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

No matter how much they strive to make the plot clear, modern time-travel films will leave viewers with many questions. It may well be that the storyline of The FlashIts multiverse time-traveling is complex. But there’s one big question the movie simply isn’t interested in answering.

What are you waiting for? killed Barry Allen’s mom?

The answers to the movie are vague. The comics offer deeper solutions.

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

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If you’ve seen The Flash, the DC movie that’s one of the last entries in the Snyderverse continuity — or if you’ve seen The Flash, the TV show on the CW — then you know. Barry Allen’s emotional origin story is that when he was a kid, his mother was murdered, and his father was convicted of the crime. Barry was inspired to become a forensic analyst in part to uncover evidence to overturn his dad’s conviction.

Events of The FlashThe movie and the crossover comic event Flashpoint, are sparked when Barry stretches the limits of his speed powers to travel back in time and attempt to prevent his mom’s murder altogether.

So who killed Barry Allen’s mother?

Barry Allen as a character has been around almost 70 years, and he didn’t always have a tragic childhood. That’s a detail that was grafted onto him in 2009’s Flash RebirthGeoff Johns writes and Ethan Van Sciver draws this comic series. Their issues begin with Barry becoming unusually preoccupied with his mother’s untimely death, as well as his father’s death in prison, heretofore unmentioned details of his backstory.

When the twist was revealed, it turned out to be Agatha.

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Just kidding.

You can also read about the advantages of using Rebirth reveals, one of Barry’s oldest villains, Eobard Thawne (aka Professor Zoom, aka the Reverse-Flash) had traveled back in time, and he didn’t merely murder Barry’s mother and frame his father for it, he also caused basically every other bad, sad, or disappointing thing that had ever happened to Barry. Barry has retroactively had a sad childhood due to Eobard Thawne’s interference in the timestream.

What is Reverse Flash?

Image: Geoff Johns, Andy Kubert/DC Comics

There are several versions of the character in comics, but the most famous of them is Eobard Thawne, who is kind of like The Flash’s Joker.

Thawne is a scientist from the 2400s who was an obsessive fan of the ancient superhero The Flash, so much so that he’d undergone future plastic surgery to look just like Barry and painstakingly recreate Barry’s accident with chemicals and lightning in order to give himself speed powers. Then he traveled back in time to meet his hero, only to discover an exhibit on the villain Reverse-Flash in Central City’s Flash museum. The following are some of the ways to get in touch with us a very time-travel whammy way, the proof that Thawne was destined to become his hero’s worst enemy — and eventually die at Barry Allen’s hands — cracked his psyche and became his villain origin story.

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In Flash: Rebirth, a lot of hay is made out of the fact that time-traveling Flash characters Can you imagine?’t actually change the past; events that happen anywhere in the continuum just loop around into causing themselves, like with the Reverse-Flash’s origin story. But for Comic Book Reasons that you don’t need to know, Thawne’s speed powers work differently than Barry’s, and he canChange the past

Thawne faces a new challenge. He can’t kill Barry, or stop him from becoming the Flash, because then he himself would cease to exist. It’s a good thing. Flash RebirthThis is what he did instead. He went back in time to secretly follow every spare moment of Barry’s life and make it The worst that could happenBarry is still enough of hero for Thawne, to be inspired to become Reverse-Flash.

The man, in my opinion, was very thorough. Barry Allen was able to release a balloon into the air without noticing it? Did he manage to get an icecream cone to his mouth without accidentally tripping over something fast enough to not see and seeing the scoops land on the floor? This seems impossible.

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The crown on all this, of course, was that Thawne framed Barry’s father for his mother’s murder, which Barry discovered in the pages of Flash Rebirth. Barry’s attempt to travel back in time and reverse Thawne’s meddling in his life — and how it went very poorly — was the story of Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert’s FlashpointMiniseries on which 2023’s movie is based The FlashThe basis of the premise is.

What is Eobard Tawne’s role in the Flash film?

No. Thawne It is a good idea to use a bilingual translatorOriginal Flashpoint Miniseries The Flash is based on, but he’s really just there to gloat at how spectacularly Barry screws up while trying to stop him. This seems to indicate that the team responsible for The Flash felt like they had enough going on without introducing Eobard Thawne and the idea that he time-travel-ruined Barry’s life — so in this movie, they just leave the question of who actually killed Barry’s mother wide open, as if it didn’t really matter. And in a lot of ways, it doesn’t: The Flash is about Barry coming to new terms with his mother’s death, which he’ll have to do whether or not he finds out who killed her.

Also, it’d be pretty wild to bring in Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman — who famously has the same kind of “I created my villain and my villain created me” sort of thing going on — and then do the same plot with the movie’s main guy, too.

The likelihood of this happening is unlikely The FlashDC Films is about to take a new direction, and the sequel will be a direct follow-up. The space for the big Reverse-Flash revelation is there. Barry Allen might be one of them. The following is a list of the most popular ways to contact usThe pale moonlight was the perfect setting for a dance with the devil.