Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20180117002657/@comment-24152851-20180121133027

Eobard was supposed to have gone insane after discovering history was meant for him to be a villain. While he was never a saint even before knowing that, he became far worse with that knowledge. He decided "if history says I have to be the Flash's nemesis, then I'm gonna be the best dammed nemesis possible".