History Characters / TheFlashEvilSpeedsters

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is often dyed purple, though it's naturally red.

'''Supporting Characters'''\\
[[Characters/TheFlashTheFlashFamily The Flash Family]] | [[Characters/TheFlashSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | [[Characters/TheFlashOtherSpeedsters Other Speedsters]]\\
'''Enemies'''\\
'''Evil Speedsters''' | [[Characters/TheFlashTheReverseFlashes The Reverse-Flashes]] ([[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] | [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]]) | [[Characters/TheFlashTheRogues The Rogues]] | [[Characters/TheFlashOtherVillains Other Villains]]-]]]]]

->'''A.K.A.:''' Johnathan Allen (''Forever Evil'')
->'''First appearance:'''
->'''Hair color:''' Blond
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow

Johnny Quick is an evil doppelganger of The Flash from an alternate universe. He is a member of the Crime Syndicate, a team of supervillains paralleling the Justice League. See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate their page]].

-->''"I've got no money, thousands of dollars of damages against me, no wife and co-workers who remember me as an eight-foot-tall psychopath who tried to kill them."''

->'''A.K.A.:''' Jerry "Speed" [=McGee=]

-->''After all...you are the one who showed me the face of God.''

->'''A.K.A.:''' Unknown

-> '''A.K.A.:''' Ivana Christina Borodin Molotova, Christina Alexandrova

->'''A.K.A.:''' Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 3 #6 (January 2011)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

-->'''''Newsflash:''' virtue doesn't always win. Sometimes, it just gets people killed. Today, that person is '''you.''' ''
->'''A.K.A.:''' Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 4 #30 (April 2014)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

-->''"Y'know...when I was trying to come up with a code name for myself, I thought of calling myself the new and improved Flash. Because you clearly weren't cutting it. But instead...I realized that with these powers...I am '''judge''', '''jury''' and '''executioner'''. So I call myself...'''Godspeed'''."''
->'''A.K.A.:''' August Heart
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 5 #1 (June 2016)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

-->''"Remember, the speed doesn't define who you are. You define who you are. But having super-speed is awesome."''

->'''A.K.A.:''' Meena Dhawan
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 5 #3 (August 2016)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

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-->[[Characters/TheFlash Back to the main The Flash characters index]]

* StuffedInTheFridge: Her death in ''The Flash: Rebirth'' is meant to be the moment where Barry and Wally realize Barry's turning into the new Black Flash.

!!The Reverse-Flashes
[[folder:Reverse-Flashes In General]]
!!All Reverse-Flashes provide examples of the following tropes:
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* ArchEnemy: All of them are de-facto the most threatening members of their respective Flash's rogues gallery, and are designed in a way that they are all [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]] of their Flashes. PlayedWith in Daniel West's case, as he was meant to be Barry's during the ''ComicBook/New52'' comics but that was dropped when Professor Zoom was reintroduced. It's debatable if he's one for his son Wally II, as the two never met while in their superpowered identities, missing the direct comparisons between the other Flashes/Reverse-Flashes. The matches are as follows:
** [[MadScientist The Rival (Edward Clariss)]] - [[ScienceHero Flash (Jay Garrick)]]
** [[AxCrazy Professor Zoom (Eobard Thawne)]] - [[AllLovingHero Flash (Barry Allen)]]
** [[TheUnfettered Zoom (Hunter Zolomon)]] - [[{{Determinator}} Flash (Wally West)]]
** [[GreenEyedMonster Inertia (Thaddeus Thawne)]] - [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Impulse (Bart Allen)]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Thaddeus Thawne (Blonde), Hunter Zolomon (Brunette), Eobard Thawne (Redhead).
* ChestInsignia: They usually sport a version of Flash's lightning bolt symbol. Eobard's was originally just switched colours. Hunter's has always been both opposite colours ''and'' the inverse direction.
* TheDreaded: They leave huge mental scars on Flashes and their loved ones and many Rogues would prefer to not cross paths with one of them. If one's received the "Reverse-Flash" name, chances are they are not [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast someone to mess with]].
* EvilCounterpart: Hence the name "''Reverse''-Flash".
* KnightOfCerebus: Expect the story to get '''really dark''' once one of them appears.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Except for [[BigBadWannabe Daniel West]], all Reverse-Flashes are seen as someone to be avoided not only by the superhero community but also by ''super villains as well.''
* RedBaron: Admittedly part and parcel of being known as a Reverse-Flash - but even then Eobard, Hunter and Thad are well-known known and feared as Professor Zoom, Zoom and Inertia outside of the Reverse-Flash moniker.
* SuperSpeed: Each Reverse-Flash has this power, except for [[TimeMaster Hunter Zolomon.]] Their methods of obtaining it vary; Clariss used a FantasticDrug, Thawne copied the incident that gave Barry his speed, Thaddeus was a clone of Bart Allen, and Daniel West was hit by a Speed Force-powered monorail car.
* UniquenessDecay: Unfortunately the concept got hit by this big time in the modern age due to the introduction of other evil speedsters - many of whom are also detailed on this page.
* VillainousLegacy: Just like the Flashes they form a legacy of their own, with a clear inspirational chain from Thawne to Zolomon and later to Inertia. This looked to be undone in the New 52, which established Daniel West as the original Reverse-Flash of the new continuity, with Professor Zoom a now-unrelated villain. ''Rebirth'' in turn undid that, bringing back the original Thawne to reclaim the Reverse-Flash name and establishing the New 52 universe was the heavily altered post-''Crisis'' DCU, leaving room for other elements of the Reverse-Flash mythos to return - as Hunter Zolomon/Zoom would eventually end up doing in "Flash War".

[[folder:The Rival]]
-->''"For fifty years I've been trapped in the Speed Force -- then Sorrow freed me, asking only one thing in return. Your head. "''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Doctor Edward Clariss
->'''First appearance:''' ''Flash Comics'' #104 (February 1949)
->'''Hair color:''' Black

Dr. Clariss 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.

* AndIMustScream: Was trapped in the Speed Force after running fast enough to reach lightspeed in a battle with Jay Garrick -- except unlike Jay his powers were temporary. In his own words, once his speed wore off "the Force '''ate''' me alive."
* TheBusCameBack: After the ''New 52'' reboot erased Jay from existence, Clariss went with him. He was restored to continuity in 2020, with ''Flash'' #750.
* DemonicPossession: After his conversion to pure energy, he learned how to possess other speedsters and ended up possessing Max Mercury.
* DrivenToMadness: After being trapped in the Speed Force for half a century -- though all indications are he wasn't too stable to begin with.
* EnergyBeings: His time trapped in the Speed Force reduced him to one of these, eating away his body and seemingly leaving him comprised solely of Speed Force energy.
* EvilCounterpart: To Jay Garrick -- where Jay is eternally selfless and does what he does to help others, Clariss was driven by envy of Jay's powers and injured pride at being unable to fully replicate them.
* EvilIsPetty: He was initially motivated by envy over being unable to create a Superspeed formula that would allow him to receive adulation like Jay -- yet when he did gain Superspeed all he did with it was become a criminal and try to humiliate Jay for no reason other than wanting Jay's title of fastest man alive for himself.
* EvilOldFolks: He's the oldest of the Reverse-Flashes.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Glow a bright purple after he's released from the Speed Force.
* MadScientist: Brilliant enough to create a formula allowing him to temporarily replicate Flash's speed, he nonetheless went mad over his obsession with taking Jay's mantle of fastest man alive.
* NeverMyFault: He tried to kill Jay and Jay's wife Joan as revenge for being trapped in the Speed Force for 50 years, conveniently ignoring he'd never have been in such a situation if it weren't for his continued attempts to defeat and humiliate Jay in the first place.
* PredecessorVillain: Clariss was the first villain to be presented as an evil version of the Flash -- and one with a personal rivalry with Flash himself to boot. While Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon are far better known and fleshed out, Clariss set the stage for them and many of the other villains on this page. When he returns from the Speed Force, Jay even refers to him as "a kind of Reverse-Flash."
* PutOnABus: Disappeared into the future whilst possessing Max Mercury at the conclusion of the ''Impulse'' series and never appeared again, even when Max was brought back in ''The Flash: Rebirth''.
* {{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.
** Taken UpToEleven when the Injustice Society freed him from the Speed Force -- blaming Jay for what happened to him, he tried to kill Jay's wife Joan. Latterly, he attempted to prolong Joan's dying from cancer as much as possible to make Jay suffer.
* SerialKiller: In his first Post-Crisis appearance killed 80 people solely to send a message to Jay Garrick (literally -- the locations of his victims across America spelled out his name). His favoured tactic is to ram into people at full speed, literally tearing them apart.
* TheSociopath: Utterly ruthless and uncaring, with a monumental ego to boot. Jay describes him to Impulse as such.
* 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.
* WouldHitAGirl: Tried to kill Jay's wife Joan several times after returning from the Speed Force.

[[folder:Professor Zoom/Reverse-Flash I (Eobard Thawne)]]
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The ArchEnemy of Barry Allen for nearly 60 years, Eobard Thawne's loathing of the second Flash has extended from the Silver Age through to the ''Rebirth'' era, being responsible for numerous tragedies for the Flash family. Sadistic, brutal and consumed by envy of Barry, Thawne is probably the most influential and enduring of the evil speedsters. For a complete list of tropes regarding him, please see [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne his own page]].

