It may not seem creative. It's less a fancast and more of a "Why didn't they do this over that?" kind of thing.
All I've done was take the cast of Arrow and shifted them into roles that showcase Flash over Arrow.
Why CW chose to do Arrow when they've done him to death, albeit, I'm guessing differently, in Smallville?
That's not a rhetorical question. I'd love to know the answer.
Maybe, it's me. I don't like Green Arrow but love Flash.
One thing to keep in mind is that their is no ring; that's too weird, even for the whole super hero concept.
Here's the cast...
Which isn't that much of a shocker...
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE STARS OF THE SHOW
Barry Allen/Flash
Barry Allen is a forensic scientist with a reputation for being very slow, deliberate, and frequently late, which frustrates his fiancee, Iris West. One night, as he is preparing to leave work, a lightning bolt strikes (it is revealed some time later, another season, that it was actually something within the speed foce) Allen. As a result, Allen finds that he can run extremely fast and has matching reflexes. He dons a set of red tights sporting a lightning bolt, dubs himself the Flash and becomes Central City's resident costumed crimefighter. Batman once said "Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered.
Barry is not Batman or Superman in that he will kill. Not an every episode thing but maybe in an 8 year show he kills twice or 3 times.
Played by Stephen Amell
As the lead in Arrow, it would seem as though DC and CW have trusted him with holding a series atop his shoulders. They should have made him Barry Allen. DUH!
Iris West
Iris is a reporter for the Picture News, based in Central City, and the girlfriend of Barry Allen. Unaware of his secret, Iris often chides Barry for his frequently being late. Eventually, in later seasons, she learns that Barry is not only the city's heroic speedster.
Differing from the comic, she learns of his identity prior to the marriage, which wouldn't occur until much later in the shows seasons.
Played by Katie Cassidy
As Black Canary, GA love interest, it would be natural that she play Iris.
Ralph Dibny/'Elongated Man
In this series, Dibny works with Allen in the department. He is already married to Sue, Barry Allen serving as the best man.
Season 1, he is a friend, in season 2 Ralph Dibny develops a super-concentrated extract of the rare "gingo" fruit of the Yucatan, which gave him his elasticity. In his first appearance as the hero, the Flash suspects the Elongated Man is behind several crimes, but the Elongated Man helps capture the criminals.
Dibny reveals his secret identity to the public. The very novelty of the Elongated Man stories was that unlike most superheroes, including the Detective Comics Batman, Ralph Dibny solved mysteries, often challenging the reader to do the same. He didn't just use his extraordinary powers or gadgets to chase criminals, but recalled the problem-solving of a genre just that bit older than superheroes: the tale of mystery and detection.
Played by Collin Donnell
He plays Merlin. My goodness this is a complete rip off of Smallville. He fits Dibny pretty we,, body type and would do well in the role as best friend. He actually plays friend turned foe in Arrow ala Luthor in Smallville.
Sue Dibny
Sue is the wife of hero Ralph Dibny, The Elongated Man. She is a brunette socialite from Westchester County, New York. Ralph and Sue share a very loving relationship. This leads to the various dangers associated with the lifestyle.
Her death will play a major part I will detail later.
Played by Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
The gorgeous actress, signed to play Arrow's Sarah Lance would make a great (better) Sue Dibny.
THE FOLLOWING ARE REOCCURRING CHARACTERS
Max Mercury
He was originally a scout with the US Cavalry in the 1830s. A friend of the local Indian tribes, he was shocked and dismayed to find them massacred on the orders of his commanding officer. Enchanted by a dying Indianshaman, he gained super-speed. In the years that followed, he became known to the Indians as Ahwehota ("He Who Runs Beyond The Wind"), and to everyone else as Windrunner.
Mercury has repeatedly traveled through time, seeking to enter the so-called Speed Force. He usually bounces off and finds himself decades in the future.
In bouncing, he runs into Barry, guides and tutors him akin to Martian Manhunter of Smallville. He references a parallel world with Jay Garrick. He pops up from time to time.
