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* HeroicSacrifice: Both [[spoiler: Barry and Wally from five years in the future]] die trying to stop him. [[spoiler: He himself sacrifices himself to stop Selkirk, though he lives long enough to regret what he became, and give the present day Barry a clue about his mother's killer.]]
* IHatePastMe: Tries to ''kill'' his past self to fix the rupture in the speed force, and his comments while attempting it mostly revolve around him chewing out his younger self for being naive and failing to protect the speed force. He even admits that he would have gone back further to prevent them from being born if their particular kind of time travel worked that way.
* IHatePastMe: Tries to ''kill'' his past self to fix the rupture in the speed force, and his comments while attempting it mostly revolve around him chewing out his younger self for being naive and failing to protect the speed force. He even admits that he would have gone back further to prevent them from being born if their particular kind of time travel worked that way.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He ran back through time doesn't like killing, but believes that its the only way to fix the mistakes he failed to stop the first time around. He does this by killing around, and his method of sealing the villains responsible. speed force rupture is to kill a speedster in front of it so the energy their death releases will cauterise the wound. [[spoiler: When he steals the present day Barry's life, he also tries to do this to kill the villains he encounters before they've even committed the crimes they're responsible for.]]
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-->'''"Newsflash:''' virtue doesn't always win. Sometimes, it just gets people killed. Today, that person is '''you.'''"''
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->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 4 #30 (April 2014)
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* FallenHero: He's Barry, worn down by years of tragedy that he arrived too late to stop. He's not quite ''evil'', but he is a lot more of a KnightTemplar about 'fixing' the mistakes of the past.
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* FallenHero: He's Barry, worn down by years of tragedy that he arrived too late to stop. He's not quite ''evil'', but he is a lot more of a KnightTemplar about 'fixing' the mistakes of the past. All of his past friends and Barry himself are horrified at the killer he's become.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: He ran back through time to fix the mistakes he failed to stop the first time around. He does this by killing the villains responsible. [[spoiler: When he steals the present day Barry's life, he also tries to do this to the villains he encounters before they've even committed the crimes they're responsible for.]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified, Thawne can't kill Barry, much as he'd really love to, since Barry generates the Speed Force, and Thawne uses that to fuel his own powers. Otherwise, it'd be easy enough for him. During ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', [[spoiler:once Barry has severed the connection between them, Thawne takes full advantage of the opportunity to try, and would've succeeded if Thomas Wayne hadn't been there.]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified, Justified; Thawne can't kill Barry, much as he'd really love to, since Barry generates the Speed Force, and Thawne uses that to fuel his own powers. Otherwise, it'd be easy enough for him. During ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', [[spoiler:once Barry has severed the connection between them, Thawne takes full advantage of the opportunity to try, and would've succeeded if Thomas Wayne hadn't been there.]]
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An anthromorphic personification of death created by the Speedforce to capture speedsters at the end of their lives. While not technically evil, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality his strange views of morality]] make him a dangerous threat whenever he appears.
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* KnightOfCerebus: Very few villains have the ability to darken the story like the Reverse-Flash can
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SmugSnake: He considers himself better than anyone else.
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SmugSuper: A really smug speedster.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to kill both Iris Allen and Fiona Webb, and lobotomises a woman who rejects him. He's also only too happy to try and kill Jessie Quick and Irey West during the events of ''Rebirth''.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to kill both Iris Allen and Fiona Webb, and lobotomises a woman who rejects him. He's also only too happy to try and kill Jessie Jesse Quick and Irey West during the events of ''Rebirth''.
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* TheVoicelessTheVietnamVet: His corporeal form is that of Sergeant Willie Walker, who was paralysed while serving with the US Army in Vietnam and bedridden until taking up the position.
* TheVoiceless: Never speaks.
* TheVoiceless: Never speaks.
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* AndIMustScream: The Rogues exacted revenge on Inertia by essentially turning him into a living statue, putting him on display in the Flash Museum facing a statue of the Flash he killed. Inertia is still perfectly conscious and aware, and is unable to even close his eyes. Eventually, he recovered, although it's made him rather AxCrazy.
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* AndIMustScream: The Rogues Wally exacted revenge on Inertia by essentially turning him into a living statue, putting him on display in the Flash Museum facing a statue of the Flash he killed. Inertia is still perfectly conscious and aware, and is unable to even close his eyes. Eventually, he recovered, although it's made him rather AxCrazy.
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* EyesOfGold: Thad can pull off some stunning impressions of Bart's emotional body language (and that includes the famed PuppyDog Eyes as well) when the situation calls for it, but his eyes usually default to a sinister glow.
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* EyesOfGold: Thad can pull off some stunning impressions of Bart's emotional body language (and that includes the famed PuppyDog Eyes PuppyDogEyes as well) when the situation calls for it, but his eyes usually default to a sinister glow.
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* LegacyCharacter: Barry Allen become the new Black Flash after the old one was found "apparently dead" in ''The Flash: Rebirth''. Soon after, the title was taken by Professor Zoom in his corpse Black Lantern form.
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A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the speedforce while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the speedforce and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking it's full potential. As a result, he's discovered powers that the Flash has yet to learn, such as the ability to lend or steal speed from other objects.
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A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the speedforce while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the speedforce and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking it's its full potential. As a result, he's discovered powers that the Flash has yet to learn, such as the ability to lend or steal speed from other objects.
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A mysterious speedster who is murdering those associated with the Speed Force. In issue 23, he's revealed to be [[spoiler: Iris West's brother, Daniel West]], and he got his powers when he crashed into a monorail carrying a speed force battery.
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A mysterious speedster who is murdering those associated with the Speed Force. In issue 23, he's revealed to be [[spoiler: Iris West's brother, Daniel West]], and he got his powers when he crashed into a monorail carrying a speed force battery.
battery. After his defeat, he is imprisoned, it's revealed that he retains his powers. He eventually is conscripted onto the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
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* CompositeCharacter: The New 52 version of Thawne is half-Thawne and half-Hunter Zolomon. He retains Thawne's full name, a grudge against Barry and involvement in the murder of Nora Allen. However, his design is reminiscent of Hunter's, with black and red eyes, as well as Hunter's distinction of ''lacking'' SuperSpeed and instead being able to alter the speed at which he moves along a timeline.
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* AbusiveParents: At least one version of his parents were emotionally distant at best, abusive at worst, with no indication they ever really saw Eobard as anything more than a required necessity.
