Thawne is the definition of a menace

“Oh I’m not like the Flash at all, some would say I’m the reverse”

Thawne is the proper definition of a perfect villian. Goats are always goats.

It's kind of tragic the way it happened in the comics: Thawne was an obsessed Flash fan in the 25th century. He got a PhD in 20th/21st century history, did his thesis on the emergence of superheroes. Taught history (his students nicknamed him "Professor Zoom" because he often rushed into class at the last minute because he'd gotten distracted researching the Flash). He eventually went through his whole family fortune replicating the process that created the Flash, so he could become the Flash of the 25th century. He saved some people, then he had the idea to sneak into the Flash Museum and get access to the Cosmic Treadmill, a device Flash used to allow him to travel in time without causing huge shock waves (if you run in place, you don't trail a huge sonic BOOM all over the place). Thawne targeted the day and hour the Flash Museum was dedicated, because he knew (from the plaque that was still next to the door) that Flash had been at the opening ceremony. He wanted to tell Flash he was going to carry on his legacy in the future and get his hero's blessing. Unfortunately, he missed his target and arrived several years later. Still mentally discombobulated by the trip, he stumbled into the Rogues Gallery, where the Flash's greatest villains were commemorated. He saw the display for the one villain Flash had been forced to kill in order to stop him: The Reverse Flash, a.k.a. "Professor Zoom," who was actually a time traveler from the 25th century named Eobard Thawne. At that moment, Thawne realized that the man he most admired in the entire history of humanity, the man he'd dedicated his life to learning about and continuing the legacy of, was also the man who was fated to kill him. His mind broke, and all his obsessive love for Barry Allen curdled into obsessive hatred. In that moment, the knowledge that he would become the Reverse Flash was what *caused* him to become the Reverse Flash. A predestination paradox.

It’s actually kinda sad, finding out that you are defined to be the greatest foe of a person you admire and want to be

"Dont you have anything better to do than destroy my life" "Destroying you IS my life"

“I was obsessed with you, for so long. I wanted to be the Flash”⚡️ Goated edit as always 🐐🥂

“I BECAME BETTER THAN YOU” -Eobard thawne

If you think about it… Barry basically just gave thawne the idea to kill his mother once he learns his identity

Unfortunately Zoom didn't meet with Thawne in this episode.

I love how barry is using the shadows as another mask hiding his face from his enemy.

"I BECAME BETTER THAN YOU!!!" 😮😮😮 Like damn that came from his soul.

“I was never going to be The flash” that hits hard 😢

Both Matt Letscher and Tom Cavanagh are amazing. I think they both were the reason the series was so god damn good at start.

I'f this thawne (S2) comes back in the final episode and kinda creates the whole original timeline then that would be a nice ending for the series, for the last run we'll see of thawne and Barry to be creating the very moment that changed Barry's life forever

This explanation is better than the season 8 explanation

"Why do you hate me so much?" Hasn't been truly answered.

Sometimes the people that we love and the people who we look up to aren't what they seem😔

'You should never meet your heroes' --- A wise man

He only became a villain because time showed him he was going to be. That’s the paradox

He's a living paradox. What makes this even more ironic is that he constantly changes the timeline and writes in a journal the timeline is malleable. Yet he sees himself fighting the Flash. It's fate.

"is that you flash" W edit

Its A Cool Touch With A Shadow On Barry Like He Was Looking Not On Barry, But On Just A Shadow.

Bro saw a bad future and just went "fuck it might as well go all in"

Can you imagine idolizing someone so much just to find out that you that you become their greatest enemy. That you become the villain. You hopes and dreams demolished. That you're just an object in someone else's greater story.

Thawne as Thawne is fine but Thawne as Wells just hits different

At this time thawne didn't knew he killed barry's mother 😂

The way he said i didn't always he was so heartbreaking he remembered he once loved and admired Barry before his jealousy and hate take control

Thawn is the definition of an insane person, he hated the flash and became reverse flash because flash took the fame and realized he wasnt gonna be the hero when he traveled in time

Some villains just are crazy no tragic story just insane

If you think about it, he became a self fulfilling prophecy. He could have just chosen to not become a villain and the flash would have never needed to kill him.

Darksied and Thanos: *He's a keeper-* 🥂

He gets underutilized in favor of Tom as revers flash. But honestly he’s so good as Eobard. Like, I can hear his voice going “It was me Barry.”

F: "Is that why you killed my mom?" RF: "That was my future self, but thanks for the tidbit of info" ;D

Thawne is one of the 🐐

Your hero became your greatest enemy that's a proper way to start a villain arc

Bro thawn just like well if i gotta be the villan then so be it

This scene was better than the scene of them talking in armageddon where he looked like wells.

when you think about it, he ultimately created the hero that would forever be his nemesis

Ciore + Clixil + Frague + JB = the best flash editors in the multiverse

"Oh Im Not Like The Flash At All, Some Would Say Im The Reverse" ONE OF THE GREATEST VILLIAN LINES EVER

Bro really said “I created you. You… created me.”

Is it just me or is this song more relaxing when there's a monologue of people going back and forth in the background

Imagine someone 2000 years later in the future jumps through time just to ruin your life in a specific way that allows them not to fuck up there timeline literally 2000 years later… bruh do you know how much work you’d have to do just to make sure your born 2000 years later… This man is a yandere psycho…

I just noticed That Eobard and the Eobard in OG Dr.Well's body give two different answers to Barry's question

Not only did he became better then barry but became one of the greatest villans of all time

They shorten it so drastically, Thawne comes to our time, *and realizes* he’s the reason Barry becomes the Flash, there’s no other motivation, no kind of inspiration or influence. Thawne is Barry’s reason for becoming The Flash as much as Joe Chill is for Batman, or Krypton’s explosion and Clark’s subsequent arrival and raising by Martha and John. If there is no Reverse Flash, there is no Flash. Imagine coming to that realization. The existential grasp, the stranglehold of fate that says you *must* become this.

