Questions tagged [arrowverse]
Arrowverse is a shared fictional universe centered on TV series airing on The CW, developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns based on various DC comic book characters, started with Arrow and followed by The Flash, Vixen web series and The Legends of Tomorrow.
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Russian words in the titles of an American TV series footages
I have never seen a single episode of 'Arrow' TV series, but I follow movie-related news and watch almost all trailers or any mini-footage introducing movies/shows that come out on YouTube.
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Will the Black Flash make an appearance in season 3?
I have seen images from the sets of The Flash season 3, showing a man in a black costume. Is there any secured information if this character is supposed to be the Black Flash known from the comics? ...
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Explain the abilities/powers of this "The Flash" character
In The Flash S01 Cisco (Paco Ramone in comics) basically acted as genius engineer who can build many cool things to help The Flash. Later, near the end of the season, we saw that he might have gotten ...
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How was Sara John Diggle's gender changed in the alternate timeline?
In s03e01 of The Flash, Barry has created an alternate timeline wherein he is happily living with his parents.
When he returns back to the original timeline (one in which his mother is dead), he ...
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When did Black Canary get her "Canary Cry"? [closed]
In which episode of the Arrow does the Black Canary get her "cry"? Or was it a Flash episode? I seemed to have missed this one.
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Why is Thea Queen nicknamed "Speedy" instead of Roy Harper?
Traditionally (in the comics), Roy Harper is the superhero (and sidekick/partner of the Green Arrow) known as Speedy; before assuming the alternative identity, Arsenal, and eventually, the Red Arrow.
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Do the showrunners consider Supergirl and Constantine to be part of the Arrowverse?
According to Wikipedia's article on the Arrowverse, the Arrowverse consists of four shows: Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and the animated series Vixen. It lists Supergirl as a crossover, but ...
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Do "Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow" have different rules for time travel?
(Image Sources: Flash, Legends of Tomorrow)
Time travel on The Flash introduced us to e.g.
Different Timelines
Time Wraiths
Time Remnants
And in the episode Flashpoint (3x01) it is shown that ...
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Why did they replace Ronnie Raymond as Firestorm?
After doing a little reading, it seems that Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein are the primary duo for Firestorm in the comics and most other media. It seems odd to me, then, that they would decide to ...
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Why did Vandal call him by that name and what does it mean or reference?
In Legends of Tomorrow, Vandal Savage called Rip Hunter by the name
Why did he nickname him like this? What does it mean? Is it some reference?
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Why doesn't Prometheus kill Curtis?
In the Mid-Season finale of Arrow, Prometheus hurts Curtis Hall. Why doesn't he kill him? If he wants to get revenge on Oliver, wouldn't killing Curtis be really effective.
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How did Deathbolt (Arrow/The Flash) become a meta-human?
On TV Show "Arrow", season 3 episode 18, we were introduced to a new villain Jake Simmons (Deathbolt). After his capture, they did a cross-over scene with "The Flash" with Ray and Cisco talking over ...
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Why did Arrow, unlike the other shows of the Arrowverse, pick a combination of its own individual logos in the Invasion crossover story arc?
In the Arrowverse Invasion aka Heroes Vs. Aliens Crossover every show had a different title card than their usual ones (except for Supergirl which was not even part of the Invasion storyline).
Flash ...
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Is Supergirl from Earth-1 or Earth-2?
I am a bit confused with the The Flash/Supergirl crossover. I always thought Supergirl was Earth-1, but The Flash rescued her and implied that she was Earth-2. If she is Earth-2 and The Flash has ...
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Did Dr. Stein sing so well because of the ingestible translator he was using to speak German?
In DC’s Legends of Tomorrow episode 2x02 “Justice Society of America”, Dr. Martin Stein impersonated singer Max Lorenz to get into a Nazi club. While there, a Nazi army official said that he didn’t ...
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What did Oliver Queen say to the Russian guard in S02E06?
In the most recent episode of Arrow (season 2, episode 6), what did Oliver Queen say to the Russian guard (in Russian)? The scene is about 18 minutes into the episode.
