EOBARD THAWNE

THE REVERSE-FLASH

ABOUT

Born in the year 2151, Professor Eobard Thawne idolized a superhero speedster known as the Flash. He replicated the accident behind the Flash's powers and inadvertently tapped into a "negative" version of the Speed Force. Thawne grew bitter and jealous when the Flash, having traveled through time, saved a crowd that he had intended to rescue and, upon learning that he was destined to become the Flash's greatest enemy, grew obsessed with ruining his life as the Reverse-Flash

CW TIMELINE

Thawne murders and assumes the identity and genetic appearance of Dr. Harrison Wells to found S.T.A.R. Labs in Central City, spending the next fourteen years building a particle accelerator to empower the Flash apparently ahead of schedule.[10][1] "Wells", along with Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon, mentors Barry in defeating metahuman criminals caused by the particle accelerator explosion. Thawne pushes Barry into getting faster with the goal of using Barry's pure connection to the Speed Force to return to his own time period.[11][12] To that end, Thawne also taunts and bests Barry as a tachyon-enhanced speedster–initially referred to as the "Man in Yellow" before he's dubbed the Reverse-Flash by Cisco.After Thawne's secret is discovered, Barry captures him with the help of Oliver Queen, Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein.[15] Thawne offers Barry a chance to travel back in time to save Nora in exchange for a time machine to return to the future once the Speed Force wormhole is open, but Barry ultimately refuses and destroys Thawne's machine. Before Thawne can kill Barry, his ancestor, police detective Eddie Thawne, shoots himself which seemingly erases Thawne from existence, but not before reverting him to his original likeness.[1] A flash drive containing Thawne's will both bequeaths S.T.A.R. Labs to Barry and includes a video-recorded confession which allows for Henry's exoneration.[16]Thawne survives his erasure following Eddie's sacrifice due to his connection to the Negative Speed Force, which renders him immune to timeline changes.[17][18] As the Dark Flash, he allies with Dark Arrow and Overgirl of the Nazi-dominated Earth-X to invade Earth-1.[19] During the final battle, Barry defeats Thawne, but spares his life which allows him to speed off while his allies are killedIn 2034, Thawne is captured and imprisoned in Iron Heights Penitentiary,[22] where he is routinely tortured by a corrupt prison guard[22]while a dagger that had belonged to the metahuman serial killer Cicada[18] dampens his super-speed. In 2049, Nora West-Allen seeks Thawne's help.[22] Thawne becomes Nora's mentor and claims that he seeks to create a more noble legacy for himself before he's executed for his crimes.[23][8][22] However, he actually plans to destroy Cicada's dagger and escape Iron Heights so he sends Nora to travel back in time and help Barry defeat Cicada, ultimately resulting in the dagger transported to the Mirrorverse which frees him moments before his execution. He briefly fights Barry, Nora, and Team Flash before Nora begins fading from existence because of the changes in the timeline while Thawne makes his escape.[18]Following the multiversal Crisis, Thawne turns into a being of negative tachyons and is fused with Harrison Nash Wells, a 'repository' for the consciousness of every version of Wells. Thawne takes control of Nash's body and tries to reconnect to the Negative Speed Force, but Team Flash expels him from Nash's body which leaves him without a physical form.[24][25]
Barry and Iris West-Allen later have the Speed Force reconstitute Thawne's corporeal form in exchange for his aid in subduing Godspeed. After he incapacitates Godspeed, Thawne double-crosses Barry and attempts to kill his nemesis, but he's easily defeated. Seeing that Barry is now faster than he is, Thawne vows vengeance and speeds off.[26]To seize control of Barry's life, Thawne uses the Negative Still Force to alter the timeline and create a "Reverse-Flashpoint" reality in which he is the Flash and Barry is the Reverse-Flash. However, Barry reconnects to the Speed Force to avert the impending "Armageddon" and restores the timeline, resulting in Thawne beginning to fade from existence.[27] To save Thawne's life, Barry severs his connection to the Negative Speed Force and has him remanded into A.R.G.U.S. custody.[6]

