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comics - In Flashpoint Paradox, how did Flash saving his mother cause multiple unrelated changes in the timeline?


In Flashpoint Paradox, we see an alternate timeline where Bruce Wayne is the one that was gunned down in the alleyway, and Thomas Wayne survived to become a darker, gun-toting Batman. Cyborg has become the president's leading expert in a super-human task force. Superman has spent his entire life isolated in a lab after crash-landing in Metropolis. The Atlantians and Themescaria are at war with one another and quickly sending the world towards a no-win scenario.


This is explained to be the result of a "Time Boom" caused when The Flash travelled back in time to save his own mother...something that has no connection with any of these and many other changes that have occurred in the Flashpoint timeline.


How did The Flash saving his mother in the past change so many different things that were not directly related to how The Flash changed time?



Answer



The "Time Boom" described is similar to ripples around a rock. Or, as Reverse-Flash says, "a bullet through a windshield". When Barry caused the paradox, it sent "ripples" or "cracks" throughout time, affecting events throughout the DC universe which had no connection whatsoever to Barry himself. True, the changes started with Barry and those closest to him... but they didn't stop there. The Waynes are one example. Another would be the time & location of Baby Kal-El's spaceship landing. Yet another would be a diplomatic meeting between Atlantis & Themyscira.


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Most of the changes we see in the alternate FlashPoint timeline can be traced back to fairly minor changes in continuity. For instance, in the case of a mugger robbing a family, it was the child who got shot instead of the parents. After all, a crime is a very fluid event where anything could happen. But, unlike the "real" continuity where both victims died and left Bruce as the survivor, this time the parents survived. And to make things worse, after Bruce died at the scene, Martha Wayne




went insane with grief and went on to become that timeline's Joker after carving her face to imitate a smile.



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