9 Films DC Should Make Before Flashpoint

The character that undoubtedly experiences one of the biggest changes in Flashpoint is Batman.

In the alternate timeline, Bruce's entire origin story is flipped on its head, in favor of something even darker. Rather than Bruce watching his parents die in the alley that fateful evening in Gotham, his parents watch him die. Bruce is murdered by the gunner, leaving Thomas and Martha Wayne very much alive. As a result of the trauma, Thomas Wayne takes up a life of vigilantism, becoming a brutal, merciless Batman.

This shift is shocking in the comic, as seeing Batman act as a ruthless murderer is not something long-time readers were at all prepared for. But in film, this shift can hardly even be deemed a shift.

Snyder's Batman is already such a trigger-happy madman that seeing Thomas Wayne's incarnation of the Bat would have no impact on viewers, as it would simply be more of the same. This is exactly what a Batman solo film could fix. In giving us a more classical version of Batman who is not a nihilistic psychopath, the film could cement Batman's moral code in the minds of viewers.

Without this crucial course correction, Flashpoint's take on Batman will be nothing but white noise.