The Flash, along with Arrow, were the two flagship DC TV shows that were successful in creating the popular Arrowverse, which later came to be populated by a wide variety of DC comic characters without having to rely on Superman, Wonder Woman or Batman to be at the center of things.

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Over 6 seasons, The Flash has explored the life and times of the fastest man alive... who can somehow react slowly enough to be overpowered fairly regularly. Barry Allen and his team of cohorts basically come up with magical, world-changing items on a weekly basis and then use them to battle the villain of the week and never refer to them again. Here are the 10 most hilarious memes fans have come up with regarding the logic of the show.

The Third Wheel

The Flash was one of those perpetually unlucky in love heroes at the beginning of the series. He and Iris West had a brother-sister relationship, at least in her mind, on account of their growing up together. This meant, even though Barry was head-over-heels in love with Iris, he had to put up with seeing her date one man after another.

It made things quite awkward, and Barry was often the superpowered third wheel in a love triangle situation, at least until Barry had to go fight a man/shark hybrid or talking ape. Truth be told, he was probably relieved to be able to get away.

The True Reverse Flash

Have you ever considered how the name of the Reverse-Flash makes no sense? How is he the reverse of the Flash if he is just as fast as him? Are they psychologically polar opposites? Is yellow somehow the reverse of the color red? Or is it simply that Flash is good, and Reverse-Flash is evil?

But Reverse-Flash clearly does not see himself as evil. So what other reason is there to pick such an odd supervillain name? Something tells us we're putting way more thought into this question than the writers who came up with the character.

Change the Timeline for Love

There are two ruling passions in Flash's life. Iris and timelines. Oh boy, does Flash love to mess around with timelines. There was a time when a Flash adventure meant going up against someone like Captain Cold, having a fight in the middle of the street, putting him in jail and calling it a day.

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But now it doesn't feel like a Flash adventure unless the timelines have been changed multiple times, each giving birth to new versions of the same character. That is how you end up with a timeline where Iris is in love with Barry, which has to be in the top five of Flash's list of favorite alternate universes that he has created.

Alternate Scrubs Timeline?

This meme takes a perfect moment from Scrubs, where actor Tom Cavanagh, who plays Reverse-Flash now, used to play elder brother to J.D. And who knows, this might actually be one of the alternate realities that exist on one of the infinite versions of Earth that exist in the Arrowverse.

Here J.D. would be the Flash, a medical intern with slightly faster reflexes. While Grodd is just a guy in a gorilla suit who comes to the hospital to cheer patients up. Hey, it may not be an action-packed concept, but you could extract a lot of chuckles from the premise.

When Lightning Strikes

Flash has possibly the most preposterous, comic-booky origin story of all. He was hit by lightning and... that was it. Super speed. It's right up there with being exposed to gamma radiation and becoming The Hulk. Over several seasons, we have seen Barry resort to subsequent lightning strikes to regain his powers, so much so that we're thinking they should change the name of the show to Shazam.

As it is, now every time lightning strikes in the real world, many The Flash fans probably have to actively resist the urge to charge into its path to be endowed with the speed force.

Captain Cool

The Flash has given us some excellent villains, with Captain Cold becoming an instant fan-favorite, not because of his powers, which, let's face it, are such a knockoff of Mr. Freeze, but because of the cool cat vibes the character is imbued with thanks to the performance of actor Wentworth Miller.

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What made Cold so beloved that he got his own spinoff series Legends of Tomorrow is that he is capable of adapting to any situation to win the day. This willingness to come up with new plans on the fly has been of invaluable help to Cold against The Flash and on his time-travel adventures.

Destroy All Timelines

Barry has no respect for timelines. How many times has he been told by Thawne and other experts not to mess with the timelines, only for him to do it anyway?

In the beginning, he used to at least try to not use his speed to alter the course of events and basically create new realities every time he entered the speed force, but lately, it's starting to feel like he doesn't even care anymore about keeping the original reality intact.

Hating Barry

Cisco has been a pretty inconsistent character throughout the run of the show. He started out as the tech genius/comic relief. But then he got his own powers, he got a brother, he lost that brother and a whole lot of timeline altering stuff went down which really put the character through the wringer.

Through all of this, Cisco's motivations were not always very clear. Was he happy Barry tried to save his mom? Was he sad? Angry? Confused? Like the audience? We might never know because we're not sure if the writers do either.

Thor Intervenes

Right now, the possibility of a live-action Justice League/Avengers mashup is close to nil, so all we have is this meme. Oliver posits that the lighting deliberately chooses Barry to grant super speed to. Who do we know who can control lightning? Thor himself. So maybe Thor was the one who bequeathed Barry his powers.

It's not the worst fan theory out there, and something tells us there is already a fan fiction or two out there based on the idea floating around the internet.

Who Do We Kill Now?

Barry's parents were the center of most of his early arcs, with him trying to prevent his mother's death and his father's imprisonment. Once that premise was run into the ground, Iris took the place of human bargaining chip for The Flash.

You have to wonder there isn't some sort of witness protection program for relatives of superheroes who have trouble keeping their masks on while fighting their mortal enemies.

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