The animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is officially released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Barry Allen gains super speed powers and becomes the Flash, beginning his career as a superhero.
Barry witnesses the murder of his mother, Nora Allen, by the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, a pivotal trauma in his life.
In an attempt to save his mother and prevent her murder, Barry uses his super speed to travel back in time, inadvertently creating an alternate timeline known as the Flashpoint timeline.
Barry wakes up in an alternate reality where his mother is alive, but the world is drastically changed. He discovers the Justice League does not exist and a war rages between Aquaman's Atlanteans and Wonder Woman's Amazons.
In the Flashpoint timeline, Bruce Wayne was killed as a child, leading his father, Thomas Wayne, to become Batman instead of Bruce.
The Atlanteans led by Aquaman and the Amazons led by Wonder Woman have plunged the world into a brutal war, devastating much of the planet.
The Flash teams up with the alternate Batman, Thomas Wayne, to try and restore the original timeline.
Barry tries to recreate the conditions necessary to reverse the altered timeline and restore the original reality.
Barry confronts the Reverse-Flash, who reveals he manipulated Barry's time travel to cause the Flashpoint timeline.
Barry sacrifices the Flashpoint timeline by reverting his time travel, restoring the original timeline but erasing the altered reality.
