The Best and Worst Main Characters on The Flash 

Cecile was supposed to lose her powers after giving birth, but writers clearly forgot that 😂. And instead became stronger 😭

No matter how bad the show got Grant Gustin will always be our Flash

Cecile was so awful that she made the fandom stop hating Iris, and start hating her. Do you know how terrible your character has to be to make the fans forget “We are the flash”?

I actually liked HR, and even though he wasn’t as smart as Harry. Still provided one of the biggest contributions

I never understood eric wallace's obsession with cecile. Her powers make no sense and only do whatever the plot needs. I miss when team flash was just barry, cisco and caitlin.

100% agree about Ralph Dibney. Hartley Sawyer getting fired was so ironic to his chracter arc in the show, but the silver lining is that Eric Wallace never got the chance to ruin the character.

Chester and Allegra's relationship is so bizarre and creepy when you realize he admitted that Chester was his self-insert and that Allegra is a character he created.

Gotta put it out there, John Diggle was an original character back when Arrow started. Originals can be done well.

I feel like Julian should have been on this list. I’m interested to see how his one season long appearance would stack up compared to the others

Never let Eric Wallace touch another show.

In hindsight I am glad Harry was written out of the show after Season 4, they didn't get a chance to ruin him completely.

H.R., Henry Allen, and Ralph were some of the best characters on the show.

The Flash needed to kill off characters. It just got ridduculous how many villains with bodycounts were suddenly sidekicks within a season or two.

When Eric Wallace found out that he wasn’t getting 2 seasons for Khione’s storyline, he should’ve just cut the character and just had Caitlin come back with powers

Ezra Miller who's a criminal was allowed to go on a red carpet for The Flash movie While Hartley Sawyer who only posted tweets gets kicked off a show 💀💀

Personally I loved HR Wells, to me he felt like a very loveable and charming character and was a unique direction compared to the Wells versions that came before him. I was genuinely very sad when he died. Probably still my favorite Wells, though Harry definitely grew on me. Sherloque was easily my least favorite.

I feel like even if it was weird as it was, Cecile probably wouldn’t be as bad if she lost her powers in season 5. Hell, I still liked her even by the end of 4…

I would love to see a list where the characters are only judged by their introductory season and not the downward spiral most of them enter into

i think iris was still pretty interesting in season 3 but that was mainly because she was dealing her possible future death, and because candice patton is just a genuinely good actress

Cecile’s powers worked in season 4 because she had a reason to have them and they mattered to the plot

So HR, the one who basically helps Wally become Kid Flash, and sacrifices his life to save Iris, did nothing? That’s a bit of a stretch.

I loved Ralph and Sue. They should have become series regulars

I agree with your opinion about Iris. I think most people's hate on her is excessive. Hell, I saw most Chinese audiences who hate her so much that they even start to despise Candice Patton, who plays her, calling her to be the one who single-handedly ruined the show by buying her way into the crew and forcing changes in the writing, but I don't think that's the case. I think Candice is just an actress working with the material she was provided with and she's doing a good job in it.

YES! Killer Frost and Caitlin should have never been two separate characters, and making them all goody goody. No. This isn't a romantic drama.

Nothing beats the og team of Barry, Harrison Wells, Cisco and Caitlin. The best characters from f the show ever hands down

I also think Barry was the best character in the show, but I also really want to emphasize how damn good good Cisco was. Comic relief characters are often cringy, annoying, or meh at best. Maybe they get a chuckle every other episode. But Cisco was different. He is one of the funniest comic relief characters I've every watched. I have such a good time when he's on screen and being his Cisco self.

The problem with the flash is the episode count. Most of the new cast members were only created to fill the runtime so if the seasons where around 16 episodes each there would be less new main characters to introduce. Cecil would have only been important in season 4 coz of the thinker and her powers would vanish after giving birth. Other characters' storylines would have been simplified like Caitlin

looking back, grant kinda carried this show past season 4

I agree that killer frost should never have been seperate from caitlin or changed her origin. The idea of caitlin becoming killer frost due to barry messing with the timeline is more compelling than her being born with it. However, i like the fact that she became a hero, i just hoped she'd be more like an anti hero, and the team constantly has to stop her from killing her enemies.

