History Characters / ArrowverseSpeedForceAndForcesOfNature

!Negative Speed Force
[[folder:Negative Speed Force]]

!!! '''First Appearance:''' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S9E10ANewWorldPart1 A New World, Part 1]]" (''The Flash'' 9x10)

* GreenEyesMonster: His jealousy of Barry he had in his old life is reignited greater than ever, after seeing the life that he never had that he believes Barry stole from him.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:The N.S.F. and a revived & corrupted Eddie Thawne act as the final antagonists for the final arc of the final season.]]

[[folder:Eddie Thawne / Cobalt Blue]]
-> See Characters/ArrowverseCentralCityCitizens
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!Other Speed Forces
[[folder:Artificial Speed Force]]
!!Artificial Speed Force
After the death of the Speed Force, Barry and Team Flash create a machine that generates a Speed Force to take its place. It works but GoesHorriblyWrong, as the Artificial Speed Force lacks emotion and is fueled by cold logic, which it bestows upon Barry Allen.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Barry under the Artificial Speed Force's effects becomes devoid of emotion, being completely cold and logical. This puts him at odds with the rest of Team Flash.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Artificial Speed Force eventually turns a speedster's lightning trail orange.
* EvilKnockoff: More neutral than straight up evil, but nonetheless a knockoff Speed Force created by Barry.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Team Flash tried to create a replacement Speed Force, they took precautions to not involve any emotions out of fear of it interfering with its creation. This resulted in a Speed Force that caused its users to be devoid of emotion too, running solely on cold-hard logic.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Created by Team Flash in an attempt to replace the deceased Speed Force. It does not go too well.

!!! '''Other Aliases:''' "Nora Allen"

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: They most frequently appeared as Nora to help Barry cope with dealings under stress, so this is the form they took when entering the physical world.

* BigBad: Of the first half of Season Seven.

* EvilCounterpart: To the Speed Force, especially to match the Speed Force's physical form called "Nora". While the Speed Force / Nora created a body of her own and chooses Nora as AFormYouAreComfortableWith, the Negative Speed Force does not have its own body and instead relies on possessing the bodies of those closest to Barry and Team Flash in order to target them.

[[folder:"Nora" / Speed Force's Human Form]]

Inhabiting a strange blue crystal known as Cobalt-97, the Negative Speed Force began possessing various people, then uses these hosts to get revenge on Barry.

!!In General

* CharacterisationMarchesOn: The Cobalt-97 crystal version of the Negative Speed Force is vastly different from when it was just an energy source that Thawne tapped into, where it seemed like just a mindless force of nature. In its Cobalt-97 form, the Negative Speed Force is sentient, vengeful, and sadistic, being a ManipulativeBastard willing to do anything and everything to kill Barry Allen.
* ChooserOfTheChosenOne: Much like the (Positive) Speed Force chose Barry, the Negative Speed Force chose Thawne to be its avatar, latching onto his burning hatred. [[spoiler:After Thawne's death in Season 8, it revives Eddie Thawne to serve as its new avatar in order to kill Barry.]]
* TheCorrupter: It corrupts Eddie in the final season, feeding off his love of Iris, the despair of what he lost, and his secret jealousy of Barry to make him its new avatar.

* ItCanThink: Initially the Negative Speed Force seemed like a mindless force of nature to contrast the Positive Speed Force, but later on it's revealed it too is sentient. By the time of Season 9 it can inhabit a host and have full on conversations.

* OmnicidalManiac: It's goal is to kill Barry and extinguish the Speed Force, which will result in the entire timeline being destroyed along with everyone in it, essentially the end of temporal existence.

[[folder:Eobard Thawne]]

* EvilCounterpart: To the Speed Force, especially to match the Speed Force's physical form called "Nora". While the Speed Force/Nora created a body of her own and chooses Nora as AFormYouAreComfortableWith, the Negative Speed Force does not have its own body and instead relies on possessing the bodies of those closest to Barry and Team Flash in order to target them.

!!Speed Force Enforcers

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:The N.S.F. and a revived & corrupted Eddie Thawne act as the final antagonists for the final arc of the final season.]]
* BlueIsHeroic: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. It's very evil, and when it decides to stalk the heroes and possess their loved ones in the final arc of Season 9, it's associated with [[MythologyGag the color blue as well as crystals made of cobalt]].
* ChooserOfTheChosenOne: Much like the (Positive) Speed Force chose Barry, the Negative Speed Force chose Thawne to be its avatar, latching onto his burning hatred. [[spoiler:After Thawne's death in Season 8, it revives Eddie Thawne to serve as its new avatar in order to kill Barry.]]
* TheCorrupter: It corrupts anyone who uses it with hatred, turning them into villainous versions of themselves. Nora found this out the hard way when she used it to go back in time by making her hate her father (who had stranded her back in her time and forbade her from returning after learning of her partnership with Reverse-Flash). [[spoiler:It also works to corrupt Eddie in the final season, feeding off his love of Iris, the despair of what he lost, and his secret jealousy of Barry to make him its new avatar.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:How it convinces Eddie to accept becoming its new avatar: kill Barry Allen, and he can have the life with Iris that he so desperately wants.]]

