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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I completely broke the universe!"'']] |
| 7 | ->'''Bruce Wayne:''' Tell me something. If you get your powers back, you can go anywhere. You can go to another timeline, another universe. Why do you wanna stay... and fight to save ''this'' one?\ |
| 8 | '''Barry Allen:''' Because this is the world where my mom lives. I went back in time to save her. I'm not gonna lose her again. |
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| 10 | ''The Flash'' is a 2023 {{superhero}} film directed by Creator/AndresMuschietti, from a screenplay written by Christina Hodson. It is the thirteenth film, possibly the [[{{Main/Inuniverse}} in-universe]] end of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, and the [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell long-awaited]] solo theatrical film adaptation of the Creator/DCComics character [[ComicBook/TheFlash of the same name]], loosely inspired by the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DC Comics}}'' storyline, a quasi-sequel to both ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', and a WhatIf version of ''Film/ManOfSteel'' all at once. |
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| 12 | Some time after ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice]] [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 League]]'', [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen Barry Allen]] uses the [[SuperSpeed Speed Force]] to travel back in time and discover the truth about his mother's death to [[ClearTheirName clear his father's name]]. In testing the limits of his powers to travel back in time, Flash unintentionally creates a universe where his mother lives, but there are no metahumans to defend the Earth ahead of [[Film/ManOfSteel an impending Kryptonian invasion]]. With the help of an [[Film/BatmanFilmSeries alternate]] [[Characters/BatmanFilmSeriesBatman Bruce Wayne]], an imprisoned Kryptonian named [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]], and a younger alternate version of himself who has just gained superpowers, it's up to Barry to stop General Zod, restore his timeline and find a way back home. |
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| 14 | The film stars Creator/EzraMiller as Barry Allen / The Flash and Creator/MichaelKeaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman from an alternate timeline. Alongside Keaton's Batman, Creator/BenAffleck also reprises his role as Bruce Wayne / Batman from the DCEU, with Creator/MichaelShannon and Creator/AntjeTraue returning as Ur-Zod and Faora-Ul respectively. Creator/KierseyClemons reprises her role as [[Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters Iris West]] from ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' while new additions to the cast include Creator/SashaCalle as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl, Creator/MaribelVerdu as [[Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters Nora Allen]], Creator/JeremyIrons as Alfred Pennyworth and Creator/RonLivingston as [[Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters Henry Allen]][[note]][[TheOtherDarrin replacing]] Creator/BillyCrudup from [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 both]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague versions]] of ''Justice League''[[/note]]. |
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| 16 | A 3-issue {{Prequel}} comic book mini-series called ''The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive'' was released in late 2022, focusing on Barry's relationship with his mentor Bruce Wayne prior to the events of the movie. |
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| 18 | Taking inspiration from the aforementioned ''Flashpoint'', this film is also a SpiritualSuccessor to the Series/{{Arrowverse}} {{Crossover}} ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}'', wherein Miller's Barry met his [[Characters/ArrowverseBarryAllen counterpart]] (Creator/GrantGustin) from Earth-Prime. The film also draws influence from ''The Flash: Rebirth'' (2009) as part of Barry's story. ''The Flash'' was released theatrically on June 16, 2023 and digitally on July 18. |
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| 20 | Previews: [[https://youtu.be/ZRC05iThBFM DC Fandome 2021 teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwaD9cHLNw first official trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51cYVZWKdY second official trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jprhe-cWKGs final trailer]] |
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| 22 | !! ''The Flash'' contains examples of: |
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| 26 | [[folder:Tropes # to B]] |
| 27 | * TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The alternate timeline Barry ends up on plays out in 2013, around the same time that the events of ''Film/ManOfSteel'' played out in the DCEU's original timeline. |
| 28 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Zod put his retractable blade to good use against a human general [[spoiler:and a distracted Supergirl, after being seemingly pinned down by the latter. And then later on, using the blade to kill her in numerous other occasions throughout the timeline. Likewise, the bits of Kryptonian metal embedded into Alternate Barry's body are sharp enough to help him easily kill Faora in tandem with his speed.]] |
| 29 | * AdaptedOut: Despite his huge role in the source material, [[spoiler:Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash]] has no part in any element of the story. Like the animated adaptation of ''Flashpoint'', we don’t even know if he was responsible for the death of Barry’s mother. |
| 30 | * AdaptationDeviation: |
| 31 | ** Instead of having one Barry Allen who replaces his counterpart and inheriting his memories like the ''Flashpoint'' comics, there are two Barrys in the movie. |
| 32 | ** In the comic, Flash tampering with the timeline leads to a reality where Bruce Wayne died as a child - [[spoiler:a fate trasferred to Clark Kent in the movie]]. |
| 33 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} is near universally depicted with long blonde hair, though some civilian appearances [[ClarkKenting include a brown wig]]. Creator/SashaCalle retains her dark hair along with a shorter haircut. |
| 34 | * AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The movie dances around this next to the original Flashpoint story. |
| 35 | ** The comic justified retroactive changes to the timeline via "time booms" akin to sonic booms, so changes like Clark's ship landing in Metropolis or Bruce being shot instead of his parents came because the PointOfDivergence had a ripple effect further back in the past than could be accounted for (note this was considered a fairly weak explanation). Here, Keatons' Bruce speculates on non-linear time and TheMultiverse, suggesting Prime Barrys' actions to prevent Noras' death as "more of an intersection" between the two timelines, with changes going in BOTH directions, past and future. It doesn't necessarily clear ''[[TimeyWimeyBall everything]]'' up, but is a bit more flexible. |
| 36 | ** But in general, the original Flashpoint story was merely an alternate timeline story, not a multiversal one, as in Barry created the new timeline instead of discovering it, while the movie is a lot more ambiguous about how things work. |
| 37 | * AdaptationalWimp: While the Nam-Ek from [[Film/ManOfSteel the original timeline]] was able to put up a fight against Superman, this version [[spoiler: is knocked out with standard explosives, Batman can actually last for a few moments engaged in a fight with him and Barry working together with Alternate Barry defeats him with relative ease.]] |
| 38 | ** All the Kryptonians not named "Zod". When facing off against a newly-resurrected (and still recovering) Superman, Barry found himself against an opponent that could keep up with him with little issue and that he was utterly powerless against, to the point that his punches bounced with no effect and Clark could damage him by simply moving. Here, while we are [[ShowDontTell told]] that the Kryptonians are fast, they move no faster than regular people and are tossed around with ease, to the point that Flash has more trouble facing regular humans armed with guns than the Kryptonian army. While an exception could be made for things like Barry using the speed force to phase through a Kryptonian's chest, it doesn't justify him being able to just hit and toss the others around. |
| 39 | * AdvertisedExtra: Creator/BenAffleck's Batman gets a lot of focus in the trailers, with even his Bat symbol appearing alongside the other heroes' in the final trailer. In the film, he plays a major role in the first act, then [[spoiler:disappears after Flash messes with the timeline (with]] Keaton's Batman taking his place for the rest of the film). |
| 40 | * AesopAmnesia: Possibly one of the fastest on screen: [[spoiler: after accepting to let Nora die, undoing his previous change to the timeline, and a tearful departure done careful to avoid more changes, Barry goes back and is struck by the realization that he can change the past to provide an alibi for his father, ''and immediately does that''.]] |
| 41 | * AlternateSelf: |
| 42 | ** Barry meets a younger version of himself from an alternate timeline that is also portrayed by Creator/EzraMiller. |
| 43 | ** The altered timeline features an alternate Batman from the [[Film/Batman1989 1989]] and [[Film/BatmanReturns 1992]] films in costume. The actual Batman of Barry's universe is [[Characters/DCEUBatman way different]]. This alternate Batman can be considered an alternate version of himself from those films too, since he exists in an AlternateTimeline created by Barry as opposed to another universe like ''Crisis'' portrayed those films to be. |
| 44 | * AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Affleck-Batman lamented that despite all of his heroics, Gotham City was still a WretchedHive. Keaton-Batman managed to make Gotham City the safest city in the world. Unfortunately, he [[NoPlaceForMeThere didn't know what to do with his life afterwards]]. |
