Flashpoint

> And who are you, the Justice League?"
> "No. The Justice Society."
>
> -Reverse Flash and The Flash

Official poster for Flashpoint

Flashpoint is a 2032 superhero film based on the superhero, The Flash. It was produced by Bold Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was released on April 16, 2032 and is the fifth film in the DC Cinematic Extended Universe (DCCEU).

The film was directed by Tyler Jett based off of a screenplay he wrote when he was just a kid in 2020. He revised the script over the course of production for Superman: First Flight.

A follow-up, Aqua, was released on June 18, 2032.

A direct sequel, The Flash: Human Race, interred active development on August 3, 2032, and had it's worldwide release on August 18, 2034.

## Plot

Barry Allen is working in forensics when a lightning bolt crashes through his window and shatters all of his chemicals, covering Barry and leaving him with severe burns. He wakes up in a sweat and and gets out of his bed. He starts to cry as memories of his mother, Nora Allen, begin to flood in. This causes him to begin searching for ways to bring her mom back to life, which leads him to learn that the best way to do so, is to reverse time and stop her murderer. He puts on his suit and runs fast enough to reverse time.

Waking up suddenly at his desk, Barry Allen has only a few seconds to puzzle out the fact that something in his work environment has changed before he hears that a Rogue named Miss Alchemy is engaging in a felony. Barry starts running to get there... only to fall down a nearby flight of stairs. This alone is a puzzle to him, but then he is greeted by an even bigger shock - Nora Allen, still alive in the present day and coming to visit him. He is also briefly visited by Professor Zoom, who has retained his powers despite Barry losing his.

Elsewhere, the Cyborg has called an assembly of the world's greatest heroes to try dealing with the situation in Europe, where Wonder Woman's Amazons are set to go to war with Atlantis' newly-acquired continental territories. The assembled heroes drag their heels but Cyborg gets a plurality.

Back in Central City, Barry begins quizzing his mother about how much the world has changed. It seems that, whatever has happened to the world, Nora Allen has no notion of Superman or the Flash, but she has heard of the Batman of Gotham City.

Meanwhile, in Gotham, a shadowy figure chases a colorful criminal across the neon-strewn rooftops. The Batman has chased the criminal known as Yo-Yo because he wants the location of the Joker.

From his superhero career, Barry Allen knows the location of the Batcave, but he is shocked by the changes to the décor -- in place of trophies and evidence, there is only... bats. In the location once occupied by Jason Todd's Robin costume is a stand with a gun. At this point, Batman arrives and begins beating him up. Barry tries to talk him down by calling him Bruce, but this does not have the desired effect. Catching sight of a Wayne family portrait, Barry arrives, by a horrible process of elimination, at a new conclusion -- Thomas Wayne is the Batman, and the world has changed almost beyond recognition...

In Europe, the pirate Deathstroke is sailing a boat down the flooded remains of Paris. He along with Sonar, Icicle, and Clayface are searching for any sunken loot to steal until they are attacked by Emperor Aquaman and Ocean Master. Back at Wayne Manor, Thomas Wayne starts beating up Barry Allen, as Barry tries to explain about his secret identity as the Flash and his relation to Bruce Wayne. Barry's memories spontaneously change and he remembers the flooding of Western Europe by Aquaman and the siege on London by the Amazons and renaming it New Themyscira, and Barry learns that the world of Flashpoint is not an alternate dimension, but his own. Barry's ring, which he uses to contain his Flash outfit, falls from his pocket and he decides to use his costume as proof of his secret identity. However, the ring instead ejects the Reverse-Flash's costume and Barry tells Wayne that the Reverse Flash is taunting him with it. Barry explains that both he and the Reverse Flash have the ability to alter time, leading Thomas Wayne to ask him about how Bruce was to have lived in his place and if he can really change the world, Barry saying that he first needs his speed.

In London, Steve Trevor is waiting at a rendezvous point for Lois Lane as he is attacked by Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Wonder Woman catches him by the neck with her Lasso of Truth and begins interrogating him after he is temporarily able to resist the lasso's effects. He explains that he was hired to extract Lois Lane from New Themyscira because she was sent to gather information on the Amazons for Cyborg. Wonder Woman states that their counterspy was telling something similar to Cyborg's amassing of super humans to stop the fighting between her and Aquaman and her subjects ask her what to do with Steve Trevor. At Wayne Manor, Barry created an electric chair-like device to reenact the accident that turned him into the Flash. A bolt of lightning strikes the chair and Barry Allen catches fire. Batman douses the flames and sees an unconscious Barry, his body covered in severe burns.

Nearly dead from his first attempt, Barry Allen asks Thomas Wayne to let him try to regain his powers once more. He wants to do this to combat the forced memory changes he's experiencing as a result of the Reverse-Flash's time alteration. Seeing no alternative, Wayne reluctantly consents.

