History Tearjerker / TheFlash2014

-->'''Henry''': ''(to Harry)'' What have you done to my son!

* Cisco feels immense guilt on having given up being Vibe, as he hoped when he heard about Crisis, could have helped save Harry, Jesse, or any other doppelgangers and their families. With the restructuring of the multiverse, they may very well be gone forever, and - the part he finds particularly infuriating - the only known surviving version of Harrison Wells is the one who caused it to begin with.

* Allegra finds the photo of her doppelganger in Nash's bag and is irate as she thought "someone was finally giving me respect" but now realizes she was just a fill-in for whoever Nash knew.

* We've all known this day was going to come eventually, but it still pulls on the hearstrings all the same: the day Barry goes back in time, fights with Thawne, and fails to save his mother.

** Barry trying to dissuade Eddie from accepting the crystal causes Eddie to go beserk on him, as this is after he found Barry's and Iris's wedding photo.
--->'''Eddie''': No! You listen! The second I died, everyone forgot about me! And you, Barry, the man I sacrificed my life for, you thanked me by stealing my fiancé! But now, I have a chance to change that.
** Seeing a hallucination of Nora as ''his'' daughter drives him to find the Iris of 2049. He shows up at her house and ends his rant by proposing to her. This and a picture of him, Nora-as-a-Thawne, and Iris, is what drives 2049 Iris to reject him, outright saying that she'd end up with Barry no matter what.
** When Barry sees the Negative Speed Force storm erupt, it's clear he's disapointed in him.

*** Easily overlooked, it should also be noted that by committing suicide to prevent Eobard's birth, Eddie not only erased his wicked and vile descendant's existence, but also that of his son and all his descendants that preceded Eobard. Eobard may have been an evil bastard, but we don't know if the rest of Eddie's descendants were good or not, [[TheNeedsOfTheMany so while committing suicide may have been the best option to save his friends, Eddie possibly destroyed unintentionally the lives of future relatives who had done nothing to deserve vanishing into nothingness.]]

** Seeing Nora as ''his'' daughter drives him to find the Iris of 2049. He shows up at her house and ends his rant by proposing to her. This and a picture of him, Nora-as-a-Thawne, and Iris, is what drives 2049 Iris to reject him, outright saying that she'd end up with Barry no matter what.

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* Nora's happy moments with her parents are heartbreaking after the inevitable BrokenPedestal that will happen.
* Barry and Iris sees Nora's memories of her so missing her father that she hangs out at the Flash Museum to be close to him.
** They originally witness a false memory of Future!Iris ranting at Nora to never come there and breaking the Flash action figure in her daughter's hand. Nora subsequently yells "I hate you," which clearly breaks Iris' heart both in the present and the future.

* Before leaving the memory, the duo witness the real memory of Future!Iris finding Nora at the Flash Museum. Future!Iris picks up the Flash toy, which Nora actually dropped, and hands it to Nora, before telling Nora that both she and Barry love her very much. They then hug.

* During their couple therapy session Iris reveals to Barry that she is angry at him for leaving her to go into the Speed Force the look on Barry's face as he just doesn't know what to say in that moment. It really shows how much Iris was bottling her emotions inside while he was gone.
** More specifically, she's angry that he decided to leave without asking and left her to pick up the pieces. It's hard not to tear up when Iris explains that she had to lie that he was on sabbatical, pretending that he was coming back when she herself likely knew she'd never see him again, that people around them knew the truth, and their wedding would never happen.
** While it's a funny moment it's also somber to hear Barry and Iris recount the people they have lost over their lives including Barry's parents, Iris mom, Ronnie, Eddie, H.R., Laurel, and Snart. As the counselor herself puts it, they've "been through a lot of trauma".

** The memory itself. Joe returned home one day to find his wife passed out from an overdose ''again'', and little Iris next to an open flame on the stove. If he had arrived a minute later, Iris could have been seriously injured or worse. No wonder Joe sounds so traumatized. In fact, what prompted him to rush home was that Iris called 911, which went through dispatch and he overheard it on the radio. It's heavily implied that ''it wasn't the first time'' it's happened, but the scene he came home to was [[AdultFear monumentally worse]].

