History WesternAnimation / JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox

** Aquaman and Woman Woman started the war largely over a affair [[spoiler:and Diana beheading a vindictive Mera]]. Lois calls them out on it, telling them that if they continue, there won't ''be'' a world for any of them. Aquaman coldly responds that "surface dwellers" don't belong in this world, and attacks her.

* KilledMidSentence: Happens to [[spoiler:Zoom]], courtesy of [[spoiler:the alternate Batman putting a bullet through his brains while he is busy taunting Flash]].

* LoveMakesYouEvil: The war between Atlantis and Themyscira [[spoiler:was the result of a love triangle between Aquaman, Mera and Wonder Woman. When the Amazon kills the Queen of Atlantis, a heartbroken Aquaman responds by declaring war on the entire surface world]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Wonder Woman can't make Thawne tell them how to disarm the future-tech bombs because there's legitimately no way to do so. The Magic Lasso is a lie detector, not a troubleshooter; it can't find a solution if one doesn't exist.
--->'''Professor Zoom:''' The truth hurts, doesn't it?
** Barry and Flashpoint Batman's first attempt at recreating Barry's SuperheroOrigin (i.e. a chemical dousing and lightning strike) simply results in full-body third-degree burns. Attempt number 2 pans out.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Thawne condescendingly and joyfully ''rips'' into Barry by [[spoiler:pointing out the hero could have used his powers to prevent [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]'s assassination or [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler's rise to power]], but instead chose to save his own mother and accidentally shattered history, turning the world into a living hell moments away from destruction. Zoom caps off his speech by sarcastically asking who the real villain is.]]

''Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'' is a movie in the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line and an adaptation of ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}.'' Voice actors include Creator/JustinChambers (''Series/GreysAnatomy'') as the Flash, Creator/KevinMcKidd (''Series/{{Rome}}'') as Flashpoint!Batman, Creator/CThomasHowell (''Series/CriminalMinds'') as Professor Zoom, Creator/MichaelBJordan (''Film/{{Creed}}'') as Cyborg, Creator/CaryElwes (''Film/ThePrincessBride'') as Aquaman, Creator/DannyHuston (''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'') as Sam Lane, and Sam Daly stepping into [[Creator/TimDaly his dad's]] shoes as Superman. It also features [[RoleReprise the return of]] Creator/KevinConroy as [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman,]] Creator/NathanFillion as [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Hal Jordan,]] Creator/DanaDelany as [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Lois Lane,]] Creator/VanessaMarshall as [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths Wonder Woman,]] and Creator/RonPerlman as [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Deathstroke.]]

''Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'' is a movie in the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies line and an adaptation of ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}.'' Voice actors include Justin Chambers (''Series/GreysAnatomy'') as the Flash, Creator/KevinMcKidd (''Series/{{Rome}}'') as Flashpoint!Batman, Creator/CThomasHowell (''Series/CriminalMinds'') as Professor Zoom, Creator/MichaelBJordan (''Film/{{Creed}}'') as Cyborg, Creator/CaryElwes (''Film/ThePrincessBride'') as Aquaman, Creator/DannyHuston (''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'') as Sam Lane, and Sam Daly stepping into [[Creator/TimDaly his dad's]] shoes as Superman. It also features [[RoleReprise the return of]] Creator/KevinConroy as [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman,]] Creator/NathanFillion as [[WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights Hal Jordan,]] Creator/DanaDelany as [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Lois Lane,]] Creator/VanessaMarshall as [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths Wonder Woman,]] and Creator/RonPerlman as [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Deathstroke.]]

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/GreyDeLisle and Creator/KevinMcKidd are both born in 1973 and Creator/DannyHuston was born in 1962. All three respectively voice Nora Allen, mother of Barry (voiced by the 1970 born Justin Chambers); [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne/Flashpoint Batman, father of the regular Batman (voiced by Creator/KevinConory, born 1955)]]; and Sam Lane, the father of Lois Lane (voiced by Creator/DanaDelany, born 1956).

* AdaptationalVillainy: Both Flashpoint Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Instead of [[spoiler:being manipulated into war, the conflict started because Aquaman and Wonder Woman had an affair. When Mera attacked Wonder Woman, the Amazon murdered the Atlantean, mailed her head to her husband and kept her crown as a trophy. There's no indication that Wonder Woman even feels regret over the scale of the destruction and she implies that once Aquaman is dead, she'll begin a genocide against the men of Atlantis.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: The main reason for the war. [[spoiler:Aquaman's infidelity led to his wife's death and Atlantis to declare war against Themyscira and, eventually, the rest of the world.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Both Flashpoint Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Instead of [[spoiler:being manipulated into war, the conflict started because Aquaman and Wonder Woman had an affair. When Mera attacked Wonder Woman, the Amazon murdered the Atlantean, mailed her head to her husband and kept her crown as a trophy.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: By far one of the darkest and most violent DC Universe Animated Original Movies along with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkTheApokolipsWar''. Surprisingly enough it was this even to its ''source material'' when it came to the graphic nature of the characters' deaths.

