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Reverse-Flash

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Eobard Thawne
Series DC Comics
Age Unknown
Birthday Sometime in 2460s
Sex Male
Species Unknown
Height 5'll"
Weight 197 lbs.
Alignment Chaotic Evil
“ This ability to travel through time revealed the truth. My fate was to become your greatest enemy. I was never going to be the Flash. So I became the reverse of everything that you were. The more people you saved, the more you were loved...the more I had to take from you. „
~ Eobard Thawne

Eobard Thawne, aka the Reverse-Flash, is the arch-nemesis of The Flash (Barry Allen) from DC Comics.

Background[]

Sometimes it is best to never meet your ideals. The ideals shown from earlier fighters have brought them into being the greatest of heroes like Rock Lee. However, this is not always the case in some situations as the interaction can result in the creation of your worst enemy. And for Barry Allen and the bearers of The Flash, it resulted in bringing out their worst arch-nemesis that all follow Barry’s shadow.

Eobard Zoom Thawne was born in 2451, the future around the 25th century, and actually had problems at the start. Despite his social skills and hard time focusing, he was determined to work and study his ideal, hero, and “friend”, The 2nd Flash, or Barry Allen. (Keep in mind as the future was aware of Allen’s identity and legacy in his life, so big karma coming) He would achieve in becoming a professor at the Flash Museum by exploring both his deal and the Speed Force. It was his knowledge and exploration of the Speed he was nicknamed, Professor Zoom, and continuing in fantasizing his ideal he ended up believing he was Barry. Went as far as plastic surgery just to look like Barry. One day, he discovered one of Barry’s equipment, the Cosmic Treadmill, that allows the user to time travel. After getting it, Zoom would finally get to travel to the past and meet his idol.

But, shit hit the fan that sealed his fate. Due to the treadmill not being active, it created a huge side effect that brought Zoom several years after Barry’s death and where Wally West became the third Flash. He went madly unstable when he discovered from that version’s Flash Museum where he would become Allen’s greatest enemy: The Reverse-Flash.

To try and save Allen’s legacy and prevent this, he would disguise himself as Allen and trick Wally West for several months. Until he went mad again by having one of his identity crises exposed him and Wally realizing he was a faker. With Wally’s assistance with Hal Jordan and his allies, Zoom was defeated and tricked into returning to his timeline with his powers from the Cosmic Treadmill gone and forgetting everything that happened. All except for one thing: his hatred for Barry Allen.

He would start his criminal record in his “Professor” which was short-lived when he found a time capsule where one of the items was the Silver Age costume of the Flash. This was where he started accepting his legacy and turned it yellow and would start gaining and learning the abilities of the Flash thanks to the Speed Force energy which was in the suit. Professor Zoom would master and learn from The Speed Force, and make Barry Allen’s destiny a living hell by screwing his origin through any means including his own.

No matter how fast you will run, they will always be a Reverse to counter that action.  

Powers & Abilities[]