Played by David Anders
Not involved in Arrow, Anders has cult experience in TV being a part of Alias and Heroes. Remarkably, he is American rather than English. I think he can play a great Mercury., not old, but wise. I think he's better young, showing he's done so much in such little time, that he can definitely guide others. He has a recurring role in Vampire Diaries.
Jay Garrick
Jay Garrick was a college student who accidentally engulfs himself, after falling asleep in his laboratory where he had been working, with heavy water. Normally, a death warrant, he finds that he can run at superhuman speed and has similarly fast reflexes. He dons a red shirt with a lightning bolt and a stylized metal helmet with wings (based on images of the Roman god Mercury and as an homage to Max Mercury) then begins to fight crime as the Flash after being guided to do so by Max.
Jay appears maybe 2 times. He belongs to another reality, which Max can enter, but Barry still can not. By the time the 2 meet, Garreck is semi-retired; older.
Played by Jamey Sheridan
The man that plays Ollie's father in Arrow is the spitting image of Jay.
Wally West
Iris nephew, who took to Barry very well. Towards, maybe, the 6th season, Barry (with Wally in, maybe, 2 eps per season, maybe the last 3 in season 5 and a few in 6, leading to) invites Wally to his work where the same freak accident occurs. Barry begins to question the speed force.
He becomes a once off sidekick whom Barry bands due to danger.
Played by Collin Ford
The 14-year-old is absolutely ideal to play the fledgling Kid Flash aka Wally West. He may look familiar as he plays the young Sam Winchester in Supernatural of the very CW network.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE BIG BAD'S OF EACH SEASON
Season 1
The Mirror Man (Mirror Master)
I'd take the idea from Netman0007@ and make that season 1. It's perfect.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fan_fic/news/?a=60498
Sam Scudder was a simple convict, but had the goal to learn how to get inside the reflection of a mirror. Stumbling into a hall of mirrors, he experimented and discovered a way to get in his own reflection. He used this power to become the criminal Mirror Master
It has been shown in several past incidents that something lives in the mirror universe that is deadly.
Played by Misha Collins
Something tells me Supernatural's Cas can take this character to the creepy level needed.
Season 2
The season 2 opener is Cold escaping capture. The rest is a build up to capture him as the seasons explores his morals, Ralph Dibny getting his ability and outing himself as a hero. Cold will try and seduce Sue Dibny to no avail.
Cpt Cold
Leonard Snart has very strict morals for a villain, a 'code of honor' if you will, refusing to kill women or children, actively against drugs and senseless (what he considers senseless) violence.
Cold was raised by an abusive father, who forced his son to refer to him by his military rank, that of Captain, and took refuge with his grandfather, who worked in an ice truck. When his grandfather died, Lenny grew tired of his father's abuse and set out to start a criminal career.
Snart read an article that theorized that the energy emissions of a cyclotron could interfere with the Flash's speed. He designed a weapon to harness that power and broke into a cyclotron lab, intending to use the device to charge up his experimental gun. As he was finishing his experiment, a security guard surprised Snart. He pulled the trigger and discovered that the moisture in the air around the guard froze. Snart donned a parka and declared himself to be Captain Cold, a dig aimed towards his father.
Despite his more ruthless nature, Captain Cold's heart is not completely frozen, evidenced by having sent flowers to honor Sue Dibny, murdered wife of the Elongated Man.
Traditionally, Captain Cold is driven by three things: money, women, and the desire to beat Barry Allen.
Played by Paul Blackthorne
Blackthorne has been cast as Black Canary's dear ol' dad in Arrow so I've shifted him into the Rogue's head. Cold has all the makings of a hero save the fact that he's a villain. He's an oxymoron.
Season 3
He does not emerge a villain until the final few eps of the season. Flash battles plenty of other villains while waiting. ofcourse.
Heatwave
Born on a farm outside Central City, Mick Rory became fascinated with fire as a child. This fascination turned into an obsession and one night, he set his family's home ablaze. His obsession was so great, that he simply watched the flames engulf his house, instead of running to get help.