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: In a flashback, [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] beats Joe Chill to death after the latter shoots Bruce.
* EyeLightsOut: [[spoiler: Cyborg's left eye fades out as he succumbs to his injuries in the final battle.]]

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: [[spoiler: In the flashback, Thomas Wayne beats Joe Chill to death after the latter shoots Bruce.]]

* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Grifter and an Amazonian Warrior pull a BoomHeadshot on each other, him with his gun, her with a bow-and-arrow.]]

** [[spoiler:Flashpoint Superman has one after he accidentally kills some soldiers just after getting his heat vision.]]
** [[spoiler:Flashpoint Aquaman seems to have one when he clearly sees how much death the war has caused.]]
** [[spoiler:Possibly Flashpoint Wonder Woman at the end, when Aquaman activates his Weapon of Mass Destruction. She hugs the dying Aquaman before the end.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Thawne condescendingly and joyfully ''rips'' into Barry for his decision to save his mother and how it screwed everything up.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Zoom:''' Oh, Barry. That's the beauty of all this. I didn't do any of it. You did. Think, Barry. Isn't there some little thing, some little good deed, you might have done?\\
'''Flash:''' I saved someone.\\
'''Zoom:''' Yes.\\
'''Flash:''' I saved her. I saved mom.\\
'''Zoom:''' That's right.\\
'''Flash:''' No...no! It wouldn't have changed all of this. It wouldn't have changed what happened before her murder. Bruce's parents...Clark's landing...\\
'''Zoom:''' Oh, but it did. Break the sound barrier, and there's a sonic boom. You broke the time barrier, Flash. Time boom. Ripples of distortion radiated out through that point of impact, shifting everything just a tiny bit. But enough. Enough for events to happen slightly different.\\
'''Flash:''' I just wanted to save her.\\
'''Zoom:''' Her hero. How noble. Oh, wait. You didn't stop [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]] from getting assassinated. Or make sure [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler stayed in art school]]. You saved your mommy. You missed her. And in a supreme act of selfishness, shattered history like a rank amateur. Turned the world into a living hell moments away from destruction. And ''I'm'' the villain?]]

* NoodleIncident: The fight between Flashpoint Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] and Flashpoint Joker/[[spoiler:Martha Wayne]] was probably pretty epic. Too bad we didn't see any of it. Of course, if Flash succeeds in his plan, [[spoiler:[[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong none of it would have happened]] and his son will be alive.]]

* MissingMom: Flash's mother in the original timeline. [[spoiler:Also the indirect cause of the Flashpoint timeline.]]

** And don't mention Mera around Aquaman.

** Flash's first attempt at getting his powers back results in being covered in burns.

* ChekhovsGun:
** Doubles as a FreezeFrameBonus - [[spoiler:if you look really closely in the scene when Zoom makes his appearance, running by the Rogues, you can see his tiny bombs appearing on Captain Cold and Heatwave exactly at the time he ran past them. He is actually facing the Rogues to plant the bombs rather than facing the Flash.]]
** A literal one, on display in FP Batman's Batcave. [[spoiler:It's the one he later uses to kill Professor Zoom.]]

* CoDragons: Ocean Master and Black Manta to Flashpoint Aquaman.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''By far'' one of the grimmest and bloodiest of the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies ever released.

* DeadpanSnarker: Flashpoint Batman, big time. Also, ComicBook/LoisLane as usual.
--> '''Flash (to Flashpoint Superman):''' Don't worry, friend. Everything is going to be okay.
--> '''Flashpoint!Batman:''' I thought heroes never lied.

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Billy Batson]] drops to the ground like this after being [[spoiler:gutted by Diana]].

** Aquaman and Woman Woman started the war largely over a affair [[spoiler:and Diana beheading a vindictive Mera]]. Lois even calls them out on it, telling them that if they continue, there won't ''be'' a world for any of them. Aquaman basically responds with "Fuck that", without profanity.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: In this timeline, the war between Atlantis and the Amazons has reached a boiling point to the point most of Europe is in ruins and the war is threatening to envelop the rest of the world as well. [[spoiler: Near the end of the movie, Aquaman has rigged a Doomsday device in the event he loses. He activates it when he takes a mortal blow, though Barry luckily manages to heal his leg in time to start running and undo the timeline.]]
* TheFaceless: Nora Allen's killer. [[spoiler:Implied to be Thawne as in the comic.]]
* FantasticRacism: Both Flashpoint Aquaman and Wonder Woman show absolute disdain for everyone who isn't Atlantean or Amazon.

