There is one logical error about Barry Allen’s character that both Ezra Miller’s film and Grant Gustin’s The Flash show missed. 

When it comes to logical errors and The Flash, the list can go on and on. Be it the film, the series, or even the comics, the character is a personification of movie physics and how most of his abilities simply do not make sense. This criticism has specifically been mentioned within the CW series, with many accusing the series of simply putting scientific words in a blender to explain its logic.

While this is not a surprise for Grant Gustin’s series, many may be shocked to know that Ezra Miller’s film ended up doing something similar. It would seem that the film missed a huge logical plot hole, and it is quite hilarious.

The Flash and His Fast Computer Skills

At one point during Ezra Miller’s The Flash, Batman and two Barry Allens are attempting a prison break in Siberia. During this, Batman tries to crack into a “Soviet Security Cyberscrotum” with what seems to be a flip phone. This causes Barry to make a slight dig, making fun of him, and then he ends up taking over and trying all combinations of a password within a second.

Something similar has been seen in Grant Gustin’s portrayal of the character in the CW series. There are plenty of examples of this throughout the nine seasons of the series. However, the most notable is when Barry is doing research and ends up running around his office in superspeed, also using a computer while he does this.

Although both of these scenes look very cool and fans absolutely loved them, there is one very big reason why this should not have worked.

Logical Explanations for Technological Limitations

The Flash | Credit: DC Studios

Be it The Flash series or the film, it has become a common trend where works involving the character simply don’t seem to work well. While the show started out excellent, it showed a very tragic and painful decline over the course of its nine-year run.

Ezra Miller’s film was even worse, setting records as one of the worst-performing superhero films of all time. With this in mind, it is not surprising that both the works would also have some logical errors, on top of their poor writing.

Although it is perfectly within the speedster’s capabilities to move fast enough to try all combinations of a password on a device, it would not be that simple on the computer’s receiving end.

Computers have codes that require time to process. Even though this does not feel like a lot to the normal person, Barry Allen would have a very difficult time trying to run a computer at super speed when it would take a while to process and eventually slow him down to slightly faster than the average person.

Watch Ezra Miller’s The Flash on Max, and Grant Gustin’s show on Netflix.