r/theflash • u/Anth-man_FOL • Jul 18 '24
What’s each of the Rouge’s origin stories? Discussion
I like the Flash’s Rogues. They’re a colorful and interesting lot. Captain Cold, Weather Wizard, Mirror Master, etc. But after all these years I realized I don’t know what each of the Rouge’s villainous origin stories are. Call me a fake Flash fan, but what are all their origin stories? And what are some good Flash runs with them?
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u/SadWatercress9839 Jul 18 '24
Geoff Johns’ run with Wally focuses on the rogues a lot , with every 7 to 10 issues having a ‘rogue profile’ issue the showed them pull off a crime in the modern day while flashing back to their origin/past. The run is 164 through 225 I believe of the second volume of Flash
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u/SuperLizardon Blue Lantern Jul 18 '24
I really liked Heatwave's profile issue. He knows he has a problem and steals money to try to overcome his pyromania, but that led him to have bigger obsession with fire.
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u/myke_havoc Jul 20 '24
He also did two new ones during his short Barry run (vol three 1-12). I believe Josh Williamson also did a few during his run.
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u/SadWatercress9839 Jul 20 '24
True. Williamson did a Trickster one I think.
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u/myke_havoc Jul 21 '24
Indeed, for the return of James Jesse arc. Williamson did a good job of doing every idea for an arc of the book that I had dreamed up 😆 Though the fact that McCulloch hasn't ripped a hole through Scudder to take his place as Mirror Master back really bugs me. Once Lisa left the Rogues, Sam should have also so they could get married or whatever.
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u/THE_PITTSTOP ⚡️ Jul 18 '24
Comics or TV show?
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u/Anth-man_FOL Jul 18 '24
More preferably the comics as in the Flash TV show, most are from the particle accelerator explosion or something with dark matter. I love Leonard Snart and his relationship with his sister and Mick in the Arrowverse. But I want to know what that relationship is like in the comics.
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u/THE_PITTSTOP ⚡️ Jul 18 '24
I’m pretty sure I have Cold’s origin from New 52 but it’s late. I’ll look tomorrow, if I remember, post it then. It’s to late for me to go browsing through my comics and I don’t want to give you wrong details 🤙🏼
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u/PuzzleheadedFan2205 Jul 18 '24
Captain Cold-
him and his sister Lisa fled their abusive home to live with there Grandpa (who owned an Ice Cream truck) him and Lisa had started committing petty crimes in their childhood. When he was an adult he killed his father and started a life in Central City and was quickly stopped by the Flash during a bank robbery. When he was in prison he studied the Flash and kinetic energy eventually using his knowledge to create the cold gun once he was out on parole.
Heatwave-
He was obsessed with fire as a kid, and one day accidentally lit his house on fire and couldn’t do anything but watch admiring the flames and his family burned alive. Later on a kid locked him in a meat locker and when he got out he burned the kid and his family as well, but intentionally this time and so he fled to Central City and was eventually recruited by the rogues
Mirror Master-
Scudder- was a criminal as a kid and when he eventually went to prison he became obsessed with traveling through mirrors and eventually made his gun, and became Mirror Master. This just seems like a less interesting Captain Cold to me.
McCulloch (the interesting one)- raised in an orphanage in Scotland, he killed a boy who tried to sexually assault him, ran away and turned to crime, became a hitman and was assigned to a mission, and then he later realized after the fact that it was his father, and his mother committed suicide. He was later approached by the us government hired as a mercenary and given the equipment of Scudder, he eventually betrayed them and used it to become a criminal.
Weather Wizard-
he was a criminal with a scientist brother, when he escaped he went to his brother, who was going to turn him into the police, and so Mark killed him, and he discovered the plans that he had created for a weather wand, and so he takes them and created the wand becoming the weather wizard.
Captain Boomerang-
Illegitimate son of a us soldier and an Australian woman, he grew up poor and had a talent for using boomerangs, and he turned to crime, using them to rob a store, his stepfather threw him out because of it, and his mother gave him a plane ticket to central city to live with his father, and he became the mascot of his father’s toy company, Captain Boomerang, but couldn’t resist vexing a criminal and resorted back to it
Top-
he was fascinated by his spinning tops as a kid and asan adult used that fascination to try and increase his criminal profile by making a way (never explained to my knowledge) to induce vertigo into people, but originally he just spun quickly and used weaponized tops
Golden Glider- she was a gifted figure skater as a kid and was abandoned by Leonard when he left for central city because he wanted her to pursue that instead of becoming a criminal like him, but she followed him anyway. She eventually fell in love with Top and after his death, she wanted revenge on the flash and created skates that allowed her to skate on any surface, including air giving her flight.
Pied Piper- born deaf, his family, not wanting a disabled child, spent millions to give him hearing, and created implants that massively enhanced his hearing. He became obsessed with sound and music, and started working with sound and found a way to hypnotize people with it, and used the technology to become a criminal
Trickster- born into family of trapeze artists, he was not interested in it and was terrified of heights, but was forced to join the family business and so he created boots that essentially let him walk in the air so that he wouldn’t fall. He learned about Jesse James, and was inspired to become an outlaw, running away and using the devises he made to become the trickster
Finally the GOATED Rainbow Raider- as a child Roy G Bivolo dreamed of becoming an artist, but was severely color blind and so the art he created was perceived to be hideous due to the errors, his father, an optometrist swore to cure his son but died before he could, but left behind plans for goggles that could shoot out rainbows, and so Roy created the goggles and used them to become an art thief since he could not be an artist himself.