The Flash
While it was n’t the first DC show to hit The CW , The Flashsoon eclipsedArrowas one of the most beloved . This was probably due to the fact that it did n’t take itself as seriously as its precursor , but still maintain that important tie-in to the Arrowverse . The big thing aboutThe Flash , as well , is the show ’s refusal to book back when it come to the regretful guys that the speedster has to face .
WhileArrowhas plenty of spoiled guy , many of them are free-base on substantial - world ideas . Meanwhile , Flash combat everyone from time traveler to giant apes to malign versions of himself , keeping it fun every footstep up the fashion . get ’s take a look at some of the best villains in the show ’s history .
update on October 4th , 2020 , by Shawn S. Lealos : With so many baddie come and going , there are many that stand out and stay on memorable , characters fans want to see hail back to the show to give Barry and his friends even more problems over the future .
While everyone knows the unspoilt of the best Flash villains from The CW series , there are still those characters that show up in modest roles that can place upright up alongside gens like Eobard Thrawn and Captain Cold . Here is a look at five more additions to the best Flash villains from the TV show in expectancy of its 7th season .
Golden Glider
Golden Glider has been around for a farsighted time on Flash , the sis of Leonard Snart — Captain Cold . She was ab initio part of Captain Cold ’s criminal unit of measurement The Rogues and gave Flash plenty of problems over the years . Much like her brother and his mate , Heat Wave , Lisa has a weapon that supply her powers , a gun that shoots a gold - similar inwardness that change what she hits into that substance . She has notreturned since Captain Cold ’s death , so there is no Word of God if she have it off .
Clock Wave
Clock King is an expert stealer nominate William Tockman who appear in the Season 1 installment " Power Outage . " He was a lowly baddie in the episode that stole the show . The main scoundrel was Blackout , who strip Flash of his powers and then set out to go after Harrison Wells for the particle accelerator explosion . Clock King , meanwhile , was determine up a putsch inside the police section , where he take both Joe and Iris captive .
Dr. Light
Dr. Light in the comics is a cruel villain who is best known for his role in theIdentity Crisisstoryline where his ravishment of the wife of Ralph Dibney . While Ralph and Sue are both in The CW universe of discourse , The Flash take to use a unlike interpretation of Dr. Light . Here , the scoundrel is an Earth-2 villain named Linda Park , a former third who take in her powerfulness from the particle accelerator . Zoom institute her to Earth-1 to essay to wipe out The Flash in Season 2 .
Heat Wave
While everyone talks about Captain Cold , do n’t forget about his close cooperator and friend Heat Wave . Mick Rory is a pyromaniac who used to solve as a sci - fi extrasensory romance novelist . Heat Wave and Captain Cold made Flash ’s life a know hell for a long time before they met Rip Hunter and ended up joining him as part of the fable of Tomorrow , will the Flash existence . He first appeared in Season 1 of Flash but leave in Season 3 .
Pied Piper
In the cartoon strip , Pied Piper is Hartley Rathaway , a son born indifferent to wealthy parents . He had his hearing medically restored and developed such a fascination with sound that he ended up using his knowledge to become the supervillain The Pied Piper .
On the show , Harrison Wells fired Hartley for seek to stop him from activate the particle accelerator . When it exploded , it affect him and present him superhuman hearing . He then essay to shoot down Flash to get retaliation on Wells but was defeated . Pied Piper terminate up as an friend to the team .
King Shark
frankly , if Gorilla Grodd had n’t come in first , maybe King Shark would be ranked higher . It is awful whatThe Flashis able to do with its budget when it comes to these monstrosity baddie . King Shark is Shay Lambden from Earth-2 , who was hired by Zoom to take out Flash . He was beaten and gaol at A.R.G.U.S.
His story got interesting when Team Flash began function on a cure for the meta - humans . He was capable to at last get cured , but passed up the luck when Gorilla Grodd miss and Team Flash neededKing Shark to battle the giant baddie . It was a decent here and now where Shay move over up his chance to be human again to do something near to help the world .
Wade Eiling
Wade Eiling was supposed to be a good guy . A general who was tasked with help protect America , no less . However , Eiling was as corrupt as they come , and his destination was never to do the correct affair . rather , he wanted to use any meta - humans create after the particle catalyst detonation to forge his own army of superhumans .
Gorilla Grodd became such a dangerous villain because Eiling committed inhumane experiments on the creature . Eiling himself was more of anuisance to Team Flash , but he did cause serious problems at metre ( including render to capture Firestorm and battling the champion under the controller of Grodd ) .
The Thinker
The Thinker is Clifford DeVoe , who serve as the main scoundrel of season 4 . His power –gained from the particle accelerator explosion– was superhuman intelligence , but , unlike others , he did not have his cistron altered . His abilities also allowed him to transfer his consciousness into the jitney metas and syphon their power .
Through this process , he set off to stockpile numerous powers , making him one of Flash ’s most powerful adversaries . However , due to his increase tidings , he lost his power to empathize with others and soon began to grow unstable , lead toan arrogance that resulted in his defeat .
The Trickster
Mark Hamill played The Trickstertwice . First , he was Trickster in the Graeco-Roman CBS telly serial in the nineties . Then , on The CW’sThe Flash , he reprised his theatrical role . On Earth-1 , he was Central City ’s bang-up outlaw ( before the subatomic particle accelerator pedal created all the meta - humans ) and was in prison house by the metre the show started .
He was a master operator , to the distributor point where he could convince anyone to do anything he wanted them to . According to Joe , this made tricker more grave than scoundrel with conventional superpowers . Unlike his comic similitude , this tricker is very standardized to Joker , which is ironic sinceHamill also voice Jokerin the animated world .
Killer Frost
With all the substitute takes on Earth , The Flashwas able to work around with realism , asking " what if " questions concerning the characters . In the case ofKiller Frost , this Flash villain was Caitlin Snow from Earth-2 . This was a very interesting proposition , since Caitlin on Earth-1 was one of Barry ’s closest friend .
Killer Frost has the power to unleash frozen air from her hands , and was a potent ally of Zoom ’s from Earth-2 . While that version is move , Caitlin from Earth-1 now has the same powers , and fans are inquire if she is fated to one 24-hour interval cease up as the malefic Killer Frost on this Earth as well .