OTHER ALLIES

OTHER LORE

THE NEW REICH ERA

the concept of national borders had long since dissolved, replaced by the suffocating shadow of The New Reich. This wasn't the terrestrial regime of history books, but a sprawling, intergalactic machine that bridged the gaps between dimensions and star systems. It functioned as a dark mirror to ancient peacekeeping agencies, combining the bureaucratic efficiency of a planetary intelligence bureau with the crushing military might of a star-spanning empire. At its heart sat a council of war, governed by forty generals whose names were whispered as curses across a thousand dying worlds.Among these elite commanders, none was more feared—or more enigmatic—than General Eobard Thawne. While other generals relied on massive infantry divisions or orbital bombardment, Thawne’s influence was felt in the silence between heartbeats. He served as the Reich’s premier temporal strategist and head of the Paradox Division. To the soldiers of the Reich, he was a living ghost, a man who could win a war before the enemy even realized the first shot had been fired.Thawne’s headquarters was not a fortress on a planet’s surface, but a chronal spire that drifted outside the conventional flow of time. From this vantage point, he monitored the "Great Expansion," the Reich’s ongoing campaign to harvest resources and genetic data from across the multiverse. He viewed the vast diversity of the agency—the myriad species from distant realms and shadowed dimensions—not as equals, but as tools. Every agent, from the hulking shock troops of the outer rim to the ethereal infiltrators of the void, was a pawn in his grand, temporal chess match.The New Reich thrived on a philosophy of "Standardized Order." They believed that the chaos of free will was a plague that led to entropy. Thawne was the ultimate enforcer of this dogma. If a world showed signs of rebellion, he didn't simply send an army; he would travel back to that civilization’s foundational era and subtly alter a single event. By the time the present caught up, the rebellious culture would have evolved into a subservient client state of the Reich, their history rewritten to ensure total loyalty.Despite his high rank, Thawne was often at odds with the other thirty-nine generals. Many of them viewed his reliance on speed and time manipulation as a dangerous instability. They preferred the heavy boot of a legion and the visible terror of a star-destroying fleet. Thawne, however, looked down on their "primitive" methods. To him, the Reich was a masterpiece of engineering that only he truly understood. He saw himself as the architect of their permanence, the one man capable of ensuring the Reich would never fall because, in his timeline, it had already won forever.Within the Reich's vast intelligence network—a system that made the ancient A.R.G.U.S. look like child’s play—Thawne operated a sub-group known as the Lightning Strike. These were elite agents handpicked from various realms, trained to move at speeds that defied the laws of physics. They were the Reich’s scalpel, used to excise "temporal anomalies" or high-value targets who threatened the stability of the Empire’s timeline. Thawne’s leadership was absolute; he demanded a level of perfection that only a man who had seen the end of time could expect.The iconography of the New Reich was stamped across the cosmos: a stylized, geometric eagle clutching a rift in space-time. This symbol flew over conquered citadels in realms where the sun never set and on moons where the atmosphere was liquid glass. Thawne wore this insignia on his yellow-and-black ceremonial armor, a suit that pulsed with the captured kinetic energy of a dozen collapsed realities. It served as a constant reminder that the Reich was not just a government, but a force of nature.One of the most terrifying aspects of Thawne’s tenure as General was his "Archive of Erasures." Deep within the Reich’s central hub, Thawne maintained a vault of beings and civilizations he had wiped from existence. He didn't kill them; he simply removed their origin points. These "ghosts" were kept in stasis, used as experimental subjects for the Reich’s biological warfare divisions. It was a cold, calculated cruelty that even his fellow generals found unsettling, cementing his reputation as the most ruthless mind in the high command.As the New Reich prepared for its leap into the "Negative Zones"—realms of pure antimatter—Thawne’s role became even more pivotal. He was tasked with stabilizing the gateways between these volatile dimensions. The other generals watched with bated breath as he pushed the boundaries of science and sorcery, weaving the Reich’s influence into the very fabric of reality. He wasn't just conquering space; he was conquering the fundamental laws of the universe, ensuring the Reich’s banner would fly at the beginning and the end of all things.Ultimately, Eobard Thawne did not serve the New Reich out of a sense of duty or ideology. He served it because it provided the largest possible canvas for his obsession with control. In the Reich, he found a machine powerful enough to match his own ambition. As he stood on the bridge of his flagship, watching a nebula be harvested for its thermal energy, Thawne smiled. The multiverse was a chaotic place, but under the New Reich, and under his watchful eye, every second of history would finally run on time.