After this event, Rory went to live with his uncle. His pyromania continued and he was forced to run away after locking a schoolmate in his house and setting it on fire, after the boy locked Rory in a freezer during a field trip. He took a job as a fire eater with a traveling circus. This did not last long either, as he ended up setting the circus on fire. He has an intense fear of cold, called cryophobia.
He decided to use his mania to become a villain. After the emergence of Captain Cold, he decided to do what Cold was unable to do and defeat Flash. He wanted to overcome his fear by outdoing the man that exemplified that fear. He created a protective costume made, built a gun-sized flamethrower, and became Heatwave, an enemy of both Captain Cold and the Flash.
Played by Alexis Denisof
Wesley from the Buffyverse plays nutty better than most. Building off of Cold's peculiar stance as a villain, Heatwave becomes a villain to thwart another villain, giving each of the 2 several layers to unfold throughout the seasons.
Season 4
Zoom
Eobard Thawne, decades in the future, started out as a fan of the Flash. After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bolt that gave Barry Allen his powers, he traveled backward in time after confronting Max Mercury, using the speed force, to meet his hero.
His fandom becomes border line psycho, almost taking on a SWF version. He wants to become Flash in a deadly way. He dubs himself Zoom.
He murders Sue Dibny but evades escape. Though, he bounces out of time, Max Mercury assures Barry he will track him down.
This puts a huge wrench in the friendship of Ralph and Barry. Dibny hits a downward spiral and looks towards magic to get his wife back.
Played by Eric Christian Olsen
Although he was only in 1 episode of Smallville, Hourglass, he has been in severel TV shows as well as movies. Most notably as a comedic actor, his acting should not be taken lightly, and I think he would make an excellent evil Flash.
Season 5
Dibny continues to drift from crime fighting, when Barry needs him most.
Iris learns of Barry's secret and begs him to quit.
"Please Barry, I could list a thousand reasons why you should quit and a million ways you could die tomorrow."
"There could be be infinite reasons why I should leave and another infinite ways I could die tomorrow, but I was chosen to do this. I have to do this."
Barry learns that he was the reason he became Flash. RE: FUTURE SELF
1/2 way through the season, Wizard pops up and traps the city in a(n) (un)natural disaster in which Flash must explore his powers to save the city.
The guy is by far the nuttiest villain to date.
Weather Wizard
Escaping a prison transport by leaping from the window, Mark Mardon fled to his brother's house only to find him dead. Mardon's brother, Clyde, a scientist, had just discovered a way to control the weather before dying of a heart attack. In his first appearance he tried to get revenge on the policemen who imprisoned him, allowing the Flash to predict his target and defeat him.
Played by Mitch Pileggi
Pileggi was not only the grandfather to the Winchesters in Supernatural but a stellar member of X-Files. I bring up the X-Files because it is that intensity I want to see brought to the craziest of Flash's rogues. I was not too fond of his turn in Supernatural. WW brings a lighter approach to the series in order to ensure it doesn't delve to far into a dark road. Flash is a fun character and the series should be fun; Wizard is a traditional super villain unlike the others scary realism.
Season 6
Wally West aspires to help as Kid Flash. (no costume for Wally)
He does join Barry without permission and is triumphant however, Barry tells him this is not his place due to danger.
Dibny contacts Shade through dark magic only to bring his theft, chaos and murder to Central City.
Where Shade goes, the Ludlows go, with the purpose of killing the criminal. Flash must stop both the Ludlows and Shade. Shade, though, disappears into the shadows once again.
In the 2nd arc, Dibny then contacts Kadabra to him in order to revive his wife. He is tricked into believing she is resurrected. Flash and Wally, without Barry's permission, save the day in the season finale.
Iris leaves Barry.
Abra Kadabra and Shade
Abra Kadabra
An attention craving magician, Kadabra, with ability to lobotomize anyone within hearing range, is a reality TV host. He has cinvinced the world he has great power.
