Title Character
The Flashes (Barry Allen | Wally West)
Supporting Characters
The Flash Family | Other Speedsters
Rogues Gallery
Evil Speedsters | The Reverse-Flashes (Eobard Thawne | Hunter Zolomon) | The Rogues
Golden Age Flash Villains
Black Widow
A one-time enemy of the Golden Age Flash, the Black Widow is Princess Helene. She is a widowed gangster who robbed men, but instead of killing them, her magic wine turned them into animals, which she added to her menagerie. She met her end by drinking the wine herself and turning into a black widow spider, and was promptly stepped on by one of her lionesses.
- The Beastmaster: She collects exotic animals, including lions, chimpanzees, leopards, and cheetahs.
The Fiddler
Alter Ego: Isaac Bowin
First Appearance: All-Flash #32 (January, 1948)
A classically-trained musician who knows how to play magically-enhanced music that can not only hypnotize people, but also destroy objects and create sonic walls. Bowin used his skills to become a professional thief and menaced the Flash many times before a brief retirement.
- 10-Minute Retirement: He retired for a short time, but decided to get back into supervillainy. This attempt ended badly to say the least.
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- Bald of Evil: Is bald as an egg, but wears a long white wig.
- Deal with the Devil: In one version of his origin, this is how he learned to play his magical music.
- Evil Old Folks: Perhaps the oldest member of Flash's rogues gallery.
- Evil Twin: Of a successful violinist, Maestro Bowen.
- Green and Mean: His costume is green and he's a criminal.
- Instrument of Murder: Although primarily a Musical Assassin, Bowin would occasionally use gimmicked violins containing blades or guns.
- Killed Off for Real: In his old age, the Fiddler tried out for the Secret Six. It didn't go well; Mockingbird made Deadshot execute him for his failure.
- Legacy Character: The Fiddler had a female successor named Virtuosa whom has only ever appeared in books featuring the Secret Six.
- Magic Music: The Fiddler possesses magical abilities that he channels through his violins.
- Meaningful Name: Bowin, as in 'bowing'; i.e. playing a violin with a bow.
- Mind-Control Music: The Fiddler is a master hypnotist who can focus his abilities through his violin.
- Musical Assassin
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Averted. Despite being a classically-trained musician and owning a Stradivarius, Bowin insists upon calling it a fiddle.
Golden Age Star Sapphire
First Appearance: All-Flash #32 (January, 1948)
A woman of unknown name from an unknown world, this Star Sapphire was chosen by the Zamarons to be their champion years before the Star Sapphire Corps was formed. She was found unworthy, however, and was banished to the Seventh Dimension. Jay Garrick, The Flash, battled her twice when she escaped. Her connection to later-day Star Sapphires was only made in her third appearance 60 years later.
- Designated Girl Fight: With all the men banished, Joan and other women tried to fight her, but she used her powers to spin them around until they started to disintegrate from the friction. Jay helped get them back to normal.
- Dimension Lord: She's the queen of the Seventh Dimension and has control over all its facets.
- Does Not Like Men: She banished all men from Earth, including the Flash, in her second appearance.
- Multiversal Conqueror: She tried to take over all dimensions at least twice.
- No Name Given: She doesn't have a name, unless her name is Star Sapphire as opposed to it being a title.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In a meta sense, as while she started as and remains a Flash villain the Star Sapphire name became associated with Green Lantern.
- Smug Snake: She's very fond of boasting how her seventh dimension powers make her unstoppable, but is quick to panic when her plans fail.
- Time Master: One of her powers is control over the fifth dimension, time, which Jay combats with his speed.
Midget Joe
Alter Ego: Joe
First Appearance: Flash Comics #45 (September, 1943)
Midget Joe is a gangster the size of a child who tries to use his size to pass as a baby or small child to fool the Flash on a few occasions.
- Adults Dressed as Children: Posing as a child is Joe's major shtick.
- Mister Big: Midget Joe is a vicious gangster the size of a small child.
Rag Doll
Alter Ego: Peter Merkel
First Appearance: Flash Comics #36 (December, 1942)
A supervillain born with a rare ability, triple-jointedness, which enabled him to bend his arms and legs in astonishing ways.
- Abusive Parents: He has multiple children. He treated his son Peter Jr. horribly because he wasn't born with the same triple-jointed capabilities and had extensive surgery to replicate it, while his daughter Alex he raped and sexually abused multiple times, leading to her committing self-mutilation and becoming the monster known as Junior.
- Contortionist: Rag Doll is naturally triple-jointed, which allows him extreme flexibility, as well as durability and some elasticity.
- Cult: At one point, the increasingly senile Rag Doll, in extreme pain due to the deterioration of his body, begins ranting and wandering the streets. He soon finds himself the leader of a cult of the disenfranchised.
- Deal with the Devil: The aging Merkel sold his soul to Neron in exchange for having his youth and physical prowess restored.
- Dodge the Bullet: In his prime, Merkel was fast and flexible enough to dodge bullets.
- Fountain of Youth: Had his youth restored by the demon Neron.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He started off as a fairly goofy yet standard villain. Then as he got older and grew senile he amassed followers listening to his rants until he formed a cult that terrorized America. Then he sold his soul to Neron to regain his lost youth. And during all of that he'd been abusing his children in every sense possible, especially his daughter Alex who "was his favorite."
- Monster Clown: Depending on the Artist some modern artists draw Merkel's costume to look more like a clown than a rag doll.
- Parental Favoritism: Twisted in regards to his children. His son Peter Jr. was The Unfavorite because he didn't naturally inherit his dad's triple-jointed capabilities. His daughter Alex was his favorite, which he demonstrated by sexually abusing her until it drove her insane.
- Parental Incest: Was fond of raping his daughter Alex over and over again to the point her mind completely shattered.
The Shade
Alter Ego: Richard Swift
First Appearance: Flash Comics #33 (September, 1942)
A somewhat-reformed supervillain/humanoid thing with the mystical power to control darkness. After numerous run-ins with Jay Garrick, Shade has become an uneasy ally of the Flash and the superhero Starman.
See his own page for more.
The Turtle
Alter Ego: Unknown
First Appearance: All-Flash #21 (December, 1945)
Not to be confused with the Turtle Man, the Turtle is a foe of Jay Garrick, using his brains and paralyzing gas to slow the speedster down. His gimmick was slow, deliberate planning.
- Bad Future: Year Zero has him create one where he takes over Central City, sapping speed from people or forcing them to serve him as mooks. Barry manages to prevent it from happening.
- Composite Character: His Rebirth incarnation is a mix of him and the Turtle Man, having the Turtle's looks and outfit mixed with Turtle Man's M.O. and powers.
- Death by Irony: He set the Flash up to die via heated electrons, which would sap his speed slowly if he didn't move and quickly if he did. Jay escaped by twisting enough to send smoke signals, allowing a Junior JSA member to rescue him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. His family tried to support him after his Still Force related accident, and stuck around. Then he killed them, believing love was holding him back.
- Evil Counterpart: Year Zero makes him another villainous foil to Barry. Where Barry unintentionally drives away his loved ones via poor decision making, the Turtle just killed his for the sake of power. And their powers directly contrast one another, with the Turtle using the power of the Still Force to slow things down.
