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* The building Godspeed steals his final piece for the formula from is the Tracy Brand Building, presumably owned by HR’s former lover.
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* WhamShot: A new speedster never before seen -- Godspeed.
* WidowWoman: As seen in the future, Iris has never been able to fully move past losing the love of her life, so much so she suppressed her daughter's powers and asked Joe and all of her family and friends to keep the secret, so as not to lose her Nora to metahumans in the same way she lost Barry.

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* WhamShot: A new speedster never before seen -- Godspeed.
* WidowWoman: As seen in the future, Iris has never been able to fully move past losing the love of her life, so much so she suppressed her daughter's powers and asked Joe and all of her family and friends to keep the secret, so as not to lose her Nora to metahumans in the same way she lost Barry.
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* MirrorCharacter: It's not commented on, but Barry's obsession with Nora working with Thawne and ignoring the circumstances and intent behind it has eerie parallels towards Thawne's irrational and illogical hatred of Barry for "making" him the villain.



* NotSoDifferent: It's not commented on, but Barry's obsession with Nora working with Thawne and ignoring the circumstances and intent behind it has eerie parallels towards Thawne's irrational and illogical hatred of Barry for "making" him the villain.
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** Lia's line, "You know I'm equally a fan of our fleet-footed [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends super friends]]."

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*** Thawne coaching Nora who to run through a wall just like he did with Barry in "Tricksters".

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*** Thawne coaching Nora who how to run through a wall just like he did with Barry in "Tricksters".



** Once again Sherloque believes himself completely blameless for having lied to TheTeam since the beginning of his suspicions of Nora, only speaking up when she was at her most vulnerable.
** He didn't lie to the team. He only had suspicions that she was hidding something and was waiting to gather more facts. When he did come to a conclusion he immediately told them. Iris knew he was suspicious of Nora anyway.

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** Once again Sherloque believes himself completely blameless for having lied to kept from TheTeam since the beginning of his suspicions of Nora, only speaking up when she was at her most vulnerable.
** He didn't lie to the team. He only
vulnerable. Iris knew he had suspicions that she was hidding something and was waiting to gather more facts. When but he did come to a conclusion still blindsided her when he immediately told them. Iris knew he was suspicious of put Nora anyway.on the spot.
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Black don't crack isn't just a saying. This was just truth in television. Look at Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Eddie Murphy. How much have they aged?


* HollywoodOld: Future Iris doesn't look even remotely close to being 60 or so. In fact she looks exactly the same as present Iris with gray streaks.
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** He didn't lie to the team. He only had suspicions that she was hidding something and was waiting to gather more facts. When he did come to a conclusion he immediately told them. Iris knew he was suspicious of Nora anyway.

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*** Running into a van the first time her powers woke. For extra trivia: the van belongs to a laundromat named Gambi and Sons, named after the Rogues'resident tailor, Paul Gambi.

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*** Running into a van the first time her powers woke. For extra trivia: the van belongs to a laundromat named Gambi and Sons, named after the Rogues'resident Rogues' resident tailor, Paul Gambi.



* OlderThanTheyLook: In the future, Iris looks quite well for somebody pushing 60.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: In the future, Iris looks quite well for somebody pushing 60. The only indicator to her age was a few strands of white in her hair.



* WhamEpisode: Barry banishes Nora to the future, telling her he'll feel her try to come back and stop her from doing it.

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Barry banishes Nora to the future, telling her he'll feel her try to come back and stop her from doing it.
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*** Running into a van the first time her powers woke. For extra trivia: the van belongs to a laundromat named Gambi and Sons, named after the Rogues'resident tailor, Paul Gambi.


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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Godspeed zaps Nora in the chest, which, unknown to either of them, shorted out the power dampener Iris implanted on her daughter, allowing her to awaken her powers.
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**We also learn that the aftermath of the 'crisis' is even worse than we thought. Not just Barry, but Wally and Jay vanished as well, as well as lesser known speedsters, to the point where the idea of a new villain with SuperSpeed is considered unbelievable because that's not a thing anymore. (It's also curious that Jay's civilian identity is known to average joes on Earth-1, though if it's like the comics' ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths,'' [[spoiler: this universe might be the one created from the few that survived the events.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Lia suggests that [[https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride Dioxygen Diflouride]] (aka FOOF) would make a good ingredient in Velocity-9. Problem is the only way FOOF reacts with ''anything'' is to blow it up.
** Made worse when they actually find a 16-gallon barrel of the stuff, stored at room temperature. And try to open it up, with an unprotected human in the room. That should have killed her even if the crazy speedsters didn't.
** And yes, they do want to add sulfur to the mix. Not even [[MadScientist A. G. Streng]] could make that work.

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* AtrociousAlias: The first few suggestions Lia makes for Nora as an alias are...not the best.

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* AtrociousAlias: The first few suggestions Lia makes for Nora as an alias are...not the best.



** Lia refers to [[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E16RunIrisRun “that purple speedster who only showed up for a day”]]

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** Lia refers to [[Recap/TheFlash2014S4E16RunIrisRun “that purple speedster who only showed up for a day”]]day”]].



** Nora is able to realize that Godspeed's powers are based off Velocity-9 when reviewing exhibits about Zoom and Trajectory and realizes that Godspeed's lightning briefly turned blue too.

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** Nora is able to realize Nor realizes that Godspeed's powers are based off on his ingestion of Velocity-9 when she was reviewing exhibits about Zoom and Trajectory and realizes that Godspeed's lightning briefly turned blue too.



