Marlize DeVoe

"A helper? Is that what you think I am? A mindless minion carrying out her master's bidding? Some sort of evil secretary? No, Mr. Allen. I am now and forever will be my husband's partner."

- Marlize snapping at The Flash, offended by his beliefs of her being simply a pawn to her husband Dr. Marlize DeVoe is the secondary antagonist in the fourth season of the TV series, The Flash. She is the wife and assistant of Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker and is more than willing to assist him in his master plan of "fixing" what is wrong with the human race.

She is portrayed by Kim Engelbrecht.

Past
Prior to the events of the series, Marlize met with Clifford DeVoe, with the two of them falling in love and later marrying. The DeVoe family developed a "plan of enlightenment", with them upgrading the "delivery system" of knowledge at the universities. The DeVoe couple both moved to Central City, getting jobs as professors at Central City University. However, the results of their plans were lackluster, with Clifford feeling like he needs greater brainpower to handle the teaching process. Wanting to help him out, Marlize looked at Clifford's Thinking Cap schematics and developed the device accordingly. Their plan to activate it required greater power and they came to believe that the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, created by Dr. Harrison Wells. Marlize and her husband went to the press conference that Wells had organized and Marlize asked him if he had truly considered every possible outcome. Wells insisted that he had and asked for her name. When he heard her surname, he guessed the identity of her husband and said he was a 'fan' of his work. Marlize guessed that Wells was lying and was planning for the reactor to explode to produce a greater dark matter phenomenon, but Clifford told her that this outcome would be even more beneficial to their plan. As Clifford tested out the Thinking Cap, he was hit by a wave of dark matter and a bolt of lightning, becoming a meta-human. Marlize, seeing that Clifford lost his consciousness after being hit by lightning, tried to revive him and cried in despair, thinking her husband dead. He came alive, however, claiming to be "enlightened".

Over the months that followed, Marlize saw that her husband's intelligence had skyrocketed. He told her that he now knew the answers to all the perceivable questions that have or could ever be asked, including the identity of Jack the Ripper, Hilbert's problems and the Reimann hypothesis. But then, Clifford started collapsing and they realized that his brain was draining the energy of his own body to fuel itself, beginning with his paralysis. In essence, his intelligence was feeding off him and he would soon die. To prolong his life, Marlize helped design a special chair that would grant energy to his brain so that it wouldn't feed off of his body so much. It succeeded but they both knew that its effects wouldn't last forever.

The Thinker's Plan
When they learnt that The Flash was trapped in the Speed Force following Savitar's defeat, Marlize followed Clifford's plan to draw him out and also create 12 new meta-humans at the same time. Therefore, she built a Samuroid and sent it on a rampage throughout Central City to draw The Flash out. Eventually, the plan succeeded while the Samuroid was also destroyed in the process. Back in their lair, Marlize placed a cover back on a Samuroid, noting to Clifford DeVoe how it had served its purpose, bringing the Flash back to Central City. She then asked him what their next step would be. Before, that Clifford DeVoe and Marlize lived in South Africa. Marlize DeVoe is the wife and assistant to Clifford DeVoe.

About a week later, she walked in on Clifford completing Schubert's unfinished Eighth Symphony, expressing how it was one of her favorites as a child. After he finished, she then told him of Ramsey Deacon/Kilg%re's incarceration in Iron Heights Prison, the first of the 12 meta-humans they would have to find.

A week late, Marlize noted to Clifford how Team Flash had found Becky Sharpe quicker than they had originally anticipated, suggesting that they were smarter than previously thought. Clifford, however, arrogantly debunked this, claiming that he was still smarter, revealing a hidden camera inside the Samuroid head that they defeated before.

When Marlize found out that the prediction algorithms showed that Team Flash was closing in on Clifford's identity faster than predicted, she went to confront him in their lair. He told her that it would all end with his victory which confused her, but he then asked her to continue as she seemed to want to take the conversation by the long way. Still unconvinced, she told him of Team Flash's progress in learning about him, suggesting he had miscalculated their prowess. Clifford claimed not to be worried, having considered every variable as well as every possible way for the conversation to end. She asked how would it all end and he finished with his earlier statement that it would end with his victory. When Harry and Cisco Ramon had learned of Clifford DeVoe's identity, Marlize warned him that they were about to have guests. When Joe West and Barry Allen arrived and rang the bell for their house, she went to greet them happily and calmly. They seemed a little surprised about their welcome but asked if Clifford DeVoe was there and she told them that he was. Telling her that they just needed to speak with him, he came to the door in an electric wheelchair.

Personality
Marlize is a stern and goal-oriented woman, often times getting short with her husband, Clifford during times when she thinks his plan is ludicrous. Despite this, she has also been seen being very loyal to him as his wife, caretaker and literal partner in crime. Indeed, she took great offense to Barry Allen even suggesting that she was her husband's henchwoman, or, to use her own words, "some kind of evil secretary", vehemently affirming that she is loyal to her husband absolutely.

That being said, she is shown to be uncomfortable with her husband's plan to transfer his consciousness into the body of an innocent man and then discard his older, failing body. Whether this was out of concern for her husband's safety, general discomfort at the prospect of loving her husband in an unfamiliar body, some level of moral discomfort at the prospect of murder, or a combination of all three, is unclear.

Prior to her transformation into her husband's partner-in-crime, Marlize seemed a warmer person, having a sense of humor and appreciation for things Clifford dismissed as "inane". He noted that he would be nothing without her, a claim that holds weight given how Marlize appeared to keep him grounded and perhaps still does even after both have transformed into hardened criminals.

Initially, Marlize appeared to have no guilt or remorse for what Clifford's plans were in regards to disposing of Barry Allen, as she takes great joy in rubbing the fact that Barry was on trial for "killing" her husband in the face of Barry's wife, Iris West-Allen. However, it is later shown that she feels remorse for some certain actions Clifford commits, particularly in murdering Warden Wolfe in cold-blood.

Season 4

 * "The Flash Reborn"
 * "Mixed Signals"
 * "Luck Be a Lady"
 * "When Harry Met Harry..."
 * "Therefore I Am"
 * "Don't Run"
 * "The Trial of The Flash"
 * "The Elongated Knight Rises"  (mentioned)
 * "Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash"  (photo)
 * "True Colors"

Trivia

 * During casting announcements, Marlize was announced with having the name "The Mechanic". However, during airing, she never receives this name.