Eobard Thawne

Professor Zoom
Cover art to Time Masters: Vanishing Point #5 Art by Dan Jurgens.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Flash (vol. 1) #139 (September 1963)
Created by	John Broome Carmine Infantino
In-story information
Alter ego	Eobard Thawne
Team affiliations	Secret Society of Super Villains Black Lantern Corps
Notable aliases	Reverse-Flash
Abilities	Genius-level intellect Master manipulator and deceiver Skilled hand-to-hand combatant Negative Speed Force grants: Ability to move at superhuman speeds faster than light Rapid cellular regeneration Accelerated perception Extreme force generation Intangibility Ability to create speed mirages Time travel and alteration Temporal annihilation Age alteration Intelligence absorption via physical contact

Eobard Thawne, otherwise known as "Professor Zoom" and the "Reverse-Flash", is a fictional supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, he first appeared in The Flash (vol. 1) #139 in September 1963. He is the archenemy of Barry Allen (the second superhero to be called the Flash), a descendant of Malcolm Thawne, and a maternal forefather of both Bart Allen and Owen Mercer.

In Flash #324, the character was apparently killed by the Flash in an effort to save his fiancée, sparing her the death that Thawne gave to the Flash's first wife, Iris. Largely unseen over the next 25 years, Thawne was resurrected and re-imagined as a major villain in the DC Universe by writer Geoff Johns in 2009's The Flash: Rebirth. Johns compares this to his similar treatment of Green Lantern villain Sinestro in an early outline of the Rebirth series.^[1]

Professor Zoom was ranked as IGN's 31st greatest comic book villain of all time in 2009,^[2] and #2 on their Top 5 Flash Villains list in 2015.^[3] The character has appeared in various forms of media. C. Thomas Howell voiced Professor Zoom in the animated feature film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash later made his live action debut on The CW's TV show The Flash, portrayed by Tom Cavanagh and Matt Letscher.

Fictional character biography

The Flash (vol. 1) #139 (September 1963): First appearance of Professor Eobard "Zoom" Thawne, the Reverse-Flash.

The "Return of Barry Allen" storyline in The Flash (vol. 2) #74-79 reveals that Eobard Thawne started out as a fan of The Flash who lived in the 25th century and became desperate to meet his idol. After gaining super-speed by replicating the electrochemical bath that gave Barry Allen his powers (losing years of his life in the process), and even undergoing surgery to make himself look like his idol, he traveled back in time using the Cosmic Treadmill to meet his hero. Thawne became mentally unstable upon arriving several years after Barry's death at the Flash Museum—the machine having broken down over the centuries—and discovering that he was destined to become the Reverse-Flash and die at the hands of his idol, resulting in his mind—already disoriented by the stress of time travel—seeking escape by convincing himself that he is Barry Allen. However, his true identity is eventually revealed due to his more violent nature. Thawne (as "Barry") attacked Central City in revenge for "forgetting him" until he was ultimately defeated by the Flash family and sent back to the future, his memory wiped of the incident due to the trauma of the time-travel and the beating he had received at the hands of Wally West.

He later became known as "The Professor" and found a time capsule containing the Silver Age Flash's costume. He was able to use a Tachyon device to amplify the suit's speed energy, giving himself the abilities of the Flash as long as he wore it. In the process, Thawne reversed the colors of the costume, the suit becoming yellow, the boots and lightning bolt highlighting the red color, and the chest symbol's white circle becoming black. Taking the new name "Professor Zoom", Thawne used his speed powers to commit crimes, but was stopped by the Flash, who had traveled forward in time to witness the time capsule being opened because it also contained an atomic clock which threatened to explode like an atomic bomb due to the process with which it had been sent into the future. The Flash, assuming his counterpart might know where the clock was, pursued Professor Zoom. After a destructive battle, the villain was finally defeated when he boasted how he used a chemical coating to protect himself from air friction. Betting that the invisible aura around his body would be superior protection, the Flash seized Thawne and began to push him forward so fast that the intense air friction overwhelmed the coating and the resulting burns forced him to surrender. It proved a waste of time, as Thawne knew nothing about the clock and the Flash was just barely able to find and remove it to an isolated area before it exploded. He also destroyed the costume to prevent it from being used again.^[4]

