Flashby Andrés Muschietti, is a journey through the length and breadth of the mythology of DC. The film is a narrative bridge between the most recent ventures in the publisher’s failed extended universe. Also, an exploration of the possibilities of his characters. For the first time, the hero played by Ezra Miller shows his full potential. Which allows him to alter the nature of time and understand the full breadth of the multiverse. A concept that had been hinted at in several films in the franchise, but that, on this occasion, is exploited to its full intriguing potential.
In particular, during the third section of the feature film, when the consequences of the attempt to Barry for saving her mother (Maribel Verdú) are evident. Gradually, the plot links what was proposed until then -the inevitable as part of a series of events that create the future- with a singular concept. Is it really possible to change future events by changing a single event? Flash He doesn’t have it all with him when explaining something like that —in fact, he contradicts himself on a couple of occasions—, but he is capable of supporting the idea of alternative dimensions with ease.
It is at its end that it becomes more complicated and that suggests that Barry reached an unknown end of the chronological break. Which causes him to find himself stuck in a new timeline and probably not having a chance to get back to his own. We explain, step by step, what happened in the argument that led to such a conclusion.
Time runs in a spiral Flash
The story of Flash tells how Barry Allen he manages to prevent his mother’s death in the past and return to the present. Once inside, she discovers that she changed the course of events enough to change the world as she knows it. Which is equivalent to, in his place, there is a much younger version of him, who has not yet received his powers. So he must help his variant to obtain his abilities, which causes him, in a paradoxical clash, to lose his.
But it is not the most serious of the problems that the superhero of Flash. Barry will discover that the Justice League does not exist and what Batman, the only hero who seems to find himself in the new alternate reality, is a different man than the one he met. the figure of Gotham (Michael Keaton) is mired in her own mental debates. With no intention of being a hero, much less intervening in any event outside the Batcave. What happens as a Kryptonian invasion brings back Zod (Michael Shannon). The latter wants to revive his home planet on the ashes of Earth, as he tried to do in the movie. the man of steel.
an unexpected apparition
The great conclusion of the story begins when Kara Zor-El/Supergirl (Sasha Calle) is released from her confinement in a laboratory in Serbia. The last daughter of Krypton was subjected to cruel experiments, so she has no intention of saving the human race. But, once she finds out that Zod wants the total destruction of the planet, she will decide to do it in a kind of awareness of her place in history.
So it helps Barry —the main timeline of Flash— to regain his powers by raising him above the clouds so that lightning strikes him. once both Flash have their powers, they must face the alien forces that try to conquer the world. But everything will be much more complicated than any of the heroes supposes.
failure as a lesson
Variants of Barryhe Batman of that reality and Kara they fly to Mojave to confront the Kryptonian fleet. supergil face to Zod, which reveals the fate of Kal-El and his absence from the plot. In that timeline, the evil general stopped the baby’s pod on its escape from Krypton. So he managed to catch him and collect his blood. What caused the son of jor-el died in the process.
While Kara fight with Zodboth Barry they try to face the group of ships that descend on the planet. helped by Batman, who attempts to provide air support despite being outpowered and speeded by alien vehicles. But, in the end, reality seems to destine the improvised team to failure in Flash.
Bruce attempts to blow up the main ship, dealing critical damage to his own, and is trapped by failing to eject from the cockpit. In a desperate decision, he crashes into the Kryptonian to cause her irreparable damage—at least, that’s his intention—and dies in the process. Meanwhile, Kara is killed by Zod, who thus manages to triumph in the middle of a bloody scene.
Flash and the inevitable future
It is then that the younger Barry, first aware of the potential of his powers, has an idea. The one to go back in time ten minutes and prevent Batman and Kara from being killed. The original Barry doesn’t quite agree with the idea, but they both end up running towards him. speedforce. Which has, of course, the desired result: they manage to prevent Bruce from crashing on the huge Kryptonian ship.
However, he still ends up dying due to his injuries and Kara is killed again by Zod. Which makes the younger variant of the hero make a new attempt to avoid the inevitable. Over and over again, he strives to change facts and events that, to his surprise —and that of his more adult version— end up having the same result.
That’s when the big reveal happens. Flash. In the middle of an in-between place where probable and possible futures are visible to the naked eye as colored spheres, emerges Dark Flash. A monstrous, warped variation of Barry Allen who has traveled the speedforce and again. This figure has lived countless realities and dimensions in an attempt to save the maximum number of people, something that has finally proven impossible.
Who is the mysterious Dark Flash?
This malevolent creature is none other than the young man Barry, which stretched his ability to time travel to the inconceivable. Torn apart by countless stories, possibilities, and probabilities, he is a ruthless entity out to kill. In his point of view, the only way he can ensure his existence is by assassinating the older Barry and thus avoiding any opposition to his becoming what he now is.
And what is even more unique, this character from Flash deviated from the timeline Barry Allen central for him to reach an alternate future—his own—and that would allow him to obtain powers. In other words, he generated himself.
When the paradox is revealed, all of the film’s promised cameos appear in quick succession. In each of the spheres—possible, distant, and probable futures—there are versions of Batman and Superman. You can see Adam West’s Batman suit or Christopher Reeve’s Superman, along with the Supergirl by Helen Slater. They both look at what looks like a crack in reality. Also, a brief glimpse of George Reeves’ son of Krypton. Finally, in the most disconcerting moment of all, comes Tim Burton’s rendition of Superman, played by Nicolas Cage. He fights a giant spider and, after defeating it, he looks at his reality rift, which stretches out into a dark blue sky.
Barry tries to convince Dark Flash from what he learned in his adventure, that the past can be changed but at a terrible price. But the evil being intends to kill the old version of him and thus ensure his life. Something that would have happened if the young Barry did not intervene and avoid him, at the same time that he sacrifices himself.
The present and the future converge once again
With one last effort, Barry travels back in time and reconstructs his history as he had known it until then. Before returning to his timeline, he meets his mother and, although she doesn’t recognize him—and is about to die—there is a brief moment of love between them. However, before leaving, the hero cannot help but make another attempt to change the future. So he takes some of the cans of tomatoes from his mother’s cart and puts them on the top shelf in the grocery store cupboard.
Previously, Flash He explained that, although there is a review of the case of Barry’s father (Ron Livingston), there is no conclusive data to exculpate him. Because the only recording that he could show that he was in a different place at the time his wife was murdered does not show his face. A security video captures him in the supermarket, but without him being recognizable for not looking up at any time.
Another new future for Flash
But Barry’s gesture causes, once again, the story to change. He can’t stop his mother from being murdered, but the accusation against his father can. He goes to the supermarket on the tragic night and now raises his head to look for the tomato cans, so his face is recorded. Again, in his present, the tape proving his innocence allows the case to be reviewed, dismissed, and for him to be released.
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Finally, the last sequence of Flash seems to show the best day of the life of Barry Allen. His father has just been exonerated, Iris West (Kiersey Clemons) is going out with him and reality seems to have returned to order. She until she receives a phone call from Bruce Wayne to congratulate him on the outcome of his father’s appeal. The voice sounds slightly different, and when the millionaire’s car pulls up on the street, it’s not Ben Affleck’s Batman coming out of it. With short hair and a white beard, it is George Clooney’s. The Flash finds himself in another timeline and certainly further from home than ever.