Note: Mercury was a character played by a former member of our group Jon-Mark Wolfraim-Jenkins and idea, creation, and most of the history of the character belongs to him.
Eobard Thawne was a scientist hundreds of years in the future. A brilliant mind, he had a terrible upbringing and he saw the worst that humanity had to offer. Developing a sadistic streak, he loved to gain revenge on his enemies, using his intellect to engineer circumstances that would injure and humiliate them.
He was also a fan of the silver age Flash Barry Allen, idolizing him for most of his life. Volunteering at the Flash Museum he discovered Speed Force residue on the various items used by the Flash Family. Siphoning that energy to gain his own form of super-speed, Eobard used the Cosmic Treadmill to travel back in time in order for Thawne to become the Flash's new side-kick.
Rejected by his hero, Thawne swore revenge. Learning how Allen gained his connection to the Speed Force, he recreated the accident to grant himself permanent super-speed. He then went on a crusade to kill Barry and replace him as the Flash. After many years, the Reverse-Flash would prove to be the Flash's greatest foe and the one he was never able to fully defeat.
In order to stop him, the golden age Quicksilver, Maxwell Mercury plucked a young Eobard out of time when he was just a brilliant teenager. He was then transported to 20th Century where he was adopted by the Allens in order to give him a less troubled upbringing. When Thawne inexplicably and spontaneously developed his own connection to the Speed Force, it was decided that he would join the Hammond Institute.
Joining the school he made friends with fellow students Kentauride, Mary Marvel, Staci the She-Hulk, and Melinoe. When the group was transferred to become Team Gamma of The Avengers, he joined them and took on the code-name of Mercury.
He would encounter his older self, the Reverse-Flash on several occasions with the elder Thawne attempting to tempt him to the dark side. During the original incident at Pleasent Hill, when Nate Grey channeled the Anti-Life Equation, the Reverse-Flash would become infected and turn into a time paradox separate chronologically from Mercury. The younger Thawne received a vision of the future where he inherited the mantle of the Flash but lived in a world beset by zombies.
When the Watchtower incident seemingly killed all the world's heroes, the older Thawne allied himself with Lex Luthor, joining The Squadron Supreme as the "hero" The Blur. While working with Stormwatch, Luthor discovered traces of the Anti-Life Equation within his body. Just before Stormwatch was disbanded, Luthor sent the Blur on a mission to Pleasant Hills, where he re-infected Nate Grey and caused the infamous Anti-Life Incident.
A part of X-Man's Anti-Army, Blur fought the Team Alpha in Pleasent Hills. After Nate was accidentally killed by Darkseid's Omega Beams, the Blur's connection to the Negative Speed Force and the Anti-Life Equation was severed. Enraged by his defeat, the Reverse-Flash screamed at the heroes as reality wiped his current self from existence.
The current status of Eobard Thawne in the time-stream has not been revealed, although Mercury also disappeared from the time-stream.
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