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But where the Black Flash appears... The Death of a Speedster always follows.
~ The Flash narrating about Black Flash.
The Black Flash appears whenever it's a speedster's time to become one with the Speed Force.
~ Commander Cold about Black Flash.

The Black Flash is a supervillain in the DC comics. who is actually one of the many embodiments of Death itself - though Black Flash only goes after the souls of people who possess superhuman speed connected to a special power known as the Speed Force.

It is unclear why Death takes on the form of Black Flash to track down speedsters - though some theories are made that either top-rate speedsters (such as the Flash) are too fast for traditional Death to catch up with or that Black Flash is a result of some kind of anomaly caused by the Speed Force itself, whatever the cause Black Flash exists for one purpose: to end the lives of speedy heroes and villains in the DC universe.

It should come as no surprise that the Black Flash was an enemy of the Flash (both past and future-versions) but his appearances are fairly rare - as was the case for most personifications of death, after all the arrival of the Black Flash usually suggests that Flash is about to die or in serious danger of doing so.

Though unlike most versions of Death, the Black Flash is capable of being defeated or at least stalled so not all encounters with the entity need be fatal to a speedster, though a victory against a being like Black Flash is likely in vain as he will keep coming back until his job is done. Black Flash was killed off a long time until he made his return in DC rebirth.

Appearances in other media[]

Smallville[]

Black Flash Smallville

Black Flash in the Smallville Season 11 comic "Haunted".

The Black Flash first appeared to Bart Allen while he was being tortured by Lex Luthor for swiping corporate data from LuthorCorp in the Season 6 episode "Justice" of Smallville. Trapped in a circular glass cage, Lex forced Bart to run at super speed to avoid the charged floor that would electrocute him to death if he stopped.

Bart discovered he could tap into the Speed Force just like that and immediately saw the dark creature waiting for him outside the glass. Black Flash tried to grab Bart after he passed out, however Bart was saved by Clark Kent. As he ran, the Black Flash appeared again, telling Bart "It is time" as it bolts toward him and tried to grab him. Years later, Bart told Clark about what happened and Clark decided to go to S.T.A.R Labs and seek Emil Hamilton's help. Professor Hamilton designed the treadmills to allow Bart to run as fast as he can while Clark's treadmill can accelerate him toward Bart's speed.

The goal of this experiment was if Clark could see the creature once he becomes fast enough. Bart tapped into the Speed Force and ran so fast that he caused the treadmill and the monitoring equipment to explode. Clark fell into the floor and saw Black Flash coming towards him. Black Flash decided not to drain Clark's speed since he didn't consider it to be pure and Clark vowed to help Bart stop him.

Clark attacked Black Flash as he was draining the speed of other people in Las Vegas while wearing a new suit. Black Flash tried to kill him until Bart Allen sacrificed himself to stop the creature. A big Speed Force explosion occurs that took out both Bart and Black Flash, leaving a giant lightning bolt in the desert. Clark was then left mourning Bart's death and forced to tell Watchtower that Impulse was gone.

Arrowverse[]

Main article: Zoom (Arrowverse)

In the second season of The Flash , the Time Wraiths were introduced as enforcers of the Speed Force's rules, chasing speedsters that mess with the timeline. Eobard Thawne says that their existence is common knowledge to speedsters.

In the Season 2 finale "The Race of His Life", Hunter Zolomon, who had been using "time remnants" of himself to carry out his goals, which created paradoxes the timeline, was dragged away into the Speed Force by the Time Wraiths, causing his body to decay and his black-blue costume to turn fully black. His blue lightning turned red too and his skin started decaying, turning him into the Black Flash and forcing him to enforce the rules that he'd been breaking for so long.

Hunter as a Speed Force spectre

Hunter Zolomon as the Black Flash. Due to his decayed skin and muscles, he walks around with his back always bent, his posture fixed to be like that.

