The difference between a good hero and a great one is all down to a good rapscallion art gallery . Every paladin take that utter compelling baddie to contend , andThe Flashhas plenty to choose from across DC history . From Captain Cold to Reverse Flash , the Flash always has a major scourge that readers will have a go at it to see him take on . But not all rogues are create adequate .

There have beendozens of edition of the Flash over the decades , from Jay Garrick to Wally West . As such , each version of the Flash has push their own group of baddie , and some of them have been truly eccentric . These are the top 10 weirdest villains that have go up against some version of the Flash .

10The Top Was The Fastest Man Alive – When Spinning

First Appearance:The Flash#122 by John Broome, Carmine Infantino, & Joe Giella

Flash is used to fighting speedster villains , but the Top was a unequaled spin on this estimate . Roscoe Dillon was a untried boy who was ghost with tops , to the point he prefer play with them to human striking ( or playing mutant with other kids ) . As he grew up , this anti - societal behavior finally morphed into a lifetime of crime .

want to incorporate tiptop into it , Roscoe analyze how they worked and made legion top - related gadgets as well as learning how to birl himself at inhuman fastness , which somehow also had the side effect of increasing his brainpower power . This would finally climax inTop advance full - on telekinetic powers . While Flash is used to defend costumed supervillains , Top was one of the weird ones – though that is precisely what made him such a memorable antagonist .

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9Rainbow Raider Takes The Cake As Flash’s Most Colorful Villain

First Appearance:The Flash#286 By Cary Bates, Don Heck, Frank Chiaramonte, Gene D’Angelo, & Ben Oda

Roy G. Bivolo was an incredibly gifted painter , even at a untested age . Unfortunately , he was also colorblind . Wanting his boy to see the true beauty he had produce , Roy ’s Church Father design a special set of glasses for him , which would allow him see colour . Unfortunately , these did n’t work . Instead of allow his son to perceive color , Roy ’s Church Father created crank that could send out beam of colour , which couldtransform into strong-arm objects , unsighted the great unwashed , turn the wearer invisible , or strike masses ’s emotions .

Infuriated at his father ’s failure to rent him see colour , Roy immediately turned to a life story of offense , cast his father ’s invention to tragical misuse . This overreaction eventually led him to combat the Flash , and he ’s become a member ofFlash ’s scalawag gallery ever since , as quite literally one of the Speedster ’s most colourful villain .

8The Eel Pushed Jay Garrick To The Limit With His Slippery Crimes

First Appearance:Comic Cavalcade#3 by Gardner Fox & Lou Ferstadt

Eel Madden was one of the first villains that Jay Garrick give way up against during his term of office as the Flash , and did a surprising amount of impairment in the process . Jay Garrick ’s Flashwas used to circumvent most criminals with comfort , but Eel took things to a new stage . With his trusty squirt gun full of grease , Eel was able to make the land far too slippy for Jay , causing him to fall behind their first clash .

In a second engagement , Eel supervise to manipulate the legal philosophy , gettingJay Garrick shake off in prison house for not wearing greenish article of clothing , which was illegal grant to ancient constabulary . Finally , in their third coming upon , Jay was able to lift up on Eel and defeated him before the piece had a chance to sneak off .

7Razer Was Almost Too Sharp For The Flash

First Appearance:The Flash#84 by Mark Waid, Barry Kitson, Joe Marzan Jr, Ian Akin, Ken Branch, Gina Going, & Gaspar Saladino

Wally West took over the curtain from Barry Allen , and father a dandy routine of his own villains as a result . One of them was an highly large and muscular man named Razer , who wore a battlesuit surface in lubrilon . Lubrilon was a frictionless substance that was suppose to be a thousand times more slippery than Teflon . This made grabbing or holding onto Razer practically impossible .

More concerningly , Razer ’s workforce were also cover in spikes , which is how he managed to hold onto thing without it also slipping forth . This mean grabbing Razer was much insufferable , and being grab by him was incredibly painful . Wally failed to stop Razer twice , before finally managing to cover him in tar , which stretch the lubrilon .

6The Folded Man Took Crime To A New Dimension

First Appearance:The Flash#153 by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, Paul Pelletier, Jose Marzan Jr, Tom McCraw, & Gaspar Saladino

Edwin Gauss is one of the most brilliant mind in the DC Universe , even often being equate to Mr. Terrific . His greatest achievement was creating a case that allow him to locomote between dimension . Each proportion grant Edwin differing ability , such as being 2D render him inaccessible and inconspicuous when viewed from the sides.4D granted Edwinmassivelyincreased power .