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* BackFromTheDead: At around the same time that Barry was resurrected; resurrected, on account of the White Lantern; he's also the one who arranged for Barry's resurrection in the first place, which was the reason the entity brought him back to life in the first place. That being said, he was able to make several appearances before then, courtesy of time travel.
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* CainAndAbel: Killed and ''[[{{Retgone}} completely erased]]'' his younger brother for holding him back.back, and for ruining Eobard's life's work. The fact that their parents were more favourable toward Robern than Eobard may well have helped, as did Robern's bratty behaviour as a child.
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** Eobard has dedicated his life to ruining and destroying Barry Allen... and yet his powers rely on the Speed Force Barry generates to even exist.
** How Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] [[spoiler: kills him when he runs a sword through Eobard.]] The one opening that Batman had was when Eobard [[spoiler:stopped.]] One of the fastest individuals in fiction, and he [[spoiler:dies when he stops moving.]]
** Eobard has dedicated his life to ruining and destroying Barry Allen... and yet his powers rely on the Speed Force Barry generates to even exist.
** How Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] [[spoiler: kills him when he runs a sword through Eobard.]] The one opening that Batman had was when Eobard [[spoiler:stopped.]] One of the fastest individuals in fiction, and he [[spoiler:dies when he stops moving.]]
* {{Retgone}}: After coming back from the dead, Eobard learnt how to ''weaponize'' this, getting rid of people who stood in his way, or refused him, or even annoyed him. His first victim was his younger brother.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Justified, Thawne can't kill Barry, much as he'd really love to, since Barry generates the Speed Force, and Thawne uses that to fuel his own powers. Otherwise, it'd be easy enough for him. During ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', [[spoiler:once Barry has severed the connection between them, Thawne takes full advantage of the opportunity to try, and would've succeeded if Thomas Wayne hadn't been there.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: When a reporter he is interested in spurns his advances, Thawne travels back to her childhood and traumatises her, leaving her effectively braindead as an adult. During ''Rebirth'' he attacks Jai and Irey, manipulating their connection to the Speed Force in an effort to kill them.
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** During ''Legion of Three Worlds'', it's mentioned he tried to kill a young Jeni Ognats, for being Barry Allen's granddaughter.
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** During ''Rebirth'' he attacks Jai and Irey, manipulating their connection to the Speed Force in an effort to kill them.
** During ''Legion of Three Worlds'', it's mentioned he tried to kill a young Jeni Ognats, for being Barry Allen's granddaughter.
** When a reporter he is interested in spurns his advances, Thawne travels back to her childhood and traumatises her, leaving her effectively braindead as an
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An anthromorphic personification of death created by the Speedforce to capture speedsters at the end of their lives. While not technically evil, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality his strange views of morality]] make him a dangerous threat whenever he appears.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The anthropomorphic personification of death for speedsters (or maybe of the Speed Force), who takes the form of a zombie-looking guy in a black Flash costume.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* ColorCharacter
* HumanoidAbomination
* TheGrimReaper: He's a special grim reaper specializing in speedsters (like the Flash) who would presumably be too fast to be caught by the normal Death.
* KilledOffForReal: Apparently, in ''The Flash: Rebirth''.
* TheVoiceless
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[[folder:The Rival]]
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->'''AKA:''' Edward Clariss
Dr. Clariss first appeared in Flash Comics #104, February 1949. He was a chemistry teacher at Midwestern University who overheard a conversation between Joan Williams and another student discussing how the Flash got his speed. Clariss was able to determine that something in the lab caused it, so he took all the hard water samples he could find and experimented with them, eventually producing a substance that temporarily gave him and his eventual criminal gang super speed to match the Flash. He wore a darker version of the Flash's costume and a mask in his first appearance.
* DemonicPossession: After his conversion to pure energy.
* DrivenToMadness: after being trapped in the speed force for half a century.
* EnergyBeings
* EvilCounterpart: To Jay Garrick.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* {{Revenge}}: Clariss was bitter because no one believed him when he tried to publicize his speed formula. Even success in other scientific fields wasn't good enough for him. He adopted the Rival identity in order to take the Flash's speed away and become the fastest man alive himself.
* SuperPowersForADay: Clariss developed a speed formula that was only temporary. He couldn't quite match the one that gave Jay Garrick permanent speed, despite many experiments with it.
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[[folder:The Reverse-Flash I / Professor Zoom]]
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->'''AKA:''' Eobard Thawne
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 1 #139 (September 1963)
->'''Hair color:''' Silver
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow
A completely psychopathic speedster from the 25th century out to destroy everything the Flash family stands for. He is a member of the criminal Thawne family, who have feuded with the West/Allen family for centuries before his birth. Ironically enough, an ancestor of Impulse, a fact that he doesn't take kindly to.
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* ArchEnemy: Barry's ArchEnemy since TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. In ''The Flash: Rebirth'', Barry specifically compares his and Thawne's rivalry to that of Franchise/{{Batman}} and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* AscendedFanboy: In ''[[BlatantLies The Return of Barry Allen]]'' it was revealed he used to be a huge fan of the Flash, to the point where he copied his powers and altered his appearance to look like Barry Allen. Then he time traveled to the past and found he would become [[YouCantFightFate the Flash's greatest villain]]. He took it [[IdentityAmnesia poorly]].
* AxCrazy
* BackFromTheDead: At around the same time that Barry was resurrected; he's also the one who arranged for Barry's resurrection in the first place. That being said, he was able to make several appearances before then, courtesy of time travel.
* BigBad: Of several arcs, including ''The Flash: Rebirth'' and, most recently, ''Flashpoint''.
* CainAndAbel: Killed his brother for holding him back.
* DrivenByEnvy: His desire to be Barry Allen is his entire motivation for his villainy.
* DueToTheDead: Subverted -- the Rogues stole his body, set it on fire and yelled at him as they did it.
* EinsteinHair: Post-resurrection
** EvilRedhead (used to be strawberry blond before his resurrection)
* EvilCounterpart: To Barry, complete with a uniform that is reversed in colour from his.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Barry
* IdentityAmnesia: In ''The Return of Barry Allen'' [[spoiler:he thought he was Barry Allen because of this]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Does this to Iris when she rejects his advances. He's later revealed to have lobomotomised another woman who refused to go out with him.