* Throughout the episode Joe [[AdultFear is terrified]] at what's happening to his son, who is now encased in an unknown, seemingly alien-like object. He dislikes the rest of Team Flash advising him ''not'' to bust Wally out of there, so he ultimately ignores their advice and does it himself after encouraging words from H.R....only to realize he just made things worse and should have listened to them all along! And of course, this is all on top of worrying about [[TrueCompanions Caitlin]], like the rest of Team Flash.

* Cicada breaking Nora's back. The guilt, worry, and AdultFear on Barry's face is palpable.

!!Season Six

!Season 7

[[folder:Episode 1 - Pilot]]

[[folder:Episode 2 - Fastest Man Alive]]

* Barry's IronicEcho of his "YoureNotMyFather" exclamation. The look on Joe's face, who just moments ago referred to Barry as his own kid, is heartbreaking. He gives Joe a proper heartfelt apology; it doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

[[folder:Episode 3 - Things You Can't Outrun]]

* Cisco [[ItMakesSenseInContext locking Ronnie in the particle accelerator (at Ronnie's request)]]. To the current day, he still feels guilty because of it. Even worse, he kept this information to himself and didn't tell Caitlin until he's forced to.

[[folder:Episode 4 - Going Rogue]]

[[folder:Episode 5 - Plastique]]

[[folder:Episode 6 - The Flash is Born]]

[[folder:Episode 7 - Power Outage]]

[[folder:Episode 8 - Flash vs. Arrow]]

[[folder: Episode 9 - The Man in the Yellow Suit]]

[[folder:Episode 10 - Revenge of the Rogues]]

[[folder:Episode 11 - The Sound And The Fury]]

[[folder:Episode 12 - Crazy For You]]

[[folder:Episode 13 - The Nuclear Man]]

[[folder:Episode 14 - Fallout]]

[[folder:Episode 15 - Out of Time]]

[[folder: Episode 16 - Rogue Time]]

** And how Thawne convinces him otherwise would be a straight-up SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, but the dark context provided by what happened in the previous timeline makes it heart-wrenching.

[[folder: Episode 17 - Tricksters]]

[[folder: Episode 18 - All Star Team Up]]

[[folder: Episode 19 - Who is Harrison Wells?]]

[[folder: Episode 20 - The Trap]]

[[folder: Episode 21 - Grodd Lives]]

[[folder:Episode 22 - Rogue Air]]

[[folder:Episode 23 - Fast Enough]]

[[folder:Episode 1 - The Man Who Saved Central City]]

[[folder:Episode 2 - Flash of Two Worlds]]

[[folder:Episode 3 - Family of Rogues]]

[[folder:Episode 4 - The Fury of Firestorm]]

[[folder:Episode 5 - The Darkness and the Light]]

[[folder:Episode 6 - Enter Zoom]]

[[folder:Episode 7 - Gorilla Warfare]]

* A combination with SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Henry recounts the moment how all of his friends lost respect in him after being framed for murdering his wife Nora. It was only through Barry's consistent faith in his father that Henry was willing to accept a prison sentence that he didn't deserve. And by embracing a harsh reality, Henry shows how he can be strong for Barry and returns him the favor by believing in his son's recovery from Zoom's beatings.

[[folder:Episode 9 - Running to Stand Still]]

[[folder:Episode 10 - Potential Energy]]

[[folder:Episode 11 - The Reverse-Flash Returns]]

*** Even Worse still according to Harry's theory why the Reverse Flash is still alive, pretty much makes Eddie's HeroicSacrifice [[SenselessSacrifice null and void]]

[[folder:Episode 12 - Fast Lane]]

[[folder:Episode 13 - Welcome to Earth-2]]

[[folder:Episode 14 - Escape from Earth-2]]

[[folder:Episode 15 - King Shark]]

[[folder:Episode 16 - Trajectory]]

[[folder:Episode 17 - Flash Back]]

[[folder: Episode 18 - Vs Zoom]]
* Thought you couldn't feel sorry for [[BigBad Zoom]]. What if you learned that when he was just a child, around the same age when Barry had his own trauma, he witnessed his father murder his mother, then learn that nobody in his family wanted him, forcing him into the foster system? Barry may have had the West's, Hunter had no one.

