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3. It's Not The DCEU's Version Of Spider-Man: No Way Home (It's A Soft Reboot) - The Flash
With the hype campaign beginning to build for the upcoming Flash solo movie, there are expectations among many that it will effectively be a Spider-Man: No Way Home-esque metaverse event film for the DC Extended Universe.
We already know that Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton's versions of Batman will appear in the film due to Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) travelling back in time to prevent his mother's (Maribel Verdu) murder.
And though the film has been in development for a good while - and the Flashpoint comic it's adapted from is over a decade old - it's unavoidable that audiences are going to expect The Flash to provide the same level of euphoric fan service that the similarly-themed No Way Home did.
But if claims made by leaker MyTimeToShineHello are correct - and their track record with MCU movies in the past has been rock solid - then The Flash is actually going to radically change the future of the DCEU.
They claim that the film will use its multiversal storytelling to effectively soft-reboot the franchise, wiping out the Zack Snyder movies and taking both Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman with it.
The leak further claims that The Flash will establish a new order of heroes centered around The Flash, Shazam (Zachary Levi), and Supergirl (Sasha Calle), with Batgirl (Leslie Grace) set to join them once her own movie releases later this year.
As wild and interesting as that sounds, it also seems primed to piss off a lot of DC fans who simply wanted The Flash to be a fun dose of nostalgia-fuelled fan service without drastically re-shaping the DCEU.