Who killed Barry Allen’s mom in The Flash? Meet Reverse Flash.

In a modern time travel movie, no matter how hard you try to clarify the story, it naturally leaves the audience with questions.It may apply if flash And given the complex multiverse interpretation of time travel, though, there’s one big question the film doesn’t try to answer.

WHO actual Did you kill Barry Allen’s mother?

This movie has a vague answer. Manga has even deeper answers.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for The Flash, the movie.]

if you’ve seen flashone of the last entries in the Snyderverse continuity DC movie — or if you’ve seen it flash, a TV show on The CW — then you’ll know. The origin of Barry Allen’s emotions is that his mother was murdered and his father convicted when he was a child. Finding evidence to overturn his father’s conviction is what prompted Barry to become a forensic analyst.

event of flash Movie and comic book crossover event flash pointignites when Barry travels past the limits of his speed ability and attempts to stop his mother’s murder once and for all.

So who killed Barry Allen’s mother?

The character Barry Allen has lived nearly 70 years, but he didn’t necessarily have a tragic childhood.It’s a detail transplanted to him in the 2009 work The Flash: Reverse A cartoon series written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. Their problems begin with Barry becoming unusually preoccupied with his mother’s untimely death and his father’s death in prison, though no details of his upbringing have ever been mentioned. was not

A plot twist revealed that it was Agatha from the beginning.

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just kidding.

As reproduction It’s revealed that one of Barry’s oldest villains, Eobard Thorn (aka Professor Zoom, aka Reverse-Flash), has traveled back in time, and he simply murdered Barry’s mother and accused his father of the crime. The sad or unfortunate thing that happened to Barry that not only threw him in, but basically every other bad thing that happened to him. Interference with the timestream has led Barry to go back and always have a tragic childhood.

Who is Reverse Flash?

Image: Jeff Johns, Andy Coubert/DC Comics

There are several versions of this character in the comics, the most famous of which is the Joker-like Eobard Thorne from The Flash.

Thorn is a 2400s scientist and avid fan of the ancient superhero The Flash, who underwent plastic surgery in the future to look just like Barry, using chemicals and lightning to speed up Barry’s accident. It was so painstakingly recreated. power. He then travels back in time to meet his hero and discovers an exhibit about the villain Reverse his Flash at Central City’s Flash Museum. In a deeply time-traveling nasty way, the evidence that Thorn was destined to be the hero’s worst enemy, and ultimately to die at the hands of Barry Allen, cracked his spirit. , which became his villainous origin story.

Image: Mark Waid, Greg LaRocque/DC Comics

of Flash: Reverse, a lot of hay is made out of the fact that time-traveling Flash characters can’t actually change the past. Like the Reverse-Flash origin story, any event that happens somewhere in the continuum just loops and triggers itself. But for comic book reasons you don’t need to know, Thorn’s speed power works differently than Barry’s. can change the past.

However, this poses a challenge for Thorn. He can’t kill Barry or stop him from becoming The Flash. Because then he himself ceases to exist.So The Flash: Reverse It’s the story of what he decided to do instead.He went back in time and secretly tracked every spare moment in Barry’s life and made it the worst possiblebut still leaves Barry as a hero enough to inspire Thorne to become Reverse-Flash.

And I mean, the guy was thorough. Could Barry Allen have a party balloon without accidentally blowing it up? Could you have eaten an ice cream cone without doing it? That’s unlikely.

Image: Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver/DC Comics

The culmination of all this, of course, was that Thorne framed Barry’s father for murdering his mother, which Barry discovered in the pages of a magazine. The Flash: Reverse. That was the story of Geoff Johns and Andy Coubert, Barry’s attempt to travel back in time to reverse his meddling in Thorne’s life, and how it went wrong. flash point The miniseries that inspired the 2023 movie flash Based on.

Is Eobard Thorn in The Flash Movie?

no thorn teeth in the original flash point a mini series called flash but he’s actually there to gloat at how spectacularly failed Barry tried to stop him.maybe the team behind flash I felt we could have done well enough without introducing Eobard Thorne and the idea that he ruined Barry’s life with time travel. So the movie leaves the question of who actually killed Barry’s mother as if it didn’t. matter. And in many ways, no. flash It’s a story about Barry coming to terms with his mother’s death in a new way, and that’s what he has to do, whether he knows who killed his mother or not.

He also famously brought in Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman, with a similar “I made the villain and the villain made me” kind of thing going on, but in that movie’s main It would be pretty wild to do the same plot. A man too.

it seems unlikely flash is set to have a direct sequel, and the DC movies are about to go in a completely different direction. But there’s certainly room for a big reveal of the old Reverse Flash.Maybe Barry Allen have I danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.