Similarities Between The Arrow And The Flash

Two of the most incredible television shows in the DC Comics universe are Arrow and The Flash. Both are heart-warming, gut-retching action shows that feature superheroes, love-lives and awesome costumes. Despite those similarities both characters and their shows are very different. The Flash is a meta-human with super speed named Barry Allen and The Arrow is just a regular person who never misses a shot with a bow named Oliver Queen.
Both The Flash and The Arrow have super smart teams and secondary heroes to help them through their crusades. The Flash has two incredibly smart partners, Cisco and Caitlin.They both also double as powerful metahumans called, Vibe and Killer Frost. Barry also has help from other heroes with super speed like his including, The Flash from a parallel universe, Earth Two, (Jay Garrick), Kid Flash and Jesse Quick. The Arrow also has awesome partners, including, smart IT girl, Felicity Smoak and ex-military officer, John Diggle. Like Barry he also has other heroes to help. These include, Roy Harper (who calls himself Arsenal) and The Black Canaries. Both heroes have helpful teams that they most definitely couldn’t survive without.
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One of course being their weapon of choice. The Flash relies almost entirely on the fact that he is the “fastest man alive”. He uses this to do absolutely everything when it comes to fighting crime. From getting to the spot to fighting the criminal meta-human it is all superspeed. Oliver is incredibly different from him in the weapon he uses. The Arrow’s weapon of choice is of course, the bow and arrow, but unlike The Flash he can’t entirely depend on it. First and most obviously, you can’t ride a bow into battle, but he could also be disarmed and have to fight more hand-hand combat style. All in all, not only do the heroes use different weapons but they also rely on them in different