Eobard eventually traveled back in time to the year 2000 to kill his nemesis as a child. When the 2024 Flash intervened, the Reverse-Flash murdered Nora Allen and framed Henry Allen instead, thus erasing this Flash from existence and severing Eobard's connection to the Speed Force, leaving him unable to travel back to his time. Knowing that Dr. Harrison Wells would be responsible for creating metahumans in 2020, Eobard killed the scientist, took his identity and spent the next thirteen years founding S.T.A.R. Labs and creating a particle accelerator, thus "recreating" the Flash and regaining his own link to the Speed Force. Faking paralysis, "Dr. Wells" pushes Barry to run faster due to needing his pure Speed Force connection to return to the future. After Eobard's secret is discovered, he is defeated by the combined efforts of the Flash, the Arrow and Firestorm. Eobard then assists Barry in traveling back in time to save Nora, in exchange for a time sphere to return to the future once the Speed Force wormhole is open. But Barry chooses not to save Nora and returns to destroy Eobard's time machine. As the Reverse-Flash prepares to kill the Flash, his ancestor Detective Eddie Thawne kills himself and seemingly erases Eobard from existence. A year later, Barry temporarily creates a new reality and restores Eobard to the timeline.