Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* ContrivedCoincidence: Henry is able to figure out Barry is The Flash after the second time The Flash had come to help with a situation of his at Iron Heights.
* CouldSayItBut: When Barry denies to his father he's The Flash, Henry plays along but adds that if his son was indeed The Flash, he'd tell him to be careful and that he was proud of him.
* CouldSayItBut: When Barry denies to his father he's The Flash, Henry plays along but adds that if his son was indeed The Flash, he'd tell him to be careful and that he was proud of him.
* ShoutOut: The stinger with Grodd attacking the workers has a shot pulled from ''Film/JurassicPark'', with the victim clinging to the edge of a wall while being suspended by the killer animal.
Changed line(s) 49,50 (click to see context) from:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
* WhatHappendToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.
* WhatHappendToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.
to:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
times. And then finding Grodd.
*WhatHappendToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.
*
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cisco ''really'' should've know better than to let Hartley out. However once the rest of Team Flash find out his motives for doing so, they really don't make a big dea about it.
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
to:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.times.
* WhatHappendToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.
* WhatHappendToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* OutOfFocus: Dr. Wells plays a relatively minor role in the plot.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
** Barry and his dad's conversation about The Flash is basically a meta on-screen PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].
to:
** The picture that Iris gets of the Flash is nearly identical to [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708162057/marvel_dc/images/6/6e/Flash_0012.jpg his first issue cover of his New 52 series]].
** Barry and his dad's conversation aboutThe the Flash is basically a meta on-screen PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].
** Barry and his dad's conversation about
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BulletDodgesYou: Played with. The Flash grabs a bullet right behind his neck as fired by Clay Parker just as it broke the skin. He does note [[MythologyGag he's a lot]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
sorry, correct link: Example Indentation In Trope Lists
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
* BewareTheNiceOnes : Cisco is perfectly willing to use extreme measures and give Rathaway some intense pain if he tries to escape or betray him. See GenreSavvy.
to:
* BewareTheNiceOnes : Cisco is perfectly willing to use extreme measures and give Rathaway some intense pain if he tries to escape or betray him. See GenreSavvy.
Deleted line(s) 12,13 (click to see context) :
* GenreSavvy: Cisco knows from the start that Hartley's going to pull something, so he makes a sonic device to target Hartley's hearing aid for when he tries something funny.
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Unfortunately, this is [[TheChessmaster Hartley]] we're talking about, so he tweaked his hearing aid so he could do the same thing to Cisco.
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Unfortunately, this is [[TheChessmaster Hartley]] we're talking about, so he tweaked his hearing aid so he could do the same thing to Cisco.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BaitAndSwitch: When Barry learns the name of the inmate who stabbed his dad, we think he's going to do something horrible. Turns out, all he is does is Troll the guy: take him outside Iron Heights so he'll be caught trying to escape and have 5 years added to sentence or give the Flash information. He gives the Flash what he wants, and Barry just leaves him there to be caught.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Deleted line(s) 38 (click to see context) :
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so Barry uses his speed to bring him just outside the prison; the guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence for trying to escape.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HangoverSensitivity: Caitlin, after karaoke night with Barry, complete with indoor sunglasses.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ImprovisedWeapon: Shawna fights Flash using her spyglass as a club.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BewareTheNiceOnes : Cisco is perfectly willing to use extreme measures and give Rathaway some intense pain if he tries to escape or betray him. See GenreSavvy.
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Barry framing the guy who stabbed his father for escaping the prison just to add his sentence is perhaps the most {{Anti Hero}}ic thing he did in the series (barring the HatePlague) so far.
to:
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Barry framing the guy who stabbed his father for escaping the prison just to add his sentence is perhaps the most {{Anti Hero}}ic thing he did in the series (barring the HatePlague) sofar.far.
** As mentioned below, Cisco is far from his usual easy-going self when dealing with Hartley, creating a RestrainingBolt that can cause him intense earache.
** Barry framing the guy who stabbed his father for escaping the prison just to add his sentence is perhaps the most {{Anti Hero}}ic thing he did in the series (barring the HatePlague) so
** As mentioned below, Cisco is far from his usual easy-going self when dealing with Hartley, creating a RestrainingBolt that can cause him intense earache.
