Idiot Ball: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Flash 2014 (TV 2014)|The Flash]]'' Episode "The Present": Team Flash has managed to work out that Savitar's existence is made possible by a magic rock, and can be contained by putting the rock in a box which negates the rock's powers. Through some mental manipulation, Cisco is convinced to open the box, releasing Savitar. Barry goes to try and stop Cisco, and gets into it with Savitar, which doesn't go well for him because Savitar is leagues beyond Barry and Garrick in the speed department, even more so than Zoom or Reverse Flash was. The idiot ball comes into play when HR convinces Wally to get into the fray with his newly gained super speed. The simplest solution to this problem would be to tell Wally to run down to the room where Cisco is, take the box from him, and close it – this ends the immediate Savitar problem without a single punch thrown. Instead, HR tells Wally to use some of the things he picked up in training, to tackle a monster who has already repeatedly manhandled two veteran speedsters, and at cruising speed is as far beyond Barry's speed as Barry is beyond normal human speed. This goes about as well as you would expect, resulting in unnecessary tension and suspense when Wally is almost killed.