This list is a combination of moments from the comics,
as well as ones from the television series, so with that in mind, let’s get
to it!
10 Red Death In 2017 and 2018, DC launched a story event
called Dark Nights Metal, which saw the introduction of several alternate earth versions of Bruce
Wayne from the Dark Multiverse - which is like the regular multiverse, but evil, hence
the dark.
These alternates were working for a demonic entity called Barbatos that wanted to destroy
the regular multiverse.
So, how does the Flash play into this?
Enter the Red Death - the combination of Batman and the Flash, but evil.
From Earth -52, this Bruce, who had lost all of his Robins and therefore used more extreme
methods, fought against that Earth’s Flash; Barry wouldn’t give him his speed force
powers.
In the chaos, Bruce and Barry are thrust into the speed force and forcibly fused, with Barry’s
consciousness being trapped inside of Bruce.
With these new abilities, Batman/Flash went around and brutally killed his rogues gallery,
which earned him the name of the Red Death.
All Doll’d Up For those of you familiar with the CW Arrowverse,
specifically the Flash tv series, you’ll likely remember this episode we’re referencing
at this number.
All Doll’d Up is an episode that debuts a new villain to the series; Rag Doll.
In the show, Rag Doll is a thief, a seemingly invincible one, who has the ability to contort
his body into any shape (played by a real life contortionist who appeared on America’s
Got Talent.
As he moves, you hear bones cracking.
It’s all very, very creepy.
After an accident where a piece of satellite shrapnel crushes his body, he goes around
with the goal of inflicting as much pain to others as he possibly can.
The whole episode is pretty darn scary, and a great one at that, too.
Some potential spoilers for the Flash Series coming up at our next number-
Cisco’s Death Another moment from the CW show for you here
at this number.
One of the scariest moments earlier on in the series was when Harrison Wells killed
Cisco.
Wells stabbed the beloved character through the heart after telling him “in many ways,
you have shown me what it’s like to have a son.”
But it wasn’t any old stab, oh no.
Wells did it with his speedster arm, stabbing Cisco right through the heart in one of the
most emotionally painstaking scenes the series has pulled off.
And it was downright terrifying to witness, especially since, for many of us, we didn’t
think Wells was capable of doing something like this to Cisco.
Context is everything, friends.
Wally West’s Death On Young Justice Outsiders, the death of Wally
West at the end of the second season was one that impacted devoted fans in a heart wrenching
way, especially since the show was seemingly cancelled.
Perhaps the hardest part about his death wasn’t witnessing his death, but rather, the reactions
of his teammates (especially Artemis) after the realization sunk in that he was gone.
Luckily, Young Justice became a part of DC’s new streaming service, and we finally got
some closure concerning his death, but for the sake of not spoiling what happened, let’s
get onto our next number.
Zoom breaks Barry’s Back Serial killers and horror go hand in hand.
So when it comes to Hunter Zolomon, the evil speedster from Earth 2 on the Flash CW show,
you know scary is likely on the menu.
Besides from looking straight up demonic at times, there’s one instance where Zoom really
pulled a terrifying number on Barry - which, based off the title of this number, you probably
already guessed.
He broke Barry’s back during one of their more intense battles.
And it wasn’t just a one hit break sort of situation.
Oh no.
Zoom literally pummelled the crap out of Barry, making for one of the most horrific sequences
in the series to date.
Speaking of Zoom though, let’s take a look at him in the comics with our next number-
Trial of the Flash The Trial of the Flash is a bit of a two-parter.
The story arc itself follows the events of Flash’s arch enemy, Zoom (aka Reverse Flash
Eobard Thawne), getting murdered by the Scarlet Speedster himself.
So let’s backtrack for a moment.
In The Flash issue 323 from 1983, Barry is getting married to Fiona Webb.
And in the lead up to the wedding, Zoom beings to leave creepy messages for the hero, written
in sand, that read ‘guess who’s going to kill your wife again?’