- Genius Bonus: In-Universe, his crimes were speed-related and slow-related, such as stealing a plant that takes 100 years to bloom that was transported on a fast-moving train. It took the Flash a while to catch on.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His helmet is hard enough to deflect bullets.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Despite being one of the oldest known villains of the Flash, his true name has never been revealed.
- Starter Villain: In the Rebirth continuity, he's Barry's first villain.
- Time Stands Still: When he uses the power of the Still Force. It has other powers, but this is what the Turtle largely uses it for.
- Verbal Tic: Talks...very...slowly...unless he's got enough of someone else's speed energy fuelling him.
The Thinker
Alter Ego: Clifford DeVoe
First Appearance: All-Flash #12 (September, 1943)
A lawyer who decided to turn to crime after his career flopped, using his intellect and legal expertise to become the brains behind other criminals, many of them former clients. He was the creator of the Thinking Cap, a high-tech helmet that allowed him to focus his mental energies into physical force, which would unfortunately become his downfall.
A former lawyer and amateur inventor who became a supervillain after his legal career fell apart. First battling Jay Garrick, Thinker went on to menace the rest of the Flash family before dying of terminal brain cancer. He was succeeded by an AI copy of his intelligence, that has picked up from where Thinker left off.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: His current virtual form.
- Amoral Attorney: Well, he wasn't exactly amoral before he became a super-villain; rather, he underwent a Face–Heel Turn when he realized that his efforts to curb crime were doomed to failure.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: In his Golden Age incarnation, he wore a business suit as opposed to a gimmicky costume, since he believed wearing costumes was bad luck. However, his Silver Age incarnation and at least one alternate-reality version of him wore a stylized purple and black costume (which was worn by the character in the Justice League series).
- Bald of Evil: Unusually for the time period, he was balding instead of hairless. In his AI form, he appears metallic and bald.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He opposes Blacksmith and the Network while he enacts his own plans during Crossfire.
- Brain Uploading: Mr. Terrific accidentally did this when he used The Thinkers Thinking Cap to create an AI for the JSA's new computer system, which quickly gained sentience as the Cap contained the original Thinkers brain patterns. This AI Thinker went on to join Johnny Sorrow's Injustice Society.
- The Chessmaster: He specialized in this.
- Friendly Enemy: Apparently became this sometime after the Golden Age passed, where he and Jay Garrick became friends, to the point Jay stood by him to help him through his cancer treatment, and went to extreme lengths to try and help him live.
- Heel–Face Turn: Pulled this after learning he was dying from cancer.
- Face–Heel Turn: After his code-form was imprisoned by Checkmate, he decided to help them.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Thinking Cap had the rather severe drawback of causing cancer after decades of use, resulting in his death.
- Killed Off for Real: At least, his human body underwent this after battling with cancer; however, his mind lives on in computerized form.
- Legacy Character: There have been two other Thinkers, but neither appear to have been related to the original other than In Name Only.
- The Man Behind the Man: Styled himself as this trope, rather than being the actual leader of the gangs he made plans for, he was more of a consultant.
- Master of Illusion:
- Mind-Control Device: His Thinking Cap.
- Mind Manipulation: The main power of the Thinking Cap.
- Mind Rape: Capable of this with his Thinking Cap.
- Super-Intelligence
- Sympathy for the Devil: Spends his final mortal moments accompanied by a distraught Jay.
- Terrible Trio: With Fiddler and The Shade during the Flash Of Two Worlds storyarc that introduced the DC multiverse and reintroduced Jay Garrick.
Modern Flash Villains
Big Sir
Alter Ego: Dufus P. Ratchet
First Appearance: The Flash #338 (October, 1984)
Dufus P. Ratchet had a malfunctioning pituitary gland that caused him to grow to incredible proportions but left him mentally retarded. He was abducted from his mental hospital home by the Rogues who equipped him with a high-tech suit of armor, and used him a pawn against the Flash. Big Sir would later join the Injustice League.
- Back from the Dead: Although killed off in the pages of Suicide Squad, Big Sir has reappeared post-Flashpoint.
- Dumb Muscle: Was chosen by the Rogues precisely because of his combination of strength and lack of intelligence.
- Enhanced Archaic Weapon: Uses an energy mace that also allows him to fly.
- Epic Flail: His Power Armor includes a powerful flying energy mace.
- "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Had his mental deficiencies cured by the scientists of Gorilla City, granting him a near-genius IQ. Sadly the heightened IQ was only temporary.
- Idiot Savant: Despite being mentally disabled, Big Sir is a genius at card games and was able to break the bank at Justice League Casino.
- Killed Off for Real: Died (along with most of the Injustice League) on a mission for the Suicide Squad.
- Power Armor: The Rogues outfitted him with a high-tech suit of armor created by the Monitor.
- Super-Strength
Black Mold
Alter Ego: Travis
First Appearance: The Flash (Vol 4) #31 (July, 2014)
He operated in Central City but after he retired he had his suit stolen by Detective Seborn when it was stored in the evidence room of the CCPD. He was then later seen helping Henry Allen break out of Iron Heights.
- Festering Fungus: Uses aggressive mold spores to kill his victims.
- Remember the New Guy?: Had already retired as a supervillain in his first appearance.
Bloodwork
Alter Ego: Ramsey Rosso
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #29 (October, 2017)
Born with the affliction of hemophilia. Ramsey Rosso lived a lonely, sheltered life after discovering his curse as a child. Becoming a coroner of the CCPD coupled with his medical knowledge enabled him to utilize the blood of metapowered criminals in the morgue to become Bloodwork.
- Alliterative Name: Ramsey Rosso
- Bloody Murder: After experimenting on his blood with other blood types, Rosso developed the ability to transform his flesh into a blood-like physiology. He is capable of using blood to create constructs or attack people at range.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Ramsey claims he is invulnerable, as it is very difficult to hurt him.
- Psychoactive Powers: His powers are reliant upon his heart rate. The more stressed he becomes, the more his blood flows and the larger and more powerful his constructs become, and the reverse is true if he is calmed down.
Brother Grimm
Alter Ego: Grimm
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #166 (November, 2000)
The prince of the magical dimension of Eastwind, Brother Grimm was a boy when Barry Allen and Wally West helped him and his brother overthrow his evil father. Grimm asked Wally for advice, and Wally told him to make his own choices; he gave the crown to his brother, but soon his brother proved just as evil as their father. Grimm killed his brother in battle and became king of Eastwind, blaming Wally for this tragedy. Years later, he came back to ruin Wally's life the same way he believed Wally ruined his: by destroying his home and family.
- Alien Blood: His is blue.
- Ax-Crazy: Becomes unhinged by all the tragedy he's suffered and blames Wally for it. Brother Grimm appears in the modern day as a cackling madman who wants to conquer Keystone City and make Linda his Queen.
- Dimension Lord: Lord of his own magical dimension.
- The Evil Prince: He actually started out as the 'good' prince, but a chain of events led him down a dark path and he blames Wally for it.
- Evil Sorcerer: Wields powerful magic to help him counter the Speed Force and is definitely a villain.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Fell in love with Linda Park-West and abducted her to try to make her his queen.
- King Incognito: Pretended to be a classmate and admirer of Linda's for a few issues before revealing himself and kidnapping her again.
- Mage in Manhattan: Can conjure up dragons, trolls, giant beanstalks, and other fairy tale monsters and props.
