''Flashpoint'' is a 2011

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published by

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. Consisting of an

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ous core

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and a number of

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titles, the storyline premiered in May 2011. The core miniseries was written by

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and pencilled by

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. In its end, the series radically changes the status quo for the

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, leading into the publisher's 2011 relaunch,

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. ''Flashpoint'' details an altered DC Universe in which only Barry Allen seems to be aware of significant differences between the regular timeline and the altered one, including

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's place as the world's quintessential hero, much like Superman is in the main timeline, with Superman himself being held captive as a lab-rat by the United States government within an underground facility in Metropolis. In addition,

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, and a war between

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and

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has decimated western Europe. Consisting of a 61 issue run, the series crossed over with ''

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'', sixteen separate three-issue miniseries, and a number of one-shots beginning in June 2011. DC announced that ''

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'' #12 would be the last in the series; a thirteenth issue had been announced for sale on May 25, 2011, but was withdrawn. A sequel series, ''

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'', debuted in 2022, with Johns returning to write the series alongside Jeremy Adams and Tim Sheridan. The storyline is adapted in the film '' Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'' as well as in the third season of

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network television series ''

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''. Elements of the ''Flashpoint'' storyline will be adapted into a feature film adaptation of ''

'' as part of the

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Plot

Barry Allen wakes up to discover everything and everyone around him has changed. He is not

, nor does he have powers. His mother Nora (deceased in his own timeline) is alive; his father, Henry, died of a heart attack three years ago (alive and in prison in his own timeline).

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's greatest hero, the

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was never established, and even Superman is seemingly nonexistent. In

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throws a criminal off a building.

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and Batman have a conference with a group of superheroes to discuss how

's Amazons have conquered the

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, while

's Atlanteans have sunk the rest of

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, and the battle between the two has caused massive death and destruction. America is similarly endangered. The heroes cannot cooperate to find a solution, and the meeting is ended. Barry Allen drives to the

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, where Batman attacks him. Batman is revealed to be

—in this timeline his son, Bruce, was killed by the robber instead of his

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and himself. In this timeline, Thomas brutally beat the robber to death for murdering Bruce, and Martha went insane at the loss of her son, becoming the Joker. In the flooded remains of

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captains a pirate ship in search of his

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. Emperor Aquaman appears and stabs Deathstroke in the chest and attacks Deathstroke's crew (

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, and

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). Sonar is able to remove a piece of the trident from Deathstroke's chest and heal him. At Wayne Manor, Barry tries to explain to Thomas about his secret identity as the Flash and his relationship to Bruce Wayne. Barry's memory begins to spontaneously realign itself to the altered timeline and Barry realizes that the world of Flashpoint is not a parallel dimension, but an alternate reality. Barry's ring ejects

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costume and causes Barry to believe that his enemy is responsible for changing history. Barry decides to recreate the accident that gave him his powers in a bid to undo the damage caused by Thawne, but his initial attempt fails and leaves him badly burned. In

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is waiting at a rendezvous for

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but is attacked by Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Wonder Woman catches him by the neck with her

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and begins interrogating him. He explains that he was hired to extract Lane from New Themyscira because she was sent to gather information on the Amazons for Cyborg. The

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informs Cyborg that Steve Trevor sent a signal to the Resistance but was intercepted because of a traitor among the heroes that Cyborg tried to recruit. Cyborg is relieved of duty as

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sneaks into the headquarters. Meanwhile, in New Themyscira, Lane encounters the Resistance. A second attempt at recreating Allen's accident restores his powers and health. He concludes that the Reverse-Flash changed history to prevent the formation of the Justice League. He also learns that Kal-El was taken by Project: Superman. Flash, Batman and Cyborg join the cause to stop Wonder Woman and Aquaman. The three find a pale, weakened Superman at the Project and realize that he may well have been in a containment cell since he was a child—possibly never even seeing a human being before. After being rescued, Superman flies off in seeming fright in the midst of a battle with the guards, leaving the three in the sewers to be rescued by Element Woman. Flash's memories continue to change. The president announces Cyborg's failure to unite the world's superheroes and the U.S. enters into the Atlantean-Amazon war. Flash, Batman, Cyborg, and Element Woman ask for the

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's help and Batman asks Billy to use his lightning to prevent Flash's memories from changing even further. The group hears of the failed air assault on England due to the Amazons' Invisible Plane air force.

