LegendsOfTomorrow: Eobard Thawne's role in season 7 revealed
✖ Eobard Thawne is coming to next week's episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and after last night, fans now know what his role will be in the new season. In the episode, titled"The Fixed Point," the team travels back in time to save the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, stopping World War I. In actual fact, they didn't want to save Ferdinand, because it would do catastrophic damage to the timeline.
Of course, things are slightly more complicated than they appear, as Sara discovers the nature of time's"immune response," and it turns out to be a familiar face working against her interests. That's where Eobard Thawne comes in. Here, he has no access to the Negative Speed Force, but has been granted a device by the Time Wraiths that allows him to freeze time. He is stationed on the day of Ferdinand's assassination, and charged with protecting that fixed point in time by stopping any time traveler who might want to try.