And why would Barry Allen become a psychopathic murderer? I don't think it fits with the lighter tone of this show. Unless he's a Barry from an alternate universe where people are the opposite of what they are in this. Anyway, we know Barry won't become a psycho in the future, so is pretty pointless.
Are we sure? A lot can change a person in ten years, much less 24 to 25 years if Wells is a future Barry Allen. Let's not forget that Wells has mentioned a few times about how he wants to regain what he's lost. The other characters on the show believe he's talking about the use of his legs and restoring STAR Labs reputation, but we know that's not true. We also heard him make mention of having lost his wife in a car accident two months after the murder of Barry's mom, but, if Wells is from the future as we seem to suspect, we also know this may not be the whole truth, as well.
Yet in both cases, there is a genuineness about wanting to get back what he lost at all costs and having lost the love of his life. And if Wells really is a future Barry, then I suspect he's really talking about both the murder of his mom and Iris at the hands of the real Reverse Flash. That would be enough to drive anybody over the edge, including someone as good as Barry.
What we know for sure, is that Harrison Wells is an amalgam of Thawne/Zolomon with several twists:
In the show:
- Harrison Wells fakes he's paralyzed
- Fixation with Barry
- Wants to make him a better hero
- Probably killed Barry's mother so he would know personal tragedy
- Uses a suit with amplified super speed
A little paraphrasing here: If it looks like the RF, behaves like the RF, and talks like the RF, then it probably is the RF.
Of which, I agree. However, I believe there are a few subtle clues which point towards Wells being a possible future Barry:
*Both Barry and Wells have very similar builds, the same hair and eye color. I don't think this is any coincidence, and wouldn't be surprised if both Gustin and Cavanagh were chosen because they look very much alike. Also Cavanagh is in his 50s, which is roughly the same age Barry would be if, having being 35 in 2024, he then goes back to 2000 and then aged real time.
*Wells clearly has a respect for Joe West, which, as a future Barry, he obviously would since Joe is, for all intends and purposes, Barry's foster dad.
*Wells has shown signs of compassion, such as when he reacted towards Eiling's experiments on Grodd, and how he takes the loss of those apparently killed by the particle acceleration explosion personally, even though he also believes it was a necessary sacrifice to give Barry his powers.
*Also sincere is whenever he talks about wanting to get back what he lost, as I explained earlier in the post.
*Dr. McGee notes how Barry is exactly like Wells when Barry blackmails her into giving them the Tachyon device. Talk about being on the nose. *Speaking of which, Barry also cites that he also has extensive knowledge of theoretical physics, which just so happens to be Wells' area of expertise.
*It's confirmed by Cisko there were two speedsters, one with red lightning which is characteristic of the Reverse Flash, and the other with yellow lightning, which is characteristic of Barry. We know, thanks to the headline in the future newspaper from 2024 that Barry disappears during a "crisis" and apparently never returned. We can assume, then, he followed the Reverse Flash back in time to stop him from killing his mom. However, if that's the case, then the question is what happened to Barry afterwards?
*Also, notice how Wells has been in scenes with all the cast members
except for Candice Patton who plays Iris West? And how he claimed that he wasn't up to being at the West's Christmas party along with Cisko and Caitlin under the notion that he had "bad memories" about last year's Christmas? If I didn't know any better, I'd say it looks as though Wells is deliberately trying to avoid Iris, no?
I'd also believe there's been quite a few indications that Eddie Thawne is on his way to becoming the real Reverse Flash:
*His name is virtually identical to that of Eobard Thawne, and being that Geoff Johns, a former writer of The Flash comics and one of the show's co-creators, you know this is too deliberate to be mere coincidence.
*The love triangle between Barry, Iris, and Eddie, in which Iris and Eddie's relationship, in just nine episodes of the first season, has already progressed to the point where they're living together, so you know if a relationship between two characters is that serious that early it's bound to fall apart and fall apart badly.
*Eddie believes the Flash is a menace and, after Flash beat him up during "Flash vs. Arrow" it's reaching the point of obsession. That's suggests Eddie, someone who genuinely starts off as a good guy, is now on the path of becoming just as much of a menace as he accuses the Flash of being.
*Barry has now told Iris his true feelings for her, which certainly changes the way Iris will forever look at Barry. This sets Iris on the path of having a character arc in which, over time, she'll be thinking "Oh my god! All this time the perfect guy for me was my best friend. How could I have been so blind?" Which also means she'll be regretting her decision to move in with Eddie, especially if Barry starts daring Linda Park as theorized, which will also drive a wedge between her and Eddie. And Eddie, as we've seen, is already a bit jealous and threatened by Barry and Iris' friendship.
*You also have the Reverse Flash not killing Eddie when he had the chance. If Wells is indeed future Barry and he was indeed in the Reverse Flash suit, then he can't kill Eddie before he becomes the Reverse Flash without creating a temporal paradox.
*Finally, you know that Eiling is going to come back into the picture, especially since he knows the Flash exists. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Eddie and Eiling team-up at some point in order to try and capture the Flash, which will only serve to hasten Eddie's path down the dark side even further.
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