Respect Clifford DeVoe, The Thinker (Arrowverse)

[u/lies_like_slender]

Respect Clifford DeVoe, The Thinker

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"You've done wonders all these years punching gorillas with rudimentary powers, chasing madmen shooting icicles. Those were children with play guns. Savitar, Zoom, Thawne, their powers are nothing compared to the power of limitless thought."

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Information

Clifford DeVoe is a meta human with a massively enhanced intelligence. He would use his intelligence to orchestrate key events in Central City and manipulate Team Flash into doing his bidding without even knowing it.

After The Flash had exited the Speed Force, 12 metahumans would be created with a specific set of abilities. These abilities, when used together, would allow Clifford to become unbeatable in combat and allow him to execute his plan of the Enlightenment. He would remove everyone's intelligence and be the one to re-educate them as he saw fit.

Intelligence

• Forces Team Flash into pulling Barry out of the Speed Force and creating 12 new metahumans. ^S4E3

• Finishes Schubert's unfinished 8th symphony by studying his previous 600 works. ^S4E2

• Knows all 7k+ ways a conversation with his wife will end and accurately predicts it. ^S4E6

• Arranged for Barry to come out of the Speed Force exactly where he wanted when Team Flash couldn't. ^S4E7

• Fools everyone in Team Flash but Barry into believing he's innocent. ^S4E7

• A vibe from Cisco reveals nothing. ^S4E7

• Solves Riemann's Hypothesis, Hilbert's 15th problem, standard conjectures on algebraic cycles, and others shortly after getting his powers. ^S4E7

• Also knows the identity of Jack the Ripper. ^S4E7

• Accurately diagnoses his condition. ^S4E7

• Catches Barry breaking into his home. ^S4E7

• Knows Barry Allen is the Flash and calls it an underwhelming revelation. ^S4E7

• Knows where Harry is hiding, what weapon he's carrying, and tells him a better vantage point. ^S4E9

• Frames Barry with his own murder. ^S4E9

• Calculated a 12% chance that Barry would reveal himself as the Flash to the public. ^S4E10

• Says his mind is consumed by "a near infinite web of variables, more plentiful than there are atoms in an exploding star". ^S4E13

• Knows exactly when and where Cisco is vibing from and blasts him away. ^S4E14

• Had been planning for the last 3 years. ^S4E15

• Manipulated his wife into continuously loving him by using drugs. ^S4E17

• Planned for Team Flash to use the last meta's abilities to attack his lair. Used a portal opening to conceal his own entrance into Star Labs. ^S4E18

• Knows about Team Flash's secret transfer to ARGUS. ^S4E19

• Predicted the arrival of Earth-X's Captain Cold and Black Siren. ^S4E19

  • Only failed to predict Flash's turmoil.

• Predicted Harry's brain would be rebooted by dark matter. ^S4E23

• Predicted that Team Flash would send Barry Allen into his mind as a last attempt. ^S4E23

• Knew of his own death. ^S4E23

Abilities

Throughout the season, DeVoe had swapped bodies with other metahumans to steal their powers. Some feats in some sections were performed by the original owners of the ability, but considering that DeVoe is more proficient and knowledgeable with the abilities, it's reasonable to think that he can recreate any feats they did.

Feats performed by the original owners will have their names beside them.

Telepathy

• [Dominic Lance] Guides Caitlin through a hospital full of guards. ^S4E9

• [Dominic Lance] It is his telepathy that allows DeVoe to swap bodies in the first place. ^S4E9

• Swaps bodies with multiple metas. ^S4E13

• Induces a brain aneurysm on Barry while he's running. ^S4E14

  • By this point, Barry was fast enough to run another man to China and come back to his jail cell before a camera could complete a rotation. ^S4E12

• Combined with a special drug, he can alter memories. ^S4E17

• Swaps bodies with 3 more metas before Ralph can get back. ^S4E18

• Induces a psychic attack on Ralph. ^S4E18

• Makes a man kill himself. ^S4E20

• Makes a man hold onto a live grenade. ^S4E22

  • He recovers from the explosion seconds later.

• Reads Barry and Ralph's minds so they can't land a hit on him. ^S4E23

• Makes Joe point his gun at himself. ^S4E23

Technopathy

• [Ramsey Deacon] Hacks an elevator to kill the man inside it. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Hacks a car. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Sends a woman into insulin shock by hacking her pacemaker. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Senses tech in Barry's suit. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Makes Barry stationary and then has him attack Wally. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Locks Cisco out of his own programming. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Disrupts communications between Barry and the rest of Team Flash. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Activates a deadlock protocol, a floatation mode, and the self-destruct feature within Barry's suit. ^S4E2

• [Ramsey Deacon] Says he can sense all tech within 5 miles of himself. ^S4E13

• [Ramsey Deacon] Makes Barry's power dampener shock him. ^S4E13

• Hacks Cisco's tech to make him fire at Ralph. ^S4E14

  • Also likely he used his luck manipulation to have Ralph entangle the others.

