After nine seasons, and just a few weeks ahead of the long-awaited The Flash movie premiering in theaters, The CW’s The Flash TV series is now over. The final episode, titled “A New World, Part Four,” wrapped up various plot threads and even left the Speed Force Door open for possible spinoffs, but there were also a lot of ideas that showrunner Eric Wallace and his team had to toss aside once the show’s fate was decided. Among those was a Blackest Night adaptation, and among the new details Wallace has shared about The Flash’s version of the scrapped storyline is that it would have been a major DC crossover.
Written by Geoff Johns, illustrated by Ivan Reis, and published between June 2009 and May 2010, Blackest Night was a Green Lantern-centric crossover event that saw numerous dead heroes and villains in the DC Universe being resurrected as Black Lanterns to serve the personification of death known as Nekron, who sought to eliminate all life and emotion from existence. The Flash dipped into this story a bit in Season 8 with its use of Deathstorm, but as Wallace told EW, he initially planned to follow up the “Death Revisited” arc with a full-blown Blackest Night saga:
