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Arrowverse Cast Plays Who Said It? | Guess That Character | Melissa Benoist, Grant Gustin

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Kara Zor-El or a Disney Princess — even the Arrowverse cast couldn’t always tell.

TV Guide sat down with the stars of The CW’s shared superhero universe for a round of “Who Said It? | Guess That Character,” a quiz built around a sneaky twist: instead of testing comic-book trivia, it pits lines from the actors’ own characters against dialogue lifted straight from Disney’s animated catalog. Melissa Benoist, who has played Kara Zor-El/Kara Danvers on Supergirl since 2015, and Grant Gustin, who has run the streets of Central City as Barry Allen on The Flash since 2014, headline the session.

• The Supergirl cast is quizzed on whether a given line came from Kara Zor-El or a Disney Princess.
• Grant Gustin and his The Flash castmates are tested on distinguishing Barry Allen’s dialogue from lines pulled out of Disney movies.
• The format, produced by TV Guide, uses pop-culture crossover trivia rather than deep comic lore to challenge the actors’ recall of their own scripts.

The Setup Behind “Who Said It?”

The premise sounds simple on paper: read a quote, name the speaker. The catch is that TV Guide’s writers deliberately blur the line between superhero dialogue and the kind of earnest, aspirational lines that fill a Disney animated feature. Kara Zor-El, an alien reporter who moonlights as National City’s protector, and a Disney Princess can, it turns out, sound remarkably alike when a line is stripped of context — something the game leans on hard.

For the Flash side of the segment, the comparison runs the same way with Barry Allen, the forensic scientist struck by dark-matter lightning who became the Scarlet Speedster. Gustin has voiced Barry through eight seasons of the show by the time this quiz aired, giving him plenty of material to draw on — and just as much room to second-guess himself when a Disney line sounds a little too much like something Barry would say in a pep talk to Team Flash.

Benoist and Gustin Under the Spotlight

Benoist and Gustin anchor the two halves of the challenge, representing the flagship leads of Supergirl and The Flash respectively. Both actors have spent years internalizing their characters’ voices — Benoist’s Kara balancing Kryptonian idealism with Danvers-family warmth, Gustin’s Barry mixing motor-mouthed nerd energy with speedster gravitas — which is exactly what makes the game tricky. A well-written CW superhero line and a well-written Disney line are aiming for the same thing: hope, heart, and a clean button on the scene.

Guess that character: Kara Zor-El, Barry Allen, or a Disney Princess — the cast wasn’t always sure.

That overlap is the joke the segment is built on. Watching two of the Arrowverse’s biggest stars pause, laugh, and second-guess whether a line belongs to their own character or to a cartoon princess gives the format its charm, and it’s the same kind of behind-the-scenes camaraderie fans have come to expect from cast members who know each other far better than viewers realize.

Arrowverse Success Through Episodic Formatting

By 2021, the Arrowverse had spent the better part of a decade building out a shared continuity spanning Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman, giving TV Guide a deep well of quotable dialogue to pull from. Rather than testing which cast member remembers an obscure crossover-event line, the “Who Said It?” format zooms out to something any viewer can play along with at home — a much lighter lift than parsing multiversal continuity, and it fits neatly into the wave of promotional content networks lean on around new superhero projects like upcoming series building out their own screen universes.

The bit doubles as a reminder of just how much ground these actors have covered in their roles. Benoist’s Kara and Gustin’s Barry have both anchored their shows since the mid-2010s, giving each of them a mental catalog of lines long enough that even they can lose track of what’s canon and what’s Disney.