User blog comment:TheDoctor230/Barry Hasn't Defeated a Big Bad Yet (Technically)/@comment-26537965-20180110135435/@comment-27700324-20180112000810

Well with Thawne, there was nothing differing him from being like his previous self. (Aside from him not becoming Harrison Wells) So that is what kept him from becoming something different from the Reverse Flash. It is not like the Legion said he wasn't the real Thawne and rejected him.