The new tv series returns to Barry Allen (Grant Gustin, left), who experienced a Batman-like trauma early in life, when his mother was killed and his father was framed for the murder.
Raised by the kindly Detective West (Jesse L. Martin), he has grown up into a police investigator and paranormal specialist, a moody Fox Mulder. Then, after being doused with chemicals and hit by lightning, he discovers that he has become a "metahuman" with special powers.
The accident created other metahumans, too, with various powers. Some are good, some evil. And there's an Agency with a sinister interest in them. And Barry's dousing with chemicals wasn't really an accident. It has something to do with who killed his mother....
Will there be any gay content?
Lots. Even a couple of gay characters: Barry's boss, Captain Singh (Patrick Sabongui, left), is gay, although this fact hasn't been mentioned yet, and his boyfriend Hartley (Andy Mientus) will become a super-villain, the Pied Piper.
Barry is played by Grant Gustin, who played a gay character on Glee.
Iris West (Candice Patton) was Barry's girlfriend, then wife, in the comics, but here the two were raised together, so a romance between the adopted brother and sister might not be on the table.
And there will be ample beefcake. Many superheroes and villains will be dropping by, including The Arrow (Stephen Amell), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell).
Pied Piper is later reformed, actually. He has a story in Countdown about being tied to a homophobic rogue.
ReplyDeleteWow, no comments about (won't happen but still...) Birdflash. In the comics, a lot of subtext exists among the Titans.