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
to:
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ChekhovsSkill: Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that was finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner... by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
\"Even Steven\" was an expression used long before Even Stevens was produced. As a matter of fact, the title was a play on that expression.
Deleted line(s) 31 (click to see context) :
* ShoutOut: upon getting the upper hand on Cisco, Hartley kicks him in the stomach for good measure, while making an IncrediblyLamePun. "Now we're [[Series/EvenStevens even, Steven]]."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 25,26 (click to see context) :
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barry's response to Linda when the latter asked if he and Caitlin are a couple.
* ShipTease: Barry and Caitlin again. Not only do they basically go on a date (which Caitlin dresses up very nice for), but he takes her home when she's drunk, helps her change (with her mentioning that it's fine if he peeked a little), and then he stays with her until she falls asleep. The next day, she admits she needs to move on from Ronnie and find someone else to "be crazy about" while giving him a look.
* ShipTease: Barry and Caitlin again. Not only do they basically go on a date (which Caitlin dresses up very nice for), but he takes her home when she's drunk, helps her change (with her mentioning that it's fine if he peeked a little), and then he stays with her until she falls asleep. The next day, she admits she needs to move on from Ronnie and find someone else to "be crazy about" while giving him a look.
Added DiffLines:
* SexyShirtSwitch: Shawna has it in a scene after releasing her boyfriend.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barry's response to Linda when the latter asked if he and Caitlin are a couple.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barry's response to Linda when the latter asked if he and Caitlin are a couple.
Added DiffLines:
* ShipTease: Barry and Caitlin again. Not only do they basically go on a date (which Caitlin dresses up very nice for), but he takes her home when she's drunk, helps her change (with her mentioning that it's fine if he peeked a little), and then he stays with her until she falls asleep. The next day, she admits she needs to move on from Ronnie and find someone else to "be crazy about" while giving him a look.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* TheStinger: Two sanitation workers investigate a section of the sewers displaying unusual activity and are attacked by a gorilla after finding "Grodd" written all over the walls.
Deleted line(s) 32 (click to see context) :
* TheStinger: Two sanitation workers investigate a section of the sewers displaying unusual activity and are attacked by a gorilla after finding "Grodd" written all over the walls.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
that trailer could be for the next episode.
Deleted line(s) 15 (click to see context) :
* MissingTrailerScene: The scene from the trailer where Linda and Barry make out in their underwear before Barry gets interrupted by Flash duties isn't in this scene. Neither is the one where Barry speed-tackles Firestorm.
Changed line(s) 20 (click to see context) from:
* TheNickNamer : This time is Caitlin and not Cisco who comes with Shawna's villainous name, Peek-A-Boo.
to:
* TheNickNamer : TheNickNamer: This time is it's Caitlin and not Cisco who comes with Shawna's villainous name, Peek-A-Boo.
Deleted line(s) 23 (click to see context) :
* RealitySubtext: Everything that Barry's dad told him about their Flash conversation is more like a meta PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].
Added DiffLines:
* ShoutOut: upon getting the upper hand on Cisco, Hartley kicks him in the stomach for good measure, while making an IncrediblyLamePun. "Now we're [[Series/EvenStevens even, Steven]]."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* {{Fanservice}}: After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change.
to:
* {{Fanservice}}: After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change. Her dress at the bar also counts.
Added DiffLines:
* KillerGorilla: Grodd, one of the most famous examples in all media (and is even the Trope Image), makes his first on-screen kill(s).
* LittleBlackDress: Caitlin's dress in the bar, though it's more of a HotterAndSexier cocktail dress than the traditional one.
* MaleGaze: When Caitlin is entering the bar, the camera first focused on her [[ShesGotLegs legs]].
* LittleBlackDress: Caitlin's dress in the bar, though it's more of a HotterAndSexier cocktail dress than the traditional one.
* MaleGaze: When Caitlin is entering the bar, the camera first focused on her [[ShesGotLegs legs]].
Added DiffLines:
** Barry and his dad's conversation about The Flash is basically a meta on-screen PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].
