Originally Posted by
Dboi2001
Thawne and Grodd are just two villains. Most of Flash’s other villains were normal people. Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, Golden Glider, Turtle, Trickster, Pied Piper, Captain Boomerang, Mirror Master, Heatwave and so on are all normal people with tech. There is only so much you can do with guns. I guess you could give them greatness and traps but I still think giving them powers makes for more interesting fights and like i said the only way to defeat them is make sure they stay down instead just taking their gadgets.
What works in comics don’t always work in live action. This is why the CW series has relied on the particle accelerator and pseudoscience so much because it’s less believable that normal people with tech can take on the Flash. Like most Superman villains are super powered and most Batman villains are mobsters and while there certainly are exceptions they fit in with what their hero can be challenged with. Flash can have normal villains and meta. For metas Id say Professor Zoom, Grodd, Weather Wizard, Top/Turbine, Multiplex, Golden Glider, Heatwave and Mirror Master and for normal villains Turtle, Dr Alchemy, Abra Ladabra, Captain Cold, Trickster, Pied Piper etc
Regardless I still think Golden Glider is an objective improvement. Pre New 52 she was just an ice skater and in the CW series she is basically the same as Cold with her own gun. Letting her become a ghost was awesome and weather wizard and mirror master are just more plausible. Like I said they can start off as normal people then an accident merges them with their weapons