It’s possible early drafts that had these elements were tossed out to make more room for a loose Flashpoint adaptation, and all the multiverse cameos that allowed, i.e. This Ezra Miller Flash film has languished in development hell for nearly ten years, with a handful of directors and writers attached. Which, again, would theoretically only make it easier to run with on the big screen. That arc was more or less adapted in the first season of the CW’s Flash series to much acclaim. Instead, Thawne decides to murder Nora instead. Naturally, that involves him trying to stop Barry from gaining powers, but since Thawne gains his powers from studying Barry’s biography (yes, that’s a real bit of comic lore), he’ll create a paradox. Thawne is a time-traveler from the 25th Century who is a legendary Flash hater-so much so that he wants to destroy everything Flash stands for. The film never once even pauses to cast suspicion on anyone around Barry-like his dickish co-worker Albert Demsond (Rudy Mancuso), who in the comics becomes Doctor Alchemy, a villain who wields the power of the Philosopher’s Stone to control the elements. The event around which the entire plot orbits, the event that catalyzed Barry’s origin story, is left to be one gaping plot hole as big as the multiverse. But we never find out who killed Nora Allen, or why, even. Barry’s father spends some twenty-odd years in prison, falsely accused, until the events of the climax allow Barry to definitively strengthen his father’s alibi.
Barry’s mother is stabbed by an unknown assailant in the family kitchen, while a young Barry is upstairs, and right before his father returns home from an ill-fated trip to the grocery store. But for as much time as The Flash devotes to the emotionality of Barry’s relationship with his mother, the film totally glosses over who actually killed her. In The Flash, Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) is willing to rewrite entire universes to bring his mother back to life and undo her murder-the event that spurred both his day job as a crime lab technician and his extracurricular heroism as The Flash.
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