Why is Reverse Flash the best capeshit villain?

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you can just make another Manta thread if you want, no need to bait

>>92537872
Let me clarify best live action villain

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Post more based Thawn

>>92537872
Fuck off with this retarded meme.

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>>92538396

>>92537819
Because he's genuinely scary and intimidating.

>>92538558
Fucking this.
I hate it when writers try so hard to make villains ReLAtaBLe they completely forget to build up intimidation and suspense.

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because its always him barry
ITS ALWAYS HIM

nah but, he's fucking cool, he's just there to fuck with the flash, but godspeed also looks interesting

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Because he's petty and cruel.

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>>92537819
How do you guys feel about Thawne's "Professor Zoom" name slowly getting phased out?

>>92538758
He's hot so I'll let it slide.

>>92538758
eh, never really like that nickname
reverse flash was way better sempai

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>>92538870
On one hand, it makes differentiating from Zolomon a bit easier, but sadly it doesnt look like Zoom is coming back anytime soon. On the other hand just calling Thawne Reverse Flash is still mildly confusing seeing how Daniel West still doesnt have a different title

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>>92537819
He learned to love the BBC

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Does Reverse Flash hate the Flash more than Black Manta hates Aquaman?

>>92537819
>exact contrast to hero
>from the future
>silly and over the top yet sinister and threatening at the same time
>an absolute joy to read
>nice costume

>>92539010
I forgot
>always has the best shit-eating grin on his face

>>92539010
>motivation is plain and simple to fuck his nemesis' life up
>his name is Eobard

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>>92538941
yeah I guess, hope godspeed takes off though

>>92539005
No, he loves the Flash. He's just upset that his husbando doesn't want him.

>>92538983
Why are spamming this in multiple threads?

>>92539175
>Spam

You'll learn.

>>92538758
Reverse Flash or just "Thawne" is much better. There's too much "Doctor" or variation this and that titles.

>>92538941
Daniel West is dead and nobody cares about him.

>>92539256
>Dead
>Time Bomb
>Anyone in comics "dead"
Did you forget NuWally's entire thing with him? Im not saying hes a good villain, just that hes still going to pop up

>>92537819
>Why is Reverse Flash the best capeshit villain?
Yellow is one of, if not the hardest color to look good in and Thawne looks amazing.

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>>92538396

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>>92539479

>>92539523
what a dick
fuck I love him

>>92537819
>reverse flash

The Slow?

making some webms, brb

>>92539846
ok :D

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not happy about the quality

>>92540176
>implying he wont come back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEGH8T0YYik

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THESE GUYS!

>>92539498
So I haven't really watched The Flash tv show. Is Thawne less of a dikc than he is in the comics? I get that vibe based off what I've seen.

>>92540507
That scene was so fucking stupid. One of Thawne should easily be capable of taking out the Legends

>>92538426
t. Aquaman
Go play with your ki-...oops

>>92540507
What episode is this?

>>92540628
CW Thawne is kind of a mix of comic Thawne and Hunter Zolomon. He hasnt really done anything that level of petty and a his plan relied on making Barry a better Flash

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>>92540649
all the fight scenes in that show are stupid

>>92540665
it's Legends of Tomorrow's season finale

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>IT WAS ME BARRY! I WAS THAT FEEL!

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gotta run some errands, be back in a few

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>>92539498

>>92540507
Which episode?

>>92538758
his name should be Shalf

>>92540176
which episode was this? i dont want to watch the whole series

>>92541374
Season finale of Season 1

>>92539633
>Look what you did.

>>92540282
He's already come back and been erased AGAIN.

>>92537819
He's everything a villain should be. Flawed, hidden in plain sight, uncompromising with his goals, not just inherently and unnecessarily evil but willing to be unbelievably cruel if it means protecting his plans.

He's honestly perfect. The final fight in season 1 when he's captured really annoyed me.

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Reeeee Johns.

Because his motivation for literally ending the world in Flashpoint: Paradox is that hes a huge asshole.
Thats the best villain motivation of all.

>>92541044
I think The Shaft sounds better.

>>92542073
I think you missed who caused Flashpoint Paradox
Spoilers It was Barry

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>>92540778
Back
Any ideas on what would make a good webm?

>>92537872
they're both great for the same reason

they're artistically petty

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I like the Reverse Flashes as a group because despite being almost unstoppable and having one of the most broken power sets out there, they're all ridiculously petty. They don't care about acquiring power or riches or anything. Their hatred for The Flash is so strong that they don't care what happens as long as it makes The Flash's life worse.

