Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-7603754-20160309202205/@comment-26879545-20160404202341

Killer kev wrote: The Flash is only caught of guard by things that move at a incredibly fast rate such as himself, he wouldn't be caught of guard by a gun being tossed at him bc he'd have plenty of time to catch it. Its an unfair comparison bc one guy has super speed while the other doesn't, of course the reaction time is going to be different. Captain Cold, a dude with no metahuman abilities can catch the Flash off guard. CC freezes the floor. Flash doesn't expect it or see it coming and he runs on it and falls. It was in the comics which are the Flash's canon. Canonically, the Flash gets caught off guard numerous times by different villains who don't move at "incredibly fast rates."

Again, Nish's post, which I replied to, did not address dropping any guns. If it had, I would have made a different comparison. Instead, he said, essentially, reflex = skill, which is not true.

The fact is, Captain Cold catching the Flash off guard doesn't make the Flash any less of a hero or capable of doing his job of stopping evil.

Stiles being caught off guard and dropping an unloaded gun (that he was told he was never going to get) doesn't make him any less able to use a gun.