Agreed, though in the Silver Age it wasn't all that uncommon. Of the classic Justice League, only Batman and Superman really had tragic backstories. Wonder Woman came to Man's World to help, Green Lantern because he'd been chosen by the ring, Green Arrow was basically just putting his acquired skills to work,…

It's already happened in the comics with, e.g., Alan Scott post-Flashpoint.

While I eventually realized you meant Ragman, I briefly thought that the CWverse bringing in the Spectre would certainly make short work of the alien invasion.

To that extent, the parallel Earths were ultimately explained as the result of time viewing in the old DCU. (Though that was a late retcon, I think from the Crisis mini itself. Originally Krona's experiment just released evil into the universe.) But they were still treated as qualitatively different from "normal"…

Poor Kara: the biggest story of her journalistic career and it happens on another Earth!

This is sort of the equivalent of "You can have other children" after one has died. Children aren't fungible, and knowing that there's a daughter that he had and named he'll never meet is plausibly pretty emotionally powerful.

"And who's fault is it that I don't currently live in a world where Dante is alive? And that that world no longer exists?"

Sure— people survive the destruction of their timeline due to time travel regularly. But the timeline itself appears to no longer exist.

Supergirl would find a third option, because that's what that S on her chest is all about.

Better.

And I'll lay my money down now that "no reason" was the Legends. (Or if not them, the JSA.)

Barry did something irresponsibly reckless that resulted in multiple deaths… at the end of season 1. Then, at the end of last season, he did it again. At some point, it shouldn't require a lecture from Jay Garrick to tell him that collaborating with the Reverse-Flash on a time-travel caper isn't going to end well.

Yeah, that's the real Hank Henshaw with Cadmus upgrades. And while he has a lot to answer for, he has a legitimate beef with the extraordinarily thorough identity theft by an illegal alien infiltrating its way into command of a top secret government organization being treated as "finders keepers".

I suspect that's largely a matter of liking different sorts of stories. (Which is fine, though obviously I'd like to see the sort of Flash I'd like to see.) But tone aside, I'm tired of Barry's problems being mostly his own fault. Someone who pulled half the things Barry has at the preventable cost of innocent…

If this kills "all aliens" than you could end up also killing some alien galley slave on the invaders ship.

I don't disagree, and I didn't have any problem with the Kara-James relationship if they'd wanted to pursue it. Given that they decided to drop it, though, it's probably better to rip off the band-aid however much of a reversal it was than spend multiple episodes backing out of it. But yeah, watching the S1 finale…

While it's understandable from an actor's perspective, it sort of buries the assumption that plot driven movies with memorable but not necessarily deep characters are missing some true target of character driven stories, rather than succeeding on the terms they set out for themselves.

Of course you're right, but I understand the writers not being able to resist putting it in.

This weapon is also going to wipe out Xudarian diplomats and Durlan tourists.

Clearly this is all deliberately laying the groundwork linking to Circe's accidentally cursing the centaur Biron into horse form and giving him super-powers as a consolation prize. Upcoming Comet the Super-Horse appearance confirmed!