He was forced into a liveliness of criminal offense after he invented his technical lawsuit , since his benefactor , who provided him with the resources , strain to claim ownership over it . When Edwin attempt to wipe out his benefactor , Flash got involve , and the following battle took them across dimensions .

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5Tar-Pit Had The Ability To Possess Anything (Until He Got Stuck In Tar)

First Appearance:The Flash#174 by Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, Doug Hazlewood, James Sinclair, and John Costanza

Joseph Monteleone was the brother of a major drug kingpin , and wanting to take precaution of his brother , Joseph was given a job peddling drugs . Joseph never take this seriously and promptly ended up in Ironheights Penitentiary . It was here that Joseph resolve to meditate to pass the prison term , and discovered he was a metahuman capable of astral throw his spirit into inanimate objects .

With nothing better to do , he decide to lead off stimulate chaos by possessing random things throughout the urban center , until he own a tub of tar and got trap . For whatever ground , Joseph determine he actually favor this to having a human torso , andsimply became a jumbo tar freak andbecame a nightmare for the Flash .

4Double-Down Pushed His Luck Against The Flash

First Appearance:The Flash: Iron Heightsby Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, Prentis Rollins, Chris Chuckry, & John Costanza

One of the stranger villain blood line was that of Jeremy Tell . Jeremy was a gambler , and apparently not a good one , as he lost all of his money in one couple . Angered by this , he immediately murdered the achiever and was surprised when the winner ’s cursed deck of cards latched onto him .

Jeremy then starts a life of offence as thevillain Double Down with his new powers . With the anathemise pack of cards of cards fused to his pelt , he was able to launch the cards from him . These cards have proven remarkably deadly , as they ’ve evenbeen shown to be capable of suffer Superman , as well as cutting through the legal community of a prison house electric cell .

3Papercut Was One Of The Flash’s Most Annoying Villains

First Appearance:The Flash#10 by Joshua Williamson, Felipe Watanabe, Oclair Albert, Chris Sotomayor, and Steve Wands

Benedict Booker is the non - threatening villain jazz as Papercut . Benedict has the singular power to see to it anything made out of wood , though he sputter to control wood itself . This has resulted in him mostly using his powers to control razor - sharp pieces of paper that he run on him .

course , this does n’t make him the most threatening villain Flash has ever seen . During one of his first appearances , despite Benedict using his absolute full power , he was quicklyoverwhelmed and vote out by Kid Flash . amazingly , this was not the last readers saw Papercut , and he has re - appeared a few times since , even link the Legion of Zoom at one compass point .

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2Black Mold Lived Up To His Name, Using Mold To Kill People

First Appearance:The Flash#31 by Van Jensen, Robert Venditti, Brett Booth, Norm Rapmund, Andrew Dalhouse, & Dezi Sienty

Black Mold was everything his name implied . He was a man with a specialised suit who used mold spores to kill people . It did n’t get much more complicated than that . finally , Black Mold actually retired from his role as a supervillain until a police force detective stole his uniform from the evidence locker .

This detective would then become the 2nd Black Mold . Despite his simple gimmick , he was ask in some amazingly important Flash moment , including serve Henry Allen miss prison . Outside of that , Black Mold really has n’t appear since . probably due to the fact his gimmick is n’t something that could stick out up to theFlash ’s nonsensical hurrying .

1Girder Was Half A Man Of Steel

The Flash: Iron Heightsby Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, Prentis Rollins, Chris Chuckry, and John Costanza

Tony Woodward was a valet de chambre who used to work in a steel factory . One day , after ravish a female co - worker , he caused a orgy and his co - worker tossed him into a vat of molten blade . This was n’t the last people would see of Tony though , as this picky sword was entrust over from a S.T.A.R. labs experiment .

Instead of suffer a horrific death , Tony became draw together with the steel and endure the incident . He then returned with incredible strong suit and enduringness . He then went on to become aconsistent enemy of the Flashand even faced off against Cyborg a few time , which made him a surprisingly versatile baddie .

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Flash villain the Top shows off his powers by spinning rapidly in a circle.

Flash Villain Razer bursting through a door, saying “I’m the guy you hire to tear a place down to the ground”

Flash villain Tar Pit robbing a toy store

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Flash villain Paper cut robbing civilians, telling them “everybody empty your wallets”

Black Mold leads an attack on the Flash by a group of his rogues

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