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* SecretKeeper: Apparently Eobard somehow knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne now.

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* SecretKeeper: Apparently SecretIdentity: Eobard somehow knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne now.Wayne, and thus where his Batcave is. Being from the future has certain advantages...
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** In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works where he makes being late a habit of Barry's, and where the ''Flashpoint''-''New 52''-''Rebirth'' story truly began.

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** In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works where he makes being late a habit of Barry's, and where the ''Flashpoint''-''New 52''-''Rebirth'' story ''Flashpoint''/''New 52''/''Rebirth'' saga truly began.
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** In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.

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** In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, works where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.Barry's, and where the ''Flashpoint''-''New 52''-''Rebirth'' story truly began.

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1) this seems more Evil Counterpart 2) Oz is not appeared (again) in THIS story


* {{Foil}}: Batman and [[spoiler: Ozymandias]]. Both are pragmatists keeping an eye on the world through numerous monitors, but in their respective stories, their goals are diametrically opposed.
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* LastWords: "God... I saw God..."
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* {{Foil}}: Batman and [[spoiler: Ozymandias]]. Both are pragmatists keeping an eye on the world through numerous monitors, but in their respective stories, their goals are diametrically opposed.
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* VisualPun: The hockey stick is placed at the 10 minute mark in the first image of the story - which is where the blood splatter was located on the Comedian's smiley face button. The smiley face also appears as a poster in Arkham's TV rec room.
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The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue #19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it, namely the return of the Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.

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The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue #19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it, namely the return of the Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne, the original Reverse-Flash.

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The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue #19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it, namely the return of the Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne.

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The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue #19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it, namely the return of the Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne.
Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.



* BackFromTheDead: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne (killed in Flashpoint by Thomas Wayne) returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.

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* BackFromTheDead: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne (killed in Flashpoint ''Flashpoint'' by Thomas Wayne) returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.



* TheCameo: Saturn Girl makes a brief appearance at the start of ''Batman'' #21 and actually name drops the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes this time.

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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
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Saturn Girl makes a brief appearance at the start of ''Batman'' #21 and actually name drops the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes this time.time.
** In the same issue, Flashpoint!Batman appears when the Comedian's button reacts to Psycho-Pirate's mask, but only for a second.



* SequelSeries: While it follows up on the ''Watchmen'' myth arc, it's more directly a sequel to ''Flashpoint'', and characters refer to those events more actively than anything else that's happened since.

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* SequelSeries: While it the series follows up on the ''Watchmen'' myth arc, it's more directly a sequel to ''Flashpoint'', and characters refer to those events more actively than anything else that's happened since.since.
* TragicKeepsake: Bruce kept the letter Flashpoint!Thomas Wayne wrote to him. Thomas used his last seconds asking Barry to give it to him... Eobard shreds it, because he's a dick.
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** The idea of Psycho-Pirate having ties to the multiverse is established in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' and ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
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When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1 and informed Barry Allen of CosmicRetcon that created the New 52, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. Both Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen agree to keep the button's existence and their investigation a secret from the rest of the Justice League, while Wally heads off to look into things with the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]]. ''The Button'' takes place some time later, and follows Bruce and Barry's investigation into the eponymous button.

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When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1 and informed Barry Allen of an outside force's CosmicRetcon that created the New 52, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. Both Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen agree to keep the button's existence and their investigation a secret from the rest of the Justice League, while Wally heads off to look into things with the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]]. ''The Button'' takes place some time later, and follows Bruce and Barry's investigation into the eponymous button.

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* BadassInDistress: Saturn Girl is still inside Arkham Asylum, and seems to have no access to her mental powers. If she ''did'', getting out would be incredibly simple for her.



* TheCameo: Saturn Girl makes a brief appearance at the start of ''Batman'' #21 and actually name drops the Legion this time.

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* TheCameo: Saturn Girl makes a brief appearance at the start of ''Batman'' #21 and actually name drops the Legion ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes this time.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: A fight breaks out during a hockey game Batman is watching, with one player beating his opponent to a bloody pulp. The beaten player ends up dying from his injuries.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: A fight breaks out during a hockey game Batman is watching, with one player beating his opponent to a bloody pulp. The beaten player ends up dying from his injuries. This almost parallels Bruce's fight with Eobard.
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When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. Both Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen agree to keep the button's existence and their investigation a secret from the rest of the Justice League, while Wally heads off to look into things with the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]]. ''The Button'' takes place some time later, and follows Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen's investigation into the eponymous button.

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When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, #1 and informed Barry Allen of CosmicRetcon that created the New 52, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. Both Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen agree to keep the button's existence and their investigation a secret from the rest of the Justice League, while Wally heads off to look into things with the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]]. ''The Button'' takes place some time later, and follows Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen's Barry's investigation into the eponymous button.
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** Bruce stabs Eobard in the foot when he's standing still, as it's the only "solid" part of him when he's vibrating. The idea of Eobard being stupid and too arrogant to realise he shouldn't stand still is a call back to when Flashpoint!Batman (Thomas Wayne) killed Eobard when he stood still.

