The CW has teased it for so many
months now, and fans of their DC superhero TV lineup known as the “Arrow”-verse
just cannot wait any more for their Holiday crossover event, “Crisis on
Infinite Earths.” But first, the various series that constitute the “Arrow”-verse
have to start off with their latest seasons, or in the case of “Batwoman,”
premiere as a new series. The second show of the franchise, “The Flash,” just
started its sixth season this Tuesday with an incredible initial threat that
the Fastest Man Alive must face. And he does so with an old “Queen” song that
has been connected via meme to his character too.
As Comic Book Resources tells us, on his sixth season of adventures as
part of the “Arrow”-verse on The CW, Barry Allen/The Flash (Grant Gustin) faces
an unusual menace in the form of ultra-micro-scale black holes appearing all
over Central City in the season 6 premiere episode “Into the Void.” These come
about due to a freak accident involving a gravity wave emitter developed by Chester
P. Runk (Brandon McKnight), a minor superhuman character from the “Flash” DC
Comics. When Chester’s consciousness is taken into a dimensional void, various
black holes open up in the city sucking up matter everywhere.
Barry thus volunteers to enter
the void on the other side of the black holes to recover Chester’s spirit. He
plans to use a larger black hole that opens up in the streets, while his fellow
“Team Flash” compatriots evacuate civilians and Iris (Candice Patton) and Cisco
(Carlos Valdez) run mission control. As Flash preps to get inside the black
hole, Cisco opens his playlist to a song he has been keeping in reserve for
such key moment: the theme song for the 1980 “Flash Gordon” movie as performed
by legendary British rock band Queen.
While the memorable rock theme
song refers of course to the space opera hero of the legendary King Features
Syndicate comic strip, the lyrics have also been taken by The CW “Flash” fans
with a flair for making online videos to refer to Barry Allen and his
incredible reality-bending feats using his super-speed. Boastful lines of “Savior
of the Universe,” “Miracle” and “King of the Impossible” remarkably apply to
Barry and his alter ego as well, after five completed seasons of
super-adventures and a sixth already started this week. And soon the S6
storyline will tie into the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover that The CW
has long been hyping.
“The Flash” is on every Tuesday
night on The CW. Its December 10 episode will be the third in sequence for the
2019 “Arrow”-verse crossover event “Crisis on Infinite Earths.”
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