20 DC Characters Who Could Yet Appear In Arrow And The Flash

5. Rip Hunter

This famed time-traveller is seemingly a certainty to appear at some point in Arrow or The Flash after being announced as part of the upcoming spin-off show, portrayed by Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill.

Given how this spin-off show will heavily feature some faces already familiar with Arrow and Flash fans – such as Brandon Routh’s Atom, Victor Garber’s Martin Stein, Wentworth Miller’s Captain Cold, Dominic Purcell’s Heat Wave and Caity Lotz’s Sara Lance – there’s plenty of scope for the new characters introduced in that show to spill over to The CW’s other DC-based shows.

Whether he turns up in Starling City or Central City, that’s unsure – but make no doubt about it, Rip Hunter will be making an appearance in at least one of the other other shared universe shows somewhere down the line.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 20th Apr 2015

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