Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30504572-20161114164353/@comment-1038387-20161114170858

Sigh.

Several flaws with that.
 * 1) Whatever happened in the comics is not necessarily true for YJ.
 * 2) The Speed Force has not been used "since the dawn of the comics". It first appeared in 1994 in The Flash (Vol 2) #91.
 * 3) Greg Weisman has said, repeatedly, that he does not like the concept of the Speed Force and does not think speedsters would need to derive their powers from an external force, much like strong people don't need the "Strength Force". As such, he does not use it for YJ.
 * 4) For the particularly uptight responses that, to be part of the Multiverse, the Speed Force would have to exist on Earth-16, Greg offered a rationale along the lines of "if the Speed Force has to exist on Earth-16, noone has ever heard of it and noone knows whether or not it's the source of the Flash' power." This is purely to please the tightly assed, and effectively still means "no Speed Force in my stories".
 * 5) There have been other Flashes without Speed Force. Namely, all of them before 1994, and the current Earth 2 Jay Garrick.