Added DiffLines:
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Barry framing the guy who stabbed his father for escaping the prison just to add his sentence is perhaps the most {{Anti Hero}}ic thing he did in the series (barring the HatePlague) so far.
Added DiffLines:
* RealitySubtext: Everything that Barry's dad told him about their Flash conversation is more like a meta PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].
Added DiffLines:
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barry's response to Linda when the latter asked if he and Caitlin are a couple.
Added DiffLines:
* SecondLove: Barry and Caitlin discussed it for much of the episode, stating that both of them should find someone else to "be crazy about".
Added DiffLines:
* ShesGotLegs: Caitlin's dress for her and Barry's date allowed her to showcase it.
Added DiffLines:
* TeleportSpam: Peek-a-Boo's powers.
* TranquilFury: When Barry (as The Flash) is talking to the guy who stabbed his father, he tries to contain his anger. The look in his eyes speaks for his anger though.
* UngratefulBastard: After giving quite an effort of freeing him, Peek-a-Boo's boyfriend just left her when The Flash figures out her power's weakness.
* TranquilFury: When Barry (as The Flash) is talking to the guy who stabbed his father, he tries to contain his anger. The look in his eyes speaks for his anger though.
* UngratefulBastard: After giving quite an effort of freeing him, Peek-a-Boo's boyfriend just left her when The Flash figures out her power's weakness.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BadassBookworm: Cisco proves himself to be one when he briefly throws down with Rathaway.
Added DiffLines:
* SecretKeeper: Henry discovers that Barry is the Flash. The fact that Barry denies it and Henry just rolls with it could almost qualify him for SecretSecretKeeper, but they both are so emotional that Barry can't not know that his father knows.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheNickNamer : This time is Caitlin and not Cisco who comes with Shawna's villainous name, Peek-A-Boo.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Wrong trope/
Changed line(s) 4 (click to see context) from:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drunk Caitlin [badly] sings karaoke with Barry.
to:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drunk Caitlin [badly] (badly) sings karaoke with Barry.
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
** Cisco quips to the Hartley that he also knows a thing or two about vibrations. In the comics he is the hero Vibe.
to:
** Cisco quips to the Hartley that he also knows a thing or two about vibrations. In the comics he is the hero Vibe.
* TheReveal: It is finally revealed what precisely happened to Ronnie. (He was turned into energy and merged with Martin Stein) It is also revealed what exactly happened to Grodd who is seen to have escaped into the sewers and is implied to be causing power fluctuations in the city for an unrevealed goal.
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so Bary uses his speed to bring him just outside the prison; the guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence for trying to escape.
to:
* ShipTease: Barry and Caitlin again. Not only do they basically go on a date (which Caitlin dresses up very nice for), but he takes her home when she's drunk, helps her change (with her mentioning that it's fine if he peeked a little), and then he stays with her until she falls asleep. The next day, she admits she needs to move on from Ronnie and find someone else to "be crazy about" while giving him a look.
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, soBary Barry uses his speed to bring him just outside the prison; the guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence for trying to escape.
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so
Deleted line(s) 25 (click to see context) :
* WhamEpisode: It is finally revealed what precisely happened to Ronnie. (He was turned into energy and merged with Martin Stein) It is also revealed what exactly happened to Grodd who is seen to have escaped into the sewers and is implied to be causing power fluctuations in the city for an unrevealed goal.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TailorMadePrison: Shawna's cell in the Pipeline has one way glass so she can't see out, which keeps her from warping away.
Added DiffLines:
* WhamEpisode: It is finally revealed what precisely happened to Ronnie. (He was turned into energy and merged with Martin Stein) It is also revealed what exactly happened to Grodd who is seen to have escaped into the sewers and is implied to be causing power fluctuations in the city for an unrevealed goal.
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
* WhamShot: TheStinger has workers looking into power irregularities and finding the name Grodd scratched onto a wall several times.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so Bary uses his speed to bring just outside the prison. The guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence.
to:
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so Bary uses his speed to bring him just outside the prison. The prison; the guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence.sentence for trying to escape.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* MythologyGag: After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.]]
to:
* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.]]]]
