This article list all the known enemies of Flash.
Golden Age
editThe Golden Age Flash enemies were all villains of the first Flash, Jay Garrick, later portrayed as living on Earth-Two after the introduction of the Silver Age Flash.
In chronological order (with issue and date of first appearance):
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Shade | Flash Comics #33 (September 1942) | A villain who makes use of a special cane that enables him to cast complete darkness at will. Reformed in the 1990s Starman (vol. 2) series. |
| Rag Doll | Flash Comics #36 (December 1942) | Peter Merkel was born "triple-jointed", which enabled him to flex farther than any other human being. He hid in a rag doll costume and robbed stores. Has recently died, but has had several children, a few of whom are also Ragdolls, including a daughter who is also a villain, a son that is a member of the Secret Six, and another yet to be revealed son mentioned by his brother. His death in JLA Classified #7 was later undone by the events of Flashpoint, and he has since been a member of the Legion of Zoom to fight against the Flash after the Reverse-Flash took him from the past, before he died in Suicide Squad Annual #1 by ghosts. |
| Eel | Comic Cavalcade #3 (June 1943) | “Eel” Madden was a criminal who had a grease gun, which made it almost impossible for anyone to catch him. |
| Thinker | All-Flash #12 (September 1943) | Clifford DeVoe, a former DA, was a villain who used a specially designed "thinking cap" as an aid in conjuring up and performing various crimes, and a founding member of the Injustice Society of the World, in which position he captured the Flash. He later became friends with the Flash before dying from cancer; however, his Thinking Cap technology had become a computer program that made itself into a villain that battled Wally West and the rest of the JSA. The Thinker AI joined Johnny Sorrow's more modern Injustice Society and Checkmate before the events of Flashpoint. After Flashpoint the Thinker AI was taken out of the past to join the Legion of Zoom. He returned to his own time after the team was overpowered by the Flash Family. |
| Turtle | All-Flash #21 (January/February 1946) | A villain who used slowness-related weapons against the Flash, was inactive for a long time, then reappeared and now has the power to take away speed from people. After disappearing for a long time after fighting Jay Garrick in the 1940s, the Turtle wanted to set up an empire in Keystone City. He worked with Turtle Man, one of Barry Allen's villains, and his henchmen (Mr. Sloe, Mr. Steddy and Mr. Sprynt) in an attempt to establish his empire, but Wally West defeated the Turtle's henchmen. The Turtle trapped Wally when he released an ultrasound trap in a warehouse, but when Wally's friends rescued him Turtle detonated the building. Wally and his friends escaped the building in time, but the Turtle was left in the building. Whether he survived or died is unknown.
Turtle has since been shown after the events of Flashpoint. In the new timeline, he had a high intellect and graduated from school. Later in his life, he got married and had two children, and spent a lot of time with his family. This led to his scientific advancements being slowed and Turtle growing jealous of more successful scientists. He rushed experiments in an effort to show his intellect again, but was caught in an explosion with the Still Force and had his age accelerated, making him an old man. He later discovered that he could nullify any form of motion, including the progression of life. While he continued to experiment with the Still Force, he became disappointed with life as he knew he would outlive everyone he loved. This caused him to murder his family with his powers, as he saw them as distractions from his scientific work. |
| Dmane | Flash Comics Miniature Edition (April 1946) | A criminal from the 70th century who is accidentally sent to 1946 by a time travel experiment. The Flash is finally able to send him back just before his execution. |
| Changeling | Flash Comics #84 (June 1947) | Nothing is known of the life of Erik Razar before he became a small-time gangster in Keystone City. In the early 1940s, Razar ran a small mob that was taken over by gangster Topper Hull. Hull framed Razar and had sent him to prison. In the summer of 1947, Razar hatched a plan to escape by sabotaging the prison power generator. His plan had an unforeseen side effect, charging Razar with enormous amounts of electricity and giving him the ability to change into different animals. Razar used his new powers to escape and set out in pursuit of Hull. Disguised as a bird, Razar learns that Hull has planned a bank job by intercepting an armored car delivery. Razar decided to torture Hull by thwarting his crimes and intercepted the car first. By this point, the police had consulted with scientist Jay Garrick who was among those who witnessed Razar, as a large bull elephant, intercept and dismantle the armored car. Quickly changing to the Flash, Garrick engaged the shape-shifting criminal, but was quickly dispatched into a large water reservoir.
