For the past three seasons on “The Flash” Barry Allen has faced off against another speedster. In season 1 he battled the Reverse Flash, in season 2 he took on Zoom, and in season 3 he faced his greatest challenge yet when he went up against Savitar.
Season 3 ended with a huge cliffhanger, and fans have been asking a lot of questions regarding the direction of “The Flash” season 4. One thing that we know for sure is that Team Flash will not be facing off against a speedster.
It’s been rumored for months now that the villain will be none other than Clifford DeVoe, aka The Thinker. Comicbook.com reports that The Thinker was confirmed during “The Flash” San Diego Comic Con panel, and he will be played by Neil Sandilands. Kim Engelbrecht will be joining the show as The Mechanic.
The Thinker is described as, “a metahuman with a mega mind who embarks on a season-long battle with The Flash that pits the “fastest man alive” against the “fastest mind alive.” A true genius, he’s devised an intricate plan to fix all that he deems wrong with humanity.”
It was also announced that Danny Trejo will he joining the cast, and he will apparently be playing a character named Breacher who is described as “a feared bounty hunter from Earth-19 and the imposing father to inter-dimensional bounty hunter, Gypsy (Jessica Camacho).”
“The Flash” will return on Tuesday, October 10.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother’s life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.
With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.
Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Supergirl”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Sarah Schechter (“Arrow,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Todd Helbing (“Black Sails”).
