Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-13895380-20160203022341/@comment-28354683-20160501170542

We don't know much of Eobard in his origin other than what he himself has told, but we can assume he follows some sort of loose origin to his comic book counterpart. so in the future he is mocked and ridiculed for his obsession with the speed force and the Flash. Plus he uses Tachyons and a future version of the Flash suit, and has a ring containing that suit which is something common in the comics. But he is a genius level individual, specialising in all things speed-force related. Thus was able to recreate the particle accelerator explosion in an earlier timeframe than the Harrison Wells of Earth-One would have done.

Harrison Wells of Earth-Two is another genius, but he lives in a completely different world (or did). Where the technology is clearly more advanced and average intelligence is clearly higher.

So really, the question is, who is smarter? the man from the future Earth or the man from the futuristic Earth.

If it came down to it though, i'd say Harrison Wells of Earth-Two is intellectually superior by some degree, as so far in the series, he's managed to steal part of Barry's speed, dampen Zoom's speed, improve on Eobard's Tachyon device, and drain Barry's speed all together.

Also Eobard was constantly stating his limitations due to the 'primitive' past technologies of Earth-One's present, given that he is from the future. But Harrison from Earth-Two doesnt seem to have those same limitations when he is presented in that same situation, either he builds something new or he manages to deal with the limit and try something else.