Zoey Clark, better known as Prank, is the secondary antagonist of the 1990 television series The Flash series finale "The Trial of the Trickster".
She is the spoiled yet psychotic heiress of the toymaking Clark family. Following her inheritance of her late father's business at Central City, Zoey becomes obsessed with The Trickster, one of the Flash's arch-enemies, leading her to seek to become the Trickster's sidekick and lover at all costs so she can find a new thrill on her life.
She was portrayed by Corinne Bohrer.
History[]
Past[]
Zoey Clark was the daughter of Mr. Clark, the toymaker owner of the popular Clarxe Toys toy store, which included from action figures to bikes. Following her father's passing, Zoey inherited the family business, but she found working at the toy store boring, so she wanted to seek for new thrills on her life. Eventually, Zoey learns about the Central City lunatic known as The Trickster, and following his incarceration at the hands of the Flash and failure at transforming the private investigator Megan Lockhart as his sidekick/lover "Prank", Zoey decides to become the Trickster's "Prank" at all costs, feeling that Megan didn't deserve such title.
The Flash[]
In the series finale "The Trial of the Trickster" , Zoey Clark tries to get into the courtroom to witness James Jesse's trial, desperately claiming to be the mother of the Trickster's child, to no avail. That night, after Jesse gets send back to jail for trying to attack Megan Lockhart during the court session, Zoey sends him some letters that inform him about having a secret admirer, much to the Trickster's delight. The following day, the trial restarts but Zoey, posing as the judge's clerk, releases a laughing gas from a pink teddy bear that incapacitates everyone in the room save for her and Jesse, as the two get gas masks to prevent themselves from breathing the gas.
Once safe at Clarxe Toys, Zoey introduces herself to the Trickster and assures him what a great fan of his crime spree she is. James is amazed at the toys of her store, but Zoey insists him to accept her as his "Prank" by revealing a low-cut self-made suit of her own making, seducing him into accepting her help by remarking that Lockhart didn't deserve such title and promising him her wealth to finance his crimes, giving him one of her bikes on display. James doubts at first, but ultimately accepts her as his sidekick and the two share a passionate kiss.
The couple go to the WCCN Stage 2 station and murder the newscaster before the Trickster, with Prank's help, announces on live television that the Flash, Megan and everyone involved in his trial are gonna pay. Prank later helps the Trickster to incapacitate the Flash and Megan when they arrive at the studio, with Prank throwing a box of chattering teeth at Megan, laughing at her misfortune and escaping with the Trickster in a truck that leaves a pink gluey substance on the road that traps the Flash, leaving him defenseless to be captured and abducted by Prank and the Trickster.
Back at their hideout, Prank and the Trickster delight themselves in torturing the Flash with an electric chair. Curious about the Flash's secret identity, Prank attempts to unmask him, but before Barry Allen's identity is exposed, the Trickster refrains her from revealing the face under the mask as he wants to keep it mysterious, threatening to murder her if she ever unmasks him, shocking Prank a little. The Trickster then brainwashes the Flash with their brainwashing device to make him his new accomplice, leading the two to wreck Central City all they can while setting Prank aside. Jealous, Prank demands the Trickster and the Flash to wait for her, but the Trickster rebuffs her feelings and ends up leaving her bound and gagged inside her toy storye to be found by Megan and Tina McGee, who free her only for Prank to assault them and run away back for the Trickster despite the two women pointing out that the Trickster doesn't really love her.
Some hours later, after the Trickster's planned trial for all those who "wronged" him fails and he is unable to escape due to McGeee rigging his bike, Prank arrives in a getaway truck and tells him to get in. As they drive away to escape, Prank admits that while the Trickster left her behind to be arrested, she still loves him and that's her reasoning to come back for him. A shocked Trickster apparently appreciates her for doing so, but ends up admitting that he isn't good enough for her and cruelly betrays her by throwing Prank off the truck to create a distraction, leading Officers Michael Murphy and Anthony Bellows to arrest Zoey as the Flash goes after the Trickster, much to her disappointment.
It's unkown what happened with Prank afterwards, but it can be assumed that Clark may have stayed in prison for the rest of her life. In the Arrowverse crossover "Elseworlds", the Monitor comes to Earth-90 and wipes it out, leaving its Flash as the sole survivor, so if she was still alive by 2018, Prank was likely one of the thousands victims of the Monitor.
Trivia[]
- Corinne Bohrer later starred as Prank in the 2014's The Flash TV series, in which John Wesley Shipp played the part of the Flash's late father Henry Allen and Mark Hamill also played another Trickster. Ironically, Bohrer's Earth-Prime version of Prank did have a child with James Jesse, whereas the Earth-90 version of Prank just claimed to have one in a futile attempt to see him in court.
- Interestingly, some images of the 1990's Prank were used to explain the early criminal career of the 2014's Prank, much like they did with images of the 1990's Trickster.
- The relationship between Prank and the Trickster resembles somewhat that between Harley Quinn and the Joker, which was first featured in Batman: The Animated Series one year after the cancellation of The Flash, and in which coincidentally, Hamill starred the Joker.
- Some of the toys Zoey sells at her family toy store are parodies of well-known toylines; for example, the G.I. Johnnys are a parody of the G.I. Joes.