Realistically looking back I fell in love with Caitlin’s character and I really like the actress. Seeing how S1-2-3 treated her so well kept my hopes up.

Eric united the entire fandom in their hatred for one character... we have never been so unified 🥴

Iris Wally and Eddie being above Caitlin is actually crazy

Khione is a villain for selfishly stealing Caitlin's body.

I kind of liked Harry’s story in season 4 because he is supposed to be the smart one to fix and help Team Flash and with Devoe being one step ahead, I think, it is a great way to show his insecurities as his intellectual is everything and having a sense of control.

Something that added even more to Ralph’s character that I don’t see a lot of people realize is Ralph died in the particle accelerator explosion in the original time line and then was brought back after flash point

"Cecile will forever be my Flash" ~Eric Wallace

Yeah you’re right, people are overhating Iris.

Season 1-4: the leather suit seasons and considered the peak of the show Seasons 5-7: the awkward seasons and my personal least favorites Seasons 8-9: the characters are still butchered but at least it has the most comic accurate flash suit and the villians i was asking for since S3

I'd love a Jay Garrick movie starring Teddy Sears. He played the character so well. Obviously he wasn't the real deal, but still. A movie set in the ancient years of the 1940's with the original Flash, yes. Please.

i honestly hate the whole on concept of "team flash" bec barry relies on the SO MUCH to point they literally have to tell him what to do all the time n can't think for himself. it's annoying bec in the comics barry is on of the smartest characters in the dc universe so his little sidekicks telling him things that are either common sense or things he can figure out on his own is frustrating

one thing i’ll never forgive the flash as a whole is that they screwed up wally. he finally became kid flash just for him to leave at the beginning of next season. he became kid flash from episode 10 all the way till ep 15 where they tried killing him off. then his character was so terrible from there forward, he never really felt like kid flash. also same on the jesse quick relationship thing, because it was so pointless since she didn’t even come back.

I would say Harry should be higher. Nora should be lower. HR should be higher. (He was better than sherloque imo) Wally is too high imo. Overall very solid list. Love the respect for ralph!

man can we all agree that Eric Wallace probably had a crush on dannialle nicolet ( ceciles actor) and Kayla compton ( Allegra)

GRANT GUSTIN WILL Always Be Our Flash

My Rankings on the Flash Main Cast from Worst to Best: 19.Cecile Horton/Virtue:Easy the Worst Character in the Flash that got Worse each Season and made Eric Wallace In Love with the Actress in a Unhealthy Simp Level. 18.Khione:the Worst New Addition to the Series when it was Going to End which Bastardized Sky High and the Caitlin Character while Solving Every Problem than the Main Character,like Cecile She’s literally Plot Armor on Drugs. 17.Chillblame:I Describe Him as the Anti Ralph that Eric Wallace tried to duplicate but like him Redeeming Villains it got Worse and is no Coincidence that he Debuted on Season 7 when they Fired Hartley Sawyer. 16.Allegra Garcia:No Disrespect to the Actress but the Only Reason Why this Character Was in the series is because Eric wanted to leave a Permanent Mark to the Only Character He’s Involved in the Comics but in the End She’s as Useless as Kamila,Ultraviolet is way Better. 15.Chester P. Runk:an interesting Character and the least Hated of Eric’s but him being a Cisco Clone,his Echoing Sounds,and wasting his Black Hole Powers made him Weak and Pointless. 14.Nora West-Allen/XS:I Never had a Huge Hatred on a Character in this Series other than the Ones that Eric Wallace brought than Nora,the Entice of Retconning the Tornado Twins,is so Immature when she’s a Freaking Adult,and one Exist as a Wally Replacement on Season 4. 13.HR Wells:the Worst and most Annoying one of All the Wells. 12.Nash Wells:Interesting but after the Crisis the Character became so Unlikable. 11.Caitlin Snow: I Know she’s one of the OG’s but she was Wasted on making her a Villain or at least giving her a Happy Ending with Ronnie and Leaving the Show that to be the most Tortured Character in the Flash. 10.Killer Frost:I Actually like the Idea on this Character and I wish that She Survived and Caitlin didn’t to grow the Character,bring a Emotional Impact,and leave the Series than doing the Opposite while creating Khione. 9.Iris West:I Don’t hate the Character except Seasons 4 and 5 but she was so misused and could have been a Independent Character than making Barry making Questionable Choices. 8.Sherluke…. I mean Sherloque Wells:a Really Underrated Character that was Done Dirty by the Team and wasted Ralph Potential as a Detective. 7.Eddie Thawne:a Really Solid and Underrated Character that’s a Nice Guy you Can’t Hate but the Finale made it Difficult. 6.Wally West/Kid Flash: A Character with Tons of Potential but they wasted the Idea of making his Savitar and Him Leaving the Series on Season 4 was a Mistake and a Huge Middle Finger. 5.Joe West: a Great Father and Mentor Figure that being Heart and Emotional Moments,I Wish I Wish Season 7 and 8 and Cecile didn’t butchered his Character. 4.Harry Wells:Hands Down the Best of all of the Wells and the True One than whatever Timeless Wells was. 3.Cisco Ramon/Vibe:A Great Fun Character that’s the Fan in All of Us can Relate,I do wish he was with Liza Snart and kept his Vibe Power that the Direction it got. 2.Ralph Dibny/Elongated Man:the Best Supporting Cast than Everyone in my Opinion,has the Best Redemption Arc,is Funny,and has amazing Power,I Wish they didn’t fired the Actor all because of a 10 Year Old Tweet. 1.Barry Allen/the Flash:Easily Number 1,While not the Definitive Flash in my Opinion as not Live Action Version is Accurate unlike the Animated Movies,Grant Gustin is a Fantastic Actor that Brought a Emotional Inpact and changed the Character Forever,Yes he acts Dumb,not Overpowered,and acts on his Emotions,The Main Character Wins this Spot.

