The Flash: Masks of the Crimson Demise Brings Closure to Batwoman

Leslie’s efficiency because the deranged Crimson Demise—a model of Ryan from an alternate timeline—has been wildly entertaining to observe, a satisfying mixture of crafty and loopy (with a dollop of otherworldly superior know-how on high) that makes her not like any villain that Staff Flash has confronted earlier than. And, but, should you squint, it’s not that tough to see how she’s not actually that totally different from the Ryan Wilder we all know, who additionally desires to combat crime in a metropolis in determined want of justice.

“You need to have fearlessness once you play villains,” Leslie says. “You need to, as a result of if you concentrate on all of your best villains, and particularly these in [Batman’s world], all of them imagine that they’re justice. It’s only a few of them which can be killing simply to kill. Most are doing it primarily based on what they imagine in, and there’s no distinction with Crimson Demise as a result of she believes what she’s doing is correct.” 

Leslie describes Crimson Demise’s “obsessive” concept of justice as “unhinged,” as a result of it tends to skew quite a bit nearer to exacting vengeance or doling out punishment than it does truly serving to those who want it.

“The issue, which is what makes her totally different from good Ryan or Batwoman, is that whereas Crimson Demise will do something for the justice that she desires, and should you pay shut consideration, it’s truly extra of an influence journey,” she says. “As a result of true justice perhaps means you received’t be the winner ultimately. And [Red Death] desires to be in management over the whole lot, so it in the end stops being about justice and begins being about energy. Batwoman clearly desires justice, however she has guidelines—I feel as a hero you must create guidelines. You need to create a way of morality you’ll comply with it doesn’t matter what. And that’s what Batwoman has that Crimson Demise doesn’t have.”

The Flash’s tackle Crimson Demise is, after all, fairly totally different from the DC Comics model of the character, on condition that showrunner Eric Wallace says he was basically forbidden from utilizing Bruce or Thomas Wayne and subsequently ”couldn’t actually dip into the Darkish Nights: Steel storyline.” However, in keeping with Leslie, the chance to construct her personal tackle the character was releasing. 

“I haven’t actually accomplished my full analysis, however I don’t [think] Crimson Demise has ever been delivered to dwell motion earlier than,” she says. “So we didn’t actually have something to go off of however our personal creativity. It made it enjoyable, and it allow us to make it our personal.”