WARNING: The following article contains spoilers from "Burnout," a story in The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #10 by Dave Wielgosz, Brad Walker, Nathan Fairbairn, and Rob Leigh, on sale now.

Gotham City, the home of Batman, is usually portrayed as a violent place, a city filled with more criminals and supervillains than seems imaginable. However, The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #10 confirms that another member of the Justice League lives in a city with more supervillains per capita than Gotham or any other city in the DC Universe.

In Fastest Man Alive #10, Green Lantern Hal Jordan visits Central City, the home of the Flash. Upon arriving, he witnesses three super villains fleeing the scene of a bank robbery. He admits that he is unable to identify two of the three culprits, and goes on to give the startling revelation that Central City boasts more supervillains in relation to its popular than any other city in the world. Hal adds that the only reason people haven't completely written off the city is because of the efforts of his friend Barry Allen, the Flash.

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The efforts of the Flash are in actuality what has brought Green Lantern to Central City in the first place. According to fellow League member Batman, the activities of the Flash have gone up an unprecedented 500% as of late. Hal is understandably concerned about his friend's activities and in effect becoming a "one-man Justice League." As it turns out, Hal's concerns are completely valid. Barry is cranky, his place is a mess, and he's clearly pushing himself well past the point of exhaustion.

The fact that Central City is so filled with crime that the Fastest Man Alive can become exhausted just from dealing with it is mind-boggling. The Flash can be nearly everywhere almost at the same time, and he has his hands full to the point that he doesn't even have time to clean up his own apartment until Hal makes a joke about how dirty the place is. Even as the two take a moment to talk in their civilian identities,  Barry's police scanner picks up an incident, and in a moment, the Speedster is once again off to the races with Green Lantern beside him.

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By the conclusion of the issue, the Flash finally opens up to Green Lantern about why he has been overexerting himself. The Rogues of his city came up with an elaborate plot to lure him away from the city while they then engaged in a firefight with the authorities that got members of the Central City Police Department killed. The Flash feels responsible for the deaths and also feels a personal connection because he knew and worked with some of the officers who lost their lives. Thankfully, Hal is able to help Flash unpack some of his emotional baggage so that he can still defend the city without running himself ragged in the process.

With the revelation presented in this issue, it begins to make much more sense why Central City needs a hero like the Flash and his fellow speedsters and crime-fighting partners to protect its citizens. With the amount of crime that occurs in the city, it only makes sense that someone with super-speed, such as Barry and the members of the Flash family, should be the ones to protect it. Central City needs heroes with the ability to be almost everywhere at once just to keep the criminal element under control, and the Scarlet Speedster fits the bill. And because of the efforts of the Flash and his allies, Central City doesn't have the reputation as a place like Gotham, even if it has more villains.

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