The Flash Season 3: 15 Things You Need To Know About Flashpoint

6. Barry Recreates His Powers

The Flash Flashpoint
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Having awoken in a world that is at its knees, Barry Allen is desperate to become The Flash once more. So desperate that he actually recreates the accident that caused him to get his powers in the first place.

The only problem is that this recreation doesn’t work. At all. Not even slightly. In fact, the only thing that happens is that Barry suffers extreme burns and nearly dies.

Luckily, one thing that Barry Allen isn’t is a quitter. Determined to get his superspeed back, Barry attempts to recreate the accident for a second time. This time it’s a very different result, with him regaining his powers and once more becoming the Scarlet Speedster, the Sultan of Speed, the Fastest Man Alive… The Flash.

Where The CW’s The Flash is concerned, we’ve already actually seen Barry have to go through this process, with him ending up actually inside a living, sentient version of the Speed Force before successfully getting his powers back after Zoom had drained him of his superspeed.

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