[[folder:Zoom/Reverse-Flash II (Hunter Zolomon)]]
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Formerly a friend and ally to Wally West, Hunter Zolomon would be twisted and driven to desperation by a series of personal tragedies, eventually trying to use the Cosmic Treadmill to travel back in time to fix his life. The fallout from this gave him incredible powers but warped his sanity and worldview, leading him to take up the Reverse-Flash costume and become Wally's ArchEnemy Zoom. For a complete list of tropes regarding him, please see [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon his own page]].
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[[folder:Inertia/Kid Zoom]]
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-->''He will never have what Impulse has; will never know their approval, their pride...their love.''

->'''A.K.A.:''' 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: 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.
* {{Archenemy}}: To Bart Allen.
* AxCrazy: By the end of ''Rogues' Revenge'', he's more psychologically warped than Zoom himself, and [[TheMentallyDisturbed that's saying something]].
* 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...]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After being dead for over ten years, he returns in ''Flash'' #760 to momentarily try and attack Barry, having apparently been resurrected--or perhaps fished out of the timestream--and then stuck in the Speed Force by Reverse-Flash.]]
* TheChessmaster: In contrast to the impulsive Bart, Thad always plans things out beforehand.
* CloningBlues: His status as a clone adds to his hate of Bart.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blonde hair, yellow eyes.
* DeceptiveDisciple: To Zoom.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Once Wally West finally catches up to Inertia, he taunts him about the fact he killed Bart.
--->'''Thaddeus:''' He screamed like a little bitch...
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: While Inertia's status as Bart's clone doesn't completely get him the same sentiment as the original, when Wally captures Thad after Bart's death, Wally acknowledges that, even though Inertia is "an irredeemable sociopath", the fact that he was a piece of Bart was the only thing that stopped Wally crossing the line and killing him outright.
* EvilKnockoff: He was created specifically to be the evil Thawne that Bart couldn't be.
* EvilTwin: Of Bart.
* {{Expy}}: Of the original Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, right down to being motivated by jealousy.
* {{Foil}}: To Bart. Bart is a flighty, impulsive, cheerful young superhero who is beloved by his family. Thad is an icy, calculating supervillain with no friends other than Craydl, his sentient computer.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Bart, who has a loving family and friends, while Thad was created solely to settle the Thawnes' grudge against the Allens.
* HatedByAll: Suffers from this after he tricks the Rogues into killing Bart Allen. Wally West comes to consider Thad as an irredeemable monster, and the Rogues hate him for sticking them with a murder charge. Even Zoom hates him, having [[VillainRespect respected Bart]] for doing his best to become a better hero.
** [[spoiler:Averted in ''Flash'' #760, where [[AllLovingHero Barry Allen]] sympathetically describes him as a "kid in pain".]]
* HateSink: While he was portrayed fairly sympathetically in ''Mercury Falling'', Thad is afterwards written as a smug, arrogant, condescending sociopath who has no problem ''killing babies''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Zoom and the Rogues are disgusted by him.]] To drive it home, the Rogues usually have strict rules against killing someone as young as Thad. [[KilledOffForReal For him, they made an exception.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: ''Mercury Falling'' revealed his hatred for Bart stemmed over his jealousy of Bart having a better life than him. Bart is surrounded by friends and loved ones, while Thad was created to be a killer and his only friend is a sentient computer called Craydl.
* InstantCostumeChange: Like Hunter Zolomon when he became Zoom, Thad is able to manifest the Kid Zoom costume out of seemingly nowhere while connected to Hunter's TimeMaster powers.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Manipulating the Rogues into killing Bart.
* KarmicDeath: Killed by the Rogues in the same way they killed Bart, as revenge for Thad's manipulating them into the prior killing.
* 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); the "praise" definition may be a very loose take-off of said appellation).
* MeaninglessVillainVictory:
** Uniquely among the villains on this page, actually manages to arrange the death of his Flash ArchEnemy, Bart Allen, via carefully manipulating the Rogues into killing him. Unluckily for him, Wally returns from the Speed Force [[LaserGuidedKarma as a direct result of Bart dying]] and turns Thad into [[AndIMustScream a living statue as punishment]] mere moments after he thought he'd escaped.
** Making this trope even more pertinent, the Rogues were ''livid'' they'd been taken advantage of in such a manner (and were now wanted for murder to boot) -- so when he finally escaped the aforementioned statue situation, they [[KarmicDeath blasted him to death]] not long after.
* OhCrap: When he's confronted by a man in a Flash uniform just after Bart's death -- and realises it isn't a resurrected Bart but a returned and '''[[UnstoppableRage ALMIGHTILY]]''' pissed-off Wally...
* ParentalSubstitute: He saw Deathstroke as his dad. Deathstroke being [[{{Jerkass}} who he is]], saw Inertia as a tool.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Bart's Red Oni.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:After ineffectually harassing Barry for a few minutes, he takes off back into the Speed Force.]]
* SlasherSmile: In a way the complete opposite of Bart in this area. While Bart grins are full of warmth and good natured mischief, his are wild, deranged and actually sometimes borderline NightmareFuel
* TheSociopath: As you could probably tell from some of these other tropes, he isn't a nice guy.
---> '''Wally West:''' He's just an irredeemable sociopath with Bart's face.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Thad can pull off some stunning impressions of Bart's emotional body language (and that includes the famed PuppyDogEyes as well) when the situation calls for it, but his eyes usually default to a sinister glow.
* 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: Designed to be the opposite of Bart.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Goes from a tragic villain to an amoral monster.
** [[spoiler:The "tragic" aspects of the character seem to have returned in ''Flash'' #760, when Barry Allen takes pity on Thad and describes him as a "kid in pain"]].
* {{Tykebomb}}: Was created as the Thawne counter to Bart.
* 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.
* WouldHurtAChild: When he's unfrozen (see AndIMustScream above) in ''Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge'' he immediately goes to kill Wally's children in revenge, though he's stopped by Zoom. Later in the same story he murders Weather Wizard's infant son out of pure sadism.

[[folder:Reverse-Flash III]]
-->''The last time I was happy, I was eight years old.''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Daniel West
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' Vol. 4 #0 (September 2012)
->'''Hair color:''' Brown
->'''Eye color:''' Green

Daniel West is the brother of Iris West, Barry Allen's most prominent love interest. When Daniel was born, complications resulted in the death of his mother. Daniel's father never stopped blaming Daniel and would regularly abuse the boy, who grew up resentful, but still loved his sister Iris. After his father killed his pet insects, Daniel pushed his father down the stairs, rendering him paraplegic. Daniel ran away from home, leaving his sister behind to grow to resent him for what he had done and his abandonment of her, though he still loved her. Daniel would fall in with a bad crowd and end up in prison for five years.

When Daniel crashed into a monorail carrying a Speed Force battery, he gained Speed Force powers. He began murdering others gifted with the Speed Force in order to strengthen his own power, so that he could go back in time and supposedly fix his life by murdering his father instead of crippling him. However, he was stopped by Barry and imprisoned, though made no secret of his desire to try again.

He is also the CoolUncle of Wallace West, later retconned into being his father.