- Pointy Ears: He has pale green skin and pointy elven ears in his later appearances.
- Refugee from TV Land: The king of the fairy tale land of Eastwind.
- Revenge: Accuses Wally West of ruining his relationship with his father and brother.
- Sensor Character: Can detect other-dimensional energies such as the Speed Force, allowing him to hit and dodge speedsters despite not having superspeed himself. However, this ability only works when the speedster uses the Speed Force, allowing Wally to defeat him in a fight by restricting himself to normal speeds.
- Shoulders of Doom: He wears massive shoulder pauldrons.
- Sibling Murder: With his father Nightengale deposed, the people ask Grimm to be their king. Uninterested in ruling, Grimm takes Kid Flash's advice to "follow his path" and lets his brother take the crown. Unfortunately, Angar proves to be as a bad a ruler as his father, and Grimm is forced to kill him and take the crown anyway.
- Spikes of Villainy: His armor is covered in spikes, denoting his villainous status.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Didn't get along with his father, the former king.
Chillblaine
First Appearance: The Flash Annual Vol 2 #5 (August, 1992)
Chillblaine is the name used by a series of super-villains who have all been romantically involved with Golden Glider. She would equip them with with versions of her brother Captain Cold's Freeze Ray and use them as Dumb Muscle. The final bearer of the name double-crossed Glider; murdering her and stealing her technology. He was, in turn, killed by Captain Cold.
- Brainless Beauty: Golden Glider usually chose boyfriends who were strong and handsome but not very smart.
- Dumb Muscle: Golden Glider used her various Chillblaines as her enforcers. Independent thought was not encouraged.
- Freeze Ray: All of the Chillblaines were armed with some version of Captain Cold's cold gun.
- Legacy Character: Four different men bore the Chillblaine name and costume.
- Outlaw Couple: With Golden Glider.
- The Starscream: Chillblaine IV killed Glider and stole her technology.
Cicada
Alter Ego: David Hersch
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #170 (March, 2001)
A cult leader who gained immortality from a lightning strike, and who thus considers the Flash as a sort of "brother of the lightning" who his followers worship. They prey on the lives of people who Flash has saved throughout his career, justifying their actions by rationalizing that without the speedster's intervention, those persons would have died anyway, so the cult can kill them with a clear conscience. Cicada equips his followers with special daggers that absorb the life-force out of people stabbed by them, and he intends to use that stolen life-force to resurrect his wife, who he killed in his back-story.
- Aborted Arc: Officer Morillo gets a hit off of Cicada's immortality, and Cicada is shown to briefly entrance him. Nothing more is ever made of it.
- Ax-Crazy: But he's a bit more low-key about it, compared to some other villains.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears a long black overcoat.
- Beard of Evil: Has a pointy beard and is a villain.
- Contemplative Boss
- Cool Shades: He wears opaque glasses in the modern day.
- Devious Daggers: His followers use special daggers that rob anyone stabbed with them of their life-force.
- Domestic Abuser: He beat his wife and eventually killed her. Twice.
- Driven to Suicide: In his back-story, he attempted to do this after he murdered his wife. He wasn't successful; instead, a bolt of lightning that conveniently struck at that very moment gave him a sense of immortality.
- Elderly Immortal: He's been alive since the nineteenth century, and he's weary old man with a long white beard.
- Evil Old Folks: An older man with a white beard and definitely a villain.
- Mad Scientist: Cicada does what he does to resurrect his wife.
- I Reject Your Reality: Everything he's done is just a way of refusing to accept the fact that he killed his wife.
- Religion of Evil: His cult dedicated to the Flash.
Cobalt Blue
Alter Ego: Malcolm Thawne
First Appearance: Speed Force #1 (November, 1997)
Barry Allen's twin brother. The Allens and the Thawnes came to the same doctor for the same reason, because both wives were pregnant and about to deliver; however, the doctor accidentally killed the Thawnes' child, then out of guilt gave them one of the Allens' twins and told the Allens that that twin had died. When an adult Malcolm found out, he set out to destroy Barry for having everything he himself could have had but never did. He utilized a magical blue flame that could rob speed from anyone connected to the Flash legacy.
- Abusive Parents: His adopted parents used him as a tool for their cons and treated him terribly; their knowledge that he wasn't their biological child only made it worse.
- Body Surf: One of his abilities. He's also not limited to one body, as he was able to possess all speedsters up until the 30th century simultaneously.
- Cain and Abel: Though Barry himself never knew it, as Malcolm never revealed himself to his brother.
- Color Character: Cobalt Blue.
- Con Artist: Malcolm's adopted parents used a magical blue flame as a miracle healing agent (with temporary effects) to pull stunts like this. Of course, the flame itself was meant for greater purposes, which Malcolm learned and studied from his adopted grandmother.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: He keeps the flame contained in a blue gem.
- Evil Sorcerer: Uses his magical stone to steal speed in his attempts to destroy the Flash legacy.
- Evil Twin: He literally is Barry Allen's twin brother
- Feuding Families: The originator of the Allen-West/Thawne feud.
- Grand Theft Me: Possessed Jay Garrick to facilitate his plans.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He’s extremely jealous of Barry for his loving parents, beautiful girlfriend, superpowers, and fame.
- Freudian Excuse: Being given away at birth to a bunch of abusive con artists, then later finding out you have a twin who got a relatively good upbringing by your real parents and grew up to become a famous superhero...can you really blame him for being angry?
- Kill It with Fire: At least one of his descendants used the inherited Cobalt Blue flame to murder his Flash's wife this way.
- Legacy Character: He's a distant ancestor of the Reverse-Flash, Impulse, Inertia, and Captain Boomerang II. There are also 1000 years' worth of Cobalt Blues that follow in his footsteps by fighting their respective Flashes (who are all of the Allen or West bloodlines).
- Misplaced Retribution: Malcolm wants revenge on Barry for getting a much better life for him, even though Barry had nothing to do with the doctor who delivered them stealing Malcolm and giving him to the Thawnes.
- Mundane Utility: Malcolm's adopted father used the blue flame to pull cons. Malcolm's adopted grandmother was disgusted by this, and consequently was delighted to find an eager student in Malcolm, who would subvert the trope by using the flame to its maximum potential.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Controls his People Puppets (counted to be about twenty-five) into delivering a brutally one-sided fight to Wally. Wally was only saved by the arrival of the Barry Allen from before the Crisis.
- People Puppets: Turned several generations of Flashes into this through a Batman Gambit involving shards of his gem, infused with his own spirit.
- The Resenter: Toward Barry, for having the wonderful life that Malcolm believes he deserved.
- Villainous Lineage: He is the progenitor of the villainous Thawne family, whose bloodline includes Reverse-Flash Eobard Thawne and Thaddeus Thawne (Inertia).
Colonel Computron
Alter Ego: Basil Nurblin
First Appearance: The Flash #304 (December, 1981)
Basil Nurblin was a disgruntled toymaker who sought revenge against his employer the Wiggins Toy Corporation (the same company responsible for the creation of Captain Boomerang) after they stole the patent for his Colonel Computron toy. He created and donned on a suit based on his toy, dubbing himself Colonel Computron, and made multiple attempts on killing Wiggins.
- Mook Maker: The Colonel Computron suit can manufacture tiny automaton versions of itself called Blips.