* {{Irony}}: How Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] [[spoiler: kills him when he runs a sword through Eobard.]] The one opening that Batman had was when Eobard [[spoiler:stopped.]] One of the fastest individuals in fiction, and he [[spoiler:dies when he stops moving.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Thawne will get what he wants irrespective of who has to get hurt in the process.
* ItsPersonal: With Barry Allen, following his apparent murder of Iris.
* KnightOfCerebus: Very few villains have the ability to darken the story like the Reverse-Flash can
* LackOfEmpathy
* MadScientist
* ManipulativeBastard
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Manipulates time to erase his crush's husband (and later every man she has ever dated) from existence.
* NeckSnap: How Barry kills him after the Reverse-Flash's assault on Fiona Webb.
* RevengeByProxy: Uses time travel to kill Barry's mother and frame his father for it decades before Barry ever became the Flash. Subsequent attempts on Iris and the rest of the Flash Family were also motivated by this.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Is revealed to have killed his parents for not being supportive of his obsession with the Speed Force.
* SmugSnake
* SmugSuper
* TheSociopath
* StalkerWithACrush: To Iris Allen, culminating in his murder attempt on her. He later demonstrates a similar attitude towards a reporter who was interviewing him.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Jaundiced yellow.
* {{Time Travel}}ler: A frequent time traveller, Thawne abuses the time stream in ways that no other DC villain can, regularly altering the past in an effort at making Barry Allen's life more miserable.
* TheUnfettered: No matter what measures it takes, Thawne will do anything to get what he wants.
* VillainousCrush: To Iris Allen.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to kill both Iris Allen and Fiona Webb, and lobotomises a woman who rejects him. He's also only too happy to try and kill Jessie Quick and Irey West during the events of ''Rebirth''.
* WouldHurtAChild: When a reporter he is interested in spurns his advances, Thawne travels back to her childhood and traumatises her, leaving her effectively braindead as an adult. During ''Rebirth'' he attacks Jai and Irey, manipulating their connection to the Speed Force in an effort to kill them.
* {{Yandere}}: To both [[StalkerWithACrush Iris]] and [[AscendedFanboy The Flash]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Travels back in time to kill Barry's mother and frame his father for it, drastically altering Barry's life in the process.
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[[folder:The Reverse-Flash II / Zoom]]
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->'''AKA:''' Hunter Zolomon
Originally an Keystone City profiler and a valuable ally to Wally, the Flash III, he was once paralyzed in an attack on Iron Heights by Gorilla Grodd. When Wally refused to go back in time to stop this from happening (because of the risk of timestream damage) Hunter tried to use the Cosmic Treadmill himself, but it exploded, giving him the ability to alter how time flows in relation to his inertial frame. Believing Wally didn't help him because he had never experienced personal tragedy, he went on to become Wally's EvilCounterpart and out to make him experience tragedy.
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* AndIMustScream: At the end of the "Blitz" story arc, when Wally forced him into one of the time-windows torn open as an initial side-effect of his then-newly-gained powers; this had the effect of freezing him in time, forcing him to watch the scene of [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]] over and over again.
* AntiVillain: He thinks he's one, anyways.
* {{Archenemy}}: One of several contenders for the title of Wally West's archnemesis.
* AxCrazy: Delusional, violently unstable, and operates under a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality bizarre and completely incomprehensible moral code]] that revolves around what he can give to others as opposed to what he can take from them, which makes his behavior nearly impossible to predict and thus makes him as much of a danger to his own allies as he is to heroes.
* BerserkButton: When given the opportunity to "improve" a hero, or try to fix his own timeline, Zoom tends to charge in blindly. This latter one is especially painful to him, as despite knowing exactly where to find a time machine, he's the only speedster on this page who can't use it...but tries anyway, usually leading to further disaster. It also leads to him further obsessing over Wally experiencing tragedy to get the point that tragedy makes better heroes.
--> '''Zoom:''' ''(during "Rogue War" arc)'' TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND ME, WALLY!
** His estranged wife Ashley is revealed to be another Berserk Button for him during the ''Rogue War'' storyline. The Rogues come to where she is, intending to kill her...Zoom's response is to deliver a thoroughly sound NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
--> '''Zoom:''' ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Stay away from my wife]]''.
* BlowYouAway: A rare variant that's portrayed as deadly effective. Zoom's favored attack is to slow down time to a crawl, then snap his fingers. The resulting concussive wave creates a sonic boom, shatters glass, stuns speedsters, and [[spoiler: nearly killed Linda West, leading to her miscarriage.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Thanks to Inertia.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: And he sees ''himself'' as The Call.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father was a SerialKiller who murdered Hunter's mother and then got gunned down by the police--on the same day Hunter was to leave for college. Then his career in the FBI got cut short because he insisted backup was unnecessary and that the perp they were chasing would not be carrying a gun, leading to his (first) crippling and the death of his father-in-law.
* DeathSeeker: Wants Wally to kill him.
* EvilCounterpart: To Wally.
* EvilCripple: His crippling serves as his StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: After Inertia brings him down to normal but does nothing to fix his sanity, he becomes a full on example]].
* FaceHeelTurn
* FreudianExcuse: A whole list of them. No one thing turned Hunter Zolomon into Zoom. His father being outed as a serial killer and offing his mother, his father-in-law's death and his own subsequent divorce and crippling, his second crippling at the hands of Grodd...all these factors together pushed Zolomon over the edge.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Inverted. Zoom intends to convince Wally that justifiable homicides exist, and that Zoom himself is a shining example.
* InstantCostumeChange: Despite the Flash comics long having explanations for where literally everyone's costumes come from (the Rogues even have a specialized tailor!), when Zolomon initially turns into Zoom, his costume simply manifests. As he is not connected to the Speed Force, he can't even use that as an explanation.
** [[WildMassGuessing Time-based energy, maybe]]?
* KnightOfCerebus
* KnightTemplar
* LegacyCharacter: Inverted, technically. He is the first Zoom born chronologically, a fact that amuses his predecessor/successor Thawne to no end.
--> '''Thawne:''' ''(grinning)'' I've created a legacy five centuries before I'll even be born. It's backwards. It's ''in reverse''.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: One of the few supervillains who would have a legitimate shot at using the insanity defence. Unlike Thawne (or the likes of TheJoker) who is simply psychopathic, Zolomon genuinely suffers from delusions and has a vision of the world that is staggeringly at odds with reality.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: This was Zoom's rationale when he attempted to murder Wally West's wife, believing that West needed to suffer personal tragedy in order to become a better hero.
