The Top 10 Most Suspenseful Moments From ‘Arrow’ & ‘The Flash’

10. The Flash Saves Patty Spivot From The Turtle

The Turtle may sound like a pushover, but he was anything but when he appeared on The Flash during season 2. The villain was dangerous because he was the literal opposite of The Flash, able to slow things down which made him appear to have superspeed when in actuality his speed hadn’t changed at all. His power could not completely freeze The Flash that way he was able to with normal people, but it was definitely able to briefly stop him in his tracks. Oh, and did I mention that The Turtle was also a complete psychopath?

Not only was Russell Glosson a metahuman whose powers could rival The Flash’s, but he was also a truly evil person. He wasn’t interested in killing Patty, but he was interested in removing the kinetic energy from her so that she wouldn’t be able to move and he could keep her on display forever. Like he had already done to his wife. Yikes. He didn’t do this at all to hurt Patty, he did it to hurt The Flash. The Turtle was unhinged, and while watching the episode you weren’t always entirely sure Patty was going to make it out alive. For being so goofy of an idea, The Turtle turned out to be both a great challenge for Barry and give us a mentally unstable character who brought the episode to a twisted final scene. In the end, Barry saves Patty, but that wasn’t always a given.