If he’s real

Like I said before, if Barry Allen ever were a real person he’d ironically be more athletically inclined than most would’ve expected but that’s because I’m interested in sports (especially football) and I have a relative who runs every weekend. Then there’s Usain Bolt, the actual world’s fastest man who recently plays football. All the more a reason to know that’s what Barry’s actually like.

It’s like in the comics if Barry’s got super speed he’d use it to to do unusual feats like interdimensional travel, quantum travel and other nonsense. It’s one thing to speculate on what’s like to have those abilities, it’s another to know about people who’re already capable of running and even working real quickly. If you’re good at running fast, you’d gravitate to sports.

Especially football and sprinting and Usain Bolt’s both. Interestingly enough, Jay Garrick (Barry’s predecessor) actually played American football. That makes him acquiring super speed predictable because he already had the conditioning and experience. (One wonders if Jay’s creators were well-aware of sports enough to know when to make a superhero out of.)

It could work

As strange as it sounds, a detective that runs and does things quickly could actually work if Devil May Cry’s Dante Sparda’s any indication. He’s said to be a detective and mercenary and actually has super speed himself. It’s actually not much of a stretch for Barry Allen, who as a speedster, to have more of an affinity for escapology and tracking. If you run real fast, that’s useful for easily escaping bad situations.

There’s even a folk tale where a girl averts her ordeal by just running away from the wolf. That’s not to say Barry’s dumb but that involves him actually outwitting or avoiding his opponents without being so overpowered in the most realistic way. Sometimes if something’s going to charge at or kill you, move away. That could’ve been done before.

It wouldn’t matter at what speed Barry runs, what matters is if he survives long enough to even averting misfortune. The biggest problem is that even if there are people who do things real quickly and likely so did he, Barry’s now more jock than nerd. Even if it’s not always exactly the case especially when those at team sports get bullied themselves.

But that it gives an idea of what’ll happen when Spider-Man’s Flash Thompson becomes super-powered, without succumbing to Venom or something. Even odder still, Barry Allen’s what Flash Thompson would be like if he were also Peter Parker. (Logically Green Goblin’s both Joker and Lex Luthor.)

Usain Bolt’s the fastest human alive and is now currently playing football. Despite having different ethnicities, one gets the impression that’s what Barry Allen’s like if he were real though it could be me being interested in sports and having somebody who runs every weekend. (I do hazily remember playing football myself.)

Realistically, even if Barry never became a detective he’d be a combination of both Harry Houdini (escape artist) and Usain Bolt.

She’s stronger than him

It’s one thing to assume women are different, the only problem is there are situations or circumstances that demand women to be just as strong as men or even stronger. Like I said, I brought up a scenario where if a man spends too much time sitting around at the computer whilst his girlfriend/wife’s the one doing the laundry, cleaning then lifting lots of clothes to be dried. Chances are she’s the physically stronger of the two.

Same for any context, whatever that is. If he sits around a lot while she plays outdoor games, then she ought to be faster than him. It sounds emasculating even if there are circumstances that permit a role reversal. It all goes back to the situation of a lazy, sedentary man and his hardworking significant other.