* MotorMouth
* MyGreatestFailure: Happened in his back-story, when he was in the FBI. He made a miscalculation that resulted in his father-in-law (the field leader) getting shot to death by the criminal they were hunting, and Hunter himself ending up with a limp after said criminal shot him in the knee. Following this, his wife left him and he got kicked out of the FBI.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: One of his most common methods when it comes to "motivating" heroes to better themselves, ostensibly because he believes that a sufficiently vicious beating will drive them to become stronger.
* TheProfiler
* PsychoPsychologist: Profiler turned criminal.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* TheResenter: Even before his FaceHeelTurn, he strongly believed in MiseryBuildsCharacter, and resented Wally for not having experienced personal tragedy to make him a better hero.
* SanitySlippage: His crippling by Grodd, coupled with his use of the cosmic treadmill, tore his sanity to tatters. It was further damaged by being trapped in the time loop mentioned under AndIMustScream.
* StealthMentor: Believes he is this by making heroes experience tragedy.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Hunter '''Zo'''l'''om'''on.
** Possibly used to avert FanDumb, which has a history of reacting poorly to [[FaceHeelTurn FaceHeelTurns]] in comics, claiming it's done for shock value. By the time Zolomon becomes Zoom, it's clear the previous five years' comics had been building up to that moment.
* TautologicalTemplar: Zoom genuinely believes that he's a brutal but ultimately necessary enemy of stagnation and catalyst for improvement whose methods truly do yield meaningful results and help make the world a better place. Even insinuating that he's on the wrong track deeply offends him; trying to convince him that he's wrong is likely to result in a possibly-fatal beating at best (to make one see the error of their ways) and is outright suicidal at worst.
* TimeStandsStill: Uses this to fake having SuperSpeed.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The red lightning that surrounds him occasionally shows brief scenes from his past or future timeline. [[spoiler: People can be shoved through them, forcing them to mentally relive those few moments. Somehow.]]
* UnstoppableRage: Driven by this a lot of the time.
* VillainousCrush: On his ex-wife, Ashley.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He views his relationship with Wally as this still, which troubles Wally all the more.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Zoom truly believes he's making the world a better place, one crippled wife, dead child, mutilated hero, or resurrected archvillain at a time. He also gets violently upset when villains interfere with his plans, kill people he considers true heroes, and in one case, came on to him -- he still considers himself married.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Wally.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: It's implied that Zoom's temporal powers are interfering with his synaptic relays, making him highly irrational. He nearly puzzles this out himself before deciding he is TheChosenOne who would drive Wally to be the best hero possible. [[spoiler: Now depowered, he has approached Eobard Thawne for unknown reasons.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Brutally assaulted Linda Park-West, causing her miscarriage.
* {{Wrath}}: If the Reverse-Flash is motivated by envy, then Zoom is driven by rage.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Just look the tropes associated with him.
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[[folder:Reverse-Flash (New 52)]]
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->'''AKA:''' [[spoiler:Daniel West]]
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash #17'' (February 2013) [[spoiler:As Daniel West: ''The Flash #0 (September 2012)]]
->'''Hair color:''' [[spoiler:Brown]]
->'''Eye color:''' [[spoiler:Green]]
A mysterious speedster who is murdering those associated with the Speed Force. In issue 23, he's revealed to be [[spoiler: Iris West's brother, Daniel West]], and he got his powers when he crashed into a monorail carrying a speed force battery.
* BodyHorror: See the red part of his suit? That's his skin. He got his looks when he crashed a car into a monorail carrying a speed force battery. He became bound to the speed force and the remains of the monorail fused to him and created the black part of his suit.
* ChekhovsGunman: His true identity, [[spoiler:Daniel West]], is introduced even before Reverse-Flash and seems to be just a minor supporting character before TheReveal.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's sincere about his love for [[spoiler:his sister, Iris]]. He attacks everyone who entered the Speed Force, except her, and is devastated when she [[TakingTheBullet Takes the Bullet]] for Flash and gets wounded.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: When he got his powers, the speed force showed him glimpses of others connected to the speed force. He figures out that he needs to kill these people to gain more power.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother died during his birth and his was an abusive drunk. When his dad pushed him over the edge, he [[spoiler:pushed him down the stairs; crippling him for life and estranging his sister, Iris]]. Horrified, he ran away and went down the path of crime. [[spoiler:With his speed force powers, he wants to go back in time and kill his father before that moment; thinking it will fix everything for him]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: He pushes Turbocharger off a building to make it seem like he fell.
* ManaDrain: He's able to steal the Speed Force powers from other speedsters and absorb them into his own.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Can break off parts of his suit to use as blades; which is how he kills Sprint and Marissa.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: His powers are presumed gone, but when Iris leaves, the guard's watch rewinds for a few seconds.]]
* SerialKiller: His first story arc, "Reverse", has him killing people affected by the Speed Force; his first victim being Albert Lim/Turbocharger in issue #19. He later kills Floyd Gomez/Sprint, Marissa and now has his sights on the Flash. The more of them are dead, the more speed force he gets.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His motivation is to [[spoiler:go back in time and prevent the event that estranged Iris from him and ruined his life.]] See FreudianExcuse above for details.
* SpiderSense: Can sense those connected to the Speed Force.
* TimeMaster: Can rewind time a few seconds back. The more speed force connected people he kills, the farther he can rewind. By killing nearly everyone, he's able to go back in time to [[spoiler:kill his father before he ruined his life]].
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: He appears to kill Marissa with a [[FlechetteStorm flurry of blades]], but her autopsy reveals lacerations, burns, electrocution, and extraction.
* [[VillainEpisode Villain Issue]]: He gains his own issue in DC Comic's Villains Month which details his StartOfDarkness. Interestingly enough, it's told in reverse-chronological order.
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[[folder:Inertia / Kid Zoom]]
-->''He will never have what Impulse has; will never know their approval, their pride... their love.''
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->'''AKA:''' Thaddeus Thawne II
->'''First appearance:''' ''Impulse #50'' (July 1999)
->'''Hair color:''' Blond
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow
When Bart refused his heritage as part of the Thawne family, the Earthgov president Thaddeus Thawne created a clone of Bart named after himself. He was effectively created to be the complete opposite of Bart: slow-thinking, calculating, and utterly sociopathic.
* AlliterativeName: with the word "[[ThunderboltsAndLightning thunder]]", no less...
* AndIMustScream
* {{Archenemy}}: To Bart Allen.