| 45 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 46 | ** The way TheMultiverse and TimeTravel work in this movie are explained by Keaton's Batman using cooked and uncooked spaghetti noodles, but his demonstration is itself ambiguous. Bruce uses two parallel then forking uncooked noodles to signify that changing the past simply leads to a different future. But he says this is flat out wrong, and instead he shows two noodles crossing at a "fulcrum" which is created by Barry's time interference, causing a different past and future as the effect goes both ways. Then he compares different timelines to a plate of cooked spaghetti where noodles both touch each other and may be close or distant to each other, showing how timelines may be similar or different, and taken as a whole, that's the Multiverse. Combined with the movie's dialogue using "universe", world, and "timeline" etc. more or less interchangeably, and the visuals of the multiversal worlds within the "Chronobowl" later, it's unclear if Barry creates an AlternateTimeline out of his own home universe, or is really moving between alternate timelines or {{Alternate Universe}}s rather than modifying his original universe. The second spaghetti demonstration is also unclear if the other "noodle" has always existed or only came into existence due to the interference, and so if Barry is meant to have somehow landed in the actual Burtonverse from Keaton's movies. The characters don't bother to work the mechanics of it all out, and Bruce says it's just a hot mess, signified by pouring spaghetti sauce onto the noodles. |
| 47 | ** [[spoiler: Creator/GeorgeClooney's]] cameo. While the implication appears to be obvious, that [[spoiler:Clooney's Bruce Wayne has now replaced Ben Affleck's Bruce in Barry's world just as Keaton's Bruce earlier had]], another interpretation would be that after the conclusion of the main plot, Barry somehow found himself [[spoiler: stuck in a universe that fused with that of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'']]. |
| 48 | ** [[spoiler:While by the end of the movie Henry Allen has been acquitted of his wife's murder, the full truth behind the case is not revealed in this film, leaving it unknown if she was killed by Eobard Thawne like usual, or if her death was caused by an ordinary burglary that got out of hand like Barry postulates.]] |
| 49 | ** [[spoiler:The red sun cell that Kara is kept in is described as "Soviet", despite still being in use and well maintained. Is this due an artifact/aesthetic detail, since it was built during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and no one refers to it by 2013 terms, or is the universe Barry visits one where the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR]] still exists in a AlternateHistory version of 2013?]] |
| 50 | ** On a meta level it's possible to take the movie as the chronological end of the DCEU, largely based on WordOfGod, but the ambiguity and FlipFlopOfGod about this and the last few DC movies that followed this in theaters also makes it possible to take the movie as just the end of the DCEU "as you know it" ever since ''Film/ManOfSteel''. Of note, the delays due to production issues caused this movie to be released after ''Film/BlackAdam'' and ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'', later than originally planned. Then ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'' originally tied in to the consequences of this movie, but all trace of that was excised so it could have happened before this, if one wants to see it that way. |
| 51 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Alternate Barry to Prime Barry has this dynamic, as he is a carefree eighteen year old slacker who won't even do his own laundry. |
| 52 | * AchillesInHisTent: Keaton!Batman was so good that he managed to make Gotham City one of the ''safest'' places in the world, so much that they didn't need him. He lets his hair grow long and gets a BeardOfSorrow over losing his Alfred (presumably Creator/MichaelGough). It takes the Barrys to bring him back into the fight after seeing General Zod's ship come to Earth. |
| 53 | * BackForTheFinale: A variation with Creator/MichaelShannon and Creator/AntjeTraue. Zod was the very first BigBad of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse (and with Faora as TheDragon). With ''The Flash'' rebooting the original shared cinematic setting that ''Film/ManOfSteel'' kicked off, [[https://www.polygon.com/23594892/ezra-miller-the-flash-movie-trailer Zod and Faora thus fittingly return for its]] 'finale', as the existing current timeline is overwritten due to this film's events. The film also has Creator/BenAffleck return to play Batman one more time after previously retiring from the role. |
| 54 | * BadassNormal: Compared to his portrayal in ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', it quickly becomes clear that Batman is outmatched by the metahumans during the final battle. Despite that, he repeatedly engages their air defenses with nothing more than machine guns and missiles, and decides to take on Nam-Ek (a giant Kryptonian) one-on-one with nothing more than his reflexes and a handful of bombs. [[spoiler:The latter gets him killed, though he manages to knock out Nam-Ek for about a minute by attaching an explosive to his head]]. |
| 55 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline that Barry's meddling created, General Zod always succeeds in defeating the heroes and destroying humanity in the process of terraforming Earth into a New Krypton. Alternate Barry spends so much time unsuccessfully trying to alter this outcome that not only he eventually becomes an old man, but [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ the reality itself starts crushing itself in the process]].]] |
| 56 | * BaitAndSwitch: |
| 57 | ** When the Barrys and the Batman reach the containment unit the audience gets fleeting glimpses of the captured Kryptonian, building up a Superman tease, before subverting it by revealing ''Kara'' instead of Clark. |
| 58 | ** A double whammy at the end: [[spoiler:after fixing the timeline, Barry gets a call from Bruce, who arrives in his car to meet with him. With how the scene builds up, one would assume that this Bruce is actually Creator/MichaelKeaton's version, not Creator/BenAffleck's. As it turns out, he's neither; this is ''Creator/GeorgeClooney's'' [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Bruce Wayne]]]]. |
| 59 | * BerserkButton: Happens when Barry's alternate self mentions his mother jokingly. It's enough to make Barry snap at his alternate self, even giving him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in the process. |
| 60 | * BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Barry's father Henry is seen removing the knife from the belly of Nora after she's been stabbed, which likely means he left his fingerprints on the knife, further incriminating him. |
| 61 | * BetaOutfit: It's revealed that Barry first tried to be a hero during the Kryptonian invasion during ''Film/ManOfSteel'' but only had his powers a few weeks and wasn't able to do much. His costume was [[RummageSaleReject a wild mixture of a ski mask and other sporting gear]]. |
| 62 | * BigBad: In the alternate timeline, General Zod [[spoiler:who is [[DoomedByCanon destined]] [[TheBadGuyWins to win]], [[HopelessBossFight no matter what anyone does, not even Barry]]. The real villain is actually [[EvilTwin Dark Flash]], who is revealed to be a much older Alternate Barry who was growing obsessed with changing the timeline and winning, actual consequences be damned.]] |
| 63 | * BigSisterInstinct: [[spoiler:A cousin version. Kara Zor-El explains to both Barrys that she was sent to Earth along with Kal-El to protect him, and clearly feels guilty that she doesn't know his fate. When Zod reveals to her at the climactic battle that he and his troops abducted the infant Kal to try to retrieve the Codex from him (which he didn't have) and he died in the process, Kara ''immediately'' goes into UnstoppableRage against Zod.]] |
| 64 | * BigBrotherMentor: Once the older Prime Barry is accidentally BroughtDownToNormal after transferring his powers to the younger Alternate Barry, the former acts as this for the latter when teaching him how to use his new abilities. |
| 65 | * BigDamnHeroes: While escaping the facility in Russia, The Flash and Batman are badly outnumbered by heavily armed troops. Batman raises up his hands in apparent surrender, but when he moves it, Kara is revealed to have regained her strength and powers. Cue super-speed asskicking. |
| 66 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Barry manages to change the past just enough to clear his dad's name in the unscramble security footage, winning his appeal and freeing him from prison. He's also going to start dating Iris. However, he had to allow his mother to die, and he knows that Kara and the older Batman are irrevocably doomed to die along with the entire Earth of their timeline regardless. And again due to his meddling with time, the younger Batman he's familiar with is still RetGone and replaced by another older version]]. |
| 67 | * BodyHorror: Over the course of the final battle, [[spoiler:Alternate Barry winds up having multiple sharp instruments embedded into his body via the use of his phasing power, with a large chunk of Nam-Ek's exploded armor serving as a BladeBelowTheShoulder for him at first, before he starts to have more and more items embedded within him to the point of outright SpikesOfVillainy. By the time he becomes the Dark Flash, his suit also appears to be a charred mess melded with his body.]] |
| 68 | * BondingOverMissingParents: Invoked. When trying to convince Bruce Wayne of his idea to travel back in time to save his mother from death and father from imprisonment, Barry appeals to Bruce's own deceased parents. [[spoiler:The argument doesn't work on the original DCEU Bruce, but is implied to be more effective on the Batman of the alternate universe, who touches an old photograph of the Waynes when deciding to help Barry.]] |
| 69 | * {{Bookends}}: Zod was the first BigBad of the DC Extended Universe. With ''The Flash'' rebooting the original cinematic setting that ''Film/ManOfSteel'' kicked off, [[https://www.theflashmovie.com/synopsis/ an alternate Zod]] bookends things as the 'final' Big Bad. Even though ''Film/{{Blue Beetle|2023}}'' and ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'' go next, this is still the end of the original timeline that began with ''Man of Steel''. |
| 70 | * BrickJoke: |
| 71 | ** Upon trying on Barry's suit, Alternate Barry confesses that it's tight, especially around the groin. When he makes a new costume from one of [[Film/BatmanReturns Batman's old suits]] later on, he tells Barry that his version is more loose, even stretching his leg to demonstrate this. |
| 72 | ** When helping his alternate self gain access to his powers, Barry has his tooth knocked out and has to glue it back on. [[spoiler:At the end, when trying to talk to Clooney's Bruce, the tooth falls out]]. |
| 73 | * BroadStrokes: [[spoiler: Elements of the two Tim Burton Batman films (set on Earth-89 of the Arrowverse, and/or Earth-789 in context of DC Comics' multiverse) are given this treatment, mixed in with ''Film/ManOfSteel'' to create the AlternativeUniverse or rather timeline that Barry travels to.]] |
| 74 | * BrokenAesop: The film seems to be about accepting things as they are, but in the finale [[spoiler:Barry alters time again, this time to create more evidence around Nora's murder to exonerate Henry Allen]], and nothing is seen as wrong with that. Although, the appearance of [[spoiler:Clooney's Bruce Wayne suggests that this could be the unintentional result of Barry's second interference.]] |
| 75 | * BusFullOfInnocents: Played for BlackComedy when the Flash does a ridiculously over-the-top version of this trope when a hospital wing collapses and Flash has to rescue a half-dozen babies, a nurse and a rescue dog who are falling to their deaths while at the same time being imperiled mid-air by various lethal objects. While this is going on, Batman is chasing a carload of villains with [[DestructiveSaviour neither side caring much about]] CollateralDamage. Further down the road children start filing out of a school bus, so Batman shoots a device ahead of them that deploys a spike strip, causing the villains to swerve off down a side street to avoid it. The watching kids of course are more thrilled than terrified. |
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| 78 | [[folder:Tropes C to F]] |
| 79 | * CallBack: |
| 80 | ** When Prime Barry and Alternate Barry go to meet Batman and are attacked by Keaton Batman, Alternate Barry catches a frying pan hurled at him in a similar way to how Prime Barry caught a Batarang hurled at him in ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]''. |
| 81 | ** Alternate Barry [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 quickly speeds through the Batcave in excitement]] when entering it for the first time. |
| 82 | ** In the first official trailer, [[https://www.dc.com/blog/2023/02/13/racing-through-the-flash-trailer-what-it-all-means when appearing before the two Barrys in costume]], the Creator/MichaelKeaton version of Bruce reprises his CharacterCatchphrase from the Creator/TimBurton ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie: |
| 83 | --->'''Barry 2:''' You're... You are...\ |
| 84 | '''Batman:''' Yeah. [[HesBack I'm Batman.]] |
| 85 | ** Barry finds the "laughing" silk marble bag once possessed by The Joker in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}''. Apparently Bruce kept it all these years as a souvenir. |
| 86 | ** [[Film/ManOfSteel As explained by Superman before]], the "S" in Kara's outfit is brought up in the film as a symbol of hope in Krypton. |
| 87 | ** Then there's Batman's response to Barry's offer to join the new Justice League: |
| 88 | --->'''Batman:''' You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts. |
| 89 | * TheCameo: |
| 90 | ** Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/JeremyIrons reprise their roles as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Alfred respectively for the beginning action scene, [[spoiler:with Creator/GalGadot’s Wonder Woman into up to save Batman and Alberto Falcone]]. |
| 91 | ** Temuera Morrison briefly reprises his role as Thomas Curry (Aquaman's father) [[spoiler: when Prime Barry discovers that Aquaman doesn't exist in the altered timeline.]] |
| 92 | ** During Barry’s glimpses into TheMultiverse, we see [[spoiler:a CGI recreation of Creator/GeorgeReeves as his Superman in a black and white world which is also inhabited by a version of Jay Garrick,]][[note]]Despite reports that Jay was played by Creator/TeddySears, he was actually a [[SerkisFolk CGI creation]] with a facial likeness provided by Jason Ballantine[[/note]] plus [[spoiler:Creator/ChristopherReeve and Creator/HelenSlater as Superman and Supergirl respectively, CGI and archive audio of Creator/AdamWest as Batman alongside archive audio of Creator/CaesarRomero as the Joker and a [[DigitalDeaging Digitally Deaged]] Creator/NicolasCage as Superman, [[MythologyGag fighting a giant spider]]]][[labelnote:Explanation]] Cage was set to portray Superman in a film entitled ''Superman Lives'', written by Creator/KevinSmith and directed by Creator/TimBurton. Producer Jon Peters stipulated that Superman had to fight a giant spider in the third act.[[/labelnote]]. |
| 93 | ** [[spoiler:Creator/GeorgeClooney appears as the new timeline’s Bruce Wayne]]. |
| 94 | ** And finally, [[spoiler:Creator/JasonMomoa’s Arthur Curry[=/=]Aquaman in TheStinger]]. |
| 95 | ** Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau appears as a random man. The role is uncredited but he has a "special thanks" nod in the credits. |
| 96 | ** [[CreatorCameo Director Andy Muschietti himself appears]] also as an uncredited random man eating a hot dog in front of the court at the end. |
| 97 | * CentralTheme: Some problems simply don't have solutions, no matter how hard you try to solve them. |
| 98 | * CheapCostume: |
| 99 | ** The alternate Barry's costume is appropriated from one of the older Batman's old suits[[labelnote:*]]specifically, the one from ''Returns''[[/labelnote]], spray painted red and the Flash's lightning iconography with caution tape to complete the look. |
| 100 | ** Barry does the BrownBagMask version when he first confronts his younger self who's just turned up with a bag of laundry. Barry tackles him to the ground and covers his face with underwear as an improvised mask. It doesn't work as younger Barry unmasks the underwear-wearing looney to find himself staring back at him. |
| 101 | * ApocalypseHow/ClassZ: [[spoiler: What begins to happen at the end of the film, with Barry's actions causing universes to crash into each other, threatening to destroy all of existence if he does not fix what he has done.]] |
| 102 | * CoincidentalBroadcast: Early on, Barry asks Alfred why he haven't contemplated calling Superman to deal with the Gotham Crisis, only to turn around and see a news report where Superman is concurrently ''stopping a volcano eruption'' somewhere in Guatemala. |
| 103 | * CloseEnoughTimeline: The timeline that Barry comes back to seems to be broadly the same as the one he left, only now with [[spoiler:his father acquitted, and [[Film/BatmanAndRobin George Clooney's incarnation of Bruce Wayne]] apparently replacing Ben Affleck's]]. |
| 104 | * ClosestThingWeGot: Having confirmed that Diana and Arthur apparently don't exist in this new world and Victor Stone isn't Cyborg (yet), the best Barry can do to assemble a "new" Justice League to fight Zod is his own counterpart, the older Batman, and Kara Zor-El. |
| 105 | -->'''Barry (Alternate):''' We're the Justice League.\ |
| 106 | '''Barry:''' No.\ |
| 107 | '''Barry (Alternate):''' No?\ |
| 108 | '''Barry:''' Well, I mean, kinda. We are short one literal goddess... one friendly Terminator and super mermaid. And we could definitely use a Batman. |
| 109 | * CollapsibleHelmet: Barrys' new Flash costume has a feature to retract the headpiece into a couple flaps on the back of his neck for a helmetless look. |
| 110 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Kara is only called Supergirl once by Alternate Barry and the name does not stick. The trope is otherwise averted for all the other heroes. |
| 111 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 112 | ** Supergirl in this film manages to be a composite of 2 Supergirls ''and'' 3 '''Supermen'''; she has the name and past of Kara Zor-El, the main Supergirl and the appearance of Lara Lane-Kent from the Injustice tie-in comics. Meanwhile, her role as a sun-starved Kryptonian kept in a base who is rescued by the heroes is taken from Flashpoint Superman, while her having been held by the Soviets, not the US government, and presumably landing in Russia, is taken from Red Son Superman. Finally, [[spoiler: Kara has the Codex implanted in her bloodstream, fulfilling Clark's role in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.]] |
| 113 | ** [[spoiler: The Dark Flash takes from a number of different speedster villains while being an obscure name itself, including, for example, Black Flash, Reverse Flash, Zoom, Savitar and Future Flash. The closest overall comparison would be the undead appearance of Black Flash, as well as him being an alternate timeline version of Barry much like Future Flash. The aesthetic of sharp metal protruding from his body to make up his costume calls back to the Daniel West version of the Reverse Flash from the New 52 comics]]. |
| 114 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 115 | ** Iris makes a vague allusion to her and Barry running into each other a few years before the events of this film, referring to the [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Snyder Cut's introductory scene, where Barry saves Iris from a car wreck.]] |
| 116 | ** Barry's ''[[Film/JusticeLeague2017 Justice League]]'' costume can be seen as he goes further back in time to stop his mom's death, as well as [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague his fight with Superman, complete with Arthur angrily pointing at him]]. There is also a brief mention of him being able to reverse time for a few seconds in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''. |
| 117 | ** On top of this, Boomerang is also seen in Barry's travel back in time, referencing the time Barry quickly defeated him in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''. |
| 118 | ** ''Film/{{Batman 1989}}'' |
| 119 | *** The original Batsuits from the Burton Films can be seen in the background of the older Batman's armory. |
| 120 | *** While hanging around the Batcave, Alternate Barry stumbles upon [[Film/Batman1989 the Joker's laughing bag]]. |
| 121 | *** When Batman leaps out of [[CoolPlane The Batwing]] during the trio's infiltration into the Siberian prison, the plane is framed within the moon, casting the image of the Bat-Signal as Bruce opens up his glider cape, evoking the same imagery as when the Batwing momentarily paused in front of the moon after releasing Joker's gas balloons during ''Film/Batman1989''. |
