role from The Flash Sunil Malhotra as Jacob: Ray's original lover. Guest Matthew Mercer as Dollman Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Grace Terrill: Ray's mother. Bruce Thomas as Robert Terrill: Ray's father. Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow: A bioengineering expert from S.T.A.R. Labs. Panabaker reprises her role from The Flash. Christopher Corey Smith as Donald: A politician. Megalyn Echikunwoke as Mari McCabe / Vixen. Echikunwoke reprises her role from Vixen Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt / Mister Terrific. Kellum reprises his role from Arrow Episodes Season 1 (2017) Season 2 (2018) Production The series was first announced in August 2016 by The CW with a 2017 debut and to air on CW Seed, from executive producers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim and developed by Blue Ribbon Content. It was also announced that the lead character would be gay, and the network was looking for an actor to voice the character with the possibility of appearing in live-action later on. The series was inspired by Grant Morrison's Multiversity comic book series. Guggenheim noted there was "a very specific reason" the series was titled as it was, in order to introduce the Freedom Fighters and Earth-X. He continued, "Morrison came up with an idea we really responded to: The Freedom Fighters are made up of various minorities targeted by Nazis—women, gay men, Jews. We wanted to honor that idea. At the same time, it's an origin story about the Earth-1 iteration of The Ray." Earth-X is a world in the multiverse where the Nazis won World War II and the New Reichsmen rule over present day America. In September 2017, it was revealed that Russell Tovey would be voicing Ray Terrill in the series. Freedom Fighters: The Ray is also set prior to the events of the 2017 live-action Arrowverse crossover, "Crisis on Earth-X". Guggenheim added that the animated series featured some "continuity mix-ups... [and] inconsistencies", as "Crisis on Earth-X" was conceived after Freedom Fighters was already written and Guggenheim "didn't see eye-to-eye" with fellow crossover executive producer Andrew Kreisberg on how tightly the animated series should tie-in with "Crisis on Earth-X"; Guggenheim hoped to address these with a comic book. On the series being a prequel to the crossover, Guggenheim revealed that it was not intended to be such, and was originally intended to be released before the crossover. However, once the decision was made to feature The Ray in live-action, it necessitated