ANCIENT EGYPT ERA

In the blistering radiance of the Eighteenth Dynasty, the sands of Giza did not just shift with the wind—they vibrated with the frantic hum of a kinetic god. Eobard Thawne, the Man in Yellow, had not arrived in ancient Egypt to be worshiped, though the locals fell to their knees at the sight of his golden streak. He had arrived as a scholar of the primordial, seeking the three "Other Forces" that predated the Speed Force. He knew that to truly eclipse his rivals, he needed more than velocity; he required the crushing weight of the Strength Force, the paralyzing entropy of the Still Force, and the cosmic clairvoyance of the Sage Force.His presence did not go unnoticed by the Ennead, the literal manifestations of Egyptian power who viewed the timeline as their sacred tapestry. Thawne’s first encounter was with Horus, the Sky God, whose sharpened gaze could track a photon across the vacuum. As Thawne blurred toward the hidden Temple of Resilience to claim the Strength Force, Horus descended like a falling star, his khopesh wreathed in solar fire. The clash was not merely physical but metaphysical, as Thawne’s negative electricity arced against the divine radiance of the sun, scorching the limestone of the unfinished pyramids into glass.To claim the Strength Force, Thawne had to venture into the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, where the earth’s gravity was governed by the god Geb. Here, the very air was heavy enough to crush bone, a natural defense against those who relied on agility. Thawne found himself forced to vibrate at frequencies that mimicked the tectonic plates themselves. He didn't just fight Geb; he outcalculated him, using his knowledge of molecular density to bypass the god’s earthen traps. When he finally touched the artifact of the Strength Force—a blackened granite scarab—his muscles surged with a terrifying, heavy power that threatened to tear his own suit apart.The quest for the Still Force brought Thawne to the silent chambers of Thoth, the god of wisdom and time. Thoth did not fight with blades, but with the absence of motion. He cast a field of "Perfect Stasis" across the Nile Delta, freezing the river and the birds in mid-flight. For the first time in his existence, Thawne felt the horror of true stillness. He was a man defined by the "run," and Thoth was the personification of the "stop." To win, Thawne had to utilize a paradox, moving so fast that he existed in the micro-seconds between Thoth’s thoughts, eventually shattering the god’s equilibrium and absorbing the emerald essence of the Still Force.The final piece of his dark trinity was the Sage Force, held within the psychic labyrinth of the goddess Isis. While the other gods fought with elements, Isis fought with the mind, forcing Thawne to relive his most humiliating defeats and his deepest obsessions. She flooded his consciousness with a billion possible futures, attempting to drown his ego in a sea of infinite data. But Thawne’s mind was already a fractured masterpiece of temporal calculations. He didn't resist the Sage Force; he opened himself to it, using his speed-mind to process the goddess’s psychic onslaught until he had mapped every synapse of her divine intellect.With all three forces swirling within his Negative Speed Force core, Thawne underwent a grotesque apotheosis. He was no longer just a speedster; he was a multiversal constant. The Strength Force gave him the mass of a white dwarf, the Still Force allowed him to pause the universe at will, and the Sage Force granted him total telepathic dominance over the era. The Egyptian gods, realizing their traditional powers were being rendered obsolete by this "living anomaly," converged for one final stand at the base of the Great Sphinx, which Thawne had already begun to reshape in his own image.The battle that followed was a cataclysm that history books would later mistake for a decade of natural disasters. Thawne moved with a "Heavy Speed," a terrifying combination of velocity and infinite mass. He struck with the force of falling moons while simultaneously freezing the gods' counterattacks in localized bubbles of Still Force. Anubis tried to claim Thawne’s soul, but the Sage Force allowed Thawne to rewrite his own spiritual signature in real-time, making him a ghost that the god of death could not grasp. He was playing a game of chess where he owned the board, the pieces, and the clock.As the temples crumbled and the Nile turned to a chaotic slurry of kinetic energy, the gods realized Thawne wasn't trying to replace them—he was trying to use them as a battery. He began to siphon the ambient divinity of Egypt to stabilize the conflicting forces within him. The sky turned a bruised purple as the "Sage-Mind" of Thawne began to broadcast his own twisted history into the dreams of every living soul in the Mediterranean. He was turning the cradle of civilization into a temporal anchor, a place where he could never be erased from existence.However, the sheer magnitude of holding the Strength, Still, and Sage forces alongside the Speed Force began to create a "Force Storm" that threatened to unmake the planet. Even Thawne, in his arrogance, realized that the ancient world was too fragile a vessel for his new power. He had achieved his goal: he had mastered the mechanics of the universe’s fundamental energies. With a mocking salute to the battered and weakened Ennead, he tapped into his newly expanded powers to tear a hole in the fabric of reality, intending to take his "Complete Force" back to the future.Thawne vanished in a localized supernova of yellow, purple, and green light, leaving behind a scarred Egypt and a pantheon of gods who would never again interfere in the affairs of men with the same confidence. The records of this war were struck from the hieroglyphs, hidden away in forbidden tombs as a warning of the "Golden Demon" who had outrun destiny. Thawne returned to the timestream not just as a villain, but as a predator who had feasted on the powers of the old world to become the master of the new one.