| 122 | *** During their escape from the Siberian prison, everyone except Batman gets into an elevator before the former asks, [[Film/Batman1989 "How much do you weigh?"]] |
| 123 | *** Barry II's suit for the final battle is a jury-rigged version of an "old" Batsuit given to him by Bruce, which (in its unaltered form) looks exactly the same as the armory full of dummy suits seen in the original Keaton films. Specifically, it's a version of his suit from ''Film/BatmanReturns'', which opted for an armor-plated abdomen rather than the natural-looking muscles of the 1989 suit. |
| 124 | *** [[spoiler:Batman's death after (temporarily) knocking out Nam-Ek and then being held by Barry I]] during the finale is underscored by a slower version of the first few notes of Music/DannyElfman's theme from the original film. |
| 125 | * ContinuitySnarl: While the DCEU Flash has interacted with a wider DC Multiverse before through the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'s ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' TV event, specifically interacting with his [[Series/TheFlash2014 Earth-Prime]] counterpart and thus making the DCEU itself part of the Arrowverse's multiverse (later designated as Earth-1), no real attempt is made to link or stay consistent with what that previously established. [[spoiler:Both the movie and ''Crisis'' use previous live-action DC adaptations for their depictions of alternate universes or timelines to the "main" ones they're respectively showing, but in different and sometimes arguably incompatible ways. In particular, Tim Burton's ''Batman'' films were clearly established as a different reality to the DCEU, Earth-89, while the film implies that they happened within the altered DCEU history created by this movie.]] So thanks to the movie, the appearance of Ezra Miller's Flash in ''Crisis'' is now SchrodingersCanon at best for the wider DCEU, though clearly canon for the Arrowverse (and since he wears his ''Justice League'' outfit there, it's another can of worms whether he comes from the theatrical or Snyder cut of that movie). |
| 126 | * CosmicRetcon: Barry's attempts to utilize the Speed Force have fundamentally transformed his universe. Wonder Woman and Aquaman aren’t around, Victor never became Cyborg (or at least hasn't become Cyborg ''yet''), Bruce Wayne is now a completely different person, and Kara Zor-El landed on Earth instead of her cousin. [[spoiler:He caused it again at the end of the climax to fix the timeline.]] |
| 127 | * CostumeEvolution: |
| 128 | ** Barry wears a new suit in the teaser that is markedly different from the suit he had in both versions of ''Justice League'', where it is a streamlined bodysuit with TronLines that flare up when running. The prequel comic reveals that the new costume was given to Barry by Batman after his ''Justice League'' suit was destroyed during a battle with the supervillain Girder. |
| 129 | ** Michael Keaton's [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/11142/111427220/8822519-keatonbatman1.jpeg Batman suit]] is now more heavily armored, with the yellow utility belt turned black. |
| 130 | ** Ben Afflecks' Batman costume is significantly different from previous films as it has different shades of light blue for the suit, cowl and cape[[note]]This is in fact the first theatrical Batman, barring ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', to have Batman in an overt blue costume [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack instead of just grey and black]][[/note]]. There is also armor plating laid overtop the suit instead of fused into it. |
| 131 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:(Alternate) Barry's inexperience with time travel, ignoring the advice of two Bruce Waynes, and other factors cause the Barry native to the universe he is visiting to go down a dark path of trying to ScrewDestiny in order to save Kara and Bruce.]] |
| 132 | * CreativeClosingCredits: The end credits play over a therapy dog falling from the collapsing hospital at the beginning, bumping into several objects before finally being saved by Barry. |
| 133 | * CurbStompCushion: [[spoiler:Kara is able to get a couple of good hits against Zod, due to her rage after learning that Zod killed Kal-El, but Zod is still able to come out on top, even when Kara gets help from Alternate Barry, as he is still a more experienced soldier.]] |
| 134 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: PlayedForLaughs. Prime Barry is depowered and doesn't realize it until he tries to phase through a wall. His running style is a very distinctive form emulating a gazelle or speed skating, but without SuperSpeed and in a small room, he just plods around in an exaggerated, arm-flailing fashion. |
| 135 | * {{Depower}}: Due to being caught in Alternate Barry's accident, Prime Barry loses his powers for act 2. He gets them back right before Act 3 when he, with the help of Keaton-Bruce and Kara, recreates the incident that gave him his powers in the first place. |
| 136 | * DetrimentalDetermination: [[spoiler: Even as he can literally see the entire [[TheMultiverse multiverse]] being destroyed by his efforts, Dark Barry wants to continue trying to alter the timeline until his is saved.]] |
| 137 | * DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: In the altered timeline, Creator/EricStoltz [[invoked]][[TheOtherMarty remained in the role]] of Marty [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', and presumably the rest of the franchise. In turn Creator/MichaelJFox starred in ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', while Creator/KevinBacon starred in ''Film/TopGun''. Also the famous cartoon franchise is ''[[Franchise/LooneyTunes Looney Toons]]'', and the restaurant is Bananabee's. |
| 138 | * DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: Supergirl]] over and over again! |
| 139 | * EpicFail: Young Barry's first run winds up in his clothes catching fire, a multi-car pile-up, a semi-truck turning on its side, a lightpole crashing ''into'' said truck, and eventually, a city-wide blackout. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also has to run home naked.]] |
| 140 | * ExactWords: This quote: ''"Not every problem has a solution. Sometimes, we just have to let go."''. The first time we hear it Barry is complaining about the assignment he got of writing all the operations he can think of that give 24 as a solution, which has infinite answers and as such there isn't space enough for them. In this contest, the issue is that the problem doesn't have a ''singular'' solution, but too many different approaches and it's pointless to try them all. [[spoiler:Later in the movie, Barry says to his younger self to indicate that saving Bruce and Kara is a problem that doesn't have ''any'' solutions, and so he should stop. While in both cases the quote is used to dissuade Barry from obsessing about something bigger than himself, the reason in the two cases are diametrically opposite]]. |
| 141 | * FinalBattle: The two Flashes, Supergirl and Batman fight Zod and his army to save Earth. [[spoiler: Or not. This battle is doomed to be a Zod victory no matter what happens, due to circumstances and odds stacking way up in Zod's favor. The actual final confrontation is Prime Barry and Alternate Barry against Dark Flash, within the Speedforce.]] |
| 142 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 143 | ** The [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailers already indicated]] the movie would feature two Barry Allens, but nevertheless: Right before the reveal of Alternate Barry in the first act, Barry's parents asked him questions about school (Barry actually has a job in his own timeline) and Barry's father specifically commented that Barry strangely looks older (Hinting that Barry ended up in a timeline years earlier than he planned to). |
| 144 | ** At one point in the Allen family flashback, Henry jokes that the young Barry's hair is "getting gray", even jokingly putting some flour on Barry's hair. [[spoiler:The Dark Flash's identity turns out to be an older Alternate Barry with gray hair]]. |
| 145 | ** When we first meet Nora Allen, she is listening and singing along to a cover version of the salsa song "Pedro Navaja", by Creator/RubenBlades. which features [[spoiler:a woman who dies by being stabbed by a common thug, just as Nora is about to be]]. |
| 146 | ** Later in the film Barry sings along the chorus of the same song but stops right before the next line. |
| 147 | --->''♫ Life gives you surprises\ |
| 148 | Surprises life gives you, oh, God!\ |
| 149 | [[spoiler: [[YouCantFightFate When Destiny commands it, not even the bravest man can change it.]] ♫'']] |
| 150 | ** Alternate Barry (And later on his friends) off-handedly remarked that Eric Stoltz is the star of the Back to the Future movies. In the real world, Michael J. Fox ends up being the star of the franchise instead. Not only that, Alternate Barry's computer has a ''Looney '''Toons''''' wallpaper. [[spoiler: More subtle hints that the timeline had been twisted far beyond Barry's anticipation]]. |
| 151 | ** In their argument in the Batcave, Barry ''snaps'' at Alternate Barry when the latter disrespectfully mentions their mom, which quickly made him quiet and apologetic. [[spoiler:Later, Alternate Barry tells Barry he knew he went back in time to save her]]. |
| 152 | ** After Barry's nightmare of the Dark Flash, the camera cuts to the first person Barry sees upon waking up: Alternate Barry. [[spoiler:It's a subtle hint towards the Dark Flash's ''true'' identity]]. |
| 153 | * ForWantOfANail: |
| 154 | ** Barry's mother Nora was killed during a home invasion that happened after his father went to the store to buy tomatoes. Barry gets the idea to prevent this by [[ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics traveling back in time and changing]] one tiny thing: ensuring Nora buys the tomatoes beforehand. The end result is a timeline where Nora doesn't only survive, but Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Cyborg don't exist, an older version of Batman is around, and Supergirl somehow made her way to Earth instead. The Bruce of this universe explains that by changing this ''tiny'' thing, Barry also changed the past. |