  • Negative Speed Force: Described as cancerous energy generated from Thawne’s absorption of the Speed Force (the barrier that surrounds the entire multiverse which separates the multiverse from the Sphere of the Gods, said to exist within every universe, era, dimension and every part of reality and supplies everything with kinetic energy) and is the opposite of hope materialized, the Negative Speed Force is Thawne’s primary source of energy and the source for a good majority of his emotion-reactant abilities. He is the generator of this energy and can generate it with each step he takes. This power is also directly controlled by emotions; the angrier the user grows, the more destructive it’s power gets. It can also turn normal Speed Force users' powers destructive and can tear the user apart inside-out with prolonged use. However, running aside a Speed Force user can calm the negativity down. If he feels like it, can trap others in it like Barry, Max Mercury and Jesse Quick and trying to escape or staying too long in it can break people down on an atomic level, and can cut a speedster off from the Speed Force.
    • Godly Speed: Thawne is capable of moving at vast superhuman speeds, fast enough to match Barry Allen. However, due to his obsessive desperation to be like Barry, Thawne can never let himself be faster than the person he wants to be. When fighting the Flash, Thawne raced around the Earth dozens of times and across space and time at incalculable speeds. His immense speed allows him to generate superhuman force, allowing him to deal devastating blows to opponents.
      • Speed Mirages: A handy trick of his. By running around impossibly fast, Thawne is able to create afterimages to make himself appear at two or multiple places at once. One example of him using this was to distract Sargon the Sorcerer while he read his entire magic book.
      • Air Projectiles: The Reverse-Flash’s incredible speed grants him multiple methods of air manipulation, including the ability to fire bursts of air so powerful that they can manage to knock back Hal Jordan.
      • Vacuum Creation: Although originally a move done by The Flash, the Reverse-Flash knows a technique that allows him to form a vacuum around someone at a fast speed. This allows him to suffocate anyone who’s reliant on air to breathe, which could quickly incapacitate them given some time.
      • Vortexes: By running around really, really fast, spinning like a ballerina, or spinning his arms around, Thawne can create enormous vortexes strong enough to throw cars, breakstone, and drill through the earth. He’s even able to reverse other speedster's vortexes such as Johnny Quick’s and Barry's one with his speed alone.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: Thawne possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. This allows him to easily react to danger and events, and perceive the world in slow motion.
    • Superhuman Stamina: Thawne's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for long periods of time without getting tired or weak.
    • Superhuman Agility: Thawne's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speed.
    • Superhuman Strength: Thawne can use his speed to amplify his natural strength. In a fight with Batman, Thawne was able to easily toss Bruce around with great force, and deliver deadly blows with his fists. He has been shown capable of effortlessly lifting and dragging the Flash around at super-speed, using only hand. He was also able to easily break Kid Flash's bones and tendons by applying pressure with his foot.
    • Negative Speed Force Aura: Like the other DC speedsters, he is passively surrounded by an aura that is kind of like a semi-forcefield that can absorb damage before building it up before it explodes and negate heat & friction when running at high speeds. However, unlike Speed Force users, his aura can repel others and incinerate most physical things before they make a direct contract if he chooses so.
      • Superhuman Durability: Thawne can resist tremendous kinetic impact forces with ease. He has been able to withstand hits from the Flash while moving at intense speeds, endure a point blank blast of lightning to the face, and even withstand being pushed through time and pummeled into the ground of a prehistoric Earth.
    • Electrokinesis: Thawne is able to generate and manipulate the electrical energy that he draws from the Negative Speed Force. This lightning emanates off of him as red electrical arcs from all around his body, and from his eyes as streaks, especially when he moves at super speed.
      • Lightning Generation: A staple of the DC speedster arsenal, Thawne is no stranger to using electrical energy to blast his foes. Said electrical energy is powerful enough to put all of Wayne Manor’s security systems offline, stop blood pumping through someone's nervous system and instantly incinerate flesh. These blasts can also be combined with the Negative Speed Force; by doing so, it can corrupt Speed Force users like Barry into the Negative Flash by connecting him to it.  
      • Electromagnetism: Thawne's electrokinetic abilities allow him to disrupt and control the electromagnetic spectrum to some extent. He mainly uses this power to control his suit's armor. When he releases his suit from his ring, the pieces of it are conducted by his lightning to form the suit around him. Thawne's lightning has also been shown to interfere with, and fry electronics.
      • Electro-Blast: Thawne can project powerful arcs and blasts of his Negative Speed Force lightning.
      • Energy Manipulation: By manipulating Iris's energy influx, Thawne was able to make it so that if Barry's speed force aura made contact with her, it would annihilate the universe. Theoretically, Thawne should be capable of manipulating the energy influx of anything to cause the universe to end upon contact with his aura, as well.
        • Power Absorption: By creating an electrical field around a person and focusing it, Thawne can use his negative energy to "steal years" from other's lifelines, adding to his power. This process rapidly ages the victim to death.
      • Speed Force Negation: By contaminating them with his negative electricity, Thawne can disrupt a speedster's connection to the Speed Force, removing aspects of their powers.