[[folder:Episode 19 - Back to Normal]]

[[folder:Episode 20 - Rupture]]

[[folder:Episode 21 - The Runaway Dinosaur]]

[[folder:Episode 22 - Invincible]]

[[folder:Episode 23 - The Race of His Life]]

[[folder: Episode 1 - Flashpoint]]

* Thawne forcing [[YankTheDogsChain Barry into asking him to kill Nora to restore the timeline.]]

[[folder: Episode 2 - Paradox]]

** Even worse, her horror to the point of near tears at her fate.

[[folder: Episode 3 - Magenta]]

[[folder: Episode 4 - The New Rogues]]

** Later turns SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} when Wally cheers her up, and the two share a genuinely [[TheBigDamnKiss amazing lip-lock.]]
* Some sad DramaticIrony as Barry tells Joe that Scudder won't find Leonard Snart because the latter [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow "went on a... trip... with some friends."]] Barry himself still has no idea that Snart ''[[HeroicSacrifice died]]'' on that trip.

[[folder: Episode 5 - Monster]]

* We finally see the reason why Julian hates metahumans so much: he's really angry because most of them use their powers for personal benefit and causing harm, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial and he wishes he could have been one so he could use those powers to make the world a better place.]]

[[folder: Episode 6 - Shade]]

[[folder: Episode 7 - Killer Frost]]

** And then she proceeds to tear into him over "Flashpoint"... while also telling Cisco (who she ''knows'' is watching this over the security cameras) that [[InternalReveal pre-"Flashpoint", Dante was alive and healthy]].

* Throughout the episode Joe [[AdultFear is terrified]] at what's happening to his son, who is now encased in an unknown, seemingly alien-like object. He dislikes the rest of Team Flash advising him ''not'' to bust Wally out of there, so he ultimately ignores their advice and does it himself after encouraging words from H.R.... only to realize he just made things worse and should have listened to them all along! And of course, this is all on top of worrying about [[TrueCompanions Caitlin]], like the rest of Team Flash.

[[folder: Episode 8 - Invasion!]]

[[folder: Episode 9 - The Present]]

[[folder: Episode 10 - Borrowing Problems From the Future]]

[[folder: Episode 11 - Dead or Alive]]

[[folder: Episode 12 - Untouchable]]

[[folder: Episode 13 - Attack on Gorilla City]]

[[folder: Episode 14 - Attack on Central City]]

[[folder: Episode 15 - The Wraith of Savitar]]

[[folder: Episode 16 - Into the Speed Force]]

[[folder: Episode 17 - Duet]]

[[folder: Episode 18 - Abra Kadabra]]
* Caitlin has fully transformed into Killer Frost. She had been severely injured earlier in the episode, and in the final minutes, she succumbs to her wound and dies. Cisco, Julian, and HR are all devastated, and Julian panics and rips her necklace off despite her objections earlier in the episode. She comes back, and the wound is healed, and the three men are overjoyed... but they forget to put the necklace back on. Caitlin evaporates into vapor and then reforms with the pale skin and white hair that her Earth-2 counterpart had, showing that Killer Frost has taken over.

[[folder: Episode 19 - The Once and Future Flash]]

[[folder: Episode 20 - I Know Who You Are]]

** Not only that, but the fact that present-day Barry is able to correctly guess that Savitar is his future self means that he himself realizes that he has all this horrible potential within him. While Future!Barry was always the most popular theory of who was under Savitar's mask, a very justifiable argument ''against'' it would be that someone as sweet and heroic as Barry couldn't ''possibly'' have that evil within him, a sentiment very likely shared by Team Flash themselves... but Barry himself implicitly acknowledges that he has this latent evil within him, including the potential to murder the love of his life. It's devastating to think how Barry must feel.

