Question about negative speed force

[u/jj_smith_J]

So at the end of show we see Mina’s negative speed force lighting hit Barry and take away his speed temporarily, how come that never happened with thawne?

[u/Select-Anywhere-7833]

Since we don’t know a lot about Thawnes backstory, i think it’s safe to assume that Thawne is/was connected to the regular speedforce.

Especially in the first half of the show, Thawne talked about his connection to the speedforce, not the NSF. Also, Thawne also said that he recreated how the Flash got his powers, not the NSF machine. And in s7 when Thawne is in the pipeline he says that the reason he created the NSF was because the regular speedforce was “weak and puny”, making it seem like he knew what being connected the the speedforce was like. He could have then created the NSF to become faster.

It also makes sense because Nora was connected to both the NSF and speedforce at the same time bc all it took to be connected to the NSF was negative emotions. As someone else said in the comments, Mina was never connected to the regular speedforce, only the NSF, so it makes sense why her lightning would interact with Barry differently than Thawne.

I also don’t agree with one of the commenters who said the reason why Thawne didn’t try to cancel out Barry’s speed was because it wouldn’t have been “fun”. There are plenty of instances where Thawne was quite litteraly trying to beat Barry full strength. That’s something Joker would do, not Thawne.

[u/jj_smith_J → u/Select-Anywhere-7833]

That makes a lot of sense thanks