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Professor Eobard Thawne was a scientist and criminal in the 25th Century that had an odd
fascination with The Flash.
His research of the speed force ultimately led him to acquire similar powers to his idol
and therefore referring to himself as Reverse Flash.
Its also important to note though that most of these powers are things that not even the
Flash himself can do.
Now before we get started dont forget to leave us a comment down below with which Speed force
power is your favorite and while you ponder that lets jump right into the Top 10 Superpowers
You Didn't Know Reverse Flash Actually Has
#10 Faster Than The Flash
For those of you who are unaware one of Reverse Flashes greatest powers that he leans on when
fighting with his nemesis is speed.
Which seems surprising considering the fact that Barry Allen is arguably still considered
the fastest man alive.
Due to Thawne creating his own negative version of the Speed Force it made it possible to
tap into powers that most speedsters cant reach.
One of those is superhuman speed.
Faster than the fastest man alive himself.
Is ability to move at such great speeds gives him the power of superhuman force as well
meaning a punch to the flash at reverse flash top speed would be devastating.
#9 Sense Alternate Realities In the events that led up to Flashpoint what
seemed at first to be a doppelganger of the flash turned out to be another version of
Barry Allen with the codename Hot Pursuit.
The only way we as an audience could have discovered this though was by way of a Reverse
Flash power.
Reverse Flash has the unique ability of being able to sense whether or not people are from
an alternate reality.
Sounds a bit pointless, but it actually came in handy.
All of the universes in the DCU vibrate at different frequencies and when new Barry arrived,
Reverse Flash could sense this.
Eobard knew that Hot Pursuit was from an alternate reality just by feeling that he was vibrating
at a different frequency than his own.
#8 Age Alteration A power that as we get older we all wish we
could tap into.
In the beginning of the Flashpoint series we were able to see this power put on fully
display.
At first Eobard was believed to be gone, but he was actually just disguising himself as
a child the whole time.
When he realized that the speed force is simply made up of time he could tap into this and
use it to his advantage.
With this unparalleled knowledge Eobard could control time and even use it however he pleased.
Now he could de-age himself, or even steal time from his enemies.
#7 The Sonic Snap In The Flash Rebirth miniseries Reverse Flash
made a comeback in a big way and absolutely terrorized the Flash Family.
As weve learned so far the negative speed force comes with all of these different abilities
and some the Flash Fam were absolutely not prepared.
To make matters worse, he got a few pointers from the evil speedster villain Zoom.
After being chased by Kid Flash and Max Mercury, Eobard took a moment to stop his assailants
in their tracks by simply snapping his fingers.
That little snap isnt used often by Reverse Flash, but man when he did it knocked the
heroes into next week.
The Sonic Snap is so strong it completely bowls over even the fastest of enemies chasing
him, plus it most likely causes huge ripples in reality itself.
#6 Change His Eye Color (show photo https://bit.ly/2sXzIXh)
This may not be his strongest superpower, but Eobard Thawnes ability to change his eye
color to red certainly sets him apart from all of the other Flash characters.
As a villain just changing his eyes to that bright red makes everything he says and does
that much more menacing.
Eobard can do this by concentrating his red lightning and focusing its effects towards
his eyes which gives off that evil look.
You gotta admit those red eyes do add a lot to the comic book pages and even though its
not a physically useful power, it does get the message across that he means business.
#5 Duplicate Himself We got to see a bit of this superpower on
display in the CWs Flash series as well as DCs Legends of Tomorrow
This power is also referred to as Time Remnants or temporal duplicates.
Due to his meta-human time travel abilities its possible for Eobard to rupture time in
such a way that he brings forth copies of himself that have been preserved in the Speed
Force.
Again a lot of his power comes by way of him being able to tap into that negative speed
force, unleashing its true potential.
These arent just your regular duplicates though, Reverse Flash can create doppelgangers that
can communicate with others.
#4 Break Protective Auras Going back to The Flash Rebirth miniseries
issue number 4 we saw the Reverse Flash unleash some more surprising power.
The Speed Force provides this powerful aura of protection that keeps them safe from all
of the harsh effects that come with moving that fast.
What they werent expecting though was that a villain would come along and just smash
right through that.
Because the common speed force that The Flash Family draws from is positive that meant that
Eobards negative speed force was more than capable of a countermeasure.
As hes fighting with Jay Garrick, Jay tried to take off only to have Reverse Flash to
come up behind and push him forwards breaking through his protective aura and severely burning
Jay in the process.
#3 Erase People From Existence All of the Flash Family that operate with
the speed force have the ability to travel through time, but as we saw with Barry Allen
and Flashpoint they experience time travel with a lot of consequences.
Again this goes back to the differences between positive and negative speed force.
Just because they experience consequences for time travel, doesnt necessarily mean it
works the opposite way.
Eobards powers are similar but allow for much more leeway.
His version of time travel involves much more of a chance to manipulate, even being able
to eliminate people from existence with no negative repercussions.
In fact the concept of time and reality will just bend to whatever he did to those timelines.
Meaning he could erase someone from their reality without anyone even noticing.
#2 Regeneration The Flash Volume 5 issue number 23 was a shocking
testament to how truly powerful Reverse Flash is.
At the start of the comic book, Eobard looked to be nothing more than a pile of bones on
an examiners table.
But Barry knew it was all a ruse.
Even while looking at his enemies deceased body he knew that it was just another one
of his tricks.
Then before the next page we saw a spark of life in the eyes of Eobard.
By the end of the issue he had fully regenerated back to his original state and was waiting
for Iris West when she got home with Wally This means that Reverse Flash is able to repair
and regenerate entire cells even if hes been dead for a while.
#1 Retrocognition This power also became a pivotal part of the
Reverse Flash arsenal and was put on display in the flash volume 5 issue number 19.
Its was the power of memory, but not in the sense that we think of having a good memory.
After lighting struck his cell at Iron Heights Thawne suddenly could remember his entire
life before the Flashpoint.
Which also included memories of Thomas Wayne killing him.
The more shocking part about this power was that these memories had been erased from his
mind following Flashpoint.
Yet still when he broke out of his cell everything came flooding back and now he was more ready
than ever to take his revenge.
And that has been the Top 10 Superpowers You Didnt Know Reverse Flash Actually Has.
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