight with flash vs barry allen.

When they gave the Flash a tragic backstory for his origins it was the actual start to the downfall of the Flash Character. In this case the Barry Allen Flash character.

Honestly this might be a hot take but, I like how The Flash was done in the Crisis On Infinite Earths movie. It feels like what the 2023 Flash movie wanted to be (a multiverse film that does a good job at giving us a look at Barry's life). Also, a video suggestion: DC needs to start using Martian Manhunter better, that man has been SEVERALLY underutilized

18:48 What's even dumber about this scene is that Justice League Vs Teen Titans established that Flash learned the Infinite Mass Punch. What was stopping him from IM Uppercutting Doomsday into the exosphere?

The plot threads in Season 3 were also hard to watch just as much as the plot threads in the others seasons, except for the first two seasons.

When zoom first showed up he gave Barry that 10 piece combo no biscuit

To this day, Zoom's initial beating of Barry before dragging his thrashed body around Central City to the police station, the media station (newspaper if I remember correctly) and back to S.T.A.R. Labs before crippling him was just brutal and IMO the worst beating he ever received in that show...

As rushed as the Crisis animated movie was, I thought that was the best portrayal of Barry Allen.

I kept thinking you didn’t understand Captain Cold and his Cold gun. Which shoots cold that reaches absolute zero temperatures but then I saw your ending. Where you literally show artwork of the Rogues during Jeremy Adams run and then I realized that I probably just didn’t understand what you were trying to convey.

If Kill the Justice league is truly canon, they should never use the characters again. They clearly don’t know how to anyways.

The problem with the flash as a serialized show is how do you make every episode interesting when Barry should never ever have issues against any villain that isn’t a speedster logically speaking. It makes no sense but there has to be conflict

It’s hard to make an engaging story when a character can get rid of pretty much any villain he faces ☠️

I had no idea CWs Flash was part of the "Arrow Verse" . Considering Flash 's success i though it would be called the Flash Verse.

"The justice league are clones" I know about the leaks but pointing this out. If braniac can clone the league and their equipment this quickly then why not outfit an army with the disrupter and stop the squad from moving or better yet why not have braniac use his instant win button as established right after the squad some how kills superman

1:21 it's crazy to my how no one batted an eye at the flash breakdancing but she-hulk twerking for 20 seconds got the whole world outraged even though the flash scene is arguably worse

I want to see Captain Cold as a cyborg. Explains how he can react to a speedster and Flash doesn't have to slow down.

I can’t get over how the last-ever official Arrowverse season was a bad final season of a once decent show that cares more about simping for a badly written side character and less about giving the characters an exciting, definitive and respectful ending. This is an unpopular opinion but Sam Lane's season 2 finale speech was the worst moment of the entire show. The dialogue was forced and felt less like a Superman and Lois moment and more like a Warner Bros moment. Because they needed a way to confirm that the show was NEVER part of the Arrowverse. They could’ve just made all of the show’s changes part of the Earth Prime changes. Even if you hate the Arrowverse, leading the fans on with Diggle cameos and mentioning Oliver and the Crisis for two straight seasons was a dick move that disrespects the fans' intelligence. Which is exactly what Warner Bros does, especially with DC fans. And even at the time, I knew the retcon was gonna be pointless. Which proved me right because after the following season, it was announced to be cancelled after the next season! Between the retcon and Legends of Tomorrow, the 3rd official Arrowverse show, getting cancelled on a fucking cliffhanger, just so they wouldn't have to pay for the sets anymore, the Arrowverse ends on one of its’ most pathetic notes. The Arrowverse-scratch that-MOST DCTV shows in general deserved better management. And I can't think of a better way to give them an epic ending than by making another multiverse crossover! With better writing, VFX, etc! And then have it end with most of the shows retconned in the same universe, something many of the fans of these shows have always wanted. They could always bring back this universe in whichever project the same way the DCAU returns in a different project once in a while. The fans of all these shows want it, most of the actors of these shows want it, some of the writers of these shows want it. However, I won't be surprised if the writers/producers of S&L don't want it.

19:29 I’d like to see rebirth adapted

Honestly, you only need one thing to keep a speedster from being too OP: don't give them instantaneous reaction time. Let them run fast and fight fast, but make them stop from time to time in order to look around and reevaluate things. He blurs down the road, but then has to stop for a heartbeat at the intersection to turn and take off in a new direction. He can outrun bullets, but only if he sees the gun being aimed and can react to it. It keeps the excitement and thrill of speed, but stops them from being able to just win every fight instantly.

CW Zoom deserves all the glaze.

I just don't get it... they have our money before these movies are even made and they keep screwing up. Over 80 years worth of source material and they screwed up. WTF?!?!?

I thought Batwoman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter were the most disrespected DC characters ever… you managed to prove me wrong in a matter of 20 minutes

17:48 Don't like their descisiom of killing Flash like that but I guess they didn't want him to turn back time. 6:14 Besides the CGI I don't think the cameos bad. It was kinda neat to see a bit of that one cancelled Superman movie idea and also the cameos from the older movie characters.

I saw this title and thought "Well, yeah, DC hates Wally. Or Dan Didio did. Everyone knows that. He hated Roy too." Then I figured out you were talking about Barry Allen. This is how all CW shows are, I'm afraid. Berlanti is really bad as a showrunner. 2:00 Here's where I have to draw a line. Unlike "We are Robin", saying we are the Flash makes less sense because, well, frankly, the Flash can do things we can't simply learn. 3:53 And now I'm thinking of Ezra Miller's weird Flash cult.