* DragonTheirFeet: Played with. The Negative Speed Force is not explicitly Thawne's Dragon, but it is his most prominent "ally" against Barry Allen, and it continues to antagonize him in various ways into Season 9 of ''The Flash'', long after Thawne was killed.

* ItCanThink: Initially the Negative Speed Force seemed like a mindless force of nature to contrast the Positive Speed Force, but later on it's revealed it too is sentient. By the time of Season 9 it can inhabit a host and have full on conversations.
* ItsPersonal: After Thawne was KilledOffForReal in the last arc of Season 8, the Negative Speed Force wants nothing more than to kill Barry in turn (along with everyone he cares about).

* {{Revenge}}: Its primary goal in the last arc of the final season is revenge against Barry for killing its avatar (Thawne) for good, seeking to kill him and everyone close to him. [[spoiler:To this end, it goes as far as to revive Eddie Thawne to make him its new avatar.]]

!!Negative Speed Force Avatars

!Other Speed Forces

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Season 7 has it become severely beaten by similar forces that were created upon its revival.]]

* AndIMustScream: He's stuck in a decaying body and forced to serve as the enforcer for the Time Wraiths and there are hints that his mind is at least partially still functioning, making his fate this trope.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Creator/JohnWesleyShipp confirmed in an interview that Zoom is now trapped in the Speed Force, and will likely become a slave to it for eternity as the Black Flash. Ironically, his fate worse than death was to ''become'' [[TheGrimReaper Death]].

A creation of Eobard Thawne's, his own personal Speed Force. Providing all the same abilities as the old one, it requires negative emotions to use.

* AmbiguousSituation:
** Black Flash has the same red lightning as a user of the Negative Speed Force, but there's no other indication he has a connection to it.
** Even though it's been established to leech power from the Speed Force, nothing is said of how the Speed Force's destruction will impact it and those using its power.

* EvilKnockoff: A Speed Force created by Eobard Thawne but powered by negative emotions.

* BlueIsHeroic: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. It's very evil, and when it decides to stalk the heroes and possess their loved ones in the final arc of season 9, it's associated with [[MythologyGag the colour blue as well as crystals made of cobalt]].
* ChooserOfTheChosenOne: Much like the (Positive) Speed Force chose Barry, the Negative Speed Force chose Thawne to be its avatar, latching onto his burning hatred.

* FinalBoss: It is the main antagonist for the last arc of Season 9.

* {{Revenge}}: Its primary goal in the last arc of the final season is revenge against Barry for killing its avatar (Thawne) for good, seeking to kill him and everyone close to him.

When Oliver Queen - the new Spectre - allowed Barry to access the Speed Force after the Multiverse was destroyed, it was poisoned by the cosmic energy and would later die. Team Flash would work towards reviving it, but in the process, also create the Forces of Nature: the Strength Force, the Sage Force, and the Still Force. Recovering from their attack, the Speed Force comes to Barry and his friends for aid against them.\\\

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* GodIsFlawed: For all its omnipotent and mysterious plannings, the Speed Force never takes into account the emotional turmoil it puts on Berry and cares very little for the tragedy his life, all calming that it's necessary for TheNeedsOfTheMany. It reaches it's breaking point when Berry has finally had enough and calls the Speed Force out on everything it has ever done. It ends up rendering the Speed Force to ''tears''.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: It deliberately goes out its way to make Barry's loved ones be the ones who suffer most when he misuses his power.

* BlueIsHeroic: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When it decides to stalk the heroes and possess their loved ones in the final arc of season 9, it's associated with [[MythologyGag the colour blue as well as crystals made of cobalt]].

* DeadpanSnarker: When Barry finds Thawne in the Negative Speed Force being transformed, they tell Barry that Thawne "can't come to the phone right now."

* Revenge: Its primary goal in the last arc of the final season is revenge against Barry for killing its avatar (Thawne) for good, seeking to kill him and everyone close to him.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Negative Speedsters can disguise their voices with vibration but theirs is usually more distorted and demonic sounding.

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: A variation. The first Speed Force is an omnipresent part of history, having been around since before and after the existence of the universe. The Negative Speed Force, relatively speaking, is a newer creation of Thawne's. It is subverted when it turns out that Thawne never created the Negative Speed Force, as he assumed, but merely tapped it.

* AdaptationalNationality: Comics wise he is from the fictional European nation of Zandia (possibly located in the Mediterranean). Here he is quite clearly non-white (Asian) and likely a Turkish American going off his actors ethnicity.

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: A variation. The first Speed Force is an omnipresent part of history, having been around since before and after the existence of the universe. The Negative Speed Force, relatively speaking, is a newer creation of Thawne's.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Created by Team Flash in an attempt to replace the decease Speed Force. It does not go too well.

When Oliver Queen - the new Spectre - allowed Barry to access the Speed Force after the Multiverse was destroyed, it was poisoned by the cosmic energy and would later die. [[spoiler:Team Flash would work towards reviving it, but in the process, also create the Forces of Nature: the Strength Force, the Sage Force, and the Still Force. Recovering from their attack, the Speed Force comes to Barry and his friends for aid against them.]]\\\
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