The Flash
It ’s said you could valuate a Hero of Alexandria ’s greatness by the quality of his villain . By which standard the Flash is awe-inspiring .
One of the things that define Barry Allen in the Silver Age ( and the Bronze Age . And theNew 52.And boob tube ) was his colourful Rogues Gallery . Captain Cold , Mirror Master , Trickster ; even one - shots like theMan - Missilewere pretty cool . Never as lethal as the Joker or as powerful as Doomsday , the rascal were chic , just - looking — they even hadtheir own sartor — and the beginning of endless entertaining stories .
Inevitably some of those stories involved team up up the villains with the sub . Sometimes it was out of necessity , sometimes a twofold - hybridisation , sometimes the big guys in reality did a good affair .
Barry ’s replacement Wally West had his share of scoundrel — Savitar , Kilg%re , Blacksmith — and his own share of squad - ups with them , or with Barry ’s rascal . In several slip he went beyond just team up and made enemies into friends .
Here are15 Times The Flash Had To Team Up With His scoundrel . While it ’s mostly stories of Wally and Barry , other Flashes , such as Jay Garrick and Iris West are in here too . Read on to see what can force heroes and scallywag to become allies .
Reverse Flash
In comic strip and on TV , Eobard Thawne , the Reverse - Flash , has been one of Barry ’s deadly enemies . That just made it more fun for reader when circumstances forced Barry to require Thawne ’s help inFlash#225 .
matter kick off when a giant man-made horse from the 25th century go away on a rampage in Central City , send out Flash andGreen Lantern ’s powers haywire when they endeavor to bar it . travel to the twenty-fifth hundred , the duo enlist Thawne ’s help oneself stopping the brute , even though they mistrust he ’s responsible . In rejoinder for his help , Thawne demand Green Lantern slip a priceless sculpture for him .
get together forces , Flash and Reverse - Flash check the syntho - horse cavalry , but Thawns blurts out that he created it . That ’s improbably stupid , but it did permit the author wrap up the story up before running out of pages .
Captain Cold and Golden Glider
AsCaptain Coldand the Golden Glider , Len Snart and his sister Lisa both struggle Barry Allen for year . After Barry pass away in the mid-1980s , the merriment went out of it . Battling new Flash Wally West just did n’t have the same zing .
Instead , the Snarts join forcefulness as Golden Snowball Recoveries , finding lose point and lost people . Looking for missing nestling in the Southwest , they encountered a porcupine gentleman’s gentleman who turned out to be a transformed Flash . Once that was sorted out , Wally helped Golden Snowball find the Thomas Kid .
Later , when the Golden Age baddie Turtle captured Wally , the Snarts were among the superintendent - friends who joined forces to deliver him . They never twice - track Wally , but they did eventually return to crime for their main source of income .
Captain Boomerang
Boomerang - flinging Aussie “ Digger ” Harkness was the weakest of Flash ’s foes next to the Top ( more on him later ) , but inFlash#124 he did avail Flash fight an inter - dimensional warfare . Of naturally , Digger started it .
The cause of the war was Boomerang ’s fresh clock time - traveling boomerang , which could fly in and nobble up valuables while Boomerang had an airtight exculpation . regrettably , other - dimensional ETs adopt the throw stick passing through their realm was some variety of drone weapon , and invaded Earth .
Boomerang conjoin Flash and Elongated Man in fighting against the foreign detail in Central City ( though it ’s hard to conceive of Flash really take his help ) . Then Digger pull a double - crisscross , strapping Flash to a giant backfire to hurl him into extinct space . Elongated Man yank Flash destitute but the zep never learned Boomerang had actually trigger the warfare .
Pied Piper
Hartley Rathaway became the supervillainPied Piperbecause he recognize it would incense his aristocratic , wealthy parent . Like the Snarts , he lost interest in criminal offense after Barry Allen ’s death . Instead he turn into a societal militant to atone for his crimes . When Wally ran into the Piper giving food for thought to the homeless , he acquire the food was stolen . Nope — Hartley just asked stores and restaurants for food for thought they ’d otherwise have thrown out .
Before long , Hartley and Wally were good friends . Hartley come out to Wally threw the Flash a little , but he got past it . Hartley help Flash on multiple adventures with his mastery of sound ; Wally afterwards repaid his friend by stopping the Top from set up Hartley for murder ( see # 7 ) . It ’s a shame that in theNew 52continuity their relationship never survive .
The Rogues
ordinarily when Italian sandwich and villains team up , it ’s the sorry guys who pull the double - cross . Flash#230 sour that on its heading .
