The Flash Tom Cavanaugh IS Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash

[Glassjaw]

Alhough the Wells goes back in time and kills Barry's mum but gets stuck in the past is a great one, to play devil's advocate, and since they're so set on having us look at Wells, I'm going to go out on a limb and say -

Reverse Flash/Zoom/ Barry's mum's murderer is Eddie Thawn.

They have us all focusing so much on Wells, Thawn has totally disappeared into the background. Heck, even his own thread is on the second page of the forum. He could be pulling all the strings and watching things play out perfectly, and no one (in the TV show or us viewers) have caught on.

How does this explain Wells' actions? Well, I think Thawn travelled back from the future, told Wells certain things have to happen, in order to create this Flash character, all for the greater good. Wells looks like the big bad but I think he is just the puppet. Thawn is the puppeteer.

 

[The Shape]

Alhough the Wells goes back in time and kills Barry's mum but gets stuck in the past is a great one, to play devil's advocate, and since they're so set on having us look at Wells, I'm going to go out on a limb and say -

Reverse Flash/Zoom/ Barry's mum's murderer is Eddie Thawn.

They have us all focusing so much on Wells, Thawn has totally disappeared into the background. Heck, even his own thread is on the second page of the forum. He could be pulling all the strings and watching things play out perfectly, and no one (in the TV show or us viewers) have caught on.

How does this explain Wells' actions? Well, think Thawn travelled back from the future, told Wells certain things have to happen, in order to create this Flash character, all for the greater good. Wells looks like the big bad but I think he is just the puppet. Thawn is the puppeteer.

That's certainly a great theory, and it's entirely plausible. RF/Zoom is definitely one of the two of them.

 

[brockmeaux]

It feels too easy to think Wells is Zoom (or any of the other Reverse Flashes). So far, I think Pariah is a pretty good guess; he needs to protect the Flash so that his actions can eventually lead to the defeat of the Anti Monitor, prevent the destruction of this dimension, and Pariah can stop being pulled into new universes only to see them destroyed for eternity. That may be a bit "big" of a storyline for the CW to pull off, though, so I don't know.

No matter what ends up happening, I'm enjoying the show. They can take me on whatever ride they've got planned, I'll be tuned in.

 

[747]

I'm a sucker for time travel fiction, and what they are teasing, setting up so far is some really intriguing and hints at bewildering stuff to come.

Love how they play it, with building up Wells' secrets and keeping Thawne relatively straight but with a slight unsympathetic vibe to him.

Tom Cavanagh delivers. Only seen him in Scrubs before, where he was good as more of a happy-go-lucky, jokester character.

 

[EssayM]

I still don't know who he could be, but despite the ominous music on those stingers, I have a feeling he'll turn out to be a good guy, or at least neutral. Besides the general "guardian angel" vibe about him, I feel like him actually being a villain would be way too obvious at this point. His ending scenes make much more sense as misdirection.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Spoiler

http://comicbook.com/2014/10/22/the-flash-could-he-be-spoilers-/

Doubt it's Cobalt Blue, or Vandal Savage.
The idea of him being Pariah from Crisis on Infinite Earths is still off the chart, kinda passable compared to the other two.

 

[Fans of Reilly]

I have a theory about the identity of Dr. Wells
Max Mercury

1 - he is a Is a time traveler

2- he is doing all this seeking to enter the so-called Speed Force

 

[KillerMcQueen]

I still don't know who he could be, but despite the ominous music on those stingers, I have a feeling he'll turn out to be a good guy, or at least neutral. Besides the general "guardian angel" vibe about him, I feel like him actually being a villain would be way too obvious at this point. His ending scenes make much more sense as misdirection.

Well's could be Reverse Flash and not quite a villain yet, Reverse Flash didn't go completely bad until after he went back in time in an attempt to meet Barry (he did kill to do so however, in addition to finding a way to get Barry's powers and surgery to look like him), in the comics he went back in time not far enough and ended up in Wally's era initially, the Reverse Flash's identity had been lost over the centuries and when he found out that he was A: Reverse Flash and B: gets killed by Barry, his idol, he completely loses his mind. Well's could actually atm be doing all of this to keep Barry safe and make him a better hero until something changes and he goes completely off the deep end.

 

[Silliminite]

I'm a sucker for time travel fiction, and what they are teasing, setting up so far is some really intriguing and hints at bewildering stuff to come.

Love how they play it, with building up Wells' secrets and keeping Thawne relatively straight but with a slight unsympathetic vibe to him.

Tom Cavanagh delivers. Only seen him in Scrubs before, where he was good as more of a happy-go-lucky, jokester character.

I used to watch Scrubs, and have specifically watched the episodes in which Cavanagh appears as Dan Dorian, but never made the connection before. Damn, real shock realizing it's him, as his character in Scrubs is so drastically different.

 

[Cain]

I only remember the guy from Ed but yeah he's shown he's got quite some range in him.

 

[Dark Raven]

Maybes Dr Wells created an alternate version of Oliver Queen who becomes Firestorm in this reality.

