In Arrowverse, there is one of the characters that seems to be problematic and not just as his role as a villain. He started out as the original big bad in season 1 of The Flash where he started out as a mentor under the guise of a character who would appear more times than any other versions of a character throughout the entire series. But this isn’t about Harrison Wells.
After being erased from reality when his ancestor killed himself, you’d think that would be the end of his adventures. But when The Flash created a new timeline and then another one trying to fix it, one of the notable things that resulted from this was Eobard Thawne lived, but as a paradox being chased by a creation of the time wraths, beings meant to protect time travel issues, he was ultimately caught by the black flash and then turned into a fixer, meant to prevent time travelers from changing a fixed point in time, this one being the assassination that brought forth the start of World War I.
This is where he wound up once again encountering the Legends of Tomorrow, people he had to fight when he trying simply to live before they helped bring forth his demise. He actually wanted to help them out just once, but wound up dying with another person being made a new fixer for that same moment that he once protected.
If this were the extent of his story on Arrowverse, it wouldn’t be so problematic or contain such a huge nightmare in continuity. But his continued stories on The Flash create one huge issue after another which would have the writers of fandom wondering: where does this all make sense?
You see, he has appeared as a villain in the future setting in motion other aspects of season 5 and the fight against the villain Cicada. But how was he a prisoner of the future? Where does it make sense in the timeline? And that wasn’t his first time returning to the franchise. He also appeared helping the villains of Earth X in a major crossover that was largely among the greatest parts of television, but still had the issue where it made no sense that he had returned to it at all. Then, after an even more major crossover that had happened, he was another villain who became formless but then created yet another series of events that left him powerless. And all of this was going on with the Legends subplot.
Ultimately, we have no way of knowing for sure when all of what Eobard Thawne has done and when he has done throughout the whole franchise. It doesn’t even seem like the writers of each show in the franchise are making sure that they know what was going on. The most likely explanation is that there were time remnants of Eobard Thawne that he created after the events of Flashpoint, but even then, it doesn’t make sense entirely.
Doctor Who has its own problem with something like this regarding an evil, future version of the Doctor called The Valeyard who was created sometime and returned when the sixth doctor was around. They might not have him appear in the modern show ever. But Eobard Thawne is a worse problem.
I have no idea how or even if all of this could be explained in the franchise’s history or throughout the history of just The Flash alone. I know of the phrase comic book death where there is some sort of bullshit explanation as to why a character that was killed off is alive again. I feel like even if they explain some huge reason that explains resurrections or something like this, it still wouldn’t work all the way or make sense. As much as I like Arrowverse and even Eobard Thawne as a villain due to his complex nature and horrifying affect on the shows he’s on, it may never make much sense as to why he is on the show when or what all he has done since his existence is a nightmare of continuity.
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