The Flash and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse are similar in a lot of ways.
Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) and Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) both find themselves in contact with alternative versions of themselves, making their way through different timelines and universes.
Throughout their stories, Barry and Miles also both come face to face with the inevitability of death: specifically, the death of their parents.
In both films, the death of Barry’s mom and Miles’ dad are fixed (or canon) events, and a major piece of both stories involves each hero trying to prevent those deaths from happening.
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