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Spoilers The Flash - Season 3

Which makes it even more arbitrary. Rephrase: Why would you want to cover the sides of your head and your neck, but not the top of your head? Artistically, I'd guess it was because comics artists got tired of drawing cowls and decided to mix it up by adding hair. But as something people would actually sew out of cloth and put around their heads, it's a pretty weird fashion concept, and as far as I know, it doesn't have much of a real-world precedent.
I believe in comics it goes back to Flash Gordon
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Hmm... I guess the advantage of something like that, artistically, is that it lets you highlight the face by setting it apart, and it also saves you the trouble of drawing ears. So I can see why someone would want to draw them. But I don't see why someone would want to wear them.
 
^Hmm, that is pretty close. And that's definitely for protection. I guess it doesn't need to cover the top of the head because you're less likely to get punched there. So that would actually kinda make sense if we assume it does have some protective value for a superhero getting into fisticuffs with bad guys. Although it's hard to see any protective value in those thin sheaths of fabric, as drawn.
 
^Hmm, that is pretty close. And that's definitely for protection. I guess it doesn't need to cover the top of the head because you're less likely to get punched there. So that would actually kinda make sense if we assume it does have some protective value for a superhero getting into fisticuffs with bad guys. Although it's hard to see any protective value in those thin sheaths of fabric, as drawn.
Futuristic thin, but strong material
 
Bruce has spare costumes/gear stored all over the city, but not every Batman emergency cache, is specifically the Batman toys he wants to be wearing/using to preform the current task at hand that unpredictably rears up.

I remember Bruce complaining about the armour slowing him down, how it limited the gymnastics he was capable of, which is why he was glad to be back in an old fashioned silk (Adam West style) costume, which is when some punk stabbed him, and he batremembered how cool armour is.
 
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The scalpless cowl does seem kinda silly if you don't have long wavy or curly hair.
My Trekfan rationalization is that for Wally the speed force works through his head, creating lots of energy and the top is his "vent"?
 
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To be fair, Barry uses his superspeed in the show without the suit at times, and it doesn't appear to hurt him to travel at super speeds without the suit. It just damages normal clothes, which I'm pretty sure was the reason he wore the suit at first (and now its because of that and the fact that its his superhero costume). So, I can't imagine that Wally is in any danger of getting hurt by running fast, so the open top is just a cosmetic choice that doesn't hurt anything.
 
Barry is more than 5 times faster than he used to be when he thought that the suit was a good idea to stop him being naked. Logically the suit isn't tough enough for his new max speeds.

Of course Cisco could be making new tougher yet identical suits all the time.
 
Barry is more than 5 times faster than he used to be when he thought that the suit was a good idea to stop him being naked. Logically the suit isn't tough enough for his new max speeds.

Of course Cisco could be making new tougher yet identical suits all the time.
Cisco has a closet full of suits just waiting to be used.
 
More images of Kid Flash and what looks to be a costume designed after New 52 Reverse Flash.
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So Felicity and Caitlin dress accordingly.

They have to be prepared to be drawn up into Barry's arms at a moments notice always.

Conversation with stuck up clerk form Pretty Woman.

"Do you have that there, but frictionless and flame retardant?"

Seriously?

As soon as Barry Monetizes STAR Labs, he needs to replace everyone's (boys and girls) wardrobes with safer choices, so that he doesn't accidentally burn persons from Team Arrow or Team Flash to death while evading gunfire.
 
The open cowl makes sense in terms of real life movement. For a normal person running with a full cowl would be very sweaty. An open cowl like Kid Flash would function more like a headband to keep the sweat from running into your eyes while still keeping a mask and serves to cover more features and be more securely fastened than a basic eye mask.
 
Does Barry sweat while moving slower than the speed of sound?

Whatever the speed force done, his biology has been altered too.

In those episodes where he lost his speed, did he immediately go buy a beer?

Buy a beer and get laid.

The speedforce retarding his heart rate has got to be ruining sex for Barry.

He should be having trouble feeling happy or excited (Isn't that sociopathy?) if that was really how his body had been altered to never skew off his baselines... Which obviously it isn't, but what about Thawne?
 
I only have two complaints about "Kid" Flash suit. First, I don't like the chin piece, it looks out of place. Secondly, the suit looks to big/loose on him. Makes the suit look weird when he moves.

ETA: It will be interesting how they show him removing his mask.
 
I'm pretty behind, so apologies if this has been brought already, but does anyone think they might use Flashpoint to fold Supergirl into the same universe as Arrow/Flash/Legends of Tomorrow?
 
I'm pretty behind, so apologies if this has been brought already, but does anyone think they might use Flashpoint to fold Supergirl into the same universe as Arrow/Flash/Legends of Tomorrow?

I very much doubt it. Despite the occasional crossovers, each series has its own creative staff and its own storylines, and they tend to ignore each other except when they're specifically crossing over. (The Flash episode setting up the Supergirl crossover virtually ignored that it had happened, the Arrow episode featuring a certain funeral showed Barry with his speed even though he'd lost it on his own show, and the Flash and Arrow finales last year both had world-ending threats coming to a head on consecutive days without either one mentioning the other.) Each show's own storylines are its priority, and crossovers are a secondary consideration. So I don't believe they'd fundamentally alter the continuity of any of these shows by merging the universes. It wouldn't be to the benefit of any one of the individual shows. And there's no reason for it. We just had a whole season of The Flash driven by routine interaction by characters from two different realities, so obviously it isn't necessary to merge universes to allow characters to cross over.
 
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