History NightmareFuel / TheFlash2014

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Episode 16: Run, Iris, Run]]
* After figuring out the names of the last two bus metahumans, Harry does the same creepy smile Thawne constantly did in Season 1.

* Eddie is now the DistressedDude when Thawne kidnaps him as "insurance". From the past actions the Reverse Flash made, there's no guarantee that Eddie will get out unscathed from the clutches of the sinister speedster. And given that he probably needs him to live long enough to spawn a child in order to continue existing, whatever scathing unpleasantness Harrison has in store for Eddie is most likely something he wants Eddie to remember. Given how he later throws the Iris West-''Allen'' detail in Eddie's face, that's a pretty safe bet.

[[folder: Episode 15: Run, Iris, Run]]

* After figuring out the names of the last two bus metahumans, Harry does the same creepy smile Thawne-as-Wells constantly did in Season 1.

* Savitar's armor glowing blue? Scary. Savitar's armor glowing red after Barry phases into it and is moments away from killing his future self? ''Terrifying.''

[[folder: Episode 15: Flashtime]]

[[folder: Episode 14: Flashtime]]

[[folder: Episode 17: The Tricksters]]

* However, as horrifying as that is, it's nothing compared to TheReveal at the end of the episode. Earlier in the season, Team Flash managed to communicate with Savitar via Julian. In the course of this interrogation, Savitar revealed his motivations: something happened to him in the future, and he needs to kill Iris in order to survive. Before he severed communications, Savitar offered a BadassBoast: "I am the future, Flash". While that seems like basic villain boasting, some offered an alternate theory: that the sentence had a double inflection, as in "I am the Future Flash". Turns out... they were right. Because the suit opened up, and the man behind the monster stepped out, with a dead right eye, the look of the devil in the left eye, and horrific facial scarring. Think about ''all the crap'' Savitar did this season. Now, think about how '''''this is [[TheReveal Barry Allen]] doing that crap'''''.

* Savitar's motivations are clarified: In the original battle, Barry created time remnants as an army. All were slaughtered but one. That remnant, while still Barry Allen in every sense, was rejected by everyone for not being the "real" Barry. Hurt and betrayed, the remnant snapped, deciding that he was a god and "god feels no pain". Thusly, he decided to invoke CreateYourOwnVillain and ''become'' Savitar, needing Iris's death to complete the StableTimeLoop and secure his own existence. As such Savitar now almost seems unstoppable, as he's seen everything Barry has done, from both sides. His memories are constantly being rewritten by his prime self, so no matter what measures Barry takes to prevent him from killing Iris, Savitar will always find a way to counter that using his own newly formed memories. How do you even break a StableTimeLoop like this, short of Barry pulling a HeroicSuicide? YouCantFightFate indeed...

* Turns out, not even Barry preforming a HeroicSacrifice will stop Savitar. Due to the complicated mess that is time travel, it's possible Savitar could survive just like Reverse Flash did. Just like ''any'' speedster could. Zoom, perhaps?

** How does Zoom meet his end? The Time Wraiths [[DraggedOffToHell dragging]] Hunter away into the oblivion, topping Thawne's death. Thawne at least got the peace of nonexistance, Zoom certainly didn't.
*** What makes it worse is that Hunter was starting to turn into the infamous [[GrimReaper Black Flash]] as he's dragged off.

* Multiple times in this episode we see Thawne give some very unnerving {{slasher smile}}s. Especially since Harrison has been very stoic and soft spoken for most of the season.

* In a nice bit of ParanoiaFuel, we find out where the Reverse-Flash is hiding Thawne in TheStinger: ''inside the particle accelerator''. He's hiding literally right under the heroes' noses, and by the looks of it, he's right where he wants to be...

* Watching as the woman held onto dear life to the handle of the door as she was being suckered up by the sigularity.

* There is a look of absolute terror on the masked prisoner's face when Zoom arrives carrying his time remnant's body.

* Caitlin's time as Zoom's prisoner on Earth-2.
** Complete with his declaration of ''[[MadLove love]]'' for her.

** How does Zoom meet his end? The Time Wraiths [[DraggedOffToHell dragging]] Zoom/Hunter away into the oblivion, topping Thawne's death. Thawne at least got the peace of nonexistance, Zoom certainly didn't.
*** What makes it worse is that it appears that Hunter was starting to turn into the infamous [[GrimReaper Black Flash]] as he's dragged off.

