Have you ever thought, "Hey, what would a combination of the two most wicked supervillains look like?" This artwork gives fans a look at what The Boys' Antony Starr might look like as the Reverse Flash in The Flash.Created by ApexForm, the piece envisions Starr as the polar opposite to Ezra Miller's Barry Allen, the Flash. The scene depicted shows an unmasked Starr with glowing red eyes, wearing a yellow version of Miller's Flash suit from Justice League that crackles with red lightning, holding the Flash's cowl in his hand as the hero lays beaten against a police cruiser. Of course, a sight like this can also be expected from Starr's other character on The Boys, Homelander (red eyes included).
In the Amazon Prime Video series, Homelander is adored by the public as the greatest of Earth's heroes. Despite this public image, the "hero" is actually a psychopath, and shoots planes out of the sky with his heat vision, crushes a man's skull with the palm of his hand and much worse. For the upcoming third season of the series, showrunner Eric Kripke has used the words "homicidal maniac" to describe how Homelander will be seen by fans of the show.
With Starr's ability to play such a twisted character in The Boys, taking on a character like Eobard Thawne may come naturally. The Reverse Flash exists solely for the purpose of making Barry Allen's life miserable and full of destruction, doing so by going back in time and killing his mother, erasing childhood friends from existence and more. Towards the end of writer Joshua Williamson's run on The Flash comic series, The Flash #761 revealed that Thawne had been behind the origin of villains and antiheroes like Hunter Zolomon and Godspeed and used a hypnotic ability of his to mess with the Flash Family and make them act as the worse versions of themselves, an example being Wally West covering up the deaths of heroes during Heroes in Crisis.
While The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow on the CW television network featured the Reverse Flash portrayed by both Tom Cavanagh and Matt Letscher, the upcoming film to feature the scarlet speedster has made no official mention of whether the Reverse Flash will appear. The first teaser for The Flash film debuted during DC FanDome and hinted at its Flashpoint-inspired plot (a storyline of which Thawne is an integral part), though it showed a second Flash as opposed to his villainous foil. With the fan art, fans can imagine how this classic comic book rivalry might look on the big screen.
The Boys Season 3 currently has no official release date, but will reportedly drop at some point in mid-2022. The Flash will be racing to a theater near you on Nov. 4, 2022.
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