| 155 | ** When Barry travels back to fix his interference, instead of ensuring his mom bought the tomatoes, he moves the specific selection that his father was going to get to the top shelf, ensuring that his dad's face could be seen when the video is restored later. This changes the tape and not the intervening years between its original use and the enhanced video version. However, even ''this'' small change causes a backward ripple in time, since Barry doesn't recognize the Bruce Wayne that knows him. |
| 156 | * FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: Alternate Barry is a bit distraught when "our" Barry yells at him for not taking anything seriously. And in a darker sense, Dark Flash, evil, ruthless and demonic-looking, is the much older version of Alternate Barry, driven mad by his attempts to fix history.]] |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Tropes G to L]] |
| 160 | * GrandFinale: While ''Film/{{Blue Beetle|2023}}'' & ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'' follow this film theatrically, ''The Flash'' marks the end of the original DC Extended Universe timeline that launched with ''Film/ManOfSteel'' in 2013. This is due to Barry's changes to the timeline causing in effect a SoftReboot. So the DCEU as we've known it up to this point is gone after ten years, fifteen films and one TV series.[[note]]''{{Series/Peacemaker|2022}}'', which is said to be carrying over to the new harder ContinuityReboot called just the DC Universe or DCU, which is functionally unconnected and irrelevant to the {{Soft Reboot}}ed DCEU via this movie's reality-changing events.[[/note]] |
| 161 | * GrowlingGut: Barry is literally growling with hunger early in the film, being dragged to an assignment in Gotham before he could even have his breakfast. Later on he mistook the sound of a collapsing building as his gut: |
| 162 | --> '''Flash''': You hear ''that''? That's my stomach!\ |
| 163 | [''{{Beat}}'']\ |
| 164 | '''Flash''': No no no, it's the collapsing East Wing! |
| 165 | * HardTruthAesop: [[spoiler: Barry's lesson in this movie is that there are just some fights you can't win, and your only option is to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm walk away]]]]. |
| 166 | * HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Flashpoint Barry experiences this when he sees a lifeless Kara after she was killed by Zod and extracted the Codex from her.]] |
| 167 | --> '''Flashpoint Barry''': Not supposed… Not supposed to happen… |
| 168 | * HeroicSacrifice: Happens twice in the film. |
| 169 | ** [[spoiler:When Batman’s Batwing was shot down by Zod’s mothership, he chooses to fly towards the mothership in an attempt to destroy it at the cost of his life, but to no avail.]] |
| 170 | --> '''Batman''': I’m going down… But I’m not going alone. |
| 171 | ** [[spoiler:When Flashpoint Barry realizes in horror that he would become the Dark Flash and when he sees his future self about to kill Barry, he chooses to sacrifice his life by shielding his Prime self from Dark Flash’s attack which in turn mortally wounds him, ultimately causing his dark future self to vanish from existence.]] |
| 172 | * HistoricalInJoke: One of the changes Barry inadvertently makes to the timeline is [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] is now played by Creator/EricStoltz. This was actually the case before he was replaced six weeks into filming with the director's original choice of Creator/MichaelJFox after they found a way to work around the schedule of ''Series/FamilyTies'' (Which his commitment to had prevented him from taking the role in the first place.) |
| 173 | * {{Homage}}: [[spoiler: Keaton-Batman's death bears a strong resemblance to [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Darth Vader's death scene.]] Both feature the protagonist futiletly trying to keep the black-clad figure alive, only for the latter to resign themselves to their fate and reassure the hero that they've already saved them. Then a sadder version of their theme tune plays them out.]] |
| 174 | * HowDoIShootWeb: |
| 175 | ** While Alternate Barry has little trouble accessing his super speed right after receiving it, he needs to be coached by Prime Barry for the more creative uses of his powers and still has trouble controlling them by the end of the movie. |
| 176 | ** Kara [[AvertedTrope on the other hand]] seems to instantly know how to control and use her flight, superstrength and heat vision powers after less than a minute in the sunlight, and does not seem surprised to have acquired them either[[note]]This could be due either to her having had the time to experience them before being captured, or Zor-El briefing her beforehand on what she could expect to encounter on Earth[[/note]]. |
| 177 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: AsYouKnow, a constant theme of the franchise. Kara's imprisonment and torture by the planet she assumed would be a safe haven for her and her cousin has understandably caused her to despise humanity and is more than willing to let Zod destroy Earth. Tellingly, Alternate Barry sympathizes and admits that a ''lot'' of humans are this, even though he does try to defend us. [[spoiler:She does come around to us after witnessing mainline Barry nearly killing himself to get his powers back]]. |
| 178 | -->'''Kara''': They're maybe worth saving to you. But I'm not human; I'm Kryptonian. |
| 179 | * IHatePastMe: Prime Barry finds the alternate Barry who grew up with his mother still alive a bit too idiotic/cringey for his taste. |
| 180 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Kara's ultimate fate at the hands of Zod (at least for the first two times we see).]] |
| 181 | * ImprobableInfantSurvival: The opening action scene features ''babies'' raining from a collapsing hospital's top floor. All of them survived thanks to the Flash. However, this was [[spoiler:averted with the revelation of baby Kal-el's fate]]. |
| 182 | * InNameOnly: [[DownplayedTrope Slightly downplayed]]. Despite the film being an adaptation of ''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'', the only ''major'' parts it keeps in are Barry resetting time to save his mother, and him going back again to restore history (albeit [[spoiler:he changes things slightly to exonerate his father for his mother's death]]). The Batman he teams up with is a retired Bruce Wayne from [[Film/Batman1989 another universe]] and not a vengeful, murderous Thomas Wayne, there's no war between Atlantis and Themyscira threatening to destroy the world (with Zod's invasion taking up that duty instead), Supergirl is the one being held in a government cell (as Clark [[spoiler:was murdered by Zod when he was just an infant in this timeline]]), there's no other superheroes (Vic is still human, Diana is still an urban legend, and Arthur was never born), and when Barry does reset time, [[spoiler:Creator/GeorgeClooney's iteration of Batman takes the place of the one played by Creator/BenAffleck instead of Bruce still being more-or-less the same.]] The biggest omission is the role of [[spoiler:Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash]], who's [[AdaptedOut left out entirely]] and instead replaced by [[spoiler:a Dark Flash that was a version of Barry who went insane]]. |
| 183 | * InSpiteOfANail: |
| 184 | ** Despite Clark's absence, General Zod still chooses to invade Earth. [[spoiler:In this timeline, though, it's because he's looking for Kara instead of Kal-El. As the film later states, he's not looking for Clark because [[TheyWouldCutYouUp he already found him.]]]] |
| 185 | ** [[invoked]] A humorous moment has one of Alternate Barry mention TimeTravel like Creator/EricStoltz in ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', who was [[TheOtherMarty the original Marty McFly]] before being recast mid production with Creator/MichaelJFox. The curious thing is the movie is treated with [[SmallReferencePools the same mainstream recognition]] as the Fox version of the film, when by most accounts the recast was seen as what made the film the success that it was. |
| 186 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler: Zod ends up killing Supergirl by stabbing her in the back while she's distracted.]] |
| 187 | * IronicEcho: When Barry first met Bruce Wayne in ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice]] [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 League]]'', he was being offered a position on the titular team, to which Barry replied, [[JumpedAtTheCall "I'm in!"]] To begin the third act of this movie, Barry forms his own team and asks Keaton's Bruce Wayne to join him, which he offers by saying, "Are you in?". |
| 188 | * {{Irony}}: Alternate Barry accuses Prime Barry of doing the exact same things Prime Barry resents the older superheroes for doing--failing to explain things and being generally unfriendly. |
| 189 | * JumpScare: Barry's nightmare ends with a closeup of the monstrous Dark Flash, who roars right at the camera. |
| 190 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler: Alternate Barry]] shows signs of this in the final battle, with his [[spoiler: emotionless execution of Faora]] being the first sign that all is not really well. |
| 191 | * KarmaHoudini: [[ExaggeratedTrope ''Exaggerated'']]. The person who killed Barry's mom is never even [[TheUnreveal revealed]], let alone caught. |
| 192 | * KarmicDeath: A variation, overlapping with an unknowing RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler: [[Film/ManOfSteel Our timeline's Zod was killed via neck snap]], and one of the ways this Zod ultimately kills Kara is by snapping her neck.]] |
| 193 | * {{Leitmotif}} |
| 194 | ** [[spoiler: Wonder Woman's]] appearance naturally heralds the reprise of [[spoiler: [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice "Is She With You?"]]]] |
| 195 | ** During [[spoiler:Christopher Reeve's Superman's and Helen Slater's Supergirl's]] appearances, there's a brief quotation of Music/JohnWilliams' Superman theme. |
| 196 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 197 | ** Barry admits that the Justice League does not provide adequate access to mental health treatment. Barry's actor Ezra Miller has had several very public difficulties with mental health. |
| 198 | ** Alternate Barry enthuses, "You should have seen that in slow motion!" after a scene where Kara knocks out a mook in slow motion. |