* Nora's death, once again at Eobard's hands. It's even worse [[spoiler: now that pre-Flashpoint Barry gives her a false HopeSpot before fading into non-existence, and we the audience have to hear Nora's small-voiced pleas before the Reverse-Flash utterly decimates her.]]

** Since Alchemy is sending his message through a mirror, this could imply that Mirror Master may be working under him. [[spoiler: He's actually not, but still...]]

** [[spoiler: Cisco's brother, Dante, died in a car accident and Barry refused to go back in time to save him, causing a rift as Cisco has been grieving.]]
** [[spoiler: Joe and Iris aren't talking at all.]]
** [[spoiler: Caitlin is now exhibiting ice powers.]]
** And perhaps the most gripping of all: [[spoiler: Instead of daughter Sara, John Diggle had a son, John Jr. That's right: Barry's actions ''[[RetGone erased a baby girl completely out of existence]]'' and John and Lyla don't even realize it.]]
* Dr. Alchemy appearing completely out of nowhere [[spoiler: to strangle the Rival in prison for failing him]]. The fact that he can not only spread messages through glass doesn't even begin to describe his ability to teleport himself anywhere he wants to.
** Good news? It wasn't Dr. Alchemy that [[spoiler: killed the Rival]]! Bad news? [[spoiler: It was a beast named Savitar. Comic readers who know this madman should be quaking in their boots.]]

* Magenta herself [[spoiler: is the SplitPersonality of a poor, gentle girl, Frankie Kane, who suffers from mistreatment in the foster system. Only problem: Magenta is the one who was given ferrokinesis by Alchemy.]]
** And then there's the whole thing from Frankie's point of view. [[spoiler: She suffers from blackouts, and they've been getting worse. Thanks to Alchemy, she's been getting painful nightmare visions of another universe for which she has no context. After her stepfather gets attacked by something she can't explain, she discovers the reason for all of this: she has a violent second personality that's been doing horrible things she can't remember - a personality that specifically wants to do something so terrible that it would effectively kill her own personality forever. She wakes up to find herself moments away from ''wiping out a hospital.'' It's so bad that at the end she's outright shocked that the Flash is letting her go free.]]
* Wally stupidly [[spoiler: standing in the middle of oncoming traffic for the chance at activating his powers, like Jesse's; to say Barry was pissed at his recklessness is an understatement]].
* Magenta [[spoiler: lifting an entire tanker to level a hospital, with her abusive foster father inside, and Iris who was trying to evacuate John and the entire hospital knowing Magenta would show up for her vengeance.]]
* The usually calm and patient Caitlin [[spoiler: uncharacteristically snapping at Harry. She's had her temper flares up before, but this one seemed a bit too ''icy''.]]

* Caitlin [[spoiler: fully using her powers, and to get Barry out of the mirror, no less! Yes, Killer Frost is just around the corner!]]
** Later, [[spoiler: while alone in her apartment, her freezing the water in her shower, and quietly snipping out the white strands of her hair, her face showing she's unnerved and has no idea what to do]].

* Caitlin [[spoiler: briefly going full [[SuperVillain Killer Frost]] on [[BitchInSheepsClothing Nigel]], her mother's lab assistant, only for her mother to quickly calm her down. No words can describe how truly terrifying her eyes turn.]]
** [[spoiler: If you watch closely while she attacks him, [[SlasherSmile she actually smiles.]]]]
** This episode makes it clear that [[spoiler: Caitlin's Frost powers feed her anger and vice versa. Throughout the episode she continually snaps into rages that make her powers lash out, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness of a kind we've never seen from her before.]] And it's clear ''she'' has no idea why she's getting so angry either, that she can't quite control her rage or the increasingly violent flare-ups, and that's it's terrifying her.]] Come to TheStinger, [[spoiler: and Caitlin receives a message from her mother, warning her that the more she uses her powers, the more she will lose control... three guesses what happens immediately after Caitlin hears this!]]
* When Barry [[spoiler: reveals the "Monster," is a hologram]], the team have a realization...

'''Caitlin''': If [[spoiler: the monster isn't real...!]]\\
'''Iris''': Then [[spoiler: [[OhCrap the bullets will pass through it!]]]]\\

* We finally get a good look at the thing that killed Edward Clariss: [[spoiler: Savitar, the self-proclaimed [[AGodAmI God of Speed]]]]. He's even more [[HumanoidAbomination inhuman]] than Zoom. At least Zoom looked like he could have been a human being; [[spoiler: Savitar looks like a collection of metal shards pressed into the shape of a man]]. Worse still, he's so fast that most people can't even see him. Even Barry can only see a few glimpses of lightning [[spoiler: before he's completely at Savitar's mercy.]]
** Given [[spoiler: Savitar's power]], it's very possible that the cloaked cultists working under Alchemy [[spoiler: actually worship this monster of a speedster.]]