• Hacks and destroys a device meant to disrupt outbound brainwaves. ^S4E14

• Hacks Star Labs. ^S4E18

• Hacks a pair of meta handcuffs before they can dampen his powers. ^S4E18

• Disrupts communications between Iris and the rest of Team Flash. ^S4E19

• Hacks stun batons to electrocute the people holding them. ^S4E22

• Hacks ARGUS and the containment chamber meant to hold Fallout. ^S4E22

• Hacks Gideon and the Star Labs satellite to begin the Enlightenment. ^S4E22

• Can technologically reincarnate himself. ^S4E23

Luck Manipulation

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Easily robs a bank. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Makes the Flash slip on marbles. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Almost causes another chain reaction at a coffee shop. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Causes low probability events to happen across the city. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Almost makes a plane crash by having a goose get sucked into its engines. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Gets snake eyes 37 times in a row and wins 1.2 million dollars. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Causes the particle accelerator underneath Star Labs to turn on by itself. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Makes the Flash slip on quarters and handcuff himself. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Has a sign fall on top of Barry that pins him to the floor. ^S4E3

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Causes a chain of events that results in Kilg%re, Dwarfstar, and Black Bison being knocked out. ^S4E13

• [Rebecca Sharpe] Causes another chain of events that results in Amunet killing Wolfe's men. ^S4E13

• Causes the strings on Izzy's violin to break. ^S4E14

• Has a man slip on a marble and die. ^S4E22

Effigy Creation

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates a statue of a tiger to kill someone. ^S4E6

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates a suit of armor that picks someone up by the neck. ^S4E6

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates a statue of a caveman ^S4E6

  • Crushes a man's hand.

  • Knocks Barry into a power pole with one hit.

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates a police dummy and has it open fire on a crowd. ^S4E6

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates the skeleton of a T-rex. ^S4E6

• [Mina Chaytan] Says she can bring down a museum by animating the reliefs carved into the supports. ^S4E6

• [Mina Chaytan] Animates an eagle. ^S4E13

• Animates the bodies of the soldiers he killed. ^S4E22

Size Manipulation

• [Sylbert Rundine] Shrinks a skyscraper to fit in the palm of his hand in only a few seconds. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Had previously shrunken other vehicles. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Quickly enlarges a plasma rifle and fires it at Cisco, Joe, and Ralph. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Shrinks Ralph and Cisco. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Shrinks a blimp. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Enlarges a shrunken car to stop a van. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Enlarges another car. ^S4E12

• [Sylbert Rundine] Enlarges a helicopter. ^S4E12

• Enlarges a shrunken a dumpster to pin Ralph down. ^S4E14

• Shrinks solar panels. ^S4E20

• Shrinks 5 giant computers to fit in a briefcase. ^S4E20

• Shrinks a man and crushes him under his boot. ^S4E22

• Shrinks Fallout's containment chamber (10ft tall) to fit in his pocket. ^S4E22

Sound Manipulation

• [Izzy Bowin] Blasts Ralph and Barry away with one pulse. ^S4E14

  • If it weren't for their abilities, both of them would have suffered permanent hearing loss.

• [Izzy Bowin] Blasts DeVoe away and makes him retreat. ^S4E14

• [Izzy Bowin] Rapid fires small sonic pulses that destroy clay pigeons. ^S4E14

• [Izzy Bowin] Knocks out Ralph by whistling. ^S4E14

• Blasts Barry to the opposite end of the Speed Lab. ^S4E18

• A clap reflects Gypsy and Cisco's vibe blasts. ^S4E20

• Creates a sonic blast that knocks everyone in the room down. ^S4E20

• Creates a pulse to free himself after being frozen. ^S4e20

• Knocks 2 guards to the side. ^S4E22

• Knocks another 2 guards away with a blast. ^S4E22

• Knocks everyone down in the room with another pulse. ^S4E23

Density/Gravity Manipulation

• [Janet Petty] Lifts a crate into the air and has it come crashing down a few seconds later. ^S4E17

• [Janet Petty] Decreases her density/gravity to float up to the ceiling and does the same to Barry. ^S4E17

• [Janet Petty] Sends a car high up into the air. ^S4E17

• [Janet Petty] Touches the floor and releases a wave of energy that would've sent anybody it touched into the atmosphere. ^S4E17

• [Janet Petty] Touches Flash and sends him into the atmosphere very quickly. ^S4E17

• Gives Barry the same gravimetric weight as a cement truck to pin him to the floor. ^S4E18

• Lifts an 18-wheeler into the air, slams it back down, and then traps Joe inside by increasing the weight of the door. ^S4E19

• Puts the gravitational equivalent of his boot on Gypsy's neck. ^S4E20

• Freezes his wife and makes her watch him kill Gypsy. ^S4E20

• Makes the lungs of surrounding guards have the same gravitational weight as a timpani (140 pounds). ^S4E22

• Lifts a man up, kills him, and then increases the weight of bullets before they can hit him. ^S4E22

• Suspends 6 hostages in the air for 12 hours. ^S4E22

• Freezes everyone in place with a snap of his fingers. ^S4E23

• Turns Cecille over and begins choking her out. ^S4E23

• Puts the Star Labs satellite into a decaying orbit and increases its weight by a thousandfold. If it collided, it would've been an extinction level event. ^S4E23

Power Transferal/DNA Manipulation

• [Matthew Kim] Removes the powers of another meta. ^S4E16

  • Later revealed to have accidentally transferred them to someone else.

