Nicholas Pike (Earth-90: Pre-Crisis)

"You know, I like this city, and I am going to enjoy destroying it. And there is not a thing you can do about it."

- Nicholas Pike to Barry Allen

Nicholas V. Pike was a rogue cop turned criminal and the nemesis of the Flash.

Early Life
At some point, Nicholas was a CCPD motorcycle patrol and he wrote a book about it.

At some point, he started to work on illegal operation such as narcotics and explosives but his partner Jay Allen discovered his activities around 1987 and set him up on Highway 61. When Nicholas got chased, his motorcycle crashed and burned his face giving him a scar. Weeks later, he escaped from a prison hospital after being dishonorably discharged from police.

Killing his former partner and facing "The Flash"
In 1990, Nicholas has become the leader of the Dark Riders and started to cause chaos in Central City. He started to rob Central City Armory and murdered the guard. Later, at their lair, his girlfriend Lila exposed a traitor that was about to escape with the money and sentenced him to death. The next day, he and the others robbed Central City Mall but a sample of his hair was dropped during the robbery. The following day,during the speech of the police chief Arthur Cooper where he introduced to the city the new motorcycle patrol that would bring down the Dark Riders, the Dark Riders launched an attack on the precinct and marked their territory to humiliate the police. Later, when he watched their action on TV, Nicholas recognized the head of the motorcycle patrol to be his former partner Jay Allen. When Jay and his patrol squad on patrol on highway 61, Nicholas planned his revenged by setting up an ambush like Jay did years ago but only this time Jay would be the victim and Nicholas managed to kill him during the ambush. The following night, he sent his goons and his girlfriend to rob Central City Chemical to create more bio-bombs but this plan failed due to the intervention of a a red phantom which lead to the arrest of most of the members. Angered, Nicholas then successfully stage a prison escape but the policed blocked all issues and after noticing that tear gas were thrown in the air conduct, Nicholas took a mask and abandoned his girlfriend. While he managed to escape in the sewers, the red phantom showed up but due to his metabolism, he failed to stop Pike and Nicholas punched him and push him off a hole. Believing to be free from this vigilante, Nicholas ran out of the prison but the Flash caught up to him and tied him up to an electrical barrier leaving him to be arrested by the police.

Equipment

 * Dark Riders' motorcycle

Trivia

 * Despite appearing in only two episode, Pike is considered as the Flash's nemesis along with the Trickster.
 * This is due to him murdering a close one of Barry and causing his creation in the first place.
 * from all the antagonist of the series, he is the only one who is revealed to be mayor.
 * Though this took place in an erased future.