First teased as an Easter Egg in the pilot episode, now it’s learned that Gorilla Grodd will be coming to The Flash.
The Flash showrunner Andrew Kreiseberg let loose a couple of tweets teasing the coming of the hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla.
@armenvfx just showed us a little Grodd VFX in honor of @geoffjohns birthday and it blew our puny human minds! #groddlives #TheFlash
— Andrew Kreisberg (@AJKreisberg) January 25, 2015
@GBerlanti @armenvfx @geoffjohns #Groddiscoming #TheFlash
— Andrew Kreisberg (@AJKreisberg) January 25, 2015
Gorilla Grodd first appeared in The Flash #106, which was published in 1959, and was almost ten years prior to the 1968 debut of the Planet of the Apes movie.
Here’s the Grodd Easter Egg from The Flash as well:
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The Flash airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on the CW.