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Arrowverse Cast Plays Would You Rather | Supergirl, The Flash, Batwoman

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Three separate sit-downs, one rapid-fire superhero guessing game, and zero crossover on camera.

TV Guide’s recurring “Who Would You Rather: Arrowverse Edition” franchise got the compilation treatment in a 12-minute, 5-second video that stitches together individual interview rounds with stars from The CW’s DC lineup. Rather than a live panel, the piece edits separate segments featuring Nicole Maines, who plays Nia Nal (Dreamer) on Supergirl, Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin Snow (Killer Frost) on The Flash, and members of the Batwoman Season 2 cast. Each actor fields the same lighthearted hypotheticals — who they’d want backing them up, healing them, or squaring off against in an Arrowverse-style crisis.

• The video is a compilation of TV Guide’s standalone “Who Would You Rather: Arrowverse Edition” segments, not a single group interview.
• Featured participants include Nicole Maines (Nia Nal/Dreamer, Supergirl), Danielle Panabaker (Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost, The Flash), and the Batwoman Season 2 ensemble.
• The runtime clocks in at 12 minutes, 5 seconds, packaging multiple shoot dates into one continuous format.

Mechanics of the Format

TV Guide built “Who Would You Rather: Arrowverse Edition” as a repeatable digital bit: sit an actor down, feed them binary superhero scenarios drawn from the shared CW universe, and let them pick a name. It’s the same rapid-fire structure TV Guide has used across other franchise properties, just pointed at the DC side of the network’s schedule. Because each round was filmed separately with whichever cast happened to be promoting a season at the time, the finished compilation reads like three different interviews spliced into one continuous bit rather than a single roundtable conversation.

That distinction matters for anyone expecting a crossover-style hangout. Maines answers on her own, Panabaker answers on her own, and the Batwoman Season 2 cast answers as a group from their own promotional stop. None of them are reacting to each other’s picks in real time — the editing just makes the transitions feel seamless.

Participant Selection Criteria

The billed lineup centers on Nia Nal actor Nicole Maines and Killer Frost actor Danielle Panabaker, joined by the Batwoman Season 2 cast working through the same set of “would you rather” prompts built around Arrowverse team-ups and threats. Earlier drafts of coverage on this clip claimed the segment opened with Melissa Benoist, but that’s not how TV Guide’s actual roster for this installment breaks down — Benoist isn’t part of this particular cut.

Three shows, three separate shoot days, one 12-minute edit — and not a single scene where the casts actually share a room.

Getting the credits right matters here because the appeal of these segments is specific to who’s answering. Fans tune in for Maines’ take on Dreamer’s place in the Supergirl ensemble or for how the Batwoman cast sizes up their own Gotham-based rogues gallery, not for a generic superhero panel. Misattributing a segment to the wrong cast member undersells the actual draw — the specific chemistry and specific characters each actor brings to their answers.

Positioning in Arrowverse Press Cycle

By late 2021, this kind of light, quick-turnaround digital segment had become a standard promotional stop for CW’s DC shows, running alongside the usual panel interviews and convention appearances. It’s the same media-cycle logic that pushes casts from Marvel’s streaming slate through comparable press bits — see the promotional rounds around Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight trailer for a parallel example of superhero properties leaning on quick digital content to keep casts visible between seasons. For the Arrowverse specifically, these “Who Would You Rather” rounds gave Maines, Panabaker, and the Batwoman ensemble a low-stakes way to plug their characters without wading into spoiler territory.

The format also slots into a broader pattern from that stretch of 2021, when outlets were leaning heavily on cast-driven, bite-sized video content to keep entertainment coverage moving — a trend touched on in roundups like the year’s biggest celebrity moments. TV Guide’s Arrowverse installment is a tamer entry in that same category: quick, quotable, and built for social clips rather than long-form interviews.

None of the individual answers from Maines, Panabaker, or the Batwoman cast are detailed beyond the format itself, but the setup is clear: three separate shoots, one shared premise, and a cast list that starts with Nia Nal and Killer Frost rather than Kara Danvers.