Flashpoint (event)


 * For the episode with the same name, see Flashpoint.

"What should we call this brave, new world that you've whipped us for us? I was thinking... Flashpoint!"

- Eobard Thawne

"Flashpoint", coined by Eobard Thawne, was a timeline created by Barry Allen when he traveled back in time and saved his mom from the Reverse-Flash. The timeline was reset when the Reverse-Flash ran back in time and killed Nora Allen, restoring everything pretty much to how it was before. However, after Barry Allen used a superseding form of speedster time travel to live in this timeline's version of 2016 for three months, he found the world much different to the ones that existed before, with Cisco Ramon becoming the genius industrialist instead of Harrison Wells and Tess Morgan, Wally West becoming the Flash instead of Barry, and the Rival becoming a new menace of Central City.

As Jay Garrick later explained to Barry, speedsters are not gods, and can never recreate a timeline to their liking: it would be akin to gluing together a broken cup with some of its pieces missing.

History
Shortly after Zoom killed his father, Barry, so distraught over all the tragedy that he had experienced, ran back in time to stop the Reverse Flash from killing his mother. Barry arrived in the year 2000 shortly after his future self from 2024 took his younger self to safety, once the coast was clear, Barry ran into the house and tackled the Reverse Flash to the ground just before he could stab Nora and beat him unconscious, he assured his petrified mother that she was safe and ran back to the present with the Reverse Flash. For the next three months, Barry lived in a life of pure bliss with both his parents alive and well, he still was a CSI for the CCPD and spent a lot of his spare time at CC Jitters waiting for the right time to ask Iris on a date. On the day he was finally going to make his move, Barry heard on the news about a fight happening across town between The Flash and The Rival.

Known repercussions

 * Julian Albert started working at the CCPD as a CSI in late 2015.
 * Joe West and Iris West became estranged for a time due to the revelation of her mother being alive.
 * Dante Ramon died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.
 * Caitlin Snow developed meta-human powers exactly to those of her Earth Two counterpart. (relation to Flashpoint unclear)
 * John Diggle doesn't have a daughter anymore, but a son instead.
 * The future has changed, one specific change being Iris getting killed by Savitar in the future before the year 2024, with the future newspaper article instead being written by Julie Greer.

Trivia

 * "Flashpoint" affected not just The Flash, but also Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
 * The Speed Force was not affected by "Flashpoint" and the Dominators' memories weren't affected.
 * As stated in Magenta, other earths in the Multiverse were not affected by Flashpoint, due to other earths having their own timelines.