* BecomingTheMask: He realizes this and genuinely considers abandoning the plan to kill Max right then and there. [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1968258.html Old grudges die hard, though...]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* TheChessmaster: In contrast to the impulsive Bart, Thad always plans things out beforehand.
* CloningBlues
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DeceptiveDisciple: To Zoom.
* EvilKnockoff: He was created specifically to be the evil Thawne Bart couldn't be.
* EvilTwin
* {{Expy}}: Of the original Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, right down to being motivated by jealousy.
* EyesOfGold
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Bart
* IJustWantToBeLoved: ''Mercury Falling'' revealed his hatred for Bart stemmed over his jealousy of Bart having a better life than him.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Manipulating the Rogues into killing Bart.
* KarmicDeath: Killed in the same way the Rogues killed Bart.
* KilledOffForReal: In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis: Rogues' Revenge'', by the Rogues in revenge for killing Bart.
* MeaningfulName: Roughly translates to "praise" or "desired" in Old Aramaic; sadly enough, that was all he ever wanted.
** More literally, it would translate to something along the lines of "friend", and specifically a close friend (Aramaic תדא ''tadda'', lit. "breast"; in context, an appellation one would give to a close friend or perhaps a younger brother (ever heard of the phrase "bosom buddy"?); the "praise" definition may be a very loose take-off of said appellation).
*** Coincidence or not, the irony between his name and personality is startling.[[note]]all other possible definitions I've found have positive connotations attached, something the poor kid severely lacks.[[/note]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Bart's Red Oni
* SlasherSmile: In a way the complete oposide of Bart in this area. While Bart grins a full of warmth and good natured mischief, his are wild, deranged and actually sometimes borderline NightmareFuel
* TheSociopath
* ThemeNaming: With Bart. The codenames are obvious; ''impulse''/''go''/Bart's flighty personality, ''inertia''/''stop''/Thad's methodical way of thinking (they're not the literal definitions, but the implication is clear). Less obvious are their ''given'' names; their namesakes are the patron saints of Armenia.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes from a tragic villain to an amoral monster.
* {{Tykebomb}}
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Before he was killed by the Rogues, he had absolute mastery over the individual timestream of a human being, able to revert Zoom to the powerless Hunter Zolomon and kill with a simple snap of his fingers. At this time he was even more AxCrazy than Hunter himself.
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[[folder:Savitar]]
->'''AKA:''' Unknown
A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the speedforce while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the speedforce and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking it's full potential. As a result, he's discovered powers that the Flash has yet to learn, such as the ability to lend or steal speed from other objects.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Wanted to join the Speed Force. He did, but the other speedsters make sure it's not a pleasant experience.
* {{Cult}}: He led a cult devoted to the Speed Force.
* EvilCounterpart: Arguably, to Max Mercury. Both have a quasi-mystical connection to the Speed Force that gives them powers beyond those of the Flashes.
* HuskyRusskie: At six foot four he's easily the largest of the speedsters.
* TimeTravel: A battle against Max Mercury shifted him from the Cold War and into the present.
* VillainousCrush: Develops one for Jesse Quick.
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[[folder:Speed Demon]]
->'''AKA:''' Jerry "Speed" [=McGee=]
Early into Wally West's career as the Flash, Jerry was estranged from his wife Tina, who began having an affair with the speedster. Angry and jealous, Jerry turned his hyper-physiology research onto himself, transforming into a steroid-pumped hulk of a man who could rival Wally's then-top speed of 700 miles an hour. Unfortunately, the self-experimentation caused his internal organs to collapse; fortunately, he recovered.
* AxCrazy: During his stint as Speed Demon.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
* DeadlyUpgrade: His self-experiments gave him super-speed and super-strength, but at the cost of his organs failing and collapsing.
* FaceHeelTurn => HeelFaceTurn
* HappilyMarried: Following his HeelFaceTurn, he and Tina reconciled.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He attempted to off the Flash for making the moves on his estranged wife.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength: A side-effect of Speed Demon's experiments.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
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[[folder:Future Flash]]
Barry Allen from twenty years in the future. He uses his powers to time travel back to the present in order to kill Barry Allen, so that Wally West will live. Wears a blue costume that seems to be constantly leaking energy.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Let Wally die and never stopped blaming himself.
* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Wally die.
* SecretIdentity: Surprisingly, kept his identity secret from Iris until his forties!
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His goal, though it's played up as a villainous thing.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Thoroughly disposed of this, killing Grodd for all he's done.
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[[folder:Black Flash]]
An anthromorphic personification of death created by the Speedforce to capture speedsters at the end of their lives. While not technically evil, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality his strange views of morality]] make him a dangerous threat whenever he appears.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The anthropomorphic personification of death for speedsters (or maybe of the Speed Force), who takes the form of a zombie-looking guy in a black Flash costume.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality
* ColorCharacter
* HumanoidAbomination
* TheGrimReaper: He's a special grim reaper specializing in speedsters (like the Flash) who would presumably be too fast to be caught by the normal Death.
* KilledOffForReal: Apparently, in ''The Flash: Rebirth''.
* TheVoiceless
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[[folder:The Rival]]
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->'''AKA:''' Edward Clariss
Dr. Clariss first appeared in Flash Comics #104, February 1949. He was a chemistry teacher at Midwestern University who overheard a conversation between Joan Williams and another student discussing how the Flash got his speed. Clariss was able to determine that something in the lab caused it, so he took all the hard water samples he could find and experimented with them, eventually producing a substance that temporarily gave him and his eventual criminal gang super speed to match the Flash. He wore a darker version of the Flash's costume and a mask in his first appearance.
* DemonicPossession: After his conversion to pure energy.
* DrivenToMadness: after being trapped in the speed force for half a century.
* EnergyBeings
* EvilCounterpart: To Jay Garrick.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* {{Revenge}}: Clariss was bitter because no one believed him when he tried to publicize his speed formula. Even success in other scientific fields wasn't good enough for him. He adopted the Rival identity in order to take the Flash's speed away and become the fastest man alive himself.
* SuperPowersForADay: Clariss developed a speed formula that was only temporary. He couldn't quite match the one that gave Jay Garrick permanent speed, despite many experiments with it.
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[[folder:The Reverse-Flash I / Professor Zoom]]
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->'''AKA:''' Eobard Thawne
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 1 #139 (September 1963)
->'''Hair color:''' Silver
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow
A completely psychopathic speedster from the 25th century out to destroy everything the Flash family stands for. He is a member of the criminal Thawne family, who have feuded with the West/Allen family for centuries before his birth. Ironically enough, an ancestor of Impulse, a fact that he doesn't take kindly to.
