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image=[[Image:MeloniThawne1.gif]]
|caption=Art by [[Humberto Ramos]] and [[Wayne Faucher]]
|character_name=Melonie Thawne-Allen
|publisher=[[DC Comics]]
|debut=''Impulse'' #23 (March 1997)
|creators= [[Mark Waid]] (script)<br>[[Humberto Ramos]] (pencils)<br>Wayne Faucher (inks),
(contracted; show full)per-speedy families.  When their son [[Bart Allen]] is born, it is discovered that the super-speed powers he has inherited from his ancestors also cause him to age at an accelerated rate.  President Thawne has Bart placed in a virtual reality to keep him from going insane, and to allow scientists to find a cure.  Meloni is told that Bart died during the invasion of Earth by the [[Dominators]] (the same aliens that killed her husband and his twin sister).

Bart is eventually freed by his grandmother [[Iris 
West Allen|Iris West]], who sends him back to the 20th century where he is cured of his rapid aging by [[Wally West|the third Flash]].  When Meloni later discovers that he is alive, she travels to the 20th century to retrieve her now-teenaged son, but eventually lets him remain in the past.

It is revealed in ''Flash'' #224 (December 2005) that Meloni is the mother of Owen Harkness, formerly [[Owen Mercer]], the new [[Captain Boomerang]], having conceived him by the original Boomerang while he was trapped in the 30th Century.  It is unknown whether she gave birth to Bart or Owen first, or how Owen made it back to our own time.

It was revealed in ''[[Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds]]'' #3, that Meloni, Bart, and his cousin [[XS (comics)|Jenni]] and her father Jeven, all originated from [[Multiverse (DC Comics)|New Earth]]. Some time ago, Barry Allen's rival [[Professor Zoom]] tried to the destroy the relationship between Don and Meloni, and their family, so Don and Dawn used the [[Cosmic Treadmill]] to hide on Earth-247 (the original home of the post-Zero Hour Legion). This calls into question the actual heritage between Meloni and President Thawne.

==External links==
*[http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/meloni.html Meloni Thawne at Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning website]

[[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1997]]
[[Category:Characters created by Mark Waid]]
[[Category:DC Comics characters|Thawne, Meloni]]

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