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* BodyHorror: Ralph's burned up face is... not a pretty sight.

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* BodyHorror: Ralph's burned up face is... not a pretty sight.
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* BodyHorror: Ralph's burned up face is....not a pretty sight.

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* BodyHorror: Ralph's burned up face is....is... not a pretty sight.
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-->'''Eva:''' [[HeelRealization No.]] No, I... I wanted to make things better. ... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I failed two worlds.]]

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-->'''Eva:''' [[HeelRealization No.]] No, I... I I-I wanted to make things better. ... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I failed two worlds.]]worlds]].
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* VillainousBSOD: What gets Eva to finally stop.
-->'''Eva:''' [[HeelRealization No.]] No, I... I wanted to make things better. ... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I failed two worlds.]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Barry's claim that the original Harrison Wells is the one he's most wanted to meet is perhaps a nod to the years of fan theories and demands regarding the return of this particular incarnation of the character.

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Barry's claim that the original Harrison Wells is the one he's he most wanted to meet is perhaps a nod to the years of fan theories and demands regarding the return of this particular incarnation of the character.



* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Ralph being disfigured, and later leaving the team to travel the world with Sue, was the result of Hartley Sawyer being fired from the show during the hiatus.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Ralph being getting disfigured, and later leaving the team to travel the world with Sue, was the result of Hartley Sawyer being fired from the show during the hiatus.



* TookALevelInBadass: Eva is now able to utilize any reflective surface for her powers, not just mirrors.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Eva is can now able to utilize any reflective surface for her powers, not just mirrors.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Defied. When Sue insists the people she just met aren't really her parents, she figures Joe won't believe her. But not only has Joe seen more than enough weirdness to convince him, he's already gotten a hundred calls from citizens insisting their loved ones are acting totally out of character.


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* GenreSavvy: For once, the people of Central City are this. A key reason Joe believes Sue's tales of her parents being imposters is that the police force is being flooded with calls from citizens insisting their loved ones are acting out of character.
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* LatexPerfection: Sue disguises herself as a police officer this way.


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* MesACrowd: Eva summons multiple duplicates of herself in the fight against Team Flash.
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* ArcWords: "Run, Barry, run" comes up again, with Wells tacking on "run towards love" to give Barry the encouragement he needs.



* CallBack: While Barry is using the ASF and ThePowerOfLove to revive the Speed Force, he flashes back to joyous moments with various loved ones.



* TookALevelInBadass: Eva is now able to utilize any reflective surface for her powers, not just mirrors.

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* TookALevelInBadass: Eva is now able to utilize any reflective surface for her powers, not just mirrors.mirrors.
* TrashTheSet: While we don't see it onscreen, Sue states that Eva blew up [=McCulloch=] Labs.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There's no sign of what happened to Sunshine, Dr. Light, or Ultraviolet.

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* ButNowIMustGo: Wells, Ralph and Sue all say their goodbyes to Team Flash at the end -- Wells to relive his four years with his wife in a GroundhogDayLoop and Ralph and Sue, no longer being hunted by the authorities, going to travel the world in search of other forces like Black Hole to stop them.

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* ButNowIMustGo: BodyHorror: Ralph's burned up face is....not a pretty sight.
* TheBusCameBack: Sue and Ralph both come BackForTheFinale, though the latter is a case of FakeShemp.
* ButNowIMustGo:
** After redeeming herself, Eva opts to return to the Mirrorverse to raise her "children" with love this time, not hatred.
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Wells, Ralph and Sue all say their goodbyes to Team Flash at the end -- Wells to relive his four years with his wife in a GroundhogDayLoop and Ralph and Sue, no longer being hunted by the authorities, going to travel the world in search of other forces like Black Hole to stop them.



* FauxAffablyEvil: Mirror-Cecile still has the friendly, playful tone the real Cecile has, while trying to convince Joe to give in and step into the Mirrorverse.
* HeelFaceTurn: Eva marks the first BigBad who pulls a full one and makes it out alive.



* InformedAttribute: Eva is said to be actually ''faster'' than the Flash. While she is eventually able to score a hit on him, most of the time he still runs circles around her and even his far slower friends can fight her duplicates just fine.



* MenacingStroll: The mirror duplicate of Officer Daisy Korber chases Joe and Cecile this way.



* NewEraSpeech: Eva makes one towards Barry.



* ObliviouslyEvil: Up until her MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, Eva still doesn't consider herself evil in any capacity.
* OhCrap: Eva has a short moment when Iris counters her powers.
* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes it's through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.



* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes it's through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.



* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Iris and Barry ultimately manage to get it through to Eva that what she's doing is wrong, and that far from being better stewards of the world than humans, her "children" are driven by hatred and threaten to destroy everything in their path. Realizing they're right, she shatters her creations and returns to the Mirrorverse to build a better world there.

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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Iris and Barry ultimately manage to get it through to Eva that what she's doing is wrong, and that far from being better stewards of the world than humans, her "children" are driven by hatred and threaten to destroy everything in their path. Realizing they're right, she shatters her creations and returns to the Mirrorverse to build a better world there.there.
* TookALevelInBadass: Eva is now able to utilize any reflective surface for her powers, not just mirrors.
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* 10MinuteRetirement: At the start of the episode, Barry resigns himself to having to stop Eva without his speed, noting that if the Speed Force is dead then so is the Flash. This lasts until they find a way to use the ASF to revive the Speed Force.