[[folder: Episode 21 - Cause and Effect]]

** In order to jump start Barry's brain at the end to get him to restore his memories, he needs to remember a particularly strong memory. The one Iris gives him? The moment she discovered him on the couch crying after his mom died (and he was brought to live with her and Joe). Even worse, Iris has to admit how his mom ''really'' died.

[[folder: Episode 22 - Infantino Street]]

[[folder: Episode 23 - Finish Line]]

-->'''Savitar''':....No. Not together. (looks at Iris) Love...and hate, they're so close, it's easy to mistake one for the other. You're gonna spend the the rest of your life with ''him''. But I remember...giving you the ring, singing to you, asking you to marry me...(voice cracks) I can't do this.

'''Barry''': You showed up. So you remember me coming here. Did I have any tricks up my sleeve? Was I... was I planning on blindsiding you?\\

'''Barry''': No. I don't think that's it. I think you're hearing me. I'm still in there. Deep down beneath the scars and the pain... That part of you that... must feel so lonely. But it also knows what it's like to have a family. To have friends. You can have all of that back. We can stop hurting each other. I remember when I was six and... um... I begged mom and dad to let me go to the science expo in Midway. And we got a flat tire on that dirt road... no spare... So we were towed to that garage in that tiny little one street town. Of course we were stuck there all day. And we got ice-cream and french fries with gravy in that little diner. And then that night we watched the local fireworks show. It actually turned out to be a great day. That's my favorite memory of mom and dad. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What was the name of that town?]]\\

[[folder: Episode 1 - The Flash Reborn]]
* Barry's behavior while suffering from ResurrectionSickness can be hard to watch; he's isolated from his friends and reduced to [[RoomFullOfCrazy scribbling pictures all over the walls of S.T.A.R Labs.]]

[[folder: Episode 2 - Mixed Signals]]

[[folder: Episode 3 - Luck Be A Lady]]

* Harry tells Cisco that he can't go home with the implication that he was essentially banished from his home universe... or it could be interpreted as him saying that without Jesse he has nothing to go home to.

[[folder: Episode 4 - Elongated Journey Into Night]]

[[folder: Episode 5 - Girls' Night Out]]
* Weeper, just poor Weeper. He was caught in the bus affected by the Dark Matter, and [[BlessedWithSuck his power of shedding]] [[FantasticDrug high inducing teardrops]] make him a commodity on the meta Black Market [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil thus he is chained and beaten]] by Amunet to produce his tears. Even after Iris and Caitlin free him, he is almost immediately abducted by [[BigBad DeVoe]] for some nefarious purpose in the future.

[[folder: Episode 6 - When Harry Met Harry]]

[[folder: Episode 7 - Therefore I Am]]

[[folder: Episode 8 - Crisis On Earth-X, Part 3]]

[[folder: Episode 9 - Don't Run]]

[[folder: Episode 10 - The Trial of the Flash]]

* Ralph describing what might happen to Joe if he goes through with his FrameUp plan. It's a very detailed description but then the audience realizes... this is ''exactly'' what Ralph had been through before meeting Team Flash. He doesn't want Joe to suffer like he did. And you can see every word hitting Joe like a brick, for what he almost did and for what Ralph has been through.

[[folder: Episode 11 - The Elongated Knight Rises]]

[[folder: Episode 12 - Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash]]

[[folder: Episode 13 - True Colors]]

* Related to the above... Becky reaches out to Barry for help, and Barry runs toward her... but because of the power dampener on his leg, he doesn't have his SuperSpeed, and [[YouAreTooLate he's not fast enough to save her]]. He's later the SoleSurvivor of the horrific battle, and witnesses the piles of corpses around him, something he was powerless to prevent.

