Eobard Thawne

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Eobard Thawne is a speedster from the future. He is the main enemy from The Flash, an Earth-Prime speedster. He has died several times but, thanks to his ability to travel through time, he has survived and appeared in different timezones and even on different earths.

He was the main villain of The Flash (2014-, in seasons 1 and 5) and of Galaxy Legends Season 1. He also played an important role during The Last Stand.

Before being the Reverse Flash
''NOTE: All this information is canon from the CW Arrowverse (it is a sumarized version, to read the complete biography, go here). You'll be told if something is not from an official canon.''

Eobard Thawne was born in Earth-1's 2151 more or less, son of a very rich and influent family. During all his childhood he got obsessed with a hero from the past: The Flash. When he became adult, he replicated the accident that gave The Flash his speedster powers, with this experiment being a complete success. He created his own speed force which, compared to the real one, wasn't affected by timeline changes. After this, he thought his future self could have been The Flash in the past.

Meeting his hero
Thawne travelled back in time to the 2010's to become the Flash. But, when he arrived, he discovered that there was already another speedster with that name in that time zone: Barry Allen. He was furious and, influenced by his negative speedforce, he made the decission to become Barry Allen's greatest enemy: The Reverse Flash.

Changing the timeline
Thawne started fighting with the Flash. During a battle in 2024, both of the speedster accidentally disappeared, but Thawne apparently survived. Thawne, full of anger because he hadn't been able to defeat The Flash, thought to kill Barry when he was a child, so The Flash would never exist and he could take his place. So he did, but a Barry Allen unknown version followed and stopped him. This version saved his young self. Thawne decided to execute an alternate plan: to kill his mother, so Barry would be stuck in a lifetime trauma. He killed her and escaped but, while he was escaping, he lost his power: no Flash would mean no Reverse Flash. Caught in the 2000's, Thawne made a plan to return to his time and, at least, finish with this suffering. Eobard killed Harrison Wells, an Earth-1 scientist, and took his place, stealing his appearance, memories and DNA with a device brought by him from the future. After 14 years of suffering and planning, he finally created a particle accelerator which made explode on purpose, creating Flash 6 years before his original creation. Thawne (now called Harrison Wells), after 9 months of waiting for Barry to wake up, started training him. He even got grow fond on him. After months, and after Barry discovered who he was, he explained to the young speedster what his plan was: While he got back to the future, Barry would go to the past to save his mother. This obviously had a secret purpose; changing the timeline again would "recreate" Thawne's original timeline.

Finally, and due to Eddie Thawne, a Thawne's ancestor who was helping Flash's team, Thawne was erased from existence.

Returning
As said before, the negative speedforce was immune to the timeline changes, which let Thawne come back in a future. He appeared at Earth-X, a planet where the Nazi's won WWII. Thawne entered the empire as a scientist and met the doppelgängers from some of the Earth-1 heroes, which now where villains. While the villains prepared themselves to conquest Earth-1 (as a Thawne suggestion), the speedster prepared himself to come back home. And so he did. Thawne returned and escaped after some fights against the Earth-1 heroes.

Prisoner
During his getaway, Thawne was trapped in a prison in 2048. Due to his crimes as Harrison Wells, he was condemned to death. But, after tricking Flash's daughter (Nora West-Allen, also known as XS), he escaped again.

Post-Crisis
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and due to his DNA being mixed with Harrison Wells's, he got trapped inside the only Wells left in the post-crisis multiverse: Nash Wells. Thawne took control over him, and he was almost recovering his link with the negative speedforce. Unfortunately for him, Flash kicked him out from his friends mind, leaving him as a negative-speedforce ghost.

Non-Canon storyline at Galaxy Legends
NOTE: This is canon from Galaxy Legends, but not for the TV Show "The Flash (2014-)".

Possesing Scratch
Thawne, now transformed in pure energy, travelled through the vast multiverse. During his trip, he crossed a rift created by The Scientist, a former member of The Seven who was now working for the Antimonitor due to being mentally controlled (partially, with a similar link as The Pariah) by this deity. This made Thawne arrive to Earth-219. Right after that, he possesed Scratch, a Shadow agent, and looked for the rift's origin. After he discovered The Scientist (and also realizing he was another Wells doppelgänger), he met and proposed him a deal: Thawne would help The Scientist to break the link between him and the Antimonitor, but in change, the former member of the Seven would create a rift to his homeworld. This was a lie, as Thawne knew how to trick a Wells due to being inside a mind which contained all of them from all across this reality.