Ya they really should have this OP ability of speed be a driving force/part of one for the plot in practice. Similar to if batman dies, all known/unknown criminals rise up, they could do this for speedster who may have become arrogant and[/or] over reliant on such speed for when they loose their speed personally and when that info gets exposed to the public [ internal conflict i.e team, blackmailing spy, etc to externals like the populations of the hero OR their super associates' cities]. i.e the flash could be the only one Batman must trust to stay good, a hero and hence not really have any traditional plans against him if he turns. It could be made an increasing fear of the people and especially Batman that without the flash's speed that the whole world plunges into evil due to the OP man himself not being able to help in a seasoned world [ had plenty of world ending events etc]. Hence this could be an overarching plot thread enhanced by evil speedster and other powerful 'stuff'. hehe a city with a speedster hero[es] would probably be one of the most desirable and fought over places to live [background tension?]

Spider-man writers: finally! A worthy hater opponents!

The hatred DC has for The Flash is the same hatred Marvel has for Spider-Man

17:52 I love when they follow the plot of the comics, rather than deviate from it.

11:37 Something to note about the Flash fight is that they were using versions of the same device from Toy Man, which could have been upgraded to remove the manual activation weakness. However, dialogue from the Flash boss fight mentions that the device only prevents Barry from touching them at close range, and doesn't do anything to Flash if he doesn't get close. Which means that this Flash was confirmed to moving at his normal speeds when he died to bullets that he was already established to be capable of dodging earlier into the game.

I love the flash thanks to grant potrayal as the character and i hope we can get a flash game and that james gunn give grant another chance to show how perfectly casting him as a movie flash he is. Plus he can still be able to do other things and spend time with his family if he is just doing a movie

The Flash series emphasized this problem the most, because it STARTED with having great respect for the character. Reverse Flash and Zoom demolished him early because he was young and not very powerful yet, and then he always got the chance to demolish them later. He actually whooped Zoom twice in one episode. And then they lost all respect for the character, and treated him like a joke. The writers were literally like zoom "give people hope, so I can rip it away from them"

Do you think Lucas Till or Will Poulter should be Barry Allen Flash in James Gunn DC projects in the DCU?

The WB seems to not understand the DC’s iconic stories require proper build up in establishing proper characters & context for the events.

i think the speedforce gadget the squad uses was modified by toy man like how he just attaches it to his arm when entering the haul of justice

To be fair, I think the best onscreen version of the all the members of the justice league is justice league unlimited. That era was amazing. The writers understood how to make all the main members work. To name a few specific moments: Superman's world of cardboard speech is amazing, Batman is awesome in the episode with Ace, The Flash has that one great episode where the city holds a celebration in honor of him that four villains from his rogue's gallery try to crash during which we see just how much he cares about everyone, even some of the villains. That show was great.

What a missed opportunity to add a clip of Madvocate’s “Don’tstoptotalkdon’tstoptotalkdon’tstoptotalkdon’tstoptotalk”.

CW show was "i am the fastest man alive" >oh no i'm not the fastest man alive >"run barry run" >repeat every episode/arc animated injustice - makes him unable to dodge a saw blade suicide squad kill the rocksteady - plz let's ignore it's existence movies - tone deaf and unable to understand that he can move so fast everything stops for him it's like they know only about time travel and flashpoint paradox and that's what they use flash for ONLY

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the flash n the tommorowverse crisis was pretty good but this vid is spot on

As a Diehard Barry Allen fan, it hurts how the people who don't know Flash will always see Grant Gustin's Flash as the one and only Flash. Like he did great on his role but he wasn't the Flash in comics who actually learns from his mistakes and never needed a mentor or team to kick ass. Barry in the show would panic of a bomb getting attach but the comics Barry would just run far away and think of 10 ways to get a bomb off.

How about a proper animated series from Barry beginning learning his powers and what he can and can’t do, first meeting villains and due to him not being trained in fighting at all you have a reason for him to struggle, once Barry starts to show he greater skill Boom villains like Reverse Flash and Gorilla Grodd who have powers only a much more experience Flash can take down. Boomerang, Trickster and Cold become a group for low stakes episodes about avoiding detection and trying to not get flash involved, they might have 1 or 2 weapons that help fight off flash but he learned there tricks and now it’s a mean of playing the quiet game to not have Flash show up.

3:03 what the flash struggled from is they leaned and didn’t lean into the camp. In the comics regular people like captain cold had a “cold aura” around them (like turtle) that slowed him down. Is it dumb? Well yeah, but set ina universe like this and sure I’ll believe it. But they made the standard the rouges (respect the flash, like they do in the comics) and so that’s why he stops to talk (which I hate) but never build on that!

The flash is a perfect example of having to nerf a character thats too powerful. Look at his villians. A guy with a cold gun, a guy who can jump in mirrors, someone who throws a boomerang. The only one who is actually a threat are other speedsters, or actual gods that can manipulate reality.

To be fair the actual Death of Superman story arc was preceded by Doomsday beating the shit out of the Justice League also, with the heavy caveat that the League wasn't comprised of anything close to the A-team at the time.

Dude I forgot about that injustice death being reminded of that shit made me mad

This is not just about the flash. Quicksilver too. Redrush from invincible was killed in a dumb way too. It's about speedsters in general.

"Defenders of this game" . . . Wait, the Suicide Squad game has defenders? Based on its login stats, they're literally in the triple digits across the entire globe.

Flash is the Spider-man of DC💀

This is absolutely amazing keep up the great work can’t wait to see more 🔥!