      • Infection: By infecting a Speed Force conduit with his electricity, Thawne can make them generate their own Negative Speed Force energy.
    • Enhanced Senses: The Negative Speed Force grants Thawne enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned his reaction speed, as well as grants him extra temporal senses.
      • Cosmic Awareness: Thawne was able to "feel" the presence of Doctor Manhattan, "like a wave of static electricity", and was aware of his alterations to time and reality, despite no one else having knowledge of this at the time.
    • Molecular Acceleration: Thawne can vibrate his own molecular structure at varying degrees for a number of purposes, by adjusting to different frequencies. Through contact, he can even use his vibrations to send someone back to their home dimension.
      • Hypnosis: Thawne can speak at a hypnotic frequency that can push and pull others to do things they would never do, by subconsciously creating doubt in their minds. He has used this ability to manipulate the Flashes on multiple instances. Thawne can do this at a vibrational frequency that makes him imperceptible to other speedsters, leaving no trace that he was ever there. He could even use this to completely brainwash people, as he did to Dawn and Don Allen.
      • Vibrational Manipulation: As Thawne has complete control of his atoms and molecules, he is able to force them to vibrate at a certain frequency, to achieve several different unique effects. This is one of his primary ways of ending a fight such as vibrating someone so fast they get lobotomized, other various abilities relating to him vibrating his molecules include:
        • Intangibility: By vibrating his molecules on an atomic level, and by doing so at just the right frequency, Thawne can allow himself to become intangible, allowing people or objects to pass right through him.
        • Phasing: By vibrating his molecules at just the right frequency, Thawne can allow himself to become momentarily intangible, and phase through objects.
        • Possession: By vibrating at the right frequency, Thawne can possess the bodies of others. He was able to merge himself with Barry Allen, sending Barry's essence into the Speed Force, leaving Thawne with complete control over his body.
        • Vibrational Frequency Tracking: The Reverse-Flash’s powers grant him the ability to track down vibrational frequencies, thus allowing him to locate and track down anything out of sight based on the vibrational frequency that it emits.
        • Dimensional Travel: Thawne can use his speed to travel in and out of the timestream, allowing him to travel to other planes of reality and traverse dimensions at will. He is also able to instantly travel in and out of the Negative Speed Force.
    • Accelerated Healing: Thawne, just like any other Speed Force conduit has the ability to heal at an accelerated rate to where normally fatal injuries can’t kill him. Combined with his immortality, this makes it pretty much impossible to put him down through normal means alone.
      • Regeneration: Thawne can regenerate from injury much faster than any normal human, and is able to regrow entire body parts and organs.
        • Resurrection: Even after being disintegrated by Doctor Manhattan, Thawne's ability to regenerate allowed him to be resurrected.
    • Retrocognition: After being hit by lightning in his cell at Iron Heights, Thawne gained the memories of his life before the Flashpoint, including his death at the hands of Thomas Wayne, despite these memories being erased from his mind after the Flashpoint. He also experiences every single one of his deaths, including those from prior timelines and versions of reality, at the same time.
    • Shockwave Generation: By simply clapping his hands, snapping his fingers, or even simply running around, he is able to cause massive, deafening shockwaves and sonic booms, even multiple in a short period of time.
    • Time Manipulation: Another staple of the Flashes’ abilities, like the Speed Force, the Negative Speed Force is directly tied to all of the time and by his sheer running speed alone, Thawne can manipulate time in various ways. These time-related abilities include:
      • Acausality/Fate Bypass: As with other speedsters, Thawne can vibrate at such precise frequencies and enter the timestream, and time travel through sheer speed alone, anywhere from years to centuries into the past and future. Thawne himself uses this more than any other speedster, including any of the Flashes. Unlike other Flashes, he can alter time without any consequences.  
      • Time Stopping/Slowing: By tapping into the Negative Speed Force, he has gained the ability to slow down his perspective of time to a point where normal humans are perceived as completely still and even completely stop time itself with a single thought if he needs to.
      • Youth Draining: Thawne can drain the youth of someone he touches and add to his own, gaining the memories and experience of the victim while aging them into dust.
      • Rapid Aging: One of his most morbid abilities, Thawne has the capability of aging himself to an old man, all the way down to a kid, as well as other people in a matter of seconds while getting flashes of their lives when doing so. His rapid aging powers are potent enough to turn people into dust!
      • Time Remnants: While he hasn’t exactly used this power in the comics, in the CW Show, Thawne has been able to pull a Booster Gold and pull past & future versions of himself into battle, in the form of “temporal duplicates” which are shielded by the (Negative) Speed Force to prevent time paradoxes from occurring. However, in the comics, he has been able to pull other characters from the timeline and even send them back with a mere touch.
      • Time Travel: Thawne can use his speed to freely travel throughout time, and does not need assistance from the Cosmic Treadmill. He is master of time travel and time manipulation.
        • Reality Alteration: Thawne's ability to travel throughout the timestream allows him to manipulate events at will to satisfy his own needs. By taking his time within the moment and jumping back into the timestream before time restarts, Thawne can change history without shattering the timeline (and thus, without causing any side-effects, such as a Flashpoint).
