The change

In Flashpoint, Barry Allen wakes up to what seems to be a normal day. Except it isn't. After he previously broke the time barrier and saved his mother, everything changed. And the most noticeable thing was that he had no superpowers at all "“ get your head around that, if you can (it isn't called a paradox for nothing).

In a way, the death of his mother was a catalyst, an event that triggered somewhere down the line the creation of Flash. Without this event, the fastest man alive exists no more. But hey, at least Nora Allen didn't die!

Furthermore, while the impact isn't as big, Barry's father didn't die in prison. In Flashpoint, he died a couple of years before Barry woke up to a completely different day. So everything changed for this family.

But the biggest problem wasn't at all the loss of his superpowers. Which, as everybody expects, will happen in the show.