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In DC Comics , there are a few words that are charge with universe - shattering implication - " Infinite , " " indistinguishability , " and specially " Crisis . " At Warner Bros. ' San Diego Comic Con Hall H presentation , DC Films dropped another loaded word when they made the annunciation that their long - beleaguered movie about The Flash would be calledFlashpoint . The very word " Flashpoint " is a Pandora ’s box of possibilities , both exciting and scary -Flashpointwas the 2011 DC Comics event that transitioned the original DC Universe into the rebooted New 52 universe . Flashpointcoming to the DC Extended Universe has already sparked the argumentation within fandom of whether this meansthe DCEU will be rebootedornot . The DCEU has only been in existence since 2013 and has only produced four feature films , with the fifth , Justice League , bringing the DCEU ’s greatest superheroes together this November . It seems far too soon to even begin to be considering rebooting their moving picture universe , even ifFlashpointdoes makea speculated press release date in 2020 . Reboot or not , Flashpointis its own freestanding universe with its own depressed delineation of DC ’s world and its superheroes . The core conception of anyFlashpointstory - which The CW ’s third season ofThe Flashhas already adjust - is Barry Allen metre travel and thus set off the creation of a sullen alternating timeline . Should the DCEUFlashpointstick closely to the comics crossover issue masterminded by DC Films President Geoff Johns , this means The Flash ( Ezra Miller ) would unknowingly create an apocalyptic version of the DCEU where the superheroes are n’t humanity ’s saviors but are instead demonstrate the humanity towards Armageddon . The two superheroes most responsible for for the country of war gripping the human race are Aquaman and Wonder Woman .
THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX
In the strip and in the DC Animation adaptationJustice League : The Flashpoint Paradox , the Justice League never existed in the Flashpoint creation . Instead , very dissimilar versions of the superheroes are forced to work together to prevent a war between Atlantis and the Amazons from destroying the world . In this substitute timeline , King Arthur of Atlantis and Princess Diana of Themyscira were lover . The comic strip had them meeting in the sea when he save her from a kraken , after which they determine to marry and unify their two Nation . At their wedding , rogue military force within Atlantis and the Amazons steadfastly against a Wonder Woman / Aquaman wedding conspired to assassinate Queen Hippolyta . With the Queen ’s murder , the two peoples were plunged into a war of attrition .
The Flashpoint Paradoxcartoon alter the circumstances to be a bit more sordid : in produce a peace treaty , Wonder Woman and Aquaman began an affair , and they were caught by Arthur ’s married woman Mera . Wonder Woman then polish off Mera ( she would also kill Mera in the strip , but that would befall later in the story ) , and with that , Atlantis and Themyscira went to war . Europe pays the heavy cost in both versions of the story . After Atlantean forces destroy the island of Themyscira , Wonder Woman lead the Amazons to the United Kingdom , which they readily conquer and make into their new home . Aquaman then attacks Western Europe and sink it . meg of innocent people die in the continuing conflict , let in members of the Justice League when they intervene .
CAN AQUAMAN V WONDERWOMAN WORK IN A MOVIE?
Gal Gadot is rumored to be part of theFlashpointmovie . By 2020 , if all goes according to plan , Gadot will have starred inJustice Leagueand then returned to toplineWonder Woman 2 , which is bruit to be an adventureset in the Cold War - era 1980s . Will audiences be ready for - or even want to see - an evil version of Wonder Woman by 2020 ? TheFlashpointversion of Wonder Woman is a unadulterated 180 from the Diana audiences are solidly behind : she ’s chesty , reactionary , and a barbarous killer . ( In the comics and cartoon , Wonder Woman beheads Mera and then dons her helmet to taunt Aquaman . ) Whether Gal Gadot would like to play a atrocious version ofthe purest hero in the DCEU- and whether audiences will swallow it - is anyone ’s surmisal . However , considering how Wonder Woman was embrace by a generation of child as a Cuban sandwich and divine guidance , an evil version of Wonder Woman- even if it ’s made explicit this is an alternate world version - seems like a bad theme to say the least .
