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| - Time remnants, shielded by the Speed Force, seem to appear whenever an aborted timeline's events have to happen for the current timeline to exist, but would technically never happen, because a speedster's actions led to them being erased from existence. This happened to Eobard Thawne, who came from an older timeline, then restarted the timeline in the year when he first travelled by time-wrapping it in a predestination loop, so that Barry's mother wouldn't be murdered by him in 2000, the particle accelerator explosion, as well as Barry Allen's ascent to the mantle of the Flash, would happen in 2013; only for Eobard to cease to exist due to the suicide of Eddie Thawne, his ancestor. However, since Eobard Thawne's existence and the changes to the timeline that he brought (the death of Harris
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| - Time remnants, shielded by the Speed Force, seem to appear whenever an aborted timeline's events have to happen for the current timeline to exist, but would technically never happen, because a speedster's actions led to them being erased from existence. This happened to Eobard Thawne, who came from an older timeline, then restarted the timeline in the year when he first travelled by time-wrapping it in a predestination loop, so that Barry's mother wouldn't be murdered by him in 2000, the particle accelerator explosion, as well as Barry Allen's ascent to the mantle of the Flash, would happen in 2013; only for Eobard to cease to exist due to the suicide of Eddie Thawne, his ancestor. However, since Eobard Thawne's existence and the changes to the timeline that he brought (the death of Harrison Wells and Eobard's subsequent masquerade, the explosion of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, the creation of the Flash in 2014) had to happen for Barry to fight him in 2015 and for Eddie to decide to sacrifice himself in the first place (i.e., he had to exist to cause the changes in the first place), the Speed Force turned Thawne into a time remnant who would continue to exist until the fixed point in time when time "catches up to him". However, it's also possible that a younger Eobard from 2016 became a time remnant after his older counterpart ceased to exist following the grandfather paradox created by Eddie's death to ensure his personal timeline and the primary timeline continues to exist. The explanation as to why the "Evil Wells's" time remnant was preserved in the new timeline came from Harrison Wells from an alternate Earth. The mechanics regarding the appearances of time remnants of other speedsters, such as those of Hunter Zolomon and Barry Allen, are not explained in such a complex manner as Thawne's, but it can be presumed that their origins are similar: they are the remains, or "remnants" of an aborted timeline. However, it is noted that the appearance of these time remnants in the current timeline requires some sort of action from the speedsters themselves. All that is known is that after Barry Allen decided to go to Earth Two, Hunter Zolomon created a time remnant of himself and convinced that remnant to die on Earth One before the eyes of Team Flash, ensuring that Barry would want to increase his speed and avenge the man that took on the name of Jay Garrick. Time remnants, unlike, for example, the "clones" of Multiplex, seemed to act completely separate from the "main" or "current" version of the person, and required convincing to allow themselves to be sacrificed. It is unknown what would happen to a time remnant if they realized that the timeline they come from no longer exists, or that they can't exist any longer themselves either. Presumably, they would dissipate, like what happened to a 2015 version of Barry Allen, after he saw the 2016 version of Barry Allen save Nora Allen and defeat Eobard Thawne, changing the timeline. The 2016 version of Barry, as well as the pre-Flashpoint version of Eobard also dissipated after a version of Eobard that experienced the effects of "Flashpoint" came back to 2000 and killed Nora. However, the version of Eobard that helped Barry undo Flashpoint was fully aware that he himself was a time remnant due to his ancestor Eddie Thawne's suicide. As a result, he had to constantly keep moving in order to stay ahead of Hunter Zolomon, who had been turned into an enforcer of the Speed Force, and was trying to correct the aberration that Thawne had become due to the fact that he wasn't supposed to exist in the current timeline.
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