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]/AgeLift: Originally, he's about 24 when he becomes Reverse-Flash, as he's explicitly said to have been caught by the Flash on his eighteenth birthday, and the current stories took at best a year to play out, and Barry debuted about five years ago per the New 52's "five year" timeline. Age Lift may have been in effect in order to make him the father of Wallace West, who is at least 16 in the ''Rebirth'' era, at the start of which their relationship was revealed. Eventually, a flashback is shown that depicts him as a teenager or adult during the birth of ''Wally'' West, which does mean he got an Age Lift to make his relationship with Wallace more believable.
* AbusiveParents: His father was physically and emotionally abusive in his youth, due to blaming Daniel for the death of his mother when birthing him. Eventually, the old man killed his pet insects out of sheer sadism, leading Daniel to [[StartOfDarkness snap and push him down the stairs...]]
* AccidentalMurder: While the ''Flash'' issue in which we see the aftereffects doesn't go into detail, ''Futures End'' strongly implies his killing Wallace (and crippling Iris) in the future was not intentional on his part.
* ArchnemesisDad: Of the new Kid Flash. An interesting variant, as while Kid Flash is aware of their relationship, the two have never met while in their superpowered identities.
* TheAtoner: Towards the end of his time in the Suicide Squad, resulting in his HeroicSacrifice.
* BigBadWannabe: His limited time as Reverse-Flash and subsequent VillainDecay give this impression -- all the more since he proceeded towards a HeelRealization fairly rapidly in ''New Suicide Squad'', rendering both the Bad and Wannabe parts moot. He was replaced by Professor Zoom as Barry's ArchEnemy after just one arc, and the post-''Crisis'' Thawne treated Daniel's memory with nothing but [[PretenderDiss irritation]] once he returned, to the point of completely disowning him from the Reverse-Flash name.[[note]]It's worth noting that in contrast to Daniel, Eobard gleefully accepted Hunter as his successor, probably due to Hunter honoring Eobard's legacy instead of taking the name all for himself.[[/note]]Since [[spoiler: his death]] he's been reduced to little better than a cautionary tale for Kid Flash not to misuse his powers.
* BodyHorror: See the red part of his suit? That's his skin. He got his look 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.
* BusCrash: He was [[PutOnABus sent to]] ''New Suicide Squad'' as part of a reconstituted team, [[spoiler: and then died there in an explosion [[DyingToBeReplaced to cement Thawne as Barry's main speedster nemesis once more]].]]
* ChekhovsGunman: His true identity, Daniel West, is introduced even before Reverse-Flash and seems to be just a minor supporting character before TheReveal.
* ClothingSwitch: During his time on ''New Suicide Squad'' the bright red skin of his costume is replaced by a sickly yellow, possibly indicative of his reduced power level after the "Reverse" storyline. He also sports this look in ''Futures End'', implying it may be a natural evolution of his "costume", or simply a nod to the traditional yellow color-scheme of Reverse-Flashes.
* CoolUncle: He was Wallace West's ParentalSubstitute until he was retconned into his actual father. However, he intentionally took on the role to Wallace as a way of still interacting with him without revealing their relationship.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: He sacrifices himself to save a town full of kids from a time bomb, right after he goes through the HeelRealization.
* DecompositeCharacter: In the ComicBook/New52 he was Reverse-Flash rather than Eobard Thawne, who went solely by Professor Zoom. However, in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Barry gets his pre-''Flashpoint'' memories back and starts referring to Thawne as Reverse-Flash again (specifically calling him the first Reverse-Flash in #18 of the 2016 series), thus making Reverse-Flash a mantle attained by different evil speedsters once again.
* DemotedToExtra: Was initially introduced as the EvilCounterpart of Barry Allen in the ''New 52'' until Eobard Thawne's return hit him [[DroppedABridgeOnHim pretty]] [[DyingToBeReplaced hard]]. Since ''Rebirth'' he's only appeared in flashbacks and dream sequences before [[spoiler: being confirmed as dead by Captain Boomerang, leaving Eobard as the main Reverse-Flash again]].
* DramaticIrony: A genuinely sad case: when he goes back in time to kill his father, his past self begs him to leave [[TimeyWimeyBall his/their]] father alone.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He is killed in ''New Suicide Squad'' to make way for Professor Zoom to be the prime evil speedster again. On top of all that, his death isn't even mentioned in the main Flash book until the post-''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Flash comic's ongoing subplot about Wallace trying to find out more about his father, including his time as Reverse-Flash -- but that only ended up confirming Daniel was KilledOffForReal.
* DyingToBeReplaced: Died in ''New Suicide Squad'' to make way for Eobard Thawne.
** Fully invoking this trope, the issue [[spoiler: where his death is confirmed by [[UnreliableNarrator Captain Boomerang]]]] also features a ''major'' return for Eobard Thawne, literally replacing one Reverse-Flash with the other. Lampshaded by Thawne himself later on.
---> ''' Iris West:''' Daniel was a monster when he was Reverse-Flash...
---> ''' [[WhamShot The Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne)]]:''' Actually, and I hate to quibble, but...there is only '''one''' Reverse-Flash.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: If the ''Futures End'' comic is anything to go by, Iris never gives up on him, attempting to talk him down from an impending murderous rampage because, even after everything he's done, "Daniel is still family".
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's sincere about his love for 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. More complex with Wallace -- all indications are he genuinely tried with his son and wanted him to make more of himself than Daniel ever did, but wasn't above lying to Wallace regarding his remorse over his crimes.
* EvilCounterpart:
** In his initial "Reverse" storyline Daniel is presented as one to Barry Allen -- both had a hugely traumatic event in their childhood, but where Barry was able to use his mother's murder to inspire him to help others (both as a CSI and later the Flash), Daniel never got over the effect crippling his father had on his life, obsessing over being able to change his past for the better. In addition, both care deeply for Iris, albeit in very different ways.
** Also, more obviously to his son Wallace (aka Kid Flash) once the latter gains his speedster powers. Both come from broken households and have criminal backgrounds (though Wallace was only getting started with his before Barry intervened) -- but in this case Wallace is determined to not go down his father's path in life.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: He seems to be able to switch between normal and the look in the above image at will. However, his appearance in #24 really qualifies him as this -- when he thinks he's killed his father and the Flash can't stop him, his powers shift him into a much larger and more demonic-looking form.
* EvilUncle: To Wally West, at least technically. The two never actually met in their superhero identities, and Wally says he and Daniel were distant -- given Wally's history with his family, it's possible they barely knew each other. Meanwhile, Wallace grows up believing him to be his uncle as well but it turns out that ''[[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo he's actually his father]]''.
* {{Expy}}: His principle motivation -- to go back in time and undo the moment he feels led to everything going wrong for him -- is remarkably similar to Hunter Zolomon/Zoom's reasoning for trying to use the Cosmic Treadmill, as well as his general theme of not moving beyond his past.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: During Wallace West's introduction, he was said to be the CoolUncle Wallace idolized. With ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'''s retcon, he's revealed to actually be Wallace's father.
* {{Foil}}: To Barry, in that both experienced trauma in their childhoods and it has hugely impacted their lives. The difference is that Barry tries to move on from his mother's murder, whereas Daniel is ''obsessed'' over one incident that he has let consume him and has not learned from.
* FreudianExcuse: His mother died during his birth and his father was an abusive drunk. When his dad pushed him over the edge, he 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. 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.
* {{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.
* HeelRealization: By the end of his time in the Suicide Squad, noting that while Iris may think of him as a monster, he at least knows he doesn't want to be one anymore.
* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices himself to stop a time-travel bomb from going off when he's on the Suicide Squad.
* HowDoIShotWeb: A variant, in that it's not him who doesn't understand his powers, but his Suicide Squad controllers. During his first mission with the Suicide Squad they insist he run at full speed to plant explosives in order to prevent a situation in China escalating out of control. Knowing he isn't as powerful as he was pre-"Reverse", he protests but ultimately accedes. The resultant run has him shatter his kneecap completely, [[DeusExitMachina leaving him useless for the rest of the team's mission]].
* InstantCostumeChange: His ''Forever Evil'' tie-in issue implies that he can switch from human to the monstrous Reverse-Flash look in seconds, with his "costume" actually [[BodyHorror manifesting from within his body]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies in ''New Suicide Squad''.]]
* 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.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Believes killing his father in the past will make his relationship with Iris right in the present.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he attempts to kill his father in front of a young Iris and younger version of himself, a terrified Iris dubs him a "monster", leading to a brief moment of this that allows Flash to temporarily borrow his powers to get them back to the present. Thoroughly subverted when they get back though, as he flatly tells the adult Iris he'll do it all over again when he gets another chance.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Can break off parts of his suit to use as blades; which is how he kills Sprint and Marissa.
* NeckSnap: How Future Flash kills an alternate version of him in the ''Futures End'' comic. May double as a ShoutOut to the pre-Crisis Barry's killing of Professor Zoom.
* NeverMyFault: His defining character trait. Whether it's pushing his father down the stairs at an early age, pulling a bank job that was stopped by the Flash or actually killing multiple innocent speedsters as Reverse-Flash, he's utterly unable to accept responsibility for his own actions and how they've contributed to his life turning out, at one point flat-out lying to Wallace over having remorse for ''any'' of his crimes. He looked to have been finally subverting this as part of the Suicide Squad, but died before he could undergo a true HeelFaceTurn.
* OddFriendship: With Harley Quinn on the Suicide Squad. Notably, his inability to understand her reluctance to give up her AxCrazy ways play a big part in his own HeelRealisation.
* OnlySaneMan: Definitely comes across as this on his final mission with the Suicide Squad -- though, to be fair, this isn't hard on a team featuring Harley Quinn, Boomerang and Parasite...
* PetTheDog: Wallace's dream sequence in #18 of the 2016 series strongly indicates Daniel did try and be a positive influence on his (secret) son, encouraging him to study in order to get into a good college and taking him to a live hockey game as an incentive. It's not entirely clear how much of this is wishful thinking on Wallace's part though.
* PutOnABus: Professor Zoom's return to the comics led to this, as he was shunted to the ''New Suicide Squad'' comic before being (supposedly) KilledOffForReal there.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His "outfit".
* {{Retcon}}: Originally, he was Wallace West's uncle. After the original Wally returns, Daniel is retconned into being Wallace's father.
* 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 go back in time and prevent the event that estranged Iris from him and ruined his life. See FreudianExcuse above for details.
* SensorCharacter: Can sense those connected to the Speed Force.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When in "costume", his eyes are always a bright, glowing, uniform yellow.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Iris carving out a successful path for herself fueled Daniel's bitterness about how his life turned out and contributed to his StartOfDarkness.
* TimeMaster: He has the traditional speedster power set, but he can also "rewind" time -- the more Speed Force energy he has, the further back in time he can "rewind" to. By killing numerous other speedsters to absorb their speed, then temporarily stealing Barry's, he's able to go back in time to try and 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.
* TragicVillain: He clearly thinks he's this, and has at least some justification due to his abusive father and generally awful childhood. However, it's clear that in reality he's a selfish superpowered murderer who [[NeverMyFault cannot accept his own part in driving Iris away, and how his life in general has turned out]].
* TheUnfavourite: Daniel West's father hated him for supposedly causing the death of his wife and made no secret of the fact.
* UnknownRival: To the returned pre-''Flashpoint'' Eobard Thawne, who expressed [[PretenderDiss a distinct contempt]] for the idea of there being another Reverse-Flash in Barry's life. It's also true in a meta sense, as of the two Reverse-Flashes associated with Barry (Eobard and Daniel) Thawne is by far the one with the greatest impact on and significance to Barry's life, compared to Daniel's relatively brief tenure.
** Interestingly, it's also kinda subverted in practice -- Daniel was meant to be the original Reverse-Flash of the New 52, so there's no indication he ever knew of Thawne's pre-eminence with the title. From his point of view ''Eobard'' is actually the unknown one.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He's the major reason Future Flash became the way he did. Even Eobard can't boast causing such an enormous change in Barry's character.
** It was Reverse-Flash's use of time-travel to alter his own past in #24 that leads to the Speed Force rupture that causes Future Flash to "lose" time whenever he runs, leading him to be "late" for multiple tragedies, including...
** ...Daniel's accidental killing of Wallace/crippling of Iris in the future timeline, which is what leads the future Barry Allen to become so bitter and withdrawn.
** In addition, Daniel gets captured by Grodd at some point -- when the gorilla devours his brain, he becomes able to access the Speed Force and time travel. This leads to Grodd causing even more damage to the timeline, eventually prodding Future Flash into his StartOfDarkness by killing the gorilla, followed by his time-travelling to stop his enemies' worst excesses [[MurderIsTheBestSolution by ANY means]] and eventually [[IHatePastMe trying to kill his past self]].
* VillainDecay: Initially presented as a new ArchEnemy for Barry, Daniel lost his status and importance quickly after his introduction arc was over. He was unceremoniously moved to ''New Suicide Squad'' to make room for the reappearance of Professor Zoom after the latter [[RealLifeWritesThePlot gained a new level of recognition]] in the 2014 TV series -- then DroppedABridgeOnHim mid-HeelRealisation there. Meanwhile Thawne constantly made [[PretenderDiss snide remarks]] about Daniel's use of the name, not even acknowledging him as a successor like he did Hunter. Hunter himself was also later revealed to be alive, further distancing Daniel from the top of the Reverse-Flash chain. Additionally, in contrast to Eobard and Hunter, who both drove almost the entirety of the ''Rebirth'' run of ''The Flash'' in one way, Daniel was merely the villain of a single arc.
* [[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.
* VillainousLegacy: He's only present in ''The Flash'' for one major story arc ("Reverse") before moving to ''New Suicide Squad'' and [[spoiler: dying there]], but the memory of what he did and his relationship[ with Wallace continues to be a plot point in the ''Rebirth'' era, leading Wallace to search for the truth of what happened to him and why his father lied to him, eventually contributing to the rift between Flash and Kid Flash.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Develops this during his time on the Suicide Squad -- it's the principle motivation for his HeroicSacrifice, as otherwise the time bomb would have annihilated a village full of kids.

