Gets every good part of the origin story, and minimizes what I didn't like.

With all that out of the way this new origin I feel like is the best yet. His reason for hating The Flash has to do with Barry and it actually makes a decent amount of sense, and he does what he does because he's rightfully scorned and not because he's some Joker/Black Manta wannabe with super speed. Less said about the first New 52 Thawne, the better. He just straight up become incredibly unlikeable and annoying, which was just salt & lemon to the wound when Johns inevitably made him constantly fall upwards throughout all of Rebirth and Flashpoint. Giving Thawne the most cliche villain childhood, retconning his personality into that of a 'happy sociopath' instead of the sympathetic, mistreated fanboy, etc. As much as I may be critical towards Waid's origin, I absolutely hated what Johns did to the character. He just comes off as a simplistic lunatic who was obviously going to snap no matter what, and Barry's Reverse-Flash having his first encounter be with Wally also wasn't my cup of tea. The Return of Barry Allen was excellent but Thawne's origin wasn't compelling to me, that story arc was done so much better with Iron Lad and Kang the Conqueror. Really? I guess everyone has their own tastes, but neither origin really did it for me beforehand.

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