Blaming the Flash for his defeat, Thawne began traveling back in time to gain revenge, using his knowledge of history to his advantage. In his second appearance, he hypnotized Doctor Alchemy, who was trying to go straight, into helping him. He also became obsessed with "replacing" Barry Allen, not only as the Flash, but as the husband of Iris West. After Iris finally made it clear that this would never happen (actually the second time she had insisted this as Thawne having erased her memory of the first time), Thawne (apparently) kills Iris at a party, vibrating his hand into her head. It took a long time for Allen to get his life back together after this. Shortly after Allen had found love again, Zoom reappeared, threatening to kill new fiancee Fiona Webb on Allen's second wedding day. Terrified that history would repeat itself, Allen instinctively and inadvertently kills his enemy, breaking Thawne's neck in a final struggle.^[5] After he was found not guilty of murder in the subsequent trial, despite the fact that the then-Kid Flash testified that Barry could have stopped Thawne without breaking his neck, Barry went to the 30th century to retire and live with the resurrected Iris, as it was revealed she was really an inhabitant of that era sent back for protection and that her mind had been taken from the moment before death, only to later die during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

The Flash: Rebirth

Professor Zoom appears within the Speed Force in The Flash: Rebirth by Geoff Johns. It is revealed that he would be resurrected in a near-future event, as his corpse is still buried in the present. He is apparently the one responsible for Barry's return and transformation into the Black Flash.^[6][7] He apparently kills the Black Flash and attempts to transform Barry into its replacement. When he appears again, he murders the revived Johnny Quick.^[8] It is revealed that Thawne recreated the chemical bath that originally gave Barry his speed, allowing Thawne to lure Barry out of the Speed Force during Final Crisis and, by using that, to create a negative Speed Force, affecting Barry and temporarily turning him into the Black Flash.^[9]

He then traps Barry and the revived Max Mercury inside the negative Speed Force, and goes to attack Wally West's kids (Jai and Irey). He attempts to kill them through their connection to the Speed Force in front of Linda Park-West, only to be stopped by Jay Garrick and Bart Allen. Professor Zoom hates Bart's existence even though the boy is Thawne's descendant, since Bart is also a descendant of Barry, whose legacy Zoom is intent on destroying. Bart, in turn, expresses no affection to his maternal forefather, fully aware that Thawne is a psychopath. Thawne defeats Jay and prepares to kill Bart before Max, Barry and Wally arrive, and take the fight to him.^[9] The fight is soon joined by Jesse Chambers and Irey, both of whom now have a full connection to the Speed Force and who take up the mantles of Jesse Quick and Impulse.^[10]

Thawne pulls Barry away and reveals that everything horrible that happened to Barry, including the death of his mother Nora, was caused because of Reverse-Flash. He then decides to destroy everything by killing Barry's wife, Iris, before they even met.^[10]

As Barry chases after Thawne, Wally joins in the time barrier. They reach him, and in doing so they become the lightning bolt that turns Barry into the Flash as they are able to stop Thawne from killing Iris. The Flashes push Thawne back through time, showing his past and future. They return to the present, where the Justice League, the Justice Society, and the Outsiders have built a device originally intended to disconnect Barry from the Speed Force when he was the Black Flash. Barry tosses Thawne in and Jay activates the device, severing his connection to the negative Speed Force. As the Flashes tie him up to stop him from running, back in the past Iris discovers Thawne's weapon and keeps it.^[11]

In the present, Zoom Boomerang is imprisoned in the Iron Heights. Hunter Zolomon speaks to him, saying they can help each other be better. In Gorilla City, one of the apes warns that Professor Zoom has done something horrible to their jungles, something even they do not know.^[11]

Blackest Night

In the 2009–2010 storyline "Blackest Night", Eobard Thawne's broken-necked corpse is reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps. The black power ring downloaded the corpse's memories, resulting in it not knowing about Barry's death and resurrection. Declaring itself the new Black Flash, the Black Lantern Zoom attacks Barry, who manages to elude it for the moment.^[12] When Black Lantern Rogues attack Iron Heights, they encounter the living Zoom, their rings strangely malfunctioning, and displaying a strange symbol.^[13] When the Black Lantern Zoom approaches his living counterpart, he stops moving, and is then frozen by Captain Cold's "cold grenade".^[14] In the final issue of the series, future Black Lantern Zoom is brought back to life by the white light of creation, and manages to escape.^[15]