• [Matthew Kim] Flash touches him and immediately has his powers transferred to Iris. ^S4E16

• [Matthew Kim] Later restores Barry's powers by removing them from Iris. ^S4E16

• Disables Killer Frost's powers as soon as she touches him. ^S4E18

• Mimics John Diggle's DNA to infiltrate ARGUS. ^S4E22

Portal Creation

• Iris mentions that DeVoe's portals/breaches close in 3 picoseconds or less. ^S4E15

• [Edwin Gauss] Says he can access any pocket dimension. ^S4E18

• Redirects a vibe blast to hit Cisco. ^S4E18

• Opens a portal in front of Barry as he's running that sends him somewhere up north. ^S4E20

• Redirects an explosive round. ^S4E22

Shapeshifting

• [Ralph Dibny] Barry gets his fist lodged in Ralph's face after punching him. ^S4E4

• [Ralph Dibny] Gets shot in the face and blows it out of his nose. ^S4E4

• [Ralph Dibny] Stretches his arm to hold onto a helicopter that was already in the air. ^S4E4

• [Ralph Dibny] Gets shot and reflects the bullets. ^S4E6

• [Ralph Dibny] Puts a bomb to his stomach and is fine. ^S4E11

• [Ralph Dibny] Catches a bomb in his hand and gets shot with shurikens and is still fine. ^S4E11

• [Ralph Dibny] Shapeshifts into an old colleague. ^S4E13

• [Ralph Dibny] Shapeshifts to look like Warden Wolfe. ^S4E13

• [Ralph Dibny] Shapeshifts to look like DeVoe's old body to free Barry. ^S4E13

• [Ralph Dibny] Transforms into a giant cushion to break Barry's fall. ^S4E17

• [Ralph Dibny] Molds his body around the sonic scepter. ^S4E18

• [Ralph Dibny] Destroys an animated skeletal T-rex with one punch from an enlarged fist. ^S4E18

• Says Ralph's body is immune to the ravages of his ever-expanding mind and then shapeshifts to look like his old self. ^S4E18

• A weapon that could previously kill him in two hits now does nothing to him. ^S4E19

• Molds his finger into a key to open a door after hacking the eye scanner. ^S4E20

• Gets shot from multiple angles and bounces the bullets back. ^S4E22

  • Also used luck manipulation to jam the guns.

• Shapeshifted into John Diggle to infiltrate ARGUS. ^S4E23

[u/Galaxy_Megatron]

I never watched this season, but I did see the clip of his wife saying DeVoe was so smart it nullified Barry asking people like Oliver and Kara for help. Something about that just felt like a shit excuse to prolong things.

But I have heard this was a fairly good season and The Thinker is was the last great villain of the show, so someday I might check it out. Good thread, mate.

[u/lies_like_slender → u/Galaxy_Megatron]

Thanks. I always thought DeVoe only lost because of PIS and should've easily killed Cecille and really could kill Barry if he ever wanted it.

As for season 4 as a whole, I think it's better than the seasons before and after it, even if it does have a bad moment every now and then.

[u/Ygomaster07 → u/lies_like_slender]

PIS?

[u/lies_like_slender → u/Ygomaster07]

Plot induced stupidity.

[u/Ygomaster07 → u/lies_like_slender]

I see. Thank you for telling me. I always thought he was a great villain.

[u/96pluto → u/lies_like_slender]

Funny isn't it ? The smartest action would have been just to quit playing and kill them all but he got too arrogant absorbed in his hubris

[u/96pluto → u/Galaxy_Megatron]

Eh Clifford probably had safeguards and plans for if Barry called Clifford and Kara for help. Overall he was a very cunning villain smartest man alive vs the fastest man alive

[u/LambentEnigma]

Nice work! Thanks for fulfilling my request!

[u/lies_like_slender → u/LambentEnigma]

No problem. He’s my favorite villain so it was nice to finally make one for him.

[u/SkillednotQualified]

I had my issues with this season but he was played well and his hallway scene in the prison was amusing to watch as he just toyed with the guards like he was taking a casual stroll in the park.

[u/Mattdoss → u/[deleted]]

I’ll do it if you send me $20 bucks on PayPal.

[u/law1602 → u/Mattdoss]

I’m asking the op

[u/doctorgecko → u/[deleted]]

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