List of Flash enemies
Villain First appearance Description
Mazdan Showcase # 4 ( October 1956 ) A criminal from the 38th century , who the authorities decide to exile to the 50th century when Earth is desolate . He is accidentally sent to the 20th century and tries to steal equipment needed to repair his time capsule , such as gold to coat it , and get back to the future to exact revenge , using advanced heat-based weapons . The Flash discovers this and captures Mazdan , who escapes using a contact lens that fires lasers and a magnetic rod that focuses heat ; the Flash discovers that if Mazdan escapes using his time capsule , it will destroy everything within a radius of at least 10 miles , killing thousands . He uses his super-speed to break through the time barrier with Mazdan , who , oddly enough , does not die from the friction and returns to the 38th century . The authorities say they will make sure next time the time capsule reaches the 50th century and the Flash returns to his own time . Mazdan later escapes to the 20th century again and uses a mind-affecting hallucinatory weapon to cause trouble for the Flash , but is beaten again and returned to prison in the 38th century
The Brain Showcase # 8 Three identical brothers who commit crimes while the city has been distracted by three giant boxes they have placed in each other after a fog has descended on the city , which the authorities try to open . The Flash jails the first two as they attempt robberies with clever tricks , like a tightrope which the first one cuts and spring-heeled shoes , and jails the last one when he attempts a bank robbery by draining his live wire suit with which he intended to break his brothers out with silver . It is then revealed the last box led into the bank vault
The Bredans The Flash # 119 ( March 1961 ) A fish-like undersea race that kidnaps humans to work as slaves . After the Elongated Man disappears while skin-diving on his honeymoon , the Flash is called by his wife , and reveals other skin-divers have disappeared around here , but he is knocked out with a blast and captured himself . He finds himself in a tank , where skin-divers are fished out and become the slave of the fisherman that captures them . The weakened Flash is captured while trying to get food and forced to work building a house in the city of Breta , then finds the blow that captured the Elongated Man has made him lose his memory . He restores it by making him use his power , and together they defeat the Bredans , who agree to never again kidnap humans and return their captives to the surface
Captain Cold Showcase # 8 ( June 1957 ) Leonard Len Snart was a criminal who wanted a chance to get rid of the Flash . Seeing an article about a weapon that might disrupt the Flash 's speed , Snart made a gun and exposed it to radiations . However , due to the fact Snart was not experienced in the use of the device and activated it incorrectly , instead of slowing the Flash down , the gun could freeze anything to absolute zero , which he discovered when he accidentally used it on a watchman . Calling himself Captain Cold , Snart started out on a criminal career . He is the leader of the Rogues . Known for being a sympathetic villain , Cold has a sense of honor . Cold has strict rules on how the Rogues should act , such as no drugs and not to kill unless they have to . He also has a sense of loyalty to his team and watches out for them
The Cloud Creatures The Flash # 111 Sentient , cloud-like creatures which emerge from underground to take over the world and can project lightning . The Flash notices each has a dark spot on them , and realizes striking it will destroy the cloud . He skims over normal clouds and is able to dissipate the invaders , turning them to rain
Doctor Alchemy Showcase # 14 ( June 1958 ) Albert Desmond suffered from a split personality , one a good person and the other evil . Originally calling himself Mr . Element and using element-themed devices before being captured by the Flash , he changed it to Dr. Alchemy when he found the Philosopher 's Stone , which could transmute elements after hearing of it from a cellmate , and was able to transmute elements , although the effects only lasted for about 20 minutes . Soon it was found out that there were two Desmonds , Albert , the good one and Alvin , the bad , and that they shared a mental link . Alvin was destroyed , but Albert became Dr. Alchemy again
The Dokris The Flash # 125 The Dokris were a species of green-skinned aliens who briefly conquered Earth in the year 2287 . Under the leadership of Mynher , they sent a hive to the distant past , 100,842,246 B.C. , which robbed Earth 's minerals of all its radioactivity . This , in turn , caused the atomic weapons of humanity to deactivate . In the first use of the Cosmic Treadmill , Kid Flash went to the past to destroy the hive and the Flash to the future to battle the aliens so that they did not wipe out humanity . He is knocked out by a radiation gun and taken captive , and Kid Flash is stung by a giant insect in the past . Finally , he is given an antidote by half-man/half-bird beings . He destroys the hive , causing the weapons of the future to work again , meaning the aliens are defeated
The Maugites The Flash # 109 Undersea superfast creatures that resemble black fish with limbs who attack another race , the Saremites . The Flash finds out about the Saremites from an astronaut who was saved when his capsule fell into the sea by the Muagites , and defeats a horde of them . By the end the Saremites are making weapons , having been shown the Maugites can be defeated
The Mirror Master The Flash # 105 ( March 1959 ) While working in a prison workshop , Samuel Scudder accidentally stumbled upon a mirror that could project holograms . When he escaped , he made more mirror gadgets , and became the Mirror Master . He has created many different mirrors that can do various things like travel into other dimensions . He was killed during Crisis on Infinite Earths ; however , there have been two others who assumed his identity
Gorilla Grodd The Flash # 106 ( May 1959 ) Grodd was an inhabitant of Gorilla City , a peaceful society of super-intelligent gorillas of which Grodd was the only evil one . A mastermind in his early years with vast mental powers , he has become more savage and stronger recently , to the point where he wants to feast on the bones of the Flash