I will say that Eric Wallace kinda improved Barry as a character as he’s is way more competent and knows what he’s doing (like his fight with the royal flush gang and his idea to use his gold boots to “ride the lightning”). But then of carouse Barry isn’t the main character so we gotta give more screen time to Cecile.

Caitlin got the worst fall from grace, especially as a fan of hers She started out so strong, seeing her only appear for 2 minutes in a single episode to play doctor and the rest is dedicated to cecile and chester and allegra all getting 10 minutes each while 4 minutes of Barry being a speedster that can’t dodge a normal weapon and 3,5 minutes on Iris of either being a competent reporter or a total marry sue and Cisco got 3 minutes being funny

In my opinion Cecile getting powers wasn’t a bad thing. I actually really liked them at first, and I really think they could’ve been used to tell a good and compelling story over time, but the writers became so dependent on them in every scene she was in which led to her downfall. Also, one of the biggest problems w the flash is that so many characters never have anything to do for the entire season and no one ever really gets killed off after S3 so they all just stock up. The flash should’ve stuck with the system of killing off a main character each season. And they also needed to stop introducing all those damn Wells’. I got so tired of them after S3.

There’s such a good foundation for Barry to have this adopted dad who really cares about him, but also firmly believes that Barry’s dad killed his mom and maybe even was the arresting officer, and thinks Barry’s insistence that his father is innocent is just a trauma response. Joe petered out on this show, but his character could definitely recur in future adaptations.

In hindsight Wally and Barry have a very similar relationship to Miles and Peter in the Insomniac Games, being introduced powerless and as a supporting character who’s written well and becomes a hero

I loved all the wells personally, HR was funny and his death was heartbreaking, Harry was grim but his relationship with cisco was the best part, and Nash and Sherloque were decent too.

Tbh I didnt like Chester at first but now I get why he is here. He is Cisco's replacement so I understand. What I dont understand is how Joe's girlfriend had more screen time than him!!!