    • Mental Powers: With a combination of vibrational frequencies and absorbing a special type of ultra-radiation, he has somehow achieved mental and mind powers. While he has seemingly lost some of these powers over the years, they will still be included for the sake of argument, the rule of composite characters, and due to being listed under his suggested media guide. These abundant 25th-century mind powers comprise of:
      • Telepathy: Despite being one of Thawne’s lesser-known abilities, his telepathy is surprisingly versatile. Although the primary use of it is for controlling other people's minds (elaborated below), Thawne can use it to swap minds with people in different time periods, invade other people's minds, read minds, telekinesis, and even knock people out cold with a mental blast.
      • Mind Control: One of Thawne’s wackier abilities, he is able to speak at a hypnotic frequency that can push or pull others to do things they would never do, subconsciously creating doubt in their minds and makes him imperceptible to other speedsters such as Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, and Wally West. However, it doesn’t stop with just his voice, as eye contact or even being hit with a blast of wayward mental energy is enough to force you on Thawne’s side. If someone tries to mind control him, he can adjust his mind to the proper wavelength, resisting it.
      • Memory Manipulation: Thawne’s futuristic technology has granted him the power to manipulate memory to a complex degree. It’s incredibly subtle as well, allowing Reverse-Flash to erase Iris Allen’s memory almost instantly and without fellow partygoers noticing what he had done.
    • Astral Projection: A very wacky ability that not many people know he has, he has somehow learned a technique from the 25th century that allows himself to project his astral image through time. This projection can also interact with physical inanimate objects, after using Meson-Radiation to turn his astral image to “flesh and blood”.
    • Existence Erasure: Another one of Thawne’s lesser-known hax but still horrifying, all the same, Thawne has the ability to rip people from the timestream and erase them from not just existence, but history altogether. He’s done this to Barry’s former best friend Doug, his own brother, and the former professor of the Flash Museum.
    • Cosmic Awareness: As all speedsters have shown with this ability, they are able to sense changes in reality. Such as Thawne noticing ​​Barry creating the Flashpoint event while he was running through the timestream. This is how users who use the (Negative) Speed Force are able to be one of the first to be aware of the space-time continuum.
    • Paradoxical Existence: In a previous incarnation, Thawne was transformed into a living paradox when Barry Allen created the Flashpoint timeline, as he was running through the timestream when this happened. This made Thawne (even in the current version of reality) immune to alterations to his personal history, making him the sole constant in any possible timeline and thus impossible to erase him from existence. He lost this ability after Barry grounded him to the timeline via the Speed Force.
    • Paradoxical Immortality: Quite possibly Thawne’s most terrifying ability, Thawne’s inability to be permanently killed via typical means is certainly a power to look out for. This ability stems from his existence as a living paradox. This isn’t to say Thawne can’t be ‘killed’ for a while via physical means, however, the Negative Speed Force itself will revive him, even as a corpse!
  • Deception: Thawne organized each of his acolytes' origin stories, forcing them to trust him as he "saved" them at just the right time; a ploy he kept up for centuries. He was also able to manipulate Barry into trusting him multiple times, only to subsequently betray him.
  • Genius Level Intellect/Science: Thawne's brilliant mind led him to use his speed dangerously. Thawne's smart enough to turn an electric shaver into a matter distributor, that can alter physical appearances. Eobard has also shown to have supreme intelligence about the Speed Force/Negative Speed Force, and can manipulate it effectively to his will. His understanding of the Speed Force is so great that he considers Wally West's power to generate costumes through the Speed Force a novice ability.
  • Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced): Thawne's mastery over his speed has allowed him to become a dangerous and experienced fighter. Utilizing his powers, Thawne created an effective fighting style to combat all types of opponents. He has even faced highly experienced fighters like Batman and won.
  • Historiography: Thawne is very knowledgeable on world history and culture, spanning all the way back to Magali's ancient times. In addition to being an expert on the history of the Flash, Thawne has also memorized every version of his own entire history, past and future, including all the changes and deaths.
  • Intimidation: Thawne's intimidating presence can be attributed to his immense power and sociopathic mentality.
  • Leadership: Thawne led a team of his own "acolytes", dedicated to taking down the "demon" Flash.
  • Mechanical Engineering: After discovering Rip Hunter's lost journals, Thawne was capable of building a Cosmic Treadmill, similar to the Flash's original one.
  • Multilingualism: Thawne speaks English, Nahuatl, Spanish, and Zulu.
  • Pedagogy: As a professor, Thawne shared his vast knowledge regarding the Flash and the Speed Force with others. As the leader of his acolytes, Thawne was concerned with teaching them how to best use their metahuman abilities, as well as other knowledge they would need to combat the Flash.
  • Tactical Analysis: Thawne had been teaching tactics to his acolytes for centuries, preparing them for the battle against the Flash.
  • Temporal Mechanics: Thawne holds expertise in the study and theory of time, being aware of and able to identify the "strange" nature of alterations to the timeline. His unmatched understanding of this concept make Thawne a master of both time travel and time manipulation, allowing him to alter the timeline in the way he wants without consequences, something that other speedsters cannot do. He also possesses great knowledge and understanding of the Speed Force and Negative Speed Force.