>>92540694
Now you're just making me remember just how much better season 1 is compared to the rest of the show.

>>92544586

Season 2 was a real misstep for a lot of reasons, yeah. Some of it was all the shoehorned LoT promotion, but most of it came from them just basically retreading the whole "mentor/father figure betrays the group and is revealed to be an evil speedster" plot again.

>>92543989
But that's wrong about Zolomon, he doesn't HATE Wally. He wants Wally to improve so the shit that happened to him doesn't happen again.

>>92540332
Probably the best episode of the whole serie.

>>92537819

Because his relationship with the Flash is full of petty, personal shit that makes any time he shows up a giant red flag that shit has immediately gotten real.

Batman can fight the Joker a bajillion times and it always ends the same way, and whenever the Joker has Bats at his mercy all that happens is some convoluted deathtrap he escapes as soon as he wakes up because the Joker doesn't REALLY want Bats dead.

Reverse Flash will fuck the Flash RIGHT THE FUCK UP, and when he can't touch Flash, he does awful shit to everyone around him. He's terrifying in a fight, and whats worse than that is with Speedforce bullshit powers if you don't know where he is he is 1000x more dangerous, because if you can't see him he is probably placing a tiny amount of cyanide in every bowl of cereal you have ever eaten so he can poison you over time and land the killing blow with a feather in the present.

>>92541759

I think he meant wellsobard

>>92537819
Complete savage.

>>92548158

I think Savitar could hand him his ass. If barry could outrun Zoom, then only person left to go up against is RF. And whatever speedsters they bring out in the future

>>92537819
Because he's a mix of relentless and ridiculously pettiness, and so he's very endearing in his own fucked up way.

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>>92540507

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>>92540507
>>92559894

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>>92540507
>>92559894
>>92560058

>>92544586
season 2 was good as fuck

>>92540332
Season One Wells was the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxrwcVymVMU

Eobard is the fucking best. I miss him in the show.

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It goes like this

1. Doom
2. Black Adam
3. Black Manta
4. Thawne when he's in full "I SHIT YOUR PANTS, BARRY"-mode
5. Lord Death Man

>>92564732
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXU3r8DYG8I
Best episode of season 2

>>92542022
>The Flash's negative opposite
...So the Flash?

>>92537819
I find that he's the only acceptable villain that's just an evil version of a superhero.

Also, how isn't the Flash the most dangerous thing in the DC universe as opposed to Superman? Can't the Flash go back in time and shit?

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>>92537819
I'll always be a Joker fan boy
But the good professor will always be a close second, tied with Lex for all time favorite comic book character.

>>92537819
I like Reverse Flash memes and all, but isn't he a textbook example of the MCU's boring villain trope?
>Pretty much just an evil version of the hero

>>92569779
He works because of the extremes he takes it to.

>>92537872
Why isn't there a Thawne amd Mamra team up?

>>92538758
They still use both as far as I'm aware.

I like both RF and Professor Zoom BTW.

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>>92569206
As much as I like Matt Letscher's portrayal of RF, I'll always like Tom Cavanagh's better.

>>92542449
He was so mean to best boy Eddie.

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>>92569699
Are you literally me?

>>92537819
Because it was always him, anon, ALWAYS HIM.

>>92569699
>"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy."
>"I'm every bad day you ever had."
I'm sensing a pattern here.

>>92537819
>>92537872
Fuck off with your shitty epin meme villains

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>>92538524

>>92570168
I really really want Wellsobard back.

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What do you think his final thoughts were?

>>92537819
He's not even the best Flash villain.

>>92569779
Dark mirrors being bad is a meme.

Is there an essential Prof Zoom reading list? Is any of the silver age Zoom worth reading?

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>>92537819
>>92537872

>>92538758
He'll always be Zoom to me.

>>92537819
At his best, RF is one of the best and most underrated comic villains of all time. However, they've overexposed him to hell and back.

>>92538758
I liked him just being "Zoom" just to juxtapose him with Flash, but I guess Hunter Zolomon got there first.

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>>92539152
You are confusing Zoom with the Joker.

Zoom wanted to BE the Flash. Most of his plots in Bronze Age were about taking Barry's place as Iris's husband. He once tricked Barry to think that if he tried to be together with Iris, the future would be destroyed in a "holocaust".

>>92569779
MCU mirror villains don't hate their hero as much as Thawne does to Barry

>>92540628
Wellsobard (Thawne taking on the real Wells's identity) eventually grew up to care about Barry and became somewhat a better person. He hoped to convince Bar to have them both get what they want.