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Barry saving his mother creates a "temporal boom" that ever-so-slightly influences events past and present. Bruce Wayne dies instead of his parents, Superman's ship craters Metropolis, and a multitude of other tiny changes snowballs into hell on Earth.]]

* HeroicResolve: The only thing that would [[spoiler:let a badly wounded Barry outrun his past self.]]
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Invoked, but subverted. Zoom emphasizes to Flash that he could have used his powers to prevent Hitler from leaving art school, yet [[spoiler:his "heroic" motive for going back in time was something far more personal and frivolous that still screwed everything up]].

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Flash's Rogues, once again. Barry tells to their faces that they are too incompetent to come up with an intelligent plan, and they end up turning to the Justice League to be saved during the film's prologue.

** Flashpoint Batman is very prone to using it; first with Yo-Yo, later with Barry Allen.
** Bizarrely, Flashpoint Wonder Woman also uses it; [[EstablishingCharacterMoment in her first scene]] she strangles someone with the lasso of truth while asking them for information. While the character in question does resist the lasso, it still comes off as sadistically redundant.

** [[spoiler:Flashpoint Wonder Woman sends Mera's severed head to Aquaman as a "gift", and then wears her helmet as a trophy (though Diana claims she wears it as a "warning").]]

* KillerYoYo: Used very effectively by the Flashpoint villain Yo-Yo, an {{Expy}} of Harley Quinn.
* LaughingMad: Flashpoint Joker's only scene, as [[spoiler:she goes insane from seeing her son die in her arms]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: For an animated film just over an hour, it sure has a ''lot'' of characters. [[AnyoneCanDie Which are promptly mowed down in droves.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:The entire reason of the war between Atlantis and Themyscira.]]
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler:In the Flashpoint timeline, between Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Mera, and eventually the reason of the war between Atlantis and Themyscira]].
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Believed to have been caused by Professor Zoom. [[spoiler:It's actually what Flash accidentally did when he saved his mom.]]
* MakingASplash: Mera's technique of combat. Atlanteans in general seem to use it.

** Pandora and [[spoiler:the universe merger]] were also written out.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:The entire alternate universe is destroyed by Aquaman's weapon.]] We also get to see the on screen deaths of the likes of [[spoiler:Aquaman, Billy Batson, Cyborg, Zoom, Wonder Woman, Grifter and Deathstroke, to name a few]].

* KillEmAll: Even before [[spoiler:Aquaman's WMD goes off]], pretty much every notable character in the Flashpoint universe is dead.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: With most of Professor Zoom's relevance to the ''Flashpoint'' plot being AdaptedOut (read: [[spoiler:he's most definitely the man who killed Nora Allen and he gloats about it]], the film leaves it highly ambiguous), he's only there to give Barry an "evil Flash" to fight at the climax and the BatmanColdOpen. Even the clue that he's around as the rest of the plot is going on ([[spoiler:the Speed Force isn't working right because he's syphoning it]]) could just as easily have been attributed to the universe going bonkers and it would have made the same impact.

->''"No matter how fast you run, you can't save everyone."''

** Flashpoint Joker[[spoiler:/Martha Wayne]] does not feature apart from Flashpoint Batman's flashback to [[spoiler:Bruce's death.]]

* DemotedToExtra: Inevitably, due to AdaptationDistillation, several characters are omitted, including Citizen Cold, Elemental Woman and The Enchantress, who play an important role in the Flashpoint comics.

* BloodierAndGorier: By far one of the darkest and most violent DC Universe Animated Original Movies along with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. Surprisingly enough it was this even to its ''source material'' when it came to the graphic nature of the characters' deaths.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: With most of Professor Zoom's relevance to the ''Flashpoint'' plot being AdaptedOut (read: [[spoiler:he's the man who killed Nora Allen]]), he's only there to give Barry an "evil Flash" to fight at the climax and the BatmanColdOpen. Even the clue that he's around as the rest of the plot is going on (the Speed Force isn't working right because he's syphoning it) could just as easily have been attributed to the universe going bonkers and it would have made the same impact.

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: With most of Professor Zoom's relevance to the ''Flashpoint'' plot being AdaptedOut (read: [[spoiler:he's the man who killed Nora Allen]]), he's only there to give Barry an "evil Flash" to fight at the climax and the BatmanColdOpening.