* The cultists are [[spoiler: confirmed to worship Savitar, even calling him their [[BigBad "dark lord"]].]]
* Julian seems to be unaware that [[spoiler: he's [[TheHeavy Dr. Alchemy]].]]

** [[spoiler: Her offscreen [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Jack Bauer-style interrogation]] of Alchemy's acolyte is chilling, especially when he starts screaming]].
*** [[spoiler: She later tries to do the same to another of Alchemy's mooks, threatening him with a page of the [[Franchise/TheTerminator T-1000]] intimidation playbook by encasing her finger with an icicle; for a second, it looks like she's about to stab him in the eye with it]].
** During [[spoiler: her second fight with Barry, she attempts to kill him with the same KissOfDeath that was Earth-2 Caitlin's EstablishingCharacterMoment, just to cement how close she is to going full-on Killer Frost]].

--> '''Caitlin / Killer Frost:''' ''Maybe it's time you started fearing me.''

*** Maybe in her universe they WERE driven off. After all, the Kryptonians had to have a reason to [[spoiler: invent Medusa to only affect non-Kryptonians.]]

* The fact that Jay Garrick possibly came too late to [[spoiler:prevent Trickster from killing everybody inside of the bank. He only came when he was already exiting the bank and proclaiming that he'd promised to spare the people if they did what he said, but 'he tricked them.' It's not quite clear, but he might have wasted them all before leaving.]]
* Savitar is at his most disturbing in this episode. From being able to [[spoiler:manipulate others into doing his work and then learning he was possibly the basis for a story on one of the most DANGEROUS magical artifacts on the planet]] this episode goes a long way to prove Savitar is not just a new BigBad but a whole other breed of monster.

* Barry accidentally traveling to the future, and witnessing his worst nightmare come true, [[spoiler:the savage death of Iris at the hands of Savitar, and his future self's inability to save her in time!]]

* Plunder, [[spoiler: a figure from [[BadFuture Barry's Vision]]]] makes his appearance.

* [[spoiler: Grodd isn't kidding around as he takes a General from the army and makes him prepare to unleash a nuclear strike on Central City.]]
* [[spoiler: Savitar's back, and his first act is attacking Wally.]]

* [[spoiler:Wally being absorbed into the Speedforce. He's ''begging'' for help before he vanishes.]]

* The return of [[spoiler: Killer Frost. It isn't just the eyes this time, it's the skin and hair too, so Caitlin Snow is no more and Killer Frost is in full control.]]

* Cisco's [[spoiler: hands being frozen off by Killer Frost in the flashback.]] The scream he makes while it's happening is both terrifying and gut-wrenching.

* Think about ''all the crap'' Savitar did this season. Now, think about how [[spoiler:'''''this is [[TheReveal Barry Allen]] doing that crap''''']].
* Savitar now almost seems unstoppable, as [[spoiler: he's seen everything Barry has done, from both sides. His memories are constantly being rewritten by his past self, so no matter what measures Past!Barry takes to prevent him from killing Iris, Savitar will always find a way to counter that using his own newly formed memories. How do you even break a StableTimeLoop like this, short of Barry pulling a HeroicSuicide? YouCantFightFate indeed...]]

* Partway through the episode, The Flash runs into Star Labs, yanks off his mask, and breathlessly asks where Iris is. As soon as HR tells him, [[spoiler:Savitar turns his head to the side, showing off his disfigured face to the team.]]

* Savitar's armor glowing blue? Scary. Savitar's armor [[spoiler:glowing red after Barry phases into it and is moments away from killing his future self?]] ''Terrifying.''
* Savitar at the end proved to be a complete irredeemable psychopath. It's terrifying that [[spoiler: a version of AllLovingHero Barry Allen has become so evil like him.]]

* While it's played for comedy, it's nonetheless quite freaky how Ralph's skin just hangs off his body. The moment where he sneezes and the skin ''flies'' off his face is enough to freak out anyone.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scaryzoom.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TheDreaded He]]'' likes to fish with bait too...]]