Razar, now named the Changeling by the local papers, decided to foil Hull's hijack of a sunken ship recovery operation and then kill him. The Flash also became aware of Hull's plans by eavesdropping in his invisible super-speeding form and determined to intercept them both. Razar dove into the water as Hull's boat left the pier and transformed himself into a large shark. The Flash dived in behind the Changeling, but the criminal irritated a large clam which seized the Flash's leg and threatened to drown him. After extricating himself, he came upon the Changeling-shark threatening the divers in the recovery operation and assaulted him. Deciding that he would need to kill the villain to stop him, the Flash battered the shark's gills until it could not breathe and then knocked it unconscious as the Changeling tried to change forms. As the unconscious and unmoving shark drifted to the bottom, the Flash left to capture Hull. (Flash Comics #84) Whether or not the Changeling survived has never been determined. |
| Rose and the Thorn | Flash Comics #89 (November 1947) | Rose Canton had a multiple personality disorder, the Thorn, who was a villain and used thorn-themed weapons. She married Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, had two children named Jade and Obsidian, and later committed suicide. While it was revealed she committed suicide in Infinity Inc. Annual #1, her suicide was undone by Flashpoint and she is now a schoolgirl who suffers from mental health (National Comics: Rose and Thorn #1). While in high school Rose developed another personality called Thorn and blackmailed a paedophile for information on her father's death. |
| Fiddler | All Flash Comics #32 (January 1948) | Isaac Bowin was a villain who used a violin to perform crimes, usually by using the violin to hypnotize people or cause vibrations which could shatter objects after learning skills from a fakir he was in prison with, before murdering him. He first tried to frame his brother, but was defeated and pretended to commit suicide. Later he resurfaced. Recently, he joined the Secret Six, but when he failed a mission, he was killed by Deadshot on the orders of their leader, Mockingbird. After his death, a woman found his violin and is now using it, calling herself Virtuoso. |
| Star Sapphire | All-Flash #32 (January 1948) | A queen of the Seventh Dimension, she tried to take over the Earth twice but failed. She is now trapped in the Gem. |
| The Rival | Flash Comics #104 (February 1949) | Dr. Edward Clariss, a professor at the university attended by Jay Garrick, believed he had recreated the formula that gave Garrick his speed which he called "Velocity 9". However, this formula was only temporary and he was defeated despite trying to use different fumes to take away the Flash's speed. Later, he escaped from jail, but went into the Speed Force itself. He is now pure energy from the Speed Force. He joined Johnny Sorrow's Injustice Society and committed numerous murders which spelt out his name, but he was defeated by the Flash before he could murder Joan. |
Silver Age
editThe Silver Age Flash enemies all lived on Earth-One and started out as enemies of the second Flash, Barry Allen, as well as the third Flash, Wally West, and the fourth, Bart Allen, after the death of Barry Allen. The Silver Age is when some enemies started to use the name "Rogues". Originally, the Rogues were just a few of the Flash's enemies teaming together, but since then they have formed a lasting team, and usually a Rogue will not commit a crime by himself. The original eight Rogues were Captain Cold, the Mirror Master, Heat Wave, the Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the Pied Piper, the Top, and Captain Boomerang. The current incarnation of the Rogues includes Captain Cold, the Weather Wizard, Heat Wave, the third Mirror Master, and the second Trickster.