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, who had not become

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in this timeline, is the first casualty, and a giant Atlantean-generated tidal wave threatens the rest of New Themyscira. Flash tells Batman that if he fails to stop Thawne, the world will destroy itself. Despite reservations, Batman joins Flash as the group heads off to New Themyscira. Enchantress joins them en route. Wonder Woman and Aquaman are fighting one-on-one until Flash and his team arrive. The Marvel Family transforms into Captain Thunder, also transforming

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. Captain Thunder attacks Wonder Woman and appears to be winning until Enchantress reveals herself as the Amazon spy in the Resistance and uses her magic to restore the Marvel Family to their mortal forms. Penthesilea (who was secretly one of the conspirators of the Atlanteans-Amazons war, along with

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) kills Billy Batson, causing a massive explosion that cripples the opposing forces. In the wake of the devastation, Thawne appears in front of Flash. The Reverse-Flash reveals that Flash himself created the Flashpoint timeline by traveling back in time to stop him from killing Barry's mother. Barry pulled the entire

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into himself to stop Thawne, transforming the timeline by shattering the history of his allies. Thawne resets Barry's internal vibrations, enabling him to remember this. According to Thawne, these actions transformed him into a living paradox, no longer requiring Barry to exist and allowing him to kill the Flash without erasing his own existence. Thawne continues to taunt Barry with this knowledge until Batman kills him with an Amazonian sword. As the fight continues, Superman arrives and begins to aid the heroes, first by landing hard enough to crush the Enchantress under his feet. Thomas insists that Barry put history back to normal to undo the millions of deaths. Meanwhile, Cyborg detects seismic activity which he claims could destroy the world. Waves start to approach. Now knowing the point of divergence, the Flash restores the timeline. As he enters the timestream, a dying Thomas thanks him for giving his son a second chance and gives Barry a letter addressed to Bruce. Barry then meets with his mother and bids a tearful farewell to her. Traveling back in time, Barry merges with his earlier self during the attempt to stop Thawne. While traveling through time, Barry realizes he can see three different timelines — DC ( New Earth),

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( Earth-13), and

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(Earth-50). A mysterious hooded figure tells him that the world was split into three to weaken them for an impending threat, and must now be

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to combat it. The DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm universes are then merged, but unbeknownst to Barry and the hooded figure (later revealed to be a cursed immortal

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), the mentioned threat intervened and removed 10 years of history from DC characters, which created instead a brand new DC Universe. Barry then wakes up in a similar manner to the beginning of Flashpoint, also retaining all his memories from the alternate timeline. Believing that everything is over, Barry remembers Thomas' letter and gives it to Bruce, who is still Batman in this timeline. Bruce, deeply touched by his father's sacrifice to ensure his son's life, cries and expresses his gratitude to Barry for informing him of the events that transpired before the timeline was reset.

Publication

Titles

* Preludes ** '' Time Masters: Vanishing Point'' #1–6 ** ''

'' #8–12 * ''Flashpoint'' main series ** ''Flashpoint'' #1–5 * Crossover ** ''

'' #44–47 * Mini-series: Several tie-in mini-series were announced via DC's "The Source" Blog and the creative teams were announced in March 2011. ** Batman-centric: ''Whatever Happened to Gotham City?'' *** ''Flashpoint:

Knight of Vengeance'' #1–3, written by

Brian Azzarello Brian Azzarello (born August 11, 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series ''100 Bullets'', published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Az ...

and drawn by

Eduardo Risso Eduardo Risso (born 23 November 1959) is an Argentines, Argentine comics artist. In the United States he is best known for his work with writer Brian Azzarello on the Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo title ''100 Bullets'', while in Argentina and Eur ...

. *** '' Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons'' #1–3, written by

JT Krul Jeffrey T. Krul (born November 14, 1972 in Michigan) is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on Aspen MLT's '' Fathom'' comic series. Early life J.T. Krul was born and raised in Michigan. He received a Bachelor's degree in Film ...

and drawn by Mike Janin with covers by

Cliff Chiang Cliff Chiang is an American comic book artist. Formerly an assistant editor at DC Comics, he is now an illustrator, known for his work on '' Human Target'', ''Beware the Creeper'' and ''Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre'', ''Green Arrow/Black Canar ...

. ** Villains: ''Whatever Happened to the World's Greatest Super Villains?'' *** ''Flashpoint: Citizen Cold'' #1–3, written and drawn by

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. *** ''Flashpoint:

& the Curse of the Ravager'' #1–3, written by

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and drawn by Joe Bennett & John Dell. *** ''Flashpoint: The

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'' #1–3 written by Adam Glass and drawn by Rodeny Buchemi & Jose Marzan with cover by Miguel Sepulveda. *** ''Flashpoint: The

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'' #1–3, written by James Robinson and drawn by Javi Fernandez with cover by Kevin Nowlan ** Green Lantern/Superman: ''Whatever Happened to the Aliens?'' *** ''Flashpoint:

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– The

'' #1–3, written by Adam Schlagman and drawn by Felipe Massafera. *** ''Flashpoint: Project: Superman'' #1–3, written by

Scott Snyder Scott Snyder is an American author. He is known for his 2006 short story collection ''Voodoo Heart'', and his comic book writing, including '' American Vampire'', ''Detective Comics'', ''Batman'', '' Wytches'', ''Swamp Thing,'' and ''Justice Lea ...

