Since the Season 7 premiere, fanatics are wondering where Hartley Sawyer is and what happened to Ralph Dibny on 'The Flash.’ Will the actor get replaced?
If history is any indication, creeps on social media will get discovered in the future. The web at all times unearths out — simply ask Armie Hammer, Cas Anvar, and most just lately, Hartley Sawyer, who's one in all the latest other people to be fired for things he stated online.
Hartley, who performs Ralph Dibny aka the Elongated Man on The Flash, had his past catch up with him back in 2020 when some outdated tweets of his resurfaced. In since-deleted messages, Hartley admitted to more than a few accounts of attack and illicit habits.
What happened to Ralph Dibny on ‘The Flash’?
These 2020 tweets from Hartley had been stated to be being homophobic, sexist, and racist. In one tweet, he wrote, “The best factor holding me from doing mildly racist tweets is the wisdom that Al Sharpton would never prevent complaining about me,” while in every other, he stated, “Date rape myself so I don't have to masturbate."
Upon learning of the tweets, showrunners at the CW immediately released a statement that they relieved Hartley from his duties as a cast member on The Flash. In a statement, show producers explained, “Hartley Sawyer will not be returning for Season 7 of The Flash. In regards to Mr. Sawyer’s posts on social media, we do not tolerate derogatory remarks that target any race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation.”
“Such remarks are antithetical to our values and policies, which strive and evolve to promote a safe, inclusive and productive environment for our workforce,” the statement concluded.
Since the tweets surfaced, Hartley has apologized for his messages. He responded, “My words, irrelevant of being meant with an intent of humor, were hurtful, and unacceptable. I am ashamed I was capable of these really horrible attempts to get attention at that time. I regret them deeply.”
Hartley ended the message by thanking viewers for “holding him accountable.” He continued, “This was not acceptable behavior. These were words I threw out at the time with no thought or recognition of the harm my words could do, and now have done today."
Despite his be apologetic about, showrunner Eric Wallace and display lead Grant Gustin doubled down on the decision to let Hartley go. In an impassioned tweet Eric wrote, "This morning, many of you learned that Hartley Sawyer will not be returning for season seven of The Flash. Concerning his social media tweets, they broke my heart and made me mad as hell. And they're indicative of the larger problem in our country."
The Elongated Man has been written off of the display.
Now that Eva McCulloch is in control of the Mirrorverse, she's got duplicates which can be in all places Central City together with Sue Dearbon's parents. They show up at the police station whilst Sue is disguised as a police officer herself. And she's in a position to get Joe West on her facet and he understands that those other folks don't seem to be actually her oldsters. The city quickly is going into fairly of a blackout to take a look at and prevent Eva.
Later on, Ralph is at McCulloch Technologies trying to find proof to clear Sue's name since she was once framed for Joseph Carver's death. But Eva blows the position up sooner than he can break out. He does continue to exist, however he looks beautiful melted from the heat and Team Flash puts him in the BCU chamber to assist fix him.
In the end, Sue and Ralph make a decision to go away Team Flash at the back of to proceed their paintings on organizations like the Black Hole together.
"Now thank goodness, Ralph is a guy who can change faces and his appearance in many ways," says showrunner Eric Wallace to Comic Book.
"Without giving any spoilers away, there are a couple of ways that we can have Elongated Man still appear in at least one episode this season to wrap that storyline up, that gets us what we need and still allows fans to say goodbye to the character, at least for the indefinite future."
In an interview, Eric additionally stated, "We’re going to treat it like we would if we were writing a comic book graphic novel. We’re giving the Elongated Man a bit of a rest for while. But we will leave the door open.I’m not saying by any means that it’s the end of the character. In fact, quite the opposite. We just don’t know when he will return, or in what form he will return," he concluded.
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