In chronological order (with issue and date of first appearance):
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mazdan | Showcase #4 (October 1956) | A criminal from the 38th century, who the authorities decide to exile to the 50th century when Earth is desolate. He is accidentally sent to the 20th century and tries to steal equipment needed to repair his time capsule, such as gold to coat it, and get back to the future to exact revenge, using advanced heat-based weapons. The Flash discovers this and captures Mazdan, who escapes using a contact lens that fires lasers and a "magnetic rod" that focuses heat; the Flash discovers that if Mazdan escapes using his time capsule, it will destroy everything within a radius of at least 10 miles, killing thousands. He uses his super-speed to break through the time barrier with Mazdan, who, oddly enough, does not die from the friction and returns to the 38th century. The authorities say they will make sure next time the time capsule reaches the 50th century and the Flash returns to his own time. Mazdan later escapes to the 20th century again and uses a mind-affecting hallucinatory weapon to cause trouble for the Flash, but is beaten again and returned to prison in the 38th century. |
| Captain Cold | Showcase #8 (June 1957) | Leonard "Len" Snart was a criminal who wanted a chance to get rid of the Flash. Seeing an article about a weapon that might disrupt the Flash's speed, Snart made a gun and exposed it to radiations. However, due to the fact Snart was not experienced in the use of the device and activated it incorrectly, instead of slowing the Flash down, the gun could freeze anything to absolute zero, which he discovered when he accidentally used it on a watchman. Calling himself Captain Cold, Snart started out on a criminal career. He is the leader of the Rogues. Known for being a sympathetic villain, Cold has a sense of honor. Cold has strict rules on how the Rogues should act, such as no drugs and not to kill unless they have to. He also has a sense of loyalty to his team and watches out for them. |
| Doctor Alchemy | Showcase #14 (June 1958) | Albert Desmond suffered from a split personality, one a good person and the other evil. Originally calling himself Mr. Element and using element-themed devices before being captured by the Flash, he changed it to Dr. Alchemy when he found the Philosopher's Stone, which could transmute elements after hearing of it from a cellmate, and was able to transmute elements, although the effects only lasted for about 20 minutes. Soon it was found out that there were two Desmonds, Albert, the good one and Alvin, the bad, and that they shared a mental link. Alvin was destroyed, but Albert became Dr. Alchemy again. |
| Mirror Master | The Flash #105 (March 1959) | While working in a prison workshop, Samuel Scudder accidentally stumbled upon a mirror that could project holograms. When he escaped, he made more mirror gadgets, and became the Mirror Master. He has created many different mirrors that can do various things like travel into other dimensions. He was killed during Crisis on Infinite Earths; however, there have been two others who assumed his identity. |
| Gorilla Grodd | The Flash #106 (May 1959) | Grodd was an inhabitant of Gorilla City, a peaceful society of super-intelligent gorillas of which Grodd was the only evil one. A mastermind in his early years with vast mental powers, he has become more savage and stronger recently, to the point where he wants to "feast on the bones" of the Flash. |
| Pied Piper | The Flash #106 (May 1959) | Hartley Rathaway was born deaf, but was cured after his rich parents sought a way to make him hear. Once he could hear, he became obsessed with music and sound, and made many sound-based weapons. Originally a criminal, he reformed and came out as being gay the same time. He became a friend of Wally West, even when the Top revealed he had changed the personality of some of the Rogues (the Pied Piper included) to make them reform; the Pied Piper was able to fight off the Top and stay good. |
| Weather Wizard | The Flash #110 (December 1959/January 1960) | Mark Mardon escaped from prison to his brother's house. His brother had just made a wand that could control the weather. Mark wanted the weapon and he and his brother got into a fight, and his brother was killed (although Mardon said he was dead when he got there, he has since told the truth to Captain Cold). He had an infant son who was adopted by Iris West, but was later killed by Inertia. |
| Trickster | The Flash #113 (June/July 1960) | James Montgomery Jesse, a circus performer who came from a family of trapeze artists, invented shoes that used compressed air to "walk" on air, originally using them for tightrope walking. Inspired by Jesse James, James made other weapons and became the Trickster, robbing planes until Flash tracked him down in the circus. He was captured, but became a member of the Rogues. Once reformed, but it was revealed that was because the Top made it so, and he returned to the Rogues, but contemplated whether to be a hero or a villain. He was killed in Countdown to Final Crisis. |
