CW The Flash Season 3 Spoilers: How Long Will Flashpoint Timeline Last? The 2 Main Villains For S3, Is 1 A Speedster? Plus DC TV S3 Teaser Video / Sizzle Reel!

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CW The Flash Season 3 poster

Spoilers for CW The Flash Season 3 Follow.

The Flash Season 3 debuts on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 8 pm Eastern / 7 pm Central!

CW The Flash Season 1 had its main villain be a speedster. It was Eobard Thawne (played by actor Matt Letscher) masquerading as Dr. Harrison Wells (played by actor Tom Cavanagh), but always the Reverse Flash!

CW The Flash Season 1 Reverse Flash concept art Eobard Thawne as Dr Harrison Wells

CW The Flash Season 2 had its main villain also be a speedster. It was Earth 2’s Hunter Zolomon (played by Teddy Sears) masquerading as Earth 2 Flash Jay Garrick, but always Zoom!

CW The Flash Season 2 Zoom concept art Hunter Zolomon TV ad

CW The Flash Season 3 will have two main villains and, yes, one will be a speedster.

The non-speedster villain will be Albert Desmond also known as Dr. Alchemy.

CW The Flash Season 3 Dr Alchemy Who's Who concept art Albert Desmond

The speedster villain will be Savitar!

CW The Flash Season 3 Savitar Who's Who concept art

Is this him, in the black costume, alongside Wally West as the Kid Flash (played by actor Keiynan Lonsdale)?

Kid Flash & Black garbed Reverse Flash CW The Flash Season 3

Also, we do know that Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash (played by actor Matt Letscher) will appear in a Flashpoint timeline episode or two CW The Flash Season 3.

CW The Flash Season 3 Eoboard Thawne as Reverse Flash

In addition, CW The Flash star actor Grant Gustin has indicated that the Flashpoint timeline will have lasting effects on the season, but the timeline itself will not be around as long as fans may expect.

DC Flashpoint logo

Lastly, here is the CW The Flash Season 3 teaser video / sizzle reel released at San Diego Comic Con 2016 (SDCC 2016).

Fun times ahead!

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