Panel Discussion: The World's Fastest Klutz

I think Barry Allen is a fine police scientist and an even finer superhero, but, boy, does he ever look like a tool each time he's trying to get together with Iris:


In these old "Flash" comics (this is from #109), Barry closes almost every single story with some kind of wacky mix-up or misunderstanding that leads to Iris thinking he's a tool. And really, who can blame her? She just has her reasons wrong.

See, we readers know that Barry's not a tool for being the slowest man alive, as she thinks. He's a tool because after beating the Mirror Master, he stumbles on one of the mirrors he left behind and is knocked cold for 30 minutes.