In the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Hunter reappears as the Black Flash in the episode "The Legion of Doom", chasing after Eobard Thawne seeking to drag him into the Speed Force; since he was erased from existence in The Flash but brought back to the timeline in Season 3, he should not exist.

This led to Eobard forming the Legion of Doom (Damien Darhk and Malcolm Merlyn, later Leonard Snart) to help him find the Spear of Destiny, which could cement his position in time and get the Black Flash away from him. Eobard, Damien and Malcolm were able to outwit the Black Flash eventually, revealing that he can only see Eobard when he is using his speed (almost like an animal of sorts), and was locked in a bank vault in January 2025.

He is able to escape, however, and continue to chase after Eobard. In The Flash episode "Into the Speed Force", while Barry Allen ventures through the Speed Force in order to rescue Wally West, he comes across hallucinations of people he once knew. A Speed Force duplicate of Ronnie Raymond summons the Black Flash to attack Barry, but he manages to use his real-world tether device to teleport Black Flash away in a flash of light.

In the episode "Doomworld", set in the Legion's new reality created by the Spear of Destiny, Eobard, now head of S.T.A.R. Labs, kept Black Flash locked in a glass cage so that he cannot get to him. In the season finale "Aruba", Sara Lance uses the Spear to summon the Black Flash to the Battle of the Somme in 1916, allowing him to phase his decayed hand through Eobard's chest and cause his body to turned red and disappear, destroying him.

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Trivia[]

  • Interestingly, Black Flash's lightning symbol emblem is pointed right down the middle of his suit, unlike other speedsters' suits, which feature the emblem pointed either left or right, symbolizing either good or evil. Black Flash's middle emblem seems to symbolize that he is neither good nor evil, but is just doing his job.

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Movie
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Television
Season 1: Reverse-Flash | Captain Cold | General Wade Eiling | Gorilla Grodd | The Mist | Heat Wave | Weather Wizard | Girder | Rainbow Raider | Pied Piper | Peek-a-Boo | Everyman | Clyde Mardon | Multiplex | Simon Stagg | Blackout | Clock King | Captain Boomerang | Clay Parker | Vincent Santini | The Trickster | Trickster II | Anthony Bellows | Bug-Eyed Bandit | Blackout | Royal Flush Gang | Golden Glider | Deathbolt | Negative Speed Force
Season 2: Zoom | Reverse-Flash | Captain Cold | Killer Frost (Earth-2) | King Shark | Dr. Light (Earth-2) | Geomancer | The Turtle | Time Wraiths | Tokamak | Heat Wave | Atom-Smasher | Anthony Bellows | Sand Demon | Lewis Snart | Gorilla Grodd | Vandal Savage | Dark Archer | Damien Darhk | Weather Wizard | The Trickster | Tar Pit | Deathstorm (Earth-2) | Reverb | Trajectory | Pied Piper | James Zolomon | Griffin Grey | Rupture | Girder | Speed Force | Black Siren
Season 3: Savitar | Dr. Alchemy | Killer Frost | Captain Cold | The Rival | Black Flash | King Shark | Mirror Master | Top | Plunder | Gorilla Grodd | Solovar | Reverse-Flash | Magenta | Shade | Dominators | Trickster (Earth-3) | Clive Yorkin | Time Wraiths | Music Meister | Abra Kadabra | Reverb | Vigilante | Speed Force | Heat Monger
Season 4: The Thinker | Marlize DeVoe | Samuroid | Kilg%re | Gregory Wolfe | Amunet Black | Matthew Norvock | Killer Frost | Black Bison | Dwarfstar | King Shark | Anthony Bellows | Peek-a-Boo | Dark Arrow | Overgirl | Reverse-Flash | Prometheus (Earth-X) | Quentin Lance (Earth-X) | Trickster II | Prank | Jones | Crucifer | Siren-X
Season 5: Cicada (Orlin Dwyer & Grace Gibbons) | Reverse-Flash | Vanessa Ambres | Jones | Icicle | Weather Wizard | Rag Doll | Monitor | Zoom | Savitar | The Thinker | Clyde Mardon | John Deegan | A.M.A.Z.O. | Psycho-Pirate | Matthew Norvock | Peek-a-Boo | Goldface | King Shark | Gorilla Grodd | Godspeed | Negative Speed Force | Bug-Eyed Bandit
Season 6: Bloodwork | Anti-Monitor | Eva McCulloch | Black Hole (Joseph Carver, Ultraviolet, Dr. Light, & Sunshine) | Reverse-Flash | Mirror Duplicates | Monitor | Matthew Norvock | Godspeed | Pied Piper | Echo | Lex Luthor | Amunet Black | Goldface | Gorilla Grodd | Solovar | Rag Doll | Negative Speed Force
Season 7: Mirror Monarch | Speed Force | Godspeed | Black Hole (Mirror Master, Top, & Olsen) | Mirror Duplicates | Psych | Deon Owens | Chillblaine | Ultraviolet | Reverse-Flash | Sunshine | Abra Kadabra | Matthew Norvock | Psycho-Pirate
Season 8: Reverse-Flash | Deon Owens | Deathstorm | Despero | Negative Speed Force | Royal Flush Gang | Xotar | Top | Chillblaine | Damien Darhk | Psych | Blockbuster | Goldface | Sunshine | Dr. Light
Season 9: Red Death | Cobalt Blue | Negative Speed Force | Captain Boomerang II | Fiddler | Chillblaine | Pied Piper | Murmur | Goldface | Rainbow Raider | Tar Pit | Grodd | Bloodwork | Reverse-Flash | Zoom | Savitar | Godspeed

