‘The Flash’ Ending Explained: Everything To Know About That Epic Return

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From the infinitesimal Barry Allen traveled backmost done clip successful an effort to prevention his mother, everything changed. The Flash chronicles the superhero’s travel done the past arsenic helium meets an alternate mentation of himself and Bruce Wayne. Barry’s determination to effort and undo his mother’s decease introduces him to the multiverse, and helium yet learns determination are immoderate things successful each timeline that you can’t yet change.

The Flash Ending Explained

In the alternate timeline Barry finds himself successful erstwhile helium travels backmost successful clip to forestall his mother’s murder, General Zod is preparing to invade Earth. As we saw successful Man of Steel, Superman is capable to instrumentality down Zod earlier it’s excessively late. Barry’s anticipating Superman’s arrival, but this timeline (2013, to beryllium exact) introduces him to Supergirl instead. Superman is really dormant successful this universe.

Barry Allen with Past Barry and Supergirl. (Warner Bros.)

Barry meets an alternate mentation of himself. He helps Past Barry get his Flash powers and larn however to usage the Speed Force. In the process, Barry loses his ain Flash powers, but helium gets them backmost aboriginal successful the film. Barry believes his Bruce Wayne/Batman exists successful this world, but helium soon discovers that this timeline has Michael Keaton for a Bruce Wayne/Batman. The Barrys, Batman, and Supergirl squad up to instrumentality down Zod. As they prepare, the Barrys and Bruce larn that Barry’s traveling backmost successful clip has breached the universe, which is wherefore helium can’t get backmost to his world.

During the conflict with Zod, some Supergirl and Batman die. Past Barry is hopeless to prevention them both, truthful helium travels backmost successful clip to redo the full battle. No substance however galore times they try, the Barrys are incapable to prevention Supergirl and Batman. Zod volition ever triumph successful this universe.

Barry realizes that this is an “inevitable intersection” successful the multiverse, and they can’t alteration thing that happens. The extremity effect volition ever beryllium the same. He knows helium has to undo what helium did. His ma can’t unrecorded nary substance what. Past Barry refuses to judge the information of the substance and keeps trying to hole his universe.

Michael Keaton arsenic Batman. (Warner Bros.)

Barry knows that helium has to hole the timeline earlier going backmost to his aboriginal world, truthful helium ensures that his mom’s decease does happen. He shares a heartbreaking infinitesimal with her astatine the market store — successful disguise — and says goodbye to her each implicit again. He whitethorn not beryllium capable to prevention his mother, but helium tin astatine slightest prevention his begetter from beingness successful prison.

While traveling done the Speed Force, Barry discovers that the disturbing carnal he’d seen earlier is really a monster mentation of Past Barry from the future. This monster mentation has spent his beingness trying to hole his world. All the worlds successful the multiverse commencement to collide and collapse, giving america glimpses of Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Nicolas Cage’s Superman, and more. When world yet hits him, Past Barry sacrifices himself and dies, thereby preventing the monster mentation of himself from ever happening and keeping the multiverse from being destroyed.

Barry believes he’s made it backmost to his satellite and undone immoderate harm helium caused by traveling backmost successful time. He attends his father’s caller trial, and determination is present grounds that exonerates Henry from Nora’s murder. Iris West is determination arsenic good and wants Barry to inquire her out. Barry talks with Bruce connected the telephone and says helium has truthful overmuch to archer him. Bruce’s car drives up, but it’s not Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne. The idiosyncratic who steps retired of the car is George Clooney’s billionaire Bruce Wayne. The Oscar victor played the Caped Crusader successful 1997’s Batman & Robin. Barry has coiled up successful different timeline. He didn’t marque it location aft all!

George Clooney and Michael Gough successful ‘Batman & Robin.’ (Everett Collection/Warner Bros.)

The Flash Post-Credits Scene

There is 1 post-credits country attached to The Flash. Barry is hanging retired with a drunken Arthur Curry successful the scene. Barry’s trying to explicate the Bruce Wayne/Batman concern to him. Barry is getting progressively frustrated with Arthur for not paying attention. His attempts to get Arthur up to velocity are unsuccessful. Arthur passes retired successful a puddle and tells Barry to conscionable permission him there.

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