7 Times The Flash Improved DC Mythology (& 4 Times It Failed)

1. Time Travel Is Flawed

Time travel within the pages of DC Comics is what it is. Thanks to the benefit of being taken on each tale’s own merit in those comic book pages, inconsistencies aren’t particularly noticed or put under the magnifying glass. For The CW’s The Flash, it’s a different story.

Whichever way you look at it, The Flash has completely muddied the waters of time travel for the larger lore of DC Comics.

One minute, The Flash is proclaiming that not even the most minute of details can change in the past without causing a catastrophic Butterfly Effect. The next minute, The Flash is fine to see past events changed with no follow-on change to the present as somebody was seemingly always meant to go back in time to make these changes in the first place.

Confused? You should be.

Using time travel in any story across any medium is always going to be a case of walking a tightrope, yet The Flash’s use of time travel just makes this whole concept even more bewildering and puzzling than it needs to be.