Why are these Weaknesses? (CW Flash)

[Akreious]

"Nanites: Nanites entering the bloodstream of a speedster will disable their powers, as seen when Green Arrow shot Reverse-Flash with it."

No, the Nanites used against Reverse Flash was explicitly stated to be anti-Speedster and is designed to create a high frequency pulse that disables the Speed of which Speedsters use. This isn't a weakness of Speedsters, it's an ability of the Nanites.

Edit: As you can see, it's an ability of the nanites. Not a special Speedster Weakness

"Power-dampening tech: A speedster's power can be weakened or even neutralized by special technology, for example special kind of rifle can fire an energy pulse that temporarily cuts off a speedster's connection to the Speed Force, as seen when a dude shot Reverse-Flash with it. However, 6 months trapped in the Speed Force can make a speedster highly resistant to such weapons. However, powerful technology like an upgraded B.O.O.T. can still slow him down."

How is this a weakness? This tech is literally just Power Null. How is this a weakness specific to Speedsters? What, should we give this weakness to everyone who's ever shown to be susceptible to Power Null?

"Time Alterations: While Barry's speed allows him to break through the temporal barrier, it is not without drawbacks. In addition to potentially causing unforeseeable, damaging changes to the timeline, reckless travels through time can alert the Time Wraiths. These temporal guardians become instinctively drawn to the careless speedster, driven to capture the person who disturbed the timestream and draw the person into the Speed Force with it."

While the time Wraith thing and temporal change shtick are weaknesses, it should be noted that these can be bypassed. Speedsters who change the past can do so with caution and change the future to their design (as Reverse Flash did) and they could also avoid/hide from Time Wraiths despite them actively hunting the Speedster in question (Zoom).

 

[ByAsura]

Doesn't matter, it still specifically disables the weakness of a speedster. It's a weakness because it's directed at them. Here's an example: The Goddess clan in NNT manipulate Holy Magic that breaks down Demons, it's both an ability to the Goddess Clan and a Weakness of Demons.

Again, same point, almost all of it is directed to specifically speedsters and is a weakness to all of them. Also, the B.O.O.T is not just power null, it nulls the Darkmatter infused Metahumans. It's a weakness regardless of the nature.

There's no point in noting that they can hide from it, the point is that they will constantly come for them. His design did not work, he ended up breaking his own connection to the speed force, only being able to use it in short bursts until he supercharged himself. They can't account for every single little change, this is explained in the second episode of season 3, Flash made the time line run its original course (Barry's mom died in the exact same way), but unforeseeable changes.

 

[Akreious]

"Doesn't matter, it still specifically disables the weakness of a speedster. It's a weakness because it's directed at them.

Again, same point, almost all of it is directed to specifically speedsters and is a weakness to all of them. Also, the last one is not just power null, it nulls the Darkmatter infused Metahumans. It's a weakness."

This is literally just power null. Can't resist power null is now a weakness? A machine that removes the source of your powers from you is a weakness? It's like saying any human's weaknesses are Bullets because it was originally made to be used against other humans and has shown to be effective at killing humans.

"There's no point in noting that they can hide from it, the point is that they will constantly come for them."

Oh you KNOW there's gonna be that one person in threads that'd go "Well if they try that, Time Wraiths come and kill them so it's not a viable option!". Noting that it isn't a surefire weakness that'd kill them everytime is something that needs to be done. An indexing site is to be as accurate as possible, or at least it should be.

"His design did not work, he ended up breaking his own connection to the speed force, only being able to use it in short bursts until he supercharged himself. They can't account for every single little change, this is explained in the second episode of season 3, Flash made the time line run its course, but there's still tiny changes."

I was referring to the fact that Thawne basically controlled Barry's life for 15+ years all to create the Flash and to get himself home, which only failed because Thawne tried to give Barry exactly what he wanted (A complete family). No Time Wraiths appeared even with Thawne's manipulations for some reason. Point is, Time Wraiths appearing isn't immediate death for the Speedster.

 

[ByAsura]

It's still a weakness. It's directed towards speedsters, it takes away their powers specifically, and there's multiple weapons that can do it, it's not like it literally just reaches out and nulls every single metahuman in existence. If you want to know an arbitrary weakness, than it'd be Melting Point's power to swap metahuman abilities. It'd be like saying that Red Sun isn't a weakness for Superman because they restrict the source of his powers. It'd also be like saying that the Ray Field inhibitor isn't a weakness because it nulls ray fields, even though it's on Cole MacGrath's page.

And that didn't work out as well because they found out who Thawne is, and, also he already changed the past and it didn't work out, so saying he didn't cause anymore changes doesn't work because we never get to know them. Yes, it's not immediate death, however, they still knew about his alterations, he was afraid, extremely afraid, when the Flash brought a Time Wraith in Season 2 Episode 18. Look at the wording to the weakness, it says they'll be driven to the alteration, not they will insta show up and start wrecking s**t.