Flashpointing the DCEU

So...the state of the DC Extended Universe.

After a rocky and divisive start, with Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Shazam!, the DC movies seem like they may be finally finding their stride. So naturally, many wonder where they go now with their shared universe and if any planned crossover movies should be expected.

As of this writing, I understand the plan is to back off on continuity for now. They're just going to focus on solo movies and not really worry about how or even if they fit into one another.

And for the record, I think that's wise.
Better to just let these characters have their own movies moving forward, I don't need the story of Wonder Woman 1984 to be dictated by what might happen in a future Superman or Batman film, and personally, I would not lose sleep if we never see another Justice League movie any time soon.

Having said that, not too long ago, there was talk of using the Flash's movie—titled Flashpoint at the time—as a way to reboot the DCEU or, at least, erase the more divisive elements.
For those who don't follow comics, Flashpoint was a big event crossover involving time travel and history getting rewritten, leading to DC's New 52 reboot.

A while back, I was thinking about how they could fix or soft-reboot the DCEU with Flashpoint, and it occurred to me there might be an easy way to do it.

Even though it's likely moot now, I thought I'd share my ideas here for shits.

First...no, I don't think it should be a straight adaptation of the Flashpoint comic.
Not to get into it, I thought the comic sucked and I don't think it would work for the movie. When I refer to this hypothetical flick as Flashpoint, I mean it in the same way the third Captain America movie was named Civil War and was based on the comic of the same name, but wasn't a direct adaptation of it.

Anyway...the basic premise of Flashpoint is the villain Professor Zoom rewrites history creating a new, darker timeline and the Flash has to do his own time traveling to figure out what went wrong and fix it.

So how do we use this to undo the elements of the DCEU audiences didn't respond well to? The key, I think, might lie with Wonder Woman.

As we know, in the DCEU, Wonder Woman has been around since World War I. According to Justice League, she never stopped being a hero, she just wasn't public about it because Steve's death and reasons.

So say, during Flashpoint, Flash goes back in time to fix whatever has gone wrong, and while in the past, crosses paths with Diana. He convinces her to help him, and in the process, she reveals herself as Wonder Woman to the world.
And that winds up being the critical thing that changes history.

Consider the ripple affect:

- Wonder Woman goes public and she becomes an inspiration to the world from that point on.

- Because Diana, a super-powered being, is such a positive influence, Jonathon Kent doesn't discourage Clark from using his powers; in essence acting more like the Pa Kent we know from the comics. Therefore Clark becomes the Superman we know and love earlier in his life, and goes on to become a proper beacon of hope like in the comics.

- Superman and Wonder Woman become allies and they inspire other heroes like Flash and Aquaman to be more open with their heroics, and it's Zod's invasion that leads to the formation of the Justice League. Together they defeat the evil Kryptonians, preventing Metropolis from getting destroyed and without Superman having to kill Zod.
As an added bonus, suggesting the League can defeat an army of Kryptonians might help wash out the bad taste of Justice League reducing them to a bunch of chumps who can't do anything without Superman.

- If Metropolis isn't destroyed, Batman doesn't want to kill Superman and if Zod's not dead, Luthor doesn't create Doomsday. No Doomsday, Superman doesn't die.

- Superman never dies, no Steppenwolf. Therefore, no slaughtered Amazons and we can get a proper invasion story with Darkseid.

In essence, to fix the DCEU, they need to make Wonder Woman the most important character and centerpiece of the universe!

I joke, but if Warner/DC is serious about using Flashpoint to "fix" the DCEU, that might not be a bad way to go about it.
The hard part would be conveying all that stuff without grinding the movie to a halt and someone explaining to Flash everything that's changed.


So yeah, that's my idea on how they could Flashpoint away the DCEU's problems.
Again, this is likely moot since, as said, they're just focusing on solo movies for the foreseeable future. And again, I do think that's the better idea instead of getting mired in convoluted continuity and weird time travel shenanigans.

I only post this to suggest "fixing" the DCEU with such a story could actually have a simple, even elegant solution after all.

Food for thought.