So the future anti-rogue Commander Cold is upset that the future Top told the Flash about his upcoming dilemma because he is effectively changing the future and that is strictly forbidden. Cold thinks the Top is supposed to stick to their objective--preventing the Flash from committing a murder he is destined to commit.
Aaaaaannd with that, I'm out. The story is so (no pun intended) pedestrian that this gaping hole in credibility has made me cash in my chips. Even if one argues that Cold has ulterior motives, then the rest of the anti-rogues are complete idiots for not questioning them after figuring out this moronic non-sequitor themselves.
Any others come to mind? How about plot holes you've seen that you shove into the closet because it's otherwise a very entertaining story?
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I just took it that since they had the historical records that showed Flash kills Mirror Monarch, that the record also showed that the Rogue Police (or whatever) failed to arrest him. Whether the Future Rogues are aware of this or not, their bosses must be. They were sent back in time to fail at what they were sent back in time to do. Their bosses likely have some other agenda,(like, trying to get the Flash to commit murder.
My money is that the Reverse Flash is behind the whole thing to begin with, and the Future Rogues have been duped.
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Then again I say that the rogue police must have been force fed stupid pills for not seeing there's a problem.
First, it seemed to me that if you were going to go through all the trouble to put your puppet into the White House -- and, really, running for president and winning is not that easy -- you wouldn't pussyfoot around with putting your guy in the vice president slot.
And second, not that one would expect a civics lesson from a comic book, killing the president-elect the day after the election -- that is, before the Electoral College has voted -- ensures nothing but chaos. Yes, if the president dies in office, the vice president becomes the president. But there is nothing that says the vice-president-elect becomes the president-elect and thus the president if he or she dies before inauguration.
Newsman Jeff Greenfield of CNN once wrote a very entertaining novel, The People's Choice, that explored that circumstance. In that tale, the incumbent president, a Democrat, loses his bid for a second term; the president-elect is thrown from a horse during a photo-op the day after the election; and half the GOP leaders are so revulsed by the thought of the vice-president-elect becoming the new standard bearer (he's the quintessential country club Republican, but the kind of vapid idiot who makes Thurston Howell III look like Clem Kadiddlehopper) that they revolt and refuse to vote for him in the Electoral College. After all, their pledges in the Electoral College were for the dead president-elect; there's nothing that requires them to shift their votes to some other person of the party's choosing. What follows is controlled mayhem as various party apparatchiks, power brokers, dealmakers and media mavens try to take control of the situation.