 

[Comics]

Well's could be Reverse Flash and not quite a villain yet, Reverse Flash didn't go completely bad until after he went back in time in an attempt to meet Barry (he did kill to do so however, in addition to finding a way to get Barry's powers and surgery to look like him), in the comics he went back in time not far enough and ended up in Wally's era initially, the Reverse Flash's identity had been lost over the centuries and when he found out that he was A: Reverse Flash and B: gets killed by Barry, his idol, he completely loses his mind. Well's could actually atm be doing all of this to keep Barry safe and make him a better hero until something changes and he goes completely off the deep end.

I like this. Have him come out in a season finale?

I really do think Eddie Thawn's character and his behaviour to this point have been to deliberately mislead us into thinking he's ....just a swell guy

 

[The Guard]

I just think he's a boring guy.

 

[Batmannerism]

I like this. Have him come out in a season finale?

I really do think Eddie Thawn's character and his behaviour to this point have been to deliberately mislead us into thinking he's ....just a swell guy

eah, I think a season finale reveal of the Reverse Flash would be a great way to end the show - preferrably with a cliffhanger!

I still think it's Wells, but there must be a reason to have a character named Eddie Thawne in Barry's life - an ancestor of Eobard Thawne perhaps ?

I doubt the writers are going to worry about canon too much ( no wand for Weather Wizard in the pilot), so Wells might be Zoom or the Reverse Flash or an amalgam of the two.

However it plays out, I'm looking forward to it.

 

[famicommander]

eah, I think a season finale reveal of the Reverse Flash would be a great way to end the show - preferrably with a cliffhanger!

I still think it's Wells, but there must be a reason to have a character named Eddie Thawne in Barry's life - an ancestor of Eobard Thawne perhaps ?

I doubt the writers are going to worry about canon too much ( no wand for Weather Wizard in the pilot), so Wells might be Zoom or the Reverse Flash or an amalgam of the two.

However it plays out, I'm looking forward to it.

That wasn't Weather Wizard in the pilot, it was his brother. Clyde Mardon is the brother, Mark Mardon is the Wizard himself.

 

[Golgo-13]

All you Flash fans; why does Reverse Flash go back in time and kill Barry's mother anyway? He does it in the show and also in Flashpoint:Paradox…...

 

[luis4u]

All you Flash fans; why does Reverse Flash go back in time and kill Barry's mother anyway? He does it in the show and also in Flashpoint:Paradox…...

He cannot kill Barry if not he ceased to exist. so he torture Barry. he some scan

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[Dark Raven]

What is Reverse Flash's final thesis? You can't stop there!

 

[Golgo-13]

He cannot kill Barry if not he ceased to exist. so he torture Barry. he some scan

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[luis4u]

You welcome

 

[Rowsdower!]

I just think he's a boring guy.

That could be his super power. He has the uncanny ability to literally bore people to death when he starts talking. The particle accelerator explosion enhanced his ability to talk non-stop about golf statistics, The Real Housewives of Cleveland, and foliage. Once he starts up with that, Barry will be powerless against him.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Wells Is defently from the future but they could be misleading us into thinking he has to be reverse Flash.

 

[Batmannerism]

That wasn't Weather Wizard in the pilot, it was his brother. Clyde Mardon is the brother, Mark Mardon is the Wizard himself.

You might find that when writers adapt stuff for Tv or movies, they tend to play with characters a bit - like dropping alliterative names or changing names slightly.

In terms of Flash villains who control the weather, I suspect we are unlikely to see a wand wielding weather controller - as two weather controlling villains might be a bit redundant.

On that basis I suggest to you that, for the purposes of the Flash TV show, that Mardon was the Weather Wizard - if a wand wielding weather controller shows up, I will happily agree with you, but until then....

 

[famicommander]

You might find that when writers adapt stuff for Tv or movies, they tend to play with characters a bit - like dropping alliterative names or changing names slightly.

In terms of Flash villains who control the weather, I suspect we are unlikely to see a wand wielding weather controller - as two weather controlling villains might be a bit redundant.

On that basis I suggest to you that, for the purposes of the Flash TV show, that Mardon was the Weather Wizard - if a wand wielding weather controller shows up, I will happily agree with you, but until then....

They explicitly named Mark and showed a photo of him in the pilot. He was in the same plane as Clyde when it was hit by lightning on the night of the explosion.

Part of a Crave interview with producer Andrew Kreisberg:

How about your concept of the Weather Wizard? Might we see the other one?
Yeah, typically in the comics Mark Mardon is the Weather Wizard even though his brother Clyde is in the books. Since we knew that the villain at the end of the pilot was going to meet with a pretty final end, we wanted to have it be the brother first, but establish that Mark was in that plane also so that one day down the road, we can meet what will be the definitive Weather Wizard.

http://www.craveonline.com/tv/interviews/771547-andrew-kreisberg-flash-arrow-season-3

Mark Mardon will be back, and he is the Weather Wizard. Period.

 

[Batmannerism]

They explicitly named Mark and showed a photo of him in the pilot. He was in the same plane as Clyde when it was hit by lightning on the night of the explosion.

Part of a Crave interview with producer Andrew Kreisberg:

http://www.craveonline.com/tv/interviews/771547-andrew-kreisberg-flash-arrow-season-3

Mark Mardon will be back, and he is the Weather Wizard. Period.

Refresh my memory, did Mardon actually die at the end of the pilot ?

Even so, it'd be tough to argue with a source like that. Fair enough. I guess we'll look forward to the alliteratively named Mark Mardon as Weather Wizard.