

Realizing that Barry was the only way to return to his time, Eobard killed a man in order to assume the identity of Harrison Wells as the director of S.T.A.R. However, Eobard's connection to the Speed Force began fluctuating, trapping him in the early twenty-first century. The enraged Eobard then killed Nora Allen and framed Henry Allen for the crime instead, being known as the Man in Yellow after the incident. Since then, the two speedsters battled each other for many years, but neither of them was strong or fast enough to defeat the other.Īfter learning the Flash's secret identity, Eobard traveled back in time to kill Barry as a child to erase his foe from existence but was thwarted by the Flash of 2024 who brought the younger Barry to safety. This included creating his own negative version of the Speed Force using negative energy and exercising his raw emotions, which he used to travel through time without the Flash I being able to detect him. Therefore, he decided to embrace his inescapable destiny and become the greatest arch-nemesis he ever had, prove his superiority as Reverse-Flash and becoming the opposite of his former idol and defeat him. That coupled with his discovery that he was destined to become the Flash's greatest enemy, the Reverse-Flash, Thawne lost his mind and took his rage out on his idol out of envy of not being who he is and spite for humiliated him. However, when Thawne was about to make his grand entrance and be hailed as a hero, the Flash beat him to it and stole his greatest moment from him, therefore humiliating him. Almost two centuries from the 21st century, Thawne met Flash and learned various ways to become faster than anything. A massive fan obsessed with the twenty-first century's Flash all his life, Eobard recreated the accident that was behind the Flash's powers, becoming a speedster himself.

2151 - 2022), also known as the Reverse-Flash, was a meta-human speedster from the twenty-second century, a descendant of the late Eddie Thawne, a time criminal and the archenemy of Barry Allen/The Flash. the more I had to take from you." -Eobard Thawne to Barry Allen The more people you saved, the more you were loved. So I became the reverse of everything that you were. My fate was to become your greatest enemy. Sean MacLean (as John Swigert) Images " This ability to travel through time revealed the truth. Tom Cavanagh (as Harrison Wells and Harrison Nash Wells)
