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Would DC's Flash and Marvel's Spider-Man get along? The answer is a resounding 'yes,' according to the cast of CW's nine season smash hit superhero drama The Flash. What's more, Flash star Grant Gustin, who played Barry Allen across the show's entire run, says Spidey is the only other superhero he thinks he could nail as an actor.

The conversation took place at GalaxyCon Richmond 2026's Flash Q&A panel, which brought together Gustin and series co-stars Carlos Valdez (Cisco Ramon), Tom Cavanagh (Harrison Wells), John Wesley Shipp (Henry Allen/Jay Garrick), and Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost) to answer fans' burning questions about the still beloved show.

A pair of fans posed the question of whether Barry Allen and Peter Parker would get along, prompting Panabaker to immediately respond "They'd be besties!" Gustin himself agrees with her enthusiastic answer, saying "I do think they'd get along. I mean, one of the things about Barry that's cool is, he's such a normal, relatable person. I guess Peter Parker's kinda like that too…Yeah, I feel like they'd get along."

"Absolutely. Two kind of regular guys," adds Cavanagh, playing off the common perception of both Barry and Peter as everyman heroes in a world of cosmic beings and supervillains, as well as their shared scientific backgrounds. It's that commonality that prompts Gustin to claim Spider-Man as the only other superhero he could play, saying "They're like the only two superheroes I could play in live action, so they have some similarities."

Cavanagh immediately jumps in to praise Gustin's range as an actor, saying "I don't know of one that you couldn't play." However, Gustin jokes that he has "a long list" of heroes he feels he wouldn't be appropriate for, including Batman, Superman, and The Hulk.

It's tough to imagine anyone but Tom Holland playing Spider-Man for the foreseeable future given his star power is as high as ever and audiences still love him. But if Marvel were ever to try a live-action Spidey TV show, there are worse choices in the world than Gustin.

In the world of comics, DC and Marvel are in the midst of a string of crossovers, including Flash/Fantastic Four, and the more recent Spider-Man/Superman. Though the stories presented in the crossover show the cheery side of superhero meetings, DC and Marvel are also set to republish 2003/4's landmark battle comic JLA/Avengers (complete with killer new covers from the master Alex Ross), which brings together the two strongest super teams in comics to duke it out before inevitably teaming up against a bigger threat.

The Marvel/DC crossovers have, so far, remained confined to comics, though at this point, just about anything is possible in the world of superhero movies and TV, which have increasingly relied on showing off the meetings of unlikely characters, as in December's upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday, a movie that could never have happened even just a few years ago. 

Meanwhile, DC is slowly building its own reborn cinematic universe around David Corenswet's Superman, which already includes the concept of alternate realities, if not technically a so-called 'Multiverse.' So who's to say what lies ahead onscreen in terms of superhero team-ups?

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