In the original Arrowverse timeline, Grant Gustin‘s The Flash was reported to have vanished alongside the Reverse-Flash in an explosion of light on April 25, 2024. To celebrate “Crisis Day,” Gustin shared a Flash-related throwback photo on his Instagram account.
“We made it – April 25, 2024. I can confirm that Flash has in fact not vanished,” Gustin captioned the Instagram post. “Fun fact: searched ‘April 25th’ on my phone to find a fun Flash pic to post, but that’s when we were always on hiatus. This is the only Flash related April 25th photo in my phone. April 25th, 2016.”
The accompanying photo shows Gustin wearing a Flash-themed bathrobe.
The Arrowverse’s crisis event originally took place in 2024
Introduced at the end of The Flash’s pilot episode on October 7, 2014, the front page article on the April 25, 2024 edition of the Central City Citizen newspaper was written by Iris West-Allen and titled, Flash Missing, Vanishes in Crisis.” The newspaper was stored in the Time Vault and used by Eobard Thawne/Harrison Wells to ensure that the future timeline remained intact.
At the time, the newspaper’s headline was merely an Easter egg teasing an Arrowverse adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths. However, as the Arrowverse grew, so did the annual crossovers, leading to the announcement that the 2019-2020 crossover would adapt the beloved 1980s comic storyline by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, four years ahead of schedule.
With the Crisis now set to occur much earlier in the timeline, the newspaper’s date was changed to December 10, 2019. It was explained in The Flash that the impending Crisis was moved up after Team Flash altered the timeline by destroying Cicada’s dagger. The five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths event ran from December 8, 2019, to January 14, 2020, with The Flash’s Crisis episode airing on The CW on December 10.
Is Grant Gustin moving from the Arrowverse to the DC Universe?
The Flash ended its run on The CW after nine seasons and 184 episodes on May 24, 2023. Since wrapping up his tenure as the Scarlet Speedster, Gustin appeared in the romantic comedy film, Puppy Love. Flash fans can currently see him headlining the Broadway musical, Water for Elephants, which premiered on March 21 at the Imperial Theatre.
However, despite portraying the Arrowverse’s Flash, some fans are interested in seeing Gustin also play the DC Universe version of the speedster. DC Studios head James Gunn, who is overseeing the new DCU, recently addressed the fans who want to see Gustin in more DC projects, writing on Threads, “Grant is an incredibly talented guy, performing now on Broadway, I believe, and is absolutely not going to waste just because he’s not currently in a DC project.”
Gunn added that, despite the actor’s current unavailability, he would “of course . . . love to work with him at some point.”
All nine seasons of The Flash are currently streaming on Netflix.
