For instance, Carlos Valdes' Cisco Ramon spent some time there in The Flash: Season 7 while working on a device to access the Mirror Dimension. The most we've ever gotten is various allusions to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. Like Wonder Woman, Aquaman's big screen success ensured he was always off-limits in the Arrowverse. Diana and her fellow Amazons were referenced in various shows, including as a speed dial entry on Earth-2 Barry's phone and, most notably, when the Legends of Tomorrow sent Helen of Troy to live on Themyscira. Unfortunately, it's precisely because of Gal Gadot's DCEU Wonder Woman that the Arrowverse has never been allowed to use the character. Given her massive popularity on the big screen these days, we're almost surprised that Wonder Woman hasn't been added to the Arrowverse. But as for the Arrowverse's own Batman, he'll forever remain MIA. One episode sees Kate Kane travel to an alternate universe where Kevin Conroy plays a brooding, corrupted Bruce loosely inspired by the graphic novel Kingdom Come. The closest the Arrowverse got to a true Batman appearance came in 2019's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover. Technically, the series cast its Bruce Wayne when Warren Christie signed on to play the villain Hush disguised as Bruce, but Christie never returned to play Bruce himself. The Dark Knight only ever appeared in cameo form via flashbacks (basically the "stunt double in a costume who appears for a split second" approach), with Batwoman dealing heavily with the ongoing mystery of Bruce Wayne's disappearance. The later seasons of Arrow finally settled that debate, but it wasn't until 2018's "Elseworlds" crossover that we actually took a trip to Gotham City and met its new protector, Ruby Rose's Batwoman.īut even with Batwoman getting her own spinoff series the following year, the Arrowverse never gave us a proper, in-costume Batman appearance. For years, it was an open question as to whether the Arrowverse actually had a Batman.
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