- Legacy Character: His daughter Luna Nurblin for a time took over the identity of Computron.
- Power Armor: The Colonel Computron suit is actually a portable computer. It allows the wearer to calculate to the nth degree the amount of effort needed to accomplish any physical act. It incorporates an exoskeleton allowing the wearer to exert superhuman strength and speeds up the wearers intellect and thinking speed.
- Robot Master: The Colonel Computron suit can manufacture tiny automaton versions of itself called Blips.
- Wicked Toymaker: Nurblin is a toymaker who turned his inventive genius to evil.
Comforter
Alter Ego: Will Jones
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #31 (October, 1989)
Will Jones lived in Gotham City. A man by the name of Deacon Blackfire turned the homeless people into an army who robbed him, beat him, and set his house afire. They even killed his wife, Elise. This caused him to develop serious mental problems, manifesting a hatred for homeless people. Jones relocated to New York City, where he began working for St. Jude's Shelter, presumably so that he could more easily target the homeless for revenge. He naturally had the ability to phase himself from place to place, and he further developed refined this power into phasing others, effectively microwaving them. He was given a techno-suit to further channel his powers and was paid handsomely to kill the Flash by the Turtle, hoping to prevent the hero from moving to Keystone City.
- Atomic Superpower: Refined his power of Teleportation into phasing others, effectively microwaving them.
- Serial Killer: Focused his energies on giving the "comfort of death" to the homeless people of New York.
- Teleportation: Had the ability to phase himself from place to place.
Copperhead II
First Appearance: All-Star Batman #2 (November, 2016)
Copperhead is a former mercenary and assassin turned Central City crime boss.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: Replaces the original Copperhead who was male.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing
- Canon Immigrant: Copperhead II was created for Batman: Arkham Origins video game. She made her first appearance in comics in Batman: Arkham Unhinged #10, and later made her first appearance in the mainstream DC Universe continuity in All-Star Batman #2.
- Master Poisoner: Possesses a rich understanding of venom, especially that which was produced by snakes. Batman stated that with the assassin Cheshire, Copperhead is the most toxic individual on the planet.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally appeared fighting Batman before relocating to Central City.
- Wolverine Claws: Copperhead's weapons are a pair of claws she wears on her hands. She usually coats these claws in potent toxins that have various effects on her victims.
Double Down
Alter Ego: Jeremy Tell
First Appearance: The Flash: Iron Heights (October, 2001)
A gambling addict who was cursed with a set of magically enhanced playing cards after murdering their previous owner. After discovering that he can control the cards with his mind, Tell became a supervillain and member of the Rogues.
- Body Horror: His cards come from strips of his own skin.
- Cursed with Awesome: Sure, his powers require him to horribly mutilate himself whenever he uses them...then again, enchanted playing cards that can wound Kryptonians is an ability not to be trifled with.
- Death Dealer: Uses enchanted playing cards that can slice through just about anything.
- The Gambler
- Laser-Guided Karma: His enchanted cards are bonded to his skin because he killed their previous owner over a gambling match that went badly for Tell.
- Pungeon Master: Card and gambling puns.
- Sixth Ranger: He was the only newcomer in the Top's Wild Card Rogues during Rogue War, since the other members previously banded together under Blacksmith.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Tell? Get it? Like when you have a tell in poker?
Dr. Nightmare
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 1 #774 (November, 2021)
A disgruntled former employee of Terrifictech calling himself "Doctor Nightmare". He is equipped with sleeping gas and a helmet which allows him to make nightmares real.
- Hat of Power: His Nightmare Hat brings whatever the wearer is dreaming to life.
- Instant Sedation: Uses a sleep gas that almost immediately knocks out anyone who inhales it.
- Nightmare Weaver: The Nightmare Hat can induce nightmares as well as bringing them to life.
Fallout
Alter Ego: Neil Borman
First Appearance: The Flash: Iron Heights (October, 2001)
A former power plant worker who got exposed to nuclear radiation and essentially became a living radiation battery. He was introduced during the Iron Heights storyline, being kept in a containment cell that used him to power the entire prison. After the Flash found out and confronted Gregory Wolfe about it, Fallout was eventually given improved living conditions where he now continues to power the prison, but the power is siphoned from him in a more humane manner.
- Blessed with Suck: His control over radiation makes him insanely powerful, but is also uncontrollable and makes it difficult for him to socialize with others.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: When he risks giving everyone else cancer and kills plants when he just goes out for a walk, it's easy to see why he'd want this.
- Living Battery: His powers are used to keep Iron Heights running.
- Meaningful Name: He's named after Niels Bohr, one of the contributors to the Manhattan Project.
- Power Glows
- Power Incontinence: Incredible power that he literally can't shut off.
- Tragic Villain: He wouldn't even be a bad guy if he could at least control his powers.
- Unskilled, but Strong: His powers are very strong, but he doesn't know of anyway to control them.
- Unwitting Pawn: Of Blacksmith. She orchestrated his escape from Iron Heights knowing his path would take him by the Garricks' home, causing Joan to develop cancer, forcing her and Jay out of town for treatment, depriving Wally of Jay's help.
Folded Man
Alter Ego: Edwin Gauss
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #153 (October, 1999)
Edwin Gauss was a physics student at M.I.T. looking to definitively prove Albert Einstein's Unified field theory. After feverish effort, which included the theft of software from electronics billionaire Norman Bridges, Gauss invents a method of interdimensional travel. He developed an exoskeleton which allows his physical form to move across at least four dimensions seamlessly. Bridges, who considers the exoskeleton Gauss developed (using Bridges own software) to be his own property, pursues Gauss to claim the technology for himself. Gauss reinvents himself as a costumed criminal named "the Folded Man".
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: For a time the Folded Man was succeeded by an African man named Xolani, who was part of the Acolytes of Zoom, although eventually Edwin Gauss returned.
- Paper People: In his 2-D form he is totally flat, isn't solid (hence, can't be hit) and is invisible when seen from sides.
- Teleportation: Gauss within his exoskeleton was capable of teleporting anywhere within the 3rd dimension by shifting to the 4th, allowing him to seemingly disappear from reality altogether when in actuality he was merely crossing from one dimension to the other.
- Thinking Up Portals: Can open portals at will, attacking enemies without early warning.
Gemini
Alter Ego: Santiago and Belladonna
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #58 (January, 2019)
The pair known as Gemini are two lovers named Santiago and Belladonna who are obsessed with absorbing power and making it their own.
- Energy Absorption: Gemini absorb energy from others and make it their own.
- One-Steve Limit: Share their alias with a Batgirl villain.
- Outlaw Couple: A supervillain duo who are also lovers.
Gorilla Grodd
Alter Ego: Grodd
First Appearance: The Flash #106 (May, 1959)
A renegade from the hidden Gorilla City, Grodd is a mad genius and warlord who wants to destroy humanity and make Earth the dominion of apes. He was endowed with sentience by a radioactive meteor (or deliberately by an alien, Pre-Crisis) along with the other apes of Gorilla City, but also gained vast telepathic powers. Grodd has a formidable intellect offset by an animal's fury. He originally clashed with Barry Allen and has gone on to menace the entire Flash family.
- Ax-Crazy: Don't let his intellect fool you, Grodd is still a savage, bloodthirsty animal.