| 199 | * LighterAndSofter: The initial premise is similar to that of ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'', except that Flash's attempt to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong here doesn't seem to completely wreck the world (at least at first). Until Zod arrived, the world seemed relatively peaceful while Gotham had become the safest city in the world according to Keaton-Bruce. In comparison, ''Flashpoint'' had a Amazon-Atlantean war destroying the world and Gotham was still terrible but now protected by a gun wielding Batman who killed. |
| 200 | * LogoJoke: The opening has us travel through the Speed Force; in keeping with the time travel theme, we zoom through every Warner Bros[[note]]Barring the logo used during the AT&T/[=WarnerMedia=] ownership, and ending with the the logo used by Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery for the first time[[/note]] and almost every DC logo ever used. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Tropes M to R]] |
| 204 | * MeaningfulEcho: |
| 205 | ** Barry assures Supergirl that, "I've got you" as he carries her out of her prison. She says the same to him while carrying him up into the clouds so lightning can reactivate his powers. |
| 206 | ** Both versions of Batman say ''"Not this time. Maybe some other time"''. [[spoiler: Ben Affleck's version says it before getting erased from history while Michael Keaton's version says it as he's dying.]] |
| 207 | * MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Sort of. With his MotorMouth, AttentionDeficitOohShiny and CowardlyLion characterisation, Alternate Barry Allen evokes some of the more neurotic behavior from both the theatrical ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' and ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', exaggerated due to having a easier life with his mom still alive, while the Prime Barry has had some CharacterDevelopment that made him calmer and more confident (even though [[NoSocialSkills he still struggles socially]]). As a result Prime Barry ends up getting fed up with Alternate Barry calling him out on his immaturity despite the seriousness of the situation and, noting from personal experience, saying this makes him obnoxious. However Alternate Barry [[JerkassHasAPoint does point out]] that he has done everything asked of him despite Prime Barry not really answering his questions and dragging him out of his peaceful life into a dangerous situation. He also says they could learn to relax and enjoy how cool being in the Batcave is. Prime Barry seems to take this to heart, later complimenting Alternate Barry's makeshift costume and accept him for what he has the potential to be instead of just what he is now. |
| 208 | * MentalTimeTravel: With all the time travel in the Zod fight, the Flashes never run into past versions of themselves and just take their past selves' places. |
| 209 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: The alternate Bruce uses the plate of pasta he's cooking for the alternate Flash to illustrate how multiverse and alternate timelines work: |
| 210 | ** The uncooked spaghetti represent diverging timelines. |
| 211 | ** The plate of cooked, tangled spaghetti represent the multiverse. The points where spaghetti are in contact stand for constants between the alternate universes. |
| 212 | ** Tomato sauce represent the mess Flash's meddling resulted in. |
| 213 | ** Parmesan (which Bruce then adds without any word) is there to spice up the dish. |
| 214 | * MusicalNod: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRC05iThBFM The teaser video from DC Fandome]] opens with Creator/DannyElfman's "Photos / Beautiful Dreamer" from the original ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' score as the two Barrys arrive at Wayne Manor. Similarly, the film's soundtrack liberally utilizes Elfman's "Batman March" during key moments featuring Keaton's Batman. |
| 215 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The trailer makes it clear that Barry is responsible for the timeline changing, with him outright stating, "I completely broke the universe," at one point. |
| 216 | * MyGreatestFailure: It's revealed that Barry first gained his powers mere days/weeks before the Kryptonian invasion in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. He actually attempted to help rescue people in Metropolis from the [[HostileTerraforming terraforming]] pulse from the ''Black Zero'' but he was still learning his powers, had [[BetaOutfit a rudimentary costume]] and the [[GravityScrew gravity physics]] of the HostileTerraforming made him less than ideal in that environment. He was only able to save one kid, but [[SamaritanSyndrome not the dad]]. |
| 217 | * MythologyGag: |
| 218 | ** Barry's new suit is near-identical to his outfit from the New 52, including the glowing line patterns across the torso. |
| 219 | ** When he begins travelling through time, Barry's suit breifly turns blue and black instead of red. This makes him look like The Flash from the Out Of Time comic arc, in which an [[AntiHero anti-heroic]] Barry from 20 years in the future travels back in time to fix his greatest regrets, ending in him attempting a KillAndReplace on the present-day Flash. |
| 220 | ** The armory kept by Michael Keaton's Bruce contains various nods to Batman's comic designs over the decades. One has a distinctly [[Usefulnotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] style mask with a pair of GrapplingHookPistol holsters ([[https://twitter.com/westonfront/status/1625442676161093633?s=20&t=68hIT-6KnEnWIkHiOMSG6w confirmed]] via WordOfGod to be a nod to Batman's short-lived use of firearms) and [[https://twitter.com/westonfront/status/1625126670800658438?s=20&t=68hIT-6KnEnWIkHiOMSG6w the chest emblem]] design from the old Creator/AdamWest [[Series/Batman1966 show]]. Another is a gray suit with a blue cape and cowl, based on Batman's classic [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] costume. Similarly, the new Batsuit worn by Ben Affleck's iteration of the character incorporates the classic blue and gray color scheme.[[invoked]] |
| 221 | ** The Alternate Timeline Barry reappropriates one of Batman's older suits to serve as a temporary superhero outfit. It turns out the cowl is not very flexible, warping and smushing his face if he tries to turn his head. This was an infamous issue across nearly all cinematic Batman costumes, forcing the actors to turn their shoulders and directly face people they are talking to. |
| 222 | ** Alternative Batman tries to crash a ship during a war in this film, similar to how [[Characters/DCAUBatman DCAU Batman]] did in the [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E24To26Starcrossed Justice League episode Starcrossed]]. [[spoiler:It worked out better for him there]]. |
| 223 | ** Both Barry's BetaOutfit and his ability to phase visually resemble their Earth-Prime counterparts. |
| 224 | ** [[spoiler:Dark Flash is not unlike Savitar, a variation of Barry who went mad with grief failing to change history and instead transformed into a monstrous speedster clad in a bulky suit of armor, just like on ''Series/TheFlash2014''.]] |
| 225 | ** The new Batplane has a rotating cockpit gimmick that keeps it level during hard rolls, which is actually a gimmick of the Knightsphere from ''the toyline'' of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. |
| 226 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: Upon testing his newfound SuperSpeed power with exhilaration, Alternate Barry ends up burning his clothes with the friction, and upon causing a chain car accident, he removes all of what's left of his burning clothes, compounded with the humorous effect of the end of Rossini's ''William Tell'' overture [[StandardSnippet playing]]. |
| 227 | * NeverTrustATrailer: |
| 228 | ** The teaser trailer implies that the Flashes recruit Batman after meeting Supergirl. In the film, they meet Bruce first, and he helps them ''find'' Supergirl. |
| 229 | ** The trailers also suggest that the Flashes somehow travel to Earth 89, the universe of Michael Keaton's Batman; this Batman actually resides in the altered timeline in place of Ben Affleck's version, so no actual universe-hopping takes place in the film (unlike on Earth-Prime whose main Flash dealt heavily with it, but more akin to the original Flashpoint comic storyline where Bruce Wayne traded roles with his own father in the altered timeline). |
| 230 | ** The main trailers imply that the prime (Ben Affleck's) Batman somehow participates in the FinalBattle. All of his scenes actually take place at the beginning of the film, during the ActionPrologue. |
| 231 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Barry's attempt to save his mother breaks the timeline, creating a world without any metahumans and allowing General Zod to conquer Earth. |
| 232 | ** Both Barrys are responsible for Prime Barry losing his powers; it happens because Prime Barry is caught in the accident that empowers Alternate Barry, which only happens because Prime Barry is trying to keep Alternate Barry in his seat to experience the accident while Alternate Barry keeps trying to get up, which only happens because Prime Barry is detailing the accident and freaking out Alternate Barry . |
| 233 | * NoDamageRun: [[spoiler: The Alternate Barry tries using SaveScumming via TimeTravel to rescue Kara and Bruce while also defeating the Kryptonians. We only see the first handful of attempts fail, and Prime Barry quickly realizes there is no ''real'' way to save this world, at least with a true HappyEnding. Almost immediately the Dark Flash returns and reveals himself to be the Alternate Barry driven mad and fused with different materials from presumably thousands of failed attempts]]. |
| 234 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: [[spoiler: Alternate Bruce may be the world's greatest detective and, despite having 20+ years of inactivity, physically fit enough to take on a small contingent of guards in Siberia. But here, he is barely able to make a dent in Zod's forces, since he doesn't have the experience fighting metahumans, nor any information on supernatural or alien forces that other Bruces would have access to, since the information may not exist in the first place.]] |
| 235 | * OhCrap: |
| 236 | ** Lampshaded when Barry's reaction to seeing his younger self approaching the house--and realising the implications of that--is to shout "SHIT!", then quickly explain to his startled not-actually-his-parents that [[INeedToGoIronMyDog he has to leave the room in a hurry to take a shit]]. More OhCrap's follow as things go FromBadToWorse. |
