Eddie Thawne

Detective Eddie Thawne is a police detective of the Central City Police Department, and the boyfriend of Iris West.

Biography
In late 2013, Eddie transferred from Keystone City to the Central City Police Department. Later, on the night of the unveiling of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, Eddie stopped a thief who had stolen Iris West's laptop and took him back to Central City Police Department. Sometime later, after Detective Fred Chyre was killed, Thawne became Joe West's new partner and begun dating Iris in secret.

Some 9 months later, Eddie greeted Barry, happy to see him back at work after waking up from his coma, before he and Joe left to investigate a robbery at Gold City Bank. They brought back various witnesses to the station, questioning them on the circumstances surrounding the bank robbery. He discussed with Joe how the robbery had a freak storm proceeding it, a seemingly frequent occurrence, similar to the "wide world of weird" cased that Barry loved investigating. They went on to question numerous witnesses, along with viewing footage they'd recorded on their cell phones. Following work, Eddie later went out to meet Iris at her work, where they exchanged a kiss and talked a little, before Iris went to talk with Barry. Not long after, Eddie and a number of other police officers arrived at the crime scene that Barry and Iris had been associated with. Eddie showed Joe the sketch artist's illustration from a suspect, which appeared to be the apparently deceased criminal, Clyde Mardon. Suspicious that he could've survived, the two went to Mardon's old farmhouse, where they found him. However, before they could arrest him, he knocked them away with wind and began to create a tornado around himself, proceeding to move it outside. Joe carried an unconscious Eddie outside by their car while they were powerless against Clyde Mardon. As a piece of debris flew through the air, it almost hit them, however it was intercepted by Barry with his super speed, saving them from danger by ultimately unravelling the tornado and Joe shooting Mardon.

Detective West received a call that there was a situation at the Central City National Bank. By the time that they arrived there, both the strongman and The Flash had left. Iris met him at the crime scene, having been promised fro-yo. He reassured another cop that there was nothing between Barry and Iris, as they were like siblings, and he wasn't even her type. When he finished, Eddie took Iris to get fro-yo. On the way there, the two were involved in a crash with multiple vehicles. They were uninjured, however as they got out, a tiger, the cause of the crash, pounced towards Iris. Eddie tried to nudge them away with pool toys, though they had little effect. However, The Flash intervened, zapping them away with static electricity, leaving Eddie to think that he'd done all of the work. When animal control arrived, the man commended Thawne for being able to do what he did, and Eddie mocked Barry for allegedly hiding and seemingly soiling himself. They reached the police department, where Eddie bragged about his achievement, only to soon be sent back out to a homicide. They concurred that the homicide was connected to the zoo outbreak, and started to look through the deeds of several companies scattered all over the floor.

Eddie was present with various other police members at the scene of a robbery. He downloaded surveillance footage, of which only showed one perpetrator. However, Barry found evidence leading to the idea that it was in fact six people. After unintentionally implying that Captain Singh could have been a suspect due to similar shoe size, Eddie walked off in embarrassment to survey the rest of the crime scene. Eddie later came to visit Iris in Barry's lab. While they immediately acted distant, Barry reminded them that he knew of their situation and they proceeded to kiss. A while later, Eddie and Joe visited Simon Stagg, who had been shot at only a day before. They asked questions about Danton Black, a former employee of his, though Stagg denied that it would ever be him. As Simon walked away, Danton and his masked clones began shooting at the three of them, forcing them to run for cover. When the coast was almost clear, Eddie took Stagg to safety. That night, Eddie visited Iris at her work. There they watched an interview with him on TV, and soon after he left for the police department to help with the hunt for Black.

Eddie arrived on to the scene of the murders of the Darbinyan crime family. He suggested the idea that they were gassed to death, though witnesses had allegedly seen no one outside at the time, therefore concluding that it had happened from the inside. Joe went on to determine that there had to be a canister of sorts somewhere, though Barry was sure that the gas could've had a mind of its own. Though Barry appeared to treat it as a joke, Joe's interest was peaked and so sent Eddie off to canvas the area again. Sometime later, Eddie came to visit Iris, under the impression that Joe had gone out. Eddie claimed to have been looking for Joe and suggested that they go back to the crime scene to recanvas, to "always work the case", as Joe had proudly taught him. While Joe went to wait in the car, Eddie pretended to go to the toilet while he actually kissed Iris, getting annoyed that the secrecy, all Iris' idea, was potentially killing their relationship. Following their encounter, Iris met Eddie at the police precinct, claiming they needed to talk. Although Eddie initially mistook it for her breaking up with him, Iris explained that she was simply afraid of losing her first serious boyfriend. Before Eddie could walk off, still under the impression that she was breaking up with him, Iris pulled him back, kissing him in full public view. That night, Eddie was called by Barry whom he told Joe's location to: Iron Heights Prison, visiting his dad. After Joe was hospitalized, Eddie and Iris finally decided to tell him the truth. However, putting it down to his detective skills, Joe admitted that he was already fully aware. Despite being angry, Joe promised he'd try his hardest not to shoot Eddie.

Personality
Eddie Thawne is described as a "pretty boy" who actually keeps track of his arrests, yet does have a compassionate side as he covered Joe's shifts so he could visit a comatose Barry, and is often the first one to comfort the witnesses of the various crimes he and Joe look into. As Iris didn't want her father to know of her relationship with Eddie, he was willing to keep it secret from him with her pretending to find him annoying, though has expressed frustration in doing so to her. Like every cop he disbelieves Barry's beliefs in the impossible, yet seems to find it somewhat amusing.

The Flash: Season Zero

 * "The Strongman Cometh"
 * "Who Let the Chimps Out?"
 * "A Goodnight Hiss"

Behind the scenes

 * Eddie's name is strikingly similar to Eobard Thawne, also known as Professor Zoom and Reverse-Flash, a DC villain who is famously known as The Flash's archenemy, having killed his mother (something alluded to in ) in one timeline. Whether the name similarity is a coincidence or not is currently unknown.