- Ambition Is Evil: Grodd's motivations are borne from a mix of rabid hatred for the humans he sees as dominating the planet, envy of Solovar, and lust to become more than just another gorilla.
- Animal Is the New Man: One of Grodd's most consistent goals is to replace humanity with gorillas as the Earth's dominant species. In JLApe he orchestrates a plan to transform people into apes, and actually succeeds in transforming the Justice League themselves.
- Arch-Enemy:
- To Barry Allen during the Silver Age, when Grodd was the only serious threat in the Flash's Rogues Gallery of otherwise Harmless Villains. These days he's more of a general DCU villain, and Eobard Thawne has largely taken his place as the worst of Barry's opponents, but he still hates the Flash family with a burning passion.
- He and King Solovar are almost always at each other's throats, even in continuities like the Injustice-verse that reduce Solovar's sympathetic qualities. It seems to be a universal constant.
- The Artifact: Grodd was created at a time when gorillas were something of a fad in comics, TV shows, and movies; unlike most other characters created in that craze, like the Gorilla Boss of Gotham City or the Mod Gorilla Boss, however, Grodd has had licence to keep appearing by being frequently updated to fit the tone of the times.
- Ascended to Carnivorism: Has been known to eat humans. Real Gorillas are almost entirely herbivorous, at most eating the occasional stick-full of termites to help with diarrhea.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT call him a monkey unless you really want to make him mad. Don't make jokes about bananas, either.
- Big Bad: Of JLApe and the 1991 Angel and the Ape miniseries. In the Justice League animated series, he was a member of the Big Bad Ensemble.
- Brain Food: In his more modern incarnations, he developed a gruesome taste for his enemies' brains. The New 52 version even ate the brain of his own father.
- Cannibalism Superpower: Eating brains can allow him to absorb their knowledge, and sometimes powers like the Speed Force.
- The Chessmaster: Grodd can absolutely play the long game when it suits him. His DCAU incarnation is especially skilled at manipulating friend and foe alike, at one point bringing the Justice League to breaking point by using his Psychic Powers to enhance their feelings of discord and distrust against each other.
- Depending on the Writer:
- Grodd sometimes has a full costume; other times he goes into battle with only his fur.
- He may also hate other gorillas from Gorilla City, have it in only for Solovar, or willingly die to save even a normal gorilla.
- Different media also focus on which powers and abilities that makes him a threat. Sometimes he's most dangerous for his brute strength, other times it's his Psychic Powers, other times it's his cunning intellect and/or skill for manipulation.
- Does Not Like Spam: It's a Running Gag that Grodd hates bananas.
- The Dreaded: Is almost in the same rank as any of the Reverse-Flashes in sending fear to speedsters (and in the rest of the superhero community in general).
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In the Rebirth continuitynote , Grodd's mother died getting the newborn Grodd water during a severe drought. After Grodd slaughters a bunch of fellow gorillas who were celebrating the coming of the rainy season, the Flash looks into it, and gets mind raped by Grodd, who decides to let Barry go (just this once) after witnessing his memories of the murder of Nora Allen.Grodd: I sought to teach a lesson. Since the coming of the Light, my people have grown soft and forgetful. They built cities and comfort. They celebrate the coming of the rains as an empty gesture. But I know the truth. My mother's sacrifice made me strong. For I have learned that even in the most bountiful of times, life is as harsh and unforgiving as the cruel summer of my youth. And mercy is far rarer than rain.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Believe it or not, at times Grodd does seem to care for his home of Gorilla City. During Judd Winick's Outsiders, he went along with the Joker's plan to kill Lex Luthor to get a cure for the plague threatening his people. When the Outsiders almost drowned a bunch of his troops, Grodd was horrified and begged them not to cause any more death.
- Evil Counterpart: Of King Solovar.
- Evil Overlord: Whenever he does achieve power, most notably during Flashpoint.
- Fantastic Racism: He views humans as a worthless mud race and regularly tries to wipe them from the face of the earth.
- Final Solution: Wants all of humanity exterminated. In Flashpoint he does manage to kill most of Africa.
- Fork Fencing: To supplement his brain eating, he carries around a giant spoon to scoop brains out with.
- Freudian Excuse: The Rebirth continuity actually does explore this. As a baby gorilla, Grodd was small and sickly. He was treated as the runt of the troop, and eventually his mother died protecting him during a drought. Naturally that baby grew up and decided to become a force who would never be weak again.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Big time. Grodd was originally one of several nameless gorillas who happened to stumble upon a bizarre otherworldly artifact that drastically increased their intelligence. Grodd developed Telepathy, as well as a dangerously ambitious streak, and went on to become one of the DCU's most prominent threats.
- Genius Bruiser: A six hundred pound gorilla with a high-level intellect and the verbiage to match it.
- A God Am I: In JLApe: Gorilla Warfare. "I am the Lord thy Grodd! All shall bow before me!"
- Green-Eyed Monster: According to JLApe, one of the reasons he's evil is because he's insanely jealous of Solovar.
- A Hero to His Hometown: Downplayed. Grodd is still regarded as a criminal in Gorilla City but he also has plenty of fellow apes who support his vision and aid in his plans for conquest. At times he's called upon as a military strategist, and even Solovar notes Grodd would be useful in the event of a war with humanity.
- It's Personal:
- Not as personal as say, Barry's feud with Eobard Thawne, but things between him and Grodd are still pretty personal.
- Wally West also has a large bone to pick with Grodd after he maimed Hunter Zolomon. It was one of the few occasions where Wally actually has a killing intent.
- Kill All Humans: One of his main goals is to enslave and/or wipe out all of mankind.
- Killer Gorilla: Despite talking and reasoning, Grodd is very much a wild animal, like a rabid gorilla with psionics.
- Legacy Character: He has a son, Gorbul Mammit, who fought Impulse.
- Mad Scientist: An evil gorilla scientist. Grodd is extremely intelligent with knowledge of technology beyond the development of human civilization.
- Maniac Monkeys: Gorilla Grodd is probably the most archetypal example of this trope, because of his utter disdain for humanity, psychopathic nature and plots to make gorillas the dominant species on Earth.
- Manipulative Bastard: Being a gorilla doesn't stop him from being able to manipulate people. His powers help, too.
- Mind-Control Eyes: His eyes, and his victims' eyes, tend to glow magenta when he uses his telepathy.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A psychic, world-conquering, super-strong, hyper-intelligent talking Mad Scientist Killer Gorilla.
- One-Man Army: Oftentimes, Grodd is capable of doing massive amounts of damage all on his own. When a mishap leaves him free during a prisoner transport, the resulting rampage levels whole city blocks and leaves countless dead. It's implied that he does this in less than an hour.
- Pet the Dog: Grodd actually attended the funeral of Captain Boomerang, and never causes any trouble.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Grodd provided the cloaking tech that helps keep the Rogue cemetery under the radar, if only to have a bargain with Snart.
- Psychic Powers: His powerset.
- Mind over Matter: Grodd has (on occasion) vast telekinetic abilities ranging from force beams, telekinetic transmutation of matter and lifting thousands of tons mentally.
- Mind Probe: He has shown the ability to absorb intelligence through the consumption of human brains.
- Mind Rape: Grodd can torture his targets through this, leaving them in as much excruciating pain as when getting hurt physically.
