The Flash: 10 Things That Don't Make Sense About Season 6 - Screen Rant

Over 6 seasons, The Flash has maintained a similar formula for its storylines; introduce the season's main villain and have the characters fight them in each episode until they eventually win in the end. All this while dealing with minor villains that pop up from time to time.

The Flash manages to keep things interesting by introducing different types of villains. While the most formidable villains of the show were speedsters like Barry, recent seasons switched things up. Season 4 had The Thinker, season 5 had Cicada, and Season 6 had Bloodwork and Mirror Master.

Unfortunately, like most shows, not everything about The Flash is perfect. The sixth season, in particular, had some plot points and storylines that didn't make sense. Some of these were due to inconsistencies with the rest of the series, while some were new plot points the show left unexplained.

10 Cisco Getting Rid Of His Powers

When season 5 came to a close, Team Flash had created a cure for metahumans, giving them the option to give up their powers. Cisco took the cure after meeting Kamilla, so he could lead a normal life and keep her safe from the dangers of being associated with Team Flash.

Yet, in season 6, Kamilla was essentially part of Team Flash. Without his powers, Cisco was in no position to protect his girlfriend from the ever-present threat of metahumans in Central City, especially since they were part of a team of individuals that fights them.

9 Cisco Getting His Powers Back, And Then Losing Them Again

During the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover, the Monitor gave Cisco his powers back, stating that it was necessary for Vibe to live again. His powers came in handy during the struggle to save humanity and the multiverse.

Post-crisis, Cisco didn't have his powers anymore. They simply disappeared and were only mentioned in one episode. There was no explanation whether he had to take the cure to get rid of them again or they were erased when the multiverse reformed into Earth-Prime, although that wouldn't make sense because no one else's powers were affected.

8 The Crisis Within A Crisis

The best thing about The Flash is how the show foreshadows major events, for example how The Flash vanishes in Crisis, which was shown in the pilot as an article from the future. Throughout 5 seasons, The Flash was destined to vanish in the year 2024, but due to Norah (XS)--Barry and Iris' daughter--traveling back in time, the timeline changed and The Flash's disappearance was moved up to 2019.

Barry and the rest of the team discovered this in the first episode of season 6, "Into The Avoid" when The Monitor told them Flash would die during Crisis. For the first half of the season, Barry prepared the team for life without The Flash post-crisis. The show may have been going for an emotional rollercoaster with that, but in the end, the stakes didn't feel high because fans already knew there was no way Barry would die.

7 Cecile's Powers

When Cecile was pregnant with Jenna, she developed the ability to read people's thoughts, generally called telepathy. The team hypothesized that the pregnancy was the cause of her powers, somehow, and once she gave birth she'd lose them. However, post-birth, Cecile could still hear thoughts in season 5, episode 1 "Nora." She lost her powers again until episode 3, "The Death of Vibe," where they alternated between telepathy and empathy.

In season 6, Cecile couldn't read thoughts anymore but she could feel what someone else was feeling, like an empath. But, sometimes the way her powers worked was strange and confusing. And in some cases, they were hardly present at all when it would have made sense for her to use them, such as figuring out Mirror Iris was an impostor.

6 The Crisis of Infinite Wells'

Post-crisis, the multiverse was non-existent, which meant Supergirl, The Flash, and The Legends now existed on one earth, Earth-Prime. It also meant doppelgangers no longer existed, something that Barry pointed out when he suspected Iris wasn't Iris and couldn't be a doppelganger either.

That logic went right out the window when it came to the different versions of Harrison Wells the show has graced the audience with. Only one--Nash Wells--survived the Crisis. However, Nash kept seeing his doppelgangers and hearing them in his head post-crisis, which shouldn't have been possible.

5 The Never-Ending Thawne Reincarnations

Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash), was the main villain from season 1, who the team supposedly defeated when Eddie Thawne, his ancestor, sacrificed himself so Thawne would never be born. Unfortunately, that didn't get rid of him for good and Thawne has found a way to come back in every season of The Flash. The kicker? Thawne often came back with the face of Harrison Wells, an identity he'd assumed in season 1.

Season 6 is no different. Even though the multiverse no longer existed, Nash, the last remaining Wells was seeing Thawne, along with the rest of the council of Wells. In "The Exorcism of Nash Wells," Thawne managed to take control of Nash's body and become the "dominant Wells," so to speak, ready to give Team Flash hell again.

4 The Exorcism

As soon as Eobard Thawne took over Nash Wells' body, he didn't hesitate to threaten and attack Team Flash. Barry and Cisco found a way to enter his mind to try and help Nash take back control of his body with Cecile's help.

After a long struggle and emotional turmoil on Nash's part, Nash took back his body and they expelled Thawne, who was seen floating as dark energy in the sky outside S.T.A.R Labs. Their conclusion was that Thawne was now formless, but they didn't bother worrying about it or if he would possess someone else and come back to haunt them, which seems a little irresponsible for Team Flash.

3 The Flash Losing His Speed... Again

Barry, along with Wally and other speedsters were losing their speed because the Speed Force died in one of the best episodes of the season. The team concluded that each speedster only had a small reserve of their speed left after the death of the Speed Force, and the more they used it, the faster they'd lose it.

This contradicts something Jay Garrick (The Flash of Earth-3) said in season 4's "Enter Flashtime" when Barry wanted to send a nuclear bomb that had gone off into the Speed Force to save Central City. Jay advised against it, pointing out that it would completely destroy the Speed Force and every speedster would lose their speed immediately.

2 Mirror Iris

The second half of the season introduced a new storyline and villains, which led to Iris' disappearance into the Mirror Verse. The rest of the team wasn't aware of this because she was replaced by a mirror-clone who had all her memories, plus skills the real Iris didn't know, like cooking and speaking Italian.

Despite major discrepancies in her behavior, no one realized she wasn't Iris. All except Wally, who showed up in episode 14 and told Joe there was something off about Iris. Barry, who lived and worked with her all day, every day, only realized he was living with an impostor several episodes later, which just didn't make sense, because as the two like to say, they're Barry and Iris, and there's no way Barry wouldn't have been able to identify a phony sooner than Wally.

1 Hanging Plots

With Eric Wallace as the new executive producer and showrunner of The Flash, the sixth season of the show explored a different format. Instead of a season-long main villain that the audience would quickly tire of, Eric essentially split the season into two graphic novels with Bloodwork as the villain of the first half and Mirror Master as the second.

The graphic novel format was a welcome change, but it also introduced several sub-plots that the show struggled to tie off by the end of the season. Besides the main villains and preparing for Crisis, there was Cecile's decision to represent metahumans, Allegra joining the team, Nash's backstory, Killer Frost's Y.O.L.O storyline, and so much more. In the end, it became a little too much and too difficult to keep track of.

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Tricia is a List Writer for Screen Rant with a background in creative writing and a love for all things film and TV. She fell in love with reading at the age of 10, after discovering that her favorite movie, Matilda, was based on a novel. That led to her first in-depth analysis of literary work to her mom and anyone who'd listen. She'll watch almost anything, as long as the plot captures her attention in the first 60 seconds. If she's not reading or writing stories with crazy plot twists, she's bingeing a new series and ranting about character arcs and plot holes. Or she's eating French fries.