Heartwarming / Flashpoint (DC Comics)

• After spending twenty years trapped in a laboratory facility deep underground, a pale, emaciated Kal-El sees the sun rise for the first time in his life upon escaping, and it is "beautiful".
• What convinces Batman (Dr. Thomas Wayne, Bruce's father) to believe Barry's story? Bruce lived in Barry's timeline.
• General Sam Lane considers Kal-El to be his son: he names him based on translations of Kryptonian, and even refers to him as his child when defending him and Lois from Subject Zero.
• Lois, when she meets Kal-El for the first time, Kal-El steps in front of her to protect her from the rampaging Subject Zero, even though he has no powers from lack of sunlight, Subject Zero could easily kill him, and he had only just met Lois.
• Batman (Thomas Wayne in this timeline) and the Joker (a crazed Martha Wayne) agree to let their timeline be overwritten, so that their son Bruce can live, embracing for what appears to be their first time since Bruce's death... though Martha doesn't take ''nearly'' as well the realization, by Thomas' simple "no" to Bruce growing up to be a doctor, to a living Bruce's eventual fate.
• When Barry visits Bruce in the restored timeline, he expresses confusion over his still having the memories of the Flashpoint history. Bruce merely advices him to accept them as a gift — Barry may not be allowed to save his mother, but he still gets to remember a lifetime spent with her.
• At the end of issue #5, Barry gives Bruce a letter from Thomas Wayne.
  • That's just scratching the surface. After that, we get half a page of Batman taking off his cowl, reading the letter. Cue him crying. The Goddamn Batman is crying over a letter from his father.
  • And then Bruce gives Barry the warmest, most thankful smile he's ever given anyone and THANKS him. Cue the feels.
• Bart Allen shaking off the influence of Black Flash and briefly becoming White Flash, sacrificing himself to restore Barry's powers and telling him to save the world.

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