Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-4036559-20181010183851/@comment-26537965-20181011125449

Dragonfly82 wrote: I mean if Thawne is from the future, why would he just kill his mother he could had killed his daughter as well? Thawne originally intended to kill him. However, future Barry followed him and saved his younger self. And then he decided to kill hs mother to cause a childhood tragedy that Barry could not recover from and can not become the Flash. His goal was to erase the Flash from existence.