With Barry only having hours to restore reality before this version of the Arrowverse's timeline solidifies, he approaches Damien Darhk, who is alive and well in this timeline and a partner with this timeline's Reverse-Flash. While Damien figures out the truth about Barry, he learns that the version of himself in the main Arrowverse timeline sacrificed himself to save his daughter Nora. With Barry still weakened by the procedure he attempted with Black Lightning, he is shocked to learn he lacks the connection to this reality's Speed Force and that Thawne succeeded in killing the Barry of this timeline as an infant. However, realizing that Barry is now stronger than him, Thawne noted that the only way to beat the Flash would be by becoming the Flash himself, ensuring he was the one struck by lightning in 2013 and becoming his own Scarlet Speedster to lead this vision of Team Flash while getting Iris to fall in love with him.
Labs to cause its shutdown, killing Joe West six months prior to the start of "Armageddon" and posed as the Flash attacking civilians.
The sneering supervillain confirms he created a Reverse-Flashpoint, starting by planting radioactive material in S.T.A.R. RELATED: The Flash: Chyler Leigh Brings Love & Hope to Arrowverse's Armageddon Crossoverīarry manages to retreat with Iris back to her home, unsuccessfully attempting to remind her of their past lives together, only to be interrupted and hauled by Thawne. Thawne counters this by suiting up as the Flash while he and the Arrowverse heroes attack Barry, with Barry's unseen history as the Reverse-Flash revealing that he apparently murdered several important Arrowverse characters, including the Legends of Tomorrow and Cisco Ramon. With the nuptials interrupted by a confused Barry Allen, the time-displaced Barry tries to prove that he is the Flash by putting on his costume, only to discover his ring contains a fitted Reverse-Flash costume. In Central City 2031, the Arrowverse heroes awkwardly reconnect for the wedding of Eobard Thawne and Iris West, with Iris advising Ryan Wilder on having a child with Sophie Moore while it's clear that Allegra Garcia and Chester P.
And as the Flash is horrified to discover a vision of Central City with his arch-nemesis the Reverse-Flash now evidently calling the shots, he must find a way to restore reality and return to his own time before it is too late to alter the speedster supervillain's latest machinations. The penultimate episode of the latest Arrowverse crossover event "Armageddon" is here, with Barry Allen desperately racing to the future to see if predictions about his descent into madness and ushering in the apocalypse are true. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Flash S eason 8, Episode 4, "Armageddon, Part 4," which aired Tuesday, December 7th on The CW.