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* PetTheDog: Grodd calls Caitlin "good".

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* PetTheDog: Grodd calls Caitlin "good"."good," recognizing her as one of the scientists, besides Wells, who was kind to him.



** Grodd spends the entire episode really angry ([[DoNotExplainTheJoke going apeshit]]).

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** Grodd spends the entire episode really angry ([[DoNotExplainTheJoke going apeshit]]).ape]]).
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* BreakTheBadass: Grodd was able to reduce Joe into a sobbing wreck.


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* CelebrityParadox: Cisco mentions ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. While he doesn't exactly state which film, Creator/PeterStormare, who plays Count Vertigo in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', was in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.
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* WhamShot: The episode ends with Eobard's ticket back home... and it's the frickin' Cosmic Treadmill.

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* WhamShot: The episode ends with Eobard's ticket back home... and it's the frickin' Cosmic Treadmill.particle accelerator!
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** While obviously not the same building, the building Grodd climbs in the end resembles ''Series/{{Smallville}}'s'' Watchtower.

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** While obviously not the same building, same, the building Grodd climbs in the end strongly resembles ''Series/{{Smallville}}'s'' Watchtower.
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** While obviously not the same building, the building Grodd climbs in the end resembles ''Series/{{Smallville}}'s'' Watchtower.
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** Cisco mentions [[Film/ThePrincessBride ROUSs]] as being in the sewers.
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'''Joe West:''' [[LamePunReaction "gives him a look"]]\\

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'''Joe West:''' [[LamePunReaction "gives *gives him a look"]]\\look*]]\\
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* AccidentalPun: From Captain Singh.
-->'''David Singh:''' ...and maybe someone can contact the Flash. Maybe he can speed things up.\\
'''Joe West:''' [[LamePunReaction "gives him a look"]]\\
'''David Singh:''' ...you know what I mean.
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** Joe and Barry learn of Grodd's history with S.T.A.R. Labs.

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** Joe and Barry learn of Grodd's Grodd and his history with S.T.A.R. Labs.
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* BatmanGambit: The team makes the assumption that Eobard is using Grodd as a distraction early on but feel they have have no choice except to deal with the threat.

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* BatmanGambit: The team makes the assumption that Eobard is using Grodd as a distraction early on but feel they have have no choice except to deal with the threat.



** To the Golden Age Franchise/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and NoSell ed all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.

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** To the Golden Age Franchise/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and NoSell ed [[NoSell No Sold]] all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.



* ThePowerOfLove: Hearing Iris' voice is what Barry uses to overcome Grodd's powers.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Attempted]].

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* ThePowerOfLove: Hearing Iris' voice is what Barry uses to overcome Grodd's powers.
psychic attack.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Attempted]].Attempted]] by Barry.



* SpoilerTitle: Unsurprisingly, Grodd survived being hit by a speeding train.

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* SpoilerTitle: Unsurprisingly, Grodd survived survives being hit by a speeding train.



* SwissCheeseSecurity: Star Labs apparently, at least without Wells around. Iris just randomly walks in while an unmasked Barry is talking with Caitlin and Cisco.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees Grodd sniffing the air and offers Grodd a banana thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Grodd hate bananas.

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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Star STAR Labs apparently, at least without Wells around. Iris just randomly walks in while an unmasked Barry is talking with Caitlin and Cisco.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, Averted; after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees Grodd sniffing the air and offers Grodd a banana banana, thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Unfortunately, Grodd hate hates bananas.



* WhamShot: The episode ends with Eobard's ticket back home... and it's the fricken Cosmic Treadmill.

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* WhamShot: The episode ends with Eobard's ticket back home... and it's the fricken frickin' Cosmic Treadmill.



* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard you'd have to become a genius.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Apparently Joe had a fear of gorillas ''before'' learning of a psychic superintelligent one.

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard Eobard, you'd have ''have'' to become a genius.
be from the future.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Apparently Joe had a fear of gorillas ''before'' learning of a psychic superintelligent super-intelligent one.
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** Team Flash discovers that Eilling knows Barry's the Flash.

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** Team Flash discovers that Eilling Eiling knows Barry's the Flash.



* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Eilling's survival was shown in the [=PaleyFest=] trailer.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Eilling's Eiling's survival was shown in the [=PaleyFest=] trailer.
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* EnemyMine: Eiling admits to Barry that he's not coming after him because Wells is their common enemy and he might come in handy.

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* EnemyMine: Eiling admits to Barry that he's not coming after letting him be because Wells is their common enemy and he might come in handy.handy somewhere down the line.
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** Team Flash discovers that Eilling knows he's The Flash.

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** Team Flash discovers that Eilling knows he's The Barry's the Flash.
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** Team Flash discovers Grodd's history with S.T.A.R. Labs.
** Barry discovers that Eilling knows he's The Flash.

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** Team Flash discovers Joe and Barry learn of Grodd's history with S.T.A.R. Labs.
** Barry Team Flash discovers that Eilling knows he's The Flash.



** To the Golden Age ComicBook/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and NoSell ed all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.

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** To the Golden Age ComicBook/GreenLantern, Franchise/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and NoSell ed all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.



* WorfBarrage: Remember that supersonic punch the team spent half an [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E6TheFlashIsBorn episode]] preparing against the Girder? Well, against Grodd, the results are... [[PunchCatch not nearly as impressive]].

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* WorfBarrage: TheWorfBarrage: Remember that supersonic punch the team spent half an [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E6TheFlashIsBorn episode]] preparing against the Girder? Well, against Grodd, the results are... [[PunchCatch not nearly as impressive]].
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Iris' WhatTheHellHero speeches echo several fan complaints of the writers keeping Iris in the dark for so long.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard you'd have to be a genius.

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard you'd have to be become a genius.
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* BlackSheep: Eobard admits to being this for the Thawne family, which is apparently full of great men and women.

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* BlackSheep: Eobard admits to being claims Eddie is this for the Thawne family, which is apparently full of great men and women.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard you'd have to be a genius.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Apparently Joe had a fear of gorillas ''before'' learning of a psychic superintelligent one.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Apparently Joe had a fear of gorillas ''before'' learning of a psychic superintelligent one.one.
* WorfBarrage: Remember that supersonic punch the team spent half an [[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E6TheFlashIsBorn episode]] preparing against the Girder? Well, against Grodd, the results are... [[PunchCatch not nearly as impressive]].

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* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees Grodd sniffing the air and offers Grodd a banana thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Grodd hate bananas.

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* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees PunchCatch: Grodd sniffing does this to a ''sonic punch'', then uses the air and offers Grodd grab to immediately throw Barry aside.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: After his attempt at
a banana thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Grodd hate bananas.sonic punch fails, Barry tries RapidFireFisticuffs. It doesn't work either.


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* RapidFireFisticuffs: [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh Attempted]].


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* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees Grodd sniffing the air and offers Grodd a banana thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Grodd hate bananas.

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The basis for Grodd's loyalty to Wells/Eobard is how kind he was to Grodd when he was kept at STAR Labs.
* BlackSheep: Eobard admits to being this for the Thawne family, which is apparently full of great men and women.



** Barry compares his first psychic assault by Grodd to when Bivolo (whom he calls by Caitlin's suggested nickname of "Rainbow Raider") used his HatePlague powers on him.
** Barry tries to replicate the "Super Sonic Punch" move he used to defeat Girder on Grodd, only for it to fail.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Grodd refers to Eobard as "father".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lampshaded by Joe in regards to how even an utter psychopath like Eobard Thawne was disgusted by what Eiling was doing to Grodd when he was a test animal.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Eiling tortured Grodd when he was a test animal in an attempt to create and control psychic abilities, so it's hard to blame Grodd for turning him into a meat puppet with those same powers.



* MythologyGag
** After Barry's first encounter with the armored Eiling and the subsequent psychic assault by Grodd, Barry refers to his adversary as the Rainbow Raider, an enemy of the comic Flash. This is completely ignored by the others, and indeed seems quite out of place considering the events of the episode.