!!Other Evil Speedsters

[[folder:Johnny Quick]]
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Johnathan Allen (''Forever Evil'')
->'''First appearance:'''
->'''Hair color:''' Blond
->'''Eye color:''' Yellow

Johnny Quick is an evil doppelganger of The Flash from an alternate universe. He is a member of the Crime Syndicate, a team of supervillains paralleling the Justice League. See [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaCrimeSyndicate their page]].

[[folder:Speed Demon]]
-->''"I've got no money, thousands of dollars of damages against me, no wife and co-workers who remember me as an eight-foot-tall psychopath who tried to kill them."''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' 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.
* BodyHorror: Amping himself up with steroids and other implants left him disfigured. It required extensive operation to make him relatively human again.
* BriefAccentImitation: He occasionally puts on a corny faux-French accent to tease his wife.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: His costume was extremely high-tech, with an electronically metered, computer-controlled device that automatically injected steroids into him.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Went off the deep end after his ex-wife Tina shacked up with Wally West.
* DeadlyUpgrade: His self-experiments gave him super-speed and super-strength, but at the cost of his organs failing and collapsing.
* FaceHeelTurn: When Tina began having an affair with Wally (early into Wally's career as the Flash) while being estranged from her husband, Jerry used his super-speed research to turn himself into a hulking monstrosity, Speed Demon. His steroid research had already made him an abusive {{Jerkass}}, however, so turning himself into a monster was more JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
** HeelFaceTurn: Turned evil, then back to good.
* HappilyMarried: Following his HeelFaceTurn, he and Tina reconciled.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: He attempted to off the Flash for making the moves on his estranged wife.
* OneShotCharacter: His Speed Demon identity didn't actually last that very long, only for a single brief arc.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Used himself as a test subject for Steroid B-19.
* PsychoSerum: Steroid B-19 gave his SuperSpeed, but it also turned him into a psychotic killing machine; driven only by rage, malice, and heart break.
* SelfDisposingVillain: When he first attacked the Flash, without any real control over his powers, he ran straight into a power plant, which exploded.
* SuperSerum: Gained SuperSpeed via taking the experimental Steroid B-19.
* SuperSpeed: Top speed of 700 mph.
* SuperStrength: A side-effect of Speed Demon's experiments.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Once he and Tina reconciled, they became this.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the Johns run he's significantly heavier-set, has curly hair, and a much less prominent brow.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The speed he gained from his experiments caused him going off the rails. He got better later though.

[[folder:Blue Trinity]]
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The Blue Trinity was a team of Soviet speedsters created to battle the Flash.

* AlliterativeName: One of the team is named '''G'''regor '''G'''regorovich.
* PsychoSerum: The SuperSerum used to give the trio SuperSpeed and SuperStrength also rendered them emotionally unstable.
* RepetitiveName: One of the team is named Gregor Gregorovich.
* StrappedToABomb: Vandal Savage strapped bombs to Gregor in an attempt to use him to kill Wally West.
* SuperSerum: Soviet scientists created a serum which gave the trio SuperSpeed and SuperStrength.
* SuperSpeed
* SuperStrength

[[folder:Savitar]]
-->''After all...you are the one who showed me the face of God.''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Unknown

A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the Speed Force while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the Speed Force and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking 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.

* ArchEnemy: To Max Mercury.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He is the unquestioned leader of his cult, as well as the fastest member. In fact, his ninjas only have speed because he grants it to them.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: As of the 2021 annual for ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'']].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Wanted to join the Speed Force. He did, but the other speedsters make sure it's not a pleasant experience.
* ClothingSwitch: Subtly; after he returns from the Speed Force he revised his mask to yellow with red trim, like Professor Zoom.
* {{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.
* EvilMentor: In an alternate universe, he was this to Walter West.
* HeroKiller: His actions led directly to the deaths of Cassiopeia and Johnny Quick, and the near-deaths of Max Mercury and Wally West. [[spoiler:His return during ''Infinite Frontier'' also revealed he was the true cause of the explosion that killed most of the heroes at Sanctuary, not Wally's nervous breakdown like originally thought.]]
* HuskyRusskie: At six foot four he's easily the largest of the speedsters.
* ManaDrain: He is the first speedster to steal speed from others by using Speed Force. He hunts down other speedsters to gain enough power to unlock the Speed Force's secrets.
* NoNameGiven: His original identity is unknown, and he only answers to Savitar.
* TimeTravel: A battle against Max Mercury shifted him from the Cold War and into the present.
* UnexplainedRecovery: He is killed at the end of ''Dead Heat'', as the power of the Speed Force proves too much for him to handle and he is ripped apart, with Wally narrating that the other speedsters will make his afterlife an unpleasant one. He is suddenly alive again in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', only to die again shortly afterward because of Thawne's actions. [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' sees him come back yet again and he's revealed to be the true cause of the explosion in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' that killed the heroes in Sanctuary, not Wally.]]
* VillainousCrush: Develops one for Jesse Quick.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: After he tears off his robes during the fight with Wally, he only wears armor on his lower body and arms.

[[folder:Lady Flash/Lady Savage/Lady Savitar]]
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-> '''A.K.A.:''' Ivana Christina Borodin Molotova, Christina Alexandrova