Reverse flash is literally the best actor. He travelled back in time, saw the script that he was supposed to play the villain, and man just played his part to the best of his ability.

“He Is Fast But I’m Faster”

Thawne : I was obsessed with y- Barry: You are Gay?

Oh man that OG RF suit 😢

Bro fr said he killed his mother even though that eobard havent done it

Why do you think he is in a kid flash uniform? That's what he wanted.

Matt was hands down the best Thawne.

"oh wait im supposed to be his nemesis? Ok lets kill his mother"

Barry never understood this what he was implying is that without the flash could never truly become the flash and that he had to be reverse.

Matt was amazing as the Reverse Flash, he really needed more screen time. Tom is GREAT, don't get me wrong. But Matt.. he was something special.

Perfect villain= a fallen hero/ a fallen fan of an hero

Thawne himself made Barry the Flash

He went to some time where the flash Museum existed saw he was the reverse flash and figured that was his destiny so he’s been creating it since

Better answer could be. Because you were given what I worked so hard for. You're an accident of fate. While I'm a self made man. You continue to be blessed for no apparent reason while I'm the villain. My only sin? Wanting to be you?

This is the original time line Thawne....my opinion is that in the original time line Barry's mother didn't die until original time line Reverse Flash snapped & killed her. By killing her Thawne created the very first "Reverse Flash Point" which is the entire show "The Flash "

... im reading comments. He went back in time to learn the name of the person that fought the flash. A name lost to history. It was his name. So he ran with it to ensure flash was as great as he was ment to be

A man coming to terms with his destiny

In the season 8 ending i thing this Thawne should've came back instead of wells Thawne since it was his real face.

Clixil we would love to see your ratings of The flash seasons

“I didn’t always” the way he says it implies that deep deep down I don’t think he really wanted to be become the way he was he did admire the Flash after all but I think the Negative Force changed him to much..kinda sad because he used to be a good guy im sure 😢

Just imagine your greatest villain winds up being your greatest mentor!!! Even when he’s trying to kill him though time and space he’s always pushing The Flash to the limits to be better! An Unstoppable force meets an unmovable object.

I don’t know why he didn’t see his fate in the past as just another timeline where that’s what he becomes and just say, we’ll I won’t be doing that. I’ll just be the flash of this timeline but yellow.

Barry is really trusting that light 😂😂😂

Now all he has to do is run backwards so he'll definitely be the Reverse Flash.

It was me Barry, I ended up being your greatest villain

Rf: not because i couldn't be you. I had to fulfill my destiny of being your greatest enemy so you could become the man i admired. Without me you wouldn't be who you were meant to be.

The best version of reverse flash

Growing up is realising that thawne is broken and not pure evil

I love Matt's menace and this suit so much.

This show was such an emotional ride such a great show but just like my favorite quote says You die a Hero or you live long enough to become the villain 😅 Thanks CW for the best 5 seasons that were always made me so excited for Tuesday nights

Big problem with this. If we're talking the very first timeline where there was a Thawne that idealized the Flash and became a Speedster himself and therefore the first time that Thawne time travelled would be the first time any Eobard Thawne time travelled then what he saw whenever, wherever, was just a POSSIBLE future and he could have just chosen not to do any of it because in his original timeline it all happens anyways. Just without all of the massive changes that HE caused. It's actually his own fault his original timeline is actually gone.

Missed the part where he worked with Flash for awhile. Except Thawn was causing accidents to happen so he could save them. Plus he didn't really officially accept his role as villian until he saw Wally West (Kid Flash). He felt jealous and betrayed when Wally took his spot fighting along side Flash. That was the breaking point. Thawn was always mentally unstable, he did so many despicable things to be like his hero and eventually just accepted his role as the villian.

“ I BECAME BATTER THAN YOU!” yeah? well ur the one locked up in a cell rn.

Barry didn’t deserve that kind of life he saved the multiverse many times he didn’t deserve this kind of life where he had no mother where he lost many ppl that he loved 😢😢😢😢😢😢

I hope we see this flashback of how Thawne got his powers before the show ends

Goat 🥶🥶

Thawne, whom you can say he hates Barry, without him screaming it like current Thawne.

REVERSE FLASH MY IDOL

Villians will always win one time like thawne😢

I didn't always hate you... For so long I wanted to be the flash... 😢😢😢

Thawne always rages a Barry all the time because he wanted revenge.

well the ironic part is if he never went back in time to kill his mother neither flash or him would exist his mother dying is a fixed point for both of them because without the flash there is no zoom

"I am the only thing that you can't stop!!"

Thawne is an absolute menace and the goat imo

Thawn is one of the best written villians of all time

“Nothing can kill the reverse flash” Therapy: allow me to introduce myself

Thats why they say never meet your heroes

“I BECAME BETTER THAN YOU!” “I got faster, didn’t you?!? 😂😂😂

Why does barry look menacing in the darkness

Song Name Is -Shootout (slowed and reverb)

This thawne was the one barry meet year 2000 in the last season.

I love that you can’t see Barry’s face rather they emphasize Thawne and humanize him just a bit. Amazing they have 2 great actors to play Thawne and make it work

Goat RF