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* MythologyGag
** After Barry's first encounter with the armored Eiling and the subsequent psychic assault by Grodd, Barry refers to his adversary as the Rainbow Raider, an enemy of the comic Flash. This is completely ignored by the others, and indeed seems quite out of place considering the events of the episode.
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* NoSell: Grodd doesn't even seem to ''feel'' any of the attacks Barry throws at him.
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** After Barry's first encounter with the armored Eiling and the subsequent psychic assault by Grodd, Barry refers to his adversary as the Rainbow Raider, an enemy of the comic Flash. This is completely ignored by the others, and indeed seems quite out of place considering the events of the episode.
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* BadassInDistress: When Joe gets caught by Grodd, only in this case he's not getting himself out of this predicament.
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* CrazyPrepared: Cisco was the one who thought to bring a banana along for the Grod hunt.

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* CrazyPrepared: Cisco was the one who thought to bring a banana along for the Grod Grodd hunt.
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* OhCrap: When the three of them start hearing a heavy noise in the sewer tunnels, Joe looks visibly nervous and asks if Grodd might be getting BIGGER as well as smarter.
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* CrazyPrepared: Cisco was the one who thought to bring a banana along for the Grod hunt.


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* TastesLikeFriendship: Averted, after being spared from shooting himself, Joe sees Grodd sniffing the air and offers Grodd a banana thinking he's looking for that. Unfortunately Grodd hate bananas.

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* AntagonistTitle: Not a hard guess who the VillainOfTheWeek is.



* DeadHatShot: when Joe wakes up under Grodd's captivity, one of the first things he sees is a cracked (and bloodied) hard hat, presumably from one of the sewer workers that Grodd killed back in ''Crazy for You''.

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* DeadHatShot: when When Joe wakes up under Grodd's captivity, one of the first things he sees is a cracked (and bloodied) hard hat, presumably from one of the sewer workers that Grodd killed back in ''Crazy for You''.



* GossipyHens: Caitlin and Cisco just couldn't help themselves to listen to Barry and Iris' conversation.
* InternalReveal:
** This episode basically has Iris finally catching up to everything that has happened in the series barring the future newspaper.
** In relation to the above, the entire Team Flash discovers that Iris already knows (almost) everything.
** Team Flash discovers Grodd's history with S.T.A.R. Labs.
** Barry discovers that Eilling knows he's The Flash.



* KingKongClimb: Grodd, in a not so subtle ShoutOut to ''Film/KingKong'', as well as for the sake of having a FlyAtTheCameraEnding.
* ManlyTears: Joe after Barry rescued him.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When gloating about how prestigious the Thawne clan is/will be, Eobard basically tells Eddie that he (Eddie) is/will be the biggest loser of the clan.



** Grodd climbing up the skyscraper at the end is very reminiscent of King Kong.

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** Grodd [[KingKongClimb climbing up the skyscraper skyscraper]] at the end is very reminiscent of King Kong.


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* SpoilerTitle: Unsurprisingly, Grodd survived being hit by a speeding train.
* StealthPun:
** Grodd spends the entire episode really angry ([[DoNotExplainTheJoke going apeshit]]).
** See SpoilerTitle above.


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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Eilling's survival was shown in the [=PaleyFest=] trailer.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Iris starts being integrated into Team Flash.

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** To the Golden Age ComicBook/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and NoSell ed all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.



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* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: Grodd climbs up a building and jumps, lunging toward the camera. Same deal.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if Eobard having these in Reverse-Flash mode wasn't enough, Grodd has them constantly.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if Eobard having these in Reverse-Flash mode wasn't enough, Grodd has them constantly.OverusedRunningGag: When Cisco makes yet another movie reference, Joe gives him an exasperated "you and your movies".



* RunningGag: When Cisco makes yet another movie reference, Joe gives an exasperated "you and your movies".

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* RunningGag: When Cisco makes yet another movie reference, Joe gives an exasperated "you and your movies".RedEyesTakeWarning: As if Eobard having these in Reverse-Flash mode wasn't enough, Grodd has them constantly.

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