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* ChekhovsGun: Pariah explains early on that he can only use his powers when the Anti-Monitor allows him to. After the anti-matter cannon is stopped, with Pariah's help, Barry realizes that the Anti-Monitor would only have allowed this if it factored into his plans. Sure enough, the Anti-Monitor had a backup plan in place.
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** Pariah explains early on that he can only use his powers when the Anti-Monitor allows him to. After the anti-matter cannon is stopped, with Pariah's help, Barry realizes that the Anti-Monitor would only have allowed this if it factored into his plans. Sure enough, the Anti-Monitor had a backup plan inplace.place.
** As Lex says good-bye to Kara and Kate, he opens a book to read. He has a peculiar bookmark in it, [[spoiler:the stolen page from the Book of Destiny.]]
** Pariah explains early on that he can only use his powers when the Anti-Monitor allows him to. After the anti-matter cannon is stopped, with Pariah's help, Barry realizes that the Anti-Monitor would only have allowed this if it factored into his plans. Sure enough, the Anti-Monitor had a backup plan in
** As Lex says good-bye to Kara and Kate, he opens a book to read. He has a peculiar bookmark in it, [[spoiler:the stolen page from the Book of Destiny.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ryan Choi is from Ivy Town, the same town Ray is from.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: ContrivedCoincidence:
** Ryan Choi is from Ivy Town, the same town Ray is from.
** Ryan Choi is from Ivy Town, the same town Ray is from.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: How Earth-96 Superman dies, in the arms of Kara, before being replaced by Lex.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: How Earth-96 Superman dies, dies in the arms of Kara, before being replaced by Lex.
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* {{Fanboy}}: Ryan Choi is one of Ray.
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* {{Fanboy}}: Ryan Choi is one of for Ray.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The book Lex is reading during the episode (and in which he has hidden a page from the Book of Destiny), is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', about a man who escapes from prison and manages to set himself up as a powerful and important figure, albeit one consumed by his desire for revenge, not totally unlike Lex himself.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: The FreezeFrameBonus:
**The book Lex is reading during the episode (and in which he has hidden a page from the Book of Destiny), is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', about a man who escapes from prison and manages to set himself up as a powerful and important figure, albeit one consumed by his desire for revenge, not totally unlike Lex himself.
**The book Lex is reading during the episode (and in which he has hidden a page from the Book of Destiny), is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', about a man who escapes from prison and manages to set himself up as a powerful and important figure, albeit one consumed by his desire for revenge, not totally unlike Lex himself.
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* NotHisSled: The infamous comic death of the Flash is faithfully recreated, but it's not the same Bary Allen that everyone expected.
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* NotHisSled: The infamous comic death of the Flash is faithfully recreated, but it's not the same Bary Allen that everyone expected.
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** And, he is using what appears to be a folded piece of paper (or maybe a page from a different book!) for a bookmark.
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* BackForTheDead: The ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' Huntress and Oracle, as well as the 90s Flash.
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* BackForTheDead: The ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' ''Series/BirdsOfPrey2002'' Huntress and Oracle, as well as the 90s Flash.
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** In another cameo designed strictly to show how devastating the Anti-Monitor is, Ashley Scott returns as [[Series/BirdsOfPrey Earth-203 Helena Kyle]], alongside an uncredited voice cameo from Creator/DinaMeyer as Oracle, with their Earth being promptly destroyed.
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** In another cameo designed strictly to show how devastating the Anti-Monitor is, Ashley Scott returns as [[Series/BirdsOfPrey [[Series/BirdsOfPrey2002 Earth-203 Helena Kyle]], alongside an uncredited voice cameo from Creator/DinaMeyer as Oracle, with their Earth being promptly destroyed.
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* DeathByCameo: ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' cast members Ashley Scott and Creator/DinaMeyer return for a single scene in which they got obliterated by antimatter.
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* DeathByCameo: ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' ''Series/BirdsOfPrey2002'' cast members Ashley Scott and Creator/DinaMeyer return for a single scene in which they got obliterated by antimatter.
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** ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' had a tendency to use excessive SlowMotion shots in its action sequences. Naturally, this effect would be used once again during Huntress's opening cameo.
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** ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' ''Series/BirdsOfPrey2002'' had a tendency to use excessive SlowMotion shots in its action sequences. Naturally, this effect would be used once again during Huntress's opening cameo.
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* FullyAbsorbedFinale: For the ''Series/TheFlash1990'', seeing as its titular protagonist dies in a HeroicSacrifice.
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* FullyAbsorbedFinale: For the ''Series/TheFlash1990'', seeing as its titular protagonist dies in a HeroicSacrifice.
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* CastingGag: Osric Chau on a CW show playing a [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E21ReadingIsFundamental nerdy, slightly nervous normal guy who suddenly finds out he has a great destiny.]]
