Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20171129021421/@comment-2054358-20171202223319

Well, Thawne is Flash's archnemesis on the same level as Batman's Joker and Superman's Lex Luthor. He's been used a lot in the comics. He's the guy who killed Barry's mother. And first installment villains always seem to return. He was a popular character. The villains for each season seem to be ripoffs of him. Zoom not only has a codename that is similar to Thawne's "Professor Zoom" from the comics, he also pretended to be a friend Team Flash could trust (Zoom/Hunter Zolomon was "Jay Garrick" and Eobard Thawne was "Harrison Wells"). Savitar is another speedster from the future that was defeated by the person he needed to exist. Eddie shot himself to prevent Eobard from being born, while Iris switched places on HR on the fateful night where Savitar needed to kill Iris to live, and then was shot in the back by the same woman he was destined to kill while he was erased from existence. DeVoe is finally a villain who's not a speedster, but he still has Eobard's intellect and used a wheelchair like "Wells." Yep, seems like Eobard Thawne is the most important villain of the series. The best villain. He even became the villain of Legends Season 2. That just shows how important he is. But Savitar? A time remnant of Barry from the future that needs to kill his wife to close the time loop that allows him to exist? That's a terrible existence.