Equipment[]

  • Costume Ring: This special signet ring as the name states is where the costume where all Flashes are put and can pop them out at any time, these suits are coated in a special chemical to ​​protect against heat and air friction. His most recent suit is made from pieces of conductive metal which he can store in the ring via thermal expansion and combined with his electromagnetism, can conduct the pieces around his body at will. The suction of the ring can also weaken radiation.
  • Lightning Rod: Since Zoom didn’t have any friends or family to ground himself from being consumed by the (Negative) Speed Force when entering it like Barry or Wally, he decided to create his own. This rod is able to take in the Speed Force and focuses it into a destructive force. It can be used as a melee weapon, be strong enough to block hits from Jay Garrick and as a bonus, it can conduct lightning. Spoiler alert; at the end of Finish Line, Thawne gained a physical lightning rod being Barry Allen. However, this caused his entire history to be reset.
  • Element Z: A new element discovered by Thawne used to grant super-speed and vibrations similar to the wave patterns of the Flash’s uniform (which gives powers btw), kept in a locket around his neck; the effects of the element can only work if it’s absolutely pure and stable. While this isn’t as good as the Negative Speed Force or siphoned off powers, it’s worth noting that he has backup powers in case he loses connection with the Negative Speed Force or his powers get taken away.
  • Explosives: Thawne has set an explosive trap on the cosmic treadmill that, when activated, disperses atoms across the past and future through the time barrier. The shock waves from the blast were capable of tearing Flash apart in less than 3/100ths of a second if he hadn't acted.
  • Cosma-Spurs: Thawne can fire energy blasts known as Cosma-spurs, which can drain stamina, speed and negate durability on a molecular level to an extent.
  • Shrinking & Enlargement Ray: Using a special gun from the future, Thawne is able to shrink someone to at least one-tenth of their size or reverse the effects at a moment’s notice.
  • Hologram Projector: The 25th century has a lot of strange and bizarre technology, including this advanced 3-D holographic image projector that can not only keep up with the Flash speed-wise but is also capable of fooling him as well.
  • Heavy-Matter Boots: Thawne has used boots made of heavy matter, an anti-phasing material powerful enough to prevent Barry Allen from vibrating out of them. It can also triple its weight even 2/10ths of a second, becoming so heavy that normal matter behaves like a liquid in comparison.
  • Syntho-Steed: Robotic horses engineered by Thawne himself in exchange for a pardon, the syntho-steed’s body armor is designed to repel any and all attacks on it. This armor is so effective, even Green Lantern constructs can’t break it or even himself and instead are absorbed and reshaped. This can even make a Speed Force user lose control of their speed when coming close to it.
  • An assortment of advanced 25th Century technology:
    • Cosmic Treadmill: Built in imitation of Barry Allen's original.
    • Twin Portable Electro-Rockets: Early in his career, Reverse-Flash equipped his stolen Flash costume with twin portable electro-rockets to give him an extra boost of acceleration above and beyond the Flash. He seems to have stopped using them as his mastery of super-speed has grown. 
    • Matter-Distributor: Altered from a simple 20th century electric shaver, this gadget was able to rearrange Thawne's features and make him look exactly like Barry Allen. The matter distributor not only allows Thawne to create structures like trees, rope, or even a ball & chain with a simple click of a button, it also allows him to alter his own appearance to that of whoever he wishes.
    • Ultra-Speed Mechanisms:
      • Ultra-Speed: Thawne has invented Ultra-Speed, a process of which he speeds up electrons and other subatomic particles to influence an individual to act out on their evil and violent emotions. He has a special machine to implement these that can cover the entirety of Central City and can somehow project itself through time with it firing a beam from the 25th century to the 20th. He is able to control it by tuning his mental wavelength to match that of his machine.
      • Ultra-Radiation: Ultra-Speed isn’t the only Ultra tool he has; he also has Ultra-Radiation, which is radiation that’s strong enough to cancel out even the super-speed of the Flash. A future version of this special radiation can also sap willpower in order to prevent whoever has been trapped in it from using speed or mental powers to escape.

