Road to Arrowverse
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John Diggle doesn't exist in the comics. He's named after Andy Diggle, writer of Green Arrow: Year One, the comic that retold the archer's island origin.
source ↗The Queen family mansion is Hatley Castle in Canada. The same castle had already served as the Luthor mansion on Smallville.
source ↗"The Scientist" and "Three Ghosts," which introduce Barry Allen, were meant to be a backdoor pilot for The Flash. The response was so strong that The CW ordered a standalone pilot with a bigger budget instead.
source ↗In "Three Ghosts," Barry gives Oliver the domino mask that replaces his greasepaint. Costume designer Maya Mani tried about 50 versions before landing on it.
source ↗In the pilot's final scene, Wells rises from his wheelchair in a secret room and looks at a newspaper dated April 25, 2024. The headline: "Flash Missing, Vanishes in Crisis." That page will come back many times.
source ↗Henry Allen, Barry's imprisoned father, is played by John Wesley Shipp, who played Barry Allen on the 1990 series The Flash. The producers said he was the only one they had in mind.
source ↗Ray Palmer, the billionaire who buys the Queens' company, is Brandon Routh, the Superman of Superman Returns (2006). Here he starts building the A.T.O.M. suit.
source ↗Ted Grant, the ex-boxer who runs the gym where Laurel trains, is Wildcat in the comics, a boxing hero from DC. Here he becomes Laurel's coach.
source ↗The Arrow episode is called "The Brave and the Bold," the name of DC's long-running team-up comic.
source ↗The producers cited the crossovers between The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman as a model, plus Doctor Who's "Journey's End."
source ↗At the end of the Flash half, Ronnie Raymond shows up as Firestorm. He's played by Robbie Amell, first cousin of Oliver himself, Stephen Amell.
source ↗Jay Garrick, arriving from Earth-2, is the comics' original Flash, created in 1940, complete with the winged Mercury helmet. On the show he's played by Teddy Sears.
source ↗Zoom's growl belongs to Tony Todd, horror's Candyman. Stuntman Ryan Handley wears the suit.
source ↗In "Haunted," Matt Ryan returns as John Constantine from the NBC series canceled months earlier. The cameo folded that show into Arrow's universe.
source ↗It takes until season four for Oliver to adopt his comics name, Green Arrow, and for Starling City to become Star City, as in the comics.
source ↗Eliza Danvers, Kara's adoptive mom, is Helen Slater, star of the 1984 movie Supergirl.
source ↗Jeremiah Danvers, the adoptive dad, is Dean Cain, Clark Kent on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
source ↗On the show, Vandal Savage is about 4,000 years old. In the comics, he's an immortal caveman roughly 50,000 years old.
source ↗Kendra and Carter's Egyptian names come straight from the comics: the priestess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu, souls reborn and reunited for millennia.
source ↗The speed serum Harry is testing is called Velocity 6. The comics have Velocity 9, a speed drug with nasty side effects, created by none other than Vandal Savage.
source ↗In "Star City 2046," Stephen Amell shows up as a 61-year-old Oliver in a ruined Star City. The new Green Arrow is Connor Hawke, Diggle's son.
source ↗On their stop in 1871, the team meets Jonah Hex, the scarred bounty hunter from DC's western comics. He comes back to the show later.
source ↗"Worlds Finest" nods to World's Finest Comics, the Superman-Batman team-up book where the Flash also showed up often.
source ↗The episode's poster mimics the cover of Superman #199 (1967), the first Superman-Flash race. This time it's the cousin racing.
source ↗Cat Grant suggests calling the newcomer "The Blur." That was Clark Kent's nickname on Smallville before he became Superman.
source ↗The premiere adapts Flashpoint (2011), the story where Barry saves his mother and warps reality. Grant Gustin warned the show would do it "our own way."
source ↗Barry's grumpy new CSI partner, Julian Albert, is Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
source ↗In the comics, Wild Dog is Jack Wheeler. On the show, the hockey-masked vigilante is Rene Ramirez, played by Rick Gonzalez.
source ↗In "Human Target," the team gets help from Christopher Chance, the bodyguard who takes on his clients' identities. The DC character had already headlined his own Fox series in 2010.
source ↗In season one the cousin was only glimpsed. The season two premiere finally gives us Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent and Superman in full.
source ↗In "Welcome to Earth," President Olivia Marsdin arrives in National City. She's played by Lynda Carter, TV's Wonder Woman in the 1970s.