| Captain Boomerang | The Flash #117 (December 1960) | George "Digger" Harkness was a master of boomerangs, which he learned how to use in the Outback. When a mascot was needed for a boomerang company, Harkness was hired, but used the costume and boomerangs to commit crimes and he had many trick boomerangs. Originally, he pretended someone else was using his identity to trick the Flash, but finally the deception was revealed. He briefly became the second Mirror Master after the death of the original. Harkness was killed during Identity Crisis, but also killed Jack Drake before he died. Harkness has a son, Owen Mercer, who became a hero after a brief stint with the Rogues. |
| Top | The Flash #122 (August 1961) | Roscoe Dillon used many top-themed weapons to commit crimes, eventually learning how to spin himself at great speeds, increasing his intelligence and allowing him to deflect bullets. Although he died, Dillon's mind was so powerful that it took over the minds of many people to keep on living, including Henry Allen and a senator, whose body was reformed by Dillon to look like his original body. He was later killed again by Captain Cold when Dillon tried to take over the Rogues during the Rogue War. During this time, it was revealed that Dillon had made some of the Rogues reform, and during the war, he made them criminals again. He was also a victim of the JLA mindwipes; he was made a good person, but overpowered the mindwipe and again became a villain. |
| Abra Kadabra | The Flash #128 (May 1962) | A magician from the 64th century named Citizen Abra who was exiled from his time period and sent to the 20th century for his crimes. He used his technology to pose as a magician. Originally separate from the Rogues, he recently began joining forces with them occasionally. |
| Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash | The Flash #139 (September 1963) | Eobard Thawne is a speedster from the 25th century, who occasionally used the alias Adrian Zoom. He was a fan of the Flash and gained his powers, but went insane on discovering he would become a villain. Once just a simple villain, he became more well-known when he killed Barry Allen's wife Iris Allen (although her consciousness was transported to the 30th century at the last possible instant). This action made him Barry Allen's arch-nemesis. Later, when Barry was about to marry Fiona Webb, Thawne tried to kill her but, in a fit of rage, Barry killed him by breaking his neck, thus putting the Flash on trial for murder, where he was found guilty. He was returned to life and was the one behind Flashpoint. |
| Heat Wave | The Flash #140 (November 1963) | Mick Rory is obsessed with heat, and at a young age, burned down his house, killing his family. He then made a heat gun and used fire to rob and kill. Rory was one of the Rogues the Top made reform, and when that was taken away, Rory became a Rogue again. Even during his reformed life, his mind was already starting to turn to crime. |
| Golden Glider | The Flash #250 (June 1977) | Lisa Snart, the younger sister of Len Snart (Captain Cold), did not want to be a villain, but when her lover, the Top died, she swore revenge on the Flash. Using sharp ice skates which made ice, she battled the Flash, and got the approval of her brother. She was killed by Chillblaine, a villain whom she gave ice powers to. Captain Cold has since gotten revenge for her death by killing Chillblaine. |
| Clive Yorkin | The Flash #270 (February 1979) | Clive Yorkin, a criminal spending life in prison, agreed to take part in a prison experiment. The experiment went wrong and it drove him mad and able to kill someone by touching them. It was thought he killed Iris West, but he was innocent. The real culprit being Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash. |
| Rainbow Raider | The Flash #286 (June 1980) | A colorblind painter, Roy G. Bivolo had true talent in composition and detail, but his lack of ability to see color made his work unpopular. His father made a pair of goggles for him that could project colors on a person; each color represented a different emotional mood. Roy became a criminal who stole paintings and joined the Rogues. He was later killed by Blacksmith. |
Modern Age
editIn addition to the Silver Age Rogues, there have been many other Flash villains created in the past few years. The special issue Flash: Iron Heights was the first appearance of many of them. Some of the "new breed", as the original Rogues call them, made a team called the New Rogues, led by Blacksmith. They tried to take away the allies of the Flash so he would fight them alone, but the Flash beat them anyway. These villains are not part of the current Rogues, which are still the Silver Age villains. Also, new versions of the Mirror Master, the Trickster, and Captain Boomerang were introduced and did become members of the Rogues.
