Summary
- The Flash’s vanishing date in Crisis is reached, and to celebrate, Grant Gustin shared throwback photos.
- Candice Patton also celebrated the special date, tying back to her role as Iris West-Allen.
- The Flash’s legacy continues as actors and fans engage with the show’s canon.
Grant Gustin shares new throwback photos to celebrate a major DC TV in-canon date for The Flash TV show. In less than a month, it will have been a year since The Flash season 9 aired the series finale to what became the longest-running series in the entire Arrowverse franchise. Throughout The Flash’s run on The CW, the DC drama explored various storylines from the comics, while also setting up its own mythology, going all the way back to the series pilot.
Today, April 25, 2024, was originally teased in The Flash pilot episode as the date Barry Allen vanishes in Crisis, and the Arrowverse audience is buzzing about it all over social media. Fortunately, Gustin took part, as The Flash lead posted on his Instagram, acknowledging that “we made it,” to the date when Barry was supposed to vanish. He wrote, “I can confirm that Flash has in fact not vanished,” and shared photos of him on April 25, 2016, wearing a Flash-themed robe.
Candice Patton, who starred as Iris West-Allen on The Flash for its entire run, also celebrated today’s event as she shared an image of the 2024 headline. In The Flash series, Iris was the one who wrote the article about the Scarlet Speedster vanishing in a crisis.
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The Flash’s Vanishing In Crisis Storyline Explained
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At the end of The Flash pilot, the show planted the seed for the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover that would forever change the Arrowverse. However, in the original Crisis event as imagined, Barry was set to vanish during an epic battle with the Reverse-Flash. Later in The Flash season 1 (as shown in the clip above), Barry would finally learn about his troubling future as he discovered the Time Vault and the headline.
When Nora West-Allen became a bigger player in The Flash season 5, she revealed to her father that even in the future, the fastest man alive would never return from this mysterious vanishing. However, the Arrowverse timeline massively changed when the Crisis happened in 2019 rather than 2024. While a version of The Flash did vanish in Crisis on Infinite Earths, it ended up being John Wesley Shipp’s version of Barry instead of Gustin’s iteration, as the former sacrificed himself to destroy the antimatter canon, thus fulfilling the prophecy.
It’s still fun to see The Flash fandom, and even its leading actors, interact with the series’ canon as they continue to celebrate the DC TV show’s legacy to this day. Whether or not the world will ever get to see Gustin’s version of The Flash ever again remains to be seen, but anything is possible. For now, every season of The Flash can be relived through Blu-Ray/DVD and on streaming.
The Flash
After witnessing his mother’s murder, and his father wrongly convicted, Detective West and his family take in Barry Allen (Grant Gustin). Becoming a forensic scientist, Allen tries to uncover the truth about his mother’s murder, which leads him to Harrison Wells’ particle accelerator. When the accelerator causes an explosion, Allen is struck by lightning and enters a coma. When he wakes up, he learns he has the ability to move at superhuman speeds, though he is not the only meta-human created in the wake of the explosion. Based on one of the most popular characters from DC Comics, the TV adaptation of The Flash was developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns. The series ran for nine seasons on The CW and is one of the most popular shows in the network’s “Arrowverse.”
Cast
Rick Cosnett
, jesse l martin
, Candice Patton
, Tom Cavanagh
, Grant Gustin
, Danielle Panabaker
Release Date
October 7, 2014
Seasons
9
Showrunner
Eric Wallace
Source: Grant Gustin & Candice Patton/Instagram
