While Matt Letscher played the original version of Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. Reverse-Flash, Tom Cavanagh had significantly more screen time as the character on The Flash thanks to the evil speedster stealing Harrison Wells’ likeness. Despite Cavanagh’s Thawne dying in the Season 8 finale, we’ll see him one last time in The Flash series finale, titled “A New World, Part Four”… but what if it wasn’t actually the last time? Cavanagh has come up with an idea for another Flash spinoff, and it’s clear he’s poured a lot of thought into this.
Just a few weeks after The Flash brought its Reverse-Flash storyline full circle, Cavanagh’s Eobard Thawne is back in the final episode to antagonize Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen, thanks to his descendant, Eddie Thawne, who’s become Cobalt Blue and also brought back Zoom, Savitar and Godspeed to help cause trouble. Ahead of the episode airing, Tom Cavanagh chatted about his time on The Flash with TV Insider, and while recollecting about Season 1, he shared the following Reverse-Flash centric spinoff idea:
