However, his actions have consequences, and he accidentally creates a timeline in which Bruce Wayne died in Crime Alley, and Thomas Wayne (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) went on to become a grizzled, gun-toting version of Batman.
It was recently revealed that DC intends to use Ben Affleck in The Flash: Flashpoint, which means there’s already a plan in place to incorporate Batman into the story as a bookend character for the Thomas Wayne version of Batman.
Time travel is a hell of a thing, and the Flashpoint story arc will be rife with the sci-fi trope.
At its core, the storyline involves Barry Allen going back in time to save his mother from being murdered at the hands of his arch nemesis, Reverse-Flash.