Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20161012044349/@comment-3221148-20161014221553

The only person who breaks the above rule seems to be Eobard, an incredibly experienced time traveler who might know how to bend the rules, but he could easily just be messing around before he has to go die. Or he could have altered those little bits at the end of season 1 with his new knowledge that Barry no doubt spilled. But that still wouldn't change much, and Current Barry wouldn't have the knowledge of him somehow getting away.

Who knows? Is anyone here a time traveler? Long story short, they SHOULD NOT have had the pre-Flashpoint Eobard body dissipate. Wellsobard Paradox. Who's Wellsobard? Off-screen time remnant? If the (dissipated) Eobard, or, whatever, an off-screen remnant does exist and work as Wellsobard of Season 1, then there's no paradox.

1) Eobard-1: Fought the Flash of 2020s, lost his speed in 2000, became Wellsobard, created the Flash of 2013-timeline, erased from existence per Eddie's suicide 1.1. Since he created a new timetable for the Flash's creation (and thus, for how his younger self learns about and meets the Flash), he caused time remnants to start appear past-2016, recreating his story with the Flash, so that it would coincide with the new Flash-2013, and not the old Flash-2020. 2) Eobard-2: Fought the Flash of 2020s, never lost his speed, lived for three months in the Flashpoint while speaking with Barry, time-traveled from 2000 to 2016, with (remember) SPEED FORCE ACTING AS A BUNKER, protecting him from his own's ceased existence. 2.1. This Eobard shouldn't logically have Wells's memories, sans everything Barry would tell him. Effectively, this is the Eobard of the old timeline, who's never messed with the timetable of the Flash's creation, unlike Eobard-1, and was in the Speed Force when Eddie died, thus was left unaffected. Hypothetically, we could have an Eobard vs Eobard fight, or cooperation, where the post-Flashpoint Eobard-2 would meet the younger versions of himself in form of the 2013-Flash-timeline time remnants of Eobard-1.