Did "The Flash" Just Give Up The Season 4 Big Bad??

Season 3 of "The Flash" has come and gone. Iris is alive, Barry is in the Speedforce, and we just might know who the Big Bad will be for Season 4!

Barry FINALLY Does the Right Thing

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After making everyone's life in the Arrow-verse a hot mess, Barry Allen finally gets the better of Savitar-Barry (with a major assist from Miss Iris), and atones for the Flashpoint debacle by willingly walking into the Speedforce prison with Mommy (well, not REALLY Mommy, but whatevs).

So, where does this leave us? Barry will presumably be in the Speedforce prison, but for how long? Answer-probably not very long. The Flashpoint thingy was a huge deal in the comics, but the show only took a little over ONE episode to tell the story. I, for one am not very jazzed about having Wally as the main guy. He's just OK, but Barry he ain't.

The burning question for Season 4, for me anyway, is who will the Big Bad be? They may have telegraphed the answer in the finale.

Savitar Barry was talking to the STAR Labs Scooby Gang when he said THIS:

"I remember everything... This is where we came up with cerebral inhibitor to use against DeVoe."

You may remember in a previous episode, villain of the week Abra Kadabra also mentioned the mysterious DeVoe:

"See. Here it is. In the future, you and I have been enemies for years. While there have been others — of course there's Thawne, Zoom, DeVoe — but none of them have hurt you like Savitar. He totally broke you."

So just who is this dude?

DeVoe, AKA The Thinker

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DeVoe With His Best Bud, King Shark

Turns out Clifford DeVoe was a terrible lawyer, who went all dark side back in the day, using all the tech he could get his hands on to become a major nemesis of Jay Garrick, the OG Flash.

He fights on for decades, eventually knocking heads with Barry, too. The main device he uses is called "The Thinking Cap," which really just looks like a colander with wires and shit coming out of it, but his look has changed over the years.

The Thinker 2.0

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DeVoe, Looking more Digital-ly

Does that look scarier to you? Hmm. IDK. Anyway, the showrunners have told us the Big Bad for Season 4 will NOT be another speedster, which gave all of us out there a HUGE sigh of relief.

The opening of the show was Barry always saying he was "the fastest man alive," but was that EVER true? Eh, not so much. Hell, EVERYONE was faster than Barry-even goofy Wally! What the hell?

So I'm more than ready to have a non speedster as the Big Bad. Tracy Brand has also been rumored to possibly be the next nemesis, considering her boo H.R. just bit it in the finale. I'd welcome that.

I think the season long Big Bad thing is running its course anyway. "Marvel's Agents of Shield" did a very good thing this past season, breaking it up into 3 distinct parts: The Ghost Rider, The LMDs, and the Framework/Hydra deal. As a result, the storytelling was much tighter, with few, if any, filler episodes.

So here's a suggestion: break up Season 4 of "The Flash" into 2 or 3 plots. Maybe Tracy as a villain, then bring in The Thinker. And, since Barry will be in the Speedforce prison for who knows how long, eating Mommy's home cooking, this might be a fun arc:

Barry Allen, The Biggest Loser Edition

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