And then we see Bruce – now played by Batman & Robin’s George Clooney instead of Ben Affleck. He moves all the tomato cans to a shelf where, when his father goes to grab one, his face will be seen by the security camera, thus exonerating him of the murder in the current timeline.īack in the present, Barry walks out of his father’s successful retrial and talks on the phone to Bruce, who’s congratulating him, and just happens to be pulling up in his very fancy car. He goes back to the past again, just after he originally slipped the tomato can into her cart, and pulls it back out, but not before sharing one final emotional moment with his mother, knowing he is sending her to her sudden and painful doom. To undo his own paradox, he must allow his mother to die. Now let’s get to the emotional final moments of the movie, and what the last scene actually means for everything going forward.īarry comes to understand that his mother’s death is a fixed point in time, and by changing it, he creates the Past Barry who would go on to become Dark Flash. The film doesn’t definitively reveal what happened to these characters after the timeline was fixed. He restores the DCEU to how it previously existed (give or take one Bruce Wayne), but we never actually see Sasha Calle’s Supergirl or Keaton’s Batman after that point. This is what prompts Future Barry to finally accept that some things can’t be changed and that he needs to undo his time meddling. But Past Barry sacrifices himself to save Future Barry, wiping the Dark Flash out of existence in the process. The Dark Flash decides that Future Barry has to die so that their mother can live. That ordeal warps him into the Dark Flash, as he becomes aged and covered in pieces of shrapnel picked up from various attempts to right the battle. That truth about fixed points is what ultimately drives Past Barry insane, as he breaks away and winds up spending decades in the Speed Force trying to prevent the inevitable. And as Barry races through the Speed Force, he glimpses other worlds in the DC multiverse, leading to cameos of iconic DC heroes like Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Adam West’s Batman and Helen Slater’s Supergirl. Unfortunately, Kara and Bruce seem destined to die here no matter what. No matter how fast he runs, Future Barry can’t stop his friends from being brutally killed during Zod’s attack. Here, the Barry and the younger version of himself from 2013 hit a major roadblock when they discover that Batman and Supergirl’s deaths are another fixed point in time. The Flash deals a lot with the concept of fixed points - critical moments in the timeline that can’t easily be undone. And shockingly, Michael Keaton’s Batman and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl both die defending the planet. Just like in Man of Steel, Zod (Michael Shannon) wants to terraform Earth and make it into a new Krypton. Because Barry has traveled back to a distorted version of 2013, he and his new allies find themselves fighting to save the world from General Zod and his Kryptonian army. The Flash culminates in a battle we’ve seen before, if not quite like this.
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