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** Bruce stabs Eobard in the foot when he's standing still, as it's the only "solid" part of him when he's vibrating. The idea of Eobard being too stupid and too arrogant to realise he shouldn't stand still is a call back to when Flashpoint!Batman (Thomas Wayne) killed Eobard when he stood still.
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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: And by the end of the first issue he die again; nothing's left but a skeleton.]]

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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: And by the end of the first issue he die died again; nothing's left but a skeleton.]]



** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19

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** ''The Flash'' #21 cover showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19

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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Eobard]], when teleported away after contact with the Comedian's button, comes back... not in good shape.



** BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: And by the end of the first issue he die again; nothing's left but a skeleton.]]

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** * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: And by the end of the first issue he die again; nothing's left but a skeleton.]]]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Eobard]], when teleported away after contact with the Comedian's button, comes back... not in good shape.



* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Covers Always Spoil]]:
** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19
** ''The Flash'' #22 didn't have its cover present in solicitations, but before its release, its cover was shown and depicts the original Jay Garrick! This version of Jay had disappeared following ''Flashpoint'', and was replaced by ''ComicBook/Earth2'''s version of Jay Garrick.



* SequelSeries: While it follows up on the ''Watchmen'' myth arc, it's more directly a sequel to ''Flashpoint'', and characters refer to those events more actively than anything else that's happened since.

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* SequelSeries: While it follows up on the ''Watchmen'' myth arc, it's more directly a sequel to ''Flashpoint'', and characters refer to those events more actively than anything else that's happened since.since.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19
** ''The Flash'' #22 didn't have its cover present in solicitations, but before its release, its cover was shown and depicts the original Jay Garrick! This version of Jay had disappeared following ''Flashpoint'', and was replaced by ''ComicBook/Earth2'''s version of Jay Garrick.
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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own, with flesh disintegrating, and by the end of the issue, nothing's left but a skeleton.
** BackFromTheDead: Technically, he was dead as well, since Thomas Wayne stabbed him through the chest.

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* TheBusCameBack: BackFromTheDead: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne (killed in Flashpoint by Thomas Wayne) returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own, with flesh disintegrating, and own.
** BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: And
by the end of the issue, first issue he die again; nothing's left but a skeleton.
** BackFromTheDead: Technically, he was dead as well, since Thomas Wayne stabbed him through the chest.
skeleton.]]
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''The Button'' is a 2017 crossover between ''[[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. Serving as the first immediate follow-up on the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' MythArc present throughout ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', it is written by Tom King and Joshua Williamson, with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter and will begin in April and end in May.

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''The Button'' '''''The Button''''' is a 2017 crossover between ''[[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. Serving as the first immediate follow-up on the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' MythArc present throughout ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', it is written by Tom King and Joshua Williamson, with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter and will begin in April and end in May.

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The series also serves as a sequel to ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''.



* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Covers Always Spoil]]:
** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19
** ''The Flash'' #22 didn't have its cover present in solicitations, but before its release, its cover was shown and depicts the original Jay Garrick!



* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Covers Always Spoil]]:
** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19
** ''The Flash'' #22 didn't have its cover present in solicitations, but before its release, its cover was shown and depicts the original Jay Garrick! This version of Jay had disappeared following ''Flashpoint'', and was replaced by ''ComicBook/Earth2'''s version of Jay Garrick.



* SecretKeeper: Apparently Eobard somehow knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne now.

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* SecretKeeper: Apparently Eobard somehow knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne now.now.
* SequelSeries: While it follows up on the ''Watchmen'' myth arc, it's more directly a sequel to ''Flashpoint'', and characters refer to those events more actively than anything else that's happened since.
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** Bruce stabs Eobard in the foot when he's standing still, as it's the only "solid" part of him when he's vibrating. The idea of Eobard being stupid and too arrogant to realise he shouldn't stand still is a call back to when Flashpoint!Batman (Thomas Wayne) killed Eobard when he stood still.



* MisplacedRetribution: Ignoring that Flashpoint!Thomas was right to kill Eobard, since he was planning on killing Barry and preventing him from restoring the timeline, you could at least understand Eobard wanting revenge on Thomas. Except he goes after ''Bruce''.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: A fight breaks out during a hockey game Batman is watching, with one player beating his opponent to a bloody pulp. The beaten player ends up dying from his injuries.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: A fight breaks out during a hockey game Batman is watching, with one player beating his opponent to a bloody pulp. The beaten player ends up dying from his injuries.injuries.
* SecretKeeper: Apparently Eobard somehow knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne now.
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[[caption-width-right:350:That night, a button was found in Gotham.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:That [[caption-width-right:280:That night, a button was found in Gotham.]]
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!Contains examples of:

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!Contains !!''The Button'' contains examples of:

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''The Button'' is a 2017 crossover between ''[[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. Serving as the first immediate follow-up on the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' MythArc present throughout ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', it is written by Tom King and Joshua Williamson, with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter.