Feats[]

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Durability[]

Skill[]

  • Replicated the accident that turned Barry into The Flash.
  • Erased many people from existence using time travel.
  • Successfully impersonated Barry Allen.
  • Responsible for the events of Flashpoint.
  • Manipulated Dr. Alchemy into becoming a criminal.
  • Knows Taekwondo.
  • Is the Third Fastest entity in the DC Universe
  • Obtained and mastered his skills of the Negative Speed Force
  • Defeated Godspeed, Paradox, Hal Jordan, Johnny Quick, Wally West, and Barry Allen
  • Survived an encounter with Doctor Manhattan  
  • Responsible for pretty much every bad thing that’s ever happened in Barry Allen’s life. Including but not limited to:
    • Killing Barry’s mom leaving his dad to be framed for it
    • Erasing Barry’s childhood friend so he would grow up without any friends
    • Pushing kid Barry down a flight of stairs
    • Causing an electrical fire that burned down Barry’s first house
    • Leaving Barry’s back door open so his dog could run out and get hit by a car
    • Killing Barry’s wife Iris
    • Killing August’s brother, leading him on his path to becoming Godspeed
    • Leading Hunter Zolomon on his path to becoming Zoom
    • BONUS: Made an ice sculpture of Barry’s dead wife while fighting him...on the same day Barry was supposed to marry someone else and move on from Iris’ death
  • Committed crimes over 500 years of time
  • With the Negative Speed Force, killed Johnny Quick
  • Resisted getting his speed stolen even from the Flashes  
  • Has an IQ of ​​167
  • Partially responsible for the Flashpoint event and by extension, New 52
  • Reversed the destruction of the universe

Weaknesses[]

  • Even though Eobard Thawne has the speed necessary to rival and even surpass the Flash, he’s not unstoppable in the end. Thawne is known to be the pettiest supervillain in the DC Universe, and that pettiness has to do with his obsession over the person he once idolized, Barry Allen (a.k.a. The Flash). While he dedicated his super villainous schemes to making Barry’s life as miserable as possible and many of his crimes are based on that, his obsession has often led to his downfall. The main reason is that Thawne’s obsession with Barry has held him and his speed back from his full potential.
  • Another weakness of Thawne is his reliance on his artificial lightning rod to stay tethered to reality. Without his artificial rod, Thawne has no lightning rod to tether him back to reality, and he’ll be consumed by the (Negative) Speed Force if he chooses to enter it for an extended period of time, a very, very extended period of time that is.
  • Finally, most of Thawne’s combat experience comes from fighting speedsters and people linked to the Speed Force, though he has fought characters not connected to the Speed Force like Superman, Booster Gold, Rip Hunter and Hal Jordan.
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