Flash 5x7 Poll!

Its one of those situations where you get why but you can clearly see its irrational. Not everone with powers are criminals.

Harry Utton

His reasoning is a locical falasy, its the same as "My sister was killed by a drunk driver and my niece was put in a coma by one, so all drivers must die!" Everyone who can drive can be a drunk driver, and everyone that is a meta can be a murderer but not all drivers are drunk drivers and not all metas are murderers. Meta-human can be murderers, but instead of killing all murderers he is killing all metas. He isn't bothering will all the non-meta killers out there. He's focusing on how they were hurt not by whom.

Sheriff Uchiha

I don't get the reason he groups all metas as evil when clearly there are some who are not. I mean they even said on the news that without the flash him and everyone else would have died. I guess that doesn't matter to a mad man...

I dont know, metas are responsible for what happened with gracie, including the flash so from his point of view I understand. I dont agree with it but do fully understand what he is thinking

I get going after evil metas. I don't get attacking heroes.

Doby Greg

Agent Liberty's backstory was better

Joel

It's an unfortunate situation all around. If the Flash didn't destroy the satellite, everyone would be "enlightened". But by preventing that tragedy, he created this new one. And just like Agent Liberty, Cicada's motivation makes sense from his perspective. In his situation, I don't know that I would act differently.

Darth Skhorrn

Just like with Agent Liberty i can't sympathize with someone that has a kill them all mentality. I don't care how sad your backstory is, wanting to kill all metas including the good ones that do nothing wrong or try to protect people is not the way to go.

DanFDTR

It's like when someone comes home, finds their spouse cheating on them, and in a fit of rage kills their spouse and the other person. It sucks that their spouse cheated on them....but murder is wrong.

Talmet

I don't sympathise with him.

Paul Gregory

I’d be able to give sympathy if he was reasonable, as far as we know he’s not doing what he’s doing to save his daughter, he’s killing people who didn’t ask to get powers, now I could maybe understand killing those who use their powers to harm, but he wants to kill all metas even the good ones. Maybe I could understand disliking the flash because the flash hitting the satellite launched the debris that hurt grace, I’d sympathise if what he was doing would save grace, I’d sympathise if what he was doing was taking out harmful metas. But what he’s doing is harmful to grace in the end

Dan Banks

I immediately had the exact same thought. We already know Nora didn’t decide to change the past on her own, and if Reverse Flash is involved I could easily see this being a part of his plan. After all, if Reverse Flash vanishes in the crisis along with Barry, maybe he is trying to convince Barry to give up being the Flash in order to save himself. Time will tell, but until that mystery develops further this is the theory I’m sticking with.

Dylan Carpenter

I understand his motivation for being against metas, but it seems weird that he jumped straight to wanting to murder all metas. However I do sympathize with him more than any previous villain. He’s not evil or crazy, he’s just a man in deep physical and emotional pain. I hope his story can somehow conclude with a happy ending.

Dylan Carpenter

I feel bad and it sucks for him but deciding to kill all metas over it is stupid. Especially the flash when he’s a hero and done nothing wrong that cicada wants to kill him too

BarryAllen1310

I really liked his backstory with Grace, you really feel for him, but his vision of everything is definitely distorted. By the way, i like the actor until he starts being TOO intense, feels a little bit over the top for me.

RoadRaf

That doctor corrupted his thoughts

ChiefChill

I agree with him all these metas running around thinking they're better then us humans i say KILL THEM ALL!

Dip602

I don’t agree with his reasons though I do understand them,if there are no metas then there are no meta human problems

I mean like sure it hurt his daughter/niece, so he would wanna hunt down metas but like not all metas are bad he even goes for the Vibe and Flash. Also he said ALL metas like there are probably hundreds of metas that’s a little over the top that you’d want to kill all of them, if that makes sense.

I just wanna say this actor embodies a flash villain. Sympathetic, intimidating, and over-the-top all at the same time

Alex 2cool

I know this not the poll question but did anyone els notice Nora trying to get Barry to give up being the Flash. Sounds like something Reverse Flash convinced her to do to save her dads life but really it will let Reverse Flash do something he totally had to have manipulated Nora

MustacheKash

I can sympathize but I dont agree. He needs to stop and think about how many people suffer something like that, (maybe not specifically a dark matter satellite) and dont break from it EVERY day. He's using his personal tragedy as an excuse to inflict the pain he's suffered onto others. He still has some humanity as we saw when he spared Barry the first time, but I think his weapon is sapping even that from him.