Travelling to the Speedy Island and escaping
Thawne and The Scientist created a rift beacon to visit the Speedy Island, a world located at Reality-T07 which was full of Zero Energy. There, they killed Blunergy Incorporated's CEO and stole a big quantity of zero energy rocks. When they returned to the Barcino Island, the villains finally created their portal. Right after that, the Reverse Flash betrayed the Scientist, returning to Earth-Prime and leaving Wells alone.

Back to the island
When Thawne returned to Earth-Prime, Scratch's body started to become corrupted by the Negative Speedforce and, consequently, die due to not being used to this force in big quantities. As of this, Thawne had to come back to Earth-219 unless he wanted to become a ghost again. There, hidden and constantly moving around the island, he started to think on a way to recover his body. During that time, he secretly observed every event happening on Barcino, such as the Speedy Show, Midas' Switch On (he survived thanks to the use of his abilities as a speedster), the time flux that brought the alternate SHADOW and, most importantly, The Brain's arrival.

Changing bodies
Thawne visited P.E.G.A.S.U.S. at the moment that X-Lord arrived. He killed him and took over his body in a similar way he did with Scratch. By doing that, he got access to his memories, and so, he was completely able to stole his identity. He later discovered the Stormite, a rare mineral which was weakily connected to every force in the universe, including the negative speedforce, so he got an idea: he would orquestate a fake war with SHADOW, farm tones of Stormite and, finally, use it to recover a full access to the negative speedforce and transform X-Lord's body into his original one, in an attempt to avoid what happened with Scratch's.

The Stormite becomes sentient
Thawne farmed lots of Stormite at Crazy Lake but, unexpectedly, it became sentient and tried to dominate the whole multiverse. So, Thawne had to join forces with SHADOW, now called The Coalition, and destroy the Stormite. Nevertheless, he used his inteligence to think of a plan B: he would save some Stormite ores and, when they all were able to destroy the Hive Mind, he would use this with some of Chaos Agent's rare DNA to complete his previous plan. And so did he: he was able to kill Chaos Agent and take his DNA. After this, he recovered his body, he remade his suit and, finally, he planted an antimatter bomb next to the Stormite ores. He then was able to travel to Earth-Prime (TRN4), destroying the Barcino Island with the bomb.

The Monitor's plan
However, Thawne's plan didn't really work, as The Monitor gave The Scientist a part of his powers and restored everything. Thawne could recover his body, but as a punishment, The Scientist transformed him in an speed ghost again.

Back on track
''NOTE: All this information is canon from the CW Arrowverse (it is a sumarized version, to read the complete biography, go here). You'll be told if something is not from an official canon.'' In Earth-Prime, The Flash was involved in the Godspeed war, mainly fighting against an speedster called August Heart/Godspeed. Due to the emergency of the events, Barry Allen asked the Speedforce's personification to connect to the Negative Speedforce and, then, reconstitute Eobard's body. This made Eobard regain his physical body (still with Harrison Wells' face), but he had to help The Flash so he could be free. He then teamed up with Flash and defeated Godspeed, almost killing him. With the job done, Thawne then tried to kill Barry, but Flash showed that he was now faster than him. Observing this, Thawne promised that he would become faster than Barry, and right after that, he escaped. His current location is unknown.

Abilities

 * Connection to the Negative Speedforce: Eobard had a connection with his own version of the Speedforce, which gave him superspeed and time travel abilities. He was also immune to every kind of timeline changes.
 * Intelligence: Thawne was a prodigy since he was born, as showed by his ability to craft his own source of powers. Furthermore, his intelligence was upgraded when stealing Harrison Wells' DNA, as both Wells and Eobard's DNA fused together.
 * Acting skills: Thawne was capable of acting as Harrison Nash Wells and as X-Lord without waking any suspicion on anyone.

Trivia

 * His speedster suit is the opposite from The Flash's one, but with the difference that his trousers are purely black.
 * Thawne, after possesing Scratch, started corrupting him. Originally, this was going to be very important for the storyline, but it finally was just a reference to his speed loss.
 * In the comics, Thawne was born in the 25th century, and not in the 22nd like in the TV Show.
 * Thawne is the only non-original or non-Fortnite-related character from Galaxy Legends which has appeared in both the Post-Crisis and the Elseworlds storylines with main plots.