Unlike the first two seasons, we will have two big baddies in The Flash Season 3, Savitar and Dr. Alchemy, who will threaten Grant Gustin's Barry Allen and his team throughout the season. However, just like before, Team Flash will encounter a bunch of supervillains who will appear in one or two episodes each.
The Flash Season 3 has already confirmed casting two such rogues, Mirror Master (Grey Damon) and the Top (Ashley Rickards). Now, Comic Book reveals that the series has added another name to its cast roster to play yet another meta-human with not-so-good intentions.
According to the outlet, Joey King will be seen in the upcoming season of the CW series as Frances "Frankie" Kane, aka Magenta. The character will be a teen meta-human with "a troubled past".
Frankie's powers include the ability to control metal, but they "come with a dangerous side-effect, causing her villainous alter ego known as Magenta to emerge".
The character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. She made her first appearance as Frankie in the March 1982 issue The New Teen Titans #17, and as Magenta in the November 1987 issue Teen Titans Spotlight #16. Due to the similarities in power, Magenta is often compared with the more popular X-Men nemesis Magneto.
Joey King is best known for playing the female lead in Ramona and Beezus and for her recurring role in the FX series Fargo. She appeared in movies such as Oz the Great and Powerful, The Conjuring, and Independence Day: Resurgence.
Magenta won't be the first DC Comics character for Joey. The 17-year-old actress portrayed the younger counterpart of Marion Cotillard's Talia al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
While The Flash Season 3 has kept adding new cast members, they haven't forgotten the old ones. They have already confirmed the return of Wentworth Miller's Captain Cold and Matt Letscher's Reverse-Flash. And it looks as though they will be bringing back Teddy Sears as well, but not as Zoom.
In the finale of The Flash's second season, there was a moment when it appeared that Zoom was being transformed into the Black Flash. A new Entertainment Weekly post features a quote from executive producer Andrew Kreisberg that suggests the possibility of the Black Flash arriving at The Flash Season 3:
Obviously we did that on purpose. We love working with Teddy [Sears]. He's such an amazing actor and amazing person, and was so much a part of the success of this show last season. There aren't any immediate plans for that, but you can't keep a good Black Flash down, so I'm sure we'll be seeing him in the future.
