Clifford DeVoe

"I'm thinking."

- DeVoe

DeVoe is a knowledgeable enemy of the Flash. He works alongside a currently unnamed assistant.

Biography
DeVoe kept watch over Becky Sharpe (and probably the other's meta humans who were on the bus when Barry Allen got out of the speed force) in her day-to-day life, an individual with incredibly bad luck.

In October 2017, DeVoe and his assistant had a samurai droid built to force the Flash to make his return to Central City, causing dark matter to spill out and transform a busload of 12 people into meta-humans. After the samurai robot was defeated, DeVoe used it to anonymously welcome the Flash back. After rebuilding another Samuroid in his hideout, DeVoe mused on how everything was going according to plan with the Flash's return and began to plan his next move.

Later, DeVoe got up early in the morning, researched all of Schubert's 600+ works and used this knowledge to finish his unfinished eighth symphony, playing it on a holographic piano. His assistant approached him, musing how she enjoyed the song as a child. DeVoe proceeded to ask her for an update on the meta-humans, to which she showed him she managed to locate Ramsey Deacon locked up at Iron Heights Prison. DeVoe then decided it was time to locate the others.

Shortly following, as DeVoe and his assistant watched over an incarcerated Becky Sharpe, the latter remarked on how Team Flash had found her significantly quicker than they'd anticipated, suggesting they were smarter than they'd thought. DeVoe, however, was sure that he was smarter, revealing a live feed to S.T.A.R. Labs from the defect Samuroid head.

Having knowledge of Mayor Anthony Bellows having an affair, DeVoe asked Ralph Dibny to investigate him.

Possible futures
At some point, Abra became aware that DeVoe was one of the Flash's foes.

At some point, Barry used a device called a cerebral inhibitor against DeVoe.

Personality
DeVoe is a calculating and patient man, very much focused on his current objective all the time, not having much emotional reaction while doing so.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect: DeVoe is a great thinker, planner and designer.
 * Master mechanical engineer: It is assumed that DeVoe had some part in the design and/or creation of the Samurai robots.
 * Genius strategist/Planning: DeVoe crafted a complicated plan in regards to the Flash, a part of which involved Team Flash being forced to find a way to bring the Flash back from the Speed Force using the Samuroid. This plan further was elaborated to include Barry coming out of the Speed Force in an area where a bus of 12 individuals was passing at that exact moment to create new metahumans.
 * Musical acumen/Composing: DeVoe was able to finish Schubert's unfinished eighth symphony by extrapolating the remaining movements after familiarizing himself with the body of his other 600 works.

Weaknesses

 * Cerebral inhibitor: According to Savitar, Barry will use a device to defeat DeVoe at some point in the future.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics Clifford DeVoe was the first villain known as the Thinker, a genius inventor corrupted by Hunk Norvok and enemy of Jay Garrick, whose brain-boosting "Thinking Cap" invention went on to gain artificial intelligence and become an enemy of the Wally West Flash, using DeVoe's name after his cancer-brought demise.