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{{quote|''Everything you know will change in a flash!''}}

** [[Deadman (Comic Book)|Deadman]] And [[Batman|The Flying Graysons]]

* ''Whatever Happened to the World's Greatest Super Villains?''

** [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Deathstroke]] & The Curse Of The Ravager

** [[Legion of Doom]]

** [[Wonder Woman]] And The Furies

** [[Lois Lane]] And The Resistance

** The World Of Flashpoint

* ''He Never Got The [[Green Lantern|Ring]]''

=== One-shots: ===

* [[Maniac Monkeys|Grodd]] [[Just for Pun|of]] [[God of War (series)|War]]

* [[Green Arrow]] Industries

* The Canterbury Cricket

* [[Alternate Timeline]]

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: [[Up to Eleven|Yes, even the Amazons have one.]] The Furies are an elite group of female warriors who serve Wonder Woman in her conquests. So far they include Artemis, Wonder Girl, Hawkgirl, Huntress, Cheetah, Starfire, and Vixen. Also present is Terra, whose powers have allowed the Amazons to keep New Themyscira (the British Isles) out of the reach of the Atlanteans.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: The world already suffered through a Class 0 caused by the war between Atlantis and the Amazons, which caused England to be taken over and most of Western Europe and part of North Africa to drown, resulting in 32 million and 100 million casualties respectively. The rest of the world isn't doing much better. Before Barry fixes things, the world heads for a Class X thanks to the Atlanteans

* [[Area 51]]: What "Project: Superman" functions as. It's a top secret, heavily protected government facility located two miles beneath New Metropolis devoted to studying three alien "subjects" that arrived on Earth by rocketship. By the events of ''Flashpoint'', Subject 1 – [[Superman|Kal-El]] – is the only surviving alien specimen, having spent his entire life within the facility.

** Also, don't mess with the Outsider's suit. Ever.

* [[Beware the Superman]]: Not necessarily with Superman himself, but it appears that his "predecessor" in ''Project Superman'', Lt. Sinclair, has let his incredible powers go to his head.

* [[Big Bad]]: Though [[Aquaman]] and [[Wonder Woman]] are the more immediate problem, the Reverse-Flash seems to be the bigger threat. {{spoiler|Subverted in that Reverse-Flash didn't cause the altered timeline, Normal-Flash did.}}

* [[Biker Babe]]: Zatanna.

*** They also found an entombed [[The Death of Superman|Doomsday]], and attempted to use him as a weapon. It worked about as well as could be expected, really.

** After years of being tormented through experimentation and abuse at the hands of The Outsider and others, [[Martian Manhunter|J'onn J'onzz]] has become a cold-hearted [[Hell-Bent for Leather|leather jacket-wearing]] mercenary, willing to kill anyone who stands in his way.

* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Traci 13 in this universe. As well as Zatanna and Raven.

* [[Death Seeker]]: Grodd keeps making intentionally risky decisions (surrounding himself with untrustworthy subordinates, engaging in pointless fights to the death, etc.) because he wants a [[Worthy Opponent]] to kill him.

* [[Determinator]]: His entire body scorched to a crisp and bandaged like a mummy after a failed first attempt to regain his powers, Barry Allen immediately insists on attempting the lightning accident ''again''... {{spoiler|Thankfully it works the second time.}}

* [[Development Gag]]: In the ''Flashpoint''-verse, the [[Shazam]] powers were given to a group of six kids, one power each, who can join forces to summon "Captain Thunder". The use of six heroes was the original concept for Captain Marvel before the writers decided to give all the powers to just one guy, and "Captain Thunder" was the original choice for his name before they found it was trademarked.

* [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]]: The Joker pulls this on Jim Gordon, causing Jim to shoot one of Harvey Dent's kids.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The end of ''Booster Gold #47'', which depicts {{spoiler|Booster slowly losing his memories, just able to find Barry before his attempt to help forces him to Vanishing Point with all of his memories of the old DCU completely forgotten, & Alexandra reduced to chronal energy who can only try to warn Booster by writing of Flashpoint facts on Rip Hunter's chalkboard before vanishing into nothingness as was shown at the start of Booster's tie-in}}.

* [[General Ripper]]: General Nathaniel Adam (known in regular continuity as [[Captain Atom]]) who is probably one of the worse ''human'' villains in the story. Surprisingly averted by General Sam Lane, who actually treated Kal-El (or "Subject 1") as an actual child in a '''complete''' reversal of his DCU counterpart where he was one of the worst human beings ever portrayed in recent memory.

* [[The Ghost]]: Or rather, ghosts. The previous members of the Secret Seven, Trigon, Klarion, Simon Magus, Stiletto, and Miss X are never shown, unlike their teammate Black Orchid, who appears in all three issues for various reason despite being dead. Trigon could be briefly seen in a warped flashback Shade suffers in #1, though.

*** {{spoiler|[[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In the miniseries ''Batman: Death and the Maidens'' of the original universe, Bruce once hallucinated meeting his parents after drinking an elixir. They both disapprove their son's costumed crusade. However, Thomas was more understanding, and was mostly unhappy that Bruce has to give up many things to become Batman.}}

* [[The Gump]]: Frankenstein killed Hitler.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Bart Allen/Kid Flash & Hal Jordan}}.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Iris West freezes Citizen Cold with his own freeze gun as revenge for him killing Wally.}}

** {{spoiler|Professor Zoom boasts to Barry that Barry can't kill him or he'd break time again. Thomas Wayne Batman promptly runs him through with a sword.}}

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: DC has pulled out quite a few plays on the word "Flash", starting with the title and going from there.

* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: "Slaughter Swamp" is where Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown must go in hopes of regaining their humanity... (It's not very nice in the main DCU either, being the place where Solomon Grundy was created.)

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Batman does this to Professor Zoom.}}

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Martha Wayne, the Joker, after hearing what would have happened had Bruce survived & her and Thomas had died in Crime Alley}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Martha:'''}} Tell me about {{spoiler|Bruce}}. What does he do, after we're dead?

{{spoiler|'''Thomas'''}} He... [[Byronic Hero|He follows in his]] '''[[Batman|father's]]''' [[Anti-Hero|footsteps.]]<br />

{{spoiler|'''Martha:'''}} [[Hope Spot|He's a doctor?]] *looks at her husband with a defeated look on her face*<br />

 

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