Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-4036559-20181121182754/@comment-24152851-20181125100404

Well personally Cicada feels very lacking as a Big Bad. He's not manipulating anyone and didn't Surat to have any sort of plan aside from "stab every meta". All Big Bads have an end goal and a means of achieving it, but Cicada send to be going about it blindly and dealing with things as they happen. This leads me to believe he may very well be manipulated by a greater evil.

Ultimately he's not a cut a dry evil guy who needs to be stopped, he has a moral conscience and believes what he's doing is right, which most Flash Big Bads lack. Even Devoe who seemed that way at first was only using that as a cover. He actually hesitated to kill the Flash in front of Nora.

I've said this before. The guy is very much like Vigilante and we all know how he turned out