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: As he boasts through Harbinger, the Anti-Monitor vows to not only end the age of heroes, but all the heroes hold dear as well. Driving the point home, the possessed Harbinger is looking right at Iris as that line is spoken.
* CharacterDevelopment: Back in Season Three of [[Series/Supergirl2015 her own series]], Kara considered a friend secretly keeping kryptonite to be a betrayal, but here, she's grown enough to accept that she needs to trust that her friends wouldn't use it unless absolutely necessary, and tells Kate to keep the kryptonite she took from Earth-99 Bruce.
* DareToBeBadass: Iris manages to convince Ryan Choi to step up and help to save the Multiverse rather than go home to face the apocalypse with his family.
* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted; while Constantine, Mia, and Diggle seek out [[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer Morningstar, the Devil himself]] in order to find a way to get to Purgatory to retrieve Oliver's soul, but it turns out that, rather than them needing to make any kind of Faustian pact, Constantine is just calling in a favor.
* DisappointedByTheMotive: Kara notes, with a tone of disgust, that the Anti-Monitor's motive for destroying the multiverse is nothing but sheer megalomania.
* ForcedToWatch: The role the Anti-Monitor has bestowed on Pariah; as "thanks" for releasing the Anti-Monitor, Nash is condemned to watch the evil deity's devastation of the multiverse while all but helpless to stop it.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The book Lex is reading during the episode (and in which he has hidden a page from the Book of Destiny), is ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', about a man who escapes from prison and manages to set himself up as a powerful and important figure, albeit one consumed by his desire for revenge, not totally unlike Lex himself.
* HopeSpringsEternal: Earth-96 Superman added the black to his crest to symbolise that even in the darkest of times, hope can cut through and shine in the darkness.
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** Iris remarks that she is at the center of one of the biggest news stories in all of history, but apparently no one is going to be around to read it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lex is the last person Kara would ever listen to about such a thing, but he's right that using the Book of Destiny to resurrect an entire universe would drive the user insane. Even Kate isn't willing to let Kara risk it for exactly this reason.
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* NervesOfSteel: Kate calmly talks Kara out of trying to use the Book of Destiny, while making it clear that she's willing to stop her by force if necessary. Kara even acknowledges that it took a lot of guts to stand up to her the way Kate did.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring:
** Jefferson is furious and devastated to know that his daughters perished along with his entire world.
** With the annihilation of Earth-1, Ryan has outlived his infant daughter. Diggle and Harbinger also outlive their son, [[DownplayedTrope although only by a matter of moments before they, too, are killed by the anti-matter wave]].
** Jefferson is furious and devastated to know that his daughters perished along with his entire world.
** With the annihilation of Earth-1, Ryan has outlived his infant daughter. Diggle and Harbinger also outlive their son, [[DownplayedTrope although only by a matter of moments before they, too, are killed by the anti-matter wave]].
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* SpeakOfTheDevil: Immediately after Diggle says that Oliver would come back to his family, the amnesiac Oliver leaps out and attacks him.
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** Lois remarks that she is at the center of one of the biggest news stories in all of history, but apparently no one is going to be around to read it.
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** Lois Iris remarks that she is at the center of one of the biggest news stories in all of history, but apparently no one is going to be around to read it.
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** The anti-matter wave, thought to have receded, suddenly emerges again and consumes the last remaining universe: Earth-1.
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** The anti-matter wave, thought to have receded, suddenly emerges again and consumes the last remaining universe: universe, Earth-1.
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* PowerParasite: A rare heroic example, as Earth-90 Barry temporarily drains Earth-1 Barry's powers to incapacitate him and keep him from sacrificing himself.
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* PowerParasite: A rare heroic example, as Earth-90 Barry temporarily drains Earth-1 Barry's powers to incapacitate him and keep him from sacrificing himself.himself (and maybe give himself a boost to help get the job done).
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* CastingGag: Osric Chau playing a [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E21ReadingIsFundamental nerdy, slightly nervous normal guy in a CW show who suddenly finds out he has a great destiny.]]
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* CastingGag: Osric Chau on a CW show playing a [[Recap/SupernaturalS07E21ReadingIsFundamental nerdy, slightly nervous normal guy in a CW show who suddenly finds out he has a great destiny.]]
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* AbsenteeActor: Cecile and Joe both sit this episode out.
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* SenselessSacrifice: Earth-90 Barry's sacrifice winds up in vain due to Earth-1 getting destroyed anyway.
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* AntiClimax: The search for the seven Paragons turns out to be this; five of the seven had been present all along (Hope: Kara; Destiny: Sara; Courage: Kate; Honor: J'onn; Love: Barry), one of them (Truth: Superman of Earth-96) was found in the last episode, and the last one is revealed in this episode to be an ordinary man who is found with ease (Humanity: Ryan Choi).