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Who is Randolph Morgan that HR mentioned while using his face?
In The Flash, s3 e6, named Shade, HR aka the Harrison Wells from Earth 19 took up a new face with his Earth's light refraction technology and mentioned that it was of "Randolph Morgan".
He mentioned ...
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How does Central City PD jail metahumans?
Part of The Flash is that they tend to kidnap and deny constitutional rights to capture evil Metahumans and keep them in the particle accelerator. That works because of some pseudo science about how ...
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What exactly happened to Ronnie in The Flash?
So I finished watching the first season of The Flash on Netflix and recently started watching the second season. And of course, in all the chaos and world-saving that was going on in the first season'...
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What is the Carlin Award that the younger Martin Stein asked about?
In Legends of Tomorrow episode 2x04 "Compromised", Martin Stein tells his younger self that despite all the awards he's won, his wife is the most important part of his life. His younger self briefly ...
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Who is this vigalante hired by Tobias Church in Arrow S05E05?
In Arrow S05E05, Tobias Church hires a vigilante to kill Green Arrow.
He even attempted the deed:
But who is this vigilante, is he some straight from the comic book character like Human Target or ...
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How true is the plot of 'Arrow' to the comic with regards to his origins and background?
While I've read a few of the Green Arrow comics, I honestly don't remember much of it, including anything about Oliver Queen's origins. Does he even have an origin story? How true is the plot of the ...
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How much resemblance is there between the "Arrow" TV-series and the "Green Arrow" comics?
I have seen Arrow season 1, 2, 3 and am currently watching season 4. And in season 4 Oliver Queen changes his name from "Arrow" to "Green Arrow". Also meta-humans or mystic powers villains are ...
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Why does Sin call Roy "Abercombie"?
In the TV show Arrow, why does Sin call Roy "Abercombie"? Is it because the red hoodie he wears is the brand Abercrombie & Fitch? Wikipedia says the actor (Colton Lee Haynes) modeled for the brand,...
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What are all the names from Arrow's kill list and what is the status of these people?
The main theme of Arrow season 1 was Oliver's kill list,
He used to kill those persons on the list and then strike down their names:
But later he grows from a vigilante to a hero and he left using ...
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Why does S.T.A.R. Labs look different in Vixen than it does in The Flash?
In The Flash, S.T.A.R. Labs looks like this:
But in Vixen, S.T.A.R. Labs looks like this:
And it continues to look this way in Season 2:
I find this puzzling because both shows are part of the ...
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How is the voice not distorted when Barry is running at super-speeds?
I am not a physicist, however, when Barry is running/flashing, he gets to talk to the team back in HQ - How?
When he talks back to them, I have a feeling, his voice needs to be distorted, even if not ...
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What happened to the child Barry Allen in The Flash S3 Premiere?
Okay this might be too soon to ask about the whereabouts of a character of the show which just got premiered and a whole season left to unravel the knot of the Flashpoint plot.
But this seems to me ...
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Is the casting of Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell together in "The Flash" intentional?
I have recently watched Prison Break and am now watching The Flash. A couple episodes into the series, an antagonist (Captain Cold) played by Wentworth Miller (Prison Break's Michael Scofield) shows ...
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Legends of tomorrow quote, what is it from?
This quote sounds awfully familiar, but I cannot figure out, why. Anyone knows if this is a reference to some other move? Sounds starwarsish ...
Rip: "I vowed to save my family, but I'm failing ...
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Explanation for character actions in Arrow S03E17?
I don't understand the motivations or actions in Arrow season 3 episode 17.
First Ray Palmer literally grilled Arsenal (Roy) and I already thought he's dead, but no one even cares about him and ...
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How far is Central City from Star/Starling City?
In several crossovers, the characters from both series go back and forth between these two cities. In a scene, Oliver was on a motorcycle.
What is the distance between these two cities?
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Is the Supergirl/Flash crossover understandable enough without watching the whole first season of Supergirl?
I know everything from Arrowverse but I am not following Supergirl. Only checked it's leaked pilot. Do I need to see the whole Supergirl till the crossover or is the basic knowledge of Supergirl + ...