FEATS

Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, is one of the most powerful and "broken" characters in the DC Universe due to his connection to the Negative Speed Force and his status as a Living Paradox.Here are some of his most legendary feats categorized by his different abilities:1. Speed and Combat Feats* Faster than Death: He has literally outrun the Black Flash (the embodiment of death for speedsters) and survived erasure by Dr. Manhattan, returning to existence shortly after because he exists outside the traditional timeline.
* The "Invisible" Blitz: He can move so fast that he becomes completely invisible to the naked eye and even to other speedsters like Barry Allen.
* Mental Processing: He once counted over million dollars in less than a second while mid-fight.
* Massive Strength: By using "Infinite Mass Punch" logic (accelerating his mass through speed), he has one-shotted powerful heroes like Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Power Ring, and has brutally incapacitated Batman in seconds.2. Temporal Mastery (Hax)* Living Paradox: Because of his unique nature, Thawne can kill his own ancestors or even his past self without being erased from history. This makes him nearly impossible to "kill" permanently.
* Erasure from Existence: He can vibrate his hand through a person’s heart or head, but he can also do something much worse: he can travel back in time and kill someone’s parents or friends so they were "never born," effectively erasing them from the current timeline.
* Age Manipulation: Thawne can "steal" the years from a person's life by touch, aging them to dust in seconds while making himself younger.3. The Negative Speed Force* Speed Force Cancer: His energy is "cancerous" to other speedsters. Just by being near Barry Allen or Wally West, he can contaminate their connection to the Speed Force, causing them intense pain or even killing them.
* Memory Manipulation: He can alter the memories of others by vibrating through their brains, or even replace their memories with his own.
* Universal Destruction: He once rigged Iris West’s energy signature so that if the Flash touched her, the friction would trigger a chain reaction that would annihilate the entire universe.4. Feats of Pettiness (Narrative Feats)While not "combat" feats, Thawne is famous for using his god-like powers for incredibly small, cruel things:* He once traveled back in time to push a young Barry Allen down the stairs.
* He erased Barry's childhood best friend from existence just so Barry would feel lonely.
* He let Barry’s dog out of the house so it would get lost.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

COMIC DESIGN GALLERY

LIVE ACTION SUIT DESIGNS

NEGATIVE SPEED-FORCE ABILITIES

speedsters are considered extremely "overpowered" because the Speed Force allows them to bypass the laws of physics, enabling them to travel through time, phase through solid matter, and react in attoseconds. While powerhouses like Superman have more physical strength, a speedster’s ability to rewrite reality or strike with the force of a white dwarf star makes them nearly impossible to beat in a serious fight. They are generally only limited by their own moral restraint or "jobbing" for the sake of the plot. some speedsters have limited amount of abilities, other speedsters have a more vast amount depending on their connection to their power source. Thawne has 1000+ abilities including;

SUIT RING

The Reverse-Flash suit ring is one of the most iconic gadgets in DC lore, used by Eobard Thawne to store his costume. While most people associate the ring with Barry Allen, it was actually Thawne who first used it on screen in the The Flash TV series, and in the comics, it has a long history involving 25th-century technology.

BLOOD

Besides his parents, siblings, and ancestors, with timeline shananigans, The Negative Speed-Force spawned in six of his own blood.

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