Reverse Flash

[PNGwynne]

In all fairness, Capt. Cold preceded Mr. Freeze (Zero). Freeze was a gimmicky C-lister until Batman: The Animated Series.

[LonnieFisher]

Reverse Flash was always my favorite Flash villain. If they make any more villains for the Flash, I'm glad Reverse Flash was first!

[ODBJBG]

Although I quite like Flash's goofy rogues gallery, they always had the baggage of just seemingly like non-threatening goobers or poor man's versions of Batman's foes. To me that was part of the charm, but to many Flash's foes looked like the kind of guys Batman could show up and beat up in 5 mins. With the exception of Grodd, who ended up getting more play once he was co-opted in Batman and JL stories.

In recent years Reverse Flash/Zoom have appeared to me like an attempt from DC to beef up Flash's rogues and make them a bit more substantive/threatening. And he's easy reuse for toy companies, so he almost always gets featured.

[zeedox]

No Lex?

[TRDouble]

They tried one villan to one hero( with the Mattel retros) and the heroes sold out but the villans did'nt . I picked up most of the villans for 5 dollars each at Ross and TJ Maxx

Yep, I was thinking about Mattel on that one. I have all of those, but I admit, I will skip villains too, depending on my collecting intentions. Like, I have no idea what I am doing with the McFarlane Super Powers, so I haven't bought one villain from the line, just the Super-Heroes.

[wise guy]

With each 50th anniversary WGSH, they should counter with one arch villain for each of them in the near future, Luthor-Joker-Black Manta and Black Adam and Captain Cold just to name a few.

They tried one villan to one hero( with the Mattel retros) and the heroes sold out but the villans did'nt . I picked up most of the villans for 5 dollars each at Ross and TJ Maxx

[Liu Bei]

With each 50th anniversary WGSH, they should counter with one arch villain for each of them in the near future, Luthor-Joker-Black Manta and Black Adam and Captain Cold just to name a few.

At least one. Batman’s rogue gallery is so strong though you could probably even do 2 per Bat character.

[TrekStar]

With each 50th anniversary WGSH, they should counter with one arch villain for each of them in the near future, Luthor-Joker-Black Manta and Black Adam and Captain Cold just to name a few.

[puckace]

Even if the corrections are made, and I’m sure they will be, I’m not completely sold. Reverse Flash wasn’t an original Mego, I wouldn’t consider him to be an obvious omission (like I would Lex Luthor), and he’s not a character I was pining away for as a kid.

Agreed. Reverse Flash has become much more popular with recent media. As a kid in the seventies, I would have wanted a Captain Cold to go with a Mego Flash. That said, I'm definitely picking him up

[Xavion2004]

They aren’t just doing originals, otherwise we wouldn’t have Green Lantern.

As for Reverse Flash, I don’t think they ever released any Flash villains originally, so this is as good as any, and likely much cheaper for Mego to produce with the limited, if any, new tooling they’d have to do.

Hopefully later we get some other classic villains like Captain Cold and Sandman.

Oh, I just meant that Reverse Flash doesn’t check any of those three boxes for me personally.

For example, I was never crazy about the Mego Catwoman as a kid, but she was still an original Mego, so that’s a consideration when the WGSH 50th version comes out

I never had any real desire to have a Mego Lex Luthor as a kid, but he’s an obvious omission, so that’s a consideration if Mego releases him as a WGSH 50th figure.

Mary Marvel wasn’t an original Mego, and I wouldn’t call her an obvious omission, but I wanted a Mego of her in the worst way as a kid, so if she was released as a WGSH 50th, she would be a must buy. (As I mentioned elsewhere, my Mary love was heavily influenced by an early 7-11 Slurpee cup.)

Having said all that, I get it. These days, regardless of the line, a Reverse Flash is pretty much a given as soon as a Flash figure is released. There’s the obvious cost savings as you mentioned, plus Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash has become a far more important villain not only in Flash’s Rogues Gallery, but in the DC Universe as a whole since the 70s.

He’s just not a character that 1970s me would have been excited about, even if a Mego Flash had been previously released, but if 1970s me had a fat Mr. Mxyzptlk, 2020’s me will probably end up with a Reverse Flash.

[Liu Bei]

Even if the corrections are made, and I’m sure they will be, I’m not completely sold. Reverse Flash wasn’t an original Mego, I wouldn’t consider him to be an obvious omission (like I would Lex Luthor), and he’s not a character I was pining away for as a kid.

They aren’t just doing originals, otherwise we wouldn’t have Green Lantern.

As for Reverse Flash, I don’t think they ever released any Flash villains originally, so this is as good as any, and likely much cheaper for Mego to produce with the limited, if any, new tooling they’d have to do.

Hopefully later we get some other classic villains like Captain Cold and Sandman.

[TRDouble]

That is an interesting take, when I think about it though, at that time, I'm not sure I could name a Flash villain in the mid-70s. Maybe Captain Boomerang, maybe...

That's surprising to me. The Flash always get credited with having a great Rogues Gallery. But I was also an avid reader of The Flash comic, so I was very familiar with his Rogues.

[monitor_ep]

I always loved the opposite characters. Bonus with the Reverse Flash I can make Bizarro Flash!!
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[palitoy]

Even if the corrections are made, and I’m sure they will be, I’m not completely sold. Reverse Flash wasn’t an original Mego, I wouldn’t consider him to be an obvious omission (like I would Lex Luthor), and he’s not a character I was pining away for as a kid.

That is an interesting take, when I think about it though, at that time, I'm not sure I could name a Flash villain in the mid-70s. Maybe Captain Boomerang, maybe...

[Xavion2004]

Even if the corrections are made, and I’m sure they will be, I’m not completely sold. Reverse Flash wasn’t an original Mego, I wouldn’t consider him to be an obvious omission (like I would Lex Luthor), and he’s not a character I was pining away for as a kid.