| 237 | ** Also Barry in the ending, upon meeting [[spoiler:yet another alternate Bruce Wayne whom he couldn't recognize, which possibly means the timeline is still being messed up]]. |
| 238 | * OffhandBackhand: By Batman of course, who seems not to notice that the villain he captured in the BatmanColdOpen is trying to escape again while he's on the phone to Alfred. Batman then casually tosses a batarang over his shoulder which takes him down. |
| 239 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: Just like Bruce Wayne during ''Dawn of Justice'', flashbacks reveal Barry was in Metropolis during Zod's attack in the original timeline (or at least he raced there to try and help). So, we get to see the climax of ''Film/ManOfSteel'' replayed from the newly-empowered Barry's perspective on the ground. |
| 240 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: This happens to the usually hyperactive, socially-awkward Barry during the final battle. After spending the entirety of the movie desperate to save his mother and protect the universe where she's still alive, [[spoiler:Barry tries to talk down his alternate self from changing the outcome of their fight against Zod, with tears in his eyes. He even confesses that he needs to go back in time and let his mother die again for the future to be restored]]. |
| 241 | -->'''Barry:''' She'll always be alive somewhere in time. Always. Just not for us. |
| 242 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: Prime timeline Barry is repeatedly annoyed by the immaturity of the Barry Allen who exists in the timeline where Nora Allen ''wasn't'' murdered. However, the traumas that matured Prime Barry (his mother's murder, his father's imprisonment, being basically an orphan, gaining super powers) never happened to this Barry. Instead, he's goofy, carefree, untraumatized, and not particularly concerned with what's going on around him. |
| 243 | * PointOfDivergence: Barry initially believes this timeline to have been altered by him trying to stop his moms' death, but comes to realize that things had changed long before that event, such as an Aquaman who was never born and a much older Batman. In a conversation with the Keaton Bruce Wayne, they discuss the {{multiverse}} and rather than splitting off the timeline Barry had intersected with a vaguely similar but quite different universe. Rather than a point of divergence it is more a point of intersection. |
| 244 | * PrecisionFStrike: Employed for TheReveal in the final scene. |
| 245 | --> '''Barry:''' Who the fuck is this? |
| 246 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Barry calls out Past Barry for not taking things seriously. |
| 247 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Echoing ideas presented in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', Barry is unable to move people directly without being extremely careful. [[spoiler: While depowered, Barry]] is moved less than ten feet by an alternate Barry who is less experienced with his powers, and the result was moderate shock and projectile vomiting until he stabilized. His suit is also said to be designed to handle both high levels of air friction and safely dissipate electrical build up through the TronLines. |
| 248 | * RetiredBadass: How we see the Keaton Batman at first, with long hair and beard. He says there hasn't been crime in Gotham in years, implying he hung it up after whatever equivalent to ''Film/BatmanReturns'' happened. |
| 249 | * TheReveal: |
| 250 | ** Barry seeks for Bruce Wayne hoping to get his help, only to find that the Michael Keaton version has overwritten the Ben Affleck version. This leads to the discovery that this was more of an AlternateUniverse within the {{Multiverse}} rather than an AlternateTimeline with a PointOfDivergence. |
| 251 | ** [[spoiler:Dark Flash]], the mysterious speedster who had been haunting Barry throughout the film, is actually [[spoiler:an older version of the ''alternate'' Barry, who spent the rest of his life reliving the FinalBattle over and over again, desperate to find an outcome where Zod is defeated and Batman and Supergirl are spared]]. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Tropes S to Y]] |
| 255 | * SameCharacterButDifferent: As revealed, the Keaton Batman we see in this film is not really the same one implied to exist within the Arrowverse's multiverse on Earth-89 due to the film generally just ignoring the Arrowverse, including Barry's prior brush with his main Arrowverse self and the convention of numbering different realities. This Keaton Batman is also not necessarily the same one from his original movies for that matter, instead simply being an alternate version of Batman created by the changes to the timeline. [[spoiler:Same goes for Clooney Batman too.]] |
| 256 | * SchrodingersCanon: It's unclear [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 which]] [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague version]] of ''Justice League'' this film is supposed to be a continuation of. |
| 257 | ** Barry mentioned going back in time a few seconds during the events of ''Justice League'', which only happened in the Snyder cut. |
| 258 | ** When Barry looks up the whereabouts of the League Members in the new timeline Martian Manhunter is not mentioned. Martian Manhunter joining the League is a major ending event of the Snyder cut but wasn't present in the theatrical version. |
| 259 | ** Creator/KierseyClemons returns as Iris West and mentions knowing and interacting with Barry in the past, which is more consistent with the Snyder Cut. On the other hand, Wonder Woman's golden lasso continues to force her compatriots to confess comically embarrassing secrets, in the tradition of the theatrical version. Though neither of these things explicitly contradicts anything in the other version. |
| 260 | * SelfDeprecation: Barry discovers that [[spoiler:he's lost his powers]] when he starts running around the room sluggishly. At a normal speed, his signature running form looks ''incredibly'' goofy, which the scene fully [[PlayedForLaughs plays for laughs]]. |
| 261 | * SenselessSacrifice: In an effort to bring down the Kryptonian's main ship, [[spoiler:Batman rams his damaged Batplane against it, since the ejection pod was damaged prior. Unfortunately for him, the impact is easily soaked by the ship's shield, making his sacrifice completely pointless. After the two Flashes go back in time they warn him about the shield, so he decides to take down Nam-Ek instead, killing himself again while only managing to knocking-out Nam-Ek for about a minute.]] |
| 262 | * ShaggyDogStory: What Prime Barry's efforts to defeat General Zod amount to. [[spoiler: Despite spending most of the movie preparing to defeat Zod - meeting up with Batman, giving Alternate Barry powers and rescuing Supergirl, it ultimately amounts to nothing as Zod's forces win, killing Supergirl and Batman in the process, no matter what the Barrys do, forcing Prime Barry to travel back to undo his original choice and erase this timeline completely.]] |
| 263 | * ShiplessFasterThanLightTravel: The Flash can travel through time by running faster than light. |
| 264 | * ShootingSuperman: Kara is hit by a LOT of full-auto rifle fire while fighting the Russian prison guards. She doesn't even feel it. |
| 265 | * ShoutOut: |
| 266 | ** When putting on the Flash Ring for the first time, Alternate Barry briefly imitates [[Franchise/LordOfTheRings Black Speech]]. |
| 267 | ** Present Barry refers to Victor as a "friendly Franchise/{{Terminator}}". |
| 268 | ** Alternate Barry also deals with [[spoiler: Nam-Ek]] by "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi emperor]]"-ing him. |
| 269 | * SoftReboot: Barry's timeline-changing ultimately results in one for the DCEU continuity, the extent of which is left to the viewer's imagination besides [[spoiler:Batman being visibly affected]]. The effect within the movie and across the franchise was going to be more substantial if not for ExecutiveMeddling that opted to go for a "harder" ContinuityReboot called the "DCU" after the current DCEU slate is over. As it stands, the movie is followed by ''Film/{{Blue Beetle|2023}}'' which is a StandaloneEpisode through having no explicit DCEU links (just generic DC references), and by ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'' which is a sequel to ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}''. |
| 270 | * SpikesOfVillainy: The Dark Flash's body is a jagged, charred wreck with spikes coming out of its arms and shoulders. [[spoiler:They're the result of continuous misuse of his phasing powers over the years, causing blades or spiky debris to embed to his body.]] |
| 271 | * SpiritualAntithesis: Very likely a coincidence, but this film zigs on the [[SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate fate vs. free-will scale]] where ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' zagged. More specifically, both films brought up, that despite differences in timelines and universes, certain details are going to remain consistent in more often than not; such as the existence of Spider-Man and Batman, their tragic backstories, and such. Where the films differ is how this plays into the narrative. |
| 272 | ** [[spoiler:Barry learns that some things are just unfixable, to the point that YouCantFightFate, or you'll cause damage to the multiverse's fabric]]. |
| 273 | ** [[spoiler:Miguel thinks he has learned this, but it is a FalseCause, and him trying to enforce it on others fuels his antagonism towards Miles, along with being the main mission of the draconian organization he founded]]. |
| 274 | * StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Dark Flash knocking Prime Barry out of the Speed Force early in the film sets off the chain of events that empowers Alternate Barry and leads to his eventual transformation into the Dark Flash. This loop only ends once Alternate Barry did a HeroicSacrifice to protect Prime Barry.]] |
| 275 | * StalkerShot: |
| 276 | ** In the Batcave, when Batman asks Prime Barry why he's working hard to save this timeline, he reveals to him that his mother is alive in this timeline and he hasn't revealed this fact to Alternate Barry. After Batman agrees to help Prime Barry restore his lost powers, [[spoiler:the camera pans down to reveal Alternate Barry sitting below them and has heard everything Prime Barry just said]]. |
