Now, to be fair to the main interest of this blog, Ralph only appears in scenes with the Justice League, who aren't the main focus of the show, so his appearances were only brief, but luckily, we didn't have to wait long as he appears shortly into the episode, responding to Guy Gardner calling him "Flongated Man." The League is raiding Granny Goodness' Orphanage.
The season's arc has featured people being kidnapped and forced to be turned into metahumans by Granny Goodness, working for Darkseid. As of the past few episodes, she's finally cracked the Anti-Life Equation.
Actor David Kaye joins the list of people who've played Ralph here, and admittedly, I was hoping DC might use Hartley Sawyer to voice Ralph in animated versions, just as Matt Ryan has voiced John Constantine in animation.
Ralph is seen stretching his arms as he operates a ship for the League, and in only a few lines, a lot of his character is seen with him correcting Guy as to his name, and then pointing out that the League may be walking into a trap.
Also notable is that Ralph has a brand new costume here. We don't get a full body look, but he's wearing black and purple fingerless gloves, a black vest, a purple sleeveless leotard with white piping (which seems to form into an E, maybe an EM on his chest, obscured by the vest) and a purple domino mask. It has a few echoes of his costume from The Flash TV series. He also has a haircut that has a lot of his hair on top sticking up with close cropping on the sides.
Personally, I dig a lot about the new costume, but I'd like to see it without the vest. Not quite so hot on the haircut, though I could imagine Ralph going for the latest styles to stay relevant.
A reveal later in the episode shows that Ralph is not a metahuman in this continuity. This suggests they stuck with him getting his powers from gingold, but I suppose there's other ways he might have elastic powers.
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