Marlize was pursuing doctorates in Engineering and Robotics in the University of Oxford circa 2006. There, she met with Clifford DeVoe, with the two of them falling in love and later marrying. The DeVoe family developed a "plan of enlightenment", with them upgrading the "delivery system" of knowledge at the universities. The DeVoe couple both moved to Central City, getting jobs as professors at Central City University. However, the results of their plans were lackluster, with Clifford feeling like he needed greater brainpower to handle the teaching process. Wanting to help him out, Marlize looked at Clifford's Thinking Cap schematics and developed the device accordingly. Their plan to activate it required greater power, and they came to believe that the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator, created by Dr. Harrison Wells.
Publication Information
- Flash : Marlize DeVoe
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Version : The Flash Series
- Known As : Professor
- Type :
- Criminal
- Professor at Central City University
- Relative : Clifford DeVoe : Husband
- Affiliation :
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth One
- Season : The Flash
- First Appeareance : The Flash Season 3 Episod 18 : Abra Kadabra (Mentioned)
- Last Appeareance :
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- Main View : Full Episod
Marlize and her husband went to the press conference that Wells had organized and Marlize asked him if he had truly considered every possible outcome. Wells insisted that he had and asked for her name. When he heard her surname, he guessed the identity of her husband and said he was "a fan of his work." Marlize guessed that Wells was lying and was planning for the reactor to explode to produce a greater dark matter phenomenon, but Clifford told her that this outcome would be even more beneficial to their plan.
As Clifford tested out the Thinking Cap, he was hit by a wave of dark matter and a bolt of lightning, becoming a meta-human. Marlize, seeing that Clifford lost his consciousness after being hit by lightning, tried to revive him and cried in despair, thinking that her husband was dead. He came alive, however, claiming to be enlightened. Over the months that followed, Marlize saw that her husband's intelligence had skyrocketed. He told her that he now knew the answers to all the perceivable questions that have or could ever be asked.
Secret activities
Marlize placed a cover back on a Samuroid, noting to Clifford DeVoe how it had served its purpose, bringing the Flash back to Central City. She then asked him what their next step would be. Before, that Clifford DeVoe and Marlize lived in South Africa. Marlize DeVoe is the wife and assistant to Clifford DeVoe. She later walked in on Clifford completing Schubert's unfinished Eighth Symphony. She then told him of Ramsey Deacon's incarceration in Iron Heights Prison, the first of many they'd have to find. Shortly after, the woman noted how Team Flash had found Becky Sharpe quicker than they'd anticipated, suggesting that they were smarter than previously thought.
Abilities
- Genius-level intellect : Marlize is very intelligent, two advanced degrees in Engineering and Robotics. Her talents are pivotal in aiding her husband, Clifford, in his work as a professor and as the Thinker.
- Master of deception : Like her husband Clifford, Marlize can be very deceptive, effectively convincing David Singh that Barry Allen was harassing her husband and even slapping him, in order to make this lie of hers convincing; resulting in the latter being suspended from the CCPD.
- Master engineer : Marlize is a master engineer as she was able to create the Samurai robots, her husband's cerebral enhancer and his mechanical hovering chair, as well another of other devices. Marlize also was part of the creation of the Thinking Cap that Clifford used to get his super intellect and knowledge.
- Expert physicist : Marlize has an expertise in physics, teaching a class "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics" at Central City University.
- Culinary expertise : Marlize is said to have great skill in cooking by her husband as he stated her mac and cheese are unlike anything else.
- Swordsmanship : Marlize is capable of fighting with a sword though it is presently unknown whether this is via natural skill or under her husband's influence/mind alteration.