[[folder: Episode 14 - Subject Nine]]
* Barry walks into the CCPD ready to get back to work... only to get dirty looks from every officer in the place. He's then told to go see Singh. Singh then tells Barry that not everyone believes he's innocent since Central City is a magnet for weird things so facts are relative... and that includes the new mayor. So reluctantly Barry is forced into a indefinite leave of absence. The whole thing is underscored by how Singh calls by Barry by his first name instead of "Allen"; he wants to keep Barry on, but it's out of his hands.

[[folder: Episode 15 - Enter Flashtime]]

[[folder: Episode 16 - Run, Iris, Run]]

[[folder: Episode 17 - Null and Annoyed]]

[[folder: Episode 18 - Lose Yourself]]
* Dibny tells Barry why he's so determined to kill [=DeVoe=]

[[folder: Episode 19 - Fury Rogue]]

[[folder: Episode 20 - Therefore She Is]]

[[folder: Episode 22 - Think Fast]]

[[folder: Episode 23 - We Are The Flash]]

** A small but no less painful one when you remember just how badly Clifford's treatment of her affected Marlize: When Joe starts yelling at her, sounding genuinely angry, she could easily say something to defend herself... but she doesn't. She just stands there [[ThousandYardStare wide-eyed]] and silent.

[[folder:Episode 1 - Nora]]

[[folder:Episode 2 - Blocked]]

[[folder:Episode 3 - The Death of Vibe]]

[[folder:Episode 4 - News Flash]]

[[folder:Episode 8 - What's Past is Prologue]]

[[folder:Episode 9 - Elseworlds, Part 1]]

[[folder:Episode 10 - Flash and The Furious]]

[[folder:Episode 11 - Seeing Red]]

[[folder:Episode 12 - Memorabilia]]

[[folder:Episode 13 - Goldfaced]]

[[folder:Episode 14 - Cause and XS]]

[[folder:Episode 17 - Time Bomb]]
* Just when Orlin is regaining his conscience, his niece kills him. Even worse, judging by his demeanor (not being angry, rational about the Gibbons' case file, his heartfelt plea to his niece), it's heavily implied that while Orlin wasn't a great person before Grace came into his life, it wasn't his fault that he became the original Cicada; it was the dark matter infecting him and filling him with rage (much like the dark matter made The Thinker, a once-peaceful, if not overzealous, man who wanted to make the world a better place). Once his powers are removed, he seems to lose all desire to kill and returns to what he was before: Someone who just wanted his little girl to be safe and happy. But it wasn't enough to get through to her future self.

** Even worse is ''how'' they find out. Cecile is able to tell that Nora has something important she wants to tell the team and Nora is desperately trying to find the courage, only for Sherloque to come in and brutally and callously tell her secret in a way that will turn Team Flash against her, even as she's begging for him to stop.

[[folder: Episode 18 - Godspeed]]

[[folder: Episode 19 - Snow Pack]]

[[folder: Episode 20 - Gone Rogue]]

[[folder: Episode 22 - Legacy]]

[[folder: Episode 1 - Into the Void]]

[[folder: Episode 2 - A Flash of the Lightning]]

[[folder: Episode 4 - There Will Be Blood]]

[[folder: Episode 5 - Kiss Kiss, Breach Breach]]
* Cynthia / Gypsy dies. We see the absolutely heartbreaking reactions from Cisco as well as [[OutlivingOnesOffspring her own father]]. It's telling that while Creator/DannyTrejo's performance was [[TheComicallySerious mostly comedic]] in his previous two appearances, that is decidedly ''not'' the case here.

[[folder: Episode 9 - Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Three]]

[[folder: Episode 10 - Marathon]]

[[folder: Episode 13 - Grodd Friended Me]]

[[folder: Episode 14 - Death Of The Speed Force]]

[[folder: Episode 15 - The Exorcism of Nash Wells]]

[[folder: Episode 17 - Liberation]]

[[folder: Episode 19 - Success is Assured]]

[[folder: Episode 1 - All's Wells That Ends Wells]]

[[folder: Episode 4 - Central City Strong]]

* Abra seems finally swayed by Barry's talk to give up his vendetta... and then dies fighting the creature attacking the city.

