Tony offered to buy Iris a drink, crushed her phone, kidnapped her, and threatened her. When he returned as Zombie Girder he went looking for Iris. Savitar wanted to kill her. Trickster tried to flirt with her. Thawne was creepily kind to her, stole her from Barry, and tricked her into almost marrying him. Negative Deon infected her with the time sickness to spread it to the positive forces. Eddie wanted Iris back
Thawne’s weird obsession with iris and getting Barry’s life is in the comics. Instead of him being nice when he don’t get her he have the mentality of if I don’t get her no one can in the comics .
Out of all of them I feel the most bad for Eddie he died only for the guy he that he thought he could kill come back to life, the guy he thought of as a friend and died for took his girl, and was basically forgotten
The only other arrowverse shows I watched were Arrow and Supergirl and I don’t recall any of the villains being creeps towards the female leads of those shows. I think it’s a thing specifically with The Flash. I understand Iris is gorgeous but a lot of this is creepy.
It's what happens when the hero has ONE love interest (looking at you, Oli.) Just look at the comics with Lois being the target, or Gwen (replaced by Mary Jane after The Fall)
3:33 own, that's so nice of you to say because the truth is Eobard is a lot LOT older than Iris, actually. I don't remember how much was adapted to the show, but the general idea is that he was a big fanboy before he becoming Reverse Flash, that means he obsessed not just with The Flash himself but with everything around his life, he even said it so, he wanted to BE him--- and have the things he had, the team, the wife and etc... Just imagine reading about this person your whole life, of course he would fantasize and romanticize the woman that was by his side, I guess that explains why Eobard always seemed a bit more nicer when around her (and nora, omg. saying she's like a daughter to him, holy cow.) also how proud he is when saying that she is HIS lightning rod now. It's interesting, creepy, but interesting. Great video.
Unpopular Opinion: I love this show but I don't like the way male characters consistently took away Iris's autonomy. I mean clearly from this video there were many times she was treated like a trophy. It reminds me of Lana Lang from Smallville or Elena Gilbert from The Vampire Diaries.
Lana absolutely had the same effect on villains but I don’t think Elena did. Klaus slapped the hell out of her just for shits and giggles. Kai mocked her when she tried to pull the doe eyes with him. She had a hold on Stefan and Damon but the villains couldn’t care less about her.
Only Grant as Savitar could make you feel for him, for sure he was a dickhead but love and hate are so close it's hard to tell which one is which... Grant did an amazing job at this.
at 6:20 for the answer to this question, Eobard someone likes iris. the character behind Eobard was to respect women as well, so thats why we always liked iris. he also liked her because she was the mom of Nora west-Allen their future daughter. and he also felt some affection to her like iris as well.
