Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26855145-20161026193400/@comment-3423279-20161028075537

Kir the Wizard wrote:

Kaestal wrote: I guess the fact that any action he ever took for those 14 years having the ability to screw up 100+ years of history relative to him isn't coming across. Because he couldn't further use Speed Force and was stuck, unmoving, in the new timeline?

I mean, Eobard changed the timeline much further than Barry or Hunter did. Heck, in comparison, I'd say they were hunted because they did it for small and personal reasons ("i wanna go faster" "i wanna my time remnants to help me"), while he ended up massively changing history without the use of Speed Force itself.

Unless, of course, the appearance of Speed Wraiths is more akin to how "close" you are to them, rather than motives and opportunities, so Eobard's more skilled at evading Wraiths than doing anything that. His speed was stripped from him, yes, but that was probably more of the Speed Force being angry at him than anything else.

Also, the "massive" change you claim Eobard made to the timeline aren't anywhere near the level of Flashpoint.

He killed Barry's mom and made the particle accelerator go off about 6 years earlier; aside from that nothing really changed.

He made the particle accelerator explode a few years earlier, whereas Barry made literally an entirely new timeline with his actions that held very little in common with the previous... I guess like nine now?

Hunter, on the other hand, basically kept pissing off the Speed Force for giggles and Barry just didn't have a clue as to what he was doing and I guess repeatedly doing both of those things can invite the Time Wraiths into the equation.

Eobard ultimately changed very little with his whole going to 2000 to murder Barry but whoops Nora died thing, and I guess moving events up doesn't break the Speed Force's rules.