Line #69 Recap/TheFlash2014S1E21GroddLives


1	Iris confronts Barry about knowing his secret. Meanwhile, Team Flash has to contend with Thawne's new threat to the city.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AccidentalPun: From Captain Singh.
5	-->'''David Singh:''' ...and maybe someone can contact the Flash. Maybe he can speed things up.\
6	'''Joe West:''' [[LamePunReaction gives him a look]]\
7	'''David Singh:''' ...you know what I mean.
8	* AntagonistTitle: Not a hard guess who the VillainOfTheWeek is.
9	* BadassInDistress: When Joe gets caught by Grodd, only in this case he's not getting himself out of this predicament.
10	* BatmanGambit: The team makes the assumption that Eobard is using Grodd as a distraction early on but feel they have no choice except to deal with the threat. But we never actually see Eobard and Grodd interact.
11	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The basis for Grodd's loyalty to Eobard is how kind he was to Grodd when he was kept at S.T.A.R. Labs.
12	* BlackSheep: Eobard claims Eddie is this for the Thawne family, as a nobody in a lineage of great men and women.
13	* BreakTheBadass: Grodd is able to reduce Joe into a sobbing wreck.
14	* CallBack:
15	** Cisco reports he called [[Series/{{Arrow}} Lyla]] to get any info ARGUS might have on Eiling.
16	** Barry tries to replicate the "Super Sonic Punch" move he used to defeat Girder on Grodd, only for it to fail.
17	** 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.
18	* CarFu: Grodd is defeated in the end by being tricked into jumping in front of a passing subway train.
19	* CelebrityParadox: Cisco mentions ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. While he doesn't exactly state which film, Creator/PeterStormare, who plays Werner Zytle in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', was in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.
20	* CrazyPrepared: Cisco is the one who thought to bring a banana along for the Grodd hunt. Too bad that "Grodd hate banana".
21	* 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".
22	* DisappointedInYou: Iris tells Barry that she is not angry but disappointed for not telling her his situation.
23	* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Joe tells the masked man to drop his gun, because Joe doesn't want to shoot said man.
24	* EnemyMine: Eiling admits to Barry that he's letting him be because Thawne is their common enemy and he might come in handy somewhere down the line.
25	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Grodd refers to Eobard as "father".
26	* 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.
27	* FlyAtTheCameraEnding: Grodd climbs up a building and jumps, lunging toward the camera. Same deal.
28	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Those red eyes Eobard has as part of his Reverse-Flash costume? They're ''not''!
29	* GossipyHens: Caitlin and Cisco just couldn't help themselves to listen to Barry and Iris' conversation.
30	* {{Guyliner}}: Eowells's final form look now that he's openly evil.
31	* {{Hypocrite}}: Iris complains that Joe acts hypocritical when he always speaks of being safe even if he doesn't hesitate to jump into danger.
32	* InternalReveal:
33	** This episode basically has Iris finally catching up to everything that has happened in the series barring the future newspaper.
34	** In relation to the above, the entire Team Flash discovers that Iris already knows (almost) everything.
35	** Joe and Barry learn of Grodd and his history with S.T.A.R. Labs.
36	** Team Flash discovers that Eiling knows Barry's the Flash.
37	* JerkassHasAPoint: Iris is totally right in calling her father out for keeping her in the dark about Barry being The Flash, but she ''also'' calls him out for not telling her how Barry really felt about her for years. Joe's response that it wasn't ''his'' secret to tell ''is'' a valid point.
38	* KickTheDog: Eobard tells Eddie that his police career is going to be uneventful, which may be a lie, but this really applies when he shows him the newspaper article written by Iris ''West-Allen''.
39	* KingKongClimb: Grodd, in a not so subtle ShoutOut to ''Film/KingKong'', as well as for the sake of having a FlyAtTheCameraEnding.
40	* 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.
41	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Iris' WhatTheHellHero speeches echo several fan complaints of the writers keeping Iris in the dark for so long.
42	* ManlyTears: Joe after Barry rescued him.
43	* MindRape: What Grodd's powers basically are.
44	* MouthOfSauron: Grodd uses Eiling as a means to speak.