ObligedUniform

He went from zero to murder real quick. Are the fragments just imbued with evil intent? This is mirroring Supergirl. I don’t sympathize because he chose to be a murderer which is not what that little girl needs from her legal guardian.

LKG

I think Cicada being too extreme and wanting to kill all metahumans is intentional because if he is less extreme and only kills the bad ones the writers would have to come up with a defense for why Flash and company save the bad ones. That would likely come down to a moral argument that risks having more viewers side with Cicada over Flash. Weather Wizard’s debut episode had him willing to destroy the city in a tidal wave over a personal grudge with Joe, pretty similar to his daughter. When the opposition has an argument like that as a reason for why at least the bad ones should die most of the audience is going to side with him over Barry’s counter arguments. As much as I like the Flash I don’t think their writers are skilled enough to give Barry’s side as much weight as it needs to champion saving the bad metas and just imprisoning them.

Jjop017

i feel bad for cicada (his sister got killed in a meta attack and now his niece is in a coma) and i see why he was angry with the flash (the piece of satellite that hit him came from the satellite that he punched) but i dont agree with him painting all metas as evil

Can't agree with him ... hate is not the Amish way.

The Amish Electrician

the satellite piece that hit him only hit him because the flash punched the satellite, so i guess in his mind he blames the flash for what happened

While I sympathize with Cicada, his motivation for painting all metas with the same 'bad' sign makes no sense. Barry and Vibe have both been seen doing good for the city and barry even helped take down devoe's satellite, yet for some reason cicada wants to kill him?

Harman Singh

I'm pretty sure Iris released an article exposing Devoe in order to turn the city against him, and help Team Flash track him down. If I remember correctly it was one of the Iris centric episodes. Plus people would have had questions about where the satellite came from, including the police, so it would make sense that Barry and Iris helped spread the truth along. Also I think (could be wrong) they mentioned it was the work of a meta in the tv news report itself. I'm like 92% sure this is all accurate.

Dev Bhavsar

Now that I know his story, I just want him to start being good again so he can be a good dad for his daughter when she wakes up.

Kevin Bartelen

No sympathy. We as viewers know that the Thinker is responsible for the satellites and the Enlightenment, but Cicada is just assuming metas did it. As far as he knows, it could have been someone totally different.

Nathan Mortenson

Number 2. The Kid will not be happy when she wakes up. I bet shes a big Fan of The Flash. That damn Doctor putting Ideas in his head, smh.

I think that there is something else at play here. According to Sherlock there are other Cicadas in other earths and always the same person until now, but with the same powers. I think the Cicada powers are causing him to become more aggressive or something like that.

Raiden

I most definitely sympathize with him and hope that unlike 1-4, he gets to live and see his niece awake again.

Frank Tremel

What happened to him is terrible, but to punish everyone because they are simply Meta is not the right answer, and his daughter would probably not approve.

Andrew Courtney

Of course I sympathize with him, but hating all metas for the actions of a few is extremely prejudice.

Sam K

I do sympathize with the guy, but killing all metas for this including the ones who’ve done nothing wrong I don’t agree with at all.

Cameron Mason

Cicada was dude that was trying to be a good father figure and I felt bad for his situation but killing people doesn't help that little girl

AAA DATTERY

I sympathize with him. And I love the fact he wasn’t some ordinary dad who got in an accident. There is some depth and nuance. The scene between him and Grace right before the accident was so touching. I can see why he holds metas responsible but can’t justify him killing. I’m interested in seeing how that nurse became so jaded against metas herself. I feel there’s something more there and not just “I take care of people harmed by metas and I’m tired of seeing it happen.”

John M

I can see that he went through something awful, but when your response to that is: “I need to kill as many people as possible even if they didn’t do anything wrong just because they are similar to the people who wronged me” then you are just an ignorant bigot and I can’t feel bad for you.

Able

I feel bad that this guy who was just getting his life turned around had it ruined by DeVoe and lost family to other Metas, but going after everyone even the people who are trying to help and the ones who are just living their lives isn't ok or helpful.

WhateverIFeelLike