Pre-Wells Eobard is the same petty asshole from the comics.

>>92570168
Matt is great as a flat out douchebag Eobard, he really fits him on the base level of who he is.

Tom's works better for how he was developed in the show, though. Schemer, manipulater, scary, even. While still not being too far from the douchebag when he was allowed to be "I'M THE REVERSE FLASH BARRY"

>>92572968
do you think the shock of seeing Manhattan's bare blue dick is what shocked him long enough for Jon to zap him?

>>92542273
Yes, but Thawne was stopping Barry from fixing his own mistake and was ready to die together with him JUST so he could be a huge asshole.

Plus the whole thing where he figured out the way to change Barry's history without destroying the timeline. Pre-Rebirth Vol 1, Barry's parents were both alive.

>>92543989
>>92546003
Despite that, Zolomon probably infected the worst punishment on Wally than Thawne ever did.

Barry realized Thawne retroactively killed his mother. Wally saw Zolomon come back and tell him about the two children he was going to have if not for him. He then tried to make him look at it for eternity. Whatever the good reason he had, Zolomon ended up the pettiest one.

>>92548222
Are you talking about the show? Because the comics' Savitar is much different, though still very strong, only an alliance of speedsters managed to trap him in the SF.

>>92569779
The thing is, he is not. He is not Barry's clone (even when he outright TRIES to become one).

His methods, his specific brand of villainy, his understandable, yet undeniably selfish and evil traits make him different. He's sort of an answer to "What would a real person do if they've gotten the Speed Force powers?"

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>>92573732
>However, they've overexposed him to hell and back.
I wouldn't say so. In New52, he had ONE arc. Probably will get as much in Rebirth. One arc in the old Rebirth. One and a half in Wally West run.

And in the old Barry run, Zoom was a very different beast, who became closer to the modern one only by the end of Bronze Age. Before that, his MO was doing crime for fun, trying to replace Barry/Hal, and trying to steal wives of Barry/Oliver.

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>>92537819
Because of stuff like this.

>>92574078

>thawneswetdream.jpg

>>92574092
I fucking love eobard.

>>92569619
All things considered he is really.

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>>92574097
That was an actual plot of a comic!

>A monster from the future attacks the present.
>Barry and Hal travel to the future to investigate.
>Thawne is the only expert on these monsters.
>Says that he's retired and doesn't want to do anything with them.
>Agrees to help only if Hal steals a priceless artifact for him.
>Hal ends up fighting Green Lanterns of the future, almost gets arrested.
>Barry and Thawne destroy the monster.
>Turns out Thawne created it. Green Lanterns arrive to arrest him.
>Barry strips Thawne of his outfit, making him lose his powers.

At that time, the editors were unsure whether Thawne had powers without the suit or not. In another issue, his team-up with Sargon the Sorcerer (where Eobard watched too much movies about New York gangsters and decided to speak with a gangster accent: pic related) Thawne could vibrate without the suit out of his cell...

>>92573624
So in what kind of 'special ways' would Reverse Manta try to fuck up Aquaflash's life?

>>92574205
Think Silver/Bronze Age Zoom. Instead of killing Aquaman's wife, he'd be trying to steal his wife. Maybe impregnate her at superspeed and force Aquaflash to raise black babies.

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Eobard isn't even the best reverse flash.

Hunter is best Zoom

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>>92542036
>ywn date qt reverse flash
just go back and erase me from the timeline, senpai

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>>92574078
>that filename

>ctrl+F
>0 results for Wonder Woman

Sorry Thawne and Manta, She's got you two beat

>>92540767
justice society fight was fine

>>92576592
>Scary helicopter noises

thats fantastic

>>92559894
>>92540507
>>92560058
Just to clarify, are these time remnants, or just him doing the multiple bodies due to after image track?
Because if the latter, then that is some serious dedication, taking the effort to always remove his mask when he's returning to the spot where another one of his after-images without a mask is standing.

>>92573624

At what level does "pettiness" become a superpower?

>>92576000

>[incoherent panicked mumbling]

Doesn't that describe like 90% of Barry's dialogue in this show?

>>92577252
I think you're confusing "incoherent panicked mumbling" with "panicked-induced retardation and amnesia"

>>92573975

I was thinking of both, really

>>92578633
https://strawpoll.com/gg6dbr5

>>92576968
Time remnants, and he himself is a time remnant - which is why Zolomon is going zombie-apeshit trying to catch him.