- "How did you fit your Reverse-Flash suit into that little ring? Is it some sort of compressed microtech? Or actually, forget it. I don't care. Maybe a little."
- —Cisco Ramon to Eobard Thawne[src]
The Reverse-Flash ring is a ring owned by Eobard Thawne that is used in conjunction with his Reverse-Flash suit. It bears a lightning bolt symbol similar to that sported on the Reverse-Flash suit.
History
In the Past
The ring was first technically seen on Eobard Thawne's hand when he pushed Barry back with his hand. Later, he used the ring in order to open a containment pod with the Reverse-Flash suit within it in order to put the tachyon prototype on it.[1]
Thawne later used it again during a fight with The Flash, Al Sah-him and Firestorm in order to release his Reverse-Flash suit, and then ran into it.[2]
While Eobard was incarcerated in the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, Cisco Ramon questioned him as to how it worked, but he skipped over the question. Thawne was wearing the ring when his ancestor, Eddie Thawne, committed suicide. When Eobard was erased from existence, the ring was as well.[3]
Aftermath
After Harrison Wells from Earth-2 donned the suit to trick Grodd, Barry made a decision to destroy the suit, but he took the ring and asked Cisco to reverse engineer it. Barry wanted to figure out how to put the suit back in the ring, so that he can use it to carry his suit in a more subtle and accessible way.[4]
Unfortunately, Cisco had yet to find a way to compress the suit into the ring, which led him to question a younger version of Eobard Thawne, but received no answer.[5] Eventually, Barry got his own ring from his future daughter, Nora West-Allen.[6]
Ripped from the timeline
In the erased future that Nora West-Allen hailed from, at some point in or before 2032, the Reverse-Flash ring was put on display in the Flash Museum's Hall of Villains. In 2049, Nora was instructed by Eobard Thawne to take his ring in the Museum and used it to open the time vault.[7] Later Trevor Shinick contacted Dexter Myles to make sure that the ring and the suit in it got buried with his owner who's about to be executed. But Thawne escape and used it to face off with the Flash and his daughter. Due to Cicada's dagger being destroyed this future was erased but Thawne escaped that timeline with the ring and the suit meaning that this ring was ripped from this timeline.[8]
Time Remnant Thawne's last stand
Team Flash was revealed to still have a copy of Thawne's ring, which Barry gifted to Thawne's good time remnant, as he needed assistance dealing with the Negative Forces and was willing to allow Thawne to suit up and become a speedster again through Meena'. After the Negative Forces manipulated Barry into killing Iris, the time remnant and this ring's contents would be destroyed as the Wells' version was resurrected and proceeded to rip through himself.
Functions
- Suit Storage: The Reverse-Flash ring acts as a storage unit for the Reverse-Flash suit. It uses some form of nanites/nano/micro-technology as past conversations on the development of such a ring would likely use such.
- Key: This ring served as a key to at least two things. Eobard was able to feed his suit that was in the ring through a pink slot, and the suit draped over the pod inside. Also, the ring was the only way to access Gideon's operating system.
Appearances
The Flash
Season 1
Season 2
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Season 2
Behind the scenes
- In the comics, three different iterations of The Flash have used a lightning-bolt insignia ring to contain their suit, chemically treated in order to compress it down; these three are Barry Allen, Wally West and Bart Allen.
References
- ↑ "The Man in the Yellow Suit"
- ↑ "Rogue Air"
- ↑ "Fast Enough"
- ↑ "Gorilla Warfare"
- ↑ "The Reverse-Flash Returns"
- ↑ "Nora"
- ↑ "Godspeed"
- ↑ "Legacy"