10 Unbelievable DC Plot Twists That Shocked The World
6. Barry Allen Returns After 23 Years
During the Crisis on Infinite Earth's crossover year-long epic, Barry Allen makes the ultimate sacrifice, laying down his life to save the planet. With the Anti-Monitor poised to obliterate the Earth with a giant space cannon, The Flash creates a speed vortex to draw the power into but sadly at the cost of his life.
As dead as the dodo, the world mourns the passing of one of its greatest heroes and, for all intents and purposes, dead is how it seems that Barry Allen will stay. Until Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns got their clever little hands on the 2008 event, Final Crisis.
With the whole of time and space being sucked into a vortex, created by Darkseid's death at the end of New Gods, it's up to the world's greatest superheroes to somehow save the day yet again. As they battle against the odds, Jay Garrick and Wally West head to the place Jay had first met Barry all those years ago.
Suddenly sensing familiar vibrations within the speed force, both are left shocked as, out of nowhere and still running after the bullet that killed Orion, with the Black Racer hot on his tail, comes Barry Allen, back from his 23 year exile.