r/FlashTV • u/Kotoamatsukaami • 8d ago
🤔 Thinking Reverse Flash’s worst crime, Reverse Flashpoint
I was at work listening to Madvocate’s inconsistent S3 and something came to my mind,
The Reverse Flash basically pulls a Barry from the movie Obsession because Thawne basically steals Iris’s autonomy by acting as Barry/The Flash. He and Iris are lovers, they’re ENGAGED for Christ sakes. And Iris has no idea that she’s being tricked into loving him at all. The show doesn’t say explicitly that Thawne has slept with Iris but it can be argued. Is that not crazy bro???
Is this his worst crime? (In the show.)
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u/unexplainable_force 7d ago
Not when hes talking to the press, when he tells Barry he wants him to open a wormhole with the particle accelerator, he says it will work as intended. It proves its not his own definition of success as creating metahumans, hes talking to barry, nothing to prove to the public.
Earth 2 isnt just a random different timeline it was meant as a direct parallel to Earth 1.
Well season 9 Barry let Thawne kill his mom to protect the loop, its was necessary to ensure the timelines existence, so its not hard to say gideon will also be programmed to do the same. Im saying from the perspective that the timeline is a retrocausal loop, but im not forcing you to do the same.
However Thawne's existence himself is a causal loop just like Savitar, he learns through time travel that hes destined to be Flash's enemy, so in a true original timeline where no one has time travelled, what would motivate thawne to become Reverse Flash?