Flash’s Main Weakness Is... 

Actually, his main weakness is the writers

Stop to talk. His signature move.

Funny thing is, this is exactly how Marvel's Quicksilver explained why he was always so short tempered: "imagine being last in a long line at an ATM. The person at the front is a senile old lady that doesn't understand how the machine works, tries to argue with it and keeps resetting the procedure. Now imagine the entire line being formed by those senile old ladies. This is how I feel every second of every day." In short, for Pietro waiting for a person to form a sentence feels like an eternity of pointless waiting

He watched 80 subway surfers family guy shorts and cant pay attention anymore

Actually, that's not a bad justification. At the very least, it's better than not providing any explanation and hoping the readers just don't notice the problem, which seems to be the usual approach to speedsters.

In other words: ADHD

You basically have super strength when you can move faster than light

You know, you think you want a superpower, until you hear the side effects. I mean, a conversation taking a week, when you hate interacting with people already is a fucking nightmare.

His attention span is phenomenal. Life just moves so much slower for him that a mere minute feels like a decade. The fact that he can maintain even a simple conversation is wildly impressive.

It's like being Superman, having to nerf yourself just to PRETEND to be normal

"You're a seasonal superhero, Barry"

I am very amused by the idea that these speedsters can have God-level abilities, yet are undone by "whoops zoned out a bit there" 😂

Thank you for actually explaining it instead of throwing out the writer, cameraman joke for the millions of times.

Which makes sense. His brain is still human. It is the equivalent of being dumped a supercomputer amount of information, the next second you are talking to a toddler. It will mess up your mind. So it is better to tap in it rather than having it on 24/7 or else you go insane.

Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to talk. Don't stop to ta- "THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN!!!"

That makes sense. Zoning out like how we do to small details in life like how our brains can read words that are jumbled up because we quickly see the beginning and end of words, or how our minds fill in the colors in our blind spots and color correct certain color combinations to make sense. Since speedsters move faster they experience time slower meaning they have compensated by their bodies filling in more blanks for them then normal.

“What is Barry Allen’s main weakness?” Me: “Ice.”

Barry Allen=Peter Parker Think about, especially how the writers just fuck with them now for fun

Alright time to fight this dude, lemme just not pay attention

It's not like he got to, he had too, if you're working or processing anything faster, input to output, your brain goes on never stopping mode. And when time is up or work is done you still feel you can keep going on something, but when you really hit the wall of realisation on now it's all done for now or this aggression was temporary, things starts looking disoriented, and you starting zone out to find everything outside slow and partially meaningless...

I feel like a better explanation would be that if Speeders go at a certain speed (like sound) where civilians and buildings are nearby, they could easily collapse due to the high volume of wind and pressure in their aftermath.

The Flash runs fast. He could be defeated by The Curb or The Wet Floor.

I mean when you have character that so fast that he can go back into the past has main nemesis where dude ability just throw boomerang, just shows a lot that the writer will put bullshit so he will lose

The algorithm keeps feeding me Flash videos that are inebitably filled with people arguing the logistics behind his powers on the comments 😂. Not that Im complaining, its very entertaining

He was the patient zero of the new generation. He’s got the same attention span as a jellyfish😂

"The flash has no super strengh" Bro forgot e=mc squared

Get this man adderall

His punches are still insanely strong as speedsters do posses a different form of super strength As force equals mass x acceleration

So basically, he just has intense ADHD😭

Plot, writer, other's plot armour.

Hunger and boredom I guess.

Bro is the Spider-Man of the DC universe

The only weakness of a speedster is the writers

He has to change in flash speed to normal so he can move normally

Running around the globe seven times in a second is the speed of light.

Also another thing, Barry and others with Speed Force, actually have the ability to turn it on, and off. Unlike Quicksilver, who has to constantly deal with his speed being on all the time, leading to him always "slowing himself down" so that a conversation doesn't take an eternity. This is why Flash is able to be caught lacking at times. Becuz at times, he's only perceiving things like a normal Human would. Quicksilver can never be caught lacking, but he also has to deal with consequences of never lacking.. (slowin himself down, everything in slow motion, etc..)

Um...how about an ice floor?

Kid flash was running to the nearest kfc💀💀💀

And people wonder why quick silver is always so pissy

So speedsters are just Olympic sprinters with adhd?

There's an in universe reason why he jobs😂

Poor guy he got ADHD

"A villain just freezes the floor and you go flying. You're a seasonal superhero Barry."

Batman : your weakness is ice , you’re a seasonal super hero .

Yet still a Saitama victim

Punches someone 1000 times at super speed. Gets fists destroyed as well 🤦

And you, one of your greatest enemies freezes the floor and you go flying! You're a seasonal superhero.

