Two former Arrowverse villains will be causing trouble again, albeit as different characters in The CW's Stargirl.
According to Deadline, Nick Tarabay (The Expanse) and Jonathan Cake (The Affair) will portray Eclipso and The Shade, respectively, when the drama returns for Season 2 in 2021. Tarabay will be billed as a series regular while Cake will recur on the series. Ysa Penarejo also joined the cast in an undisclosed recurring role.
Eclipso will be one of the main antagonists of the season and will clash with the Justice Society of America. He is an ancient life form trapped in a blue gem that was controlled by the Injustice Society of America. However, the diamond was stolen by Cindy in Season 1, so it is only a matter of time before he starts causing trouble. Eclipso feeds off humanity's flaws, grief and fear and uses them to his advantage. He was created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias and made his first comic appearance in House of Secrets #61 (August 1963).
The Shade in an English immortal who has magical shadow powers. Having lived for so long, he has witnessed trauma after trauma, but masks his pain with witty comments and a nihilistic philosophical outlook. He was created by Gardner Fox and Harold Wilson Sharp and made his comics debut in Flash Comics #33 (September 1942).
These villainous roles will not be the first times Tarabay and Cake broke bad in the Arrowverse. Tarabay portrayed Captain Boomerang on Arrow, while Cake played the pirate Blackbeard on Legends of Tomorrow.
During New York Comic Con, Stargirl creator Geoff Johns teased Eclipso's arrival and how he differentiates from the Injustice Society of America. "It's such a different, darker, scarier threat, because the threat is — Cindy is one thing, and she's got the Black Diamond, and we're going to obviously explore that, but the thing inside it, this entity that's trapped, this ancient being that feeds off humanity's own sins and grief and fear and darkness is trapped in this Black Diamond and has been there for a long, long time and is aching to do what he does and feed off the darkness within humanity," he said.
DC Universe's Stargirl stars Brec Bassinger as Courtney Whitmore (Stargirl) and Luke Wilson as Pat Dugan (S.T.R.I.P.E.). The series will return for Season 2 on The CW. It also stars Amy Smart, Yvette Monreal, Anjelika Washington, Cameron Gellman, Trae Romano, Jake Austin Walker, Hunter Sansone, Meg DeLacy, Neil Jackson, Christopher James Baker, Nick Tarabay and Jonathan Cake.
Source: Deadline