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Magenta | The New Teen Titans #17 (March 1982) | Frankie Kane was a one-time girlfriend of Wally West, who gained magnetic powers which killed her family. Not knowing her purpose in life, she became a villain and first joined the Cicada cult and the New Rogues before reforming. |
| Mirror Master III | Animal Man #8 (February 1989) | Evan McCulloch grew up in an orphanage, and after killing a bully, he escaped and became a mercenary. On one hit, he unknowingly shot and killed his father, and later found out his mother had died of grief. Then, he was hired by the government to be the third Mirror Master, and he got the original Mirror Master's costume and equipment. Instead of working for the government, McCulloch became a member of the Rogues, taking the place of the original Mirror Master. He also has a drug problem, of which Captain Cold does not approve. |
| Manfred Mota | Flash 50th Anniversary Special (1990) | Manfred Mota is a villain who has multiple versions of the Flash, each time in a different form. He is also the father of Valerie Perez, girlfriend of Bart Allen. Also known as "Atom Smasher", "Professor Fallout", and "Fusionn". |
| Chillblaine | The Flash Annual Vol. 2 #5 (August 1992) | Chillblaine is the name used by a series of super-villains who have been boyfriends to Golden Glider. She recruits them as her crime partners using cold gun technology designed by her brother Captain Cold. Because of this they are usually strong and handsome but not very smart. The original Chillblaine was killed when Glider became possessed by Eclipso. Chillblaine II and Chillblaine III had very brief careers before they were abandoned as lovers. Chillblaine IV was the last to use the title as he killed Glider and stole her technology. Eventually Captain Cold murdered him in revenge. |
| Razer | Flash (vol. 2) #84 (November 1993) | Razer is a villain who was a mercenary for hire who wears a suit coated completely with lubrilon, an experimental near-frictionless chemical polymer. He nearly destroyed a mall, though the Flash got almost everyone out. Razer later escaped and began working for Data Highways, Inc. |
| Inertia | Impulse #50 (July 1999) | Inertia was a clone of Bart Allen. He originally fought Allen when he was Impulse, and then when Bart aged five years after Infinite Crisis and became the Flash, Inertia fought him again. Inertia was responsible for the death of Allen, and when Wally West returned, he took revenge by stripping Inertia of all movement and putting him in the Flash Museum. During Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, he was used by Libra and Zoom to try to get the Rogues to join the new Secret Society of Super Villains. He stole Zoom's powers, called himself Kid Zoom, and was killed by the Rogues, who blamed him for making them kill Bart Allen. |
| Folded Man | Flash (vol. 2) #153 (October 1999) | Edwin Gauss is a criminal who uses a suit to shift from 3-D space to 2-D and 4-D space. He created Avernus, a graveyard in 4-D space for fallen Flash enemies. |
| Plunder | Flash (vol. 2) #165 (October 2000) | Jared Morillo is an assassin from a mirror universe, a copy of a police officer of the same name in the comic's main timeline. Plunder later joined Blacksmith's Rogues and began working with them in their plan to eliminate the Flash's allies, but was later sent back to his reality by Hunter Zolomon/Zoom. |
| Brother Grimm | Flash (vol. 2) #166 (November 2000) | The ruler of another realm, Brother Grimm blames Wally West for driving him to kill his brother and assume the throne. He possesses powerful magical abilities and is able to "sense" the Speed Force, thus forcing Wally to limit himself to normal speed in any fight with him. |
| Cicada | Flash (vol. 2) #171 (April 2001) | During a thunderstorm sometime in the early 20th century, David Hersch murdered his wife. Regretting what he had done, he sought to end his own life, only to be struck by lightning. He had a vision that he had been chosen to live forever, and he would bring his wife back as well. Starting a cult, his followers killed people who had been saved by the Flash, and Cicada used the energy of these people to live forever. |
| Tar Pit | Flash (vol. 2) #174 (July 2001) | Joey Monteleone was the brother of a drug dealer, and while in prison discovered he could put his mind into inanimate objects. However, his mind got stuck inside a mass of tar. |
| Murmur | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | A surgeon who went insane, Michael Amar now seeks sadistic ways to kill the voices he hears in his head. His distinctive criminal act is to remove a victim's tongue early during the torture he inflicts. He also has a virus called Frenzy that will turn a person's lungs to mud in 90 minutes. |