*that time I was so bored I lost my legs*

Bureaucracy. Imagine him trying to get anything done in a German local municipality office like a licence to cut down a tree…

"There's nowhere to run!" - madvocate

"You're a seasonal super hero"

Feels like the Speech about "Cardboard box", from Superman in the JLU. Except everything is slow instead of fragile.

Running around at super speed in demigod VR has given me a new appreciation for Super Speed there is a lot of Logistics in punching and turning

That's a real double edged sword too, since we know Barry Allen wants to see the good in the villains he faces on a regular basis and sympathizes with them, meaning that he subjects himself to the only thing that can cause him mental duress to make sure that he can connect with and the people he fights and try and talk sense into them.

Honestly tho, imagine watching a 1 minute short but that single short lasts 1 full week to complete a loop. All you can do is stand there and wait till it's over.

They do have super strength, cause faster moving stuff has more force, so if he punches someone at the speed of light he can destroy that part of the earth

See, now that makes so sense, in a comic book kind of way!

That guys cut barry legs off ? Jesus flash need to become the punisher rigth now

a really patient and smart dude would rock being speedster

90s kids knows the feeling waiting for youtube to load 😢

I am glad this was finally made clear to me that it’s canon. I’ve been thinki this was the reason because there are also other things that should really be messing him up due to his abilities but they aren’t. I always attribute that to him having to focus on keeping his power from messing him up in all kinds of ways. That’s why he’s always forgetting people’s orders at the station he works at, why he forgets anniversaries, why he’s always late etc. Also helps to maintain his cover since it would be odd that spacey, forgetful and always late Barry has suddenly become mister, “I remember everything and am always earlier than everyone literally everywhere.” So I guess those are easy sacrifices to make when they just make you seem like your still regular old Barry

Batman: " he's a seasonal superhero"

Getting Mantis from Kung Fu Panda vibes. 😂

Bad writing baby. It's his kryptonite

I mean i get it for everyday life but when you're in a literal life or death situation you're still slowing your concentration

:What’s your weakness : I get bored easily

talk to someone feels like a week introvert can relate that

"his attention span is really bad" That's like saying someone who not only can't see reality, but does see a confusing warped version of it that constantly makes him trip and unable to move, has really bad eyes

being faster than light means you’ll always live in darkness

Flash has ultimate ADHD

“You’re a seasonal superhero”

His only weakness is failing to speed up when he needs to be.

well....he can just crawl very fast

There was a short comedy skit I saw a while back that addressed a similar situation. Basically, Batman was talking to Superman and the Flash about how cool it would be to have superspeed like them, but they point out how, even though it looks super fast from the outside, from their perspective they're just doing something for a really long time. "Can you imagine having to walk halfway across the world just because a plane is slower?" "You know that thing I do, where I'll flip through a book really fast and instantly understand everything? I'm just reading a book, those super thick instruction manuals, I'm just reading it. I could be a doctor or something, but no, here's an extremely complicated bomb that just so happens to have an instruction manual nearby and ten seconds left on the clock."

Barry need Batman to make him a phone that plays RU-vid videos at 1000x speed.

The fact that he's a seasonal superhero.

He just needs subway surfers playing in his vision while he does stuff

That shit just seems like torture for no reason I always believed that he can perceive normal day activities at a normal speed and feel normal but it switches when he is in the heat of battle like a instinctual thing, like everything is normal but when he has to he thinks extremely fast

I always imagined you could beat Barry by painting a tunnel on the side of a cliff

That makes more sense that i would've guessed

Makes sense on that TV series why he talks and villains winning at first

I actually thought of it differently. It's like how Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie explained, "Flying is exhausting. Why don't you humans just run everywhere, isn't that faster?" So I see that to do things really fast, Flash needs to use a lot of his strength and stamina. And just like normal humans, there's a limit for that, which he can improve through training or frequent use of his power.

"Your Villians freezes the floor and you go flying. You're a seasonal superhero"

"You are seasonal superhero"

Another weakness of his hunger he head to eat a lot

His weakness is a family guy/ subway surfers short

I thought it was always a "pebble."

so the flash has super ADHD...

Bro is addicted to yt shorts. thats it.

At least they gave flash a legit excuse now

The speedster from Invincible had the same issue with life

My man is saying Flash has ADHD 😂

Can you imagine how even more overpowered a Speed Force speedster would be if they had Vandal Savage's super patience to have speed awareness on at ALL times?

So basically,Barry Allen had ADHD

In truth, speedsters lose their fights due to the writers

“There’s nowhere to run”

Flash: " All of this power at my- Oo, cat videos! "

The weakness of every speedster is ADHD.

Sounds like the rabbit that lose to a turtle in race story

ngl, I saw the thumbnail, and thought his weakness was going to be not having legs.