When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. ''The Button'' follows Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen's investigation into the button.

The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue $19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it.

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''The Button'' is a 2017 crossover between ''[[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. Serving as the first immediate follow-up on the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' MythArc present throughout ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', it is written by Tom King and Joshua Williamson, with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter.

Porter and will begin in April and end in May.

When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. Both Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen agree to keep the button's existence and their investigation a secret from the rest of the Justice League, while Wally heads off to look into things with the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]]. ''The Button'' takes place some time later, and follows Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen's investigation into the eponymous button.

The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue $19 #19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it.it, namely the return of the Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne.



* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own, with flesh disintegrating, and by the end of the issue, nothinng's left but a skeleton.

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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own, with flesh disintegrating, and by the end of the issue, nothinng's nothing's left but a skeleton.



* CallBack: In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.



* MythologyGag: ''Batman'' #21 makes use of Dave Gibbons' 9-panel layout, popularised in ''Watchmen''. Although Tom King already makes heavy use of it.

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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
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''Batman'' #21 makes use of Dave Gibbons' 9-panel layout, popularised in ''Watchmen''. Although Tom King already makes heavy use of it.it.
** The cover of ''The Flash'' #22 features Jay Garrick drawn in a more modern style, but the rest of the cover is a recreation of ''Flash Comics'' #1, which was his first appearance.
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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.

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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.own, with flesh disintegrating, and by the end of the issue, nothinng's left but a skeleton.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The rougher, tougher Justice League.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:That night, a button was found in Gotham.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The rougher, tougher Justice League.]]
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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the NEw 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.

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* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the NEw New 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.



* CallBack: In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry tot he cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.

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* CallBack: In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry tot he to the cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.
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* MythologyGag: ''Batman'' #21 makes use of Dave Gibbons' 9-panel layout, popularised in ''Watchmen''. Although Tom King already makes heavy use of it.

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* MythologyGag: ''Batman'' #21 makes use of Dave Gibbons' 9-panel layout, popularised in ''Watchmen''. Although Tom King already makes heavy use of it.it.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: A fight breaks out during a hockey game Batman is watching, with one player beating his opponent to a bloody pulp. The beaten player ends up dying from his injuries.
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* CoversAlwaysSpoil:

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* CoversAlwaysSpoil:[[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Covers Always Spoil]]:
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''The Button'' is a 2017 crossover between ''[[ComicBook/BatmanRebirth Batman]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheFlash''. Serving as the first immediate follow-up on the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' MythArc present throughout ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', it is written by Tom King and Joshua Williamson, with art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter.

When Wally West returned in ''DC Universe: Rebirth'' #1, he somehow also caused the Comedian's bloodstained button to get embedded in the wall of the Batcave, which Batman soon found. ''The Button'' follows Bruce Wayne and Barry Allen's investigation into the button.

The crossover runs through ''Batman'' #21, ''The Flash'' #21, ''Batman'' #22 and ''The Flash'' #22. Issue $19 of ''The Flash'' also contained some stuff leading into it.
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Eobard]], when teleported away after contact with the Comedian's button, comes back... not in good shape.
* TheBusCameBack: The Pre-New 52 Eobard Thawne returns, apparently possessing the NEw 52 Eobard's body and having overridden the latter's powers, memories, personality and costume with his own.
** BackFromTheDead: Technically, he was dead as well, since Thomas Wayne stabbed him through the chest.
* CoversAlwaysSpoil:
** ''The Flash'' #21 showed the original Eobard Thawne months before his return in issue #19
** ''The Flash'' #22 didn't have its cover present in solicitations, but before its release, its cover was shown and depicts the original Jay Garrick!
* CallBack: In ''Batman'' #21, Bruce calls Barry tot he cave to discuss the Comedian's button. Barry says he'll be there in "one minute", and Bruce actually times him. He's late, as a callback to Geoff Johns' Barry Allen works, where he makes being late a habit of Barry's.
* TheCameo: Saturn Girl makes a brief appearance at the start of ''Batman'' #21 and actually name drops the Legion this time.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Eobard absolutely demolishes Bruce, who, as skilled as he is, just can't keep up with someone that fast.
** It seems Eobard was on the receiving end of one from [[spoiler: Doctor Manhattan]].
* EvilIsPetty: True to form, Eobard. He destroys the letter that Flashpoint!Thomas wrote to Bruce as revenge for his murder.
* MythologyGag: ''Batman'' #21 makes use of Dave Gibbons' 9-panel layout, popularised in ''Watchmen''. Although Tom King already makes heavy use of it.

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