In the follow-up "Brightest Day" storyline, the present Professor Zoom is still imprisoned in Iron Heights.^[16] When Deadman activates the White Power Battery, the Entity speaks to the twelve heroes and villains resurrected at the climax of the "Blackest Night" and tells each of them of their mission that must be accomplished in order to restore 'life' to the universe and prevent the Blackest Night from ever recurring. Zoom becomes the first to inadvertently fulfill his mission, which occurred in the events of The Flash: Rebirth when he freed Barry Allen from the Speed Force following his resurrection. The Entity proclaims Professor Zoom has completed his task, and his life is restored to him, later revealing that Zoom, having fulfilled his task, is now fully purged of all trace remnants of his Black Lantern ties – both present and future.^[17] Professor Zoom is released from Iron Heights by Captain Boomerang, who had hoped to better understand his version of the Entity's message. Zoom does not answer him directly, giving a cryptic response and eventually escaping as Captain Boomerang is confronted by the rest of the Rogues.^[18]

Post-Infinite Crisis origin

Professor Zoom uses his power to completely rewrite his history. In the story Professor Zoom uses his reverse Speed force powers to wipe his younger brother and rival Professor Drake from history as well as killing his parents when they try to interfere with his research.^[19]

Eobard then falls in love with a reporter who had been hired to interview him and his future self at first kills and then wipes the reporter's fiance (and eventually every man who she had ever dated) from existence. After finding out she did not return Eobard's affections, his future self traumatized the reporter when she was a child, causing her to be mute and institutionalized for the rest of her life so that he never met her.^[19]

Finally he had his younger self find the Flash uniform all to make himself the 25th century Flash. As the altered Eobard Thawne runs past him Professor Zoom sheds a tear saying "It won't last long. You will never find love. You will never be the Flash. Barry Allen destroyed my future. It's time I destroyed his".^[19]

Flashpoint

In the 2011 Flashpoint storyline, a new timeline is created through the alteration of history.^[20] Zoom reveals that his body is permanently connected to the Speed Force, enabling him to create the negative version of it, with which he escaped prison. He was unable to alter Barry's becoming the Flash, as that would erase Zoom himself from existence. Zoom decides instead to ruin Barry's life by during childhood, removing Barry's best friend from existence to result in greater introversion on Barry's part, and various other torments such as killing his mother.^[21] Zoom reveals to Barry that the new timeline was created by Barry himself going back in time to stop Professor Zoom from killing his mother. After Zoom is killed by the Batman of this reality with an amazonian sword, Flash travels back in time to stop his younger self from altering time but instead, under the manipulations of Pandora, a third, new timeline is created, in which DC Comics' continuity takes place from 2011 onwards.^[22]

The New 52

In the new timeline, Professor Zoom is revealed to be trapped in the Speed Force,^[23] and it seems that Barry hasn’t met him yet because he doesn't recognize the name "Thawne" but Thawne definitely knows about the Flash. After learning how to leave the Speed Force, Thawne as Professor Zoom brings in his friends to assure that Barry meets as heartbreaking a demise as possible. But Zoom's not ready to reveal himself just yet. Meanwhile, Barry reveals the name "Thawne" to his father, to find that Henry recognizes the name. He does his best to get Barry to stop investigating that name, then turns to his prison friends to help deal with the situation.^[24]

When Henry Allen, along with some other villains, like Girder, are on the run and grabbing supplies from the Central City distribution center for Medi-Barn Supplies, Inc, someone is following them but they don't notice him at first. It is Professor Zoom, and he does not want Henry Allen to be a "free man", even though Henry is wanted for escaping prison, so Zoom pulls the fire alarm. With the fire alarm comes a guard and the group is put in a sticky situation. In the moment where the guard has his gun drawn on Henry, Zoom speeds in and puts the gun in Henry's hand and makes him pull the trigger. The guard goes down and is dead. But Zoom is not done yet. Later on, Zoom confronts Barry again and while Barry has only bumped into Zoom a couple of times, Zoom seems very familiar with who Barry is. After their confrontation, Zoom leads Barry to the house where his mother was killed.^[25]

