The latest, and most eye-opening, trailer for The Flash just dropped via CinemaCon yesterday, offering our fullest impression of the incoming summer superhero blockbuster yet. In particular, it spoiled how the whole multiversal cataclysm comes about, with Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen accidentally changing the timeline by going back in time to undo the death of his mother when he was a child.
On the other hand, however, despite dropping this bombshell, the trailer has left fans who know their stuff scratching their heads as it only intensifies a major mystery about the movie’s plot. As comic book readers will be aware, this central concept is pilfered from the Flashpoint comic book event, in which Barry’s nemesis Reverse-Flash is responsible for Nora Allen’s murder.
And yet, as far as we know, Eobard Thawne is not set to feature in this big-screen outing (potentially due to the character’s heavy use in The CW’s The Flash series). So, as Twitter user @NicolasPas5 pointed out, who the heck killed Barry’s mom if it wasn’t Reverse-Flash?
Arguable spoilers incoming for those who haven’t kept up to date with The Flash‘s marketing… It’s known that the Barry dopplengager that Flash Prime encounters on the Earth of Michael Keaton’s Batman is eventually outed as the movie’s main villain (in addition to the resurrected General Zod). Even so, this Barry would have to be all kinds of evil if he’s the one who killed his own mother. So could Thawne make some kind of sinister cameo, maybe setting up a sequel, after all?
The Flash answers all our questions when it speeds into cinemas on June 16.