It seems unbelievable that aFlashpointmovie would n’t also include Aquaman and the Justice League . Thus far , we know very little about how Jason Momoa will eventually portray Aquaman , but his swagger and sarcastic pungency in theJustice Leaguetrailers is already put him as a rooter favorite . In theFlashpointcomics , Aquaman is kind of a dupe . His sidekick Orm plot against him and conspire to have Hippolyta murdered to end the Atlantis - Themyscira alliance . Aquaman deform into a warlord in reaction . In the cartoon , Aquaman is already married when he and Diana resolve to log Z’s together , before they are at once entrance by Mera . cull your poisonous substance on which edition of evil Aquaman is preferable . Either way , " Emperor Aquaman " as he becomes known , plunges Europe and all of its people underwater , and he ’s just as violent and sanguinary as Wonder Woman .
Audiences just fell in passion with Gadot ’s inspiring and larger-than-life Wonder Woman this year , and the advance word on James Wan’sAquamanstarring Momoa is very good . The worker , along their fellow Justice Leaguers Ben Affleck , Ezra Miller , and Ray Fisher , rocked Hall H with smiles and cheer at Comic Con , igniting expectancy for them to come together on the bragging screen . With all the positive vibes generated for the DCEU this summertime , it seems strange indeed for DC Films to be plotting a fierce , apocalyptic alternating interpretation of the DCEU to be unleashed in just three short years . However , there is decidedly a coolness factor and opportunity for epic spectacle to see a Wonder Woman - led army take on the forces of Atlantis overtop by Aquaman .
IS FLASHPOINT A GOOD IDEA?
AFlashpointmovie that adhere to the comedian ' taradiddle seems to be a perfidy of what Geoff Johns recently denote asthe nub tenet of the DCEU filmsgoing forward . WithWonder Woman ’s winner as the DCEU ’s first superhero celluloid comprised of pure , unembarrassed heroism , Johns trumpeted that future films would , in his own words,Get to the effect of the grapheme and make the movies playfulness . Just ensure that the characters are the characters with heart , humor , hope , heroic meter , and optimism at the base."Heart , humor , Leslie Townes Hope , and heroic meter " are four Good Book that do n’t describeFlashpoint .
Flashpointstands for everything opposite that ; it ’s a remnant from a previous era of DC Comics mired in superheroes irrationally in battle with each other , ultraviolence , murder , and a sordid underbelly that DC ’s current publishing opening move , DC Rebirth , has moved away from to great success and acclaim . However , with the multitude of creative issues that have plaguedThe Flashmovie , Flashpointhas immediate mark recognition as a major moving-picture show - worthy event that centre around The Fastest Man Alive . Like howCaptain America : Civil Warwas an Avengers movie that focus on around Steve Rogers ( and Tony Stark),Flashpointwould essentially be a Justice League movie with Barry Allen as its independent protagonist .
If theFlashpointmovie go all in towards creating an even more violent version of the DCEU ( which the current focussing of films is supposedly moving off from),Flashpointseems like something right up Zack Snyder ’s alley , should he choose to return to manoeuvre another DCEU pic . There ’s been speculation about whether Snyder ’s initial vision for the DCEU that defined the first wave of filmsis in conflict with the ' new direction’initiated by Patty Jenkins’Wonder Womanand the on the face of it more upbeat vibeJustice Leagueis enounce to carry ( which , to be fair , was mostly directed by Snyder beforehe stepped down for personal reason ) . AFlashpointmovie true to the cartoon strip seems like a project that would accommodate Snyder ’s particular talent and establish DCEU worldview , though , again , whether this is anything audiences even desire to see should hopefully factor out into the equating .
It ’s also possible that theFlashpointmovie will be Flashpoint in name only and will vary from the source material , perhaps even further thanCaptain America : Civil Wardid from its source cloth . There could still be a conflict between Wonder Woman and Aquaman , but it would hopefully be about something a circle less disturbing than sexual dawdling , decapitations , all - out war , and the slaying of million of the great unwashed . There are numerous way of life to spotlight difference between Wonder Woman and Aquaman , see them fight each other ( though superhero v superhero struggle are already something that seems very 2016 ) , and tell an alternative population tale about them and the DCEU without resorting to the worst scene of the comics .
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