6 worst Arrowverse heroes, ranked

The Flash -- "So Long and Goodnight" -- Image Number: FLA616a_0906b.jpg -- Pictured: Grant Gustin as The Flash -- Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved
The Flash -- "So Long and Goodnight" -- Image Number: FLA616a_0906b.jpg -- Pictured: Grant Gustin as The Flash -- Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved /
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The Flash — “The Good, The Bad and The Lucky” — Image Number: FLA906a_0233r — Pictured: Danielle Panabaker as Khione — Photo: Katie Yu/The CW — © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /

6. Khione

Here’s the thing with Khione: She was full of potential.

A mysterious goddess with limitless power? Absolutely yes. Unfortunately, The Flash completely dropped the ball with the character.

If we’re being honest, Khione should have never been introduced. Eric Wallace had been planning to introduce her before he found out that season 9 would be the show’s last, meaning that she was initially supposed to be part of a longer season. But we only had 13 episodes that should have been spent wrapping up the main characters’ storylines. Not, well, doing whatever season 9 was. And it was disrespectful to Danielle Panabaker’s primary character, Caitlin Snow, to “kill her off” without any kind of mourning period.

Khione spent half the season unable to figure herself out, only for a random time jump to give her all the answers. And then she was so all-powerful that we didn’t even need a Team Flash showdown in the finale; she could have ended all of the bad guys with a snap of her finger.

Nothing happened with Khione that justified her existence in the final season, and her abrupt departure in the series finale (at which point Caitlin returned) just highlighted that further.

In a longer season, Khione could have been great. But here, she was just one big missed opportunity.