History Recap / TheFlash2014S1E13TheNuclearMan

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Barry's usual good deed at the beginning of the episode interrupting his date with Linda. After Cisco guilt-trips him, Barry thwarts the robbery and was back with Linda in a split-second.

*** Also, the CanonForeigner villain from ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.

** The fission device they attach on Firestorm opens and transforms into something that resembles the character's costume insignia.

* ADeathInTheLimelight: Subverted. This episode is apparently this for Ronnie/Prof. Stein, but they're revealed to be fine at the following episode.

* BookEnds: by InterruptedSuicide. The first one is PlayedForLaughs, but the one at the end? Not so much.

* ADeathInTheLimelight: For Ronnie/Prof. Stein, possibly.

** The place where Barry and Caitlin stopping Ronnie/Prof. Stein from his HeroicSuicide has a lot of snow and ice on it, once again alluding to Caitlin's powers in the comics.

* NotDistractedByTheSexy[=/=]CluelessChickMagnet: The owner of the Allens' old house quite openly hits on Joe, and shows up in a LittleBlackDress offering him "strawberry daiquiri." Joe misses all of her advances.

* TheStinger: The military detects Firestorm's nuclear explosion, and Eiling orders him brought in, sounding quite confident that he's still alive.

* ChekhovsGun: A part of the tachyon device stolen by the Reverse Flash in ''[[Recap/TheFlash2014S1E9TheManInTheYellowSuit The Man in the Yellow Suit]]'' is used to make the fission device they placed on Firestorm at the end of the episode.

* FemaleGaze: Both Ronnie and Barry had {{ShirtlessScene}}s.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Barry's usual good deed at the beginning of the episode getting interrupted on his date with Linda. After Cisco guilt-trips him, Barry thwarts the robbery and was back with Linda in a split-second.

* ArcNumber: The would-be jumper that Barry rescues is located at 52nd and Waid, "52" being the Arc Number associated with ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and ''The Flash''. This is also a MythologyGag to Mark Waid, the writer of The Flash comics, and one of the writers of the 52 comic that started DC's obsession with the number.

* PetTheDog: Wells seriously considers shooting Firestorm then he changes his mind and takes a part out of the tachyon device to help Firestorm, even though Gideon mentions that it will be a setback for his plans, but Wells considers saving Central City from a nuclear explosion more important.

* ArcNumber: The would-be jumper that Barry rescues is located at 52nd and Waid, "52" being the Arc Number associated with ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and ''The Flash''. This is also a MythologyGag to Mark Waid, the writer of The Flash comics.

* PetTheDog: Wells takes a part out of the tachyon device to help Firestorm, even though Gideon mentions that it will be a setback for his plans.
** PragmaticVillainy: Wells responds to Gideon by pointing out that Firestorm going nuclear and destroying Central City will be rather worse than merely "delaying" his plans.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Everything to do with Ronnie's detonation at the end of the episode. Wells tells Barry that even he can't outrun a nuclear blast, but the shockwaves from the explosion expand outwards at approximately 60 MPH, which Flash can easily escape. However, in order to [[OutrunTheFireball outrun the shockwave]], he would still have to be far enough away at the moment of detonation that he didn't get instantly vaporized by the initial detonation, but Barry (and Caitlin!) were still within line-of-sight.

* [[InterruptedSuicide Interrupted]] HeroicSuicide: the Flash and Caitlyn catches up to Firestorm in the badlands just before he can shoot himself.

* [[InterruptedSuicide Interrupted]] HeroicSuicide: the Flash and Caitlyn catches up to Firestorm in the badlands just before he can shoot himself.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: When Barry sees a picture of Martin Stein, Barry recognizes him as someone he met and had friendly banter with while riding the train the day of the particle accelerator explosion. The reason Barry didn't think much of it was because he didn't know who he was back then.