7/20/2023 0 Comments Dr who quotes about endings![]() ![]() He appeals to Eddie’s inner goodness and allows his old friend to overcome the Negative Speed Force’s twisted influence. As is so often the case on this show, Barry uses his empathy and compassion to break through where his speed fails. In this case, this is seemingly a version of Thawne pulled from right before his defeat and destruction in the Season 1 finale, hence why he’s played by Tom Cavanagh rather than Matt Letscher.Īs we see, Eddie’s “legion” is a short-lived alliance, and Flash ultimately confronts Cobalt Blue inside the Negative Speed Force as he gathers a potentially lethal amount of energy. Season 8 seemed to finally close the door on the Flash/Reverse-Flash rivalry, but Season 9 has managed to bring Thawne back on more than one occasion anyway. Time travel has a nasty habit of making everything more confusing. Reverse-Flash alone has become an incredibly convoluted villain over the course of nine seasons, given the number of times he’s apparently died and returned again. The series finale features Cobalt Blue forming an alliance with all the major speedster villains of previous seasons - Reverse-Flash, Savitar, Teddy Sears’ Zoom, and Karan Oberoi’s Godspeed. The original Cobalt Blue is actually Barry’s long-lost twin brother who is adopted by the Thawnes and grows up to hold a powerful grudge against Barry. If Eddie becomes the Negative Speed Force’s avatar, dubbed Cobalt Blue, he can kill Barry and create a new timeline where he is Central City’s favorite son.Īs a sidebar, Cobalt Blue is another speedster villain drawn from the Flash comics, though as with many of his fellow speedsters, the series is only loosely adapting the source material. The Negative Speed Force has plucked Eddie out of 2014 and is tempting him with the promise of recreating the life he gave up. Season 1 culminates in Eddie’s choice to shoot himself and end his family bloodline, thus ensuring his descendant, Tom Cavanagh’s Eobard Thawne, is never born and never threatens the world. Here The Flash circles back to Season 1, when Cosnett was still a series regular. ![]() In the climactic four-part storyline “A Better World,” that avatar is none other than Rick Cosnett’s Eddie Thawne. But all you really need to know is that the Negative Speed Force has been searching for an avatar to oppose Team Flash and help it destroy the Speed Force, allowing it to grow unchecked. The introduction of these other Forces has definitely complicated the mythology fueling the series over the last few seasons. Each Force also has its negative equivalent. We now know there are four fundamental Forces in the Arrowverse - the Speed Force, the Strength Force, the Still Force and the Sage Force. ![]() While the concept of the Negative Speed Force has technically existed since the beginning of the series (it was the source of Reverse-Flash’s power in Season 1), the series has only really started to delve into the concept in more recent seasons. The Flash culminates in one final, epic clash between Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen and the Negative Speed Force, the dark antithesis of the energy source that grants Barry his speed. 6 Images The Return of Eddie Thawne and the Negative Speed Force ![]()
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