& Lowell Francis and drawn by

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. ** Mystic-centric: ''Whatever Happened to Science & Magic?'' *** ''Flashpoint:

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& the Creatures of the Unknown'' #1–3, written by

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and drawn by Ibraim Roberson with covers by

Doug Mahnke Douglas Mahnke () is an American comic book artist, known for his work and penciling books including '' The Mask'', '' JLA'', ''Batman'', ''Final Crisis'', and ''Green Lantern''. Career Mahnke's first prominent work was for '' The Mask'', and he ...

. *** ''Flashpoint:

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'' #1–3, written by Peter Milligan and drawn by George Pérez and Scott Koblish ** ''Whatever Happened to Europe?'' *** ''Flashpoint: Emperor

'' #1–3, written by

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and drawn by

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& Vicente Cifuentes. *** ''Flashpoint:

and the

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'' #1–3, written by

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Andy Lanning Andy Lanning is an English comic book writer and inker, known for his work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and for his collaboration with Dan Abnett. Career Lanning works primarily at Marvel Comics and DC Comics as an inker. He has also pencil ...

and drawn by Scott Clark & David Beaty with covers by

Ed Benes José Edilbenes Bezerra (born November 20, 1972), better known by his professional name Ed Benes, is a Brazilian comic book artist, known for his work for DC Comics, on such titles as ''Birds of Prey'', ''Supergirl'', '' Superman'', and ''Justice ...

. *** ''Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance'' #1–3, written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning and drawn by Eddy Nunez & Sandra Hope. ** ''Everything You Know Will Change in a Flash'' *** ''Flashpoint:

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Lost'' #1–3, written by

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and drawn by Oliver Nome with covers by

Francis Manapul Francis Manapul (born August 26, 1979) is a Filipino Canadian comic book artist and writer. Career Manapul is known for his work on ''Witchblade'' and '' The Necromancer'' for Top Cow, working on the former for three years, off and on, returning ...

. *** ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint'' #1–3, written by Rex Ogle and drawn by Paulo Siqueira with covers by

Shane Davis Shane Davis is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman and Batman for DC Comics. Career Shane Davis attended The Kubert School in his hometown of Dover, New Jersey. He entered the comics industry in 2003 at DC Comics ...

and Brett Booth. ** ''He Never Got the Ring'' *** ''Flashpoint:

'' #1–3, written by Adam Schlagman and drawn by

Ben Oliver Ben Oliver is a British comics artist who has worked for '' 2000 AD'' on ''Judge Dredd'' as well as providing art for '' The Authority'', '' The Losers'', and '' Ultimate X-Men'' Biography Ben Oliver lives in Bristol, his first professional w ...

with covers by

Rags Morales Ralph "Rags" Morales () is an American comic book artist known for his work on various books for DC Comics, including ''Identity Crisis'', '' Countdown to Infinite Crisis'', '' Batman Confidential'', and The New 52 reboot of then Superman-centric ...

. * One-shots ** ''Flashpoint: Grodd of War'' #1, written by Sean Ryan and drawn by Ug Guara with cover by Francis Manapul ** ''Flashpoint:

'' #1, written by Scott Kolins and drawn by Joel Gomez with cover by Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes ** ''Flashpoint: Green Arrow Industries'' #1, written by Pornsak Pichetshote and drawn by Mark Castiello with cover by Viktor Kalvachev ** ''Flashpoint: The Canterbury Cricket'' #1, written by Mike Carlin and drawn by Rags Morales with cover by Rags Morales

