“The Trial of the Flash” felt wildly out of place, especially in a DC Comic, upon its publication in the early ‘80s, but in hindsight it was actually kind of ahead of its time. This kicked off what is arguably the greatest storyline in Flash’s history, “The Trial of The Flash,” a two-year long exploration of Flash’s manslaughter trial. While trying to stop Zoom, Barry accidentally killed him. Shortly before Barry and Iris were to be married, Zoom murdered Iris with a super speed blow to the brain, and years later he intended to do it again when Barry was getting ready to marry Fiona Webb. But before he took on the “Joe Chill” role in Flash’s history (where are my Batman fans?), the character’s greatest achievement was the murder of Iris West, something which makes the final moment of “ The Flash is Born” all the more chilling. Who killed Nora Allen in that comic? That would be Eobard Thawne. Keep in mind that Flashexecutive producer Geoff Johns added a major component to Flash and Reverse-Flash mythology when he wrote The Flash: Rebirth, a comic series that first revealed Barry’s troubled past. Either way, while it isn’t plastic surgery, it does kind of mirror the comic Thawne’s visual transformation. No, Harrison Wells was a real scientist, and Eobard simply…absorbed him. The television Eobard Thawne didn’t come here from the future and create the fictional identity of Harrison Wells. But there’s a neat parallel here, anyway. Obviously, the show took a different route. The Professor Zoom/Eobard Thawne of the comics became so obsessed with Barry that he had plastic surgery to resemble him more. To virtually nobody’s surprise, Harrison Wells has now been revealed as Eobard Thawne, and he certainly has a bit of a Barry Allen obsession. Thawne was a man from the future who got himself some super speed and a snazzy suit (don’t ask how, just go with it) and became obsessed with Barry Allen and came back in time to bedevil him.
The original “man in the yellow suit” was Eobard Thawne, who became Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash.
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