Video Games
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See Also
Impulse Villains

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Protagonists

Chloe Sullivan | Jor-El | Lana Lang

Main Antagonists
Brainiac | Darkseid | Doomsday | Genevieve Teague | Jason Teague | Lex Luthor | Lionel Luthor | Zod

Supporting Antagonists
Adam Knight | Alia | Bizarro | Basqat | Clark Luthor | Desaad | Dr. Helen Bryce | Faora Hu-Ul (Clone) | George | Gordon Godfrey | Granny Goodness | Jason Bartlett | Kal | Roger Nixon | Sheriff Ethan Miller | Tess Mercer | Zor-El

Reoccurring Antagonists
Agent Carter | Aldar | Alicia Baker | Alistair Kreig | Amanda Waller | Aethyr | Baern | Bette Sans Souci | Bruno Mannheim | Claire Foster | Conner Kent | Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux | Curtis Knox | Darius | District Attorney Ray Sacks | Donovan Jamison | Dr. Hudson | Dr. Langston | Dr. Lawrence Garner | Dr. Lia Teng | Edward Teague | Emily Dinsmore | Eric Summers | Eva Greer | Faora Hu-Ul | Floyd Lawton | Frank Loder | Frederick Walden | Gina | Gloria | Greg Arkin | Greg Flynn | Griff | Ian Randall | Jacob Finley | John Corben | Lieutenant Trotter | Linda Lake | Lionel Luthor (Earth-2) | Lucy Lane | Mara | Marilyn | Maxwell Lord | Molly Griggs | Morgan Edge | Nam-Ek | Paul Brenner | Perry White | Regan Matthews | Rick DeGroot | Rick Flag | Sam Phelan | Sasha Woodman | Slade Wilson | Steven Hamilton | Stuart Campbell | Talbert | Tina Greer | Vala | Van McNulty | Victoria Hardwick | Victoria Sinclair | Vordigan | Wes Keenan | Winslow Schott

