Board Thread:New on Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-807326-20160206040643/@comment-2054358-20160214002048

True. But the term "Metahuman" in the DC Universe is not defined by getting their powers from the particle accelerator, but by having powers. Most metahumans in the Arrowverse got their powers from the particle accelerator, but Jake Simmons was no where near Central City when the particle accelerator exploded. Static Shock from the DC Animated Universe got most of its metahumans from the Big Bang (no, not the one that made the universe, but the explosion at Dakota). In fact metahumans from that event were known as Bang Babies, while there were other metahumans from the wider DCAU. Not all metahumans have to be created by the Particle Accelerator. They just have to be mutated in some way.