Reverse Flash Tom Cavanagh Talks Justice League Vibe Cisco Carlos Valdes Death [SPOILERS]

MAJOR FLASH SPOILERS: Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) is dead. That is right, Dr. Harrison Wells, (Tom Cavanagh) killed him after he found out that he was really The Reverse Flash/Professor Zoom. The emotional scene shocked many fans, however, time travel might reverse that death. Now Cavanagh and executive producer Andrew Kreisberg are opening up about the emotional, albeit temporary, death of Justice League of America’s Vibe.

The Reverse Flash himself, Tom Cavanagh opened up to Variety about the emotional connection between Harrison Wells and Cisco:

“There’s a genuine affection between them, like when we’re watching the movie. when Thawne is in the current time, he’s wholly invested and he truly cares about Cisco and is truly impressed with him… he sees some of him[self] in Cisco and there’s a protégé-mentor relationship and there’s a genuine relationship. When he says that line, ‘you’ve shown me what it’s like to have a son,’ he’s not saying that idly, he means it. At the same time, the guy’s gotta get home.”

Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg also went into greater detail about the mindset of Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne:

“If one of us was suddenly thrown back many centuries into the past and it took you 15 years to get home, you wouldn’t be sitting there by yourself; you’d meet people, you’d make friends. Even if, intellectually, you were understanding that all these people have been long dead and ‘it doesn’t really matter to me where I come from, every one of them could die and my home is still where it is,’ no man is an island …

“Eobard Thawne himself is not an evil man. He has a reason for doing what he’s doing and he has an agenda and he thinks of himself as the hero. Bad people can love other people; bad people are capable of love, bad people are capable of incredible amounts of kindness and generosity.

“There’s nothing he said to Cisco in that scene that isn’t the truth. He’s sorry he found out, he’s sorry it has to happen, but it does have to happen, and there’s a scene in episode 16 which kind of mirrors this scene that I think really speaks to that.”

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