History YMMV / TheFlash2014S2E23TheRaceOfHisLife

* HilariousInHindsight: Cisco giving a TakeThat towards the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' for two reasons. First because Creator/TonyTodd, who voices Zoom, also voices [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen its second installment's]] BigBad. Second, because ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' lead star Creator/StephenAmell works with the same ProductionPosse in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' that will air a few weeks after this episode.

** After spending a season as a borderline BoringInvincibleVillain who's succeeded through nothing but AssPull developments and heroes grabbing the IdiotBall, seeing Barry utterly ''beat'' Zoom to a pulp was pretty satisfying. Seeing the Time Wraiths then dragging him away just added to it.

* HolyShitQuotient: ''Nobody'' foresaw Barry being so broken that he goes back in time to save Nora.

* InternetBackdraft: Barry saving Nora. Not only does it tick off those ''Arrow'' fans who wish a similar situation would happen to Laurel, but it's dragging out an old plot point from Season One that seemed to have been laid to rest, and it runs the risk of making Barry very unsympathetic by having him forget the whole point of the Flash -- you can't keep looking back, you have to move forward, especially since there was an entire episode dedicated to him coming to accept Nora's death and that he isn't immune from tragedy simply because he's a hero. In fairness, he ''was'' in a horrible state after Zoom killing Henry, and seeing that Jay Garrick was Henry's doppelgänger just made it even worse.

* HilariousInHindsight: Cisco giving a TakeThat towards the ''Franchise/TransformersFilmSeries'' for two reasons. First because Creator/TonyTodd, who voices Zoom, also voices [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen its second installment's]] BigBad. Second, because ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' lead star Creator/StephenAmell works with the same ProductionPosse in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'' that will air a few weeks after this episode.

* Since Jay Garrick comes from Earth-3, and there is no mention of him on Kara's Earth, that makes Supergirl's Earth (K-Earth?) At least "Earth-4."

* CatharsisFactor: After spending a season as a borderline BoringInvincibleVillain who's succeeded through nothing but AssPull developments and heroes grabbing the IdiotBall, seeing Barry utterly ''beat'' Zoom to a pulp was pretty satisfying. Seeing the Time Wraiths then dragging him away just added to it.

* TheUntwist: Almost every reveal in the episode, save for Barry saving Nora, was predicted by fans. The real Jay Garrick being the Man in the Iron Mask, John Wesley Shipp playing him, Time Wraiths being former Speedsters, and Zoom being turned into one -- all were guesses made by fans.

* InternetBackdraft: Barry saving Nora. Not only does it tick off those ''Arrow'' fans who wish a similar situation would happen to Laurel, but it's dragging out an old plot point from Season One that seemed to have been laid to rest, and it runs the risk of making Barry very unsympathetic by having him forget the whole point of the Flash -- you can't keep looking back, you have to move forward, especially since there was an entire episode dedicated to him coming to accept Nora's death and that he isn't immune from tragedy simply because he's a hero. In fairness, he ''was'' in a horrible state after Zoom killing Henry, and seeing that Jay Garrick was Henry's doppelgänger just made it even worse.
* SpoilerOpening: Rather neatly averted, as John Wesley Shipp's appearance as Henry's corpse in the opening scene allows him to be put in the guest credits without giving away that he's also under the mask.

* AssPull: While it is still awesome to see Zoom finally get his comeuppance after a season of constantly one upping the heroes, that doesn't excuse the fact that the Zoom/Time Wrath confrontation came out of nowhere. It's not until this episode that the idea of Zoom being hunted by the Time Wraiths was established.
** Similarly, Zoom's plan to destroy the entire multiverse comes almost without any foreshadowing, especially since it was never established that Zoom is the sort of genius-level physicist who could pull off something like this.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the complaints about Jay Garrick getting the AdaptationalVillainy treatment, it turns out the Man in the Iron Mask is the real deal. He's even an older man like the comics Jay and gets a brighter red and blue suit with red boots, and completes it with the helmet!

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Rather neatly averted, as John Wesley Shipp's appearance as Henry's corpse in the opening scene allows him to be put in the guest credits without giving away that he's also under the mask.

* AssPull: While it is still awesome to see Zoom finally get his comeuppance after a season of constantly on upping the heroes that doesn't excess the fact that the Zoom/ Time Wrath confrontation came out of nowhere. It's not until this episode that the idea of Zoom being hunted by the Time Wraiths was established and them conveniently turning up at the end of the race in order to capture Hunter [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork so that Barry doesn't have to kill him]] (which itself raises some FridgeLogic of where the hell they were all the other times Zoom was by himself).

* InternetBackdraft: Barry saving Nora. Not only does it tick off those ''Arrow'' fans who wish a similar situation would happen to Laurel, but it's dragging out an old plot point from Season One that seemed to have been laid to rest and it runs the risk of making the show very soapish and making Barry very unsympathetic by having him forget the whole point of the Flash -- you can't keep looking back, you have to move forward, especially since there was an entire episode dedicated to him coming to accept Nora's death and that he isn't immune from tragedy simply because he's a hero. In fairness, he ''was'' in a horrible state after Zoom killing Henry, and seeing that Jay Garrick was Henry's doppelgänger just made it even worse.

* InternetBackdraft: Barry saving Nora. Not only does it tick off those ''Arrow'' fans who wish a similar situation would happen to Laurel, but it's dragging out an old plot point from Season One that seemed to have been laid to rest and it runs the risk of making the show very soapish and making Barry very unsympathetic by having him forget the whole point of the Flash -- you can't keep looking back, you have to move forward, especially since there was an entire episode dedicated to him coming to accept Nora's death and that he isn't immune from tragedy simply because he's a hero. In fairness, he ''was'' in a horrible state after Zoom killing Henry, and seeing that Jay Garrick was Henry's doppelgänger just made it even worse.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After the complaints about Jay Garrick getting the Adaptational Villainy treatment, it turns out the Man in the Iron Mask is the real deal.
* CatharsisFactor: After spending a season as a BoringInvincibleVillain who's succeeded through nothing but AssPull developments and heroes grabbing the IdiotBall, seeing Barry utterly ''beat'' Zoom to a pulp was pretty satisfying. Seeing the Time Wraiths then dragging him away just added to it.
* HolyShitQuotient: Nobody saw Barry going back in time to save Nora.
* TheUntwist: Almost every 'reveal' in the episode, save for Barry saving Nora, was predicted by fans. The Real Jay Garrick being the man in the iron mask, John Wesley Shipp playing him, Time Wraiths being former Speedsters, and Zoom being turned into one, were all guesses made by fans.
* InternetBackdraft: Barry saving Nora. Not only does it tick off the Arrow fans who wish a similar situation would happen to Laurel, but it's dragging out an old plot point from Season One that seemed to have been laid to rest and it runs the risk of making the show very soapish and making Barry very unsympathetic by having him forget the whole point of the Flash - you can't keep looking back you have to move forward, especially since there was an entire episode dedicated to him coming to accept Nora's death and he can't except to be immune from tragedy simply because he's a hero.

* CatharticFactor: After spending a season as a BoringInvincibleVillain who's succeeded through nothing but AssPull developments and heroes grabbing the IdiotBall, seeing Barry utterly ''beat'' Zoom to a pulp was pretty satisfying. Seeing the Time Wraiths then dragging him away just added to it.

* Author's Saving Throw: After the complaints about Jay Garrick getting the Adaptational Villainy treatment, it turns out the Man in the Iron Mask is the real deal.