source ↗In "The Justice Society of America," the team meets the JSA in the 1940s. Their leader, Rex Tyler, Hourman, is Patrick J. Adams of Suits.
source ↗Arthur Darvill sits out five episodes this season because he was filming the British series Broadchurch.
source ↗The crossover draws on the 1989 miniseries Invasion!, in which the Dominators and other alien races attack Earth out of fear of metahumans.
source ↗The S.T.A.R. Labs hangar where the heroes gather was designed to evoke the Hall of Justice from the Super Friends cartoon.
source ↗The Arrow chapter is the show's 100th episode, which is why the shared dream brings back old faces like Moira, Robert Queen and Laurel.
source ↗Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist were both on Glee. The Music Meister, the villain who traps them in a musical, is Darren Criss, another Glee star.
source ↗Barry and Kara's comic duet "Super Friend" was written by Rachel Bloom, creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
source ↗"Runnin' Home to You," which Barry sings to Iris, is by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, fresh off their Oscar for La La Land's "City of Stars."
source ↗Tycoon Morgan Edge, who arrives looking to buy up National City, is Adrian Pasdar, Nathan Petrelli on Heroes.
source ↗"Wake Up" introduces Imra Ardeen, Saturn Girl, the telepath of the 31st century's Legion of Super-Heroes. She's played by Amy Jackson.
source ↗Elongated Man, Ralph Dibny, played by Hartley Sawyer, had been name-checked back in season one, years before showing up.
source ↗The Thinker had been mentioned by both Abra Kadabra and Savitar in season three. Now he gets a face: Neil Sandilands.
source ↗Zari Tomaz, the 2042 hacker who debuts in "Zari," was written as a Muslim character in response to the political climate, the producers said. She's played by Tala Ashe.
source ↗In "Helen Hunt," an anachronism drops Helen of Troy into 1930s Hollywood, where she becomes a movie star. The title puns on actress Helen Hunt.
source ↗Katie Cassidy rejoins the main cast, now as Black Siren, the Laurel of Earth-2.
source ↗In "Thanksgiving," the Billy Joel concert on screen is real: footage from a 2015 show at Nassau Coliseum.
source ↗Phil Jimenez drew a poster homage to Justice League of America #207, from the annual JLA/JSA team-ups this crossover was modeled on.
source ↗The minister trying to marry Barry and Iris is William Katt, star of The Greatest American Hero.
source ↗At the wedding, a caterer crosses paths with Barry and Iris. She's actress Jessica Parker Kennedy. Remember her face: it comes back later.
source ↗Nora West-Allen blends two comics characters: XS, the Legion's Jenni Ognats, and Dawn Allen, Barry and Iris's daughter on the page.
source ↗The new suit is brighter and more comic-accurate, and it comes with the Flash ring that stores the costume, just like in the comics.
source ↗Nia Nal, Dreamer, played by Nicole Maines, was television's first transgender superhero.
source ↗Melissa Benoist didn't start filming until August 2018, after wrapping a Broadway run as Carole King in Beautiful.
source ↗Instead of island flashbacks, the season uses flash-forwards. Showrunner Beth Schwartz cited Westworld and This Is Us as inspiration.
source ↗For Oliver's stint in Slabside, the stated inspiration was Prison Break.
source ↗Maisie Richardson-Sellers returns as a new character, Charlie, this time in her natural British accent instead of Amaya's American one.
source ↗In "Hell No, Dolly!," Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, plays Mike the Spike.
source ↗John Wesley Shipp suits up again in a recreated 1990 Flash costume, scored with Danny Elfman's theme from that show.
source ↗The Kent farm is the same location used on Smallville, and the scene plays Remy Zero's "Save Me," that show's theme song.
source ↗In the last scene, someone tells Deegan: "Worlds will live, worlds will die, and the universe will never be the same." It's the tagline of the 1985 comic Crisis on Infinite Earths.
source ↗Kate Kane is a lesbian, and Ruby Rose was cast on purpose as an openly queer actress.
source ↗Kate and Alice's story is based on Batwoman: Elegy, by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III.
source ↗The new suit swaps the skirt for pants, an idea floated since season one. It deploys from a device Brainy builds.
source ↗"In Plain Sight," the fourth episode, is Mehcad Brooks's last as a series regular.
source ↗Season six is split into two "graphic novels," each with its own villain, to avoid wearing out a single Big Bad over 22 episodes.
source ↗Ramsey Rosso, the doctor who becomes Bloodwork, is Sendhil Ramamurthy, Mohinder Suresh on Heroes.