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* ArchEnemy: Barry's ArchEnemy since TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. In ''The Flash: Rebirth'', Barry specifically compares his and Thawne's rivalry to that of Franchise/{{Batman}} and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* AscendedFanboy: In ''[[BlatantLies The Return of Barry Allen]]'' it was revealed he used to be a huge fan of the Flash, to the point where he copied his powers and altered his appearance to look like Barry Allen. Then he time traveled to the past and found he would become [[YouCantFightFate the Flash's greatest villain]]. He took it [[IdentityAmnesia poorly]].
* AxCrazy
* BackFromTheDead: At around the same time that Barry was resurrected; he's also the one who arranged for Barry's resurrection in the first place. That being said, he was able to make several appearances before then, courtesy of time travel.
* BigBad: Of several arcs, including ''The Flash: Rebirth'' and, most recently, ''Flashpoint''.
* CainAndAbel: Killed his brother for holding him back.
* DrivenByEnvy: His desire to be Barry Allen is his entire motivation for his villainy.
* DueToTheDead: Subverted -- the Rogues stole his body, set it on fire and yelled at him as they did it.
* EinsteinHair: Post-resurrection
** EvilRedhead (used to be strawberry blond before his resurrection)
* EvilCounterpart: To Barry, complete with a uniform that is reversed in colour from his.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Barry
* IdentityAmnesia: In ''The Return of Barry Allen'' [[spoiler:he thought he was Barry Allen because of this]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Does this to Iris when she rejects his advances. He's later revealed to have lobomotomised another woman who refused to go out with him.
* {{Irony}}: How Batman/[[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] [[spoiler: kills him when he runs a sword through Eobard.]] The one opening that Batman had was when Eobard [[spoiler:stopped.]] One of the fastest individuals in fiction, and he [[spoiler:dies when he stops moving.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Thawne will get what he wants irrespective of who has to get hurt in the process.
* ItsPersonal: With Barry Allen, following his apparent murder of Iris.
* KnightOfCerebus: Very few villains have the ability to darken the story like the Reverse-Flash can
* LackOfEmpathy
* MadScientist
* ManipulativeBastard
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Manipulates time to erase his crush's husband (and later every man she has ever dated) from existence.
* NeckSnap: How Barry kills him after the Reverse-Flash's assault on Fiona Webb.
* RevengeByProxy: Uses time travel to kill Barry's mother and frame his father for it decades before Barry ever became the Flash. Subsequent attempts on Iris and the rest of the Flash Family were also motivated by this.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Is revealed to have killed his parents for not being supportive of his obsession with the Speed Force.
* SmugSnake
* SmugSuper
* TheSociopath
* StalkerWithACrush: To Iris Allen, culminating in his murder attempt on her. He later demonstrates a similar attitude towards a reporter who was interviewing him.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Jaundiced yellow.
* {{Time Travel}}ler: A frequent time traveller, Thawne abuses the time stream in ways that no other DC villain can, regularly altering the past in an effort at making Barry Allen's life more miserable.
* TheUnfettered: No matter what measures it takes, Thawne will do anything to get what he wants.
* VillainousCrush: To Iris Allen.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to kill both Iris Allen and Fiona Webb, and lobotomises a woman who rejects him. He's also only too happy to try and kill Jessie Quick and Irey West during the events of ''Rebirth''.
* WouldHurtAChild: When a reporter he is interested in spurns his advances, Thawne travels back to her childhood and traumatises her, leaving her effectively braindead as an adult. During ''Rebirth'' he attacks Jai and Irey, manipulating their connection to the Speed Force in an effort to kill them.
* {{Yandere}}: To both [[StalkerWithACrush Iris]] and [[AscendedFanboy The Flash]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Travels back in time to kill Barry's mother and frame his father for it, drastically altering Barry's life in the process.
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[[folder:The Reverse-Flash II / Zoom]]
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->'''AKA:''' Hunter Zolomon
Originally an Keystone City profiler and a valuable ally to Wally, the Flash III, he was once paralyzed in an attack on Iron Heights by Gorilla Grodd. When Wally refused to go back in time to stop this from happening (because of the risk of timestream damage) Hunter tried to use the Cosmic Treadmill himself, but it exploded, giving him the ability to alter how time flows in relation to his inertial frame. Believing Wally didn't help him because he had never experienced personal tragedy, he went on to become Wally's EvilCounterpart and out to make him experience tragedy.
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* AndIMustScream: At the end of the "Blitz" story arc, when Wally forced him into one of the time-windows torn open as an initial side-effect of his then-newly-gained powers; this had the effect of freezing him in time, forcing him to watch the scene of [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]] over and over again.
* AntiVillain: He thinks he's one, anyways.
* {{Archenemy}}: One of several contenders for the title of Wally West's archnemesis.
* AxCrazy: Delusional, violently unstable, and operates under a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality bizarre and completely incomprehensible moral code]] that revolves around what he can give to others as opposed to what he can take from them, which makes his behavior nearly impossible to predict and thus makes him as much of a danger to his own allies as he is to heroes.
* BerserkButton: When given the opportunity to "improve" a hero, or try to fix his own timeline, Zoom tends to charge in blindly. This latter one is especially painful to him, as despite knowing exactly where to find a time machine, he's the only speedster on this page who can't use it...but tries anyway, usually leading to further disaster. It also leads to him further obsessing over Wally experiencing tragedy to get the point that tragedy makes better heroes.
--> '''Zoom:''' ''(during "Rogue War" arc)'' TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND ME, WALLY!
** His estranged wife Ashley is revealed to be another Berserk Button for him during the ''Rogue War'' storyline. The Rogues come to where she is, intending to kill her...Zoom's response is to deliver a thoroughly sound NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
--> '''Zoom:''' ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Stay away from my wife]]''.
* BlowYouAway: A rare variant that's portrayed as deadly effective. Zoom's favored attack is to slow down time to a crawl, then snap his fingers. The resulting concussive wave creates a sonic boom, shatters glass, stuns speedsters, and [[spoiler: nearly killed Linda West, leading to her miscarriage.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: Thanks to Inertia.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: And he sees ''himself'' as The Call.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father was a SerialKiller who murdered Hunter's mother and then got gunned down by the police--on the same day Hunter was to leave for college. Then his career in the FBI got cut short because he insisted backup was unnecessary and that the perp they were chasing would not be carrying a gun, leading to his (first) crippling and the death of his father-in-law.
