Modern Age Flash Enemies
In addition to the Silver Age Rogues, there have been many other Flash villains created in the past few years. The special issue Flash: Iron Heights was the first appearance of many of them. Some of the "new breed", as the old rogues call them, made a team called the New Rogues, led by Blacksmith. They tried to take away the allies of the Flash so he would fight them alone, but the Flash beat them anyway. These villains are not part of the current rogues, which are still the Silver Age villains. Also, new versions of Mirror Master, the Trickster, and Captain Boomerang were introduced and became part of the rogues.
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel Computron | The Flash #304 (December 1981) | Colonel Computron was a toymaker named Basil Nurblin, a disgruntled employee of Wiggins Toy Corporation. After donning a suit of armor that resembled one of his toy creations, Basil set out to seek revenge against his employer Willard W. Wiggins (president of Wiggins Toy Corporation) in retribution for being cheated out of adequate compensation for his invention of the popular Captain Computron toy. |
| Magenta | The New Teen Titans #17 (March 1982) | Frankie Kane was a one time girlfriend of Wally West, who gained magnetic powers which killed her family. Not knowing her purpose in life, she became a villain and first joined the Cicada cult and the New Rogues before reforming. |
| Mirror Master | Animal Man #8 (February 1989) | Evan McCulloch grew up in an orphanage, and after killing a bully, he escaped and became a mercenary. On one hit, he unknowingly shot and killed his father, and later found out his mother died of grief. Then, he was hired by the Government to be the new Mirror Master, and he got the original Mirror Master's equipment. Instead of working for the government, McCulloch became a member of the rogues, taking the place of the old Mirror Master. He also has a drug problem, of which Captain Cold does not approve. |
| Manfred Mota | Flash 50th Anniversary Special (1990) | Mota is a villain who has fought all four Flashes, each time in a different form. He is also the father of Valerie Perez, girlfriend of Bart Allen. |
| Razer | Flash vol. 2, #84 (November 1993) | Razer is a villain who was a mercenary for hire who wears a suit coated completely with lubrilon, an experimental near-frictionless chemical polymer. He nearly destroyed a shopping mall, though the Flash got almost everyone out. Razer later escaped and began working for Data Highways, Inc. |
| Kid Zoom | Impulse #50 (July 1999) | Inertia was a clone of Bart Allen. He originally fought Allen when he was Impulse, and then when Bart aged five years after Infinite Crisis and became the Flash, Inertia fought him again. Inertia was responsible for the death of Allen, and when Wally West returned to he took revenge by stripping Inertia of all movement and putting him in the Flash Museum. During Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, he was used by Libra and Zoom to try to get the Rogues to join the new Secret Society. He stole Zoom's powers, called himself Kid Zoom, and was killed by the Rogues, who blame him for making them kill Bart Allen. |
| Folded Man | Flash vol. 2, #153 (October 1999) | Edwin Gauss is a criminal who uses a suit to shift from 3-D space to 2-D and 4-D space. He created Avernus, a graveyard in 4-D space for fallen Flash enemies. |
| Plunder | Flash vol. 2, #165 (October 2000) | Plunder is an assassin from a mirror universe, a copy of a police officer in the real world. |
| Brother Grimm | Flash vol. 2, #166 (November 2000) | The ruler of another realm, Grimm blames Wally West for driving him to kill his brother and assume the throne. He possesses powerful magical abilities and able to 'sense' the Speed Force, thus forcing Wally to limit himself to normal speed in any fight with Grimm. |
| Cicada | Flash vol. 2, #171 (April 2001) | During a thunderstorm sometime in the early twentieth century, David Hersch murdered his wife. Regretting what he had done, he sought to end his own life, only to be struck by lightning. He had a vision that he had been chosen to live forever, and he would bring his wife back as well. Starting a cult, his followers killed people who had been saved by the Flash, and Cicada used the energy of these people to live forever. |
| Tar Pit | Flash vol. 2, #174 (July 2001) | Joey Monteleone was the brother of a drug dealer, and while in prison discovered he could put his mind into inanimate objects. However, his mind got stuck inside tar, and now the tar has Monteleone's mind. |