Barry, late for the wedding of course, rushes to Fiona, whose about to walk out since she’s
been left at the altar.
But Barry, who had taken Iris’ death pretty darn hard the first time Zoom did this, rushes
over there just in time, and rather than just beating Zoom up like he did previously, he
snaps his neck, just fractions of a second before Zoom was about to kill Fiona in the
exact same way.
What follows is Barry’s arrest for manslaughter in the death of Eobard Thawne, and the justice
league having to decide whether or not to kick him out of the group.
Suicidal Killing Spree The premise for this one is simple - the Flash
in the future turns evil, goes on a killing spree, and then goes back in time to kill
himself, all as a means of saving himself.
It’s a bit of a skewed logic, but it makes sense - Flash went evil, and in order to save
himself from being evil and killing everyone (despite killing ALL of the villains in the
future), the only way he can stop this mass tragedy from occurring is by offing himself
in the past, before he turns evil.
The scariest part about this is the killing spree, with Barry donning a different, blue
outfit, taking names and snapping necks.
This was a story that came out towards the end of the New 52 before the Rebirth reboot
came about (more on reboots in our next number actually).
It’s also a storyline that was adapted into the CW show in its third season, but it went
in a slightly different direction, with Flash deciding he wanted to become a god instead.
Flashpoint Flashpoint was a pretty major event.
It reset the entirety of the DC universe leading into the New 52 reboot, which, for a long
time, many believed was a reboot caused by the Flash (in the canon story world, we all
know why DC wanted to reboot their continuity, but that’s not what this list is about).
Anywho, we now know Barry wasn’t entirely to blame for this, and Watchmen’s Doctor
Manhattan played a large role in the multiverse resetting.
But that still doesn’t make what went down any less scary.
For starters, it’s a universe in which Barry’s mom is still alive.
But everything else is backwards and terrible.
Zoom had changed time and killed Barry’s mom, and the only way to save her was for
Barry to go back in time, but doing so basically destroyed the world.
The price of being reunited with his mother was the deaths of millions.
If anything, the story is more tragic than it is scary, but the implications of what
has happened is a breed of horror onto itself.
Batman Holy Terror Despite being a Batman story, Holy Terror
contains one of the scariest interpretations of Barry Allen from an alternate universe.
Holy Terror, an Elseworlds comic, was released in 1991, and it takes place in a world in
which the USA is run by a corrupt theocratic government.
Bruce Wayne plans to join the clergy, but learns more about a government conspiracy
that involved the death of his parents, who were considered anti-government radicals (really,
they were just helping people, treating those who had been experimented on in very extreme
versions of conversion therapy experiments, botched abortions and aversion therapy).
Bruce decides to go on a crusade to hunt those people down after his ordination as a priest.
This crusade leads him to a government facility using human guinea pigs, including a man with
super speed named Barry Allen.
Barry is the product of a gene splicing process, and was forced to mate with other unsuccessful
versions of that gene splicing experiment, living a horrifying existence.
He’s killed by the head scientist during a conflict at the facility.
Frozen Body Sure, murder might be real bad, but what Barry
did to Inertia, aka Thaddeus Thawne, a clone of Bart Allen’s mixed with Zoom’s DNA.
He turned out to be a little sh*t, and stole Impulse’s speed (Impulse being Bart’s
identity at the time), which resulted in Bart being gunned down by other super villains,
killing him.
He would also taunt Barry with that fact, telling him “ but instead, does something
much much worse.
He steals Inertia’s speed force powers, turning him into a literal representation
of his alias name - he’s frozen for eternity in unblinking horror, with the only things
he can do being breathing and thinking, immobilized permanently.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he puts Inertia in the Bart allen museum, forcing him to stare
at a statue of Bart, which Barry describes as “force to stare with eyes that take a
hundred years to blink at the ghost of the man he could never be.”
Yikes.