| 277 | ** Earlier when the two Barry's enter the kitchen at Wayne Manor, they find a pot still on the boil. As they talk, there's a POV shot of them being watched through a partly open door, from which Bruce Wayne then emerges to attack them. |
| 278 | * StandardSnippet: When Alternate Barry tests his newfound SuperSpeed power and ends up {{naked|People Are Funny}} in the middle of the road on a street causing chaos, the end of the ''William Tell'' Overture by Music/GioachinoRossini is played. |
| 279 | * StarterVillain: Batman rogue Alberto Falcone (referred to here as "Al Falcone") is the first villain that the heroes face off against in the ActionPrologue. |
| 280 | * TheStinger: Barry tries to explain everything that happened to Arthur Curry, who of course has trouble comprehending that he's a dog in another universe even without him being drunk off his ass. He tells Barry to leave him in the puddle he's collapsed in and buy more beer. Paid with by a priceless Atlantean ring. |
| 281 | * SteppingStonesInTheSky: Barry's first action scene outside a collapsing hospital have him using debris, falling furnitures, and other assorted objects to jump around and catch falling babies in mid-air. |
| 282 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: With two Barry Allens, they got to the alternate, younger Barrys' apartment and have to deal with his roommates. Alternate Barry passes the Prime Barry off as his cousin, [[OneSteveLimit also named Barry]]. The absurd similarity is acknowledged but largely brushed off. |
| 283 | * SuperheroesWearTights: Younger Barry complains about how Prime Barry's supersuit is hurting his dick, and makes a point of showing Prime Barry how the modified Batman outfit he's created is much looser at the crotch. |
| 284 | * SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: |
| 285 | ** A retroactive inversion ''and'' justification for ''Film/ManOfSteel''. Like Bruce Wayne in ''Dawn of Justice'', flashbacks reveal Barry too was on the scene at Metropolis during Zod's attack in the original timeline; he raced to the scene to try and help. However, Barry was also newly empowered and inexperienced, so he was [[spoiler:only able to save a single civilian before being]] forced to retreat. |
| 286 | ** PlayedStraight with the ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' speedsters, going by the Arrowverse treating the DCEU as part of it (which is one-way, as the movie itself does not acknowledge the Arrowverse[[note]]Though there are universes that both the Arrowverse and the DCEU acknowledge as part of the multiverse[[/note]]). Both Jay Garrick and Barry Allen of Earth-Prime have been established as having the ability to sense when someone is using the speed force to time travel, and Jay used this ability to stop Barry from messing with time. Neither of them try to stop Earth-1 Barry from engaging in the same time-travel foolishness that Earth-Prime Barry already tried. |
| 287 | ** The start of the film has Alfred call Barry for help with something Batman is involved with. Barry is already running late for work and Alfred lists that Superman was busy with a volcano erupting and Wonder Woman wasn't answering her phone. Flash ends up handling an issue with a collapsing hospital while Batman is chasing after high tech thieves who stole a bio-weapon and damaged the hospital in their escape. Wonder Woman then [[BigDamnHeroes shows up to aid Batman when needed]]. |
| 288 | * TemporalMutability: [[spoiler:Immutability here - Both the Keaton Batman and Kara will die no matter what in the timeline Barry created when preventing his mother's death. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome explains this.]] |
| 289 | * ThroatLight: Briefly seen on the original Barry when he gets himself hit by lightning, with a blue glow coming from his mouth as he screams. |
| 290 | * TimeCrash: [[spoiler: Barry's decision to save his mother has not only resulted in there being no one strong enough to defeat Zod's forces, but all universes in TheMultiverse begin to crash into each other, [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ threatening to destroy all of existence]].]] |
| 291 | * TimeDilation: The Flash can travel to any point in time by running faster than the speed of light. |
| 292 | * TimeyWimeyBall: |
| 293 | ** Represented literally by the "Chronobowl", a temporal arena setting where the "audience" is made up of various timelines and outcomes, with various "planets" above representing the other "Earths" in the multiverse. |
| 294 | ** Represented metaphorically by Alt-Bruce's plate of spaghetti. And the sauce. (But not the parmesan, that's just garnish.) |
| 295 | * TruthSerums: [[spoiler: Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth [[Film/WonderWoman2017 once]] [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 again]] functions as one of these, compelling Bruce and Barry to blurt out uncomfortable secrets while they frantically try to untangle themselves from it.]] |
| 296 | * TryNotToDie: Batman's only advice when he and the Barrys are surrounded by Russian troops [[spoiler:before Supergirl saves the day.]] |
| 297 | -->'''Flash:''' What's the play? Batman, what do we do?\ |
| 298 | '''Batman:''' We try not to die. |
| 299 | * UncertainDoom: |
| 300 | ** [[spoiler:The Earths of Christopher Reeve's Superman and Nicolas Cage's Superman are seen colliding and while they are separated following the death of Alternate Barry (and Cage's Superman is seen mournfully staring into the multiversal tear afterwards)]], the wider effects of this are never followed up on in any capacity. |
| 301 | ** Likewise, [[spoiler: the appearance of Clooney's Wayne leaves the status of Affleck's Wayne uncertain.]] |
| 302 | * UnskilledButStrong: Kara Zor-El. [[spoiler: Her cousin Kal-El was able to stay toe to toe with General Zod and even defeat him while being the only relevant hero on Earth. Kara with the help of two Flashes and Batman fails, and is defeated by him, not once but countless times. She had only spent a few days absorbing solar energy while Kal-El had been doing it his entire life. At the same time, Kara is older, more world-weary and knows more about Krypton than Clark ever did, so she knows not to attempt to surrender herself.]] |
| 303 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: As detailed in RequiredSecondaryPowers, when alternate Barry moves [[spoiler: the depowered Barry]] a couple of feet to the side, he ends up vomiting for ''quite'' a long time, necessitating Batman to enter the action. |
| 304 | * WeakButSkilled: Keaton/Batman ends up facing off against Nam-Ek, the Kryptonian GiantMook previously seen in ''Man of Steel'' and gave Clark a really hard time. Keaton/Batman is a BadassNormal and managed to give Nam-Ek a decent fight through [[AcePilot complicated batplane maneuvers]], and then using his GrapplingHookPistol, acrobatics and A LOT of explosives to keep him disoriented. [[spoiler: [[HopeSpot Nam-Ek is seemingly taken down after a bomb to the back of his head]], but he soon gets back up and all it takes is one power slam to take Keaton/Batman out of the fight]]. |
| 305 | * WhamLine: As Supergirl confronts Zod, [[spoiler:he reveals that he intercepted baby Kal-El's pod on its way to Earth and then reveals his fate once Kara demands him to tell him what he did to him.]] |
| 306 | -->'''Zod:''' [[spoiler:Is it your blood we must harvest?]]\ |
| 307 | '''Kara:''' [[spoiler: What did you do to Kal-El?]]\ |
| 308 | '''Zod:''' [[spoiler:Your sacrifice that will allow Krypton to live again.]]\ |
| 309 | '''Kara:''' [[spoiler:'''''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!]]''''']]\ |
| 310 | '''Zod:''' [[spoiler:…The infant did not survive.]] |
| 311 | * WhatIf: One of the core conflicts of the movie is a scenario in which the events of ''Film/ManOfSteel'' play out, but Kara Zor-El was the Kryptonian that came to Earth instead of Kal-El. |
| 312 | * WhatYearIsThis: A variation; Barry's first question to his alternate self is "How old are you?" He only asks Alternate Barry to confirm the date later, when he realises he's arrived on the same day he got his powers. |
| 313 | * WithCatlikeTread |
| 314 | ** When Alternate Barry discovers that he has superpowers, he immediately zooms off to try them out before Prime Barry has time to warn him about RequiredSecondaryPowers. The friction of his running at SuperSpeed sets his clothes on fire, and his panicked reaction causes a DisasterDominoes multi-vehicle accident that results in him literally exposed to the world; stark naked in the middle of the street surrounded by a ring of fire while everything else is blacked out from a power cut. Fortunately he's at least smart enough to get out of there before someone shows up with a camera and blows his SecretIdentity before his superhero career has even begun. |
| 315 | ** Then later they climb down a long ladder into a chamber surrounded by laboratories where scientists are laboring away without noticing them...until Alternate Barry stumbles over a series of clang-y objects one after the other. Everyone stares at each other for a long moment until one of the scientists hits the BigRedButton to summon lots of guards with Kalashnikovs to shoot the infiltrators. |
| 316 | * WorfHadTheFlu: Kara is Kryptonian and like Clark in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' she was completely exposed to the yellow sun while Zod and his crew were in PoweredArmor that mitigated their overall abilities but stabilized other reactions. Unlike Clark, even in direct sunlight she hadn't built up enough of a "battery" and [[GlassCannon burns out fairly quickly]]. [[spoiler: In multiple timelines she is killed with Zod’s retractable blade, indicating a combination of advanced Kryptonian weaponry and her not developing true NighInvulnerability quite yet]]. |
| 317 | * WouldHurtAChild: Or rather, [[spoiler:Zod and his Kryptonian crew would ''dissect'' a child, which is the fate that befell an infant Clark in the timeline.]] |
| 318 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Kara in the Prime Timeline of the DCEU? |
| 319 | * YouCantFightFate: The main theme of the film. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | ->''[[Music/OkGo ♫ Let it go, this too shall pass... ♫]]'' |
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