Barry Allen has time traveled and created new timelines frequently in The Flash. While the show isn’t built around time travel, it comes up often, with characters using it to change the past or see the future. Barry has learned the hard way of the heartaches that can come from messing with the timeline; yet, it's a mistake he has made several times.
On The Flash, speedsters like Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Reverse Flash, and Nora West-Allen, a.k.a. XS, use time travel so frequently because super speed is one of the most reliable methods of time travel in the Arrowverse (other than the Waverider, of course). This makes it a tempting way to solve any problem, even though the risk of creating new timelines is high.
With time travel at his disposal, Barry is frequently changing the timeline on The Flash. Here’s every time that his actions have created a new timeline for the Arrowverse.
The Mardon Timeline
The first time Barry traveled back in time, it happened unintentionally. A new timeline was created in season 1, episode 15, “Out of Time,” when the second Weather Wizard, Mark Mardon, was threatening Central City with a tidal wave. While running to try and stop it, Barry traveled back in time, undoing several big events in the episode, like Barry kissing Iris and Eobard Thawne revealing his identity and killing Cisco. In the new timeline Barry created, none of those things happened in the next episode “Rogue Time,” and that new timeline becomes the main timeline the show follows.
Vandal Savage Timeline
In season 4, episode 8 of Arrow, “Legends of Yesterday,” Barry, Oliver Queen, Hawkgirl and Hawkman all fight against Vandal Savage, helping to set up the story for season 1 of Legends of Tomorrow. Using the Staff of Horus, Savage sets off an explosion that destroys Central City. Barry is able to escape because of his speed and uses it to travel back in time. This time, they’re able to stop Savage, and like before, this timeline becomes the main timeline of The Flash moving forward, rather than the original.
The Rathaway Timeline
In season 2, episode 17, “Flash Back,” Barry travels back in time to try and trick Eobard Thawne into helping him get faster to defeat Zoom. Here he discovers Time Wraiths, which hunt down speedsters who time travel too much. He arrives in the past around the time of their fight with Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper in the episode “The Sound and the Fury.” When Barry returns to the present day and is attacked by a Time Wraith, Hartley helps Barry escape the Time Wraith and he’s shown as being on good terms with Team Flash. While this is a change to the timeline, Hartley doesn’t become a regular member of Team Flash, next appearing in season 6 as an antagonist again post-Crisis.
Flashpoint
After defeating Zoom but losing his father along the way, Barry travels back to the night his mother was killed in season 2 episode 23, “The Race of His Life.” He stops Thawne from killing his mother, creating a new timeline that’s shown in season 3, episode 1, “Flashpoint.” This timeline was very different from the main series timeline: Wally is The Flash instead of Barry, STAR Labs has been replaced by Cisco running Ramon Industries, and Barry grew up in a more normal life with both parents, since Thawne never killed Nora Allen.
The changes to the timeline ended up being too much and Barry found his memories of the original timeline fading. After Wally was badly injured during a battle with speedster villain The Rival, Eobard Thawne convinced Barry that it was best to restore the timeline. Barry set Thawne free, letting him kill Nora Allen, intending to set the timeline back the way it was before.
Post-Flashpoint
Despite his best efforts to undo Flashpoint, things didn’t all just go back to the way they were before. The post-Flashpoint timeline became the main timeline for The Flash and Earth-1 of the Arrowverse as a whole moving forward. Season 3 explores the changes made to the timeline, such as Caitlin developing her Killer Frost personality, Julian Albert coming to Central City, and the creation of the cult of Savitar. The changes even extended to Arrow, where Sara Diggle became John Diggle, Jr. (until the Crisis fixed that). Beyond season 3, however, most of the changes were either undone or deemphasized, with only the Caitlin Snow/Frost story extending far past season 3.
Original Savitar timeline
While this timeline was never seen, it set up the main conflict in season 3 by creating the villain Savitar. In this timeline, Savitar kills Iris in 2017 and continues to fight against Team Flash past that point. A few years later, Barry travels through time to create several time remnants of himself to help fight Savitar, only for all but one of them to die in the battle. The lone surviving time remnant of Barry went on to become Savitar, who fought against Team Flash in the Post-Flashpoint timeline as the main antagonist of season 3. This timeline was erased in season 3 episode 23 “Finish Line,” when Savitar kills H.R. Wells rather than Iris, meaning Barry never created the time remnant that went on to become Savitar.
Nora’s disappearance
The final (as of season 6) new timeline caused by Barry comes in the season 5 finale, “Legacy.” Most of the story in season 5 revolved around Nora West-Allen, Barry and Iris’s daughter from the future. While Nora herself caused a number of changes by traveling back in time, Barry was the one mostly responsible for destroying Cicada’s dagger, which stopped Grace Gibbons’s attempt to kill all metahumans. While this stopped Cicada and prevented Barry’s disappearance in 2024, it also released Eobard Thawne from his prison and destroyed the timeline that this version of Nora came from, causing her to fade away. This new timeline also brought Crisis up to happening in 2019, rather than the original 2024 date, also dooming the Earth-90 Barry Allen to disappear in Crisis rather than the Earth-1 Barry Allen.
This mess of different timelines all comes from events before Crisis on Infinite Earths, which completely reset the history of the Arrowverse in general and Earth-Prime in particular. While some of these events have been referenced post-Crisis, there’s the possibility that some of these timelines were changed or undone completely, meaning that, in addition to saving the multiverse, the Paragons also saved Barry from his reputation of constantly shredding the timeline of The Flash.
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