| Blacksmith | Blacksmith is a Ferro-kinetic crimelord who was once married to Goldface. She founded her own rendition of the Rogues, and created the Network, an underground hideaway for the Rogues that had been in operation for years without anyone knowing about it. However, she and her Rogues were defeated by Wally West. | |
| Fallout | Neil Borman was a stone mason who was hired to do some additional work on a nuclear power plant he and his team had helped construct. During a series of tests an explosion destroyed the floor that Borman and his workmates were working on, and they fell into the reactor's cooling system. His co-workers died, but Borman survived as his body's molecular structure shifted, transforming into a man composed of high-energy electrons. Unfortunately, Borman had brought his wife and son to work to show them around the plant. Contact with his new body killed them, and in the same way he inadvertently killed several people. Genuinely remorseful, he was imprisoned in Iron Heights Penitentiary, where he was used to power the prison with his new abilities. The Flash found out about the inhumane treatment of Fallout and the disastrous state of Iron Heights, and while he was unable to change the living conditions within, he managed to have the prison's systems changed so Fallout would not have to suffer as the energy within his body was siphoned. | |
| Girder | Tony Woodward was shoved into a vat of molten steel from S.T.A.R. Labs during a riot after he assaulted a female coworker. He survived, but became composed of scrap metal. He joined the New Rogues and took part in the Rogue War. | |
| Double Down | Jeremy Tell lost a card game and then killed the man who won. After this, the cards in the dead man's pocket flew out and covered Tell, becoming his skin. He can use the razor-sharp corners of the cards as weapons by peeling them off of himself. | |
| Zoom | (as Hunter Zolomon) Flash Secret Files and Origins #3 (November 2001) (as Zoom) Flash (vol. 2) #197 (June 2003) |
Hunter Zolomon was once a friend of the Flash who worked at the police station. When visiting Iron Heights Penitentiary, he was caught in an escape attempt by Gorilla Grodd, who broke Hunter's back. He survived and asked for the Flash to go back in time and stop it from happening. The Flash told him that he cannot change history, even for a friend. Hunter got very mad at the Flash, and decided to try to do it himself. However, the Cosmic Treadmill exploded during the process, and Hunter gained superspeed not coming from the Speed Force, but from time itself, making him even faster than the Flash. Zolomon set out to make the Flash a better hero by letting him deal with loss, and killed his unborn twins. This event has since been rectified due to time travel. Zoom recently had his power drained from him by Inertia/Kid Zoom. He is now Hunter Zolomon as he was before the Treadmill blew up in his face. |
| Peek-a-Boo | Flash (vol. 2) #180 (January 2002) | Lashawn Baez has the power to teleport, and used the power to try to steal a liver for her father who needed a new one. She was stopped by the Flash and her father died. She is now a villain. |
| Trickster II | Flash (vol. 2) #184 (April 2002) | After the original Trickster reformed, teenager Axel Walker found his equipment and stole it, becoming the new Trickster. He joined the Rogues, and took the place of the first Trickster (even though most of the Rogues thought of him as too young and impulsive). During the Rogue War, James Jesse, the original Trickster, became a Rogue again and took back what was his. After Jesse was killed by Deadshot in Countdown to Final Crisis, Walker rejoined the Rogues as the Trickster II in the Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge miniseries. |
| Captain Boomerang II | Identity Crisis #3 (October 2004) | Owen Mercer is the son of the original Captain Boomerang and Meloni Thawne (making him Bart Allen's maternal half-brother). He did not know his father until he was an adult. The two practiced together, and Owen found he had bursts of super-speed. When his father died he joined the Rogues, but One Year Later he reformed and is now a member of the Suicide Squad. |
One Year Later
edit| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Griffin | The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #1 (August 2006) | Griffin Grey was a friend of Bart Allen until he was caught in an explosion at work; he found out he had enhanced speed and strength, and he became a hero, but only for the glory of it. However, the powers made him age faster, and he looked like an old man in days. He tried to find the secret of what kept Jay Garrick young, but could not. He then became a villain, and during a fight with Bart, he was overpowered and died. |
