Will ‘The Flash’ season 2 show more Firestorm powers? It’s possible
So far, we have seen a number of cool things out of the Firestorm character on “The Flash“; however, comic-book fans know that Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein, when together, are capable of doing so much more than being a human fireball who can fly around. Thanks in part to their immense scientific knowledge, they figure out that they have an ability to manipulate matter.
To a certain extent, additional powers were alluded to on the show while Ronnie and Dr. Stein went away for a while to “hone” their abilities; it was always assumed that they would come back with something more in their arsenal (not the Roy Harper kind). However, we haven’t seen that on the show yet. Will the series go there? It feels likely, given that Robbie Amell himself confirmed (via ScreenRant) that there was a matter-manipulation scene in the finale that was seemingly cut for time:
“The sad thing is there was a moment in the finale that had to be cut out – just because it was such a massive episode and it didn’t actually have anything to do with plot – where they introduced matter manipulation. There’s a scene where Danielle [Panabaker]’s character is checking my temperature and giving me the once-over. I call Victor in the room and we merge, and I turn her thermometer into a daffodil. It was just like a really nice, sweet way of showing… because she’s asking if we’re going to be OK, and I’m like, ‘Actually, we’re getting pretty good at this whole Firestorm thing.’ And we merge without even missing a beat and turn that into a flower. It was a nice moment, but ultimately it just didn’t hold any bearing on the plot.”
The reason that we include the word “seemingly” in here is that there is really no guarantee that the show didn’t just decide that this is a part of the character that they don’t want to explore very much. One of the last things you want to do is turn someone into Peter Petrelli, where they have so many powers that they become hard to watch. Those exist within the comics, but producers have to watch out for them here both with Firestorm and Barry Allen. A slow introduction seems to be best.
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