** Even worse, her horror to the point of near tears, at her fate.

* Frankie in general. It can be safely assumed that her life was a nightmare ''before'' she got her powers, and we can see that she doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Now she's got Megenta constantly trying to get rid of her, and using her body to do horrible things. The poor girl is fighting for her life inside her own head, and terrified she'll lose every time Magenta takes control.

** And then she proceeds to tear into him over "Flashpoint"...while also telling Cisco (who she ''knows'' is watching this over the security cameras) that [[InternalReveal pre-"Flashpoint", Dante was alive and healthy]].

* Throughout the episode Joe [[AdultFear is terrified]] at what's happening to his son, who is now encased in an unknown, seemingly alien-like object. He dislikes the rest of Team Flash advising him ''not'' to bust Wally out of there, so he ultimately ignores their advice and does it himself after encouraging words from H.R....only to realize he just made things worse and should have listened to them all along! And of course, this is all on top of worrying about [[TrueCompanions Caitlin]], like the rest of Team Flash.

** Not to mention Barry telling her about it - the man is in tears the entire time. Both Grant Gustin and Candice Patton sold the scene extremely well.

** Followed by Iris is Harry's chilling warning to Barry that intentionally taking a life, even a monster's like Grodd, results in a part of you dying, and making it much easier to justify and blur the lines of a persons morality, with him speaking from experience is very sobering.

** HR goes to comfort her even though he's not Harry, and Jesse hugs him just as she would her dad - she's so devastated she need someone for comfort.

* Caitlin has fully transformed into Killer Frost. She had been severely injured earlier in the episode, and in the final minutes, she succumbs to her wound and dies. Cisco, Julian, and HR are all devastated, and Julian panics and rips her necklace off despite her objections earlier in the episode. She comes back, and the wound is healed, and the three men are overjoyed...but they forget to put the necklace back on. Caitlin evaporates into vapor and then reforms with the pale skin and white hair that her Earth-2 counterpart had, showing that Killer Frost has taken over.

* Barry travels to the future and to put it lightly Team Flash is not in a good place:

** Caitlin is fully Killer Frost and is locked in a cell having absolutely no empathy for her crimes' victims.

** Not only that, but the fact that present-day Barry is able to correctly guess that Savitar is his future self means that he himself realizes that he has all this horrible potential within him. While Future!Barry was always the most popular theory of who was under Savitar's mask, a very justifiable argument ''against'' it would be that someone as sweet and heroic as Barry couldn't ''possibly'' have that evil within him, a sentiment very likely shared by Team Flash themselves...but Barry himself implicitly acknowledges that he has this latent evil within him, including the potential to murder the love of his life. It's devastating to think how Barry must feel.

* After H.R accidentally revealed to Savitar where Iris was, he begins to beat himself up over it, revealing how he acknowledges that he's not as useful as the other members of the team.

* Iris is saved...by H.R. using him image inducer to trade places with her, so he's the one who dies instead.

* The very final scene and goodbye between Iris and Barry, which takes the implications of last seasons finale between the two and cranks it to a whole new level.

'''Barry''': You showed up. So you remember me coming here. Did I have any tricks up my sleeve? Was I...was I planning on blindsiding you?\\
'''Savitar''': I don't know Barry...maybe I get off on watching you grovel.\\
'''Barry''': No. I don't think that's it. I think you're hearing me. I'm still in there. Deep down beneath the scars and the pain...That part of you that...must feel so lonely. But it also knows what it's like to have a family. To have friends. You can have all of that back. We can stop hurting each other. I remember when I was six and..um..I begged mom and dad to let me go to the science expo in Midway. And we got a flat tire on that dirt road..no spare..So we were towed to that garage in that tiny little one street town. Of course we were stuck there all day. And we got ice-cream and french fries with gravy in that little diner. And then that night we watched the local fireworks show. It actually turned out to be a great day. That's my favorite memory of mom and dad. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What was the name of that town?]]\\

* It seemed like Caitlin was back to normal, only for the end to reveal that no she's not. She has a sort of Jekyll and Hyde relation with Killer Frost. She's still triggered when Caitlin is angry, but Caitlin has enough will-power to hold her back, although she is still living in fear of losing total control.