Shade
The Shade was an English gentleman named Richard Swift, a young man in the year 1838. One night in London, Swift was trapped amidst an unexplained mystical tragedy, which killed 104 people. The most immediate of effects upon him was the permanent loss of all memory before the incident; fortunately, a carriage appeared and took him in. The gentleman who had picked him up gave him the name Piers Ludlow, and offered to help him reencounter his past. Accepting his "kindness", Swift was taken to Ludlow's house. However, the whole affair was a setup; the whole Ludlow family was in fact a band of killers and swindlers, however, when they intended to use Swift as another scapegoat, he reflexively unleashed his shadows, killing all the present Ludlows. Only a young pair of twins, absent from the excursion, survived.
Ever since then, the immortal had been pursued quite actively by the Ludlows, whom he abated with little remorse, killing dozens of the family .Bored with life, he sought to become an assassin/adventurer.
Shade (never refers to himself as such) is played by Adam Harrington
The Secret Circle alumni has quite the career in this genre already.
Abra Kadabra (it's a stage name) is played by Rudolf Martin
He played Dracula in the Buffyverse. He has a creepy look that needs to be carried with a certain degree of delicacy for this character. I don't want this to be a Joker ripoff, or worse, a Loony Bin Jim take of a potentially great villain.
Season 7
*****Zoom comes back, this time in the body of Max Mercury, whom he has defeated and possessed while battling through the ages.
Zoom is behind the reality changing event Flashpoint, and mocked Barry, who remembers how things should be. He tells the Flash what really happened. Barry Allen traveled back in time to prevent Zoom from killing his mother and pulled the entire speed force into himself. Zoom says this makes him a living paradox, he is not connected to any timeline and can kill the Flash.
He is stabbed by Dibny from behind and the 2 vanish as the season finale ends.
Barry reflects on the fact that Ralph and Sue are once again together.
Max is a part of the speed force.
Zoom returns
*********The actor has changed
Season 8
Captain Cold and Heatwave put their differences aside when Cold brings Flash's enemies together, unionizing them, in a way.
Rogues return with a special return from the ALWAYS lurking and extremely creepy Mirror Man. He is seen as the boogy man of the group the others are scared of. Shade is able to bring him back.
Season 9
Gorilla Grodd is a hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla with the power to control the minds of others. At one time, he was nothing more than an average ape, but after an alien spacecraft crashes in his African home, Grodd and his troupe are imbued by the ship's pilot with super-intelligence and incredible stregnth far exceeding normal gorillas.. Grodd develops telekinetic powers. Solovar, their king, develops telepathic powers. Grodd grows jealous of Solovar's role and telepathiv power.
The gorillas construct a super advanced home named Gorilla City. The city is hidden through the use of a cloaking devise.
Solovar was imprisoned while on a trip to the human world, in part, thanks to the sabotage of Grodd. Solovar pretended to be regular as to not bring suspicion to his city. While captured in Africa, Flash was there saving a city of people and was telepathically summoned by Solovar to free him.
The time between Solvar's capture and the arrival of Flash was long though. In that time, Grodd ruled Gorilla City with an iron fist and punished Solovar loyalists. Grodd brutally tortured his leading scientists until they successfully developed a helmet which granted Grodd telepathic powers in addition to his telekinesis.
Upon Solovar's return, he restores normalcy to his city and imprisons Grodd. Some time later, Grodd followers break him out and he travels to the human world to maul Flash, whom he rightfully blames for the safe return of Solovar.
In hiding, Grodd uses the alien tech to create a bomb so powerful it will wipe out the existence of human-kind, leaving all life left alive save humans.
He confronts Flash in Central City and battles the Scarlet Speedster; he wants to crush him himself. He mocks the Flash and says he will eat his carcass. Wally, arrives to back his uncle up, but the mental capabilities and strength of Grodd are too much.
Victorious, Grodd releases the missile and as a final effort, Flash runs towards the missile and uses his speed to time travel with the bomb.
The next scene is the bomb headed into the Earth atmosphere and, on Earth, dinosaurs look up.
The movie ends with Barry's funeral; in attendance are many of his rogues, showing their respect. Wally walks up to the closed casket, tosses a Flash mask and walks away only to stop, turn around, grab the mask and place it in his pocket.
Solovar
Voiced by Dennis Haysbert
Haysbert has such an intelligent voice, but it's such a contradiction in and of itself being that his voice is so deep as well. It's, by far, the most fitting voice.
