Actor Danielle Panabaker, along with producers Caroline Dries, Eric Wallace, Geoff Johns, Phil Klemmer and Todd Helbing discuss this history of sidekicks in comics and crafting the characters who support the superheroes in this Flash-back look at season seven of The Flash.
After a thrilling cliffhanger at the end of season six which saw the new Mirror Master (Efrat Dor) victorious and still-at-large in Central City, The Flash must regroup in order to stop her and find a way to make contact with his missing wife, Iris West-Allen. With help from the rest of Team Flash -- which includes superheroes Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon and Nash Wells, as well as the Flash’s adoptive father Joe West, Meta-Attorney Cecile Horton, tough cub reporter Allegra Garcia and brilliant tech-nerd Chester P. Runk -- Flash will ultimately defeat Mirror Master. But in doing so, he’ll also unleash an even more powerful and devastating threat on Central City: one that threatens to tear his team—and his marriage—apart.
The Flash is based on the DC Comics character of the same name.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. After thinking he and his wife Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) could finally enjoy being newlyweds, they discover their future daughter Nora West-Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is a speedster known as XS, travelled back in time to heroically fight by her father’s side and stop the one villain The Flash is destined to never defeat, the meta-serial killer Cicada (Chris Klein). The Flash and XS rely on the help of Team Flash, which includes super heroes Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), Ralph Dibny (Hartley Sawyer), master-detective Sherloque Wells (Tom Cavanagh) and The Flash’s adoptive father Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) and his girlfriend Cecile Horton (Danielle Nicolet) to finally stop Cicada, save The Flash’s legacy, and discover the truth about the evil mastermind who’s pulling manipulative strings through time.
Based on the characters from DC, The Flash is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti, Eric Wallace and Sarah Schechter.
Plucked from the current Arrowverse by renegade Time Master Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) DC's Legends of Tomorrow are Martin Stein (Victor Garbor), Jefferson Jackson (Franz Drameh) -- who combine to become Firestorm, The Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee), Hawkman (Falk Hentschel), Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) and Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller). Together they team up to stop Vandal Savage (Casper Crump) from altering history to make himself supreme.
Over various seasons the team roster is ever-changing with other characters like Vixen (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), Steel (Nick Zano), Kid Flash (Keiynan Lonsdale) and Constantine (Matt Ryan) stepping up.
Based on the characters from DC Comics, DC’S Legends of Tomorrow is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti, Phil Klemmer, Grianne Godfree, Keto Shimizu and Sarah Schechter.
Batwoman season one featured Ruby Rose as Kate Kane, who would become the first Batwoman. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappeared, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs. Enter Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. Years before, Jacob’s first wife and daughter were killed in the crossfire of Gotham crime. He sent his only surviving daughter, Kate Kane, away from Gotham for her safety.
After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm, by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy). Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane (Elizabeth Anweis), who bankrolls the Crows, Jacob is still struggling with the family he lost, while keeping Kate –– the daughter he still has –– at a distance. But Kate is a woman who’s done asking for permission. In order to help her family and her city, she’ll have to become the one thing her father loathes –– a dark knight vigilante.
With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Nicole Kang), and the crafty Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), the son of Wayne Enterprises’ tech guru Lucius Fox, Kate Kane continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne, as Batwoman. Still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend, Sophie, Kate uses everything in her power to combat the dark machinations of the psychotic Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who’s always somewhere slipping between sane and insane. Armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, Kate soars through the shadowed streets of Gotham as Batwoman. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, she must first overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.
DC's Stargirl is the 2020 DC Universe/CW TV series based on the DC Comics of the same name.
The show stars Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore, a high school student whose stepfather, Pat Dugan (Luke Wilson) is the grown, former sidekick of a lost hero called Starman (in the comics it was the Star Spangled Kid). Courtney finds that she can wield Starman's staff and adopts a star spangled costume. To assist her, Pat develops a robotic suit of armor and becomes her sidekick called S.T.R.I.P.E. Starman's dying wish was for the Justice Society to live on, and Courtney takes on assembling a team of next-generation superheroes into an all new Justice Society of America.
Along with Bassinger and Wilson, Stargirl features Amy Smart, Trae Romano, Cameron Gellman, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington, Meg DeLacy, Neil Jackson, Jake Austin Walker, Christopher James Baker and Hunter Sansone.
The character Courtney Whitmore and the concept of Stargirl was developed by writer Geoff Johns and artist Lee Moder. She initially appeared in the 1999 comic series Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E., and called herself the Star Spangled Kid. Her abilities were derived from her Cosmic Converter Belt, which was part of the original Kid's arsenal. Later she meets a retiring Starman and is given his cosmic staff. At that point she adopts the name Stargirl.
DC's Stargirl is set to stream on DC Universe and then air on The CW a day later.
