WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #4, by Gail Simone, Clayton Henry, Marcelo Maiolo, Rob Leigh, Cully Hammer and Andrew Marino, now available.
The Flash has seen the future of the DC Universe, and it is weird. Unsurprisingly, Reverse-Flash is to blame for the bewildering alternate future where the Flash has found himself in The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #4.
Previously, this version of Barry Allen was visited in the present by Shift, Lt. Beth Arden of the Speed Force Resistance, who traveled back in time from the 25th Century to either warn or kill Barry Allen in order to prevent a future where Eobard Thawne reigned supreme. However, now Barry has traveled to the future to see what Thawne has done to it, and it is strange.
Now going by Emperor Zoom, Thawne has recreated the experiments necessary to become the Flash over an absurdly large scale. The citizens of Zoom City worship Emperor Zoom as a God-King, thanks in part to his sadistic rules, penalties for disobedience and a rise to power that cost millions of lives. He has employed an army of super-fast troops armed with shocking weapons designed to put down all resistance.
However, to keep his citizens enslaved to his will, Thawne has given the city access to the Speed Force. Every citizen of the city is given specific clothing that separates them into classes. At given times during the day, each individual class has temporary access to the Speed Force. This power has left the people addicted to the thrill and zeal of superspeed travel. They submit to Thawne and worship him because he allows them to feel incredible, and the people of Zoom City have erected statues of Thawne.
Of course, this begs the question: what happens if someone uses the Speed Force outside their allotted time? That's where the authorities come in. These shock-troopers are faster than the usual civilians and are armed with electric tasers that can even bring the Flash to his knees If someone uses the Speed Force unlawfully, they are subjected to electric shocks until they buckle in submission.
However, domination over the 25th Century isn't enough for Thawne. He possesses an absurd inferiority complex about the Flash, believing that people merely see him as a dark reflection of the Flash and nothing else. He's a super-fan who has stylized his entire civilization after the Flash, to the point where he has created edutainment media surrounding the Flash and his history in the form of comic books and movies. And despite how much he's promoted the Flash's legacy, he knows he can never truly escape it.
As a result, he sees the Flash as the one man who can ruin everything he's built in his future and even threatens to murder Iris West by traveling back in time. Thawne has created a dystopia which he effectively has the entire world under his boot. However, this world might be the most hellish for Thawne himself, who sees this world as a reminder of how he is feared, not truly loved, and how those who hate him see him only as a copy of his personal hero, the Flash.
The Flash isn't totally sure how to fix the future, but he knows that he'll need to take Thawne down once and for all. in order to both save the future and his own past.
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