The Flash: One Of The Rogues We Still Need

By Nick Tylwalk | Feb 14, 2015

As a longtime fan of the Flash, the character, I’ve been very impressed with the way The Flash, the TV show, has brought so many characters from the comics to life. In a little more than half of Season 1, we’ve already been treated to classic Rogues like Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Pied Piper, Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, and even Rainbow Raider, kind of.

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Reverse-Flash is a major part of the ongoing narrative, and Grodd has already been teased. Trickster is on the way. We’ve seen newer Rogues like Girder and Peek-A-Boo as well. That’s more than I ever would have imagined, and we’re only 13 episodes in.

So I don’t want to seem ungrateful, but … I’m going to ask for more anyway. Because there’s a Rogue who’s still missing from The Flash that we desperately need to see.

I’m talking about Mirror Master — preferably Sam Scudder, but I’d settle for Evan McCulloch is that’s what it would take. I asked my brother, whose favorite hero growing up was the Flash, to name the first five Rogues that popped into his head. He answered Captain Cold, Trickster, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard and Captain Boomerang, and I’m confident most fans would come up with something similar.

He’d fit in easily with the pseudo-scientific bent of the show, given that his powers are all related to mirrors and light. In fact, I almost wondered if the writers were foreshadowing him a bit last week with the vintage mirror and the way Cisco Ramon made three-dimensional holograms from the images it captured. That felt like a page right out of the Mirror Master playbook.

If you don’t want him to be traveling through mirrors and into other dimensions, that’s fine, though I’d argue the series has already conditioned viewers in a way that even that wouldn’t seem too far-fetched. There’s still plenty he could do with multiple images, invisibility and the like, enough tricks to easily provide a challenge for a relatively inexperienced Barry Allen.

Scudder was one of the original Rogues with real vision and planning skills, and McCulloch was a bit edgier and more psychotic. Either man would provide an element that would prove entertaining when combined with the other TV Rogues.

Since we’ve still got 10 episodes left before the season is over, it’s possible the writers are already working on Mirror Master and just haven’t clued us in yet. Or, with the Reverse-Flash subplot always looming, Grodd coming soon and Captain Cold still working his long game, I could also understand if there’s just too much going on to bring him in. I’d be disappointed, but since The Flash has already been renewed for Season 2, the showrunners could work him in later.

Again, I’m not complaining. I just think with Mirror Master in the fold, I’d have pretty much every villain I’ve ever wanted in the series.

Unless the writers want to consider Abra Kadabra too …

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