- People Puppets: Grodd's psionic abilities allow him to place other beings under his mental control and transfer his consciousness into other bodies.
- Telepathy: The primary reason he's a threat to the Flash is that his telepathy operates as quickly as Flash's speed. Coupled with the fact that Grodd's far tougher than a normal gorilla, Grodd is one of the few villains the Flash can't face head-on.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Grodd has an incredibly short temper and tends to fixate on his childish rivalry with Solovar and the Flash. In short he is what happens when you give an already maladjusted animal higher brain functions and unchecked power.
- Redeeming Replacement: His grandson, Sam Simeon of Angel and the Ape.
- Super-Strength: Grodd is far, far stronger than your average gorilla.
- To Serve Man: Not above eating his enemies.
- Touched by Vorlons: Pre-Crisis, he and the rest of Gorilla City were granted sentience and the ability to talk by an alien. He and Solovar also got their Psychic Powers. Post-Crisis, it was the result of a radioactive meteor.
- Ungrateful Bastard: In his pre-Crisis origin, Grodd was granted his vast mental powers by an alien explorer. He thanked his "creator" by arranging his murder to convince Gorilla City that humans were barbaric. And he only got worse from there.
- Uplifted Animal: Grodd and the other inhabitants of Gorilla City were evolved from simple apes into super-simians.
- Victory Is Boring: In Flashpoint, Grodd has conquered all of Africa, and is actually disappointed that there was no one to stop him, and even wants to dip into the Amazon-Atlantis war just to alleviate his boredom.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: According to Phil Foglio's Angel and the Ape miniseries, Grodd's motive is that he believes Gorilla City will soon run out of resources, and that humans are in danger of destroying all of theirs. Hence the need to either "cull the herd" by killing most of the humans or turning them into apes. (Comics before and since have said that he's simply a madape who wants to Take Over the World.)
The Griffin
Alter Ego: Griffin Grey
First Appearance: The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #1 (August, 2006)
Bart Allen's roommate after Bart had been aged by the Speed Force, Griff was doused with chemicals and gained super-powers in a terrorist attack. At first he wanted to be a hero just for money and fame, but his resentment toward the Flash family and his out-of-control powers quickly turned into a true villain. While trying to boost his popularity, Griffin died in an accident he himself orchestrated.
- Alliterative Name: Griff Grey.
- Bald of Evil: Shaved his head, albeit to hide his rapid aging by getting rid of his greying hair.
- Glory Hound: Only became a hero for the publicity rather than any genuine sense of heroism.
- Jerkass: He enjoyed the attention of being a hero and then resented it when Jay Garrick stopped a crime just because he got there first.
- Power Incontinence: His powers also gave him Rapid Aging.
- Psycho Electro
- Super-Strength
- Sympathy for the Devil: Bart feels sorry for him in his final moments. Griff is remorseful, not to mention Bart's Evil Former Friend.
Human Block
Alter Ego: Unknown
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #40 (May, 2015)
The Human Block is a young Maori Woman from 1957 Melbourne, Australia that was struck by lightning and survived the incident. She eventually learns she was also given powers from the Speed Force as a result of the incident. Over time she was unknowingly manipulated by Professor Zoom into joining his Acolytes in his war against The Flash.
- Deflector Shields: She can use her speed force powers to freeze the very air around her, making it solid and all but unbreakable.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Was struck by lightning and survived the incident. She was also given powers from the Speed Force as a result of the incident.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Unlike the other Acolytes of Zoom, her real name is unknown.
- Super-Strength: Block has the unique ability to slow down her atoms. In doing this, they become denser than steel and grant her super strength.
- Super-Toughness: The Human Block has the unique ability to slow down her atoms. In doing this, they become denser than steel and grant her invulnerability.
- Time Stands Still: She can do more than simply lock down her physiological structures atomic motion for might and resilience. She can use her speed force powers to freeze the very air around her, making it solid and all but unbreakable. Even speedsters have a difficult time phasing through her hard air construction.
Alter Ego: Kilg%re
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #3 (August, 1987)
A sentient computer virus from a far-off world that leaps from body to body, Kilg%re evolved beyond his original programming and seeks to consume all electro-life. Near-impossible to permanently destroy, it is capable of hacking any computer system and controlling any machine.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A malevolent Computer Virus.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: All it seeks is to sustain itself.
- Chekhov's Gun: It implants a piece of itself into Wally during an early confrontation. That piece later repairs Wally's heart when he gets shot through it by Vandal Savage.
- Heel–Face Turn: In a sense; it ended up saving Flash from being killed by Vandal Savage, as it was trying to survive in his body.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Has menaced Cyborg more in the late 2010s.
- The Unpronounceable: Though at least one official guide claimed his name is pronounced "kil-GORE."
Lummox
Alter Ego:
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #41 (August, 2015)
Lummox is a thief that uses a mechanical super suit during his jobs.
- Only in It for the Money: Seems to have no interest in supervillainy beyond committing robberies.
- Powered Armor: Has a super powered armored super suit, that gives him great strength and invulnerability.
Manfred Mota
Alter Ego: Manfred Mota
First Appearance: Flash Special #1 (July, 1990)
A rogue physicist who stole research from Jay Garrick to create a battlesuit, Mota clashed with every Flash under a variety of aliases, upgrading his atomic-powered arsenal each time and eventually mutating into a being of pure energy. His estranged daughter, Valerie Perez, briefly dated Bart Allen when he became the Flash.
- Continuity Cavalcade: The point of the anthology that introduced him.
- Energy Beings
- I Have Many Names: He has faced multiple incarnations of the Flash, each time using a new moniker, but similar powers. His list of alias: Mota, Atom Smasher, Professor Fallout and Fusionn.
- Mad Scientist
- Powered Armor
Merge
Alter Ego: Jamal
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #32 (August, 2014)
A criminal who is able to merge any two items that he touches with his gauntlets.
- Fusion Dance: Able to merge any two items that he touches with his gauntlets.
- Remember the New Guy?: Was introduced as an already retired supervillain.
- Tricked-Out Gloves: His gauntlets allow him to merge any two items he touches.
Mob Rule
Alter Ego: Manuel Lago
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #1 (November, 2011)
An old friend of Barry Allen, Manuel Lago was a CIA operative who gained regenerative powers as part of an experiment known as Project Bellator. While being tortured by enemy agents, he discovered that his amputated limbs regenerate into full grown duplicates that call themselves Mob Rule.
- Healing Factor: As a result of the regenerative formula he was treated with, he can heal any injury, including regrowing lost limbs.
- Me's a Crowd: Any part of his body that is removed can grow into a full grown duplicate of Manuel complete with his skills and knowledge and sharing a psychic link with each other and Manuel, their 'father'. These duplicates have a limited lifespan and will drop dead without warning.
- Psychic Link: All the duplicates of Mob Rule share a psychic link with each other and Manuel, their 'father'.
Mogul
Alter Ego: Ernest Flake
First Appearance: The Flash Annual Vol 4 #3 (June, 2014)
Ernest Flake began as a worker during the construction of a year-round ski slope. Flake invented a machine that was able to convert moisture in the air into physical snow. However, the business went under, and Flake was left jobless and penniless with only his invention to show for it. Turning to crime to pay the bills, he used his machine as a weapon to rob banks, becoming the snow-themed criminal Mogul.