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* AntiClimax: The search for the seven Paragons turns out to be this; five of the seven had been present all along (Hope: Kara; Destiny: Sara; Courage: Kate; Honor: J'onn; Love: Barry), one of them (Truth: Superman of Earth-96) was found in the last previous episode, and the last one is revealed in this episode to be an ordinary man who is found with ease (Humanity: Ryan Choi).
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* EurekaMoment: Barry, Ralph & Earth-90 Clark all [[OhCrap realise]], shortly after Harbinger returns, that the tragedy Pariah was meant to witness is tied to Harbinger’s strange behaviour. Sure enough, she is being controlled by the Anti-Monitor.
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* EurekaMoment: Barry, Ralph & Earth-90 Earth-96 Clark all [[OhCrap realise]], shortly after Harbinger returns, that the tragedy Pariah was meant to witness is tied to Harbinger’s strange behaviour. Sure enough, she is being controlled by the Anti-Monitor.
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** Also, it sure is convenient that of the seven paragons, four of them are from Earth-1 and two from Earth-38, and that five were on the ''Waverider'' already.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Constantine notes that Oliver's "[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} shuffled off this mortal coil.]]"
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** The ContinuityNod with Jim Corrigan above also has shades of this.
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** The ContinuityNod with Constantine meeting a Jim Corrigan above also has shades different from the one he knows blatantly lampshades the [[TheOtherDarrin change of this.actors for the same character]].
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* FridgeBrilliance: The other stars may be destroyed but their light traveling to the vicinity of Earth was not, and their destruction wouldn't be visually observable from Earthfor many years.
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* EurekaMoment: Once Harbinger returns, Barry [[OhCrap realizes]] that this is the tragedy Pariah was meant to witness. Sure enough, she is controlled by the Anti-Monitor.
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* EurekaMoment: Once Barry, Ralph & Earth-90 Clark all [[OhCrap realise]], shortly after Harbinger returns, Barry [[OhCrap realizes]] that this is the tragedy Pariah was meant to witness. witness is tied to Harbinger’s strange behaviour. Sure enough, she is being controlled by the Anti-Monitor.
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* ProphecyTwist: As the Monitor foretold, Barry Allen dies -- but not the one we thought.
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* ProphecyTwist: As the Monitor foretold, Barry Allen dies -- but not the one we thought. Subverted, because the newspaper article says the Flash disappears during Crisis and if Crisis plays out as it should, the Flash disappears from Central City and never returns, so Earth-1 Barry Allen may still have to disappear.
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* LoopholeAbuse: One of the big prophecies was that the Flash must vanish in the Crisis. Nothing in the prophecies [[ProphecyTwist said which one]], leading Earth-90 Flash to steal Earth-1 Flash's speed so he can do the job. However, this may not be the sacrifice a Flash needs to make because if Crisis still plays out the same way, Earth-1 Flash disappears in Crisis and never returns like in Nora's timeline.
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* LoopholeAbuse: One of the big prophecies was that the Flash must vanish in the Crisis. Nothing in the prophecies [[ProphecyTwist said which one]], leading Earth-90 Flash to steal Earth-1 Flash's speed so he can do the job. However, this may not be the sacrifice a Flash needs to make because if Crisis still plays out the same way, Earth-1 Flash disappears in Crisis and never returns like in Nora's timeline.
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* AtrociousAlias: Cisco cringes every time he has to say "Anti-Monitor".
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* PassingTheTorch: Before dying, Earth-90's Barry asks his Earth-1 counterpart to keep riding the lightning.
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* YouTaughtMeThat: When Earth-90 Barry asks Cisco to send him back to the treadmill so he can do the HeroicSacrifice to destroy the antimatter cannon, Earth-1 Barry tries to dissuade Cisco first from sending him there and then leaving him there, but Cisco cites Barry's teaching that leaders must know when to do hard choices.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In the final scene, the Earth hangs alone amongst a background of stars. Given that the whole multiverse had been destroyed, there shouldn't be any stars left and space should be completely black.
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Lucifer tells Diggle he reminds him of his brother.
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'''John:''' (''*unamused chuckle*'') Constan-TEEN.\\
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'''John:''' (''*unamused chuckle*'') Constan-TEEN.[[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Constan-TEEN]].\\
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* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z]]. The entire multiverse, which includes almost ''every DC franchise'' ever created, is destroyed by the Anti-Monitor.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z]]. The entire multiverse, which includes almost ''every DC franchise'' ever created, is destroyed by the Anti-Monitor.]]
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* EmptyEyes: Harbinger assumes these while under the Anti-Monitor's possession.
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