The Top 10 Most Comic-Accurate Characters From DC’s Television Shows

Captain Cold (The Flash)

When Wentworth Miller was first cast on The Flash as Leonard Snart, I was skeptical. When he first appeared in the series’ 4th episode, “Going Rogue”, I was even more skeptical for about a half an hour or so. And then it happened: he put his hood on, and it all made sense. When I think about Captain Cold from the comics, he’s hard to characterize as a person under the infamous blue coat. He’s somewhat heroic and moral compared to the other rogues, but when you think of Captain Cold, you primarily think of two things, both of which are visual: his cold gun and his blue coat. The show introduced Wentworth as Leonard Snart without the glasses and hood, and the show showed us the person first, which changed my perspective on the character. It felt like they were doing something new with the character, and I wasn’t completely sold until that hood went up. Then it all clicked. He is the Captain Cold from the comics.

With the characterization of Leonard Snart and the visual cues of Captain Cold, the live action version of the leader of the rogues smacked me in the face like I was Mick. As the series went on, Snart started to show his moral side from the comics (Citizen Cold, anyone?), eventually joining up with a team of superheroes in Legends of Tomorrow. Not to mention his relationship with Mick Rory aka Heat Wave. The criminal duo has a brother-like relationship, except they both kind of hate each other also, because they are both bad guys after all. But in the end, the two have each other’s back, and the TV version displays this perfectly. Now, with the heroic Captain Cold from Legends of Tomorrow killed off and only his evil version remaining out there somewhere in the multiverse, we know Snart will be making a sinister come back joining Reverse-Flash, Damien Darhk, and Malcolm Merlyn in the Legion of Doom in the second season of Legends of Tomorrow.