Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-24856931-20161028033138/@comment-3221148-20161028072445

I say: both.

Barry of 2020s was described by Eobard, both "in A future" (Fast Enough) and while comparing him to Our Barry (Flashpoint).

For now, he's a time remnant from the old timeline, before Eobard changed it.

However, considering that Wellsobard checked a newspaper changing in accordance to the current timeline, Our Barry may have to become this other Barry when he gets older, to single out the still-living Thawne as the only Time Paradox remaining.

Eobard95 wrote: Maybe the history books were wrong. Yes, and he was a moron who did not know that the Flash couldn't appear in 2020 if he was already operating in 2016. Totally.

Why would we even call Eobard-2016 a time remnant, then, if it's just a younger version that was also supposed to exist? Listen to what the characters say, don't just assume they are wrong because it doesn't fit your speculation.

Fact: Eobard has memories of the old timeline, including the Line of Thawnes, the Flash of 2020, Tess and Wells creating the accelerator. It's through this memories that he was able to create the current timeline.

Blaming it on history books won't work, because, if Time Remnant was Real Eobard all along, then he would know that the Flash was created earlier. Despite this, he still clings to his memories of a "previous future" even when becoming Wells, or facing the New Barry in Flashpoint. He wouldn't preserve ignorance after proving himself wrong.

Eobard comes from a time where Vandal Savage conqoured the world That we also don't know. He never alluded to that. That may have also happened only in the altered timeline that he created.