What Is Batman V Superman's Connection To the Flashpoint Paradox?

Jay Oliva, director of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox and one of the artists on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, says that fans of the former might have some insight into the latter that the average moviegoer doesn't.

During a recent chat with the Hall of Justice Podcast (via ScreenRant), Oliva said that he didn't believe Batman's "Knightmare" sequence to be a literal dream, but an impression of a possible future or alternate reality, being delivered to him when The Flash traveled through time.

"You want to know the answer? Okay… you've watched The Flashpoint Paradox, my movie, right?" Oliva said. "In the DC Universe in the comics, there's this thing where –- it's a little different than the Back to The Future thing where you can go back in time and change your threads and stuff, but in DC, when you go back in time you create this kind of 'Time Boom' kind of thing where lots of things change.

"Okay, so let me just tell you this. Again… I don't know if this is Zack's thinking, but this is mine: what if that isn't a dream sequence? What if what you saw was a Time Boom, a latent memory from the future when Flash comes back? If you look at the cut, he doesn't go to sleep! He's waiting for the [Lexcorp file decryption] and suddenly this [Knightmare sequence] comes in, and he's jogged out of it seeing his own death. And what does he see? He sees Flash. And if you're a DC fan, you know what's happening. You know that Flash going back in time, that memory is now coming back to him… mind you, it's jumbled."

If that's the case, what does it mean? Well, about the same as any other theory that held it's a potential future -- that it's possible, but more likely that they'll eventually stop the future from coming to pass by sending The Flash back in time to motivate Batman to put the League together.

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