Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20171101005520/@comment-1330227-20171102031831

Xandermcc wrote: Tnt ntc wrote:

Stryzzar wrote:

SeanWheeler wrote:

Then why didn't Barry react when Wells mentioned Dibny? And if he was truly dead and Barry knew him, why didn't Barry say anything about Dibny being dead in this episode? That would be because Dibny's history was retroactively added in, so back in Power Outage the writers didn't know he and Barry knew each other.

In-universe.
 * For Power Outage. Either Barry already knew about Dibny's death so it wasn't a surprise to him, or the circumstances weren't convenient for Barry to display surprise.
 * For Elongated Journey: either Barry forgot (since he didn't keep in touch with Dibny for 5 years), or he wasn't ready to bring up Dibny's death at that time and it may get mentioned later.

What if the Legends saved Dibny through one of their adventures? Maybe Lily Stein existing stopped Dibny from dying. This would explain why Barry doesn't remember him dying as he wouldn't remember something from a timeline altered by someone other than him. Well bringing Lily to life was one alteration that unlike Barry's mother's death, didn't have a massive alteration to history. Espiecally since Barry met Stein after metting Dibny. However he could be an anachronism caused by the Legends breaking time. I'm saying, maybe Lily being in the world when she wasn't previously changed something that saved Dibney. Maybe he got a cup of coffee once and in the pre-Lily timeline there was a girl in front of him that he met and in the post-Lily timeline she was in the line between them and he didn't meet the girl so maybe he ended up going on a singles cruise during the particle accelerator explosion and didn't die. There are small things we do that could change peoples lives. Or maybe he was getting coffee and Lily being added in line before him led to him waiting slightly longer and a new barista started right before he ordered instead of right after and he hooked up with her and they went to Vegas together during the particle accelerator, causing him to not die.