Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20161005001212/@comment-3221148-20161005202035

Yeah, and that's just if we examine Eobard's personal timeline.

If we begin to consider the fact that Flashpoint featured coexistence of an Eobard with the 2020-Timeline memories, and a Barry with the 2013-Timeline memories... I don't know how many time remnants do you need to sort it out. I guess they'll do what the comics did and just declare Thawne "the living paradox" that is pretty much unkillable and unreceptive to timeline changes.

By the end of the New Earth there were at least two, maybe three Eobards: 1) The "Living Paradox" Negative Speed Force-controlling Eobard, who managed to retroactively ruin Barry's life by killing his mother, friends and pulling pranks on him in his childhood after Barry returned from his long-since presumed death in the Speed Force. 2) The White Lantern Eobard Thawne of Earth, who was resurrected by the White Entity from his Earthly body that still remained buried after his original death back in the 20th century. 3) The Happy Eobard Thawne, Flash of the 25th Century (basically, in "Reverse-Flash Rebirth" Zoom decided to go back to his own time and make his younger self's life happier by killing various people and stuff. Somehow, it resulted in the 25th Century Thawne becoming a Flash, while the time-traveling Thawne remained miserable)