When The Flash became its own televised series in 2014, fans instantly fell in love with the CW’s rendition of Barry Allen. It’s currently the longest-running DC television show on the CW and has remained far more popular than any of the DCEU films that have been produced so far. The reason The Flash has seen such great feedback from fans is that the show writers have mastered one thing the DCEU filmmakers can’t seem to understand - consistency.

The Arrowverse has successfully integrated all of its DCEU inspired series into one, cohesive universe and has developed an in-depth and complex world without damaging the storylines of its characters or creating any sort of major plot holes. The Flash has stayed on air so long because the development of Barry Allen isn’t limited to his own show, and he frequently comes in contact with other heroes for the sake of saving the world with people who aren’t in his immediate circle of trusted allies. By keeping the storylines, world-building, and actors consistent across the entire Arrowverse, The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl heroes have all established a regular place for themselves in the DCEU. Giving The Flash his own film is going to destroy all of it.

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For starters, the television Flash is played by Grant Gustin, while the movie Flash is played by Ezra Miller. This means that DC has two different versions of Barry Allen living within one universe and film Flash has no connection to the heroes in Arrow or Legends of Tomorrow in any way.

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Based on what viewers have seen in Justice League, the film Flash is running around with Aquaman and Wonder Woman, which doesn’t make sense in accordance with the worldbuilding already created for Barry Allen in the Arrowverse. There’s a major divide present between what goes down in DCEU shows and what happens in DCEU films, resulting in no real connection throughout the entirety of the DC Universe.

Rather than trying to capitalize off the success The Flash had on television, the DCEU should have simply kept him off the big screen to avoid creating the world-building contradictions that often lead to their films falling apart. Despite the success with which the show was met, a lot of fans are already apprehensive about seeing Ezra Miller portray the Flash in his own movie.

A common mistake that the DCEU makes is that they tend to take popular characters and exploit them in an attempt to reach a wider audience, but all it does is create bad versions of a good thing. A lot of DCEU movies are just reboots or recreations of characters that already exist in the media, so rather than introducing new heroes who have yet to be featured in films, they simply reimagine ones that already existed and mess with the worlds they’ve created in the past.

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It’s no secret that MCU films tend to outshine almost anything that comes from the DC Universe. One thing Marvel has always managed to do is keep a single timeline throughout all of their movies and television shows. What happens in MCU shows, such as WandaVision or The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, always has a direct connection to the events that take place in MCU films. The overarching storylines and established characters remain the same across the entire MCU, no matter what format it’s in. This allows fans to spend more time within the same detailed universe and creates more opportunities for the MCU heroes to develop.

Part of the reason MCU shows are so successful is that the characters always remain constant. Marvel would never recast Black Widow or Doctor Strange unless it made sense within the MCU timeline, like how Sam took over as Captain America once Steve disappeared, but the DCEU is severing the connections their existing heroes already have by reimagining them as someone entirely different. Instead of utilizing the world-building that’s already been created, the DCEU, quite frankly, is making a complete and utter mess.

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The CW’s version of The Flash is not the first time Barry Allen has been portrayed in a live-action series. A 1990’s rendition of the series gave actor John Wesley Shipp a shot at being the famous speedster and because the CWverse opened up the possibility for a multiverse to exist within the DCEU, Shipp came back to play The Flash alongside Grant Gustin in the more recent series. Ezra Miller’s Flash will not exist anywhere within the CW Flash multiverse, placing his upcoming film far apart from anything else that’s happened to Barry Allen within the DCEU so far.

There are only so many ways a character can be altered and rewritten and the DCEU will continue to remain in the shadows of its competitors if they don’t start explaining how and why all these different inconsistencies exist. As the release of The Flash movie draws closer, Barry Allen is becoming another victim of the chaotic DCEU universe.

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