SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home. You have been warned.

The latest Marvel outing Spider-Man: No Way Home and its relationship with legacy heroes and prior iterations could start a new trend, with director and known comic book lover Kevin Smith suggesting that upcoming DC movie, The Flash, should follow in its footsteps. Speaking on the latest episode of Fatman Beyond, Smith suggested that The Flash, which is already set to feature both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton as their respective versions of Batman, should also bring back The Dark Knight's Christian Bale in the hopes of achieving its own "No Way Home" moment.

"That being said, this Flash movie they're setting up with Michael Keaton being Batman, that will bring tears to my eyes. That is my Batman! I'm very emotionally tied to the 1989 Tim Burton Batman so them bringing him back to the universe, they're catering to older folks like myself. If they want to do a No Way Home, though, they better bring in Christian Bale as well, though. If I'm them, I'm backing a money truck up to Christian Bale's just begging to get him for two minutes so we can have our own No Way Home."

Spider-Man: No Way Home pulled off one of the most crowd-pleasing moments in comic book movie history, bringing back both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield to fight the good fight alongside Tom Holland, and Smith's idea of The Flash similarly showing Christian Bale unite alongside Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck would surely lead to the same amount of cheering, applause, and audience members fainting with overwhelming excitement.

While it's unknown and frankly unlikely, that Christian Bale would don the cape and cowl once again for The Flash, the idea of hearing Bale's gruff "Batman" voice off-screen before seeing him slowly emerging from the shadows is enough to have the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Even without Bale's involvement though, the return of Michael Keaton alone could very well yield these same results. It certainly sounds like it will for Kevin Smith.

After languishing in development hell for years, The Flash is finally ready to race onto screens. While details are being kept under wraps, it has been revealed that The Flash will introduce audiences to the DC multiverse, using the comic book arc "Flashpoint" as a major inspiration. Thus, it is likely that the movie will find the Justice League member traveling back in time in an attempt to save his mother, who was murdered during Barry Allen's childhood. As is so often the case with these time travel shenanigans, Barry's meddling finds him emerging in a much bleaker alternate universe in which the Amazons and Atlanteans are involved in an all-out war that has left the planet destroyed.

Directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Christina Hodson from a story by Hodson and the duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, The Flash stars Ezra Miller as Barry Allen AKA The Flash alongside Ron Livingston, Michael Keaton, Kiersey Clemons, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Sasha Calle, and Ben Affleck. The Flash is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 4, 2022.