The Flash: Best and Worst Live Action Costumes

2023 has been an important year in the history of The Flash in live action as the very long running CW series ended after 9 seasons and 184 episodes mere weeks before the release of the first live action Flash movie after a very long and troubling development that took basically the entire length of the aforementioned show. With these releases, we’ve now reached the first time in a decade where we don’t have any live action content on the horizon and
because of this, this is the perfect time to look back on the live action history of The Flash and more specifically the live action adaptations of The Flash’s costume.

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00:00 - Intro
1:32 - Number 15
2:37 - Number 14
3:06 - Number 13
3:41 - Number 12
4:57 - Number 11
5:37 - Number 10
6:21 - Number 9
7:28 - Number 8
8:07 - Number 7
9:10 - Number 6
9:48 - Number 5
10:57 - Number 4
11:49 - Number 3
13:13 - Number 2
14:23 - Number 1

[tombstonerforever]

When watching the Flash movie yesterday, the bit where Barry was talking to Iris and he says “I have no further comments” my brother whispered to me, “Ezra Miller talking to the press.”

[councilmanbanks]

Am I the only one who would think the perfect flash suit would be the Reverse Flash suit from Season 8 recolored. It looked amazing on Grant.

[CrackSparrowGaming]

The Justice League Flash suit gets a lot of hate but I like it for it’s practicality. He is a poor, incredibly intelligent young man so he used pieces of space tech that could take the heat of re entry so it could hopefully withstand the friction created from his speed. Doesn’t look the best but has the best “reasoning”.

[moviehermit]

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Justice League suit. To me, it does a great job with the armoured look. It’s still sleek, the black sections work very nicely, the wires give the feeling that this suit goes through a lot of force and needs to be secured and overall just has a solid design. Imagine the road rash this suit can save you from when you’re running Mach 10 and trip over something (which JL Flash did a lot)

[alexdeghost]

If Season 4’s suit had a golden boot upgrade, it’d be the definitive perfect live action Flash suit. I don’t mind Season 6/9’s suit but imo when super hero suits are too comic accurate, they don’t look as well, ESPECIALLY for Eobard Thawne. I like a nice blend of comic adaptation and what said character would wear irl.

…Not to mention it’s implied multiple times that the Season 4 suit IS Flash’s perfected suit worn by Future Flash until Season 5 introduced that abomination.

[NolavawhyBecauseyes]

Say what one will about the CWs writing, when it came to the costume design (for the most part) was on point, they created multiple good prototype Flash suits that would get upgraded later on, they created what to me is the best Reverse Flash look in season 1 with the extra black just adding so much to the overall color scheme, and they created a new Zoom suit that fits their version of Zolomon absolutely incredibly and is my favorite suit of the show, definitely elevated the series while watching it to see such cool suits.

[TypEye]

the ZSJL suit is a great adaptation of the flash suit into the real world in my opinion, those wires and shoulder padding's are completely necessary because it tells you that barry is still experimenting on making the suit and still new to this super hero stuff, those wires control the lightning by some MOVIE MAGIC aswell, either way its my opinion

[FlarrowSpider]

I almost forgot the season 5 suit even existed, now it feels so wierd to look at it for more than 3 seconds

[LayLowOfficial]

Season 4 suit is the best! Doesn't look too cartoony and makes Grant look swole 😂

[BU_TV]

Probably an unpopular opinion, but the DCEU armor flash suit is hands-down, my favorite

[lil_ravvy]

The DCEU JL suit was my favourite because it added practicality and realism to the suits design which the other suits did not.

[EternaIRadiance]

Season 4 suit was my favorite, from the all gold ears and lines on the suit to all different shades of red that all compliment each other. It was perfect

[lumatasia]

I've always thought that the s5 cowl existed solely for the Elseworlds crossover. The lack of chinstrap was more striking when it was oliver wearing the suit cause of his beard. I think it was entirely intentional and the decision was made for that and that alone.

[Artisan]

Is tragic that the quality of the writing seems to take a backseat while the costumes kept evolving, and kept getting better. Why couldn't we have both? Oh, right I know why. Eric Wallace.

[dynaguy]

My favorite cowl is actually the one from the first 7 episodes of season 1. An Oscar winning costume designer made it. Too bad it was so uncomfortable

[CesarGameBoy.]

Honestly, the JL suit is my favorite simply because I love armored designs. It’s very sleek for being armor, and I think it’s much nicer looking than the boxy naked-looking Flash movie suit.

[itsKhii]

The season 4 suit is my absolute favorite because it incorporates both the bright comic red of the flash and the old s1-2 suit which makes it so amazing. Like you said, it’s busy, but not too crowded that it hurts your eyes.

[DiamondBatToons]

The New Flash movie suit is definitely one of my favorite Flash suits of all time! But it's also tied with the S9 suit.

[brandonpick]

The ezra suit was ment to be something he cobbled together himself. But that said the first Ezra suit is my favorite out of all the suits.

[rcbmmines]

Excellent video! My opinions were already more or less the same but by the end I completely agree. Very comprehensive and spot on.