The Flash has always favored redemption arcs that end in self-sacrifice, and Season 9, episode 4, “The Masks of the Purple Demise, Half One,” presents one different, presumably. Mark Blaine, AKA Chillblaine (Jon Cor), has gone backwards and forwards between hero and villain all via his time on the current, nonetheless it seems he went out a hero. And his look in “The Masks of the Purple Demise, Half One” is not any utterly totally different. Nonetheless proper right here he made a seemingly closing various by sacrificing himself to allow Barry (Grant Gustin) and Iris (Candice Patton) to flee Purple Demise (Javicia Leslie) and her rogues, Captain Boomerang (Richard Harmon), Fiddler (Magda Apanowicz), Murmur (Alexandria Wailes), and Rainbow Raider (Paul Anthony). Whereas Mark hasn’t always been a fan-favorite, his assumed dying does elevate questions, most importantly: is he actually lifeless?
Chillblaine’s Historic previous
Mark is a former employee of Ivo Laboratories, the place he created cryogenic tech that give him ice powers, nonetheless after being fired, he wanted to steal once more his private invention. No matter using his tech to frame Frost (Danielle Panabaker) for murder and escaping Iron Heights after she revealed the fact, Frost and Mark had a connection. She tried to get him despatched once more to Iron Heights, nonetheless he had change right into a State’s Witness. When he was injured, Frost insisted he go to S.T.A.R. labs for therapeutic, which is the place he was when the Godspeed clones attacked. After serving to Crew Flash wrestle the clones, Mark started relationship Frost. By means of his connection to her, Mark turned a part of Crew Flash, on the very least sometimes. Nonetheless his earlier items him apart from the group, and he’s normally ready to operate in further of a gray area than a whole lot of the others. After Frost sacrificed herself for Caitlin Snow, Mark and Caitlin wanted to find a technique to convey Frost once more, nonetheless Barry refused to help them.
Mark’s shifting loyalties stopped whereas he was relationship Frost, nonetheless as quickly as she was gone, he didn’t should be a part of the group anymore, as he believed they could keep him once more from reviving her. And they also type of did. When his and Caitlin’s experiments resulted in Caitlin’s dying and the creation of a third Snow sister, Khione, he went to Crew Flash for help. Nonetheless the group acquired right here to the conclusion that Khione ought to find out the next step, and he or she wanted her private likelihood at life. This meant Mark’s plan to elevate Frost wouldn’t work, and he wanted to start over. Lacking their help left Mark feeling betrayed by the group.
Mark’s (Doable) Demise
Additional simply these days, Mark betrayed Barry and the group when he turned on them. After letting Barry and Hartley (Andy Mientus) contemplate that he would help them and their rogues steal the last word half Purple Demise wanted, he turned on them. Mark gave Purple Demise the half she wished to make the Cosmic Treadmill. Nonetheless going previous that, he agreed to put it collectively. Though he isn’t exactly constructive of Purple Demise’s plan, Mark is conscious of she is working in direction of the Flash, nonetheless it doesn’t matter to him. Purple Demise promised to help him get Frost once more, and that’s what he needs. However, when Purple Demise captures Barry, Mark is surprisingly nice. When Captain Boomerang needs to unmask the Flash and be taught his identification, Mark interjects, warning him off with the specter of {an electrical} shock. And as soon as extra, when no person is spherical, he affords Barry water. The two focus on and Mark reveal that he doesn’t rely on Barry to perception him, lastly displaying some regret for his selections, nonetheless Barry reminds him that he’s no stranger to working with former enemies, counting Frost among the many many reformed members of his group.
Additional simply these days, Mark betrayed Barry and the group when he turned on them. After letting Barry and Hartley (Andy Mientus) contemplate that he would help them and their rogues steal the last word half Purple Demise wanted, he turned on them. Mark gave Purple Demise the half she wished to make the Cosmic Treadmill. Nonetheless going previous that, he agreed to put it collectively. Though he isn’t exactly constructive of Purple Demise’s plan, Mark is conscious of she is working in direction of the Flash, nonetheless it doesn’t matter to him. Purple Demise promised to help him get Frost once more, and that’s what he needs. However, when Purple Demise captures Barry, Mark is surprisingly nice. When Captain Boomerang needs to unmask the Flash and be taught his identification, Mark interjects, warning him off with the specter of {an electrical} shock. And as soon as extra, when no person is spherical, he affords Barry water. The two focus on and Mark reveal that he doesn’t rely on Barry to perception him, lastly displaying some regret for his selections, nonetheless Barry reminds him that he’s no stranger to working with former enemies, counting Frost among the many many reformed members of his group.
What Are Mark’s Prospects of Survival?
When making an attempt from the angle of the characters, Mark is bigger than most likely lifeless. He was left behind with Purple Demise’s rogues, stopping a shedding battle with no escape. No matter Mark holding his private for a minute, Crew Flash seen him trapped inside the four-on-one wrestle. Nonetheless, viewers didn’t see him die on show, which does make a distinction. Even when he was on the mercy of the rogues, there is no concrete proof that he died. With the current’s historic previous, it’s normally a protected assumption to say if any person didn’t die on show, they’re nonetheless alive. As a character who has been spherical for 3 seasons, Mark seems to warrant a a lot much less ambiguous dying, if that is what it was.
The reality that even after he “dies,” some (particularly Damion Poitier’s Goldface) nonetheless question his motives makes it seem as if there may be further to the story. Nonetheless, if Mark survived, it’s clear that his ties to Purple Demise are efficiently severed, and, higher than most likely, he could possibly be a prisoner of the villain in the mean time. In a present interview with comicbook.com, Jon Cor acknowledged that he was given “rather a lot to do this season,” which seems an odd issue to say if he’s solely in 4 episodes, even once they’ve been eventful for the character. This seems to stage to Mark’s survival, and presumably now he’ll determine a side and stick with it.
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