The Flash

Barry Allen is a forensic scientist in Central City who's always late: for work, for appointments, and for the truth about his mother's death, for which his father is unjustly imprisoned. One stormy night, lightning strikes his lab, drenching it in chemicals. Barry wakes up with uncontrollable speed: he goes hungry, crashes into walls, and arrives in places he doesn't know how. With Iris West's help, he learns to use his gift to save lives, while Captain Cold freezes Central City in a series of increasingly audacious heists. On Snart's trail, a yellow shadow runs faster than Barry: the seed of Reverse-Flash. In the third act, Brainiac launches his first major offensive on Earth, and Central City is the first target. Barry encounters Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Hal Jordan, who each arrive separately. They aren't the Justice League yet: they coordinate haphazardly, get in each other's way, and save one another. Barry is the one who buys the time the others need, and the final scene shows them looking up at the sky, knowing that the worst is yet to come.

Story added by alberto_fc on October 15, 2026