Clifford DeVoe

"I'm thinking."

- DeVoe

DeVoe is a knowledgeable enemy of Barry Allen. He works alongside a currently unnamed assistant.

Biography
Sometime during or after the particle accelerator explosion, DeVoe has somehow imbued 12 people outside of Central City with metahuman powers which include Jake Simmons and Ramsey Deacon.

Sometime in 2017, DeVoe and his assistant had a Samurai droid built to force the Flash to make his return to Central City. After the "Samuroid" was defeated, DeVoe used it to anonymously welcome the Flash back. After rebuilding another Samuroid in his hideout, DeVoe mused on how everything was going according to plan with the Flash's return and began to plan his next move.

One week later, DeVoe was playing a holographic piano when his assistant approached him, musing how she enjoyed this song as a child. DeVoe then asked her for an update on the metahumans, which they managed to locate Ramsey Deacon locked up at Iron Heights. Devoe then decided it was time to locate the others.

Possible future
At some point, Barry used a device called a cerebral inhibitor against DeVoe.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect: DeVoe is a great thinker, planner and designer.
 * Master mechanical engineer: DeVoe presumably designed the Samurai robots.
 * Genius strategist/Planning: DeVoe crafted a complicate strategy in regards to the Flash, a part of which involved Team Flash being forced to find a way to bring the Flash back from the Speed Force.

Weaknesses

 * Cerebral inhibitor: According to Savitar, Barry will use a device to defeat DeVoe at some point in the future.

Behind the scenes

 * In DC Comics Clifford DeVoe was the first villain known as the Thinker, a genius inventor corrupted by Hunk Norvok and enemy of Jay Garrick whose "thinking cap" invention went on to gain artificial intelligence and become an enemy of the Wally West Flash, using DeVoe's name after his death.