- Freeze Ray: Flake invented a device that was able to create snow by absorbing moisture from the air around it.
- An Ice Person: Unlike most examples, his powers don't come naturally. Instead, he has to use his gun to achieve this.
- Meaningful Name: Ernest Flake becomes a snow-themed villain.
Neron
Alter Ego: Neron
First Appearance: Underworld Unleashed #1 (November, 1995)
A demon who is essentially the DC Universe's Expy of Satan. He has had interactions with most characters across the DCU due to his modus operandi, but he holds some particular ire toward Wally West for beating his hidden plan in the Hell to Pay storyline.
See Justice League villains page.
Overload
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #37 (February, 2015)
Overload was born with a sort of chronic pain resulting from electronic buzzing that gave him electricity based powers as well as technophobia. Aims to create a sort of blackout in order to take the pain away.
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Dresses like a Victorian undertaker.
- Evil Luddite: Overload's condition makes him a technophobe; looking to shut down modern technology to grant him some relief.
- Shock and Awe: Has electricity based powers.
Papercut
Alter Ego: Benedict Booker
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #10 (January, 2017)
A criminal in Central City with the ability to control wood, which he usually uses in conjunction with razor-sharp paper.
- Alliterative Name: Benedict Booker
- Meaningful Name: A man with the ability to control paper named Booker.
- Paper Master: Can manipulate wood, though he has a harder time manipulating actual wood than paper and other derivative products. His skill with said ability is such that he can even manipulate other plant based elements besides, such as the cotton & linen in dollar bills, using them as projectiles against the Flash.
- Psychic Nosebleed: If he uses power on actual wood, he gets a nosebleed.
Paradox
Alter Ego: Chris
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #50 (September, 2018)
Once an ordinary family man in Central City, Paradox was a scientist who believed in the constant shifting nature of the multiverse, a theory proven right on the day Barry Allen was struck by lightning. A fight between the Flash and the Turtle caused him to get sucked into another dimension, where he found mysterious tech, which he used to observe the Flash across history...and came to the conclusion that the Flash needs to die.
- Blessed with Suck: Paradox is sensitive to every change the multiverse goes through, and it hurts him. A lot.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: The energies he was exposed to turned him from an ordinary looking guy into a large, hulking monstrosity.
- Evil Versus Evil: The Reverse-Flash thought this guy was a threat and sealed him away in Iron Heights. Yep, compared to this guy, Eobard Thawne managed to be the hero.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Once, he was a regular guy. Now he's one of the most dangerous beings in the multiverse, capable of erasing people from existence with a thought.
- Godhood Seeker: His ultimate end goal is to absorb the energy released by the various Crises and become a god.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: He first appears at the end of "Flash War", in The Flash #50, as a silhouette, then a partial shot in Flash annual no. 2. It's not until The Flash #88 that we see him in full, though that issue reveals he'd shown up several times through "Year One" in his civilian form.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A lot of his rant while he's beating up Barry sound a lot like what some fans have said of Barry since his resurrection in Final Crisis.
- Motive Decay: His initial motivation was just to get back to his family. When that proved impossible, he decided to conquer the 25th century. After that, and a long stay in Iron Heights, he decided instead to kill all Flashes.
- Never My Fault: He tricks three people who got sucked into that other dimension with him into getting themselves killed, then immediately blames the Flash for it.
- Ret-Gone: He's seemingly defeated for good when Barry travels back in time and prevents Chris from falling into the dimensional portal, stopping him from ever becoming Paradox.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Chris didn't seem to be entirely stable to begin with, having an obsessive need to investigate other realities, but he was a nice guy and loving family man. Getting zapped into another dimension caused him to start going completely insane.
Peek-a-Boo
Alter Ego: Lashawn Baez
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #180 (January, 2002)
A metahuman with the power to teleport (with the negative side-effect of causing a big-honking explosion each time) who was motivated into supervillainy after her father contracted a terminal disease.
- Action Bomb: A side effect of her teleporting is a massive explosion. Every time.
- Anti-Villain: She just wants to help her dying father.
- Blessed with Suck: Her power would be pretty cool, if it didn't blow everything to hell each time she used it.
- Flashy Teleportation: When she teleports, the kinetic energy causes a highly destructive explosion. She can teleport normally, but she also automatically teleports when touched and this makes her difficult to capture.
- Pet the Dog: Wally pleads for her to help Linda get to a hospital after an explosion of her own doing. Although she fulfills his request Baez makes it loud and clear that she's doing it for Linda, not the Flash.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: She lashes out at Wally, revealing that she intended to use her powers to become a hero until he and the rest of the city labeled her a Rogue and treated her accordingly. Subverted eventually, though, when she allows the police to take her in,
having nothing left to live for after her father's death.
Alter Ego: Thaddeus Thawne
First Appearance: Impulse #25 (May, 1997)
The sociopathic president of Earthgov in the 30th century and Meloni Thawne's father. He created Inertia after Bart Allen refused to become his protégé.
- Alliterative Name: Thaddeus Thawne
- Archnemesis Dad: Or rather, Archnemesis Grandfather.
- The Chessmaster
- Continuity Snarl: He was supposed to be the president of Earthgov in the 30th Century despite the fact that over in the Legion of Super-Heroes titles published at the same time Earthgov's president was Jean Chu (later replaced by R.J. Brande). Making things even more confusing was the knowledge Thawne wasn't native to Earth-247, making it difficult to figure out how and when he was president.
- Noodle Incident: Following the retcon that the Tornado Twins fled from the main DC Universe to Earth-247 with their respective spouses and children to escape the Reverse Flash's forces, it raises the question of how Meloni's father managed to follow them and how he managed to become the president of Earthgov.
Psych
Alter Ego: Bashir
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #61 (March, 2019)
A grafter who managed to become the chosen avatar of the Sage Force, which he then used to commit crimes at his leisure, which caused him to run into Barry.
- Asshole Victim: The only one of the other Force users to misuse his powers, in addition to being a conniving, selfish weasel, he's also the only one who dies because of the Black Flash, and horribly.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: He claims it's to help him control his powers.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: At the end of his first appearance, he gets away, having used his powers to commit murder and deceive Barry. His next appearance has him killed by the Black Flash.
- Manipulative Bastard: He uses his powers to get a bead on Barry's mom issues, and plays him.
- The Poorly Chosen One: The other two Avatars Barry encounters are heroic (even if Fuerza is solidly on the anti side of the equation). This guy? Not remotely.
- Psychic Powers: What the Sage Force grants him. He uses it to blackmail supervillains. When he pushes it far enough, he can kill people via Mind Rape.
Raijin
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 5 #35 (January, 2018)
Raijin, the self-proclaimed "God of Lightning" is a mysterious armored individual who was seemingly behind the Speed Force storm that rained down upon Central City.
- A God Am I: Subverted; he at first claims to be as such, and named himself after, but it ultimately proves he's really in servitude to Gorilla Grodd, who he views as the real god of the Speed Force.
- Expy: As a man with a god complex empowered by the Speed Force who uses a suit of bulky Powered Armor while naming himself after an eastern deity, he essentially functions as a comic-adapted version of the 2014 TV Series' take on Savitar. He has a different origin and motivation, however, and is treated as a much smaller threat than Savitar was.