One-Shot
Adrian Cross | A.J. | Alec Abrams | Amos Fortune | Andy Connors | Ben Meyers | Black Manta | Bernard Chisholm | Bob Rickman | Brendan Nash | Brianna Withridge | Bronson | Buffy Sanders | Byron Moore | Captain Cold | Cameron Mahkent | Carly Meadows | Charlotte Cavanaugh | Chrissy Parker | Coach Walt Arnold | Coats | Commander Cheng | Cyrus Gold | Dawn Stiles | Debra Burch | Desirée Atkins | Deputy Ellis | Deputy Harris | Derek Fox | Dr. Caselli | Dominic Sanatori | Duchess Gertrude | Duncan Allenmeyer | Earl Jenkins | Ed Burke | Edward Lott | Elise Fine | Emil LaSalle | Eric Marsh | Gabriel Duncan | Garrett Davis | Gary Watts | Graham Garrett | Greenfield Brothers | Geoff Johns | Hanison | Harriet | Harry Volk | Isis | Jake Pollen | Jason Dante | James Gibson | Jed McNally | Jeff Palmer | Jeremy Creek | Jeremiah Holdsclaw | Joar Mahkent | Joe Simmons | Jodi Keenan | Jodi Melville | Joseph Altman | Joseph Cavanagh | Jude Royce's Imposter | Justin Gaines | Kal-El | Kyla Willowbrook | Kyle | Lachlan Luthor | Lance | Lashina | Lawrence Grady | Lincoln Cole | Leslie Willis | Louis Leery | Lucas Luthor | LX-13 | Mack | Macy | Madelyn Hibbins | Magistrate Wilkins | Marcos | Marcus Becker | Maxima | Michael Westmore | Mike | Mikhail Mxyzptlk | Milo | Mr. Lyon | Nathan Dean | Nathaniel Tryon | Nicholas Conroy | Non (Clone) | Orlando Block | Pamela Black | Paul Hayden | Persuader | Pierce | Rachel Dunleavy | Randy Klein | Ray | Richter Maddox | Ricky | Robert Bethany | Ron Milano | Roy Rothman | Rudy Jones | Ruth Cavanagh | Samantha Drake | Scott Bowman | Sean Kelvin | Sebastian Kane | Seth Nelson | Shannon Bell | Siobhan McDougal | Simone Chesterman | Sir Harry Hardwick | Snake | Ted Palmer | Tempest Drake | Teth-Adam | Titan | Tim Westcott | Tommy Lee | Trent MacGowen | Twins | Tyler Crenshaw | Tyler McKnight | Tyler Randall | Vanessa Webber | Wade Mahaney | Wagner | Walt Masterson | William McBride | William Tate | William Taylor

Comic Characters
Bane | Black Flash | Brain | Brother Blood | Bruce Wayne (Earth 13) | Doctor Phosphorus | Eclipso | Felix Faust | Firefly | Greg Fox | Hades | Hank Henshaw | Holly Gehrig | Jacob Snell | Joe Chill | Kenny Cavanaugh | Kirk Langstrom | Lowtax | Malcolm Barnes | Matt Hagen | Megan Morse | Minister Kirt Niedrigh | Monsieur Mallah | Oswald Loomis | Pamela Isley | Parallax | Prometheus | Rose Wilson | Simon Jones | Trigon | Victor Fries | Victor Zsasz

Book Antagonists
Al Haines | Bill Dawkins | Blake Richards | Brian Parson | Charles Copper | Dawn Mills | Donald Jacobi | Ed Wall | Heather Fox | Hiram Welles | J.B. Bynes | James Wolfe | Jamie Dupont | Jason Littleton | Jed Franklin | Kyle Haines | Lawrence Farley | Layton Crouse | Max Cutler | Mayer Greenbrae | Mr. Trumble | Phil Meara | Raymond Dansk | Sam Fozter | Sean | Sharon Farley| Van De Ven

Organizations, Teams, & Gangs
Checkmate | Cheerleaders of Devotion | Darkseid's Elite | Darkseid's Prophets | Disciples of Zod | Female Furies | Injustice League | Insurgence Team | Intergang | Manhunters | Marionette Ventures | Mutants | Students for Lex Luthor | Suicide Squad | Weather Girls | Yellow Lantern Corps | Zoner Companions

Hostile Species
Phantom Wraiths | Monitors

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