Grant Gustin Marks Arrival of Flash’s April 25, 2024 Crisis Date, Happily Reports: I Have Not ‘Vanished’!
Grant Gustin on Thursday morning commemorated the real-life arrival of the April 25, 2024 dateline that loomed large for five seasons of The CW’s The Flash.
At the close of the series’ October 2014 premiere, a stinger scene revealed that S.T.A.R. Labs head honcho Dr. Harrison Wells (played by Tom Cavanagh) in fact was not in need of the wheelchair he used, as we saw him walk into the facility’s hidden Time Vault and use biometrics to access a future homepage for the Central City Gazette website.
That memorable homepage headline revealed that on April 25, 2024, the scarlet speedster would go “missing,” having vanished in an event dubbed “Crisis.”
Well, April 25, 2024 is today, and Flash vet Gustin is happy to report, via his Instagram page, “We made it” — that The Flash “in fact has not vanished.”
Gustin’s message was accompanied by photos of him in a comically floppy Flash bathrobe; as the actor noted, the superhero show was always on hiatus by late April, so the pickings were slim when it came to finding a thematically fitting April 25 photo from his phone.
What of The Flash‘s own telegraphed Crisis? A bonus scene tacked onto the Season 5 finale revealed that, for mysterious reasons yet to be revealed, the “Vanishes in Crisis” dateline had been moved up — to December 10, 2019.
As a result, the first half of Season 6, which premiered in October 2019, was fueled by Barry’s concern about the looming Crisis and his unfortunate destiny. That threat culminated in the Arrowverse’s five-show “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event, which kicked off that December 8, and on December 10 served up Part 3 via The Flash‘s installment.
Are you glad to see that “The Flash has in fact not vanished” on this date? But was Gustin’s Water for Elephants Broadway understudy prepared, nonetheless?