Grodd
Grodd uses his telepathy to shut down Flash's super speed and the scarlet speedster must outwit the powerhouse, evil genius.
Voiced by John Glover
Lionel Luthor of Smallville could brilliantly lend his evil, sophisticated voice to the shows final villain.
COPS
Detective Fred Chyre
Officer Chyre has been with the Keystone police for over 35 years. He’s good at his job, but has a serious problem with anger which has resulted in several suspensions.
When he first started, his partner and mentor Joe Jackam taught him everything the academy left out. So when Joe’s granddaughter, Julie, became a cop, Chyre offered to take her on as his partner and return the favor. When Julie was killed, not in the line of duty but in her own home, Chyre insisted on being part of the investigation. Chyre and detective Jared Morillo located the Metahuman and helped the Flash take him down.
Chyre’s temper has, over the years, led to no one wanting to work with him. Morillo’s arrogance and smugness turned people away from him immediately. Based on their work on the Metehuman case, and figuring they could straighten each other out, their captain created the Department of Metahuman Hostilities and assigned them to work as partners. Their initial dislike for each other has thawed to a grudging respect.
Played by Michael Gaston
Of Jericho, he has the right, grizzled look for the rugged cop.
Detective Jared Morillo
Hotshot detective from Los Angeles who moved out to Keystone at the behest of his wife. Arrogant but good at his job, his work with Chyre on the Metahuman case led to them becoming the two-man Department of Metahuman Hostilities, until Officer Julie Jackam joined.
Played by Taylor Kinney
Mason Lockwood of Vampire Diaries has a free enough schedule to be locked into a strong commitment. The Fastest Man, the show's title is the right gig for him.
Chief Hotchkiss
Replaced Commissioner Vaughn. Considerably more capable, and appreciative of having a superhero in the city.
Played by Mark Rolston
Alastair in Supernatural and several voice work for numerous DC anomations, he has a long standing of support from WB/CW/DC.
Julie Jackam
A cop like her grandfather, Lt. Jackam transferred from New York to Keystone City to work with her grandfather’s former partner, Fred Chyre.
Played by Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy just had ringer canceled from what I'm reading, so there for she's ready to jump into another role, as the sole (main character), strong female, as the 2 wives are not fighters and this role is that of a cop. Fortunately, the weight of caring an entire show will not be on her shoulders, she's just along for the ride.
MINOR VILLAINS SEEN THROUGHOUT THE SERIES TO KEEP BARRY BUSY IN BETWEEN THE MAJOR BADS
these villains have no code names
Dr. Michael Amar
A respected surgeon who succumbed to madness and started a killing spree to stop the voices inside his head. This spree went through Central and Keystone City and caught the eye of police officers Fred Chyre and Jared Morillo. They later tracked Amar down with the help from Central City forensic scientist, Barry Allen. Part of Amar's psychosis is the inability to stop himself from blurting out his crimes. Because of these outbursts, he is quickly convicted and sentenced to death.
While incarcerated in Iron Heights prison, Amar cuts out his own tongue and sews his mouth shut so he will no longer be able to incriminate himself. Wearing a thin mask of his own design, Amar becomes known as Murmur.
While in prison, Murmur creates a virus that kills the guards and prisoners and escapes during the riots it causes.
Played by Trent Ford
He played Mr. Mxyzptlk in Smallville and exemplifies the slim, creepiness of Murmur wonderfully.
Dr. Arthur Leit
A light manipulator, with the ability to control light for a variety of purposes by way of a suit. He could bend the light around him to become invisible and generate blasts of energy. By mentally repulsing photons, Leit could create areas of complete darkness.
He is mentally brilliant, a genius in the field of physics.
He sees Ralph Dibny, who deduced his whereabouts, thus he was captured, as a challenge. He winds up being able to use his powers even without the suit, as we see him escape from his cell only to rape Sue Dibny. She never tells a soul as he vanishes, promising to return.
Played by Skeet Ulrich
The Jericho actor played one of the scariest bads ever in Scream and I would love to see him do it again.
