“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
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First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
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DC Universe Rebirth back in June of 2016 was Barry's redemption story. The whole point of that story was to have Barry Allen bring Wally West back into the DCU. Wally explicitly states in that story that it wasn’t Barry who caused the changes in time, but someone else (Dr.Manhattan) taking advantage of the reset of history. In other words, Barry didn't do anything wrong. He was simply trying to fix the changes in history Thawne had done by changing the past. When Barry realized that restoring the original history was impossible, he made the painful choice to let his mother's murder remain in order to stop the horrible Flashpoint reality from coming into being.
Hal had multiple stories written to redeem him prior to Johns's Parallax as the Yellow Impurity retcon, but none since then because that story exonerated him of his past sins.
While both Barry & Hal still feel some guilt for their roles in these disasters, we as readers should know that that's not the case because the comics have gone out of their way to point it out.
You've misunderstood me. There was no way to restore the original history in which Nora Allen wasn't murdered and her husband was framed for it. By making the choice to leave that in place, Barry was able to restore the previous history he'd left. However, Dr. Manhattan intervened when history was reforming and stole the decade of time from the DCU.
Hypertime frequently brings back formerly erased parts of DC continuity. The Silver Age Blackhawks were folded back in during JLA: Year One, then promptly left again.
It's entirely possible that the ever-changing tides of Hypertime will restore Nora & Henry Allen's original history, but it seems Eobard Thawne made sure that his latest revenge upon Barry Allen would be particularly dangerous to untangle, as we saw in Flashpoint.
Maybe it is for someone with Barry's abilities, but I wonder if cosmic entities such as Dr. Manhattan, the Anti-Monitor, Parallax Hal Jordan, Superboy-Prime, Alexander Luthor of Earth-Three, or Telos could play it differently.
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Definitely. As powerful as he is, Barry Allen can only accomplish so much. However, I think any of the various cosmic powered beings out there could undo Thawne's temporal knot.
The Zero Hour Parallax still running around the DCU would be a perfect candidate given his previously established knack for bending the rules of time and space to resurrect Oliver Queen (without a soul, mind you)
...and, he's Barry's friend. It would only be fitting that he'd want to make things right for his buddy and many others.
Do you remember the early days of CBR when members used to moot that Parallax Hal was in the right in ZERO HOUR, and that the heroes were wrong for thwarting him?
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Buried Alien - THE FASTEST POST ALIVE!
First CBR Appearance (Historical): November, 1996
First CBR Appearance (Modern): April, 2014