Wait, The Flash Doesn't Feature A Teddy Sears Cameo After All?

Despite looking almost exactly like him, "The Flash" did not use Teddy Sears for its Jay Garrick cameo. While this makes sense — given that Sears didn't even play Jay Garrick — it feels like the movie missed an opportunity to connect to The CW's long-running and beloved version of the Scarlet Speedster. However, it wasn't as if the idea never crossed Andy Muschietti's mind.

During a Q&A session after an early screening of "The Flash," the director revealed that Grant Gustin's Barry Allen nearly appeared in the DC movie, saying that the production considered cameos from all across the DC universe. "Of course, as I said before, the list of cameos was huge," Muschietti told Nerdist at the event. "So obviously, we played with the idea of including DC characters from TV, but we just had to pick." Although the appearance never came to fruition, the director praised Gustin's portrayal of Barry/The Flash and everything the show accomplished over its nine-season run. 

While a cameo from Gustin's version of Barry wouldn't have fixed all of the problems in Muschietti's "The Flash," it would've given fans a massive payoff from the time the two Flashes previously met in The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover. Unfortunately, it looks like Muschietti chose to include previous versions of Superman, Supergirl, and Batman instead, leaving fans of the show theorizing what a second meeting between the two Flashes could've been like.