The sinister enemy of theFlashput his own creative ( and quite disturbing ) twisting on lineage stories . Before he ever set out to destroy Barry Allen ’s life , the Reverse - Flash tried perfecting his own , only to discover the process was n’t as easy as he imagine .

Few villain in comic books have as much hatred for their   resister   as   Reverse - Flash has for Barry Allen . Once a rooter of the Flash from the twenty-fifth 100 , Eobard Thawne desperately assay to repair Barry ’s notable accident and become a speedster himself . Though successful in his attempts , Thawne discovered he was fated to become theFlash ’s bane , the Reverse - Flash , a revelation that all break his mind . While Thawne wants nothing more than to kill his opposition , he needs Barry live to inspire him in the time to come . alternatively , the Reverse - Flash resolved to   use his supremacy of speed and time to make the Flash as miserable as possible .

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But it appears that before Thawne set out to destroy the life of Barry Allen , he do fudge the timeline to transfer his own life . InFlash # 8by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins , the villain narrate his secret origin starting from his juvenility . In the 25th century beforeEobard Thawne becomes the Reverse - Flash , Thawne has a little brother whom he despises … until a infernal figure in flushed lightning removes Eobard ’s sibling from the timeline totally . Eobard later lose out on a highly - coveted fleck influence at the Flash museum , until Thawne ’s main competitor also disappears from the timeline . As Thawne details   his life , the Reverse - Flash is shown ' improve ' history to give himself everything he ever require , even helping his retiring self find the all important key to accessing the Speed Force . But Reverse - Flash know that whatever felicity his preceding self finds will never last .

By cruelly removing elements from Barry ’s timeline short by picayune , this story becomes a saturnine mirror that depicts howReverse - Flash changed Flash’slife forever . While Thawne applied   what he   learned from change his own life to his opposition , the end result had the opposite effect . No matter what Reverse Flash did to the Flash , Barry still wound up living a passably happy life .

Heroes and villains often have blood that shine or compliment one another in some form or fashion . They could share a common background or experience a similar hardship , but there ’s normally a thread that connects the two . Eobard Thawne live his whole life   worshippingthe Fastest Man Alive , only to give under the realization he was his perfection ’s over opposition . However , it is n’t enough to be state that . The Reverse - Flash saw firsthand just how opposite he and   Flash   were by messing with both of their timelines . No matter how much Thawne tried to meliorate his life , he remained miserable . And despite the snake pit he put   Barry through , his enemy get a living full of love life and happiness .   By mess with his own and Barry ’s extraction , Flash’sgreatest foe saw the cosmic linear perspective of their family relationship with his own heart .

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