source ↗Katie Cassidy made her directing debut on the third episode, "Leap of Faith."
source ↗Stephen Amell told Greg Berlanti he wanted out. Rather than go on without him, the producers ended the show with a short ten-episode season.
source ↗Kevin Conroy, the voice of animated Batman since the '90s, appears in live action for the first time as an old, dark Bruce Wayne of Earth-99.
source ↗Tom Welling and Erica Durance return as Smallville's Clark and Lois, showing where the couple ended up after the series.
source ↗Burt Ward, Robin on the 1960s Batman series, makes an uncredited cameo as an older Dick Grayson.
source ↗Caity Lotz made her directing debut with the fifth episode, "Mortal Khanbat."
source ↗In "Freaks and Greeks," singer Sisqó shows up as an animatronic version of himself.
source ↗After Ruby Rose left, the producers chose not to recast Kate and created a new hero, Ryan Wilder, played by Javicia Leslie.
source ↗Vesper Fairchild, Gotham's radio host, is voiced by journalist Rachel Maddow.
source ↗The pandemic shut down season six early. Its last three planned episodes became the start of this one.
source ↗Bart Allen, the comics' Impulse and Barry's grandson there, is played by Jordan Fisher.
source ↗"Blind Spots" was co-written by Azie Tesfai, who plays Kelly Olsen. It was the first time an Arrowverse cast member wrote an episode.
source ↗Zor-El, Kara's father, is now played by Jason Behr, alien Max Evans on Roswell, taking over from Robert Gant.
source ↗In "Stressed Western," David Ramsey plays lawman Bass Reeves, and Sara swears he looks just like Diggle.
source ↗"Meat: The Legends" tells the origin of Big Belly Burger, the diner seen on Arrow since the start.
source ↗Victoria Cartagena, joining the cast as Renee Montoya, had already played the same character on Fox's Gotham.
source ↗The season brings in Poison Ivy, played by Bridget Regan, and scatters classic Batman villains' gear around the city.
source ↗After years as Constantine, Matt Ryan returns as someone new: Gwyn Davies, a Welsh time-machine inventor.
source ↗The 100th episode brings back former regulars including Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Courtney Ford, Arthur Darvill and Franz Drameh.
source ↗Despero is a classic Justice League villain. The show name-checks his homeworld, Kalanor, and his power source, the Flame of Py'tar.
source ↗Cress Williams appears as Jefferson Pierce after Black Lightning's end, one of the event's many guest spots.
source ↗Osric Chau plays Ryan Choi, the Atom who succeeds Ray Palmer in the comics. Brandon Routh returns as Ray too.
source ↗The season eight suit adds gold boots, the finishing touch to match the comics.
source ↗This was Jesse L. Martin's final season as a series regular as Joe West.
source ↗Stephen Amell returns as Oliver in "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To," directed by Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin.
source ↗Carlos Valdes couldn't return as Cisco because he was filming Hulu's Up Here.
source ↗In the first episode, among the artifacts on screen, you can spot the Helmet of Nabu, Doctor Fate's golden helmet. Pandora's Box is there too.
source ↗Kuasa, Mari's rival, is voiced by Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
source ↗Both seasons were combined into Vixen: The Movie, released in 2017 with about 15 minutes of new footage.
source ↗The series draws on Grant Morrison's The Multiversity, where the Freedom Fighters resist in a world the Nazis won.
source ↗Black Lightning was developed for Fox, which decided it wasn't a fit. It landed at The CW, which didn't even order a full pilot, just a few minutes of presentation footage.
source ↗Overgirl, Kara's Nazi counterpart, is voiced by Melissa Benoist herself.
source ↗Tony Isabella, who created Black Lightning in the comics in 1977, visited the set during the final week and attended the season wrap party.
source ↗Jefferson gets a new suit with gold accents and blue-and-black weave, replacing the glowing bolts of earlier seasons.
source ↗China Anne McClain chose to leave and appears in only part of the season. Laura Kariuki takes over Jennifer from episode five.
source ↗The Morgan Edge who buys the Daily Planet is Adam Rayner. On Supergirl, the character was played by Adrian Pasdar.
source ↗Lois's sister, Lucy, is once again Jenna Dewan, who played her on Supergirl.
source ↗Lex Luthor arrives played by Michael Cudlitz, of Band of Brothers and The Walking Dead.
source ↗Tom Cavanagh, The Flash's Harrison Wells, guest stars as pundit Gordon Godfrey.
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