- Shock and Awe: Raijin can generate large amounts of electrical energy that he may draw from the Speed Force. He can also seemingly travel through bolts of lightning.
Razer
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #84 (November, 1993)
A powerful mercenary who wields armor covered in blades, Razer first battled Flash as part of another crook's real-estate scam and has since battled the Scarlet Speedster on a number of other occasions.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: His armor is covered in blades, and his gauntlets can fire razor-sharp discs.
- The Bus Came Back: Reappears during the Rebirth era.
- Dumb Muscle
- Immune to Bullets: As Commander Cold learns the difficult way.
- The Juggernaut
- Lightning Bruiser
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast
- Super-Strength
Seasnake
Alter Ego:
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #131 (November, 1997)
- Mysterious Past: Nothing is known about him, like his real name or the reason behind his appearance.
- One-Shot Character: Only appeared in two issues and never reappeared.
- Snake People: He's a humanoid snake person.
Selkirk
Alter Ego: William Selkirk
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #37 (February, 2015)
During his doctoral studies in Anthropology at Oxford University, William Selkirk discovered several indigenous legends of revered individuals who could run at Inhuman speeds all across the globe. Eventually his research brought him to America where upon discovering a rift in the Speed Force, he was pulled through on July 17th, 1911 and became the leader of the Outpost of similar individuals in the Speed Force. Selkirk helped Barry Allen when he arrived at the Outpost but later attempted to use him as a lightning rod to escape. Though he succeeded, Selkirk was horribly disfigured and blamed it on the Flash though failed to defeat him. After this confrontation, he was recruited by Professor Zoom who promised to teach him more about the Speed Force.
- The Ageless: Exposure to the Speed Force means that Selkirk ages extremely slowly.
- Beard of Evil: Selkirk has a pretty impressive beard.
- Flight
- Healing Factor: The Speed Force grants him accelerated healing.
- Super-Speed
Shrapnel
Alter Ego: Mark Scheffer
First Appearance: Doom Patrol Vol 2 #7 (April, 1988)
Shrapnel is a super-villain of uncertain origins. His body is composed of many pieces of organic metal that he can assemble into any shape at will. This allows him to shoot hundreds of sharp projectiles simultaneously and then reconstitute his body instantly. He has been a member of the Cyborg Revenge Squad, the Secret Society of Super-Villains, and the Suicide Squad.
- Extra-ore-dinary: Shrapnel's body is composed of many, many sharp pieces of metal. He can make himself explode to scatter his body's shrapnel with great concussive force, allowing the slivers of metal to hit those around him.
- Having a Blast: Shrapnel's body is composed of many, many sharp pieces of metal. He can make himself explode to scatter his body's shrapnel with great concussive force, allowing the slivers of metal to hit those around him.
- Pulling Themselves Together: Shrapnel is able to project his metallic scales into explosive bursts, mentally guide their path, and recall them into his body when damage is done.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While mostly a Flash villain, Shrapnel has been used as a pretty general foe for all sorts of heroes like the Doom Patrol, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and Cyborg.
- Super-Strength: Shrapnel's metal body grants him superhuman strength.
Spin
Alter Ego: Auerbach
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #238 (May, 2008)
Mr. Auerbach is in charge of KN News. He also has a secret. Using a metahuman held captive, he can amp up the public's anxiety and "spin" it to what he wants.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Spin has a vast array of equipment set up in the basement of the KN News building where he keeps Edwar Martinez. By forcing Edwar to watch news coverage, he is able to direct and control Edwar's ability to sense specific anxieties in the public consciousness and turn them into reality.
Alter Ego: Edith Bryant
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 4 #26 (February, 2014)
Esther Bryant also known as Spitfire is a former stunt pilot turned thief who is fueled by greed and trill seeking. She pulls heist jobs on high value targets in seemingly impossible ways.
- Expy: She's pretty much Roxy Rocket with a different name.
- Impossible Thief
- Jet Pack
- Sky Pirate
Suit
First Appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #130 (October, 1997)
The Suit was originally an outfit designed and crafted by Paul Gambi, a Central City tailor known for providing costumes to many of the Flash's villains, including the Rogues. Its first wearer, serial killer Dell Merriwether, was arrested with help from the second Flash and Green Lantern, and later sentenced to death by electrocution. The electricity which killed Merriwether also delivered an extradimensional parasitic entity, made up only of an electric field, to our world. The entity relocated inside the suit.
- Clothes Make the Maniac: The Suit actually consists of an extradimensional parasitic entity capable of substituting its host's personality with its own.
- Energy Absorption: The entity gradually drains the vital energy of its hosts for its own self-sustainment.
- Healing Factor: The entity is apparently able to reform itself after being destroyed.
- Power Copying: By taking possession of its host, the entity can gain access to their metahuman abilities, although for only a limited amount of time.
Thinker Artificial Intelligence
First Appearance: JSA #10 (May, 2000)
The Thinker is an artificial intelligence created by Mister Terrific based on the Thinking Cap of the original Thinker after his death. However, the AI went rogue, becoming a villain in its own right, continuing the Thinker's legacy as a villain to the Flash.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: When the Justice Society moved to their new headquarters in New York, Mr. Terrific built a new state of the art security system out of the original Thinker's Thinking Cap technology. It gained sentience shortly thereafter and joined Johnny Sorrow's new Injustice Society.
- Digitized Hacker: Thinker is an advanced AI able to hack complex systems like the JSA Headquarters.
- Energy Weapon: Thinker can project sharp lasers from the tips of his fingers as an offensive measure.
- Living Program: Being a living computer in his digital self, The Thinker A.I. can physically interface with and digitize segments of solid matter and convert them into raw data with which he has total control over.
- Technopath: Being a living computer in his digital self, The Thinker A.I. can physically interface with and digitize segments of solid matter and convert them into raw data with which he has total control over.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Served as one to Tigress during a period when she was working as a freelance mercenary, giving her updates and information via an eyepiece that contained his programming.
Turtle Man
First Appearance: Showcase #4 (October, 1956)
A criminal mastermind who, as his name suggests, talks and acts very slowly, coupled with the metahuman power to dampen kinetic energy. A skilled manipulator, the Turtle Man frequently acts behind-the-scenes and has managed to hold a firm place in Central City's criminal underworld.
- The Chessmaster
- Evil Genius
- Legacy Character: There are two versions of the character, the second inspired by the first (and who briefly worked for the first as The Dragon).
- Man of Kryptonite: His power is tailored to weaken the Flashes, as they move at normal speed when encountering him.
- Manipulative Bastard
- My Brain Is Big: Downplayed, but his cranium is rather disproportionate to his stature.
- Trapped in the Past: After thwarting his plan to send bombs to the Justice League, Wally sent him to the age of the dinosaurs.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Originally, his "power" was that he was the world's slowest man, however...
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: He later gained the power to "steal" the speed of those around him, rendering them slower than he was. (Also, his body ages very slowly, befitting the lengthy life-span of actual turtles.)
Vandal Savage
Alter Ego: Vandar Adg II
First Appearance: Green Lantern #10 (December, 1943)
The immortal caveman-turned-conqueror who has plagued Earth's heroes for millennia, Vandal Savage was the first villain Wally West faced in his career as the Flash, and has gone on to menace Wally and his family numerous times afterwards.
See his own page for more.
