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Subject: Re: The WB's Flash
by Dragondack on 2014/10/30 17:28:17
So after going through many forums.
I find that the writers at the CW must have created Dr.Harrison Wells.
Because I can't find him any where in the DC Universe's for speculation that he is someone else ,
well that's there and here are some:-
Rip Hunter
Zoloman Kane
Booster Gold
Valdal Savage
Reverse Flash(Yellow)
Though many of these people don't kill people.
The show's creators and producers have been playing coy about Wells's fascination with and possible involvement in the Flash's disappearance,
but the paper is a clear nod to what's known in the DC universe as an event called Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985).
The "Red Skies Vanish" headline is also a hint to the event.
More importantly, it brings up questions of Wells's allegiance.
Does this make Wells nefarious?
Is Wells trying to stop the death from happening?
Or is he trying to cause it to happen?
Who are Barry's friends?
Wells, Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow (The CW)
Aside from his main love interest, Iris, Barry doesn't seem to have many friends.
Over the course of the pilot, however,
he seems to find some in Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) and Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker),
two of Wells's assistants.
In the comics, these two characters end up being fixtures in the DC universe.
Cisco "Paco" Ramon eventually turns into a hero who can manipulate sonic and molecular vibration named Vibe.
When he was introduced in the '80s, he felt a little bit like a token character, since he was a Latino breakdancer. But in the last two years,
he has been fleshed out, given more attention, and his own (well-received) solo book:
Snow, who is the more serious scientist of the two,
is equally intriguing because Caitlin Snow is a villain called Killer Frost in the comic books.
Killer Frost is a DC flagship villain who has many different incarnations in the comics.
She can manipulate ice and freeze stuff, but she needs heat to survive:
she's usually facing off against a hero named Firestorm. And it just so happens that the show has cast Robbie Amell as a maybe Firestorm for an appearance on the show.
Well, the yellow flash who appears in the opening scenes when Barry's mother is murdered is a nod to Professor Zoom
(he also goes by the less-cool codename Reverse-Flash),
who is one of Flash's main nemeses. In the comics,
Zoom has the power to manipulate the time around him, giving him the power of super speed.
He also wears a yellow suit, hence a yellow blur:
Professor Zoom's real name is Eobard Thawne.
There is no character on the television show named Eobard, but Allen's main rival for the love of Iris West is a man named Eddie Thawne (Rick Cosnett).
There hasn't been a clear confirmation that the yellow blur is, in fact,
Professor Zoom (the creators want you to keep watching, after all) or how much Eddie is connected to Zoom,
but there are enough coincidences here to tell you that the relationship between Allen and Eddie is probably not going to be a friendly one.
The other fun Easter egg is an allusion to the great supervillain Gorilla Grodd, a gorilla with genius intellect and a telepathic powers. There's a scene showing Grodd's busted cage:
A thing to keep in mind is that the show has no obligation to keep itself in line with the source material.
It could give us a psychic gorilla or an awesome Killer Frost,
but that might not mean it can, budgetarily,
or even that it wants to.
Anything can happen here, and that makes the show just as fun for Flash fans and newbies alike.
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