Legends of Tomorrow's season 7 finale ended up being a series finale after the show was cancelled by The CW. In the episode's closing moments, Kick-Ass 2 star Donald Faison made a surprise cameo as Boster Gold and was expected to become the Waverider's latest time-travelling crew member.
The moment Faison joined the show's cast, Scrubs fans started throwing around the idea that Zach Braff could play either Ted Kord/Blue Beetle or lend his voice to Booster's robot companion, Skeets.
In a recent interview with The Showrunner Whisperer, former Legends of Tomorrow showrunner Keto Shimizu confirmed the creative team really did hope to tap Braff as the voice of Skeets to reunite the two Scrubs stars and real-life best friends in the DC Universe.
"Of course, of course, we love Zach! We thought about him maybe being the voice of [Booster Gold's] little robot [Skeets]," Shimizu says in the video below. "We thought about that because that would have been an easy way to get Zach in there and have him do the voice as opposed to trying to finding money to pay for him to actually be on the show, [Laughs] so that's what we were throwing around."
Unfortunately, we won't ever get to see this play out because the Arrowverse ended with The Flash last year. Once Superman & Lois' fourth and final season arrives on The CW later this year, that will be it for DC Comics adaptations on the network.
This isn't the end for Booster Gold, though. When DC Studios announced its DCU "Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters" slate in 2023, a Booster Gold TV series was confirmed for Max, though progress on that appears to be moving slowly thanks to last year's Hollywood strikes.
"This keeps coming up and I want you to tell all your followers: I am down to play Ted Kord," Braff said in an interview shortly after the Legends of Tomorrow finale aired. "Whoever owns the property. It's DC, right? Probably part of the BerlantiVerse. He's one of the first people who ever hired me."
"But yeah, Donald said that everyone [is saying that I should be Ted Kord]. I don't follow comic books. I'm sorry. I know people love them. I don't know anything about it, but yes, I'm here to announce that whoever owns the property. I'm down to play Ted Kord."
Very little has been revealed about what was planned for Legends of Tomorrow but the show ended on a major cliffhanger which has left fans of the show eager for some sort of continuation.