* AGodAmI: Godspeed like other Velocity-9 users named himself that after [[AnswersToTheNameOfGod answering Lia's exclamation of "Oh my god"]].

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* AGodAmI: Godspeed Godspeed, like other Velocity-9 users users, named himself that after [[AnswersToTheNameOfGod answering Lia's exclamation of "Oh my god"]].



* HopeSpot: Once Nora reveals her whole story, it looks like she and Barry will reconcile... only for Barry to banish her to the future.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Barry exiles Nora to the future and says that he will stop her from coming back to the past. So in other words, he's ''disowned'' her as his daughter.

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* HopeSpot: Once Nora reveals her whole story, it looks like she and Barry will reconcile... only for Barry to banish her to the future.
* IHaveNoDaughter: IHaveNoSon: Barry exiles Nora to the future and says that he will stop her from coming back to the past. So in other words, he's ''disowned'' her as his daughter.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Sherloque is correct that the Team's anger at him is somewhat misplaced - sure, he could've said something earlier, but he still revealed the truth.... just as Nora was working up the courage to do it herself.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sherloque is correct that the Team's anger at him is somewhat misplaced - sure, he could've said something earlier, but he still revealed the truth.... truth...just as Nora was working up the courage to do it herself.



** Future Iris is writing an article in Coast City, home turf of Franchise/GreenLantern.



** Iris's refusal to tell Nora about her true heritage. Nora went to Thawne to ask his help on a new speedster in town, completely oblivious to his "relationship" with her family.
** Nora's first superheroics with her powers botches a police take down of bank robbers Bug and Byte because she keeps crashing into policemen and their cruisers. Her uncontrolled static charge also shorted out her gauntlet and all their equipment. Fortunately the two were caught further down the street after exhausting themselves.

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** Iris's Iris' refusal to tell Nora about her true heritage. Nora went to Thawne to ask his help on a new speedster in town, completely oblivious to his "relationship" with her family.
** Nora's first superheroics with her powers botches a police take down takedown of bank robbers Bug and Byte because she keeps crashing into policemen and their cruisers. Her uncontrolled static charge also shorted out her gauntlet and all their equipment. Fortunately the two were caught further down the street after exhausting themselves.



* ShoutOut: In the future, Iris has been doing a story in [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Coast City]].



** Nora began to see Thawne to ask his help to catch a new speedster in town Godspeed, Hannibal Lecter style (and how to control her powers).

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** Nora began to see seeing Thawne to ask his help to catch Godspeed, a new speedster in town Godspeed, town, Hannibal Lecter style (and how to control her powers).



** Barry is able to forgive Nora about many things... but continuing to work with Thawne ''after'' she learned what he did to him, to his teammates, and especially his mother is the one he can't. He refuses to let her explain herself and banishes her to the future.

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** Barry is able to forgive Nora about many things... but continuing to work with Thawne ''after'' she learned what he did to him, to his teammates, and especially his mother is the one he can't. He refuses to let her explain herself and banishes her to the future.



* WardensAreEvil: The warden in charge of Thawne obviously enjoys it to torture the latter with electric shocks.

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* WardensAreEvil: The warden in charge of Thawne obviously enjoys it to torture torturing the latter with electric shocks.
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-->'''Barry:''' It's time for you to go home, Nora.

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-->'''Barry:''' ''(To Nora)'' It's time for you to go home, Nora.home.
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* HopeSpot: Once Nora reveals her whole story, it looks like she and Barry will reconcile... only for Barry to banish her to the future.
* IHaveNoDaughter: Barry exiles Nora to the future and says that he will stop her from coming back to the past. So in other words, he's ''disowned'' her as his daughter.
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-->'''Barry:''' It's time for you to go home, Nora.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: This is Nora's OriginsEpisode.


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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Godspeed. Cool costume aside, he's introduced as just some guy in the future who decided to start abusing Velocity-9. He barely gets any dialogue, much less character development.

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* AntagonistTitle: Referring to Nora's StarterVillain.



* TheCameo: Creator/BDWong provides the voice of Godspeed.

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Creator/BDWong provides the voice of Godspeed.Godspeed.
** [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver]] could be heard in the background during Barry's recorded message to Nora.



* ContinuityNod: Since the episode takes place before she traveled into the past, Nora wears her hair in the same braided ponytail she used to before cropping it to the shorter bob-style she wears presently.

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Since the episode takes place before she traveled into the past, Nora wears her hair in the same braided ponytail she used to before cropping it to the shorter bob-style she wears presently.



* OlderThanSheLooks: In the future, Iris looks quite well for somebody pushing 60.

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* OlderThanSheLooks: OlderThanTheyLook: In the future, Iris looks quite well for somebody pushing 60.



* StarterVillain: Godspeed is this for Nora, not receiving any real characterisation and existing solely to help her discover her powers.

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* StarterVillain: Godspeed is this for Nora, not receiving any real characterisation characterization and existing solely to help her discover her powers.



* VideoWills: Barry recorded one for Nora, apprently during the Red Sky crisis.

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* VideoWills: Barry recorded one for Nora, apprently apparently during the Red Sky crisis.crisis.
* TheVoice: Oliver in Barry's recorded message to Nora. He could be heard frantically looking for Laurel and telling the other heroes to dodge an incoming attack.
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* BaitTheDog: After hearing the full story, Barry asks to be left alone with Nora making the audience think this will be their reconciliation. But alas, not.

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* BaitTheDog: After hearing the full story, Barry asks to be left alone with Nora making the audience think this will be their reconciliation. [[FromBadToWorse But alas, not.not]].

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