| “ | You know... I really like this city, and I am going to enjoy destroying it. And there's not a thing you can do about it. I mean, I can get away with anything, right? After all, I killed your brother. I mean, you should have heard him beg for his life. Oh, it was pathetic. But the, I guess cowardice is a family trait. | „ |
| ~ Nicholas Pike taunting Barry Allen. |
Nicholas V. Pike is the main antagonist of the 1990 television series The Flash, serving as the main antagonist of the series premiere "Pilot" and the episode "Fast Forward".
He is a former police officer of the Central City Police Department who became the leader of the Dark Riders, criminal motorcyclce riders who terrorize the city by blowing up cars and killing people with explosives. Already a dirty cop from his police days, Pike started a crusade against Commander Jay Allen to get back at him for his termination, culminating with his death, which led Nicholas to become Barry Allen/The Flash's archenemy.
He was portrayed by the late Michael Nader.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Despite once serving as a member of the Central City Police Department, Pike was a crooked cop, having dirty deals with narcotics and explosives. While the injuries he got when Jay catched him were horrible, it wasn't Jay but himself the one to blame.
- Formed the Dark Riders, a motorcycle gang that committed multiple acts of terrorism throughout Central City, blowing up cars, destroying buildings and even killing people, civilians and cops.
- Executes Rick, one of his bikers, when Lina notifies him of Rick trying to leave the city with some money. Instead of just killing or banishing Rick, Pike opts to have him tied up to a motorcycle and let it take him away like if he wants to leave him to his fate a la Genghis Khan before detonating it, killing Rick in the process.
- Has his gang shoot at the cops and the reporters who were present outside of the Central City Police Department when Jay Allen gave a speech of their crusade to stop the Dark Riders, killing and/or injuring some cops.
- Laughs at the news reporting his crimes.
- Decides to take over Central City and humiliate its police department solely to spite Allen.
- Sends his girlfriend to trick a police escort led by Jay Allen at the road to approach her "broken" car just to detone it after his girlfriend runs away, killing Allen's men, and then pushes Allen out of the road with his motorcycle before revealing himself and murdering him, taking his medal as a trophy.
- Breaks into Central City's prison to rescue his arrested riders, murders the guards and releases several convicts to form a large army capable of taking over Central City.
- Weaponizes his men with heavy weapons enough to finish off with Chief Hopper and the five police squadrons he arrived with to stop the Dark Riders.
- Leaves all his men, even his girlfriend, behind while he puts on a gas mask and runs away after the Flash fills the prison with tear gas, proving that he never cared for any of them.
- It's implied that he may have murdered several people across his career, because when the Flash accuses him of having killed his brother, he replies that he has killed the brothers of so many people.
- Sadistically beats up the Flash with a pipe when he starts suffering of fatigue, leaving him for dead trapped in a hole.
- Takes a knife to murder Flash when he recovers and starts beating him up.
- Sadistically taunts Barry Allen once he gets out of prison thanks to some technicalities coupled with his claims that the Flash was the one who killed Jay, remarking how much he will enjoy destroying Central City and even mocking Barry by asking him if he is a coward like his brother, who according to him, begged for his life. This provoked Barry into punching him, leading his superiors to suspend him for two days.
- Plants a bomb in the Devil's Gate Dam, demanding a ransom of ten million dollars by midnight or he would blow the dam up and flood Central City.
- Takes over Central City after the Flash disappears when he launches a missile at him by gaining control over all the criminal organizations, corrupting the police department and paying his way to be re-elected as mayor of the now-renamed Pike City all the time, imposing orders like:
- Old citizens with red passes must be off streets by eleven o'clock or otherwise are subject to be arrested while only the citizens with blue passes, especially the rich ones, can still be out.
- Anyone who stands up to his new order is sent to the Police Rehabilitation Center set in the former S.T.A.R. Labs facility, in which the offenders get lobotomies by having their brains fried by a machine, leaving them as vegetables.
- Forms the Shadowsmen from the law enforcement that didn't leave the city and has them bring his law to the streets.
- Secretly installs a camera on Julio Mendez's house, which is technically privacy violation.
- Has Barry and Julio brought to the Police Rehabilitation Center, locks Julio in a containment cell, straps Barry to the mind-frying device and tries to render him vegetable.
- Threatens to execute all members of the Liberation Underground resistance movement unless the Flash surrenders himself.
- Has his Shadowmen surround the Police Rehabilitation Center after the Flash and Dr. Tina McGee locked themselves in to go back in time and prevent this bad future from happening.
- While he ultimately confesses to his role in Jay Allen's death once the Flash returns to the past and threatens to get him and his henchmen killed alongside him by letting the missile track him down, he only did so to guarantee his own survival and not because he cared for his underlings.
- Though he has a few comical moments, they don't detract from his villainy.
Trivia[]
- Technically, Nicholas Pike is the first Arrowverse villain to be Pure Evil retroactively, as the Arrowverse didn't formally start until Arrow began airing in 2012, with Count Vertigo formally being the show's, and therefore the franchise's, first Pure Evil villain.
- Nicholas Pike is, alongside Dr. Carl Tanner, Beaugarde Lesko and The Trickster, one of the four villains from the 1990 The Flash television show to be Pure Evil.
- Pike is, however, alongside the Trickster, one of the two Pure Evils of the show to appear in more than one episode.
External Links[]
- Nicholas Pike on the Villains Wiki
- Nicholas Pike on the Arrowverse Wiki
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