| Murmur | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | A surgeon who went insane, Michael Amar now seeks sadistic ways to kill the voices he hears. His distinctive criminal act is to remove a victim's tongue early during the torture he inflicts. He also has a virus that will turn a person’s lung to mud in 90 minutes. |
| Blacksmith | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | Blacksmith is a Ferro-kinetic crime lord who was once married to Goldface. She founded her own rendition of the Rogues, and created "The Network", and underground hideaway for rouges that had been in operation for years without anyone knowing. However, she and her Rogues were defeated by Wally West. |
| Fallout | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | Neil Borman was a mason hired to do some additional work on a nuclear power plant he and his team had helped construct. During a series of tests an explosion destroyed the floor that Borman and his workmates were working on, and they fell into the reactor's cooling system. His co-workers died, but Borman survived as his body’s molecular structure shifted transforming into a man composed of high-energy electrons. Unfortunately, Borman had brought his wife and son to work to show them around the plant. Contact with his new body killed them, and in the same way he inadvertently killed several people. Genuinely remorseful, he was imprisoned in Iron Heights Penitentiary, where he was used to power the prison with his new abilities. The Flash found out about the inhumane treatment of Fallout and the disastrous state of Iron Heights, and while he was unable to change the living conditions within, he managed to have the prison's systems changed so Fallout would not have to suffer as the energy within his body was siphoned. |
| Girder | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | Tony Woodward was shoved into a vat of molten steel from S.T.A.R. Labs after he assaulted a female coworker. He survived, but became composed of scrap metal. He joined the New Rogues, and took part in the Rogue War. |
| Double Down | Flash: Iron Heights (2001) | Jeremy Tell lost a card game and then killed the man who won. After this, the cards in the dead man's pocket flew out and covered Tell, becoming his skin. He can use the razor sharp corners of the cards as weapons by peeling them off of himself. |
| Zoom | (as Hunter Zolomon) Flash Secret Files #3 (November 2001) (as Zoom) Flash vol. 2, #197 (June 2003) |
Hunter Zolomon was once a friend of the Flash who worked at the police station. When visiting Iron Heights prison, he was caught in an escape attempt by Grodd, who broke Hunter's back. He survived and asked for the Flash to go back in time and stop it from happening. Flash told him he cannot change history, even for a friend. Hunter got very mad at Flash, and decided to try to do it himself. However the cosmic treadmill exploded during the process, and Hunter gained super speed not coming from the speed force, but from time itself, making him even faster than the Flash. Zolomon set out to make the Flash a better hero by letting him deal with loss, and killed his unborn twins. This event has since been rectified due to time travel. Zoom recently had his power drained from him by Inertia/Kid Zoom. He is now Hunter Zolomon as he was before the Treadmill blew up in his face. |
| Peek-a-Boo | Flash vol. 2, #180 (January 2002) | Lashawn Baez has the power to teleport, and used the power to try to steal a liver for her father who needed a new one. She was stopped by Flash and her father died. She is now a villain. |
| The Trickster | Flash vol. 2, #184 (April 2002) | After the original Trickster reformed, teenager Axel Walker found his equipment and stole it, becoming the new Trickster. He joined the rogues, and took the place of the first Trickster (even though most of the rogues thought of him as too young and impulsive). During Rogue War, James Jesse, the original Trickster, became a rogue again and took back what was his. After Jesse was killed by Deadshot in the Countdown series, Walker rejoined the Rogues as the Trickster in the Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge miniseries. |
| Captain Boomerang | Identity Crisis #3 (October 2004) | Owen Mercer is the son of the original Captain Boomerang and Meloni Thawne (making him Bart Allen's maternal half-brother). He did not know his father until he was an adult. The two practiced together, and Owen found he had bursts of super speed. When his father died he joined the rogues, but One Year Later he reformed and is now a member of the Suicide Squad. |
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