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Was Moira Queen's knowledge about Arrow's identity foreshadowed earlier?
During the Arrow episode "Seeing Red" (S02E20) Moira Queen tells her son Oliver that she knows about him being Arrow, which came as quite a surprise to Ollie, but to me as well:
Moira: ...
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Why wasn't the timeline affected any further from the events in the season 1 finale?
Flash season 1 Spoilers Ahead
In the Flash season one finale, Barry doesn't save his mother because the alternate Flash told him to do so. But when Eddie Thawne commits suicide Eobard Thawne gets ...
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Do the DC speedsters need to accelerate and are not fast from the start like Quicksilver in the movies?
Why doesn't Flash in the new show "The Flash" simply dodge attacks like Quicksilver did in the movies by speeding up and even changing trajectories of bullets?
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Why does Barry do what he does at the end of Flash Season 2?
In the 23rd and last episode of The Flash's Season 2,
It is unclear what he will do from now on or how he will come back, since the whole continuum in which the episode (and past season) took place ...
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Have the Arrow writers fully planned out Oliver's 5 years away?
I was just bothered about the whole continuity thing, and whether the writers make up Oliver's time away for 5 years as they go along, or if everything has been laid out already.
For instance, no way ...
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In the first season finale of the Flash, how did they know their plan would work the way it did?
(Spoiler alert for anybody who's even more behind in the show than I am.)
So I recently watched the first season of The Flash, and during the season finale...
...how did everybody know that this ...
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How do the singularity breaches works in The Flash? [closed]
I just saw all 5 currently released episodes of Season 2 from The Flash and got a few questions. Answers to any of my questions will be helpful, some questions might not have been explained but if I ...
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When do Ronnie and Stein split apart in The Flash?
In episode 13 of The Flash season 1, Firestorm, the combined form of Ronnie & Professor Stein, explodes when Caitlin and Barry try to help him. He was never mentioned after that.
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Why did Flash completely avoid mentioning Supergirl?
In Flash S02E18 "Versus Zoom", Flash accidentally passes through a blue portal during his speed test and after his return he asks how much time has passed. It's surely a nod to the crossover episode, ...
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Did DC officials ever acknowledge the term "Arrowverse" for their canon universe?
Did officials ever confirm or acknowledge the term Arrowverse for their DC shows (consisting of Arrow, The Flash, Vixen and Legends of Tomorrow)?
"Arrowverse" and "Flarrow/Flarrowverse" were famous ...
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Was The Reverse Flash gay?
In S01E011 of The Flash we see flashbacks from "Harrison Wells'" perspective involving a chess game with Hartley Rathaway ("The Pied Piper"). In these flashbacks it is clear that the two have feelings ...
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Why doesn't anyone find out the masked man's identity in The Flash
As far as we know, no one (except Zoom) knows the identity of the masked man, even if many characters spent time in the prison with him.
He can't talk, agreed. Yet he can hear and see, and can make ...
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Can Reverse Flash time travel?
In the 1st season of The Flash we see that Thawne is faster than Flash. Then why did he need Barry to time travel to his to open the portal, why didn't he run fast?
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How is Flash able to communicate with his team? [duplicate]
In The Flash, Flash is running at speeds greater than the speed of sound. Then how is he able to communicate live with his team (Cisco, Caitlin) while running? Since he is moving faster than sound it ...
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How does the Flash have powers on Arrow S04E19?
Flash didn't have powers on The Flash S02E19, but has powers at the end of Arrow S04E19 just one day later. How is that possible?
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Where do the recaps/flashbacks of Felicity Smoak come from in S01E04?
At the beginning of every episode of The Flash, there are some recap shots. For episode 4, those consist of some shots of Felicity Smoak asking about Barry and being introduced to Iris. Yet I don't ...
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Why does the drink affect him?
In The Flash S1E11 Dr. Harrison Wells is seen in his apartment just having arrived from S.T.A.R. Labs, and he pours out a drink for himself, sips it and seems satisfied. Except he is a speedster. ...
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