Robbie Amell has spoken about his return in season 8 of the CW’s The Flash, revealing what his favorite thing about his new role as the villainous Deathstorm is. First joining the cast in 2014’s season 1, Amell originally played Ronnie Raymond, the late husband of Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin Snow. Initially thought to have been killed in the explosion of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, he returned partway through the season to form one half of the original Firestorm along with Victor Garber’s Martin Stein.
However, in the first episode of season 2, it is revealed that Ronnie sacrificed himself in order to close the Singularity that threatened Central City. While Amell would later guest star in season 2 as an Earth-2 version of Deathstorm, and again reappear as a manifestation of the Speed Force in season 3, it has since been several years since his time as a regular on the show. However, in November of last year, it was revealed that Amell would be returning for season 8.
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While details about Amell’s return have been scant until the show’s most recent episode, it turns out that Amell will not be reprising the role of Ronnie and will instead be playing a new version of Deathstorm, an evil entity created by the enormous power generated by his original sacrifice. Amell recently spoke with EW about his return to the show after so many years and was asked about his favorite of coming back. Suggesting that it “was really cool to come back and see how the show had evolved,” he teased an outcome “that nobody expected to happen.” Check out his comments below:
Definitely the outcome, that's going to be something that nobody expected to happen. The big thing for me was
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