Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

http://www.newsarama.com/film/dc-animated-flashpoint-paradox-news.html

Not a fan of the original story, but that is one stellar cast. Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Ron Perlman are reprising their parts as Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane and Deathstroke, respectively.

I thought Bruce Wayne was dead in the Flashpoint timeline and his father was Batman.

The article says that Conroy only voices non-Flashpoint Batman, before everything gets messed up.

It's getting weird how often DC flip-flops on which actors reprise which roles and when.

Bruce Wayne appears in the beginning and end as a sort of bookend.

Perhaps Susan Eisenberg was unavailable for Wonder Woman.

Oh my god, a DC animated film centered around the Flash?! Not Batman or Superman? I'm shocked.

Yeah, but it's also on Flash Point, which isn't a great moment for The Flash truthfully.

What with Breaking the timeline to pieces and leading to the New52 and all that.

Well, baby steps.

It's still preferable to "Batman and/or Superman Derp Around for the 293047928342397842th Time". :-P

I'm still bittered that we didn't get a Flash show set in the DCAU. *grumble*

Yeah, that's really a shame. "Flash and Substance" was one of my favorite episodes of JLU; would've been nice to see a whole series like that. Their Flash is the guy who actually got the Ultra Humanite to behave like a human being.

I know he's got a deeper side, but mostly DCAU Flash kept it hidden under his goofy persona, and I wonder if that jokester personality would've been enough to carry the majority of a show by itself.

With a good supporting cast, definitely. And the DCAU creators would have done an amazing job with it. Many people say Superman is too boring and goody-goody to carry things on his own, but STAS was good, and managed to be engaging enough.

In fact, a DCAU Flash animated series could be used to explore his depth even more, and show how he as in his civilian life compared to his super hero life. He could play off his coworkers, maybe an outside of work friend named Hartley Rathaway. That, combined with delving into the villains and making them interesting, or exploring their interesting back story, could make a good animated series.

The problem with handling Flash in any ongoing series is explaining 'Why doesn't the guy just take everyone down before they realize he's there?' At least with Superman, you can downplay his speed and play on his other Flying Brick powers, but with Flash, who is all about the speed, action-wise, you soon run out of excuses to justify why every fight doesn't last less than one second, and you start getting repetitive or making him job to fill half a hour.

edited 5th Apr '13 10:28:44 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Hostages. Making him capable of being tripped up, like with ice (a good way to introduce Captain Cold). Making his top speed be the speed of sound.

Honestly, when people say it's hard to give a character an ongoing animated series when they have decades of ongoing comics that are engaging baffles me. The Flash has had many interesting stories written about him. In JL/JLU, Wally did have obstacles when fighting villains. When asking why he couldn't defeat anyone in his own, ongoing series, well, why couldn't he defeat everyone in a second in JL/JLU? Was it because they were too tough for a fast punch to knock them out? Was it because it was physically difficult to hit them? Were they a flier, so the Flash had to find an alternate way to hit them out of the sky? Could they teleport, were they physic, did they have the city under their thrall? There are many ways to make an ongoing series about someone with powers have obstacles.

This sounds... pretty cool actually. If nothing else, Flashpoint was interesting, so I wonder how exactly this will go.

C. Thomas Howell is voicing the Reverse Flash.

http://www.newsarama.com/film/dc-animated-flashpoint-paradox-news.html

Limiting his acceleration and reaction time can also work. I thought that was what separated, for instance, Quicksilver from other super-speedsters, was that he had reaction time adaptive to his speed, while Flash never quite did (better than human at the speeds he's going, obviously, but not quite synched to the speed he's actually at)

That is true. If you go back to the classic Silver Age Flash stories, you can see him actually needing to slow down to think what to do before doing it. Over the years both writers and fans have exaggerated his powers to the point that the "why doesn't he act before everybody else?" Fridge Logic comes up, but really if his perception and speed were exactly the same, he'd perceive everything around him as slowing down when he speeds up, making it hard if not impossible to interact with the world around him.

edited 10th Apr '13 8:06:04 AM by Sijo

Is Michael Rosenbaum voicing the Flash again? Coz he should.

If it were Wally, yeah, that'd be great. But I didn't like his take on Barry in JL:Doom. He sounded restrained and miscast as him.

Yeah, give me George Eads or Neil Patrick Harris as Barry any day. Rosenbaum is the perfect Wally but a really awkward Barry.

Or James Arnold Taylor.

I just really hope the Flashpoint movie can fix the plot hole in the original story (because I really don't get how trying to prevent a time traveling super villain from killing someone in the past shatters time)

...it's really not that hard.