Like numerous different comedian e-book heroes, the Flash has died a number of instances in varied methods. Whereas many of those situations are fairly customary and never too visually unsettling, there are a pair that ship a shiver down the backbone. A more moderen instance stems from the 2014 “Future’s Finish” storyline, the place the world is overtaken by the tyrannical synthetic intelligence Brother Eye. Flash is likely one of the few surviving heroes, although he meets his finish by the hands of Frankenstein. He affords the Scarlet Speedster an opportunity to hitch Brother Eye, which he refuses. Frankenstein opens his shirt, revealing the severed head of Black Canary stitched to his chest. Her Canary Name obliterates Flash right away.
To say the picture of Black Canary’s someway still-living head hooked up to Frankenstein’s chest is creepy could be an understatement. Nonetheless, it would not come near the extent of recognition that one other eerie Flash dying has attained over time. In the course of the iconic “Disaster on Infinite Earths” storyline from the mid-’80s, Flash sacrifices himself to stop the Anti-Monitor from destroying the Multiverse. He runs so quick that he travels via time, swiftly decaying and withering away. Watching this happen via the sequence of panels above is harrowing as he goes from a gaunt, older human, to a collapsing skeleton, to nothing. Although Ben Affleck’s Batman virtually arrange an adaptation of “Disaster” in “The Flash,” and doubtlessly this Barry’s (Ezra Miller) dying, with the tip of the DC Prolonged Universe, do not anticipate this iconic second to succeed in theaters anytime quickly.
Evidently, Flash has been via the wringer within the pages of DC Comics. Fortunately, for these squeamish, it is unlikely his most ugly deaths will ever make it to live-action.