| Spin | Flash (vol. 2) #238 (May 2008) | Mysterious villain with the ability to magnify people's fears and make them reality. Spin is actually Dantley Walker, a person in authority either at KN News or its parent company. Spin's secret headquarters, located below the television station's office, conceals an emaciated captive telepath, plugged into machines and used to track public anxiety so that he can more reliably manipulate it. |
The New 52
edit| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mob Rule | The Flash #1 (August 2011) | A group consisting of dozens of duplicates of Barry Allen's old friend Manuel Lago. Mob Rule first came into existence when Lago was tortured by a criminal organization called Basilisk. They cut off his fingers one by one and discovered that because of a CIA experiment, he could regrow lost limbs and each severed limb could grow into a duplicate of Manuel. Initially, the duplicates worked with Manuel in his "one-man" crusade against Basilisk. When they began to die for no reason in the same order in which they were "born", their new mission became to find a doctor who can find a cure so they could continue to live. Members of Mob Rule all identify each other by numbers based on the order in which they were "born". After encountering Mob Rule trying to steal a human genome re-coder, Barry Allen identifies his old friend Manuel Lago as one of the thieves. Later the next night, Manuel breaks into Barry's apartment being chased by Mob Rule, so Barry follows his friend. When Barry catches up with Manuel, he finds his old friend surrounded by copies of himself. The duplicates have kidnapped Iris West and will only let her go if the Flash allows them to take Manuel, to which the Flash reluctantly agrees. Mob Rule had kidnapped Dr. Guerrero, the original doctor who gave Manuel his regenerative powers, and were forcing him to find out why they were dying. Even with Manuel as their hostage, the doctor could not find out why their lifetime was limited to just a few months. They killed Dr. Guerrero and replenished their ranks by cutting off Manuel's fingers and hands again. With Dr. Guerrero dead, they seek out the man who built the genome re-coder, Dr. Darwin Elias, and kidnap him. With the help of his friend and co-worker Patty Spivot, Barry finds Manuel being held by Mob Rule in Dr. Guerrero's lab. Mob Rule finds them and Barry stays behind to give Patty and Manuel a chance to escape. During the conflict, it appeared that one of Mob Rule shot Barry in the head. Believing Mob Rule to be dead, they left his body behind. |
| Turbine | The Flash #8 (August 2011) | Roscoe Hynes, also known as Turbine, is a former Tuskegee airman who led a fleet of prototype war planes on its first combat mission during World War II. However, when he broke formation to test the plane's capabilities, he and his plane completely disappeared inexplicably. Roscoe Hynes and the plane ended up being trapped in the Speed Force and now, for the past 70 years, he has been trapped within the Speed Force. However, now with the recent arrival of the Flash, who is in search of his friend Iris West, Roscoe Hynes has found his way home. |
| Elsa Mardon | The Flash #9 (July 2012) | Elsa was married to Marco Mardon's brother Claudio who was also a criminal in Central City. She was killed by lightning by Marco Mardon when she revealed to him that she killed his brother Claudio. |
| Reverse Flash V | The Flash #0 (November 2012) | Daniel "Danny" West, a.k.a. the Reverse-Flash (not to be mistaken for the Silver Age Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne)) is the brother of Iris West (a reporter and friend of Barry Allen). His mom died while giving birth to him and his dad, an alcoholic, blamed Danny for his mother's death. One day, Danny's father killed the crickets Danny had been collecting and he was so mad he pushed his father down a flight of stairs. This crippled Danny's father and Danny ran away from home in anger and fear, leaving his sister Iris to live alone with their abusive dad. Fast forward about 15 years and Danny is trying to rebuild his relationship with Iris. Iris, however, is not interested, as she is still mad at him for leaving her. Danny is upset by this and blames his dad for his lack of a relationship with his sister, the only person he has ever loved and the only friend he has ever had. Later that day Danny, who is struggling financially, decides to turn to crime, but is stopped by the Flash on his first robbery. He is later released from prison, only to be kidnapped by the Rogues. He attempts to escape, but ends up crashing a car into a Speed Force battery, which gives him superspeed, the ability to drain the Speed Force from anyone he touches, time manipulation and the ability to control the metal from the battery, which has fused to his body. Danny, now the Reverse Flash, kills a bunch of speedsters and steals their speed so he can go back in time to kill his dad and give himself a happy life, but he is stopped by the Flash. |
