The Flash Season 3: 12 Things You Need To Know

8. Other Superhero Speedsters

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For all accounts and purposes, it looks as if Wally West’s Kid Flash won’t be the only heroic speedster to help out Barry Allen during Season 3 of The Flash.

Much like how Season 2 saw Wally struck by rays from the second particle accelerator explosion, so too was Jesse Wells. Of course, the show’s Jesse is based on the comic book Jesse Quick, who is a speedster in her own right. Already, Jesse actress Violett Beane has been spotted on the Vancouver set of The Flash in an outfit that looks remarkably close to the get-up of Jesse Quick, suggesting that Jesse will be getting some superspeed of her own in Season 3.

Elsewhere, we haven’t seen the last of the Earth-3 Jay Garrick, as played by John Wesley Shipp in one of the Season 2 finale’s big reveals. There’s actually been speculation that Jay could well appear in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at some point (potentially as part of the show’s Justice Society of America), although it certainly seems like a given that he’ll also be turning up in this next season of The Flash as well.

Despite this, Greg Berlanti has often discussed how he doesn’t want to make The Flash a show based around a team of superspeed-powered heroes, meaning that any appearances from other heroic speedsters may only be short ones in order for the full focus of the show to stay on Barry Allen and his powers.

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