* Wally's not the only one whose heart got broken by her. During the time since returning to Earth-2, Harry had set up a support team much like Team Flash to help in her superheroing - but his DrillSergeantNasty attitude alienated him from the rest of the team and Jesse to the point that they ''voted him off'' with the implication that it was '''unanimous'''. Harry has lost his connection with his daughter, who wants nothing to do with him.
* Harry tells Cisco that he can't go home with the implication that he was essentially banished from his home universe...or it could be interpreted as him saying that without Jesse he has nothing to go home to.

* The way the team can barely hold in their disgust when Marlize cries on the stand, knowing her story is total crock but unable to reveal how.

* Ralph describing what might happen to Joe if he goes through with his FrameUp plan. It's a very detailed description but then the audience realizes...this is ''exactly'' what Ralph had been through before meeting Team Flash. He doesn't want Joe to suffer like he did. And you can see every word hitting Joe like a brick, for what he almost did and for what Ralph has been through.

* Related to the above...Becky reaches out to Barry for help, and Barry runs toward her...but because of the power dampener on his leg, he doesn't have his SuperSpeed, and [[YouAreTooLate he's not fast enough to save her]]. He's later the SoleSurvivor of the horrific battle, and witnesses the piles of corpses around him, something he was powerless to prevent.

* Barry walks into the CCPD ready to get back to work...only to get dirty looks from every officer in the place. He's then told to go see Singh. Singh then tells Barry that not everyone believes he's innocent since Central City is a magnet for weird things so facts are relative...and that includes the new mayor. So reluctantly Barry is forced into a indefinite leave of absence. The whole thing is underscored by how Singh calls by Barry by his first name instead of "Allen"; he wants to keep Barry on, but it's out of his hands.

* Just watching Barry slowly hit the DespairEventHorizon as he does everything possible to try and save the city only for each idea or plan to fail. Alongside that it is shown that being in Flashtime is taking everything out of him due to him moving in such a fast state but he still tries carry on. When he unfreezes Iris to say what he thinks is goodbye he’s just looks and sounds so defeated. Luckily his conversation with Iris gives him an idea.

** A small but no less painful one when you remember just how badly Clifford's treatment of her affected Marlize: When Joe starts yelling at her, sounding genuinely angry, she could easily say something to defend herself...but she doesn't. She just stands there [[ThousandYardStare wide-eyed]] and silent.

* Abra seems finally swayed by Barry's talk to give up his vendetta...and then dies fighting the creature attacking the city.

* Joe's hesitant to face the future with his new baby due to the fact he is [[RealityEnsues getting older]]. And Cisco's clip show of Barry's childhood just reminded him of that.

** While it's a funny moment it's also somber to hear Barry and Iris recount the people they have lost over their lives including Barry's parents, Iris mom, Ronnie, Eddie, H.R., and Snart. As the councilor herself puts it, they've "been through a lot of trauma".

* Ralph describing what might happen to Joe if he goes through with his FrameUp plan. It's a very detailed description but then the audience realizes...this is ''exactly'' what Ralph had been through before meeting Team Flash. He doesn't want Joe to suffer like he did.

* After watching Zoom kill her doppelganger, Killer Frost, Caitlin, seemingly on the verge of a tearful breakdown, just up and begs Zoom to take her home.

* Frankie in general. It can be safely assumed that her life was a nightmare ''before'' she got her powers, and we can see that she doesn't really want to hurt anyone. Now she's got Megenta constantly trying to get rid of her, and using her body to do horrible things. The poor girl is fighting for her life inside her own head, and terrified she'll lose every time Megenta takes control.

* It's revealed that Cicada has a young daughter in a coma, presumably due to something involving a meta which is why he wants to wipe them all out. He's instantly made perhaps the most compelling BigBad of the show so far.

!Season 5