Its also revealed that following his escape from the Speed Force, Professor Zoom traveled throughout time to find other people that were touched by the Speed Force and given powers. He does this in order to put a team of four individuals "touched by the lightning" to destroy Barry Allen.^[26]

As revealed in The Flash (Vol. 4) #45, his powers are different in the New 52, as he is "able to control the flow of time to make himself appear faster than everything--and everyone--else". In the same issue he absorbs the power from one of his associates - Magali - and becomes able "to affect the age of organic and inorganic matter".^[27]

Powers and abilities

Eobard Thawne is able to travel at super-human speeds faster than the speed of light, deliver many different types of blows per second, run on water, create cyclones, and vibrate his molecules to pass through solid objects. Essentially he has all the same powers as The Flash or other speedsters, and can thus fight with blinding swiftness. Aside from his metahuman powers, Thawne's greatest weapon is his intellect, as even in the 25th Century, when vast scientific advancements have been made, he is still considered a genius.

In The Flash: Rebirth, it is discovered that when Thawne duplicated the incident that granted Barry Allen his powers, he created a negative Speed Force by corrupting the positive version of it. Through this Speed Force, he has the ability to create multiple after-images ("speed mirages") and, unlike The Flash and other users of the original Speed Force, can travel through and alter time, being able to erase people from existence (other speedsters cannot change the past without dramatic consequences).

In the events leading up to Flashpoint, Thawne has developed numerous powers including the ability to absorb other people's memories and experiences, change the age of himself and others, and drastically alter time.^[28]

The Flash (Vol. 4) #45 reveals that Thawne's powers are different in the New 52, as he is "able to control the flow of time to make himself appear faster than everything--and everyone--else" (similar to Zoom, the nemesis of pre-Flashpoint Wally West). In the same issue he absorbs the power from one of his associates - Magali - and becomes able "to affect the age of organic and inorganic matter". This was also an ability he showcased in "Road to Flashpoint".^[27]

Other versions

Batman Beyond

In the final issue of the Batman Beyond arc "Hush Beyond", an elderly Amanda Waller informs a head CADMUS scientist Dr. Thawne that the world will always need a Batman, before unveiling vats full of clones of the original Dark Knight and his allies.^[29] He is later seen making a transaction with Inque, a recurring villain with unstable mutagen powers, gaining a trigger that can adapt to any weapon and with limitless range in return for helping Inque remain stable.^[30]

Impulse

In an alternate timeline created when Impulse kills an insect in the Devonian Age, most super-villains are government bureaucrats. Professor Zoom is the National Science Advisor to President-for-Life Julian Tremain. Although he claims that his superspeed gave him superior intellect, his advice tends to be extremely obvious.

In subsequent changes to the timeline, Zoom defected to the rebellion against Tremain led by Gorilla Grodd; turned into a gorilla fighting against an army of flying turtles led by Grodd, now a flying turtle himself; and was a gorilla in a modern society identical to that of ancient Egypt.^[31]

In other media

Television

• Eobard Thawne was alluded to in the 1990 live action series The Flash. In the episode "Done With Mirrors", Barry Allen temporarily takes the pseudonym 'Professor Zoom' while investigating the Mirror Master.
• Professor Zoom appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by John Wesley Shipp.^[32] In the episode "Requiem for a Scarlet Speedster!", Professor Zoom has conquered the 25th Century and captured the Flash (Barry Allen), imprisoning Barry on a treadmill while using his nemesis's speed to power wrist-worn devices that increases his own speed, as well as that of his soldiers. But despite being trapped in Zoom's prison, the Flash sends speed illusions of himself to the present to ask Batman, Jay Garrick and Wally West for assistance. Eventually, Zoom captures the other versions of the Flash as well, and imprisons Batman in a holding cell. However, Batman breaks out and steals the speed devices of several guards to match up to Zoom's speed. While he is distracted with Batman, the other versions of the Flash run even faster to approach light speed and generate a wormhole. Barry then uses the wormhole to escape and engages Zoom in a fight around the world. The battle ends with the Flash using speed to glaze some sand to form a wall of glass to trip Zoom.

Arrowverse

Tom Cavanagh as Eobard Thawne / Reverse-Flash on The Flash.

• Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash appears in The CW's Arrowverse, portrayed by Tom Cavanagh (disguised as "Dr. Harrison Wells") and Matt Letscher (original likeness):
  • He appears on The Flash, where he serves as season one's main antagonist. He is depicted as the Flash's archenemy from the future, known as the Reverse-Flash, who traveled back to the year 2000 to kill his nemesis as a child. But when the Flash from the year 2024 followed Eobard back in time and intervened, an angered Reverse-Flash murdered Nora Allen and framed Henry Allen instead, hoping that a childhood tragedy would cause Barry Allen not to adopt the Flash persona. However, the Reverse-Flash somehow lost his connection to the Speed Force, leaving Eobard unable to travel back to his time. He then killed and impersonated Dr. Harrison Wells via a genetic modification device, due to knowing that the scientist was responsible for giving the Flash his powers in the year 2020. Fifteen years later, he has already founded S.T.A.R. Labs and created a particle accelerator with Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon, which exploded as planned, killing civilians and creating metahumans as well as achieving Barry Allen's destiny seven years earlier. Now faking paralysis, Eobard consistently pushes Barry to run faster, due to needing the latter's connection to the Speed Force in order to return to his own time. Eobard eventually resurfaces as the Reverse-Flash, and defeats the Flash twice in combat. After his secret is discovered, the S.T.A.R. Labs team attempt to capture Eobard to free Henry, but the villain escapes and abducts his ancestor, Detective Eddie Thawne. However, the Reverse-Flash is eventually defeated by the combined efforts of the Flash, the Arrow and Firestorm. Eobard then assists Barry in traveling back in time to save Nora, in exchange for a time machine to return to the future once the Speed Force wormhole is open. But Barry chooses not to save Nora and returns to destroy Eobard's time machine, enraging the villain and leaving the two speedsters fighting each other again. During their final battle, the Reverse-Flash once again bests the Flash and prepares for the kill. However, Eddie heroically sacrifices himself, seemingly erasing Eobard from existence.
  • In the second season's premiere, Eobard's last will (as Wells) leaves Barry both S.T.A.R. Labs and a confession to Nora's murder, which allows Henry to be released from prison. The episode “The Reverse-Flash Returns” features Eobard's origin story, and explains how he acquired all of the knowledge he possessed during season one. It is revealed that Eobard still exists, despite Eddie's sacrifice, due to time remnants of the Speed Force forever linking him to the timeline. Hailing from the future, Professor Eobard Thawne was once obsessed with the Flash. But after duplicating the accident that gave the hero his powers, Eobard grew to despise the Flash upon learning that he was destined to become his idol's archenemy through means of time travel. He then adopted the supervillain persona of the Reverse-Flash and started travelling to different eras, eventually discovering that the Flash was active in the early 21st Century. But despite being significantly faster than his nemesis, Eobard was captured and imprisoned in the Pipeline. However, this caused a time paradox which endangered Cisco's life, so the Flash was forced to release him and send him back to the future. In the episode "Flash Back", Barry travels back in time to masquerade as his earlier self in order to get Eobard to teach him how to run faster to stop Zoom, but Eobard sees through Barry's ruse after finding out that a Time Wraith, a demonic entity that hunts inexperienced time-travelers, was after Barry, and questions him in the Time Vault. Barry then threatens to tell his past self all of his mentor's secrets, forcing Eobard to give Barry a drive containing information on tachyons that will enhance his speed.
  • The character is referenced in Arrow, of which The Flash is a spin-off. He is first mentioned in the episode "The Man Under the Hood", when Cisco and Caitlin discuss the particle accelerator explosion. Later that episode, Harrison Wells' files are hacked by Felicity Smoak after the supervillain Deathstroke steals a biotransfuser from S.T.A.R. Labs' inventory.^[33] In "The Climb", the Reverse-Flash's attack on Mercury Labs appears across the computer of the Arrowcave.^[34] In "Broken Arrow", Oliver contemplates calling Barry for help against a metahuman in Starling City, but Felicity tells him that Team Flash is occupied with several problems involving "Harrison Wells", prompting Oliver to ask Ray Palmer for help instead. In "My Name is Oliver Queen", Barry aids Oliver's allies in escaping Nanda Parbat, but leaves soon after to interrogate a recently captured Eobard.