45	* MythologyGag:
46	** Grodd's hatred of bananas is a trait carried over from his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' incarnation.
47	** The headband Barry wears to keep Grodd out of his head resembles the ones Solovar gave to Flash and GL in ''The Brave and the Bold''.
48	** Eobard describes his family as a prestigious line, consisting of politicians. One of his ''descendants'' is president of Earth's government (specifically, Bart Allen's maternal grandfather).
49	** To the Golden Age Franchise/GreenLantern, oddly enough. How did Alan Scott defeat Solomon Grundy when he first showed up and [[NoSell No Sold]] all of Alan's attacks? Lure him into the path of a speeding train.
50	** When Barry frees Eiling from the Pipeline, the cell's lighting makes him shine a bright blue hue, the same color as his nemesis ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom''.
51	** While obviously not the same, the building Grodd climbs in the end strongly resembles ''Series/{{Smallville}}'s'' Watchtower.
52	* NeckLift: Grodd stops Flash's RapidFireFisticuffs by catching him by the neck and lifting him effortlessly.
53	* NoSell: Grodd doesn't even seem to ''feel'' any of the attacks Barry throws at him. The most shocking, however, is when he [[PunchCatch catch]] the ''supersonic punch''...
54	* OverusedRunningGag: When Cisco makes yet another movie reference, Joe gives him an exasperated "you and your movies".
55	* 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.
56	* PetTheDog: Grodd calls Caitlin "good," recognizing her as one of the scientists, besides "Wells", who was kind to him.
57	* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Grodd almost makes Joe shoot himself.
58	* PunchCatch: Grodd does this to a ''sonic punch'', then uses the grab to immediately throw Barry aside.
59	* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: After his attempt at a sonic punch fails, Barry tries RapidFireFisticuffs. It doesn't work either.
60	* ThePowerOfLove: Hearing Iris's voice is what Barry uses to overcome Grodd's psychic attack.
61	* RapidFireFisticuffs: Attempted by Barry against Grodd, but the massive gorila barely seems to feel it.
62	* 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.
63	* RedEyesTakeWarning: As if Eobard having these in Reverse-Flash mode wasn't enough, Grodd has them constantly.
64	* SequelHook: Grodd is still alive...and very angry.
65	* ShoutOut:
66	** Given that Grodd is the villain, Cisco naturally gives these to ''Film/TheExorcist'', ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/KingKong'', and ''[[Film/JurassicPark1993 Jurassic Park]]''.
67	** Cisco mentions [[Film/ThePrincessBride ROUSs]] as being in the sewers.
68	** Grodd [[KingKongClimb climbing up the skyscraper]] at the end is very reminiscent of King Kong.
69	** Joe calls the masked thief ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' before his unmasking.
70	* SpoilerTitle: Unsurprisingly, Grodd survives being hit by a speeding train.
71	* StealthPun: Grodd spends the entire episode really angry ([[DoNotExplainTheJoke going ape]]).
72	* SwissCheeseSecurity: S.T.A.R. Labs apparently, at least without Thawne around. Iris just randomly walks in while an unmasked Barry is talking with Caitlin and Cisco.
73	* 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 hates bananas.
74	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Eiling's survival was shown in the [=PaleyFest=] trailer.
75	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Iris starts being integrated into Team Flash.
76	-->'''Barry:''' The three of us took on Grodd and rescued Joe. Together, we can do anything.\
77	'''Caitlin:''' Actually, it was the four of us.
78	* TheUnreveal: Why exactly did Grodd control Eiling into pulling a gold heist?
79	* WhamShot: The episode ends with Eobard's ticket back home...and it's the particle accelerator! He's been hiding out under the heroes' noses literally this whole time.
80	* WhatTheHellHero: Iris gives Barry and her father each an earful for keeping her LockedOutOfTheLoop, saying outright that she and others might have been in less danger if she had known the truth.
81	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Eddie muses that with a name like Eobard, you'd ''have'' to be from the future.
82	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Apparently Joe had a fear of gorillas ''before'' learning of a psychic super-intelligent one.
83	* 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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