The Flash: Earth-2

**The Flash: Earth-2**was a 2011 superhero action film based on the DC Comics superhero, The Flash. The film starred Dave Franco, Tessa Thompson, Hilarie Burton, Paul Dano, Adrien Brody, Michael B. Jordan, Daisy Ridley, William Hurt, Gary Oldman, and Don Cheadle. The film was released worldwide on September 2, 2011 and received positive reviews and was a box office success, grossing $1.123 billion worldwide.

## Plot

Two years after the events of *The Flash*, Team Flash has disbanded due to Ronnie having died and the events leading up to the black hole. Barry has been going around as the Flash without a team. Iris is now one of Central City Picture News' best journalists. Caitlin has taken a job at Mercury Labs. Cisco works as a tech consultant at the CCPD with Joe. Barry never got a confession from Thawne about killing Nora, meaning his father will stay in prison forever now. However, when a new metahuman more powerful than any Barry has faced in the past two years shows up, Cisco decides to get the team back together, although Caitlin does not want to go back. Barry also receives a hard drive from Wells' will that had just resurfaced. Barry watches the video on the hard drive, which is Wells confessing to the murder of Nora Allen. Henry is released from prison, but due to being in prison for sixteen years, he leaves Central City for a while.

After stopping the new metahuman, the team decides to stay together, with Caitlin rejoining. However, a man named Jay Garrick shows up, claiming to be from another Earth. Stein explains to the team that theoretically there could be parallel earths, although Iris and Joe are skeptic. Jay reveals that he is the Flash on Earth-2 and there is a demonic speedster named Zoom that is obsessed with being the fastest in the multiverse. After the black hole opened, 52 "breaches" opened around Central City, which Zoom is using to send metahumans across Earths to kill the Flash to be the fastest. Jay also reveals he lost his speed. Stein begins to slowly die due to not having merged with Firestorm in two years, so the team meets Jefferson Jackson, who voluntarily becomes the next host with Stein. The two merge and leave Central City for a while. The Harrison Wells of Earth-2 shows up and is nicknamed Harry to distinguish hims from Thawne. Harry reveals he was responsible for the creation of metahumans and Zoom on his Earth and wants to help Team Flash stop them.

However, Harry is revealed to be working with Zoom because he has the former's daughter captive. Zoom is revealed to be sending metahumans after Barry to get him faster and then take his speed, which Harry will help him with. Meanwhile, Joe and Iris meet Wally West, Joe's son and Iris' brother that Joe's estranged wife never told them about. Wally reveals his mother has died and needs family. The team eventually discovers what Harry is doing and makes a deal with him to use Cisco's abilities to "vibe" into another Earth to save Harry's daughter. However, while on Earth-2, they discover Caitlin has ice abilities and is calling herself Killer Frost. She is working with Ronnie/Deathstorm and Cisco/Reverb for Zoom. Barry is captured but is saved by Harry and Cisco who teamed with Iris and Barry of Earth-2. They are able to save Jesse, but another prisoner with a mask on is there and cannot be saved, though Barry promises to save him.

Wally is brought in for Team Flash and begins to fall in love with Jesse. However, Zoom appears and forces Barry to either give up his speed or he will kill Wally. Barry takes the deal and gives up his speed. Zoom also kills Jay, leaving Caitlin distraught. They find a way to recreate a small particle accelerator that is just enough to give Barry his speed, which they find out with Henry. However, the blast also sends Wally and Jesse into comas, which they both shortly wake up from. The team discovers Zoom is actually Jay and has been using a speed technique called Time Remnants, which can create a past version of yourself without harming you or the future. Caitlin is kidnapped by Jay, who actually loves her and is revealed to be Hunter Zolomon and has been posing as Zoom and the Flash on Earth-2 for years now. Caitlin is able to escape but discovers Zoom has brought over an army of metahumans, including Laurel Lance/Black Siren.

Zoom challenges Barry to a race, which he forces him to do by killing Henry. Team Flash realizes Zoom plans to rip apart the multiverse, which he can do by using a very large breach stabilizer and having himself and Barry run at their full speeds. Barry decides to create a time remnant of himself on the race, who runs into the stabilizer and shuts it down, obliterating himself. The machine is destroyed but before Zoom can kill Barry, the Speed Force, the thing that gives speedsters speed, sends a Time Wraith after Zoom for manipulating the time so much with his time remnants. Harry and Jesse go home to Earth-2, while the masked prisoner is revealed to be the real Jay Garrick from Earth-3, who is revealed to be the doppelganger of Henry Allen from Earth-3, just with a different name. Jay then goes home. Team Flash has a party to celebrate their victory.

In a mid-credits scene, Barry is heartbroken after his father's death and after being kissed by Iris, goes back in time and saves his mother. In a post-credits scene, Jesse and Harry return to Earth-2, where the former realizes she has super-speed.

## Cast

* Dave Franco as Barry Allen/The Flash
* Tessa Thompson as Iris West
* Hilarie Burton as Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost
* Paul Dano as Cisco Ramon/Vibe/Reverb
* Adrien Brody as Hunter Zolomon/Zoom
* Michael B. Jordan as Wally West
* Daisy Ridley as Jesse Quick
* Victor Garber as Martin Stein
* William Hurt as Henry Allen/Jay Garrick/The Flash
* Gary Oldman as Harrison Wells
* Don Cheadle as Joe West

Morena Baccarin appears the Earth-2 version of Laurel Lance/Black Siren.

## Reception

### **Box office**

The film grossed $1,123,794,079 worldwide, $352,390,543 in North America, and $771,403,536 in other territories.

### **Critical reception**

*The Flash: Earth-2* recieved positive reviews. The film currently holds an 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 77 out of 100 on Metacritic.