The Pied Piper The Flash # 106 ( May 1959 ) Hartley Rathaway was born deaf , but was cured after his rich parents sought a way to make him hear . Once he could hear , he became obsessed with music and sound , and made many sound-based weapons . Originally a criminal , he reformed and came out as being gay the same time . He became a friend of Wally West , even when the Top revealed he had changed the personality of some of the Rogues ( the Pied Piper included ) to make them reform ; the Pied Piper was able to fight off the Top and stay good
The Weather Wizard The Flash # 110 ( December 1959/January 1960 ) Mark Mardon escaped from prison to his brother 's house . His brother had just made a wand that could control the weather . Mark wanted the weapon and he and his brother got into a fight , and his brother was killed ( although Mardon said he was dead when he got there , he has since told the truth to Captain Cold ) . He had an infant son who was adopted by Iris West , but was later killed by Inertia
The Trickster The Flash # 113 ( June/July 1960 ) James Montgomery Jesse , a circus performer who came from a family of trapeze artists , invented shoes that used compressed air to walk on air , originally using them for tightrope walking . Inspired by Jesse James , James made other weapons and became the Trickster , robbing planes until Flash tracked him down in the circus . He was captured , but became a member of the Rogues . Once reformed , but it was revealed that was because the Top made it so , and he returned to the Rogues , but contemplated whether to be a hero or a villain . He was killed in Countdown to Final Crisis
Captain Boomerang The Flash # 117 ( December 1960 ) George Digger Harkness was a master of boomerangs , which he learned how to use in the Outback . When a mascot was needed for a boomerang company , Harkness was hired , but used the costume and boomerangs to commit crimes and he had many trick boomerangs . Originally he pretended someone else was using his identity to trick the Flash , but finally the deception was revealed . He briefly became the second Mirror Master after the death of the original . Harkness was killed during Identity Crisis , but also killed Jack Drake before he died . Harkness has a son , Owen Mercer , who became a hero after a brief stint with the Rogues
The Top The Flash # 122 ( August 1961 ) Roscoe Dillon used many top -themed weapons to commit crimes , eventually learning how to spin himself at great speeds , increasing his intelligence and allowing him to deflect bullets . Although he died , Dillon 's mind was so powerful that it took over the minds of many people to keep on living , including Henry Allen and a senator , whose body was reformed by Dillon to look like his original body . He was later killed again by Captain Cold when Dillon tried to take over the Rogues during the Rogue War . During this time , it was revealed that Dillon had made some of the Rogues reform , and during the war , he made them criminals again . He was also a victim of the JLA mindwipes ; he was made a good person , but overpowered the mindwipe and again became a villain
Abra Kadabra The Flash # 128 ( May 1962 ) A magician from the 64th century named Citizen Abra who was exiled from his time period and sent to the 20th century for his crimes . He used his technology to pose as a magician . Originally separate from the Rogues , he recently began joining forces with them occasionally
Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash The Flash # 139 ( September 1963 ) Eobard Thawne is a speedster from the 25th century , who occasionally used the alias Adrian Zoom . He was a fan of the Flash and gained his powers , but went insane on discovering he would become a villain . Once just a simple villain , he became more well-known when he killed Barry Allen 's wife Iris Allen ( although her consciousness was transported to the 30th century at the last possible instant ) . This action made him Barry Allen 's arch-nemesis . Later , when Barry was about to marry Fiona Webb , Thawne tried to kill her but , in a fit of rage , Barry killed him by breaking his neck , thus putting the Flash on trial for murder , where he was found guilty . He was returned to life , and was the one behind Flashpoint
Heat Wave The Flash # 140 ( November 1963 ) Mick Rory is obsessed with heat , and at a young age , burned down his house , killing his family . He then made a heat gun and used fire to rob and kill . Rory was one of the Rogues the Top made reform , and when that was taken away , Rory became a Rogue again . Even during his reformed life , his mind was already starting to turn to crime
The Golden Glider The Flash # 250 ( June 1977 ) Lisa Snart , the younger sister of Len Snart ( Captain Cold ) , did not want to be a villain , but when her lover , the Top died , she swore revenge on the Flash . Using sharp ice skates which made ice , she battled the Flash , and got the approval of her brother . She was killed by Chillblaine , a villain whom she gave ice powers to . Captain Cold has since gotten revenge for her death by killing Chillblaine
Clive Yorkin The Flash # 270 ( February 1979 ) Clive Yorkin , a criminal spending life in prison , agreed to take part in a prison experiment . The experiment went wrong , and it drove him mad and able to kill someone by touching them . It was thought he killed Iris West , but he was innocent , the real culprit being Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash
Silver Age Flash enemies
The Silver Age Flash enemies all lived on Earth-One and started out as enemies of the second Flash , Barry Allen , as well as the third Flash , Wally West , and the fourth , Bart Allen , after the death of Barry Allen . The Silver Age is when some enemies started to use the name `` Rogues '' . Originally , the Rogues were just a few of the Flash 's enemies teaming together , but since then they have formed a lasting team , and usually a Rogue will not commit a crime by himself . The original eight Rogues were Captain Cold , the Mirror Master , Heat Wave , the Weather Wizard , the Trickster , the Pied Piper , the Top , and Captain Boomerang . The current incarnation of the Rogues includes Captain Cold , the Weather Wizard , Heat Wave , the second Mirror Master , and the second Trickster . In chronological order ( with issue and date of first appearance ) :
This is a list of fictional characters from DC Comics who are or have been enemies of the Flash.