Film

• Professor Zoom appears as the main antagonist in the animated film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, voiced by C. Thomas Howell. He first hires the Rogues to ambush the Flash (Barry Allen) at the Flash Museum. After the Flash is subdued, Zoom reveals himself as the mastermind of the attack and betrays the Rogues, placing 25th Century explosives on their belts as he made his entrance. However, the Justice League arrive to help disarm the bombs, and Zoom is subsequently arrested. After the Flash travels back in time to prevent his mother's murder, all of reality is altered, where Aquaman's Atlantean army and Wonder Woman's Amazonian forces are engaged in World War III. Zoom is later revealed to have also entered this reality via the Speed Force. As news reporter Lois Lane is about to be killed by Amazonians, Zoom arrives and saves Lois's life, hoping that the reporter's camera would catch a glimpse of him and alert the Flash of his presence. While Cyborg's metahuman group tries to put and end to the war, Zoom appears and confronts the Flash once more. Zoom once again bests and taunts Barry, stating that his nemesis's attempt to save Nora was the cause of all the chaos and destruction. As the Atlanteans' doomsday device destroys the world, Zoom is shot in the head by this reality's Batman. As the Flash taps into the Speed Force once more to stop his past self from altering time, a new reality appears which leaves Zoom's fate unknown.

Parodies

• Eobard Thawne makes occasional appearances on Robot Chicken. He is voiced by Seth Green (in "Losin' the Wobble") and by Matthew Senreich (in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise). Tom Cavanagh later reprises his role from The Flash in the sketch "The Nerd on the CW". In the episode "Losin' the Wobble", he is seen robbing a bank, while the Flash, Superman and Wonder Woman stand idly by, commenting about how lame they think opposite-themed villains like the Reverse-Flash, Bizarro Superman and Negative Wonder Woman are. Professor Zoom is later seen with the Legion of Doom in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise. He is mentioned by Brainiac when Composite Superman uses the Cosmic Treadmill, and makes a non-voiced cameo while fighting the Flash in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship. He later appears (as Harrison Wells) in "The Nerd on the CW".

Video games

• Professor Zoom is one of the villains hired by Brainiac to collect Starites in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure. He teams up with Doppelgänger to compete against Barry Allen and Maxwell.
• Professor Zoom appears as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Liam O'Brien.
• Professor Zoom appears as a non-playable character in various storylines in the PC and PlayStation 4 MMO DC Universe Online.
• Eobard Thawne appears in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Professor Zoom's Black Lantern design was a playable alternate skin for the Flash (Barry Allen) as part of a limited exclusive challenge. The 2.6 update later introduced a Reverse-Flash card based on Tom Cavanagh's portrayal in The CW's television series The Flash, which can be purchased in the Most Wanted Pack. His passive is dubbed "Cellular Regeneration" which refers to his ability to heal rapidly from injury, and his second special attack is named "Out of Time" which references an episode in the television series.

Toys and Collectibles

• A Professor Zoom figure was released as part of DC Direct's JLA Classified line, being the only villain in the series.
• DC Universe Classics has released a Reverse-Flash figure in Wave 20 of their action figure line.
• A DC Universe Action League figure of Professor Zoom was released in a two pack along with the Flash.
• DC Direct released a Reverse-Flash (labeled Zoom) SDCC convention exclusive figure in the Flashpoint figure line.
• A Reverse-Flash collectible statue was included in the Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Blu-ray combo pack.
• Funko Mystery Minis has released a Reverse-Flash minifigure in their DC Comics line.
• A Funko POP vinyl figure of the Reverse-Flash was released based on his appearance in the comic books.
• A Funko POP vinyl figure of the Black Lantern Professor Zoom was later released as well.
• A Funko POP vinyl figure of the Reverse-Flash was released based on his appearance in the TV series The Flash.
• A Retro Re-Action figure of the Reverse-Flash was released in The Flash line based on his appearance in the TV series.
• An Amazon exclusive DC Collectibles Reverse-Flash figure with red eyes was released with the Blu-ray edition of the complete first season of the TV series The Flash in December 2015.

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External links

• Professor Zoom at the DC Database
• Professor Zoom at Those Who Ride the Lightning
• Professor Zoom at the DCU Guide