* DeathSeeker: Wants Wally to kill him.
* EvilCounterpart: To Wally.
* EvilCripple: His crippling serves as his StartOfDarkness. [[spoiler: After Inertia brings him down to normal but does nothing to fix his sanity, he becomes a full on example]].
* FaceHeelTurn
* FreudianExcuse: A whole list of them. No one thing turned Hunter Zolomon into Zoom. His father being outed as a serial killer and offing his mother, his father-in-law's death and his own subsequent divorce and crippling, his second crippling at the hands of Grodd...all these factors together pushed Zolomon over the edge.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Inverted. Zoom intends to convince Wally that justifiable homicides exist, and that Zoom himself is a shining example.
* InstantCostumeChange: Despite the Flash comics long having explanations for where literally everyone's costumes come from (the Rogues even have a specialized tailor!), when Zolomon initially turns into Zoom, his costume simply manifests. As he is not connected to the Speed Force, he can't even use that as an explanation.
** [[WildMassGuessing Time-based energy, maybe]]?
* KnightOfCerebus
* KnightTemplar
* LegacyCharacter: Inverted, technically. He is the first Zoom born chronologically, a fact that amuses his predecessor/successor Thawne to no end.
--> '''Thawne:''' ''(grinning)'' I've created a legacy five centuries before I'll even be born. It's backwards. It's ''in reverse''.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: One of the few supervillains who would have a legitimate shot at using the insanity defence. Unlike Thawne (or the likes of TheJoker) who is simply psychopathic, Zolomon genuinely suffers from delusions and has a vision of the world that is staggeringly at odds with reality.
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: This was Zoom's rationale when he attempted to murder Wally West's wife, believing that West needed to suffer personal tragedy in order to become a better hero.
* MotorMouth
* MyGreatestFailure: Happened in his back-story, when he was in the FBI. He made a miscalculation that resulted in his father-in-law (the field leader) getting shot to death by the criminal they were hunting, and Hunter himself ending up with a limp after said criminal shot him in the knee. Following this, his wife left him and he got kicked out of the FBI.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: One of his most common methods when it comes to "motivating" heroes to better themselves, ostensibly because he believes that a sufficiently vicious beating will drive them to become stronger.
* TheProfiler
* PsychoPsychologist: Profiler turned criminal.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* TheResenter: Even before his FaceHeelTurn, he strongly believed in MiseryBuildsCharacter, and resented Wally for not having experienced personal tragedy to make him a better hero.
* SanitySlippage: His crippling by Grodd, coupled with his use of the cosmic treadmill, tore his sanity to tatters. It was further damaged by being trapped in the time loop mentioned under AndIMustScream.
* StealthMentor: Believes he is this by making heroes experience tragedy.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Hunter '''Zo'''l'''om'''on.
** Possibly used to avert FanDumb, which has a history of reacting poorly to [[FaceHeelTurn FaceHeelTurns]] in comics, claiming it's done for shock value. By the time Zolomon becomes Zoom, it's clear the previous five years' comics had been building up to that moment.
* TautologicalTemplar: Zoom genuinely believes that he's a brutal but ultimately necessary enemy of stagnation and catalyst for improvement whose methods truly do yield meaningful results and help make the world a better place. Even insinuating that he's on the wrong track deeply offends him; trying to convince him that he's wrong is likely to result in a possibly-fatal beating at best (to make one see the error of their ways) and is outright suicidal at worst.
* TimeStandsStill: Uses this to fake having SuperSpeed.
* TimeyWimeyBall: The red lightning that surrounds him occasionally shows brief scenes from his past or future timeline. [[spoiler: People can be shoved through them, forcing them to mentally relive those few moments. Somehow.]]
* UnstoppableRage: Driven by this a lot of the time.
* VillainousCrush: On his ex-wife, Ashley.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He views his relationship with Wally as this still, which troubles Wally all the more.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Zoom truly believes he's making the world a better place, one crippled wife, dead child, mutilated hero, or resurrected archvillain at a time. He also gets violently upset when villains interfere with his plans, kill people he considers true heroes, and in one case, came on to him -- he still considers himself married.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Wally.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: It's implied that Zoom's temporal powers are interfering with his synaptic relays, making him highly irrational. He nearly puzzles this out himself before deciding he is TheChosenOne who would drive Wally to be the best hero possible. [[spoiler: Now depowered, he has approached Eobard Thawne for unknown reasons.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Brutally assaulted Linda Park-West, causing her miscarriage.
* {{Wrath}}: If the Reverse-Flash is motivated by envy, then Zoom is driven by rage.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Just look the tropes associated with him.
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[[folder:Reverse-Flash (New 52)]]
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->'''AKA:''' [[spoiler:Daniel West]]
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash #17'' (February 2013) [[spoiler:As Daniel West: ''The Flash #0 (September 2012)]]
->'''Hair color:''' [[spoiler:Brown]]
->'''Eye color:''' [[spoiler:Green]]
A mysterious speedster who is murdering those associated with the Speed Force. In issue 23, he's revealed to be [[spoiler: Iris West's brother, Daniel West]], and he got his powers when he crashed into a monorail carrying a speed force battery.
* BodyHorror: See the red part of his suit? That's his skin. He got his looks when he crashed a car into a monorail carrying a speed force battery. He became bound to the speed force and the remains of the monorail fused to him and created the black part of his suit.
* ChekhovsGunman: His true identity, [[spoiler:Daniel West]], is introduced even before Reverse-Flash and seems to be just a minor supporting character before TheReveal.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's sincere about his love for [[spoiler:his sister, Iris]]. He attacks everyone who entered the Speed Force, except her, and is devastated when she [[TakingTheBullet Takes the Bullet]] for Flash and gets wounded.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: When he got his powers, the speed force showed him glimpses of others connected to the speed force. He figures out that he needs to kill these people to gain more power.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother died during his birth and his was an abusive drunk. When his dad pushed him over the edge, he [[spoiler:pushed him down the stairs; crippling him for life and estranging his sister, Iris]]. Horrified, he ran away and went down the path of crime. [[spoiler:With his speed force powers, he wants to go back in time and kill his father before that moment; thinking it will fix everything for him]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: He pushes Turbocharger off a building to make it seem like he fell.