George "Digger" Harkness
An Australian version of Marvel's Bullseye (despite Colin Farrell's thing he did in Dare Devil). Deadly, with a weapon, he sought to challenge himself against the fastest man alive. Having the ability to hit any target, and swiftly kill said target, he aimed to kill the speedster.
It just so happens that "Digger" sharpens a boomerang to a deadly point and uses that to kill 10 hostages in Central City's biggest bank to attract Flash. As the media gathers, it is Iris who dubs him the "Boomerang Killer".
Played by
Anthony Head
Giles from Buffy could lend himself to CW for a few memorable stints as the aging and very deadly "Digger." I can remember how disappointed I was when we learned that his "Ripper" nickname didn't lead to something much more deadly and much scarier than a rebel youth dabbling with black magic. He, now, could become what I imagined for "Ripper."
Amunet Black
Blacksmith, as she is infamously known as, ran the underground Network, composed of illegal contraband dealers. No powers. Black will be a constant thorn in Flash,s (but mainly, the cops) side(s) throughout the seasons. She will be a background character much in the same way many from Wolfram and Hart, of Angel, were. She's sort of guest star in dozens of episodes rather than get top billing.
If Captain Cold is the most notorious, Zoom the most personal, and Grodd, clearly the villain who leaves the biggest impact than she is the scariest as she is the one constant in Central City, the one evil that is persistent, never going away, never weakening and always, somehow, above the law it would seem.
Played by Emmanuelle Vaugier
The oh-so-sexy were wolf in Supernatural and Luthor's sultry wife in Smallville, this uber hottie can be seen all over TV. I chose to go with a CW pro, again, rather than movie star, because of her consistency within the show.
Thomas Peterson
A deaf man who's mastered the lobotomizing sound waves of a mysterious flute. He uses the flute to put others, mainly women, in a zombie-like stupor in order to do as he pleases. Flash is able to defeat him by traveling faster than sound.
Played by Chase Crawford
I thought it'd be interesting to having the Gossip Girls' teen idol play the part of a man that feels he must force others wills in order to get what he desires. I find it ironic that a man women go crazy for could feel this necessary. He'd almost be a Ted Bundy type.
Peter Merkel
H was well into his sixties. His hyper-elastic ligaments had begun to collapse and over-extend, causing the villain great pain. He was no longer able to even affect the lifestyle of the minor criminal. He soon became senile, and began ranting. As he did, he saw the lost, the homeless and the disenfranchised gravitated toward him, soaking up his words and in time, became a cult of followers blind to his every indulgence and desire. And after a life of defeat and despair, what the Rag Doll desired was revenge.
Played by
Richard Belzer
Belzer, well known these days as part of L&O: SVU, was a regular in the Flash series way back when. This is a could nod to his days in that series as well as his part in Lois and Clark. Think of him as that "Drink the punch" kind of cult leader.
IF DC AND CW WANTED TO ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF DC COMICS THAN INTRODUCING A GREEN LANTERN DIFFERENT FROM RYAN REYNOLDS' HAL JORDAN WOULD BE A FANTASTIC IDEA. JOHN STEWART IS THE ROUTE TO GO, KEEPING THE RELATIONSHIP SIMILAR TO THE BACK AND FORTH FOUND BETWEEN HAL AND BARRY.
HOWEVER, IF THEY WANTED TO STRAY FROM SAID UNIVERSE, BECOMING THEIR OWN ENTITY, THAN INTRODUCING THEIR VERSION OF HAL JORDAN WOULD EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES EASILY.
John Stewart
A former Marine badass who may be the toughest Lantern yet.
Played by Sterling K. Brown
Gordon Walker, the vengeful vampire hunter in Supernatural has the touch demeanor and grizzled voice to play Stewart better than any movie A-lister I can think of.
Hal Jordan
Played by Paul Wesley
Vampire Diaries. Initially, I was going to pick James Lafferty, as I had pegged him a future possibility in the role of Jordan back in my Fancasts For Every Generation, but as this is now, and Lafferty is a bit too young, I chose Wesley. He has the icey stare and square jaw to make 1 or 2 appearances all the more memorable. He was also Lucas Luthor from Smallville.