A member of the Russian speedster team Blue Trinity, Christina was the only survivor of the team after they were captured by Vandal Savage, and she became his follower, Lady Savage. When he tried to kill her, she was saved by Wally, and became Lady Flash. She resurfaced years later as a devoted follower of Savitar, and his second-in-command.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Wally.
* BackFromTheDead: She appears in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' #5 alive and back to calling herself Lady Flash as a member of Russia's superteam, The People's Heroes. Interestingly, her Flash costume now has the same color scheme as her Blue Trinity uniform.
* ClingyJealousGirl: For Savitar. She tried to kill Jesse Quick over this, though in her defence, Savitar outright said he wanted Jesse to replace her.
** And before Savitar, she was this for Wally himself. She had a crush on Wally after he saved her from Vandal Savage and made sure Wally's honeymoon with Linda turned into a nightmare.
* TheDragon: To Vandal Savage and Savitar.
* DragonTheirFeet: Has worked for the USSR, Rudy West, Vandal Savage, and Savitar at various times, attaching herself to a new BigBad after the last one's defeat.
* EvilCounterpart: To Jesse Quick. She seeks the approval of Savitar like Jesse did with her father.
* {{Foil}}: Interestingly, she serves as one to Wally in many ways.
** Wally inherited the Flash mantle after Barry Allen died, and managed to hold onto his personality and do things with the title that Barry never achieved instead of becoming a carbon copy of Barry. Christina never really had an identity of her own, either sharing the group identity of "Blue Trinity" or being turned into a female knock-off of other characters (Flash, Vandal Savage, Savitar).
** Wally had a strong will and actively did things for himself as a character, while Christina mainly moved from master to master trying to find a purpose.
** Wally did struggle with worrying about doing right by Barry Allen's memory while seeking out to do his own thing, while Christina was a people pleaser more obsessed with currying the favor of whomever she was enthralled with.
* KilledOffForReal: By Barry when he was the Black Flash.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She's the Fastest ''Woman'' Alive, but notably thanks to her teachings from Savitar, it's shown she can drain the speed of others to empower herself further. Right before her death in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', she used this on the entire cult of Savitar and empowered herself to be so fast that neither Barry or Wally could ''see'' her, putting her on the same league as ''Hunter Zolomon'' (who, having been depowered shortly beforehand, was out of the picture, meaning that Christina was the Fastest ''Person'' Alive at the time).
* NominalHero: As Lady Flash.
* StatuesqueStunner: She has at least an inch on Wally, meaning she's over six feet tall.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Her death in ''The Flash: Rebirth'' is meant to be the moment where Barry and Wally realize Barry's turning into the new Black Flash.
* VillainousCrush: Had a bad one on Wally.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is often dyed purple, though it's naturally red.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Black Flash]]
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An anthromorphic personification of death created by the Speed Force 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. WordOfGod says he's just an aspect of [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death of the Endless]], but it was implied in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' that he is also an aspect of the Black Racer of the ComicBook/NewGods.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The anthropomorphic personification of Death for speedsters, who takes the form of a zombie-looking guy in a black Flash costume.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's not truly evil, but serves as the Grim Reaper.
* TheCameo: He disappeared after his "death", and never appeared in the New 52, with the closest thing being a Black Racer-possessed Barry Allen. However, the 2016 ''The Flash: Rebirth'' one-shot features him when Barry is remembering parts of his pre-''Flashpoint'' history.
* ColorCharacter: ''Black'' Flash.
* CompositeCharacter: In the New 52, when Barry Allen is possessed by the Black Racer, he has an appearance similar to Black Flash, but is otherwise still the Black Racer in that he deals death to ''everyone'' and not just Speedsters.
* HumanoidAbomination: A version of Death with SuperSpeed, manifesting as an undead version of the Flash.
* 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.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It kills Psych, who abused his Sage Force powers for petty crime.
* KilledOffForReal: Apparently, in ''The Flash: Rebirth''. It got better in the ''Rebirth'' continuity...then Zoom apparently killed it again.
* LegacyCharacter: Barry Allen became 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 Black Lantern form.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hot Pursuit]]
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 3 #6 (January 2011)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

A version of Barry Allen from a parallel universe, Hot Pursuit enters the main DCU just prior to ''Flashpoint'' in an attempt to stop a multitude of parallel Earths being wiped out by the impending catastrophe.
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* BadassBiker: Definitely. How many other bikers can say their bike is powered by the Speed Force?
* CoolBike: It's actually called the Cosmic Motorcycle, and can travel at speeds rivalling the Flash. It also can be collapsed into a baton.
* ForegoneConclusion: He spends his entire arc trying to stop whoever will be responsible for the ''Flashpoint'' event. Given that he's doing so in comics branded ''The Road to Flashpoint'' we can assume it doesn't end well
* KilledOffForReal: He's aged to death by the Reverse-Flash when the latter works out Hot Pursuit is another version of his ArchEnemy Barry Allen that he can kill without screwing up his own powers.
* KnightTemplar: He's not exactly evil, but he's willing to pursue extreme methods in order to save his parallel Earth and all the others that rely on the main DCU Earth.
* LawmanBaton: In a cool twist, it can transform into his bike.
* RiddleForTheAges: What universe does (did) he come from? We never learn, even when ''The Multiversity'' gives a look at the other Earths of the multiverse.
* SensorCharacter: A variant. His motorcycle can sense temporal anomalies that signal when his version of the Rogues are time-travelling, so he can move to stop them. It's what alerts him to ''Flashpoint'' and its impending rewriting of reality.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: He spends his sole arc hunting down the person manipulating the Speed Force to cause the oncoming ''Flashpoint'' disaster -- except he incorrectly assumes it's Bart when it's actually Eobard Thawne. Thawne kills him, and ''Flashpoint'' happens anyway.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's out to save the multiverse he knows from being wiped out by any means necessary -- and if that means killing Bart Allen to do it, then so be it.
* WouldHurtAChild: He tries to kill Bart to save reality -- though he does claim he's simply trying to send him back to his own time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Future Flash]]
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-->'''''Newsflash:''' virtue doesn't always win. Sometimes, it just gets people killed. Today, that person is '''you.''' ''
->'''A.K.A.:''' Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 4 #30 (April 2014)
->'''Hair color:''' Blonde
->'''Eye color:''' Blue

Barry Allen from twenty years in the future. He uses his powers to travel back to the present in order to kill Barry Allen to fix a rupture in the Speed Force that will lead to Wally West being killed. Wears a blue costume that seems to be constantly leaking energy.
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* AccidentalMurder: Well, ''most'' of his murders were decidedly [[KnightTemplar non-accidental,]] but he really didn't mean to kill Future-Wally. He was actually aiming at his past self, and Future-Wally jumped in the way.
* AntiVillain: He started out as idealistic and noble as Present-Barry, but years of being too late to stop horrendous tragedies (including Wally's death) have broken him down to the point where he genuinely believes [[MurderIsTheBestSolution killing criminals]] before they commit the crimes [[TimeyWimeyBall he ''knows'' they will]] is the best way to go about things -- and is willing to [[IHatePastMe kill his own past self]] to RetGone all these events from the timeline.
** Particularly jarring as at points (like delivering a ScareEmStraight to a terrified Trickster, time-travelling to be with Captain Cold as he dies or trying to be more involved in Wally's life) we can see the Barry we know is still in there.
* BaitAndSwitch: The solicitation for his first appearance ''heavily'' implied he was the pre-''Flashpoint'' Wally West. It specifically asked why "the fastest man alive", a line Wally is most famous for, would want Barry Allen dead. His costume, specifically the cowl, also invoked Wally's pre-''Flashpoint'' costume. The creative team ''also'' went on to state that Wally ''was'' on the cover of the issue. It didn't catch on, however, as people knew it was too obvious, and in the end, [=NuWally=] was the guy doing graffiti on the cover.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gives the future Grodd a particularly nasty one -- implants a micro-bomb in Grodd's ear-canal, knowing that for all the gorilla's strength and intelligence, Grodd's gorilla physiology (specifically the size of his hands) will prevent him digging it out. It [[OffWithHisHead blows Grodd's head off]] seconds later.
* 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.
* HeroicSacrifice: Both causes it and plays it straight in the same story. Present-Barry and Wally from five years in the future die trying to stop him (though it turns out Present-Barry isn't really dead later on). Then, once Present-Barry has returned, Future Flash sacrifices himself to stop William Selkirk, living 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 Speed Force, and his comments while attempting it mostly revolve around him chewing out his younger self for being naive and failing as a steward of the power. 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.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Let Wally die and never stopped blaming himself.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His RoaringRampageOfRevenge is a ''long'' line of these -- he kills [[OffWithHisHead Grodd]], [[NeckSnap Reverse-Flash]] and [[StormOfBlades Mirror Master]] for causing major tragedies in his life. That the latter two [[TimeyWimeyBall technically haven't committed them yet]] [[KnightTemplar doesn't bother him in the slightest]].
* KillAndReplace: After he believes he's killed present-day Barry (he hasn't) he does this, replacing Barry in the present-day with an eye to killing all the villains that would go on to cause Central City grief in the future.
* LikeASonToMe: He loved future Wally II as his own son. His death at Reverse-Flash's hands is one of the major things that drove his StartOfDarkness.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Believes that murdering villains is the best way to fix the mistakes he failed to stop the first time around, and his method of sealing the wound in the Speed Force is to kill a speedster in front of it so the energy their death releases will cauterise it. When he steals the present day Barry's life, he states he intends to kill every murderer that escaped justice -- regardless of whether or not they've actually committed their crimes yet.
* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Wally die.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After he accidentally kills Wally from five years in the future.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When he tells Future-Iris he can "repair the damage" (including Wally's death) by going back in time, she immediately points out that he sounds remarkably close to Daniel/Reverse-Flash's line of thinking.
* ParentalSubstitute: Tries to be this for present-Wally after his KillAndReplace with present-Barry. We don't see much of it, but he was definitely this for the future version of Wally -- one of the reasons his death at Reverse-Flash's hands played such a huge role in Barry's eventual FaceHeelTurn.
* PetTheDog: He notably ''doesn't'' kill The Trickster for the bank job that resulted in the death of a family -- as he knew from the future that it had been a complete accident on Axel's part, one he'd [[DrivenToSuicide originally taken his own life over]]. That he tried a ScareEmStraight indicated Barry's morality wasn't ''completely'' gone.
* SanitySlippage: Years of being too late to prevent numerous tragedies (including Future-Wally's death and Future-Iris' crippling) have not done good things to his psyche.
* ScareEmStraight: While he's a big believer in MurderIsTheBestSolution, he doesn't always go for it -- one of his time-travel escapades sees him thoroughly terrifying the Trickster into not going ahead with a robbery that would have resulted in the accidental deaths of a family, including a one-month old baby girl. As the future Trickster [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was so broken up by this]] he'd [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]], Future Flash elected to invoke this trope with the past version, giving him a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech before departing.
* SecretIdentity: Surprisingly, kept his identity secret from Iris until his forties!
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His goal, though it's played up as a villainous thing.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's basically a more evil Walter West, the Dark Flash: a dark version of the protagonist Flash from the future who's suffered a great tragedy that makes him more brutal, and he goes back in time to take his past self's place. Both are also generally portrayed as more skilled than their past counterparts (though Wally was ''faster'' than Walter; he just didn't have some of the skills), and have blue lightning. The difference is Walter respected Wally and kept his darker tendencies in check, whereas Future Flash hates his past self and doesn't hold anything back.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Grodd invokes this when Future Flash confronts him, taunting him that their fights often end with Barry running away because he won't kill him. Unfortunately, this time Future Flash decides to dispense with it entirely. It [[OffWithHisHead doesn't end well]] for Grodd.
* TimeyWimeyBall: His banishing of Barry to the past (though he thinks he's killed him) somehow de-ages him to Barry's current age (about mid-20s), allowing him to pull a KillAndReplace with Past Barry.
* TronLines: Even more than the ''New 52'' Flash, as his seem to be leaking energy at all times. He apparently upgraded his suit many times in the twenty years since the present.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His use of the "vibrating hand" technique to murder [[AssholeVictim a future campus killer]]. Patty Spivot picks up on it, having previously seen an autopsy on someone else killed in the same way by Reverse-Flash. Knowing Reverse-Flash is in jail, it leads her to realise another speedster is the killer. And as [[KillAndReplace "Barry"]] had been [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness acting rather suspiciously lately]], it eventually clues her in that he's not all he seems.
* VibroWeapon: A further sign of how far he's fallen -- like Reverse-Flash and Professor Zoom he can kill people by vibrating his hand through them, disrupting the organic processes of the body part -- like the heart -- he phases though.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is trying to stop all of space and time from being torn apart by a rupture in the Speed Force, and save everybody that the effects of the rupture made him too late to save -- especially Wally. He plans to do this by killing his past self and anyone that gets in his way.
* WhatTheHellHero: Catches an ''epic'' one from Patty after he claims that not killing Overload is a sign he can become the Flash he used to be once more.
--> '''Patty:''' Let me get this straight -- I should be '''grateful''' because you '''didn't murder''' someone?!
* WorthyOpponent: Admires the future Captain Cold enough as this (as well as his going straight and joining the Justice League) that unlike all his other time travel trips, where he stops a particularly bad crime (usually by [[MurderIsTheBestSolution killing the perpetrator]]), he specifically travels to the time of Leonard's death so he can be with him as he dies, something he says he missed the first time around.
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[[folder:Godspeed]]
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-->''"Y'know...when I was trying to come up with a code name for myself, I thought of calling myself the new and improved Flash. Because you clearly weren't cutting it. But instead...I realized that with these powers...I am '''judge''', '''jury''' and '''executioner'''. So I call myself...'''Godspeed'''."''
->'''A.K.A.:''' August Heart
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 5 #1 (June 2016)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

