WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Flash #760, by Joshua Williamson, Christian Duce, Scott Kolins, Luis Guerrero, Hi-Fi and Steve Wands, on sale now.

When the Reverse-Flash first assembled the Legion of Zoom, he kept his evil ensemble to seven recruits, each strategically approached from a different moment in history that made them particularly easy for him to manipulate in assisting with his ongoing feud against Barry Allen. And while this initial lineup was successful in bringing every aspect of Barry's life down around him and overpowering him long enough for Eobard Thawne to carry out his latest scheme and seize control of Barry's body for himself. However, has Thawne's plan begins to falter, the Reverse-Flash significantly expands his villainous ranks to make sure his final revenge against Barry and the Flash Family doesn't fail.

With his consciousness trapped inside in the Speed Force, Barry was reunited with his fellow speedster superheroes Max Mercury and Jesse Quick. As the DC Universe's resident expert on the Speed Force, Max helped Barry acclimate to his extra-dimensional surroundings and navigate his way back to his body. Sensing this, Thawne rallied his Legion at the Central City cemetery to unearth temporal residue from a secret corpse that would ground him to Barry's body for good. Unnerved by the macabre nature of Thawne's request, the Trickster tipped off the Flash Family to the Reverse-Flash's plot, with Impulse and Jay Garrick leading the charge to stop the antagonistic team in their tracks and foil Thawne.

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The mere sight of Impulse and Iris West on the battlefield immediately thins the Legion of Zoom's ranks further: Upon seeing their long-lost family members, the Tornado Twins come back to their senses after having been previously corrupted by the Reverse-Flash's twisted mentorship and the corrosive influence of being exposed to his Negative Speed Force as he trained them. Rather than risk his recruits turning against him, Thawne uses his powers to send the Trickster and Tornado Twins back to their natural points in the timeline just as Barry regains control of his body, bringing Max and Jesse with him as much-needed reinforcements to join Impulse, Jay, Wallace West and Avery.

Back in his own body but undeterred, the Reverse-Flash bolsters his own ranks by more than doubling the Legion of Zoom's ranks by recruiting even more villains from different points in time before returning to the DCU's relative present with his additional forces in tow.

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Joining the remaining Legionnaires are a blend of Flash villains from virtually every era of the Scarlet Speedster's history, including villains more associated with Wally West than Barry. Among the new recruits after classic enemies, including the Top and Abra Kadabra, Wally's foes Girder and Tarpit, and new antagonists introduced during the DC Rebirth era like Bloodwork and Papercut.

Writer Joshua Williamson had hinted the penultimate issue of the current "Finish Line" story arc would largely be an epic battle between the Legion of Zoom and the Flash Family. With both sides having received a significant boost in reinforcements just ahead of their final showdown, the fight is poised to become even bigger than it had been before as the battle lines are redrawn. Barry Allen is back in control and no longer running alone but the Reverse-Flash has more than upped the ante as the two speedsters' longstanding feud prepares to engulf Central City in a high-speed clash between its extensive cast.

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