Four More DC Superheroes We'll Probably See on The Flash This Year

With the introduction of Atom-Smasher, announced earlier today, it seems likely that attentive audiences have a pretty good idea of who's next.

Why? Well, because Atom-Smasher's alter ego -- Albert Rothstein -- was one of a handful of names rattled off by "Harrison Wells" during the Season One episode "Power Outage," in which he revealed that he knew the names of everyone killed by the particle accelerator explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs and felt all of their losses personally.

Of course, it turns out that at least two of those characters so far -- Firestorm and Atom-Smasher -- have been less dead than previously advertised. So...who might we see coming up in the near future?

Ralph Dibny

The Enlongated Man is often overlooked as a character, since he shares much of his power set with super-genius and Marvel Comics icon Reed Richards, and/or DC's own Plastic Man, who has an even broader range of uses for those powers and a long history of appearances in other media to keep him fresh in people's minds.

Dibny, though, certainly has always had his fans. The biggest difference between he and the other stretchy characters is his near-Batman-level detective skills, complete with a nose that "twitches" when he's onto something.

In addition to a long run with the Justice League International, he and his wife Sue appeared in James Robinson's critically-revered Starman series.

The character died at the end of 52, sacrificing himself to defeat Neron and Felix Faust. At the end of that series, he and Sue -- who had been murdered at the start of the best-selling and controversial Identity Crisis series -- appeared as ghost detectives.

Grant Emerson

The superhero known as Damage would be a perfect fit for TV.

With vaguely-defined powers, Grant Emerson theoretically has the ability to absorb and redirect energy...but how it's used and how it looks? That's up to the creative team.

Interestingly, Emerson played a key role in the Zero Hour crossover -- a time crisis where the heroes of the DC Universe battled both Parallax in the form of Hal Jordan...and Extant, a villain with strong ties to Atom-Smasher.

Will Everett

Amazing Man -- sometimes hyphenated as Amazing-Man -- is a legacy hero whose various iterations, including Will Everett and his grandson Will Everett III, have worked with a number of DC teams including the All-Star Squadron, the Justice League and (try not to laugh) Extreme Justice.

The elder Everett could duplicate the properties of inorganic items (so he couldn't steal your powers, but he could make himself hard as rock), as could his grandson. But while the elder could also manipulate the magnetic properties of the world around him, the younger couldn't do that. Instead, he had energy absorption powers.

Bea DaCosta

A south American model with a family history in the espionage business, Bea DaCosta spent some time in every third organization in the DCU.

Originally created for the Super Friends comic book, she was introduced into mainstream continuity after the Crisis on Infinite Earths and, along with Ice, became key members of the Justice League. She has been a member of the Global Guardians, Justice League International, Super Buddies and Checkmate. She currently appears in Justice League 3001.

...and then there are these two characters who...well, we're not sure who they are, but here's some fun speculation.

Jake Davenport

J. Devlin Davenport is the closest I can come on this one. He's a real estate developer and overall shady dude who showed up in Gotham around the time of the big earthquake. Unless they use the Davenport name as another character and/or there's a reworking we can't think of, this one seems like a dead end.

Daria Kim

There isn't a Daria or Darya Kim in the DC Universe as far as we know -- but maybe David Kim? Xombi is a part of the "Dakotaverse," stories published under DC's long-defunct and recently-resurrected Milestone Comics imprint.

Of course, of all the Milestone characters to show up, using a variation on Xombi would be an odd choice; co-creator John Rozum had a public falling out with DC Entertainment following the cancellation of the most recent Xombi series and his departure from Static Shock. Given that the Milestone creators maintain more control than most over their characters, using Rozum's would seem unnecessarily complex.

So it's been said: Yes, David "Xombi" Kim had a sister in the comics. Her name was Angela, though, not Daria.