A cop of the Central City police, August's brother was killed years ago. The killer was found not guilty, but August never stopped trying to prove that he was. Then one day, an accident grants him super speed and a connection to the Speed Force. The same machine would grant powers to other Central City citizens. Thinking that they were wasting their gifts, August began killing them and stealing their speed, and later dubbed himself Godspeed.
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* AccidentalMurder: If his rant to Barry in issue #7 of the post-''Rebirth'' series is to be believed, he didn't actually mean to kill any of the speedsters he murdered - he simply didn't understand how to use his powers to strip the speed from them safely at that point.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has a tanned skin but his full ethnicity hasn't been stated so far.
* AntiHero: What he claims to be, even though he's clearly a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist.
* AntiVillain: He's meant to be skirting this trope as an {{Expy}} of Hunter Zolomon, even though his MoralMyopia prevents him from being a full example.
** [[HeelRealization He realizes his wrong ways later on]] but this time he wants to regain Barry's trust as well thus putting himself on a RedemptionQuest.
* TheAtoner: Incarceration seems to have done him some good - despite Barry's obvious mistrust, he helped him uncover the Rogues' operation in Iron Heights, saving Barry's life in the process and displaying a sincere desire to stay in Iron Heights until Barry forgave him. Later, when Black Hole and its leader [[spoiler:Grodd]] take over the city, Barry frees him - and August displays considerable restraint, cautioning Barry against getting obsessed with regaining his speed and aiding the Flash Family against Negative Flash.
* BadassInDistress: He tries to turn on [[spoiler:Paradox]] when he reveals he's been GoodAllAlong, but is swiftly beaten down and used to power the villain's Cosmic Treadmill until Barry and [[spoiler:Eobard]] save him.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: He was briefly Barry's partner after an accident granted him Speed Force powers, but soon turned to brutal vigilante justice after Barry refused to contemplate using lethal force on his enemies.
* ChestInsignia: In keeping with his seeing himself as a superior version of the Flash, his costume sports a lightning bolt motif reminiscent of Barry's.
* CompositeCharacter: He's a combination of two versions of Hunter Zolomon:
** Like the comic book version of Zoom, he is a FriendOnTheForce to a Flash and his push to villainy is fuelled by Barry's refusal to contemplate killing his enemies (like Professor Zoom). He also has a tragic failure in his past that motivates him and wants to show Flash that there is a [[PayEvilUntoEvil better way]] to handle his enemies.
** And like the [[Series/TheFlash2014 TV show]] version of Zoom, he wears a similar suit (only with reverse colors), uses clones to mislead people on his secret identity and hunts down other speedsters to gain more power and become the greatest speedster.
** He also borrows certain aspects of other New 52 era speedster villains -- [[SerialKiller hunting down other speedsters]] to steal the speed they gained in a freak accident isn't a million miles away from the Daniel West incarnation of Reverse-Flash, while his firm belief in [[MurderIsTheBestSolution killing criminals to prevent future atrocities]] calls to mind the philosophy of Future Flash.
* CurbStompBattle: Doles out one of these to Barry once his ability to create a Speed Force copy is revealed.
* DeathSeeker: Whoever saved him from the Negative Speed Force storm that was consuming Central City strongly implies he'd intended to die there in order to gain redemption.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Genuinely loved his brother -- his inability to bring his murderer to justice is what fuelled his StartOfDarkness.
** Despite all he's done to Barry, he does care about him in his own twisted way.
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Tells Barry he's sorry for Wally's apparent death in ''Heroes in Crisis'', especially since their fight comes right after Barry learns about it.]]
-->'''Unknown figure:''' You told him you were sorry for his loss. Why?\\
'''August:''' So you were listening in? [[spoiler:I only met Wally West the one time. But I know he meant a lot to Barry...I can't imagine what kind of pain he's in...and then I rush in and twist the knife...didn't sit right with me to say nothing.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He genuinely can't understand why Barry is so opposed to his methods once his true nature is revealed. At one point he tries to kill Thawne and the rest of the Flash villains in Iron Heights in the belief that Barry "deserves" to be happy -- oblivious to the fact it's the ''last'' thing Barry wants.
* EvilFormerFriend: He's genuinely friends with Barry, and it shows...but he still hates that the Flash never got his brother's killer arrested. Even after he's revealed as Godspeed, he still refers to Barry as a friend, and attempts to murder the imprisoned Professor Zoom on his behalf.
* EvilIsPetty: When Barry confronts him he admits that he was originally going to call himself The New and Improved Flash, seemingly out of sheer spite.
* {{Expy}}: His motivations, relationship with Barry and ability to completely outspeed him bear a huge resemblance to Hunter Zolomon/Zoom from the pre-New 52 comics. He's got a huge amount in common with the TV show version of Hunter as well -- the way he hunts down other speedsters to gain more power, his ability to create copies of himself (TV Hunter through Time Remnants, August straight from the Speed Force) ''and'' his costume (albeit a color-flipped one compared to TV Zoom).
* {{Foil}}: To Barry. Like Barry, the justice system failed him and he never moved past it. However, where Barry would later prove his father's innocence and get him released from jail, August's brother was ''killed'' and August could not prove his killer's guilt.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Paradox saves his life, then makes Godspeed carry out his mysterious anti-Flash agenda. In their encounter with him in ''Flash Annual'' #2, Barry and Meena notice August is scared and reluctant to do what he's being made to do.
* GenreSavvy: When he gets powers via being hit by Speed Force lightning, he recalls Barry having something similar happen and immediately works out Barry is the Flash because of it.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He's Barry's ally, then enemy, then frenemy then forced to be his enemy then ''actually'' his enemy again...all the more impressive given this isn't due to changing writers. It's usually due to circumstances and August's choices.
* HeelRealization: According to his own words, he's done some self-reflection during his imprisonement in Iron Heights and came to realization of his own wrong doings. He helps Barry out against The Rogues but he still believes he has to earn his redemption himself as well.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: After becoming Godspeed, the "Perfect Storm" arc notes he dedicated himself to tracking down Black Hole and even worked out who was leading it - but Barry caught him before he could do anything about it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Murders a load of speedsters by creating a speed vortex to steal their speed -- but when [[spoiler: Barry and Wally (non-fatally) do the same to him he's appalled, unable to believe that Barry would risk putting him a coma, or worse.]]
* InstantCostumeChange: When he reveals himself as Godspeed to Barry his costume appears to manifest from the lightning motif on his chest of his original costume, flowing over him organically like Barry's and those of both Wallys -- suggesting he's able to summon it from the Speed Force.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's already hotheaded and a bit of a jerk when we're introduced to his character, but [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Barry believes he's a good man]], and he appears to be on the verge of becoming a superhero in subsequent issues. However when he reveals his true intentions and identity as Godspeed, his lack of remorse or any reaction about accidentally murdering people and his mocking attitude (especially concerning Meena and Barry's doomed relationship) reveals he isn't any better deep down either. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] later on; "A Cold Day in Hell" and "Perfect Storm" arcs are portraying him as a [[TookALevelInKindness nicer person]] once he becomes TheAtoner. All too aware of his crimes, he genuinely aids a mistrustful Barry against the Rogues and later (once Barry frees him) Black Hole. He even displays shock when Kid Flash speculates whether Barry freed him solely so he could kill [[spoiler:Grodd]]. He's still a bit of an ass though, as his not-exactly-sincere apology to [[spoiler:Meena]] for killing her shows.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: As the above quote demonstrates, this is what he considers himself to be.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Once he gets speedster powers, August turns from FriendOnTheForce (with a dash of KnightTemplar) to NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity waaay too quickly.]]
** To put things in perspective, Hunter Zolomon took years of stories and [[DrivenToVillainy multiple personal disasters]] before he reached his breaking point and became Zoom. August's time from introduction to his reveal as Godspeed? ''Six issues''. In fact, Godspeed shows up in issue #3 of the 2016 series 3 issues before he's revealed as August, indicating he invoked this trope pretty much instantly.
* KickTheDog: When Barry protests Meena's death, August cruelly points out he barely knew her, and that they weren't "some great love affair for the ages."
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Tellingly, his first victims as Godspeed were speedsters imprisoned in Iron Heights, who had used their newfound powers to go on a crime spree.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He's murdered by the Reverse-Flash at the close of the "Paradox" arc.]]
* KnightTemplar: He isn't going to let little things like due process stop him fighting crime.
* LightIsNotGood: His costume looks like a holy light version of Zoom from the 2014 Flash TV series, but he's a serial killer who targets speedsters.
* TheMatchmaker: Does this with Barry and Meena. [[spoiler:Though he doesn't genuinely believe in their relationship.]]
* MeaningfulName: Subverted. You'd think August ''Heart'' would be one of the good guys, and he's initially painted this way. Instead, he turns out to be a completely unempathetic [[TheSociopath sociopath]] once he gets speedster powers.
* MoralMyopia: He considers himself to have the moral high ground -- after he's already murdered quite a few innocent speedsters. He excuses this, saying those people were just wasting their powers away.
* MurderByMistake: Once he gets his powers he takes the time to kill the man he believes was responsible for his brother's death by dragging him along the ground at SuperSpeed. After he's incarcerated Barry does some digging in his CSI role and proves beyond doubt the man was innocent, invoking this trope full-force.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Godspeed's motto. When he's dealing with one of the Black Hole group, he notes to himself that he could just tap the guy at superspeed and knock him unconscious -- but that wouldn't keep Central City safe in the future. Cue [[OffWithHisHead instantaneous decapitation...]]
* NeckSnap: How [[spoiler:Reverse-Flash kills him]].
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Barry breaks him out in order to aid in regaining his speed, August invokes this, cautioning that Barry sounds like he did when he became obsessed with the Speed Force.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He thinks Flash needs to take more extreme actions against his enemies -- at the same time he's powering himself up murdering innocent speedsters because [[MoralMyopia "they didn't deserve to have that power"]]. Way to go August.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: A firm believer in this. He would have killed a helpless Eobard Thawne for the murder of Barry's mother [[spoiler:if not for the intervention of Kid Flash.]]
* PretenderDiss: Declares himself part of the Flash Family. In ''Flash Annual #2'', Barry informs him he's not, while slamming August through the scenery.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite never appearing in the previous New 52 comics, August is apparently a longtime friend of Barry from police department and he's the last person Barry talks to before he is hit by the infamous lightning.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Prior to the reveal, Barry considers him one for the original Wally West after the latter grows out of the Kid Flash mantle.
* TheResenter: Has a grudge against Flash (and Barry by extension) for not catching his brother's killer. This resentment culminates in Godspeed, where August believes he's a better hero than Flash for [[PayEvilUntoEvil not letting villains get away with their crimes]]. Seemingly subverted in his post-imprisonment appearances, where he seems to have let go of his anger towards Barry.
* SecretKeeper: He's the first person in the ''Rebirth'' comics to figure out Barry's secret identity and Barry personally trains him for a while. After he's arrested, becomes a villainous version, still keeping Barry's secret -- as well as the identity of Black Hole's leader.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:How his death comes across. All his early actions are driven by his need to find his brother's killer, and he brutally kills those he thought responsible. He gradually begins to atone, even aiding Barry once more, and looks to be on the road to redemption - then he's murdered by the Reverse-Flash after they stop Paradox together, who not only reveals [[GreaterScopeVillain he killed August's brother]], but that in the future he's destined to be forgotten]].
** Partially undone later - [[spoiler:Barry ends up using the Speed Force to ground Eobard in the current timeline, undoing his ParadoxPerson status and "resetting" him to the NiceGuy curator of the Flash museum in the 25th century - which has a full section on Godspeed!]]
* TheSociopath: He has no qualms whatsoever about killing criminals -- but more than that he shows ''zero'' remorse about killing innocent people or murdering the wrong man in the name of revenge. Furthermore August may consider Barry as his friend but he's not above mocking him for the loss of his one time girlfriend, or failing to show any feelings towards anyone who isn't his late brother.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Godspeed's role in Flash's life -- the EvilFormerFriend who preaches a [[MurderIsTheBestSolution different philosophy]] to an unwilling hero -- is ''very'' suspiciously similar to Hunter Zolomon's role in Wally West's life, to the degree you can say he was created to give Barry a Zoom-like villain without using the original Wally's ArchEnemy.
* TrappedInVillainy: [[spoiler:His reappearance in ''Flash Annual 2'' has him working for an unknown villain with a grudge against the Flashes (later revealed as Paradox). Barry and Meena notice there's something seriously off with him, but he's unable or unwilling to tell them what.]]
* VigilanteExecution: Does NOT mess around when dealing with the Black Hole terrorists he believes were connected with his brother's death -- he vibrates two of them so that [[AndIMustScream they merge with the wall while still alive]] and hits another at full force while running at full speed, [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].
* VigilanteMan: Once he's revealed as Godspeed, he becomes this full-bore -- using methods similar to Barry's to stop criminals, but with lethal force.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Barry a toned-down one in #42, speculating Barry broke him out instead of going to either Wally so that the more morally-dubious August would give him a pass on doing whatever it took to get his speed back - then Barry would be safe to blame his actions on Godspeed after it was all over. To both men's surprise, August isn't playing ball.
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[[folder:Fast Track/Negative Flash]]
-->''"Remember, the speed doesn't define who you are. You define who you are. But having super-speed is awesome."''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Meena Dhawan
->'''First appearance:''' ''The Flash'' vol. 5 #3 (August 2016)
->'''Hair color:''' Black
->'''Eye color:''' Brown

