Obviously, spoilers for The Flash from beginning to end.
To say the hype for The Flash has quietened down significantly over the last few days would be an understatement of gargantuan proportions, with the Scarlet Speedster’s solo debut crashing and burning at the box office in its opening weekend.
DC could be staring its second consecutive major flop squarely in the face following Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and there’s plenty more discussion to come over what exactly went wrong. Even the ending of the movie has created plenty of questions, particularly into where Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen fits into the incoming DCU overhaul – if he even does at all.
There is of course the George Clooney-shaped elephant in the room to consider as well, but the co-CEO appears to have cleared it up in the quietest of fashions imaginable; by sneakily liking a tweet that offered its own rationale as to what it really means.
If we take The Flash‘s infuriating spaghetti metaphor at face value, then there is a brand new branching timeline where Barry Allen’s father is exonerated for his crimes, the title hero still gets to carry on dispensing justice as the red-suited hero, all while Clooney’s Bruce Wayne oversees the Justice League.
Technically, that means the reset button on the entire franchise wasn’t hit at all, but rather shifted sideways, which does at least give Gunn and Peter Safran the chance to indulge in their own multiversal shenanigans should they see fit one day in the future.