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[gorogues]

Absolute Flash concept art from the first TPB. Clearly some designs changed significantly between this and the published comics.

[caco3-keast]

The chubby villains🐱🐱🐱

[jesseisquick]

the rogues are so fucking funny

[brainwavejrsoldermankink]

Geoff Johns Flash Poorly Explained

[temoti]

How we feelin gang?

I like shy top 👉👈

Lowkey i think sam got none bc look at his freaky lookin aa going through mirrors

[artazel]

Some art (also drew Snarts as half north Asians/half Americans)

I like how Axel turned out and this two panel thing was my English class work

This one is really old

[dcdreamblog]

Why does it seem like supervillain attacks are so...localized? Like I've never heard of the Joker menacing Star City or Lex Luther trying to screw with Gotham. Are they just that singleminded or is there more to it?

How often do YOU want to travel across the entire bay to go to work? Sounds like a pretty awful commute to me!

(The Central City Rogues, at the beginning of a blessedly short period where they were deputized by corrupt Central City mayor Gregory Wolfe)

Even joking aside, that's kind of the real answer. The most "famous" and prominent supervillains that you're citing happen to have some sort of attachment to the city where they commit most of their public crime. An argument could be made that them always showing up in the same places to battle the same heroes again and again is WHY they stick out so prominently in our minds. The Central City Rogues are famous and infamous in equal measure because the residents of the twin cities have to keep DEALING with them no matter how many times their beloved Flash Family puts them behind bars. People start developing opinions, they become part of the local culture even if only as something to watch out for, and in a place like the twin cities it becomes part of the character surrounding the Flashes that has taken hold of the cities for the better part of a century.

There ARE plenty of villains like the opposite of what you describe. Anecdotally I would even hazard to say that they make up the numerical MAJORITY of supervillains. Criminals, mercenaries and general bullies who drift from place to place trying to pull off their malicious plots in spots they think they finally won't be caught. Only to get the lid pulled off their schemes by whatever hero happens to stumble along anyway. The reason these villains are considered "B List" is because the public consciousness has nothing to grab onto and no reason to care beyond the news report that happens to roll past their TV screens.

Sure *I* know the names of criminals like Bolt, Deadline, Chiller and the Silver Ghost but why the HELL should you have to know any of these things? They're some guy who blows into your town, gets his butt kicked by whatever hero happens to be hanging around, and then when they break out it's not like they're coming back to your town for revenge. They're going to try and get the hell out of dodge, pulling the same tricks they've failed to pull in a dozen other cities.

The Joker is such a perennial problem in Gotham that every time he's out of prison it sets the entire city on edge waiting to see where he'll pop up next. Lex Luthor is dug into the roots of Metropolis so deep that he's not so much a criminal justice issue as an issue of the city's internal politics. The Rogues have become a tourist attraction more than something anyone is actually scared of. This is one of those times where something we see as strangely prominent is actually just made up of the examples where the prominence of the people we think about, and the aspect of it we find strange, are directly related to one another.

A villain makes ONE massive sinkhole down main street. It's something you complain about for a month. if a villain KEEPS making massive sinkholes down main street every 3 months, THEN you have ammo to keep kvetching for the rest of your life.