| Spitfire | The Flash #26 (February 2014) | Spitfire pulls heists on high-value targets and tries to do them in impossible ways. |
| Black Mold | The Flash #31 (June 2014) | Black Mold uses mold spores to kill people. |
| Lummox | The Flash #41 (August 2015) | Lummox is a thief that uses a mechanical super suit during his jobs. |
| Folded Man (Xolani) | The Flash Annual #4 (September 2015) | Xolani was a low class thief that operated in the Southern part of Africa in the year 1883 until he was time-traveled to the present to oppose the Flash. |
DC Rebirth
edit| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Godspeed | The Flash Vol. 5 #1 (2016) | August Heart's brother got shot by criminals. August Heart soon got super-speed and killed thugs. The Flash beat him in a fight. Godspeed is currently imprisoned in Iron Heights. |
| Papercut | The Flash Vol. 5 #5 (August 2016) | Benedict Booker is a metahuman criminal that can manipulate wood. |
| Sand Blaster | The Flash Vol. 5 #14 (March 2017) | Sand Blaster is a metahuman criminal that can conjure and shoot sand from his hands. |
| Bone Dry | The Flash Vol. 5 #14 (March 2017) | Bone Dry is a metahuman criminal that can absorb the moisture out of anyones body. He has worked with Papercut and Sand Blaster in the past. |
| Bloodwork | The Flash Vol. 5 #28 (August 2016) | Dr. Ramsey Rosso is a hemophiliac and self-made metahuman with the ability to control blood and transform his body. |
| Gemini | The Flash Vol. 5 #58 (January 2019) | Santino and Belladonna are two lovers that obtained power-absorbing gauntlets. |
| Psych | The Flash Vol. 5 #61 (March 2019) | A conduit of the Sage Force with telekinesis and telepathy. |
Enemies created for Hostess
editIn the 1970s and 1980s Hostess ran advertisements for their products in DC and Marvel comics. These advertisements were a one-page comic featuring a DC hero and a villain. The Flash appeared in 4 Hostess advertisements and had 4 original villains made for Hostess.
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Bureauc-Rat | Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat | The Bureauc-Rat was a traffic official in Central City until budget cuts meant his job was gone. He created a "red-tape" ray gun to slow everything in the city down. He was eventually stopped by The Flash when he used Hostess Pies to distract the Bureauc-Rat. |
| The Destroyer | A Flash in the Dam | The Destroyer wanted to make everyone depressed like him, so he plotted to destroy the Doover Dam. The Flash repaired the dam and proved to the Destroyer that there is happiness in life inside a Hostess Twinkies cake. |
| Dr. Sorcery | Marathon Madman | Dr. Sorcery attacked the Central City Police Marathon using the Philosopher's Stone. He destroyed a bridge that was part of the marathon in order to make it more challenging. The Flash stopped Dr. Sorcery by distracting him with Hostess Cup Cakes. |
| Medusa | The Stony-Eyed Medusa | Medusa had the power to turn anyone she stared at into stone and used this to threaten a Central City parade. The Flash stopped her by distracting her with Hostess Fruit Pies and tying her up. |
Enemies created for other media
editThe Flash villains "created" in other media, with no appearances in previous or subsequent comics. Those sharing the names of comic villains, but bearing no other similarities, are noted:
| Villain | Media | Actor/Actress |
|---|---|---|
| Prank | The Flash (1990) | Corinne Bohrer |
| "Deadly" Nightshade | Richard Burgi | |
| The Trachmann | Charley Haywood | |
| The Ghost | Anthony Starke | |
| Nicholas Pike | Michael Nader | |
| Matthew Norvok | The Flash (2014) | Mark Sweatman |
| Ultraviolet | Alexa Barajas | |
| Sunshine | Natalie Sharp |
See also
editExternal links
edit- Alan Kistler's Profile On: The Flash - A detailed analysis of the history of the Flash by comic book historian Alan Kistler. Covers information from the 1940s to today, as well as discussions on the various villains and rogues who fought the Flash. Various art scans.