Ever since John Wesley Shipp appeared in the premiere of The Flash back in 2014, it’s become an Arrowverse tradition for actors from previous comic book projects, especially DC projects, to show up in that world. Supergirl gave us such Super-luminaries as Erica Durance, Lynda Carter, Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain, Helen Slater, Sarah Douglas, Sam Witwer, and Laura Vandervoort over the years; last year’s Crisis on Infinite Earths dug even deeper, giving us such folks as Burt Ward (Batman ’66) and Tom Welling (Smallville).
Even before the Arrowverse did it, Smallville brought back folks like Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder; Lois & Clark gave us 1950’s Lois Lane Phyllis Coates and Jimmy Olsen Jack Larson; and Superman: The Movie featured Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill, not to mention how Superman Returns and Superboy gave us Neill and Larson as well.
With Superman & Lois coming on, there are more opportunities to revisit our Super past, with a lot of guest star roles to fill at one point or another so for this list of actors we’d like to see on the new show, we are limiting it to people who have not appeared in the Arrowverse as yet. So, none of those people listed above would qualify. No Brandon Routh. No Tom Welling or Erica Durance. No Teri Hatcher, though we’d love to see her or Erica Durance opposite Elizabeth Tulloch. We wanted to put Colin Salmon who was so brilliant as Zod on Krypton on this list, but he’s already been in the Arrowverse in another role, as Walter Steele.
Folks currently involved with the DCEU movie universe are also off limits for the sake of this list, as we are [mostly] sticking to TV. So… let’s get started, yes?
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Vantheman77
December 18, 2020
I would like to see Michael Rosenbaum reprise President Luthor and lead the Council of Luthors.