The Flash
(Image credit: Warner Bros.)

When does The Flash take place on the DC timeline? It's a fair question, considering♛ the film's multiversal shenanigans incorporate many other DC movies. 

We've done the hard work for you and broken down everything you need to know about The Flash's place on the DC timeline, including details on how it fits with the Tim Burton Batman movies, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Man of Steel, and even whether you need to have seen the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Snyder Cut. 

The following only contains very minor spoilers for the film, too, so you can check it out whether you've seen the movie or not. So, to have your burning questions on the film's timeline answered, check out the below. You can also get the lowdown on how to watch the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DC movies in order through the link.

When does The Flash take place on the DC timeline?

Michael Shannon as General Zod in The Flash

(Image credit: Warner Bros./DC)

This is actually a prꦐetty simple question to answer, though it does get more complicated as we go along. Buckle up! 

Put simply, The Flash takes place post-澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Justice League (the theatrical Justice League, not the Snyder Cut, though more on that in a moment). You don't need to know any more detail than that, though Aquaman, Shazam!, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Birds of Prey, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Suicide Squad, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Adam, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shazam! Fury of the Gods also all take place after Justice League. It seems safe to assume that The Flash is set after all of those movies, too, considering the multiversal shenanigans of The Flash have univerܫse-spanning consequences that would otherwise have affected the DC movies so far. 

But what about that pesky multiverse? Well, that's where things start to get tricky. As we said above, you don't need to have seen 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder's Justice League to understand The Flash, as that's a non-cano🦋n story. That means Barry and Iris West's moment in the Snyder Cut is of no relevance to The Flash, so🐻 forget all about that.  

Still with us? Good, because we're about to get into the Man of Steel of it all. In The Flash, Barry inadvertently travels back in time to General Zod's arrival on Earth. This was depicted in Snyder's Man of Steel, which is chronologically the first film in the DCEU (as in the old set of DC movies, not the new DCU shepherded by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn and Peter Safran). But, the catch is, Barry has actually gone to another timeline in which the Justice League doesn't exist. That means The Flash actually has no bearing on Man of Steel at all – aside from a brief flashback which reveals Barry was actually present at the battle in Metropolis in his own univers💜e (that's the main DCEU universe). 

Now, let's get nuts. Michael Keaton's Batman returns! He is the Caped Crusader of the timeline Barry has travelled to and is the version of Bruce Wayne se🍌en in Batman and Batman Returns. That means The Flash takes place after those movies – a long time after, as Bruce is now much older – but, of course, those Batman movies exist in a different canon to the DCEU. 

If your head hurts, that's okay, ours does too. Gunn has said 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Flash is a big reset ahead of the new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters anyway, so all will likely become cleꦦar as more is revealed about the next bunch of D💎C movies. 

🌱For much more on the new DC film, check out our spoilery deep dives on:&nbs𒀰p;

Molly Edwards
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I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film൲ 🌺and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.