Meena Dhawan was a scientist working for S.T.A.R. Labs and one of the many people in Central City empowered by a Speed Force storm. Meena worked with the Flash as the superhero, Fast Track, and had even formed a romantic relationship with Barry shortly before being murdered by Godspeed. Meena was resurrected and subsequently [[{{FaceHeelTurn}} recruited by Black Hole]], a terrorist organization formed by Gorilla Grodd in his latest attempt to dominate the Speed Force. She later absorbed the powers of a then Negative Speed Force-infected Barry and became the Negative Flash.
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* CoolUncle: He was Wallace West's ParentalSubstitute until he was retconned into his actual father.

* VillainDecay: Initially presented as a new ArchEnemy for Barry, Daniel lost his status and importance quickly after his introduction arc was over. He was unceremoniously moved to ''New Suicide Squad'' to make room for the reappearance of Professor Zoom after the latter [[RealLifeWritesThePlot gained a new level of recognition]] in the 2014 TV series -- then DroppedABridgeOnHim mid-HeelRealisation there. Meanwhile Thawne constantly made [[PretenderDiss snide remarks]] about Daniel's use of the name, not even acknowledging him as a successor like he did Hunter.
** ''Rebirth'' had Barry regain some of his pre-''Flashpoint'' memories and start referring to Thawne as the first Reverse-Flash once more, displacing him completely from even sole use of the Reverse-Flash name. Hunter Zolomon was also later revealed to be alive, further distancing him from the top of the Reverse-Flash chain.

* VillainousLegacy: He's only in the series for one major story arc ("Reverse") before moving to ''New Suicide Squad'' and [[spoiler: dying there]], but the memory of what he did and how he misused his powers continues to be a plot point in the ''Rebirth'' era, leading Wallace to search for the truth of what happened to him and eventually contributing to the rift between Flash and Kid Flash.

