Top 10 Evil Versions Of The Flash
The Flash has a long and fascinating publication history, with the character’s roots originating
with Jay Garrick, the first Flash, back in the golden age, in 1940’s Flash Comics #1.
So it should come as no surprise that The Flash has many alternates floating around
in the multiverse, some of which have not had the most sincere of intentions.
So today, we’re counting down some of those sinister speedsters, with our list of the
top 10 evil versions of
the flash.
10 Reverse Flash Lets just get this one out of the way.
We had to include Reverse Flash on our list, because, for all intensive purposes, he’s
literally the opposite of the Flash.
Meaning he’s of ill intent.
There’s been a few Reverse Flashes over the years, starting off with 1949’s the
Rival, who had recreated Jay Garrick’s formula.
After he was rejected from the scientific community, he turned to a life of crime and
shared his version of the formula with other criminals.
It only gets worse from there with the later Reverse Flashes, especially Eobard Thawne,
who first appeared in 1963 with the alias of the Reverse Flash, who used his genius
level intellect and new found powers to go on a crime spree.
He soon became obsessed with replacing Barry Allen, utilizing time travel to mess things
up for the scarlet speedster.
9 Bizarro Flash – Post Crisis Created by Bizarro via his duplicator eye
ray power – more on that in a sec - this Bizarro Flash is actually the third Flash
in DC history that was part of the Bizarro family.
The first was in 1967 in Lois Lane #74, and was fairly harmless.
The second was in All Star Superman, and aided the man of steel, despite being the slowest
man on earth.
But the modern age Bizarro Flash is a tad more nefarious.
So that duplicator ray that shoots out of Bizarro’s eyes – it was capable of duplicating
anyone Bizarro encountered.
Including the Flash, and the rest of the justice league.
This Flash is a sad version of the man he was crafted after – morbidly obese, constantly
eating, and, ultimately, very slow.
He even has a mustard stain as his logo instead of a lightening bolt.
8 The Whizzer There’s two characters who went under the
alias of The Whizzer, one of which is an homage to the Flash and part of a group called the
Squadron Sinister.
They were a part of an unofficial JLA Avengers cross over.
Essentially, the Squadron were a parody of characters from DC’s Justice League, with
the Whizzer being the parody of The Flash.
The character would later be renamed to Speed Demon, starting off as a villain for Spider-Man
when he reappeared in Amazing Spiderman #222 in 1981.
7 No Rules to Follow In Justice League International’s 5th annual
1994 issue, there was a story line called No Rules to Follow.
And it featured a world that despised those with super powers.
This caused ten metahumans to band together and show the world that their powers could
be used for good.
Which, sort of backfired, since 5 of them went a little rogue.
Including the Flash.
After trying to contain a nuclear meltdown, the heroes only make things worse, and the
Flash and co decide to start raiding military installations that previously hunted down
their kind.
6 Surge Also known as Luca Loletti, Surge was a member
of the hand of god, a superhero team with five members who worked out of the Vatican
in order to protect the Catholic Church from superhuman threats.
Surge was corrupted, and was paid to assassinate the Pope, which he succeeded in doing.
He was eventually killed by Midnighter.
5 Slipstream Slipstream is part of a group of villains
who followed in the footsteps of the Crime Syndicate – more on that group later though.
Slipstream, along with the other 6 members of his evil team, were mistaken for heroes,
and brought to earth to participate in a charity event.
They played along for a while until they began fighting the Justice League
4 Johnny Quick – Crime Syndicate Getting back to the Crime Syndicate here,
let’s take a look at Johnny Quick of Earth 3, an anti-matter Earth, who banded together
with Owlman, Superwoman, Ultraman and Power Ring – all alternates of Batman, Wonder
Woman, Superman and Green Lantern.
They used their powers for personal gain, committing crimes.
Luckily the character died during Crisis on Infinite Earths, almost 20 years after his
initial debut.
3 Johnny Quick – Crime Society Not to be mistaken with our last number, the
Crime Society also takes place on Earth 3, except in the 52 multiverse.
It’s a world in which evil always triumphs over good, and the Crime Society are essentially
the overlords of the planet.
Johnny Quick is still the evil Flash.
The Crime Society joined ranks with Monarch, and Quick fought against the Earth 2 Flash
and Tangent Flash during Countdown Arena, as well as participated in the invasion of
Earth 51.
While its uncertain whether or not he died when Monarch’s armour ruptured on Earth
51, annihilating everything, its safe to say it’s likely since we haven’t heard of
the character since.
2 Nazi speedster – Earth 10 The Nazi Speedster of Earth 10 exists on a
world in which Nazi Germany won the second world war.
He is part of the JLAxis, a group put together by Hitler composed of super powered individuals,
all working to serve his commands and dish out punishment to those who do not follow
suit.
The emblem on his chest contains to lightening bolts instead of one, eerily resembling the
SS logo of the paramilitary organization of Hitler’s during that time.
The SS was largely responsible for the genocides that took place during the Holocaust.
1 The Red Death The newest addition to our list is perhaps
one of the most dangerous villainous versions of the Flash to date.
From the Dark Nights: Metal event that opened up with the introduction of seven evil alternates
of Batman, the Red Death comes from Earth -52 in the Dark Multiverse – a multiverse
that exists underneath the main multiverse and is filled with evil.
Red Death is the combination of Batman and the Flash when Batman steals his speed force,
merging the two together.
With Batman’s mind and the Flash’s abilities, this makes the Red Death a vicious threat,
especially when you consider the kinds of trouble he could whip up by utilizing the
Speed Force.
As of this recording, not much has been revealed about the Red Death, so here’s hoping we
get to see more of this villain and the challenges he’ll pose to the heroes of the main multiverse.
Alright, there we have it friends.
Which of these Flashes is your favourite?
Are there other versions of sinister speedsters inspired by The Flash or from another earth
that we forgot to mention?
Let us know in those comments below.
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