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* 10MinuteRetirement: TenMinuteRetirement: At the start of the episode, Barry resigns himself to having to stop Eva without his speed, noting that if the Speed Force is dead then so is the Flash. This lasts until they find a way to use the ASF to revive the Speed Force.
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* 10MinuteRetirement: At the start of the episode, Barry resigns himself to having to stop Eva without his speed, noting that if the Speed Force is dead then so is the Flash. This lasts until they find a way to use the ASF to revive the Speed Force.


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* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Cisco suits up as Vibe to fight Eva, albeit using tech to substitute for his lost powers.


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* EasilyForgiven: Cisco and Caitlin make it clear that they don’t blame Barry for his actions whilst under the ASF’s influence.


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* HesBack: Barry’s back to full strength as the Flash after the Speed Force is revived.


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* PutOnABus: Ralph and Sue leave Central City, intending to take down any organisation they find that resembles Black Hole.
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* RealLifeWritesPlot: Ralph being disfigured, and later leaving the team to travel the world with Sue, was the result of Hartley Sawyer being fired from the show during the hiatus.

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* RealLifeWritesPlot: RealLifeWritesThePlot: Ralph being disfigured, and later leaving the team to travel the world with Sue, was the result of Hartley Sawyer being fired from the show during the hiatus.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Barry's claim that the original Harrison Wells is the one he's most wanted to meet is perhaps a nod to the years of fan theories and demands regarding the return of this particular incarnation of the character.


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* RealLifeWritesPlot: Ralph being disfigured, and later leaving the team to travel the world with Sue, was the result of Hartley Sawyer being fired from the show during the hiatus.
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* TheStinger: The episode ends by showing that when Barry and Iris restored the Speed Force, the energy that shot up from S.T.A.R. Labs went into the sky and unleashed bolts of various colored lightning across the sky.

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* TheStinger: The episode ends by showing that when Barry and Iris restored the Speed Force, the energy that shot up from S.T.A.R. Labs went into the sky and unleashed bolts of various colored lightning across the sky.sky.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Iris and Barry ultimately manage to get it through to Eva that what she's doing is wrong, and that far from being better stewards of the world than humans, her "children" are driven by hatred and threaten to destroy everything in their path. Realizing they're right, she shatters her creations and returns to the Mirrorverse to build a better world there.

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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Eva calls out Barry for this, pointing out how her technology can improve the actual state of the world.



* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes its through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.

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* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes its it's through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.
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* FakeShemp: Ralph first appears as a half-melted, disfigured blob, and later wears a face-concealing helmet and speaks with a computer-synthesized voice, making it painfully obvious that it's not Hartley Sawyer.

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* ButNowIMustGo: Wells, Ralph and Sue all say their goodbyes to Team Flash at the end -- Wells to relive his four years with his wife in a StableTimeLoop and Ralph and Sue, no longer being hunted by the authorities, going to travel the world in search of other forces like Black Hole to stop them.

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* ButNowIMustGo: Wells, Ralph and Sue all say their goodbyes to Team Flash at the end -- Wells to relive his four years with his wife in a StableTimeLoop GroundhogDayLoop and Ralph and Sue, no longer being hunted by the authorities, going to travel the world in search of other forces like Black Hole to stop them.


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* NonLinearCharacter: Wells claims that he can now perceive all of time within his natural lifespan at once, and can travel freely through time and space.
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* SeasonFinale: Technically, as this episode was originally intended to be the ending of Season 6 before the [=COVID=]-19 pandemic halted production on the show.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Wells, Ralph and Sue all say their goodbyes to Team Flash at the end -- Wells to relive his four years with his wife in a StableTimeLoop and Ralph and Sue, no longer being hunted by the authorities, going to travel the world in search of other forces like Black Hole to stop them.



* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes its through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.

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* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes its through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.ago.
* TheStinger: The episode ends by showing that when Barry and Iris restored the Speed Force, the energy that shot up from S.T.A.R. Labs went into the sky and unleashed bolts of various colored lightning across the sky.
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* EmpoweredBadassNormal: After several hints beforehand, Iris is confirmed to have some control over the Mirrorverse during her fight with Eva. Though Iris herself states that she loses this power once Eva returns to the Mirrorverse.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Eva ultimately realizes that her actions are no better than the humans she looks down upon.
* NotQuiteDead: Turns out the Speed Force is this. Thanks to Iris serving as Barry's lightning rod through the Speed Force, Team Flash is able to use that connection to recreate the Speed Force as it was before.
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With Eva on the verge of victory, Team Flash must find a way to repower Barry and save everyone.

!!Tropes Featured in this Episode

* CrazyEnoughToWork: The plan to get Barry repowered involves rewiring the ASF to tap into an organic source (Iris) instead of an artificial one. Wells points out that there's the chance that Barry would end up getting his molecules scattered if it doesn't work. It works.
* EurekaMoment: Barry ends up figuring out how to restore the Speed Force after he ends up getting zapped trying to hold Iris' hand.
* ThePowerOfLove: The main component as to how Barry is repowered. He finally figures out why he was chosen as the Paragon of Love as he believes its through his love for Iris, which he compares to being as strong as the lightning bolt that hit him so many years ago.

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