* ManaDrain: He's able to steal the Speed Force powers from other speedsters and absorb them into his own.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Can break off parts of his suit to use as blades; which is how he kills Sprint and Marissa.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: His powers are presumed gone, but when Iris leaves, the guard's watch rewinds for a few seconds.]]
* SerialKiller: His first story arc, "Reverse", has him killing people affected by the Speed Force; his first victim being Albert Lim/Turbocharger in issue #19. He later kills Floyd Gomez/Sprint, Marissa and now has his sights on the Flash. The more of them are dead, the more speed force he gets.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His motivation is to [[spoiler:go back in time and prevent the event that estranged Iris from him and ruined his life.]] See FreudianExcuse above for details.
* SpiderSense: Can sense those connected to the Speed Force.
* TimeMaster: Can rewind time a few seconds back. The more speed force connected people he kills, the farther he can rewind. By killing nearly everyone, he's able to go back in time to [[spoiler:kill his father before he ruined his life]].
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: He appears to kill Marissa with a [[FlechetteStorm flurry of blades]], but her autopsy reveals lacerations, burns, electrocution, and extraction.
* [[VillainEpisode Villain Issue]]: He gains his own issue in DC Comic's Villains Month which details his StartOfDarkness. Interestingly enough, it's told in reverse-chronological order.
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[[folder:Inertia / Kid Zoom]]
-->''He will never have what Impulse has; will never know their approval, their pride... their love.''
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->'''AKA:''' Thaddeus Thawne II
->'''First appearance:''' ''Impulse #50'' (July 1999)
->'''Hair color:''' Blond
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow
When Bart refused his heritage as part of the Thawne family, the Earthgov president Thaddeus Thawne created a clone of Bart named after himself. He was effectively created to be the complete opposite of Bart: slow-thinking, calculating, and utterly sociopathic.
* AlliterativeName: with the word "[[ThunderboltsAndLightning thunder]]", no less...
* AndIMustScream
* {{Archenemy}}: To Bart Allen.
* BecomingTheMask: He realizes this and genuinely considers abandoning the plan to kill Max right then and there. [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1968258.html Old grudges die hard, though...]]
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* TheChessmaster: In contrast to the impulsive Bart, Thad always plans things out beforehand.
* CloningBlues
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DeceptiveDisciple: To Zoom.
* EvilKnockoff: He was created specifically to be the evil Thawne Bart couldn't be.
* EvilTwin
* {{Expy}}: Of the original Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, right down to being motivated by jealousy.
* EyesOfGold
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Bart
* IJustWantToBeLoved: ''Mercury Falling'' revealed his hatred for Bart stemmed over his jealousy of Bart having a better life than him.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Manipulating the Rogues into killing Bart.
* KarmicDeath: Killed in the same way the Rogues killed Bart.
* KilledOffForReal: In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis: Rogues' Revenge'', by the Rogues in revenge for killing Bart.
* MeaningfulName: Roughly translates to "praise" or "desired" in Old Aramaic; sadly enough, that was all he ever wanted.
** More literally, it would translate to something along the lines of "friend", and specifically a close friend (Aramaic תדא ''tadda'', lit. "breast"; in context, an appellation one would give to a close friend or perhaps a younger brother (ever heard of the phrase "bosom buddy"?); the "praise" definition may be a very loose take-off of said appellation).
*** Coincidence or not, the irony between his name and personality is startling.[[note]]all other possible definitions I've found have positive connotations attached, something the poor kid severely lacks.[[/note]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Bart's Red Oni
* SlasherSmile: In a way the complete oposide of Bart in this area. While Bart grins a full of warmth and good natured mischief, his are wild, deranged and actually sometimes borderline NightmareFuel
* TheSociopath
* ThemeNaming: With Bart. The codenames are obvious; ''impulse''/''go''/Bart's flighty personality, ''inertia''/''stop''/Thad's methodical way of thinking (they're not the literal definitions, but the implication is clear). Less obvious are their ''given'' names; their namesakes are the patron saints of Armenia.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes from a tragic villain to an amoral monster.
* {{Tykebomb}}
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Before he was killed by the Rogues, he had absolute mastery over the individual timestream of a human being, able to revert Zoom to the powerless Hunter Zolomon and kill with a simple snap of his fingers. At this time he was even more AxCrazy than Hunter himself.
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[[folder:Savitar]]
->'''AKA:''' Unknown
A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the speedforce while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the speedforce and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking it's full potential. As a result, he's discovered powers that the Flash has yet to learn, such as the ability to lend or steal speed from other objects.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Wanted to join the Speed Force. He did, but the other speedsters make sure it's not a pleasant experience.
* {{Cult}}: He led a cult devoted to the Speed Force.
* EvilCounterpart: Arguably, to Max Mercury. Both have a quasi-mystical connection to the Speed Force that gives them powers beyond those of the Flashes.
* HuskyRusskie: At six foot four he's easily the largest of the speedsters.
* TimeTravel: A battle against Max Mercury shifted him from the Cold War and into the present.
* VillainousCrush: Develops one for Jesse Quick.
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[[folder:Speed Demon]]
->'''AKA:''' Jerry "Speed" [=McGee=]
Early into Wally West's career as the Flash, Jerry was estranged from his wife Tina, who began having an affair with the speedster. Angry and jealous, Jerry turned his hyper-physiology research onto himself, transforming into a steroid-pumped hulk of a man who could rival Wally's then-top speed of 700 miles an hour. Unfortunately, the self-experimentation caused his internal organs to collapse; fortunately, he recovered.
* AxCrazy: During his stint as Speed Demon.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
* DeadlyUpgrade: His self-experiments gave him super-speed and super-strength, but at the cost of his organs failing and collapsing.
* FaceHeelTurn => HeelFaceTurn
* HappilyMarried: Following his HeelFaceTurn, he and Tina reconciled.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He attempted to off the Flash for making the moves on his estranged wife.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength: A side-effect of Speed Demon's experiments.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
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[[folder:Future Flash]]
Barry Allen from twenty years in the future. He uses his powers to time travel back to the present in order to kill Barry Allen, so that Wally West will live. Wears a blue costume that seems to be constantly leaking energy.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Let Wally die and never stopped blaming himself.
* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Wally die.
* SecretIdentity: Surprisingly, kept his identity secret from Iris until his forties!
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His goal, though it's played up as a villainous thing.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Thoroughly disposed of this, killing Grodd for all he's done.
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