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Warning! The following contains spoilers for The Flash Season 7 premiere All s Well That Ends Wells. Read at your own risk!
The Flash rang in Season 7 with a bang, and
Barry is now officially back with speed but at a terrible cost. The season premiere revealed that there was an artificial way for Barry to get his speed back, but it required the sacrifice of
Nash Wells. The character s death meant the supposed last Wells alive has died, meaning
Tom Cavanagh s recurring character on the Arrowverse series is gone.
And while there is precedent for characters on
The Flash returning from the dead, this one seemed to have some finality. The multiversal entities within Nash were vital to powering the artificial Speed Force that Barry and the team have been developing but needed an organic conduit to successfully transfer into the device. Nash initially tried to find a way around it but eventually embraced his fate and disintegrated into nothingness as the trans
Elsewhere in the interview, Wallace shed some light on Nash s reasons for dying in the name of the greater good and how he was trying to make amends for the biggest mistake one can possibly make, which is causing all of the worlds to die in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. Being kind of taken over by the Anti-Monitor. he continued. What he s doing here is he s taking, from my point of view, the greatest superhero in the Arrowverse, the Flash, and enabling him once again to do his job. There could be no greater way to honour and make amends than doing that. But also on a micro level, it s about showing Allegra [Kayla Compton] that he can change and be a better person. That was really important because his death has an effect on Allegra moving forward, and it s a positive one, not a negative one.
The Flash Season 7 Premiere Clip Released
DC fans are ready for more Arrowverse, and now we have our first look at the anticipated season premiere of The Flash thanks to IGN Fan Fest. The clip is from the premiere, titled All s Well That Ends Wells, and that title does suggest that a certain Nash Wells will have some sort of part in it. The clip picks up where things left off in season 6 and focuses on Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), Joe (Jessie L. Martin), and Cecile (Danielle Nicolet). Things are getting worse for Barry and Iris (Candice Patton), and time is running out for both of them. You can check out the full clip in the video above.