History WesternAnimation / JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox

* DiedOnTheirBirthday: [[spoiler: Nora Allen, mother of The Flash, is killed on her own birthday]].

[[caption-width-right:350:''Everything you know will change in a flash...[[Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} again...]]'']]

''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 Creator/SamDaly 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.]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: The [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Shazam]] of the Flashpoint universe is actually a combination of six powerless kids and when they call out "Shazam" they merge into the one superbeing called Captain Thunder.

** Yo-Yo gains some elements from Comicbook/HarleyQuinn, i.e. GirlishPigtails and [[CastingGag one of]] [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman her past]] [[Creator/HyndenWalch voice actresses]].

** [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm, Tempest/Garth and Aquagirl/Tula]] are among Aquaman's forces, even with the same basic designs and weapons of ''Young Justice''.

* PaletteSwap: The reporter that reports on Captain Boomerang is basically a palette swap of Cat Grant's model used in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: Zoom gets killed by Thomas Wayne all the same but in the movie, Zoom gets a hole blown through his head whereas in the comics, Thomas Wayne stabs him through the chest from behind.]]

** Other characters from the original comic event who are dropped from the animated film adaptation include Bart Allen, Wally West, Booster Gold and the Flashpoint timeline's counterparts to several characters who weren't that important to the main plot, such as Plastic Man, the Pied Piper and Traci 13.

* 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 Creator/JustinChambers, born 1970); [[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).

* TheGhost: Flashpoint Joker/[[spoiler:Martha Wayne]] is only seen in flashbacks but never in the present.

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

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

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The main conflict is fought between multiple factions, composed of both famous and obscure DC heroes and villains. Though the main characters are Flash, an alternate version of Batman, and Eobard Thawne, the film also features the entire Justice League, Flash's Rogues, Aquaman's Atlanteans, the United Kingdom Resistance, Cyborg's assembled team and Deathstroke's crew, among several other cameos.

** Yo-Yo, an {{Expy}} of [[Characters/BatmanHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]], is voiced by Creator/HyndenWalch, who also voiced Harley in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. The French dub did something similar by having Yo-Yo be voiced by Kelvine Dumour, the voice of Harley in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

* AdultFear: Flashpoint Batman's backstory is this. [[spoiler:In this version, it was ''Bruce'' who got shot, not Thomas, while Martha went insane upon seeing her son die and became ComicBook/TheJoker. In other words, he lost his son and, mentally speaking, his wife.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne is killed instead of his parents in the Flashpoint timeline]].

* BigBad: Professor Zoom is responsible for the timeline shift. [[spoiler:While he didn't directly cause it, his taunts are responsible for Barry's actions that ''did'', and he himself is preventing Barry from fixing the timeline and enabling the crisis to reach [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowItits logical conclusion.]]]]

--> '''Thawne:''' "That's the beauty of it. [[spoiler:I didn't do anything. '''You did'''.]]"

* BigBad: Professor Zoom is responsible for the timeline shift. [[spoiler:While he didn't directly cause it, his taunts are responsible for Barry's actions that ''did''.]]

** Some characters are more heroic because their stories from the comics are cut down. We don't see Citizen Cold murder anyone, and Ocean Master wasn't responsible for the war. Also, Slade Wilson/Deathstroke and Lex Luthor (who died at age 10 in the comics), along the entire crew of the ''Ravager'', are trying to stop Aquaman's weapon instead of looking for Slade's daughter.

** Henry Allen, Barry Allen's father. In recent versions of Flash's backstory, [[spoiler: Zoom went back in time, killed Barry's mother Nora, and framed Henry for it. This motivates Barry to become a forensics scientist, since he wants to find evidence to clear his father's name and catch the real killer.]] In this film however, Henry is completely missing and [[spoiler:Nora was killed by a random burglar. Zoom's involvement in her death is hinted, but left vague at best]].

* ArcWords: In the opening scene, Barry Allen's mother teaches him a variant of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer Serenity Prayer]] (here bowdlerized to remove reference to God). Of course, Barry's always had trouble with this particular lesson, we find out.

* TheFaceless: The face of Nora Allen's killer is obscured by a window when we see him making his move near the end of the film.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning of the film, Thawne makes it perfectly clear that he's ready to die just to hurt and kill Flash. [[spoiler:We later find out that this includes being willing to ''end the world'' just because it'll make Flash's death hurt even more.]]

** Between the forces of Flashpoint Aquaman, we can see [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm, Tempest/Garth and Aquagirl/Tula]], even with the same basic designs and weapons of ''Young Justice''.

** [[spoiler:Aquaman losing his right arm.]]

* PaletteSwap: The reporter that reports on Captain Boomerang is basically a palette swap of Cat Grant's model used in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' (although for all we know, she could be Linda Park, Wally West's girlfriend--and later wife--who is a television reporter for Keystone City).

* BadassNormal: Several characters, including Flashpoint Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]], ComicBook/LoisLane, ComicBook/LexLuthor, Hal Jordan and [[ComicBook/WildCATs Grifter]] are powerless humans fighting in a war between a demigoddess and a superhuman.

* LoveTriangle: In the Flashpoint timeline, [[spoiler:Aquaman has a romantic encounter with Wonder Woman which Mera witnesses. Enraged by her husband's infidelity, Mera attacks the Amazon, who kills her in self-defense. The conflict is prolongued during the Atlantean-Amazon War, with Aquaman saying he cannot believe he fell for Diana's charms, while the latter tells him he has never truly loved her]].

** Flashpoint Batman flat out calls the group Cyborg is putting together [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad a Suicide Squad.]]

* AdultFear: Flashpoint Batman's backstory is this. [[spoiler:In this version, it was ''Bruce'' who got shot, not Thomas, while Martha went insane upon seeing her son die and became the Joker. In other words, he lost his son and, mentally speaking, his wife.]]

** Between the forces of Flashpoint Aquaman, we can see [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm, Tempest/Garth and Aquagirl/Tula]], even with the same basic designs and weapons of Young Justice.

* WHAMLine: Thawne's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a crippled Barry Allen, where he reveals that [[spoiler:what truly caused the timeline to change was the hero traveling back in time to save his own mother]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** 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.

* HangingARound: The evil version of Wonder Woman from the BadFuture Barry is trapped in [[spoiler:kills Steve Trevor by wrapping the Lasso of Truth around his neck and flying up in the air causing it to go taut]].

* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:Wonder Woman beheads Mera]].