For some reason, I used to think that Hartley Sawyer was portraying Plastic Man instead of Elongated Man. I just recently learned my mistake

To be honest, I hated Iris since the beginning, and it peaked in season 4... however, as the seasons went by, she became more and more tolerable because the newer side characters went so bad, I wanna puke- Sorry if that seemed rude, but every single movie or show is going downhill nowadays with the exception of a few

Chillblaine is the definition of a coach’s kid, but change coach with director, he acts like someone they just got off the street with no experience but is constantly being pushed to the top for no reason

My problem with Cecile is that she never took over for Joe as this rock the team really needed. I thought they were going to position her as this new Joe, where the sweet heartfelt moments would come from. Boy was I fucking wrong

Nora is 28yrs old. As she tells barry and iris in season six. That she's twenty eight years old but she's an annoying character. I disagree on the part with hr wells. They had interesting Concept with him as a man trying to find his place in the world and some kind of redemption. The problem is they don't really tell us what he's trying to get redeemed from. And in some weird way he became sort of the morality of the group.

I wouldn’t say Iris’s feelings for Barry are sudden in the s2 finale. Even as far back as s1, we see that she has feelings for him, like when she sabotages his date with Linda. She just never said anything to Barry

Great video as always (especially about Cecile and Chill Blain)

I think i slowly came to a stop with this show around when the Thinker came around. Pretty sure thats when team flash started, and it got more cheesy and phoney from there on, and it ended that way to. I loved the show early on and enjoyed Tom Cavanah's performance all throughout, since i would watch clips of his characters after i stopped.

It’s stupid they got rid of Ralph’s actor for that but if it meant saving him from being as bad as people were in later seasons then at least there’s that

I agree so much on XS season 5 The fact she’s written like a 13 year old feels odd

I would love to see an updated vídeo of all the heroes that have appeared in the arrowverse now that has ended

I think H.R Wells is the best of the Harrison Wells. Cisco/Vibe is my favorite character and is a shame that thw showrunners remove him from the show and difn't let him comeback in the finale. Elongated Ma is another character that i love. If wasn't for the stupidity of the CW to fured him i would like to see an Elongated Man tv series about metahuman investigations.

Poor thawne being an awesome villain throughout the entire series just to have him defeated by being tased by Allegra

I wish we got to see S3 Ending Catlin, who said that she isn't Killer Frost or Catlin, what could have been interesting but they retconed it in the next season. It's a shame I always wanted to see Frost (Meta Catlin) and what she would do with her new powers and life and not the return of Killerfrost, really missed oportunity.

Bro, dont do my boy hr like that, he brought good humor proving that not every wells was dead serious like harry he was special in his own way i personnaly liked his caracter

I miss when it was just Barry, Cisco, and Caitlin

Wells sacrificing himself for the speed force an barry destroying it in the next episode never gets talked about, so dumb

Ralph being number 3 shows just how bad of an idea it was to fire him. Especially when the entire point of his character was redeeming a terrible person, and yet they fire him for shock humor jokes a decade prior when he had already redeemed himself to be amazing, the jokes weren't even bad for their time as it was just the typical "dishwasher didn't work so I beat her" tier humor that was common and wasn't even as bad as those. It especially sucks since it completely ended his career, he hasn't made any appearance or had roles since, which sucks because he was such a good actor

Now I'm interested how the side characters fall on the rank like snart jay Julian Jessie patty Bart Henry etc.

Besides eric wallace how many allegra and cecil fans are there actually? Also I agree that it is ironic that Ralphs introduction is a redemption arc, but then the show can't look past his old tweets. Last thought Barry and Iris both might have been better characters if in the end there weren't half dozen characters calling them "Mom and Dad"

I think Frost being a split personality could have worked if they didn’t make her a hero. Like make Caitlin struggle with Killer Frost taking over and acting like a villain a few times, then they can split the two like they did in season 7 and bring Killer Frost back as a recurring villain and maybe even a main villain.

I disagree with some of the ratings here. I thought Chester was okay, I met guys like him in real life and he at least has a backstory episode which is also a time travel episode, I liked it. Doesn't hold a candle to Cisco but he was fine. Khione was kind of interesting, at least she felt like a fresh, unusual character. Not something I've seen before. Allegra and Cecile are by far the worst. Allegra literally has no character. She doesn't feel like a real person at all. And Cecile is just irritating - what's what invasion of privacy all the time? If she did that to me I'd be like "hey stay away from me, my emotions are private". Usually in movies villains do that, but in here she's supposed to be a hero for invading everyone's privacy without permission? She could be perfect as a psychiatrist, instead, she invades privacy of the main characters.