* EvilUncle: To Wally West. The younger Wallace grows up believing him to be his uncle as well but it turns out that ''[[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo he's actually his father]]''.

* EvilUncle: To the elder [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead Flash]] Wallace West. The younger Wallace grows up believing him to be his uncle as well but it turns out that ''[[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo he's actually his father]]''.

* NotSoDifferent: When he tells Future-Iris he can "repair the damage" (including Wally's death) by going back in time, she immediately points out that he sounds remarkably close to Daniel/Reverse-Flash's line of thinking.

* NotSoDifferent: When Barry breaks him out in order to aid in regaining his speed, August invokes this, cautioning that Barry sounds like he did when he became obsessed with the Speed Force.

** Making this trope even more pertinent, the Rogues were ''livid'' they'd been taken advantage of in such a manner ([[RealityEnsues and were now wanted for murder to boot]]) -- so when he finally escaped the aforementioned statue situation, they [[KarmicDeath blasted him to death]] not long after.

* RealityEnsues: When he gets powers via being hit by Speed Force lightning, he recalls Barry having something similar happen and immediately works out Barry is the Flash because of it.

* HeroKiller: His actions lead directly to the deaths of Cassiopeia and Johnny Quick, and the near-deaths of Max Mercury and Wally West. [[spoiler:His return during ''Infinite Frontier'' also revealed he was the true cause of the explosion that killed the heroes at Sanctuary, not Wally's nervous breakdown like originally thought.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Suffers from this after he tricks the Rogues into killing Bart Allen. Wally West comes to consider Thad as an irredeemable monster, and the Rogues hate him for sticking them with a murder charge. Even Zoom hates him, having [[VillainRespect respected Bart]] for doing his best to become a better hero.
** [[spoiler:Averted in ''Flash'' #760, where [[AllLovingHero Barry Allen]] sympathetically describes him as a "kid in pain".]]

* HeroKiller: His actions lead directly to the deaths of Cassiopeia and Johnny Quick, and the near-deaths of Max Mercury and Wally West.

The ArchEnemy of Barry Allen for nearly 60 years, Eobard Thawne's loathing of the second Flash has extended from the Silver Age through to the ''Rebirth'' era, being responsible for numerous tragedies for the Flash family. Sadistic, brutal and consumed by envy of Barry, Thawne is probably the most influential and enduring of the evil speedsters. For a complete list of tropes regarding him, please see [[ComicBook/EobardThawne his own page]].

Formerly a friend and ally to Wally West, Hunter Zolomon would be twisted and driven to desperation by a series of personal tragedies, eventually trying to use the Cosmic Treadmill to travel back in time to fix his life. The fallout from this gave him incredible powers but warped his sanity and worldview, leading him to take up the Reverse-Flash costume and become Wally's ArchEnemy Zoom. For a complete list of tropes regarding him, please see [[ComicBook/HunterZolomon his own page]].

* BackfromtheDead: [[spoiler: As of the 2021 annual for ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'']].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Due to Thawne's interference in the Speed Force, Barry ends up effectively aging Savitar to death with a single touch.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: He is killed at the end of ''Dead Heat'', as the power of the Speed Force proves too much for him to handle and he is ripped apart, with Wally narrating that the other speedsters will make his afterlife an unpleasant one. He is suddenly alive again in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', only to die again shortly afterward because of Thawne's actions.

* BackfromtheDead: [[spoiler: As of the 2021 annual for TheFlashInfiniteFrontier]].

* PyschoSerum: The SuperSerum used to give the trio SuperSpeed and SuperStrength also rendered them emotionally unstable.
* RepetetiveName: One of the team is named Gregor Gregorovich.

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[[folder:Savitar]]
-->''After all...you are the one who showed me the face of God.''
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->'''A.K.A.:''' Unknown

A Cold War pilot for a third-world nation who was granted powers by the Speed Force while testing an experimental supersonic jet. Driven mad, Savitar became obsessed with the Speed Force and his new-found powers, forming a twisted cult dedicated to studying it and unlocking 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.

A mysterious speedster introduced in the New 52, murdering those associated with a connection to the Speed Force. He's revealed to be Iris West's criminal brother Daniel, who got his powers when he crashed into a monorail carrying a Speed Force battery. After his defeat, he was imprisoned and later conscripted onto the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]/AgeLift: Originally, he's about 24 when he becomes Reverse-Flash, as he's explicitly said to have been caught by the Flash on his eighteenth birthday, and the current stories took at best a year to play out. Age Lift may be in effect in order to make him the father of Wallace West, who is at least 16 in the ''Rebirth'' era, at the start of which their relationship was revealed. Eventually, the a flashback is shown that depicts him as a teenager or adult during the birth of ''Wally'' West, which does mean he got an Age Lift to make his relationship with Wallace mroe believable.

* FreudianExcuse: His mother died during his birth and his father was an abusive drunk. When his dad pushed him over the edge, he 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. 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.

He is also the CoolUncle of Wally West II, later retconned into being his father.

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]/AgeLift: Originally, he's about 24 when he becomes Reverse-Flash, as he's explicitly said to have been caught by the Flash on his eighteenth birthday, and the current stories took at best a year to play out. Age Lift may be in effect in order to make him the father of Wally West II, who is at least 16 in the ''Rebirth'' era, at the start of which their relationship was revealed.

* AccidentalMurder: While the ''Flash'' issue in which we see the aftereffects doesn't go into detail, ''Futures End'' strongly implies his killing Wally (and crippling Iris) in the future was not intentional on his part.

* CoolUncle: He was Wally West II's ParentalSubstitute until he was retconned into his actual father.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He is killed in ''New Suicide Squad'' to make way for Professor Zoom to be the prime evil speedster again. On top of all that, his death isn't even mentioned in the main Flash book until the post-''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' Flash comic's ongoing subplot about the younger Wally West trying to find out more about his father, including his time as Reverse-Flash - but that only ended up confirming Daniel was KilledOffForReal.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's sincere about his love for 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. More complex with Wally II -- all indications are he genuinely tried with his son and wanted him to make more of himself than Daniel ever did, but wasn't above lying to Wally II regarding his remorse over his crimes.

** Also, more obviously to his son Wally II (aka Kid Flash) once the latter gains his speedster powers. Both come from broken households and have criminal backgrounds (though Wally was only getting started with his before Barry intervened) -- but in this case Wally is determined to not go down his father's path in life.

* EvilUncle: To the elder [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead Flash]] Wally West. The younger Wally grows up believing him to be his uncle as well but it turns out that ''[[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo he's actually his father]]''.

* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: During Wally West II's introduction, he was said to be the CoolUncle Wally idolized. With ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'''s retcon, he's revealed to actually be Wally's father.

* NeverMyFault: His defining character trait. Whether it's pushing his father down the stairs at an early age, pulling a bank job that was stopped by the Flash or actually killing multiple innocent speedsters as Reverse-Flash, he's utterly unable to accept responsibility for his own actions and how they've contributed to his life turning out, at one point flat-out lying to Wally over having remorse for ''any'' of his crimes. He looked to have been finally subverting this as part of the Suicide Squad, but died before he could undergo a true HeelFaceTurn.

* PetTheDog: Wally's dream sequence in #18 of the 2016 series strongly indicates Daniel did try and be a positive influence on his (secret) son, encouraging him to study in order to get into a good college and taking him to a live hockey game as an incentive. It's not entirely clear how much of this is wishful thinking on Wally's part though.

* {{Retcon}}: Originally, he was Wally West II's uncle. After the original Wally returns, Daniel is retconned into being Wally II's father.

** ...Daniel's accidental killing of Wally/crippling of Iris in the future timeline, which is what leads the future Barry Allen to become so bitter and withdrawn.

* VillainousLegacy: He's only in the series for one major story arc ("Reverse") before moving to ''New Suicide Squad'' and [[spoiler: dying there]], but the memory of what he did and how he misused his powers continues to be a plot point in the ''Rebirth'' era, leading Wally to search for the truth of what happened to him and eventually contributing to the rift between Flash and Kid Flash.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He is the unquestioned leader of his cult, as well as the fastest member of it. In fact, his ninjas only have speed because he grants it to them.

* UnexplainedRecovery: He is killed at the end of ''Dead Heat'', as the power of the Speed Force proves too much for him to handle and he is ripped apart, with Wally narrating that the other speedsters will make his afterlife an unpleasant one. He is suddenly alive again in The Flash: Rebirth, only to die again shortly afterward because of Thawne's actions.

** Wally inherited the Flash mantle after Barry Allen died, and managed to hold onto his personality and do things with the title that Barry never achieved instead of becoming a carbon copy of Barry. Christina never really had an identity of her own, either sharing the group identity of "Blue Trinity" or being turned into a female knock off of other characters (Flash, Vandal Savage, Savitar).

* KickTheSonOfABitch: It kills Psych, who abused his Sage Force given powers for petty crime.

* LegacyCharacter: Barry Allen became 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.

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 to fix a rupture in the Speed Force that will lead to Wally West being killed. Wears a blue costume that seems to be constantly leaking energy.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He's murdered by the Reverse-Flash as the close of the "Paradox" arc.]]