The thing is, Thawne's body was given a true resurrection by the White Entity, presumably giving him his soul. His reign of death was not for long, and the dead Thawne was nothing without his soul (In the Speedforce? In the prison per Rebirth V1? Or running somewhere with Zolomon? Timeline, man). Well, what does The Blackest Night have to do with all of this? Ah, there Eobard's body, without his soul, was animated by the Black Lanterns in form of the new Black Flash. Was THIS Thawne thrown into the Speedforce, from where he messed up Barry's resurrection.

DC wiki (although listing Barry as one of the players in TBN), assumes the latter, trying to evade the paradox.īut that's a bit hard to do, when one remembers that Thawne was 'resurrected' even before that by Hunter Zolomon, who took him from the timeline moments before his death at Barry's hands, and the Zoom-Duo assaulted Wally West. See, there is a bit of a conundrum on whether The Flash Rebirth Vol 1 (where Barry Allen returns from the Speedforce, along with Eobard Thawne) is placed before The Blackest Night or not, since the comic was written in a way that the reader may assume that Thawne either resurrected from his original Bronze Age death along with Barry, OR he just came back to the Speedforce to mess with Barry. No, not the CW Zoom, looks notwithstanding. I speculate that Godspeed's true identity is that of Zoom. The Flash Rebirth 1 Vol 2 marked his first appearance in the comics, with him looking like this:

I'm sure the people here heard of Godspeed, the new Flash villain in DC Comics.

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