Warning: This post contains spoilers from the season 5 finale on The Flash, which aired Tuesday night time. Read at your safe possibility!
In its series premiere, The Flash equipped a newspaper from the one year 2024 that featured a headline referring to the Scarlet Speedster (Grant Gustin) vanishing in a “disaster.” Tuesday night time, the superhero drama published how that newspaper pertains to the Arrowverse’s next crossover, the ominously titled “Crisis on Limitless Earths.”
In the season 5 finale of The Flash, Crew Flash destroys Cicada’s dagger in the display, which has the wretched consequence of freeing Eobard Thawne, a.good ample.a. Reverse Flash (Tom Cavanagh), in the lengthy speed, as the dagger changed into once being ancient to suppress his powers while he changed into once awaiting his execution. Once he’s freed, he faces off in opposition to Barry and Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy), and throughout the battle he giddily tells Nora that her efforts to stay her father from disappearing will consistently fail.
“That you would be able to’t save him, Nora, no matter what you salvage,” he says. “It is no longer always relevant what you strive, the Flash will consistently vanish. That’s his legacy.” (This line is a suave nod to DC Comics mythology, for the reason that Flash most ceaselessly is a casualty whenever the multiverse goes thru a disaster.)
Sadly, destroying the dagger has one other unintended consequence: It outcomes in the creation of 1 other timeline. Not handiest is Nora erased from existence as a consequence, however the date on the aforementioned future newspaper changes from 2024 to 2019. In other words, Barry will fade in the titular disaster of the upcoming crossover, which is due later this one year.
The proven fact that the newspaper’s headline refers back to the crossover is just not any longer gorgeous for the reason that crossover shares a title with one of DC Comics’ most iconic comic books, Crisis on Limitless Earths. Conceived of and done by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, this 1985 maxiseries adopted DC’s heroes as they fought to avoid wasting Earth from the destruction of the multiverse. [33-YEAR-OLD SPOILER ALERT:] Sadly, Barry Allen/the Flash perished/disappeared in the battle.
Whether or no longer the Arrowverse’s adaption sticks to the source area fabric in this regard stays to be seen. There’s motive to hope to Gustin’s speedster will operate it out of the disaster alive, if handiest due to his display changed into once renewed for a stout sixth season.
The Flash wasn’t the handiest display that ancient its finale to setup the subsequent crossover, despite the proven fact that. In the Arrow finale, the Video display (LaMonica Garrett) recruited Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) to back him save the multiverse and published that he would perish in the upcoming disaster. For more on that, head over here.
The Flash will return in fall 2019.
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The Flash finale addressed the future newspaper and "Crisis" crossover
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