The Flash Season 2: 8 Ups And 3 Downs From 'Rupture'

2. Rupture

The Flash Rupture
The CW

Can we all agree that Rupture absolutely sucked here?

Granted, the Earth-2 Dante Ramon looked like a total badass with his impressive scythe, but he served no other purpose than merely being a typical villain-of-the-week fodder. Well, a piece of fodder who had some sort of emotional tie to Cisco Ramon and essentially helped Cisco’s relationship with the Earth-1 Dante to begin being rebuilt.

Whilst the scythe may have looked all kinds of cool, it seemed largely ineffective or about as usual as any other sort of regular gardening or farming tool. So what made this villain so special? Nothing, that’s what.

It’s a shame, for the comic book Rupture has a rather tainted and sad (if not convoluted) backstory, but here the character was merely there to be offed by Zoom and to give Cisco and his brother a push in the right direction.

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