Did The Flash Really Just Introduce DC's Undead Firestorm? - Screen Rant

Warning: Spoilers for The Flash season 8, episode 10

The Flash is hinting at the introduction of Deathstorm, DC’s undead version of Ronnie Raymond. The cliffhanger ending of The Flash season 8, episode 9, titled “Reckless”, finally revealed the nature of Firestorm’s return to the Arrowverse. It’s been known for months that Robbie Amell’s character would find his way back into the lives of Team Flash, but how it would happen has been a mystery up until now.

The Flash season 8 is getting closer and closer to explaining the Black Flame mystery. Earlier, Team Flash figured out that the Black Flame is a powerful entity that targets people suffering from grief and impersonates their dead loved ones. For a reason that no one the team could understand, it set its sights on Killer Frost (Danielle Panabaker), who concocted a plan that almost ensnared the Black Flame. Now, a possible explanation for its focus on Frost has emerged. In a scene where it appeared to her other half, Caitlin Snow, the supernatural being spoke to her using the words of her dead husband.

Clearly, The Flash is suggesting that its new season 8 villain is in fact Ronnie Raymond, who died in the season 2 premiere. While what the show has already said about the Black Flame indicates that the Firestorm reveal is actually a trick, it does appear that his design is an adaptation of a DC Comics villain. The look of the skull and how it was surrounded in black fire makes him a close match for Deathstorm, who was the product of a Green Lantern-focused crossover event called Blackest Night. Ronnie, who had died in a previous story, was reanimated by Nekron, who made him a member of the Black Lanterns. As Deathstorm, the character proved to be a challenging opponent for DC’s heroes.

Albeit without the Black Lantern connection, The Arrowverse theoretically can have a proper version of Deathstorm join The Flash season 8. It had a Deathstorm already in season 2, but in name only. Earth-2’s Deathstorm was just an evil version of Ronnie, and not an undead being like the one that the Black Flame supposedly is. Based on the promo for the next episode, the show’s supernatural allusions, and his scene with Caitlin, the Black Flame is indeed being painted as Ronnie’s ghost, which is what one would expect of a live-action Deathstorm adaptation.

Even though the show is clearly making its new villain look like Ronnie Raymond’s Deathstorm from the comics, whether or not this character is the real Ronnie remains to be seen. After all, Team Flash already knows the Black Flame can copy the forms of the dead. With that in mind, The Flash season 8’s Deathstorm tease may be a fakeout designed to drag out the Black Flame mystery even longer. But if not, it’s at least possible that Team Flash can find a way to beat Deathstorm and fully revive him as Firestorm.

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Nicholas Raymond is a staff movies & TV features writer for Screen Rant. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo, and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel, "A Man Against the World." Nicholas' love for telling stories is inspired by his love for film noir, westerns, superhero movies, classic films, and ancient history. His favorite actors are Tyrone Power and Eleanor Parker. He can be reached by email at cnrmail@bellsouth.net and on Twitter at @cnraymond91.

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