Board Thread:Comics/@comment-1013969-20180926121630

An offhand comment by Saturn Girl brought me back to something I have been wondering from the beginning of Rebirth: what if we have been wrong all this time regarding the being behind Prime Earth's creation?

Yes, her comment could fit Dr Manhattan but it could also fit someone that AFAIK we haven't seen so far in the Prime Earth continuity: the Time Trapper.

If you think about it the Trapper is a far better fit for what happened in Flashpoint and the alternation of the Prime Earth timeline when the two Supermen were merged together then Dr Manhattan. Timeline manipulation is his stock and trade while Dr Manhattan has acted like time is totally linearly with one past, one present, and one future (despite what went down in ). 