The only reason I like Allegra, Cecile, and Chester is because they’re so awful that they took off all the pressure of being the worst character ever off of Candice Patton. In season 3 and 4 she was the worst and in season 5 she was second worst right behind Nora.

So sad that Jessie quick and Jay garrick wasn't on this list

Cecile was I'm gonna say fine and good till S4 ending... after that she should have continued her role as DA and help flash regarding those affairs rather than being a main character in the later seasons of 8 and 9

Who's worse? _Cecile, Khione,_ or _Chillblaine/Mark?_ I'm still going with friggin' _Cecile_ haha

23. Cicile 22. Allegra 21. khione 20. Chillblain 19. Speedforce 18. Chester 17. Frost 16. Timeless wells 15. Nora s5 14. Hr 13. Eddie 12. Sherloqe 11. Nash 10. Jay gerrik ( John wessly shipp) 9. Carlin 8. Iris 7. Wally 6. Thawn 5. Harry 4. Joe 3. Cisco 2. Ralph 1. Barry

During season 4 Wally was part of the legends of tomorrow in legends season 3

My bro hates Cecil a lot😂

I'm so dissappointed that Caitlin didn't become something more like a recurring villian for The Flash. Having a character start on the good guys' team then awaken to her powers that drive her against them for the rest of the show would've been so awesome. They could have even done something similar to what they did w/ Capt. Cold where her powers slow down Barry when he's nearby to possibly elevate her to main villian status.

I love this ranking except for one placement. HR Wells, was great and I'm tired of pretending he wasn't.

Please do a ranking of all the Welses and a ranking of every meta/ villain of the week.

While I agree with most of this list, I will have to disagree with you on H.R. I was always a sucker for a Wells that was a pure emotional core and I look back on him fondly. This is your list though, I'll give you that

Joe West from S1-S3 is the best character in the show. Change my mind.

Wasn’t Julian a main character in season 3? Either way I would put him at #9 cause he was interesting and redeemed in a good way. But felt kinda useless as season 3 went on

Cecile might be the worst character in the flash but she is a BADDIE

To be fair with Frost, it wasnt a retcon. Its not like how they retcon Ralphs death in season 1 with Flashpoint in season 3 and 4 lol. It was like mitosis. In one episode it was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dynamic and the next it was like a multiple personality thing and then eventually they just split into two separate people and ider what they said to explain that lmaooo but yeah it wasnt really a retcon. A retcon is when you change past canon but this was just a shitty change of dynamic of a character turning into 2

You really did HR like that

I’m barely starting Season 8 and I keep hearing that Cecile gets more screen time which is fine by me cause I think She’s Super Hot 😂

Something I loved about Harry was how smart he really was. Eobard is a genius in his century and he needed to steal a tachyon device. Harry not only duplicated the device but he made it so small, it hides behind the flash emblem "because it sucks".

You skipped Julian Albert. He was a main character too

I will never forgive them for getting rid of Ralph

To this day, i still ask why Cecile, Chill lame, Allegra and Chester were upgraded to regulars. They worked better in small doses and didn't feel so superfluous. Although Chester's meta status bothered me because the show seemed to forget he was a metahuman until the last minute. Sue Dearbon or Impulse would have been better choices as regulars. Or transplanting other Arrowverse characters like Lyla, Dreamer, Diggle, Ray Pamler, Ryan Choi, I still feel that Hartley Sawyer deserved a second chance. Yes, the tweets were nasty, but does it reflect who he is now? His character got redemption, let's see it happen in real life. If anything, it would've been great publicity to show that remorse and forgiveness can trump cancel culture. Let's hope he's doing well.

Remember back in the day when Iris was the worst main character? Also season 2 is the best season.

Honestly cecile just as an ordinary DA was good but when she got powers her character died 💯

Are you going to do a video like this for arrow ? :D

I agree with you a lot. It's really hard to rank characters that were present in the good seasons and the bad. Like I fucking hated Caitlyn during the later seasons, but she was one of my favorites early on. And I agree with you on Iris. I think people hate a bit too much on her, she was good in season 1-3 and alright in season 5-9. She was just god awful in season 4.

Question why is Julian, Ronnie, and Jessie Quick not on the list. Or Jay because he kinda was a main character before he was revealed to be Zoom