** Cisco quips to the Hartley that he also knows a thing or two about vibrations. In the comics he is the hero Vibe.
** After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.
** Cisco quips to the Hartley that he also knows a thing or two about vibrations. In the comics he is the hero Vibe.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SuperDickery: An inmate stabs Henry, so Bary uses his speed to bring just outside the prison. The guards catch him and he gets 5 years added on to his sentence.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* VillainExitStageLeft: Hartley.
* VillainsNeverLie: Hartley did indeed keep his end of the bargain with Cisco.
* VillainsNeverLie: Hartley did indeed keep his end of the bargain with Cisco.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheCastShowoff: ''Series/{{Glee}}'' star Grant Gustin gets to sing again.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Caitlin throws up from one too many drinks.
Deleted line(s) 17 (click to see context) :
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Caitlin throws up from one too many drinks.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
Barry must deal with a teleporting metahuman while simultaneously trying with Caitlin to expand their lives beyond STAR Labs.
!!Tropes:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drunk Caitlin [badly] sings karaoke with Barry.
* BoyMeetsGirl: This is the episode where Barry meets Linda Park.
* {{Fanservice}}: After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change.
* GenreSavvy: Cisco knows from the start that Hartley's going to pull something, so he makes a sonic device to target Hartley's hearing aid for when he tries something funny.
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Unfortunately, this is [[TheChessmaster Hartley]] we're talking about, so he tweaked his hearing aid so he could do the same thing to Cisco.
* InternalReveal: The rest of Team Flash learns that Cisco sealed Ronnie into the particle accelerator the night it exploded.
* MissingTrailerScene: The scene from the trailer where Linda and Barry make out in their underwear before Barry gets interrupted by Flash duties isn't in this scene. Neither is the one where Barry speed-tackles Firestorm.
* MythologyGag: After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.]]
* OutGambitted: To contain Hartley, Cisco makes a RestrainingBolt in the form of a sonic device that messes with Hartley's hearing aid. Hartley in turn back-engineers his hearing aid so he can return the favor using Cisco's remote control.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The sanitation workers in TheStinger find a section of the sewers with "Grodd" written all over the walls.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Shawna's boyfriend somehow ditches out of their moving car when Shawna is caught by the Flash.
* TheStinger: Two sanitation workers investigate a section of the sewers displaying unusual activity and are attacked by a gorilla after finding "Grodd" written all over the walls.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Darkness for Shawna. She can only teleport where she can see, so put her in darkness and she's down and out.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Caitlin throws up from one too many drinks.
!!Tropes:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Drunk Caitlin [badly] sings karaoke with Barry.
* BoyMeetsGirl: This is the episode where Barry meets Linda Park.
* {{Fanservice}}: After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change.
* GenreSavvy: Cisco knows from the start that Hartley's going to pull something, so he makes a sonic device to target Hartley's hearing aid for when he tries something funny.
** DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Unfortunately, this is [[TheChessmaster Hartley]] we're talking about, so he tweaked his hearing aid so he could do the same thing to Cisco.
* InternalReveal: The rest of Team Flash learns that Cisco sealed Ronnie into the particle accelerator the night it exploded.
* MissingTrailerScene: The scene from the trailer where Linda and Barry make out in their underwear before Barry gets interrupted by Flash duties isn't in this scene. Neither is the one where Barry speed-tackles Firestorm.
* MythologyGag: After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.]]
* OutGambitted: To contain Hartley, Cisco makes a RestrainingBolt in the form of a sonic device that messes with Hartley's hearing aid. Hartley in turn back-engineers his hearing aid so he can return the favor using Cisco's remote control.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The sanitation workers in TheStinger find a section of the sewers with "Grodd" written all over the walls.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Shawna's boyfriend somehow ditches out of their moving car when Shawna is caught by the Flash.
* TheStinger: Two sanitation workers investigate a section of the sewers displaying unusual activity and are attacked by a gorilla after finding "Grodd" written all over the walls.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Darkness for Shawna. She can only teleport where she can see, so put her in darkness and she's down and out.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Caitlin throws up from one too many drinks.
