Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Fight the future.

RELEASED 30 Jul 20131h 21m★ 7.9 TMDB★ Essential pick

The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.

Why it matters in DC

Barry Allen's experience of an altered world gives the animated film collection a story about the consequences of changing history. Its alternate heroes make it a useful introduction to the idea that familiar names do not guarantee familiar lives or alliances.

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Where it fits in the DC universe

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is title 1 of 16 in our DC Animated Movie Universe viewing sequence. The Flashpoint Paradox is the catalogue's entry into the connected DC Animated Movie Universe sequence, using an altered timeline to establish its transition. Justice League: War is the next practical team starting point. The live-action Flash film uses related ideas but is a separate adaptation, not another chapter of the same change to history.

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