Writers: Barry wakes up from a coma and his first thought other than "WTF happened" is Iris. Shippers will eat this shit up!
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry is running around the city doing random acts of kindness just to go to Jitters for a chance to see Iris smile. Isn't that romantic?
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry has a change to date Felicity, the woman that EVERY man wants, even the ones who don't, but he doesn't go for it because he's in love with Iris.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry has been in love with Iris since before he knew what love was and Joe has known the entire time. Bonus: Joe ships it, too, and has been waiting forever for Barry to tell her.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: We're gonna make sure everyone on the show knows Barry is in love with Iris. And we're going to make sure everyone ships them and encourages Barry in his quest for Iris' Heart. Even his daddy who has been in jail allllll this time. This is gonna be great!
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry confesses his love to Iris after seeing the Man in the Yellow Suit because he doesn't want anything else taken away from him. And for once Iris actively seems to be interested at the end of the ep. Talk about a cliffhanger before a hiatus!
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Okay, we're gonna hook Barry up with the perfect woman, other than Iris of course, she's smart, pretty, employed and into sports. Buuuuuuuuuuut, he still wants Iris, even though he's trying to hide it.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Iris confesses that she also has feelings for Barry. It's EPIC. And we're gonna do the big 360 kiss so people know that shit is real. Try not to ship this, muthafuckers!
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Okay, so Barry ran back into time. There's a lot of bad shit that happened before he did. BUT, Iris confessed and kissed him. Barry is happy that Singh isn't paralyzed, but he's devastated and making a complete ass over himself trying to get Iris to confess again. He even cries to Wells about it.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Okay. How about this? We'll literally put "Iris West-Allen" on a fucking newspaper from 2024 and make sure that everybody and their mama knows about it.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Okay, get this, we're gonna kill Eddie. But, we're not gonna put Barry and Iris together right away so people don't call it a rebound. We don't want to rush our endgame, we'll even throw in a cute random relationship that's clearly not gonna last.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry and Iris get married in S3.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry and Iris are having babies in S4, look Joe, TWINS!
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!
Writers: Barry and Iris are old and gray. They've been married for 70 years and had a whole litter of little speedsters and grand-speedsters. The last shot of the show is them sitting on a porch holding hands staring off into the sunset.
Certain Parts of the Fandom: There are other options for endgame! The writers are clearly giving Barry lots of options!