The Brave and the Bold

Katie Cassidy

Colton Haynes

Robbie Amell

Victor Garber

Wentworth Miller

Dominic Purcell

**The Brave and the Bold** is the first annual crossover film of the Arrowverse, featuring characters from *Arrow* and *The Flash*. It was released on February 27, 2015. It focuses on the superheroes teaming up to defeat The Rogues. The film takes place during the second half of the third season of *Arrow* and first season of *The Flash*.

## Synopsis

After battling criminals for months, Barry Allen/The Flash is exhausted and defeated. When his greatest enemies come together and take over Central City's criminal underworld, he must call up on his fellow heroes to help.

## Plot

Barry Allen has been fighting crime as The Flash for nearly six months and has gained more enemies than he ever thought possible. His most cunning foe, Leonard Snart, continues to evade capture. After capturing the villain known as 'Mirror Master', a careless and tired Flash fails to notice the tracker planted on his suit.

After trying (and failing) to get information out of Snart's former partner, Mick Rory/Heat Wave, the Flash leaves the Pipeline and returns to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Cisco finds the tracker on his suit. Realizing he was played, Barry runs back over to Pipeline only to find that Cold has freed all of his foes - and they're now working together. The criminals battle and attack the Flash, badly beating him but are called off by Snart and forced to flee before they can finish him off.

Seeing as the escapees owe their freedom to Snart, he proposes that they all work together to takeover Central City's criminal underworld and defeat the Flash for once and for all. The so called Rogues then overthrow all of the city's major crime lords within a single night, taking their territory and manpower for themselves.

With Central City now under control of the Rogues, Barry decides to call for backup - and the heroes answer his call. Green Arrow, Black Canary, Arsenal, Firestorm arrive to help and quickly set out after the Rogues to take them down one by one. Though the mentioned to dispatch most of the Rogues, a handful still alluded them. Shortly after, Barry receives an invitation from Snart to dinner - revealing that Snart knows that Barry Allen is the Flash. Barry attends the dinner and learns that Snart has been using the underworlds resources in an attempt to get his hands on experimental medicine. When Leonard offers the locations of Weather Wizard, Raider and Boomerang in exchange for Barry's help in stealing the medicine from A.R.G.U.S.

 Barry accepts the terms, though he has no intention of following through on his end. Firestorm goes after Weather Wizard, Black Canary and Arsenal track Boomerang and Arrow and the Flash track Raider. Raider prays on Barry's anger and jealousy about Eddie Thawne and when Oliver tries to stop Barry, and the two engage in a fight. Oliver manages to wrangle Barry long enough for Harrison Wells and Joe to use strobe light to reset Barry's emotional state. Afterward, Barry and Oliver capture Bivolo and place him in the pipeline prison. Barry confirms Oliver's belief that the former has still a lot to learn.

Meanwhile, Digger attempts to kill Lyla Michaels, Roy, and Laurel, but Barry instantly arrives and stops him. Later, Lyla reveals that Digger was part of the Suicide Squad. When Oliver uses his extreme interrogation methods on a Russian mob member in order to locate Digger, Barry questions how emotionally stable Oliver is with his past tragedies to torture people. Digger locates Oliver's base and wounds Lyla before he's captured.

When Barry announces he won't steal the medicine from A.R.G.U.S., Snart reveals he suspected as much - and had Rory kidnap Caitlin Snow. After setting a trap with Caitlin as the bait, Snart then hijacked the television broadcast to reveal to the public that the Flash was indeed real, and issued a challenge to the scarlet speedster. As Caitlin was being rescued by Cisco and Joe West, the Flash confronted Captain Cold and Heat Wave. Having planned to have Snart and Mick cross the streams of their respective weapons in order to neutralize them, the Flash ran as fast as he could to accomplish this, but to no avail. As he realized that he needed to instead go slower, Snart and Mick managed to knock him down. Thanks to the timely intervention of Eddie Thawne, the Flash managed to escape and put his new method into action, and finally succeeded in defeating the duo as Snart and Mick were knocked out.

Once incarcerated, Barry visits Snart and reveals that he knows that he was trying to get the medicine for his sister Lisa, who was nearing death due to a brain tumor. He had Lyla pull some strings and get Lisa the treatment. Out of gratitude, Snart promises not to reveal his identity.

As the heroes celebrate, the doctors at the A.R.G.U.S. facility enter Lisa's hospital room, only to find that she's vanished. Later, as Mick and Leonard are being transported to Iron Heights, Mick laments at their failure and questions Snart on how his plan had gone astray. Snart states that the public now knows of the Flash's existence, and so everything had changed. When the transport comes under attack, his sister, Lisa, opens the transports doors to free them.

## Cast & Characters

### The Heroes

* Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
* Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash
* Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Canary
* Colton Haynes as Roy Harper/Arsenal
* Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond/Firestorm
* Victor Garber as Martin Stein/Firestorm
* Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/The Atom

### The Rogues

* Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold
* Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/Heat Wave
* Jai Courtney as Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang
* Andy Mientus as Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper
* Grey Damon as Sam Scudder/Mirror Master
* Ashley Rickards as Rosa Dillon/The Top
* Liam McIntyre as Mark Mardon/Weather Wizard
* Britne Oldford as Shawna Baez/Peek-a-Boo
* Paul Anthony as Roy Bivolo/Rainbow Raider
* Peyton List as Lisa Snart

### Others

* David Ramsey as John Diggle
* Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
* Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels
* Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells
* Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow
* Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon
* Jesse L. Martin as Joe West
* Rick Cosnett as Eddie Thawne
* Candice Patton as Iris West

## Gallery

PosterGreen Arrow PosterThe Flash PosterBlack Canary PosterArsenal PosterFirestorm PosterThe Atom PosterCaptain Cold PosterHeat Wave Poster
## Trivia

* The film is set an unspecified point in the second half of both the third season of Arrow and the first season of the Flash, but it is likely just before the sixteenth episodes of both seasons.
* This film is the first crossover.