After accomplishing this goal the duo forms a plan and teams up with Cyborg. Their plan is simple: locate Superman. The trio is able to get to the extremely pale, lanky, and de-powered Man of Steel without incident but are quickly set upon by armed guards when they start to escape.

In an unforeseen turn of events, the de-powered Superman abandons them soon after they emerge into the outside world. With guards who have been authorized to use lethal force at their backs and the **Man of Steel** gone, how with this makeshift trio make it out of this sticky situation?

In Fawcett City, the Marvel Family contemplates over what to do after the President announces Cyborg's failure to unite the world's super heroes and the United States' entry into the Atlantean-Amazon war. Billy Batson feels distressed about trying to intervene with the war after being easily defeated by Wonder Woman. Back at Metropolis, The Flash, Batman, and Cyborg have difficulty fending off the guards until they are rescued by Element Woman. Flash's memories begin to change much more drastically, altering his past and states that he is running out of time and soon he will not be able to restore the timeline to normal. In order to slow the process, Batman gives him an anti-epileptic to slow down his brain electrical activity. Back in Fawcett City, Billy Batson finally decides to put a stop to the war just as the Flash, Batman, Cyborg, and Element Woman break down the door saying they need the Marvel Family's help. Batman asks Billy to use his lighting to prevent the Flash's memories from changing even and doing so, Billy sees the memories of his DC timeline counterpart. The group then hears of the failed air assault on England with Hal Jordan being the first casualty and a giant tidal wave that will wipe out the rest of New Themyscira. The Flash tells Batman that he cannot just stand by as people die since if he fails to stop the Reverse Flash the world will destroy itself. Despite Batman's initial arguments, he joins the Flash as the group heads off to New Themyscira in Batman's plane and are joined by Enchantress. Wonder Woman and Aquaman are fighting one on one until the Flash and his team arrive. Captain Thunder attacks Wonder Woman and appears to be winning until Enchantress reveals herself as the Amazon spy and uses her magic to separate the Marvel Family and restore them to their mortal forms. Wonder Woman is enraged that her enemy was just a boy. One of her Amazons, Penthesileia kills Billy Batson just as the Reverse Flash appears in front of The Flash.

As the final battle rages, Professor Zoom looms over the Flash. Enraged, Barry demands to known what he had done to the timestream to create this world. However, to Barry's surprise, Zoom had done nothing. Using his connection to the Reverse Speed Force, Zoom reveals that it was *Barry* who had created this universe, stopping Zoom from killing his mother. Doing so had shattered history, causing the world of Flashpoint to occur. Barry breaks free from Zoom's grasp and the two begin their fight before Batman stops them. He figures they need to "remove Thawne from the equation", but the madman beats Batman to a pulp, declaring that it was backwards, that Barry had done that to his own equation. He, then, reveals to Barry that because of his alteration to the Speed Force while he was traveling it, he became a living paradox, free from history and free to do whatever he sees fit. As he gloats that Barry can't kill him, he's shown a loophole when Batman skewers him with a sword.

As the other heroes regroup, they learn that the Enchantress is working with Wonder Woman and is plowing through the Atlantean soldiers. They're soon joined by Grifter and the Resistance, however the Enchantress slays the gathering before mortally wounding Batman. Her rampage is stopped by the arrival of Subject One, who lands and disperses her energies before focusing on Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Despite his arrival, along with Grodd, things got worse - the Atlanteans had plans for sinking Britain was going to end up splitting the Earth in half. The resulting explosions kill most everyone there, save Barry and the dying Thomas. Before passing on, Thomas gives Barry a letter to give to Bruce. With one last nudge, Barry races into the timestream, only to be pulled back to his home where his mother waits.

In his home, Barry reveals that it was his fault that this world came to be and that he can't accurately fix things without the Cosmic Treadmill. She tells him that if he got to her by using her as some sort of lightning rod, he could do the same to his other self. Barry becomes hesitant, not wanting to lose her again, but she asks a question that gets him to change his mind: how many people had died because of this? She finally gets him to just let go of her and he chases after his past self. He is able to catch up to him and, reluctantly, stops him and attempts to hop back into the timestream. However, he sees three timelines in doing so - normal DCU, Vertigo and Wildstorm - and is confronted by a mysterious woman, who reveals that the three universes were splintered into three to allow an invasion to arrive. However, she needs the three unified and uses Barry to do so, costing him something valuable.

Soon, Barry wakes up in his office, realizing everything was fixed.

## Post-Credit Scenes

There are two post-credit scenes in Flashpoint. The first takes us back to the Flashpoint Universe, where we see the universe hasn’t been erased. The second shows Bruce Wayne recruiting Barry to join Project Justice.