Collected editions

The series is collected into a number of

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: * ''Flashpoint'' (collects ''Flashpoint'' #1–5, 176 pages, softcover, March 13, 2012, hardcover, October 2011, ) * ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring The Flash'' (collects ''Grodd of War'' #1, ''Kid Flash Lost'' #1–3, ''Legion of Doom'' #1–3, ''Reverse Flash'' #1, ''Citizen Cold'' #1–3, 256 pages, paperback, March 2012, ) * ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Wonder Woman'' (collects ''Emperor Aquaman'' #1–3, ''Outsider'' #1–3, ''Lois Lane and the Resistance'' #1–3, ''Wonder Woman and the Furies'' #1–3, 272 pages, paperback, March 2012, ) * ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Superman'' (collects ''World of Flashpoint'' #1–3, ''Booster Gold'' #44–47, ''The Canterbury Cricket'' #1, ''Project Superman'' #1–3, 256 pages, paperback, March 2012, ) * ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Batman'' (collects ''Batman: Knight of Vengeance'' #1–3, ''Deadman and the Flying Graysons'' #1–3, ''Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager'' #1–3, ''Secret Seven'' #1–3, 272 pages, paperback, March 2012, ) * ''Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Green Lantern'' (collects ''Hal Jordan'' #1–3, ''Abin Sur – The Green Lantern'' #1–3, ''Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown'' #1–3, ''Green Arrow Industries'' #1, 224 pages, paperback, March 2012, ) The prelude titles were also collected: * ''The Flash Volume 2: The Road to Flashpoint'' (collects ''

'' vol. 3 #8–12, 128 pages, hardcover, October 2011, ) * ''Time Masters: Vanishing Point'' (collects ''Time Masters: Vanishing Point'' #1–6, 144 pages, paperback, April 2011, )

In other media

Television

Several allusions to ''Flashpoint'' are made in

's live-action

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: * Multiple allusions are made on ''

'' television series during the first three seasons. The character Blackout appears in the

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episode "Power Outage". In the episode "Rogue Time", Barry Allen is warned that going back in time to save

Nora Allen Abel Abin Sur Abra Kadabra (character) Abby Holland Ace the Bat-Hound Acrata Acrata (Andrea Rojas) is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics who was created as part of the ''Planet DC'' annuals event. Sh ...

's life would have a terrible ripple effect on the timeline. In season one's finale "Fast Enough", Barry time travels back to the night of his mother's murder, but is told by his future self not to interfere in the events, and shares a conversation with his dying mother that is similar to the one in the comic. In the

season two Season 2 may refer to: * ''Season 2'' (Infinite album) * ''2econd Season ''2econd Season'' is the second and most recent album by Atlanta-based rapper Unk. Release It was released on November 4, 2008. Guest Performers The album features gue ...

episode "Enter Zoom", it is revealed that

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is the vigilante known as the Arrow of Earth-2 instead of

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, mirroring Batman's reversal in the comic. In the episode "Rupture", Harry Wells attempts to recreate the accident behind Barry's powers on the de-powered speedster using a method similar to the one featured in the comic. A loose adaptation of ''Flashpoint'' begins in season two's finale "The Race of His Life". Grief-stricken after Hunter Zolomon/Zoom kills Henry Allen, Barry travels back to 2000 and stops Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash from killing Nora, thus radically altering the timeline. In

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's premiere "Flashpoint", Barry has Eobard kept imprisoned in a carbine cell and lives in the new timeline (dubbed 'Flashpoint' by Eobard) for three months with both his parents alive and begins dating

Iris West Iris West is a fictional character, a supporting character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She has been the main love interest and later wife of Barry Allen, the alter ego of the Silver Age version of the superhero Th ...

, while

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is the Flash. On the other side, Barry discovers that Joe West is a reclusive alcoholic frequently missing shifts at work,

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is a self-centered billionaire tech genius with no interest in helping anyone, and

Caitlin Snow Killer Frost is a name used by several female supervillains and superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics: Crystal Frost, Louise Lincoln, and Caitlin Snow. Each different individual in the DC Universe assuming the Killer Frost p ...

is not a biologist but a pediatric ophthalmologist. As in the comic book story, Barry begins losing his memories as the Flashpoint timeline starts to overwrite the timeline he is familiar with. Eobard tries to convince Barry to release him, so they can fix what he did, but Barry refuses to listen and tries to make things better by helping Wally stop The Rival. Barry succeeds in stopping the Rival who is killed by Joe, but not before Wally is critically wounded. Realizing Flashpoint's effects are only going to get worse, Barry releases Eobard who kills Nora in 2000 and returns Barry to the corrected 2016, but Eobard leaves a taunting hint that things are not exactly the same, evident by Eobard being alive in 2016 rather than being erased from existence in 2015 due to

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's suicide. In the episode "Paradox", several differences from the original timeline are revealed. Cisco is angry with Barry after

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's death in a car accident and Barry refused to go back in time to prevent this. Iris and Joe have a strained relationship after Iris discovered that Joe concealed that Francine West was still alive.

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has a son, John Jr., rather than a daughter, Sara.