During one of the Rogue ’s even get - togethers , Mirror Master offered a worthful jewel he ’d stolen and hidden to whoever prove the most badass Flash opposition . get into the Dude — back then the term still meant “ fancy - dressed sheik ” more than “ some hombre ” — who brag he ’s defeated Flash so often , the speedster had been ashamed to admit it .
The Rogues , of course , demand trial impression , so the Dude summons Flash and quetch his butt . When Mirror Master turns over the gem , though , it turns out the Dude is really the Flash , using super - speed tricks to appear to be two citizenry . Having recuperate the stolen jewel , Flash drag the varlet to jail .
Mirror Master
When a foolish prison house warden let Sam Scudder have a shaving mirror inFlash#174 , Mirror Master ’s leak was a done good deal . In the process he come upon a mirror cosmos where his twin was a hero , using a speed - negate mirror to fight back a criminal flashing . Scudder eagerly copy the mirror weapon system but could n’t make it exercise .
Disgruntled , Mirror Master entered the mirror public and joined forces with the criminal Flash , freeing him from jail . The Flash did n’t sleep with he ’d been set up : all Scudder really want was to study the good Mirror Master in military action so he could wield the mirror right hand .
Alt - Flash , however , did n’t know that . After swap worlds with Barry Allen , he seek out Mirror Master to continue the team - up . Assuming he was “ their ” Flash , Mirror Master and the varlet almost shoot down him before Barry fall to save him .
Thinker
gilded Age Flash Jay Garrick never imagined becoming friends with his archfoe . But clip has a way of exchange masses .
Clifford DeVoe was a Keystone City public prosecutor until he switched side to become a Scheol consultant , the Thinker . He gave Jay a run for his money even before get the remember Cap that collapse him psionic power .
As DeVoe get old , though , he began to see thing other than , reformed and settle down to a sprightliness of full works . He and Jay became friend . When DeVoe ’s cancer became terminal , Jay proposed curing it with the think Cap but DeVoe make up one’s mind he ’d preferably end affair with self-respect .
A scientist later used the Thinker ’s brain waves as the exemplar for an AI to start the Justice Society ’s computers . That team - up was short - lived as this Thinker before long turned on Flash and the other JSAers .
Top
InFlash#219 , Central City locked up Sam “ Mirror Master ” Scudder and Roscoe “ The Top ” Dillon in an inescapable automated inescapable prison . When Scudder depend his cellmate a cool million he could escape , Dillon envision it was a mug wager . It was - but it turned out Dillon was the sucker .
Scudder not only teleport out with a stopgap mirror , he pull a fast one on Flash into taking his place . Oh , and if Flash tried any super - speed tricks to get out , he ’d countersink off a mirror - dud that would blow him and the Top to kingdom get along .
Dillon understandably want nothing more than to help Flash settle Mirror Master ’s hash . By balance his super - spinning against Flash ’s vibrations , Flash was capable to vibrate through the wall without detonating the bomb , then catch up with Mirror Master .
Chunk
Chester Runk was a splendid , obese , insecure nerd who , by virtue of a uniqueness inside his body , could suck anything into another property . That made a wonderful pecker for dealing with people he disliked — a woman who turn down a engagement , his therapist , the Flash .
Wally , however , convinced Chunk to see the light , and they became supporter . Chunk became rich using his powers to dispose of toxic waste , construction debris , and other undesirable materials .
When Wally lost all his money , Chunk helped surge him over . When Abra Kadabra turned Chunk into a puppet , Wally saved him . In the battle with the Turtle ’s men , Chunk help out , along with Golden Snowball and the Pied Piper . He was such a reliable friend that when the villain Blacksmith plot to take Wally down , she take Chunk out of activity first .
Mr. Element
Unusually for a Silver Age villain , Al Desmond — AKA Mr. Element and Dr. Alchemy — see the light and live square . Eobard Thawne , however , needed Al ’s chemical skill to enhance his Reverse - Flash speed . InFlash#147 and # 153 , he set out to make Desmond a villain again ; Flash crusade to help his friend stay good . Before succumb to the dark side , Mr. Element saved Flash from Thawne ’s deathtrap . Flash returned the favour by reinstate Al to normal .
long time afterward , when a new felonious stole Al ’s philosopher ’s stone to become the raw Dr. Alchemy , Al resume his Mr. Element individuality to help Flash against the new crook . It later on turned out the novel Alchemy was a physical materialisation of Desmond ’s repress evil side . Al Desmon is one of the few villain who can crusade with and against Flash at the same time .
