Board Thread:New on Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-9346948-20161213033122/@comment-26412696-20161214032353

SeanWheeler wrote: I say for the mortality status, it should be dictated by the current present in 2016 (or 2017 when the shows return). So Damian Darhk is still dead. We saw him die in Season 4 of Arrow and we never saw him avert his death. Eobard Thawne is tricky because after Flashpoint, he still had the ability to time travel, which would have negated the events of Flash Season 1 with him posing as Harrison Wells, making the particle accelerator years earlier, and Eddie's sacrifice. Yet the whole Harrison Wells plot still happened as it was referenced in Flash Season 3. So maybe Eobard should be Unknown. Okay, I know this is getting a little off topic and that this was a lot less complicated before season three, but from what I understand, the death of Eddie Thawne caused the formation of a temporal loop. By erasing Eobard from existence, he never killed Nora Allen, which in turn meant that none of the events leading up to Eddie's death could have happened and Eddie would still be alive, resulting in the exact same events unfolding perpetually. My personal theory is that this paradox essentially caused the universe to break and that's why the black hole destabilized, but regardless, the only way to break the loop was for the timeline to stabilize and events to continue after the death of Eddie Thawne.

As far as the post-Flashpoint version of Eobard, either Flashpoint affected the circumstances surrounding Eddie's and Eobard's deaths, or it resulted in the creation of a time remnant in the same vein as Hunter Zolomon. At least those are my two leading theories, anyway.