Agreed. And it isn't tough to find someone who looks enough like Barry. Really. Get Lucas Till, Ryan Gosling, Alex Pettyfer, Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Rosenbaum, Jake McDorman, Alexander Ludwig, Max Theriot, Sam Clafin, Garrett Hedlund etc. And I stopped watching the CW show when they got rid of Elongated Man because someone who wanted to destroy him dug up old tweets and the cast all threw him under the bus.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
Barry Allen in the comics is a blond. Barry Allen in the comics has always been a blond. We've had four live action Barry Allens; John Wesley Shipp, Kenny Johnston, Grant Gustin, and Ezra Miller. All of them have dark hair. What's behind Hollywood's aversion to casting a blond Barry Allen?
It actually depends which side of the pond you're on.
Creating a distinction between male and female descriptors is an older, sexist usage and style guides suggest erasing such distinctions; in the US blond is the suggested form to use regardless of sex in professional writing while in the UK it's blonde for both sexes.
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I never like it when characters are changed from their comic background because quotas. In adaptions and comic retcons. If they wanted a diverse cast with a black father figure to Barry, the show easily could have used James Forrest and given him a larger role than he had in the comics. But really, as much as I like Johns, I don't like the rewriting of Barry's origin where Nora is murdered. It feels like every character has to be Batman. Why can't there be characters who don't have a tragic past? I mean, prior to Crisis, Henry and Nora were alive. And the version we've gotten in the show has been an emotional wreck because the narrative has been milked dry.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
In the beginning, I was peeved about the amount of characters being shoved into this movie, and how they were probably going to overshadow the Flash in his own film. Now, with all the Ezra Miller news, I'm just hoping for more Batman and more Supergirl. Screw it, just make it their story lol