Well, “News Flash” found a way to create threats even greater than meta villains, and it could explain a lot about Cicada.
The Flash has delivered some of the biggest threats to the Arrow-verse over the years, but the Scarlet Speedster has generally been pitted against other metahumans.
While this is often necessary so that Team Flash can’t solve their cases and put normal, non-superpowered people behind bars in the first couple minutes of each episode, it has meant that Meta of the Week stories can get a bit stale.