12-12-2014, 10:48 AM
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KevinTH5
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Re: The Flash (CW Show)
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Originally Posted by chadizzy1
So, who’s Reverse Flash?
It could be Dr. Wells. Or Dr. Well’s could have been the one who created the suit. He does have one in the future closet (which still has yet to be explained). But hearing Dr. Well’s say “Merry Christmas” in the Reverse Flash voice was pretty interesting.
It could be Eddie. After Barry telling Iris how he feels, if he lost Iris to Barry and found out Barry was the Flash, that would be grounds enough for him to try to fight him, perhaps even want revenge. (If he came back in time from a future where Barry’s mom was alive and killed her, present day Eddie wouldn’t know about it). The fact that Reverse Flash didn’t mess with Eddie might show that it’s Eddie from the future.
I’m torn on who it could actually be.
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it's Wells. But my thought is Wells isn't exactly who he says he is. I've only read New 52 Flash, but I did some Wikipedia research on Reverse Flash and my thought is he sounds similar to Hunter Zolomon aka Zoom. There was an earlier episode in which Detective West is suspicious of when Wells moved to Central City. If memory serves me right, he said he moved from Keystone City - that's where Zolomon lives. While it happens in a different way, Zolomon is paralyzed from the waite down. Granted Wells is clearly not paralyzed, but there are some parallels there.
"Hunter Zolomon aka Zoom first appeared in The Flash: Secret Files & Origins #3.
After arriving in Keystone City, Hunter Zolomon was hired as a profiler, working with the police in their Department of Metahuman Hostilities. His work put him in constant contact with the Flash (Wally West), and the two became good friends. His insight was critical in solving cases, but he resented being stuck behind a desk.
He was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He asked West to use the time-travelling cosmic treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent this from occurring. West refused, saying that he could not risk damaging the timestream. Zolomon then broke into the museum and attempted to use the treadmill himself. The resulting explosion destroyed the museum (as well as his remaining sanity) and shifted Hunter's connection to time. He could now alter his personal timeline, giving the effect of super-speed.
Zolomon concluded that West would not help because, unlike Allen, he had never suffered personal tragedy. Zolomon decided that if he became the new Zoom and killed West's wife (Linda Park), this would help the Flash become a better hero.
Unlike other speedsters, Zoom's abilities lie not in speed but manipulation of time. For this reason he appears to be faster than The Flash and untouchable. This is betrayed in his speech patterns which ebb and flow at different speeds, almost entirely at random. His trademark attack is to snap his fingers creating a shockwave not just in space but across time. He uses this attack to cause Linda to miscarry.
The battle, the death of his unborn children and Linda's resultant despondency was too much for The Flash, so he enlisted the help of the Spectre (at the time, the spirit of Hal Jordan) to remove all memory from the world about the Flash's secret identity (including himself). Zoom, however, was unaffected and returned to plague him. Teaming up with the Cheetah, Zoom stretched his influence to the Justice League, but stated repeatedly that his only interest was "making the Flash a better hero". He enlists with the villainous Mockingbird (later revealed to be an alternate reality version of Lex Luthor).
This version of Zoom has not appeared in DC's reboot following Flashpoint."
There's another theory floating around that Wells is Eddie's grandchild or great-grandchild and that's why he didn't kill Eddie and he's actually an Eobard Thawne from the future - Professor Zoom.
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