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is a colleague in the forensics department who has been apparently working with for a year. Caitlin has been developing metahuman ice powers. Barry attempts to go back and reset the timeline again, but is pulled out the time stream by

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. Acting as a stern mentor, Jay explains time travel consequences by comparing the timeline to a broken coffee cup – it will never be completely the same even after it has been repaired. Jay advises that Barry must live with the mistakes of Flashpoint and move forward. When Barry reveals the timeline changes, the others gradually forgive and help battle enemies from Flashpoint timeline due to

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. ** The episode "

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" revealed that Eobard Thawne created a Reverse-Flashpoint where he was Flash and Barry was Reverse-Flash after Thawne went back in time to kill Nora and a younger Barry. In this timeline, Reverse-Flash assisted

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in killing Ray Palmer, Nate Heywood, Sara Lance, most of the Legends, and Cisco Ramon, Joe West was knocked onto the train tracks in front of a moving train by Reverse-Flash,

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became the new Atom, Frost and

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are dating,

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and Chester P. Runk used to date which didn't work out and noted after a devastating fight with the

, Damien's daughter

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has died at some point, and

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and

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are married where they plan to adopt a child. Investigating what

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meant that he would cause Armageddon, Flash goes to the year 2031 where he learns of the changes and his role in the Reverse-Flashpoint where Barry will fade away when the Reverse-Flashpoint becomes permanent by midnight. With help from the Reverse-Flashpoint Darhk, Barry had to run at the speeds to undo the Reverse-Flashpoint with Thawne right behind him. While Darhk coordinated him while fighting Frost, Chillblaine, Atom, and

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, Barry was able to undo the Reverse-Flashpoint. * The Flashpoint timeline's fallout continued in

of ''

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''. A temporal clone of Eobard Thawne works with Damien Darhk,

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and

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to change their histories by acquiring the Spear of Destiny to rewrite reality and avert their respective demises/deaths and Eobard's erasure from history. This eventually ends with Eobard getting caught by the

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and being wiped from existence again. ** This version of Eobard also made brief returns in season seven of ''Legends of Tomorrow'' and season eight of ''The Flash''.

Film

* The 2013

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entitled '' Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'' closely adapts the ''Flashpoint'' comic's story. Similar to the comic launching The New 52, the film served to launch a shared universe of fifteen DC animated films released between 2013 and 2020. Among the differences is the prologue with the Justice League helping the

defeat the

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, the implication that Eobard Thawne is not Nora Allen's killer, Enchantress not betraying

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's Resistance, and

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being a part of

's crew of pirates. ** In '' Justice League Dark: Apokolips War'', John Constantine reads Flash's mind to learn about the "Flashpoint" incident. Following the defeat of Darkseid and Batman stating that Earth lost 31% of its molten core, Constantine asks Flash to travel back in time to trigger another Flashpoint and restart the timeline over again so that the current state of things will be erased. Barry replies that he promised his wife Iris not to do it again. Constantine assures him that, though certain changes will not be good, it will still be much better than their bleak predicament. Flash resolves to follow through and runs off into the Speed Force, and the surviving Justice League watch as a white dome of light resets reality. * Elements of the ''Flashpoint'' storyline are planned to be incorporated for the

film ''

.'' The film is to be directed by

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, from a screenplay by

Christina Hodson Christina Hodson is a British screenwriter, known for ''Bumblebee'' (2018) and ''Birds of Prey'' (2020). Her 2016 film '' Shut In'' appeared on the 2012 Black List, an annual list of Hollywood's best-liked unproduced screenplays, as have two ...

, with

Ezra Miller Ezra Matthew Miller (born September 30, 1992) is an American actor. Their feature film debut was in ''Afterschool'' (2008), which they followed by starring in the drama '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' (2011) and '' The Perks of Being a Wallfl ...

reprising the role of

and

Ben Affleck Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educatio ...

and

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reprising their respective roles of

, with the film also set to debut the DC Cinematic

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. The film is scheduled to be released in theaters on June 23, 2023.

Video games

* The 2013 video game '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' had ''Flashpoint''-inspired designs of

, Wonder Woman and Deathstroke as downloadable content. * The 2015 video game '' Batman: Arkham Knight'' had Batman's ''Flashpoint'' design for

as downloadable content. * The 2017 video game ''

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'' featured the ''Flashpoint'' version of Wonder Woman making a cameo in Green Arrow's alternate ending as a member of the multiverse Justice League. * The 2011 video game ''

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'' launched its 40th episode, "World of Flashpoint" in 2021, featuring Queen Wonder Woman, Emperor Aquaman, Batman (Thomas Wayne), and the Flash.

References

External links

* at

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