First Appearance: The Flash Season 1: Episode 1: The Pilot
The Reverse-Flash suit is a yellow and black suit with red lightning bolt fatures on the ears and a red reverse Flash symbol ontop of a black circle.
The Reverse-Flash wears his suit when he is comiting his crimes. However when he is fighting the Flash and attacking Merucry Labs, he is wearing red lenses, which appear to be missing on Well's suit. While everyone else is celebrating Christmas at the West House, Harrison Wells enters his room, where he uses his ring to open a secret compartment with a containment pod which has a dummy sealed inside. He uses his ring on the mechnism on the outside of the pod and the Reverse Flash costume suddenly materialsis on the dummy. He straps the stolen Tachyion Device that the Reverse-Flash had stolen from S.T.A.R Labs onto the chest piece and watches as the energy flickers through the suit and also heal the wounds that had recieved from the Reverse-Flash's attack on him. He distorts his voice like the Reverse-Flash and wishes the suit a 'Merry Christmas.'
First
Appearance: The Flash Episode 9: The Man in the Yellow Suit
Mercury Labs is S.T.A.R Labs' biggest rival in scientific research and
discoveries, a second research lab in Central City. After the accident, Mercury became the forefront for scientific discovery led by Dr. Christina McGee
Days before Christmas, in the Superluminal Development section of the Central City facility, a doctor is working on “the future” when two guards (Jimmy
and an unnamed guard) wish him a merry Christmas. As they begin to
walk away, the alarms are triggered by an unknown intruder. They
tells the doctor to run and lock down the entire building. As the
doctor locks himself in the lab, the Reverse Flash speeds into the
room, killing the guards and stands watching the doctor behind the
glass, before speeding off.
Later Barry Allen and Joe West investigate the deaths of the two
guards and the brake in. Barry concludes that due to the spatter
patterns, the deaths were caused by a high velocity collision. Eddie
interrupts, telling them that the witness only saw a “blur.” They
go talk to the doctor, who reveals that it “whatever it was” was
looking for something and that it looked like a “man in a yellow
suit.”
Barry tries to get his files, but Joe warns him not too, telling
Barry about the files being stolen and the fact that the
Reverse-Flash threatened to kill Iris if Joe didn't leave him alone.
The floor that the crime took place had high security vaults, where
they were trying to work with Tachyions (super luminal particles.)
Dr. McGee visits Central City Police Headquarters, where Barry and
Harrison Wells try to get her to let them borrow a Tachyion prototype
device. She tells them that Mercury Labs is working on hundreds of
developing prototypes and that the gap for technology is far from
capable of real life application. She thanks them for the concern,
but tells them that Mercury Labs is quite capable of protecting “it's
own assets.”
McGee returns to C.C.P.D, where she demands that the intervention
with the judge and an official warrant was the work of Harrison Wells.
In a last effort to get the device, Barry threatens to reveal all the
scientific research that Mercury has been doing to Science Magazines,
either by phoning the editor or leaving posts on their website. She
angrily tells him that they will have the tachyion device “within the
hour” and says he is very similar to Harrison Wells.
First Appearance: (Cameo) The Flash Season 1 Episode 4: Going Rogue
Mick Rory is a criminal, who had worked with Leonard Snart on a
unknown job that went badly, resulting in their partnership ending.
However after Snart became Captain Cold, he visited Mick at his
apartment, where he tells Mick that he needs him if he wants to
continue to operate in Central City along with a new crew. He puts
a case containing a stolen heat gun in front of him, saying that he
wants Mick as he is tolerant to extremes and has certain skills, but
lacks direction, which he offers to give him. He shows Mick the gun
telling him that if he “still loves playing with fire” he will
love the it. Mick picks up the gun: calling Snart his “buddy”,
laughing and agreeing to join Snart's team.
This episode is what it has all been leading up to, the confrontation
and reveal of the 'Man in the Yellow Suit.' Although we don't know
what he calls himself, he says that he is the 'Reverse.' So I think
it's up to Cisco to give him the name the Reverse Flash as he can't
just be called the Man in the Yellow Suit for the rest of the series.
We also have few questions answered and even more cliffhangers
looming.
As for the big moment: you may already have seen images if not the
episode that shows that Harrison Wells owns a Speed Ring and has a
copy of the Reverse-Flash suit in his secret lair. So does this mean
he is the Reverse-Flash?
It has been set up for him to look like the Reverse-Flash, so whether
this is some massive rues or is actually the case that he is the
speedster we don't know.
And finally the possibility that there was another speedster in the
house that transported Barry to safety as a child is a great concept
and cliffhanger to leave on, especially as Wells claimed there were
no records of meta-humans before the S.T.A.R Labs Accelerator
incident.
I love how Eddie is getting more action, instead of just being the
boyfriend to Iris. As for the love story between Barry and Iris, I
know it will probably happen, but I secretly hope is doesn't. Nothing
personal against ….., but I don't like the character of Iris.
Personally I hope she does the same arc that Thea and Laurel had in
Arrow and grows as a character rather than just being the love
interest. That is what I love about Felicity and Cailtin, they are
strong characters in their own right.
But the best part of the episode is the fights between Firestorm,
Barry and the Reverse-Flash. I am loving the special effects that The
Flash is using, quite similar to what Smallville did when they used
Bart Allen or Clark Kent's super-speed. The Reverse-Flash is really
cool, the way he kills the security guards in Mercury Labs and then
how he breaks out of a seemingly impossible force-field. Whether that
was an actual power failure, or an example of a negative speed force
in play, I don't know but either way it was awesome. If they do have
Harrison Wells be the Reverse-Flash, then the attack he does on Wells
would be so fantastic, a version of himself beating the other version
close to death.
There are a few theories I have contemplated, which all could carry
some weight judging by what has happened with both his character and
the meta-humans. The first is time-travel, which has been confirmed
as occurring in future episodes, with Harrison Wells potentially
being a character from the future (possibly even a future
Reverse-Flash). The second is the possibility that Harrison Wells
cloned himself using the same DNA replication process that Caitlin
used to create a copy of Multiplex.
So overall I would seriously recommend this episode. The cliffhanger
it leaves and the potential for character arcs and stories is just
amazing. As for the football stadium fight and the idea that two sets
of speesters were fighting in the football stadium at the fact same
is just mind blowing and all this happening at Christmas, an eventful
Christmas episode that has the right amount of action as well as
character interaction (which is nice to see.)
Some Easter Eggs:
Mercury Labs: The name of one of the Flash family member Max Mercury,
who was at a time, Impulse's (Bart Allen) guardian. He dies at the hand of the Rival (a version of the Reverse- Flash) Whether or not
he will be appearing in the show has not yet been confirmed.
The Flash Ring: As mentioned before, Wells has a Flash Ring that in
the comics is used by both Flash and the Reverse-Flash to contain a
speed-force energy suit.
The Rival: Harrison Wells says that Mecury Labs is S.T.A.R Labs' rival. This is reference to Max Mercury dying at the hands of The Rival, a dark speedster who is one of the many Reverse-Flashes.
Cobalt Blue: The wrapping paper on Barry's present to Harrison Wells is rather blue in colour, which could be a connection to Cobalt Blue,the twin brother of Barry Allen, who was raised by the Thawne family.
Firestorm: Ronnie Raymond actually calls himself 'Firestorm' which he uses as his hero identity in the comic books, along with a few other people who also go by the name.
