Quote Originally Posted by dancrilis View Post
I didn't get that at all from it.
Effectively the heroes were so broken at the end of it they choose non-existance over living in the reality* they had created - and so pushed the Flash to erase them and it.
It was a fairly dark movie (for what it could be) but that worked for it.

*yes Earth was doomed but there are other planets.
The heroes are seeing the "alternate selves" much like a parent sees their children. Yes they will have some form of nonexistence / death / alternate life like waking up from a dream and forgetting the dream. Yet ...

This sentiment well it is a very comic book type ending.

After all one of the most famous stories is about two parents of a dying world putting their son in a spaceship and sending him to Earth.

All things come to pass, but we leave behind remaninants, legacies, hope, and so on.