The Flash: Easter Eggs and DC Comics References In "Crazy For You"

Tonight wasn't too Easter egg-heavy on The Flash...in no small part because they had a LOT of [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Peek-A-Boo

Tonight wasn't too Easter egg-heavy on The Flash...in no small part because they had a LOT of plot.

But that didn't mean there was nothing to watch for. 

Read on to see what we spotted and what we missed.

Peek-A-Boo

Britne Oldford played a variation on Lashawn Baez from The Flash executive producer and DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns' time writing the comic book series. Baez was known as Peek-A-Boo and had teleportation-based powers, making her a formidable nuisance for a speedster.

Baez had a terminally-ill father and when she tried to steal a kidney to transplant for him, she ended up in jail. Later, she would reveal that she planned to use her powers for good until The Flash branded her a Rogue.

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Piper's cuffs

This is almost certainly NOT an intentional reference, but it's the kind of thing fans will comment on below if I don't point it out: those high-tech cuffs on Piper felt a bit like the ones he had attached to him in Countdown.

Vibe

Hartley is "not the only one who understands vibrations," says Cisco when he uses a sonic weapon to take down the villain.

It seems they're setting the two up to be arch-nemeses, which given Cisco's comic book destiny is an interesting call.

"Faster than a speeding bullet"

Yes, that was a cute little wink-and-a-nod.

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Grodd

We've touched on this before, but now it certainly does appear that the Emperor Ape is moving more and more toward his comic book destiny.

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Linda Park

As noted by several people in the comments, Linda Park is Wally West's wife in the comics. Wally, of course, is Iris and Barry's nephew, who took over for Barry while he was dead following the events of the Crisis. Greg Berlanti has suggested in the past that he'd love to eventually introduce Wally and maybe even have an African-American Flash for a while (although in the comics, Wally being black is a fairly new phenomenon and he was white as The Flash).

We didn't include her here because (and really this counts again, rather than discouraging me) she appeared in an episode of Arrow and then again in the pilot for The Flash as a middle-aged anchorwoman for News 52. There is no connection between the Linda Park played by Malese Jow and this other Linda Park, other than the fact that they are reporters, as far as we know.

In the original pilot for John Wesley Shipp's 1990 version of The Flash, Linda similarly showed up in a cameo as a reporter who was about ten years older than Barry.

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