And maybe making it up to basic human decency, in an environment which either erodes it or primarily attracts people who fall below that bar, is worthy of a cookie.

Though honestly, if you tug on Superman's cape, he'll politely ask you not to do that again, thanks. Or, at worst, dodge at super-speed so that you trip and look dumb. And if you pull the mask off that ol' Lone Ranger, odds are he'll be more concerned with securing his identity and mystique than exacting immediate…

Oh absolutely.

To be fair, Asimov wasn't interested in the day-to-day operating practicality of robots either. The Laws were a literary device for setting up problem stories. Also for ruling out rebellious or out-of-control killer robot stories, which he thought were way overplayed. (In 1942. Obviously he hadn't seen anything…

"If only 'burger' and "burgher" hadn't been homonyms! (Who knew the aliens had such an extensive vocabulary?!?)"

Two words (or, I guess, one hyphenated word, depending how you classify it): Sun-Eater.

Though now I want to develop a set of Bradbury's Laws of Robotics as evinced in his stories.

If you think about it, Thawne being able to duplicate the particle accelerator explosion is one thing, but being able to make sure that a lightning bolt struck Barry specifically, miles away (and presumably mostly the same other people as well, since Barry is accumulating his traditional Rogues Gallery) is… impressive.

Strictly speaking, the Flash originated the concept of parallel Earths at DC: similar but independent worlds that had been vibrationally separate from the beginning of time, rather than branching off one another. Usually (there are few DC rules without exceptions) it wasn't possible to change the past during the…

I think biological webs would likely have been a better idea at the beginning. But "rationalizing" long-established characters (especially in this genre, where there's no meaningful standard of realism to shoot for) generally has underwhelming results. After decades of the web-shooters as devices, it's a part of the…

Speaking of, I'm amused that CBS' Supergirl has been fitted with a newly-invented human foster sister to be the Anna to her Elsa.

Agreed, that was the first mistake. Especially in the immediate post-Crisis atmosphere when everyone wanted to do Man of Steel-style rewrites of all DC history.

Of course, back in the comics, there was something perfectly Silver Age about Barry Allen, police scientist who got powers from a chemical accident, also being able to whip up a shrinking costume and a springloaded ring to store it in, just because.

I also look forward to him adopting an outrageously stereotypical speech pattern. ("Hey, wha' chu waitin' aroun' here for? I tol' chu, fade.") To preserve his secret identity, of course.

Carter or Katar, Shiera or Shayera (or Kendra)— just pick one, and don't try to mash them both together ever again.

Which they can hopefullly avoid in the new continuity. My advice would be to stick with Egypt and ignore Thanagar— even though I like the Thanagarian Hawks better. It should be one or the other.

Not true! Sometimes he has to run in a straight line! Or even in more complex patterns.

"I've seen scattered reruns over the years, and the "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" movie."

Hey— if it pans out you'll be able to say "Some dude on the Internet whose name I can't remember thought this experiment was more likely than not to produce a null result. Guess the joke's on him!"

Even the Speed Force is powerless in the face of IP rights distribution agreements. (I'm guessing that they'd have less trouble with corporate if they showed the Flash eating a puppy than if they included a single not-an-S circumscribed by an irregular pentagon.)