THE FLASH Season 5: The Show's New Big Bad May Have Been Revealed Thanks To Casting Breakdown
Season four of The Flash only wrapped up last night but a new casting breakdown has surfaced which points to a Geoff Johns creation being the big bad of this fall's fifth season. Read on for details...
Season five of The Flash ended on a pretty major cliffhanger but there wasn't so much as a single hint about what's in store for the Scarlet Speedster this Fall in terms of who he'll be squaring off with now The Thinker has been defeated. According to That Hashtag Show, The CW is looking for an actor in his 40s of any ethnicity to take on the role of a metahuman currently referred to as "Desmond Paull."
According to the site, "after a mysterious interaction with dark matter, [he] was given not only immortality but also the gift to disable other meta-human powers. He blames metas for everything that has gone wrong in his life and because of that, his mission is to wipe Central City free of them in order to silence his own anguish." Now, that name is likely just a cover so who exactly is this bad guy?
Well, it sounds like it could be David Hersch, a.k.a. Cicada. Created by Geoff Johns, he first appeared in The Flash #170 and got his powers when he was hit by a bolt of lightning while attempting to kill himself. He later started to believe he was connected to The Fastest Man Alive due to their origins being so similar and a vision revolving around him being able to resurrect his wife - after he killed her - led him down a path which saw him use lightning bolt daggers to kill anyone The Flash had saved.
While some changes are clearly being made to the source material, it's easy to see the similarities between the two (perhaps he'll try to take out his fellow metahumans rather than the people the Scarlet Speedster has saved) and "Desmond" is going to be a recurring presence throughout season five so he's more than likely the new big bad. What do you think about Cicada taking centre stage?
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