Earlier this year, the team behind
The Flash on the CW promised that the show would (finally) not feature a speedster as the main antagonist in its fourth season next fall. While details on who that villain would be have remained scarce, some attentive fans started putting the pieces together after an episode that featured the villainous Abra Kadabra, who hailed from the future on Earth-19.
In the episode, the villain warns,
“There’s Thawne, Zoom, DeVoe… but none of them hurt you like Savitar.” Many took the mention of "DeVoe" to refer to Clifford DeVoe, AKA the DC comics villain known as The Thinker. The name was mentioned a second time by Savitar in the season finale,
“This is where we came up with the cerebral inhibitor… to use against DeVoe.”
TV Line has now reported that this foreshadowing wasn't just for show, and that The Thinker will indeed be the main villain of season 4, detailing that
"casting is now underway for a 40-something actor to play what one might call 'the fastest mind alive.'" Of course, Barry will have to escape his Speed Force prison first, but knowing the show, that shouldn't take too long!
Do you have any casting choices for the role, or would you have preferred a different villain? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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