<P> In the follow - up "Brightest Day" storyline, the present Professor Zoom is still imprisoned in Iron Heights . 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 . 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 . </P> <P> Eobard Thawne uses his powers to completely rewrite his history; he erases his younger brother from existence and kills his parents when they try to interfere with his research . Eobard later falls in love with a reporter who had been hired to interview him, and his future self wipes all of the reporter's romantic interests from existence . After finding out she did not return his affections, Eobard's 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 . He later had his younger self find the time capsule containing Barry Allen's costume to make himself the 25th century Flash . As the altered Eobard Thawne runs past him, he sheds a tear for his past self, 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". </P> <P> In the 2011 Flashpoint storyline, a new timeline is created through the alteration of history . The Reverse - Flash 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 transformation into the Flash, however, as that would effectively erase himself from existence . Instead, Thawne decides to ruin Barry's life during the latter's childhood, erasing his best friend from existence to result in greater introversion on Barry's part, and various other torments such as killing his mother . Thawne later reveals that the new timeline was created by Barry himself, who went back in time to stop the Reverse Flash from killing his mother . After Thawne is killed by the Batman of this reality with an Amazonian sword, the Flash travels back in time to stop his younger self from altering history but instead, under the manipulations of Pandora, a third, new timeline is created, in which DC Comics' continuity takes place from 2011 onwards . </P> <P> In The New 52 reboot, Eobard Thawne's origin has been rewritten once again . Hailing from the Central City of a 25th - century devoted to the Flash, as a child, Eobard Thawne witnessed his father murder his mother, and subsequently get arrested . One day, he is struck by lightning and gains the ability to control the flow of time around him - making it appear as if he is moving at superhuman speeds . Believing himself to have been "chosen" by the Speed Force to replace the Flash, Eobard dons a costume similar to the hero's and begins to terrorize the Gem Cities as "Zoom", demanding the citizens accept him as "King". However, he is enraged when people rebel against him in the name of the Flash . Jealous and bitter that, despite their similar powers, the Flash is worshiped and loved by the people, Eobard uses Rip Hunter's notes to travel back in time, where he starts recruiting four individuals "touched by the lightning" (Speed Force) across history, after "saving" them from situations he himself put them into, under the false pretense that he requires their help in order to vanquish the "evil menace", Flash . </P>

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