State Senator Creed Phillips became The Eradicator to "catch" criminals, however, he used his abilities to disintegrate them instead. This repeatedly put him at odds with the police and the second Flash. Appropriately, the Eradicator’s civilian identity was a rival of Barry Allen: for the affections of Fiona Webb. In response to a campaign promise to crack down on crime, a pair of criminals had kidnapped him and left him to die at an illegal plutonium dumping site. Instead of killing him, the radiation transformed him, giving him the ability to disintegrate living beings with a touch, and creating an alternate personality with the will to literally wipe out the criminal element. When the two sides of his life collided, Phillips took his own life to prevent the Eradicator from killing the F