-Batman is a billionaire.Just not the billionaire we are used to.Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne survived the gunpoint robbery,which left young Bruce dead.Bruce's death created Batman out of Thomas' need to fight evil,and in a bigger twist,made Martha the Joker,as losing her son completely twisted her.Oh and Batman kills criminals.
-Abin Sur is still Green Lantern of Sector 2814,and Hal Jordan is just a test pilot.
-Cyborg is the most powerful hero in this version of the DCU,and he works directly for President Obama.
-Jason Todd reformed after a youth spent as a drug addict and is a Gotham priest.
-Booster Gold and Barry Allen are the only two characters who have any memory of "our"DC universe.And we learned that this is not an alternate timeline,this is our timeline altered.
-Superman isn't a hero,let alone Super.Since crash landing on Earth,he has been kept underground unable to soak up the sun's yellow rays,studied and guarded.
-Aquaman and Wonder Woman were to wed,uniting the Atlanteans and Amazonians.Things didn't work out and the two races are at war.Aquaman has destroyed most of Europe and Wonder Woman has taken over the U.K.
-Grodd rules Africa,but it's just not enough.
-There is a resistance in the U.K. readying a revolution against the Amazons,and Grifter from the Wildstorm universe is a member.
-Ollie Queen is not a hero,but an industrialist using supervillain tech and reverse engineering it to sell to the highest bidder.
-Frankenstein's monster was used as a soldier against the Nazis and actually ended WW2 by killing Hitler
-Plastic Man makes one hell of an entrance
Read Flashpoint,it has been fun so far.
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