CW Star Grant Gustin Wished the Flash to Die a Heroic Dying

9 years is a very long time for an actor to play any character, not to mention one that’s repeatedly compelled to put on an elaborate, skin-hugging superhero costume. So once I heard The Flash star Grant Gustin prompt to the collection’ showrunner to kill off Barry Allen within the upcoming series finale, I assumed he simply wished to be completed with the character. Nevertheless it seems that the actor had one thing rather more attention-grabbing in thoughts.

Talking to the TV Line podcast (through CBR), Gustin defined he wished Barry—performing a few of these time shenanigans that obtained him in bother seemingly each two of three episodes—to sacrifice himself to avoid wasting the Velocity Pressure, and, nicely, I’ll let him clarify it:

“After I thought of [the show] ending, there was a concept on the market that Barry would sacrifice himself to maintain the Velocity Pressure alive and grow to be the lightning bolt that inevitably struck him [in the pilot] and create this full circle second, which I assumed was actually cool. Yeah, and I kinda all the time wished him to die a hero’s dying in a means, and [showrunner Eric Wallace] was very against the concept, and we actually wished to see a cheerful ending for Barry and Iris. And finally, I feel that … as followers revisit it, in all probability how they’re going to need it to finish.”

I concur that followers would possible moderately Barry be alive when the collection ends, if solely as a result of Arrow’s Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) already pulled the heroic sacrifice in the course of the Disaster on Infinite Earths miniseries. As the largest, second most vital, and solely remaining collection of the DC CW-verse, giving The Flash a cheerful ending could be a greater solution to shut out this grand experiment that started in 2012 and encompassed six reveals. Apart from, even when the Flash died, if by some means the DC CW returned, dying has by no means stopped a hero from coming again to life in any medium. In any case, Inexperienced Arrow is due to appear on the present earlier than The Flash ends on Could 24…

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